Battle of the sky's Flagships - the Revolution vs. the Titan (update for Darren)

(Heavy Weapons 3 + Dexterity 3 +10/Fully Automatic fire, difficulty 9, normally 8 (+1 to all direct attacks, because it is night time): 5 successes, 2 successes, 2 successes Firing heavy .50 machine guns and one caustic missile... primitive but deadly)

~The first Aerial gunboat engages the lead drakes in the swarm, its helm gunners aiming straight for the accursed beats attempting to latch onto the Revolution. Here the might of the compact but deadly gunboat deribibles is displayed. They are relatively small air ships but armed to the teeth. Their machinary provides them with speed comparable to a slower reconaissance biplane - nicely done for a derigible... Three dragons are able to be targetted by the twin .50 helm gun and one rocket, at medium range... Other airships join the fight, as do 4 of the 9 remaining Raptors. Obviously, the drakes will have to get through a bed of thorns to reach their victim...~

~Meanwhile, two more Raptors, these of Cypress' deadly and veteran 6th Sqrd, also storm the dragons. Heroes of the air in the Middlelands and the Snowkaap counteroffensive. While they blitz towards the M.A.F.'s last Air Corsair, the elite biplanes murderously rip their way up towards the dragons' underbellies, while a third Raptor also mannuveres into the path of the black dragons, in a ruse attack, head on... where as the real danger is coming from beneath their stomachs... Boelcke style~

(1st Raptor, engaging mannuvere, Aviation 3 + Mannuvere 6, difficulty 7: 4 successes)
(the attack - Firearms 4 + Dexterity 4, difficulty 7 (9 -2 for close range) + 10 dice, -2 for split dice pool)(successes: 3 successes)
(Mannuvere 6 + Aviation 3, -3 dice for split dice pool, difficulty 7: 1 success)
(a moderately successful closerange attack, but he won't be able to make anything but evasive mannuveres next round because his attempt to avoid crashing into the dragon was so poor, AND he'll have to make a diff 6 roll to avoid losing control of his plane)

(2nd Raptor, engaging mannuvere, Aviation 4 + Mannuvere 6, difficulty 7: 3 successes)
(the attack - Firearms 2 + Dexterity 3, +10 dice, difficulty 9: 6 successes)
(No evasive mannuvere, as this was a medium-range attack)

(now... the ruse attack)

(Mannuvere 6 + Aviation 4, difficulty 8: 1 success)
(Firearms 3 + Dexterity 4, +5/burst, -2 dice difficulty 10: 1 success)
(Mannuvere 6 + Aviation 4, -3 dice, difficulty 10: 0 successes)(He's a dead man, probably, the dragons will have a clear shot at him. Ironically this makes the trap even better, but its bad because the M.A. doesn't have many planes left AND he was a 6th Sqrd. pilot...)

(thats a 4 out of 9 young black drakes targetted by the M.A.F.)

(no more attacks can be made by my forces so far. Cypress has also activated quietus 1 with a blood point, so his biplane has suddenly become very silent, due to his own proximity to the engine, which will be cloaked within an eerie silence. This, and the black paint of his Raptor will make him the deadliest one yet...)