German Luftwaffe expansion material for the base game. Datacards for the following aircraft are included: • Bf 109F "Franz" Fighter • Bf 109K "Karl" Fighter • Ju 88C Heavy Fighter • Ju 87B "Stuka" Dive Bomber • He 111H Medium Bomber • He 177A "Greif" Heavy Bomber This pack also includes Action Deck cards which cover the aircraft presented plus a wide...
The failure of the Me210 program left the aging Me110 filling the gap until a new heavy fighter could be designed. The more powerful Me410 "Hornet" was rushed into production by 1943, first operating as a night bomber and later as a bomber-destroyer with some success. The Me410 had a number of innovative design features including remotely controlled...
Initially a single seater, the Il-2 Sturmovik proved to be a deadly air-to-ground weapon. This variant was to see heavy losses due to its vulnerability to fighter attack. Consequently, by September 1942, a two-seat design with a rear gunner under a stretched canopy entered service. In the desperate months early in the war, the Sturmovik was pressed into a...
Kaneyoshi Muto earned his first air victory on 4 December 1937 during the Battle of Nanking when he shot down a Soviet-made Polikarpov I-16. He would go on to fight alongside Saburō Sakai on the island of Iwo Jima, surviving to be called by Sakai “the toughest fighter pilot in the Imperial Navy.” In December 1944, Muto was posted to the Japanese Home...
Johnny Red was Battle's longest-running series over 13 years, written by Tom Tully and drawn initially by Joe Colquhoun, later by John Cooper and finally by Carlos Pino, (and more recently by Garth Ennis) about a British fighter pilot Johnny "Red" Redburn flying for the Russians in a 'stolen' Hawker Hurricane fighter. Falcon Squadron features a new card...
The Kawanishi N1K-2 ‘Shiden Kai’ (“Violet Lightning”) was an Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force (IJNAF) land-based fighter. Known by the Allied forces as “George”, the N1K-2 was considered to be one of the finest land-based fighters flown by the Japanese. Along with high speed, the Shiden-Kai offered pilots a rugged and agile aircraft packing four powerful...
After a year correcting serious engine problems, the Mitsubishi J2M Raiden (“Thunderbolt”) known by the Allied forces as “Jack”, finally arrived in front line squadrons February 1944. Primarily designed to defend against the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, and still handicapped by poor engine performance, pilots would use its four-cannon armament and dive and...
In-game, you'll find these little wasps to be incredibly useful - field a swarm of low-cost, agile fighters with a low minimum move which will allow you to out turn faster-moving aircraft and set up the perfect attack! A small squadron of these Polikarpov I-16 could support a group Yak-1s or Mig-3s, acting as a second line to swoop down on anything that...