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Indy Plays "Debut of the SPAD 7" ~ Feb 27 Gaming Report ~ Video: 33 Victories & Counting ~ The WWI Video You're Not Supposed to See

1/11/2021

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Volume 33, Number 2 
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Indy Plays "Debut of the SPAD 7" from Aerodrome 186

The Aerodrome journal's "Pages from the Past" series offers historically accurate Dawn Patrol scenarios that can be played by various gaming groups around the country, the current scenario being "The Successful Combat Debut of the SPAD VII" by the late Al Christensen. The results of each game are then written into reports to be compared to each other in the next issue. 

The Indy Squadron's version of this mission will undoubtedly be the shortest and most unproductive of all due to freak circumstances in the fight. Bob Meister and Ethan Skinner flew the 150-hp SPADs while the German Rumplers were piloted by Rick Lacy, Stephen Skinner and Garrett LaRue. 


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Covid-19 vs Dawn Patrol; Who Will Win and Why ~ Book Review: Valour Beyond Measure ~ Part 3: The WW1 Conspiracy is Not a Theory

1/8/2021

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Volume 33, Number 1 
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​Covid-19 vs Dawn Patrol – Who Will Win and Why
Stephen Skinner
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An email was recently sent to Fits Society members regarding the 2021 Spring Mini Con. The discussion quickly degenerated into demands that unvaccinated players be barred from participation. Alternative ideas were ridiculed (so much for diversity) and players rejecting vaccination were sarcastically ​told they would be "sorely missed" (so much for inclusion). But the exchange offered real insight into the vast chasm that separates us from the men whose exploits we recreate in Dawn Patrol. 

Many Dawn Patrol gamers feign respect for the great flyers of World War I but in reality despise the values, culture, religion, loyalties and love of liberty commonly held by those men.

Few Fits players would have lasted five minutes in 1918. If they were to run their mouths as loudly and loosely on an actual World War I airfield as they do at the gaming table, they would soon get their teeth knocked out. The pilots of the early 20th century would not tolerate the arrogance of a know-it-all Dawn Patrol player whose six-Mountain-Dews-per day physique would not stand a snowball's chance in an honest fist fight against an angry flight lieutenant.


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