Game Night Light 6

Tonight's game was do-over of Richthofen's War after the last weekly game night's power failure that ended that game night.

That's a repeat picture from that night's game so ignore the beer. This week's beer exchange included these:

This is a good, quick game. We played three games in three hours. We just played the basic game but it should really be played with the advanced rules. We each had one fighter plane each.

It was interesting. The first game we just headed straight for each other and started trading shots.

The second game saw us maneuvering more to try to get a first shot in from decently close range if possible. With just basic rules it was soon clear that once you are in a furball you don't try to escape. Just trade shots and hope for the best.

In the third game we traded planes and again tried to maneuver for advantage, especially trying to exploit diving or climbing advantages. But again, once you are in range it is futile to try to turn away to escape.

Ammunition supply was never an issue.

We think this is a good candidate for multi-player. Which would complicate things by potentially allowing an escape from a dog fight if a fresh wing man came in to take over shooting. 

Plus there are other scenarios that would involve dissimilar plane types like bombing or photo recon missions.

Anyway, much fun. It has probably been more than forty years since I played the game. I gave it away probably in high school but bought it again sometime in the last five years.