{"id":647,"date":"2013-12-05T19:12:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T19:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/class2017\/?p=647"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:27:14","slug":"the-flying-circus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/2013\/12\/05\/the-flying-circus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flying Circus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Is it bad if I say that I \u201ckilled\u201d my history professor?<\/p>\n

Yesterday (I would have posted then, but my phone decided to lobotomize itself so I can\u2019t get all my pictures) was the day of the big Wings of Glory game at Dork Club. Wings of Glory, originally called Wings of War, is a strategy game where you control a WWI era fighter plane and try to shoot down the other WWI fighter planes.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a fun game. You get to control old airplanes, what’s not to love?<\/p>\n

We started the night by breaking off into two teams: British vs. Germans (no Nazis; they didn\u2019t exist for another twenty years). We didn\u2019t exactly have set deployment zones, but the way we set up would be sufficient. I was in control of a Sopwith Camel (you know, the one Snoopy pretends his doghouse is?) and there were a few German types nearby, as well as another Sopwith Camel. We went after the nearest Fokker triplane (which is what the Red Baron flew, but he was on the other side of the map), and while we chased that one down a big dogfight started on the other side of the map (That’s where the Red Baron was. Professor Morillo, my history professor, was controlling him.)<\/p>\n

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Here’s the World War 1 Flying Ace. Sadly, the game does not have a piece for him<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On my side of the map, me and the other guy quickly chased down and destroyed the triplane we\u2019d spotted (controlled by one of my fellow Kappa Sigs, Rob Barber). On the other side, stuff happened, and quite a few planes took damage. Deciding we were better needed over there, me and the other guy turned and sped over to the big fight. On the way, I happened to run into Morillo\u2019s plane, which had flown out of the fight a bit earlier. As he was in range,\u00a0I decided to take a shot.<\/p>\n

I shot him down.<\/p>\n

I shot down my history professor. Hopefully this won\u2019t affect me going into finals. Anyway, The other Germans were shot down in due order, ending that round of play.<\/p>\n

Round 2 began, and I found myself up against three German planes… that didn\u2019t go so well. I managed to survive for awhile, but eventually my luck ran out and I got shot down. Poor me. On the other side of the map, Morillo got shot down again, although the Brits took a bit of damage and Morillo\u2019s daughter kept almost flying over the edge of the map. The guys who shot me down went over to try and help, but they got shot down too. So, another win for the Brits.<\/p>\n

After that, we packed up and left, mostly because people had other things going on that night\/week (like sleep). I got some good pictures, but sadly my phone is kind of dead, so it might be some time before we get to see them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it bad if I say that I \u201ckilled\u201d my history professor? Yesterday (I would have posted then, but my phone decided to lobotomize itself so I can\u2019t get all my pictures) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bobby-black-17"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}