Atkins Wargames: Blazing Skies

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Over at www.atkinswargames.co.uk the new release of Blazing Skies is availible. A 116 page full colour set of rules for air combat from 1932-1952, the Golden Age of Aviation. This is the age of snarling engines and thumping cannon fire at 20,000 feet!

It is a very different air wargame to others available. Whilst almost all rules focus on the squadron or flights of aircraft, Blazing Skies takes you directly into the cockpit of your own machine.

Aircraft use a physics-and-damage model that recreates real-world effects!

Games are fast. A dogfight between two aircraft can be over in minutes or it may last half an hour!

Each machine moves simultaneously and so there is no Igo-Yougo or "activations" present as in all other rules. You plan your strategy as Pilots did! taking in factors such as your energy, their position, your speeds, height, and a thousand other situational factors. This is flying by the seat of your pants!

Templates provided give instructions for flying the various maneuvers. Straight flight, turns of various degrees, side slips, wingunders, loops and half-loops, Immellmans and rolling scissors… What is the best maneuver for your kite? Do you fight in the vertical using your Seafang's powerful engine? Or the light maneuvers of your Claude? The controls are in your hands!

Over 600 individually-researched aircraft are listed and supported in the game. Each with its own flaws and strengths. The unreliable engine of the Typhoon, the tendency of the Bf109 to "sn**ch" its controls, the Spitfire 1's fuel starvation issues when "bunting", the tough undercarriage of the P47, and the cannon-jamming tendency of the Morane Saulnier 405!

Each machine flies and fights with these characteristics, sometimes meaning life or death!

The Kite Card is your cockpit. Here you make the decisions, controlling the throttle, the ailerons, elevators, rudder and weapons.

All the information you need is in one spot, leaving space on the table for flying!

Also availible on Wargames vault https://www.wargamevault.com/en/product/567387/blazing-skies?src=TMP