UBoater658 Wargaming

 I downed my first Soviet Bomber! Unfortunately, I did not use an ideal method. I collided with it... At the beginning of the turn, I thought I would have to go past the rear bombers because of speed and follow the lead, or I needed to pop up to stay behind them and do another diving attack next turn. But looking at my movement options I found I was just slow enough to stay behind a bomber and at 0 range in their blind spot and my max firepower. Collisions never happen that much anyway... I was wrong. Luckily my other flight member dodged a collision with his range 0 bomber. I was told I successfully bailed out, so I can fly another bullet plane... err Fiat again. Message from JD: "Art collides with bomber 7 and will have to bail out. Both Fiat 2 and Bomber 7 destroyed. Short game for Art as he demonstrates one reason for not going for range zero shots and tempting fate!"

 In this turn, I am able to close in and get a point-blank shot but... I'll leave it to JD's summary: T3 Summary: The trailing two bombers pull up sharply, hoping to force a fly-by of the Fiats. Fiat 1 blows by and gets hit by defensive fire, but Fiat 2 closes in on the leader of the third bomber flight and stitches the bomber's fuel tanks without effect. Bomber 9 fires on Fiat 3 but misses. The other six bombers continue diving at high speed for the deck as the trailing, and still out of range, the 2nd Fiat flight starts turning to line up the bomber stream

Following my Flight Lead diving on the rear flight of SB2's. Lead tucks in above and behind the leftmost rear SB2, while I just stay on his wing. We both get a shot off (but mine was not as good given my position). My Lead's shot is devastating - 6 hits/multiple critical - and the SB2 is going down in flames. 1 down 8 to go... Maybe I can just stay on my Lead's wing and watch the show 👀 The other 2 SB2 flights are off the image in front and the second Fiat flight behind us. 

Just joined another online/PBEM game of Buffalo Wings II refereed by the man himself, JD Webster. Total of 6 relatively new players so a learning scenario. The scenario is 6 Finnish Fiat G.50's chasing a group of 9 Soviet SB2 bombers that just attacked their base. The players are flying the 6 Fiats chasing the SB2's flown by JD. While it may seem like a turkey shoot - my I-16 in a previous game was shot down by defensive fire of these same type of bombers.  In the image below my leader (F1-Lead) has moved and as one of his wingmen, I am matching his move. F3 is the other member of our flight and has not moved. F4-Lead is part of the other flight of 3 Fiats, the other 2 are off-map to the NW. Need to do this run not too fast and overshoot, or too slow and get chewed up in the defensive fire. Just going to follow the lead for now.