Frederick Corbin "Boots" Blesse (August 22, 1921 – October 31, 2012) was a United States Air Force major general and flying ace. Graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1945, he subsequently flew two combat tours during the Korean War, completing 67 missions in P-51s, 35 missions in F-80s and 121 missions in F-86s. For the first tour he was...
On 18 November 1952, piloting a Grumman Panther, Lt Royce Williams of VF-781 destroyed four MiGs in a single encounter that lasted no more than 35 minutes. During a series of air strikes against the North Korean port of Hoeryong, the four MiGs were intercepted as a result of intelligence provided by the US National Security Agency. Williams lost contact...
Wing Commander is a compendium of additions and expansions for the Blood Red Skies game. Inside you’ll find advice for beginners, advice for designing your own scenarios, more rules to expand MiG Alley games, a short carrier war campaign, and a longer more expansive campaign that allows for narrative progression. Additionally, complete lists of plane...
Blood Red Skies: Air Strike! is a rules compendium that presents all of the rules from the original Blood Red Skies starter set and adds many new ones suitable for expanded air operations: ground and sea targets, bombing, strafing and torpedo attacks, defensive flak and terrain. Jet aircraft are introduced with the MiG Alley expansion and there is...
Battle of Britain – Tactical Level Air Combat Tabletop Game for Two or More Players Warlord Games’ fantastic new collaboration with Airfix marries the fantastically fluid Blood Red Skies gameplay with the exceptional 1:72 aircraft of the venerable model manufacturers. Written by Andy Chambers, Blood Red Skies is a tabletop miniatures game where you take...
Blood Red Skies is a tabletop miniatures game in which you take command of a force of fighter aircraft in battle. The emphasis in Blood Red Skies is on controlling a large number of planes at once. Action in the game is fast-paced, with no pre-plotting or book-keeping required. A smallish game of Blood Red Skies, with six planes per side, can be fought in...
Bolt Action - Combined Arms is a strategic board game that commands the players to face off, seize the initiative and outwit their foe amidst the fog of war. Each game will see you fighting for control of air, land, and sea in order to claim objectives and hold them against the enemy. Choose your theatre of war, from the western and eastern fronts to North...
The Campaign for North Africa, 1941-42 What, another North Africa game? Yes but here is something almost completely different from any WWII Campaign game you've seen: no CRT (or any other tables), buckets o' dice, and cards all used in a totally new approach to gaming that can be learned in 5 minutes and played in a few hours. Most of the rules and...
Blood & Steel: The Battle of Prokhorovka, July 12, 1943, is a "quick-playing strategy wargame depicting Kursk's climactic tank battle, near Prokhorovka Station. The complexity is Low with only 4 pages of rules. The unit sizes are Regiments & Brigades. Each player has formations which activate when their chit is drawn. The Soviet player makes decisions on...
This is a complete game on its own despite the expansion in the title. This add-on to the popular original Blood and Steel game (issued by MDG) covers the two flanks of the southern pincer of the Kursk battle. The scenarios cover each flank separately and campaign rules allow the 3 scenarios to be combined in one huge battle. All components needed to play...
From the publisher's website: The Blood & Steel Expansion Pack is designed by Paul Rohrbaugh and is an extension of the highly successful Blood & Steel folio game on the battle of Kursk. The Expansion Pack involves the two other pivotal battles around the Kursk salient: Oboyan Hills and Rzhavets bridgehead using the Blood & Steel game system. Expands:...