The publisher's description: "Danger Zone is a two-player game of air-to-air combat between jet fighters. Each player pilots an airplane and attempts to shoot down opposing fighters. You maneuver to get your opponent's plane in front of yours, where you can shoot at it. The first player shot down loses." The game features 6 scenarios from the Korean War...
A strategy game using small plastic figures representing strategic bombers, fighter bombers, fighters, AA missiles, and "long distance" missiles. Although the cover art depicts a dramatic B-25 bombing mission from World War II, the pieces and artwork on the mapboard reflect aircraft from the sixties, and the aircraft playing pieces are jets. Played on a...
Air Force Wargame Indo-Pacific is simple educational wargame framed around a multi-domain air centric fight in INDOPACOM. It is intended to be an introduction to Air Force Wargaming, demonstrating the basic tenets of airpower and multi-domain combat. It requires players to use strategic thinking and decision-making skills to achieve campaign objectives...
Air combat in the 1980's. An extremely simple game (one tiny page of rules) in which the players command the air assets of sectors of a military front. Each has, typically, 15 to 30 planes of various types to allocate secretly to one of four missions (Scramble Ready, Ground Attack, Offensive Air Superiority, Defensive Air Superiority). The allocations are...
Air Strike is a simple and fun air combat game for the whole family, that requires only a regular deck of playing cards and a tape-measure or ruler. Take to the skies in modern jets of all types, launching missiles and trying to evade them! Suitable for 2 - 10 players. Games last from 5 - 10 minutes. Air Strike has a basic section with the basics of...
A complex simulation of "modern" air to air jet combat. Each aircraft type has a card with its vital statistics - max speed, ceiling, turn rate, weapons configurations, fuel, etc, etc. Each plane and missile is represented on a hex map by a counter. Each hex is 1/3 mile and each turn is 12-15 seconds. Each aircraft also maintains a paper log throughout the...
Air Strike is a module for Air Superiority which adds rules for "modern" air-to-ground combat. 32 base aircraft types and all their variants are added as are ground attack weapons (including iron bombs, laser guided bombs, radar seeking missiles, etc) and ground units including AAA and SAM weapons. From published material... "Air Strike expands the proven...
Eagles of the Gulf !, part I was published in Battleplan #9, as an expansion to the Air Superiority line from GDW. The material was the ground support companion to the Desert Falcons expansion. The introduction notes that to play this expansion requires owning Air Superiority, Air Strike and Desert Falcons, making it risky to publish as a regular module....
A game of modern jet fighter dogfighting for two players. Each player starts with two jets: a leader and a wingman. You win the game by shooting your opponent’s planes out of the air. The game uses a custom deck of over 150 cards which regulate movement and combat. The game may be played on a chess board or any other 8x8 grid. Also required for play are...
“Two player card game simulating modern Jet Fighter Air Combat. Objective: Kill all of your opponent’s planes. Setup: In the standard game each side has 2 planes: A flight leader and his wingman. For a quick game play one-on-one. A dogfight involving many planes is referred to as a Furball. Use coins or dice to keep track of planes.” The game is played...
(from the box lid:) Air War: Modern Tactical Air Combat is a unique, ultra-complex simulation of almost every facet of modern aerial combat. Thirty of the most important aircraft types to emerge since 1952 - from the Soviet Union, United States, Great Britain, France, Israel and other nations - do battle in historical scenarios from the Middle East to...