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They cannot fire on each other

Dang! missed that one. Cannon range is 1 hex

The Aerodrome can: http://www.theaerodrome.com/aircraft/gbritain/sopwith_camel.php Basically the rotary engine had sooo much power and torque that the plane tended to turn on it's own.

Yup, good catch, both times

Yes, wow, this has been out for HOW long? Where is my editor???

SPEED is the distance that the plane moved that phase, i.e. if the plane moved 4 hexes and performed a 3range band dive (i.e. moved from Range band 6 to Range Band 3, the player has the OPTION of increasing the distance moved by 3 hexes.  Could have been better phrased, sorry.

Yes, you are right.

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1) I will bring up the FAQ issue with the powers that be... Dan?

2) I won't argue about complexity, but there are some interesting things that happen when you put banking in.  I'd say, if you're thinking it's complex, then you may be misinterpreting the rules (or they're unclear).

Essentially, you decide at the end of the phase which way you bank, you don't need to decide how much you bank or anything, but just indicate (with a red or black die, or some other indicator for the WoW planes, which direction you're leaning.  That way you are forced to make a decision about where you think your opponent is going to be before he moves.

The issue with removing banking is that you take out a lot of the subtleties of the game (and there aren't too many subtleties to be honest) So I'd say play a few times more with the banking and see what the difference is.

3) Yes, lower initiative is better.

4) that's a great idea, actually, but I'd say if X is tailing Z, then Z gets an add into the init roll, or subtract from the X roll. either way. The problem with your idea is that X gets an advantage over ALL planes.

I'm glad you're playing, it makes us feel good when people play our games, maybe if you come to origins, we can get together and play a couple of games.

1) Ok ! you're wright : "Banking" is interesting because the enemy pilot can see where you want to go in the next turn.
But what is the interest of "180° banking" ? .
So we decided to keep banking, but only "port banking" and "starboard banking" : we keep "banking" only to show where the pilot want to go.

2) The game "Aces at dawn" uses "manoeuver card" and "initiative".  What is the interest to use BOTH ?

Two examples :
a) In the game "Wings of war" : they ONLY use "manoeuver card". If you tail an enemy pilot, he must show his manoeuver card, and you can change your manoeuver card.

b) In the game "Knight in the sky, WW1" (variant from "hunters in the sky, WW2") : they ONLY use "initiative". If you tail an enemy pilot you gain the initiative and you play AFTER him.

So, in our club, we only use initiative (Idlers whom we are, we have NO courage to cut the manoeuver cards...). And if you tail an enemy pilot you have +3 on initiative rolls. Ok the wrong thing is that you get an advantage over ALL planes.
So this is the complete rule : if you tail an enemy pilot you have +3 on initiative rolls, but you can only fire at this enemy pilot. If you don't use the "+3 modifier", you can fire at what you want.

3) About the quirk "decreased turn radius (left)" : can you explain clearly how it WORKS in the GAME ?

right, so the next time he moves you don't know what he's going to do, but you know which direction he's going to go.

Cause it's cooler that way. see below...

The maneuver cards require that you choose what you're going to do well before you do it and contain the essence of the game. it's not about being able to shoot your enemy down before he shoots you down, but rather, it's about being somewhere where you can shoot your enemy down before he shoots you down.

Admittedly, I like the +3 modifier, but needs some playtest to determine if it's overpowering. also, the way you describe it seems to indicate it's a to hit modifier as well as an initiative modifier.