Ethan tries desperately to save Nicholson Bob while Cori looks on Volume 38, Number 2
Nicholson Bob Survives by Three Percent
Four players gathered at the home of Bob and Teresa in Thorntown, Indiana on Saturday, March 21st to play four games. Teresa spoiled us with meatballs, chicken nuggets, her legendary chips and queso, coffee and dessert. For the first time, we played in Bob's upstairs game room which was set up specifically for the day. And as described in another article in this issue, Stephen Dale gamed with us via a Zoom call and camera setup. The headline is Game 4, with our other three games summarized beneath the main story.
Game 4 – August 1918
There are close calls, and then there is what happened to Nicholson Bob.
Ethan's Unteroffizier, an original roster pilot who entered the fight at 18 missions and 3 kills, came within a whisker of dying on his home airfield. The story of how he got there is the story of Game Four.
The Germans — Ethan "The Python" Skinner in a 200hp Fokker D.VII and Stephen Dale's Offizier Stellvertreter Otto Scheinstock in a second Fokker — started reasonably enough against two Brits. Stephen Dale intentionally drew Bob's Sopwith Dolphin toward the German side of the board, buying two turns without the Allies' second plane in the fight. But the window didn't produce a decisive advantage, and once the lines were drawn, Stephen's Sopwith locked onto Nicholson Bob's tail and refused to let go.
For four straight turns, Stephen's Captain Bretton Pyle in his 130 hp Sopwith Camel poured 17 bullets into the Fokker. Almost every single hit produced a critical. A 200-foot dive penalty. Then a critical in the left wing. Then another in the right wing. Then the tail. By the time Nicholson Bob reached the clouds, his dive rating had been hammered down by 900 feet and his aircraft was barely maneuverable in any direction. Stephen calls it the most important stretch of the game, and it's hard to argue.
Nicholson Bob Survives by Three Percent
Four players gathered at the home of Bob and Teresa in Thorntown, Indiana on Saturday, March 21st to play four games. Teresa spoiled us with meatballs, chicken nuggets, her legendary chips and queso, coffee and dessert. For the first time, we played in Bob's upstairs game room which was set up specifically for the day. And as described in another article in this issue, Stephen Dale gamed with us via a Zoom call and camera setup. The headline is Game 4, with our other three games summarized beneath the main story.
Game 4 – August 1918
There are close calls, and then there is what happened to Nicholson Bob.
Ethan's Unteroffizier, an original roster pilot who entered the fight at 18 missions and 3 kills, came within a whisker of dying on his home airfield. The story of how he got there is the story of Game Four.
The Germans — Ethan "The Python" Skinner in a 200hp Fokker D.VII and Stephen Dale's Offizier Stellvertreter Otto Scheinstock in a second Fokker — started reasonably enough against two Brits. Stephen Dale intentionally drew Bob's Sopwith Dolphin toward the German side of the board, buying two turns without the Allies' second plane in the fight. But the window didn't produce a decisive advantage, and once the lines were drawn, Stephen's Sopwith locked onto Nicholson Bob's tail and refused to let go.
For four straight turns, Stephen's Captain Bretton Pyle in his 130 hp Sopwith Camel poured 17 bullets into the Fokker. Almost every single hit produced a critical. A 200-foot dive penalty. Then a critical in the left wing. Then another in the right wing. Then the tail. By the time Nicholson Bob reached the clouds, his dive rating had been hammered down by 900 feet and his aircraft was barely maneuverable in any direction. Stephen calls it the most important stretch of the game, and it's hard to argue.
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