SteveMartin wrote:


Name other pilots that were killed this way, from memory, without looking it up in a book or on the internet.

This is like Napoleonic Wargames Rules that insist in including a section on cavalry breaking a formed square. Yes it happened three or four times - but out of how many thousand formed squares that were charged.

They were noted because they were so rare.


Or WWII Rules that allow Shermans to destroy Tigers in the front because there was one gunner who found a way of doing it.

Absolute nonsense because you have now duplicated that one man into every single Sherman.


It is true that the exception proves the rule, but you should not create a rule to allow the exception to happen otherwise it is no longer exceptional. Yes make a note that it happened, but discount it as irrelevant, a fluke, something that happened once or twice in one thousand engagements but did not happen regularly enough to be included in the game.

Otherwise you create a situation where a rare occurrence happens, like here, in one game in eight.