Join us in the skies over France for this pinnacle event to end the convention; an engraved goblet is 1st place for this event
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Join the Fight in the Skies Society for a classic WW I air battle over France. Dawn Patrol is the only game played at every Gen Con and Gary Gygax was instrumental in promoting and getting the game published.
The age of the pusher plane is ending on the Western Front, but it's not over yet as a group of the ungainly biplanes takes on a flight of German two-seaters and their Halberstadt D.II escorts.
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Join the Fight in the Skies Society for a classic WW I air battle over France. Dawn Patrol is the only game played at every Gen Con and Gary Gygax was instrumental in promoting and getting the game published.
Yesterday's daybreak attack was a surprise, but this morning German Pfalzes are covering their drachens, so the S.E. 5a's won't have it so easy this time
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Join the Fight in the Skies Society for a classic WW I air battle over France. Dawn Patrol is the only game played at every Gen Con and Gary Gygax was instrumental in promoting and getting the game published.
English Camels, French Nieuports and Italian SPADs take on German Albatroses and Austro-Hungarian Bergs in this February 1918 battle royal over the Piave River.
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Join the Fight in the Skies Society for a classic WW I air battle in the sunny south. Dawn Patrol is the only game played at every Gen Con and Gary Gygax was instrumental in promoting and getting the game published.
The war is almost over, but two great new planes have reached the front just in time to prove themselves - the French SPAD XVII and the German Junkers D.I.
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Join the Fight in the Skies Society for a classic WW I air battle over France. Dawn Patrol is the only game played at every Gen Con and Gary Gygax was instrumental in promoting and getting the game published.
Four miles offshore and four thousand feet above the choppy sea, mixed flights of German and French seaplanes engage in a spirited dogfight in May of 1918.
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Join the Fight in the Skies Society for a classic WW I air battle over France. Dawn Patrol is the only game played at every Gen Con and Gary Gygax was instrumental in promoting and getting the game published.
A pair of Dorands are ready to call artillery onto a couple of redoubts. Can the escorting Nieuports deter the mixed bag of German fighters coming after them?
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Join the Fight in the Skies Society for a classic WW I air battle over France. Dawn Patrol is the only game played at every Gen Con and Gary Gygax was instrumental in promoting and getting the game published.
During the July 1918 offensive, Bristols are tasked with bombing several well-protected pontoon bridges in a vital effort to stem the Hun advance.
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Join the Fight in the Skies Society for a classic WW I air battle over France. Dawn Patrol is the only game played at every Gen Con and Gary Gygax was instrumental in promoting and getting the game published.
A Roland C.II Walfisch flight is approaching their target when a group of D.H. 2 and F.E. 8 pushers intervene to disrupt their bombing attack on a British HQ.
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Join the Fight in the Skies Society for a classic WW I air battle over France. Dawn Patrol is the only game played at every Gen Con and Gary Gygax was instrumental in promoting and getting the game published.
The first ever Gen Con in 1968 opened with this event and it's been on the schedule every year since. Speed to burn and Horsepower aplenty!
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Join the Fight in the Skies Society for a classic WW I air battle over France. Dawn Patrol is the only game played at every Gen Con and Gary Gygax was instrumental in promoting and getting the game published.
The German fighter pilots are more experienced, but they're outnumbered. Can they fend off - or defeat - the Belgian Hanriots that are coming down on them?
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Join the Fight in the Skies Society for a classic WW I air battle over France . Dawn Patrol is the only game played at every Gen Con and Gary Gygax was instrumental in promoting and getting the game published.
A flight of Sopwith Pups is prowling over the front when a pair of German two-seaters and their escort are spotted returning from a mission - and the fight is on!
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Join the Fight in the Skies Society for a classic WW I air battle over France. Dawn Patrol is the only game played at every Gen Con and Gary Gygax was instrumental in promoting and getting the game published.
R.E. 8's are slow and ungainly, but their bombs can do the job if they're on target. Can their Sopwith Triplane escorts keep the intercepting Albatroses off them?
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Join the Fight in the Skies Society for a classic WW I air battle over France. Dawn Patrol is the only game played at every Gen Con and Gary Gygax was instrumental in promoting and getting the game published.
It’s late 1916 and the air war over the Western Front has taken its toll – and both sides are conducting fighter patrols with whatever planes they have left.
It’s the first week of November 1918 and the end of the war seems imminent. Will the ambitious American fighter pilots be able to win glory by knocking down some Germans before it’s all over?.
In November of 1917 at 5,550 feet, a British patrol of SE 5 and DH 5 fighters engage a German flight that includes a DFW C.V, an LVG C.V and their escort of Albatros D.V aircraft.
German and British batteries are dueling with gas shells and a flight of Bristols is tasked with taking out the Hun guns, but German fighters interfere as they begin the attack.
It’s Christmas Day 1917 and the modest celebration at headquarters is interrupted by some noisy, uninvited guests – and they’re not bringing presents, they’re dropping bombs!
A well-protected pair of Belgian two-seaters are tasked with a dual photo mission, but the intercepting Albatri and Pfalz’s are going to make it a challenge.
As the Germans and Americans upgrade their fighters in early August of 1918, Nieuports and SPADs engage three types of Fokker D.VIIs, plus the new Roland and Pfalz models.
The June sun rises early on the Italian front and the only ones up earlier than the Italian and Austro-Hungarian fighters are the balloons on each side of the lines.
The age of the pusher plane is ending on the Western Front, but it’s not over yet as a group of the ungainly biplanes takes on a flight of German two-seaters and their Halberstadt D.II escorts.
In the Autumn of 1918 the air war is reaching its zenith and so are the new high performance fighter planes, which are now engaging in high altitude dogfights above 18,000 feet.
The light of dawn reveals two damaged U-boats making for port, giving an Allied aerial patrol the opportunity to attack them – if they can get past the covering German seaplanes.
An Italian fighter group is on the hunt for Austro-Hungarians and it looks like they've hit the jackpot - a mixed bag of enemy fighter planes, no two the same!
When your target is a big stone bridge, you'd better bring a bomb that can do the job. Each De Havilland has one - but hitting the span won't be easy with German fighters on the attack.
It's the first week of November 1918 and the end of the war seems imminent. Will the ambitious American fighter pilots be able to win glory by knocking down some Germans before it's all over?
Frank Luke may be gone, but there are still plenty of German balloons making things difficult for the Americans, so the 27th Aero is called upon again.
There's a flight of French planes in imminent danger from a descending swarm of German fighters. But, wait - here comes the French top cover! Will they intervene in time?
German balloons are spotting artillery fire on Allied trenches and the call has gone out to the Belgians to destroy them with Le Prieur wing rockets - but that won't be easy.
A flight of Sopwith Dolphins tangles with a group of German monoplanes in late October 1918. Can any of the Brits bring down a Fokker D.VIII or Junkers D.I to embellish their victory list?
Over 3 missions we'll simulate continuous air ops as each side tries to exert power on the Allied Offensive. Session 1 will be an Allied mission in support of the ground troop advance.
Over 3 missions we'll simulate continuous air ops as each side tries to exert power on the Allied Offensive. Session 2 will be a German mission in support of the ground troop advance.
Over 3 missions we'll simulate continuous air ops as each side tries to exert power on the Allied Offensive. Session 3 will be an recon mission to observe the ground troop advance.
The first ever Gen Con opened with this event and its been on the schedule every year since. In August 1918 both sides will have speed to burn and horsepower aplenty! Who will come out on top?
After a day's march, British troops are ready to take up positions behind the front lines, but apparently the Germans have a welcoming committee intent on strafing the new arrivals.
An Italian fighter group is on the hunt for Austro-Hungarians and it looks like they’ve hit the jackpot – a mixed bag of enemy fighter planes, no two the same!
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When your target is a big stone bridge, you’d better bring a bomb that can do the job, each De Havilland has one – but hitting the span won’t be easy with German fighters on the attack.
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It’s the first week of November 1918 and the end of the war seems imminent. Will the ambitious American fighter pilots be able to win glory by knocking down some Germans before it’s all over?
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Note that a Chrome browser and your email address will be required to play in this event.