moonglum01 wrote:

While I agree with your basic concept here, we should note that it is not that hard for a faster aircraft to negate the aggressive efforts of another single, slower, enemy aircraft. That is what appears to me to have happened here. Looking at the game history, I would think that teramaze was reasonably aggressive, getting three shots at Stonewall. Yet, the moment Stonewall got a point lead, all shooting stops. By far the most likely reason for that, especially given the small board size and the high maneuverability of a Siemens-Schuckert D.III, is that Stonewall was actively avoiding combat. It is one thing for a faster and more maneuverable aircraft to use its speed advantage to get good shots; it is something completely different for it to use the advantages to avoid combat so as to win a game by points. One wonders about the level of derision which Stonewall would have received from his squadron mates if one of them had witnessed such seemingly cowardly behavior in a real fight.