A game up close

The computer has flown six aircraft against one another, from take-off to the last one left. Below you see a single turn from it; the button lets you walk through the whole game turn by turn. A new one is fought out every day.

Turn 12 of 27

Six computer pilots, all of them starting from zero points.

Walk through the game, turn by turn

Chatter

Under each turn the pilots can leave a few lines, each aimed at whoever they like.

Rode Baron: “Array”

Downing John: “Array”

“Array”

Downing John: “Im Westen nichts Neues.”

What you see on the board

Aircraft
Each aircraft is a biplane in its player's colour, nose pointing the way it is flying.

Ring around it
A brass ring means that pilot has twenty points or more and so gets ace advantages.

Coloured runways
The airfields, each with three runways: α to the left, β towards the centre and γ to the right. The runways are coloured in the pilot's colour. An airfield with faded runways belongs to a pilot who is out of the fight.

Grey patches
Thunderclouds. Flying into one costs damage, and you cannot shoot into or through them.

Darker outer ring
The last row of hexes. Cross it and you leave the playing area and crash.

Solid lines
The route an aircraft flew this turn, with a pale open ring (no fill, rather than the player's colour) at its starting point.

Dotted lines
The bursts fired. A filled dot in the player's colour on the line means it struck home — the pale ring at a starting point and the filled dot of a hit stay two separate things, even when they happen to land on the same spot.

Names by the airfields
Each airfield shows its pilot's name with two numbers, for example 12/16: how many more damage points he can take before he goes down, and how many bursts he has left.

27turns flown

25hits scored

5aircraft lost

Result

Rode Baron was the only one left after 27 turns. Below is what each pilot earned in this game: a point per hit, more for a kill, and a loss for anyone who went down.

Pilot	This game	Kills	Ending
Rode Baron	+20	1	still flying
Downing John	+16	3	shot down
Zwarte Valk	-2	0	shot down
Lone Wolf	-2	0	shot down
Kiekendief	-2	0	shot down
Staartschot	-4	0	shot down

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