Along a course marked by pylons in front of a huge grandstand built especially for the event, “the Thompson” was the greatest aerial contest of its time. Pilots raced to their planes from a starting-gun's signal, flew off from a standing start, and then raced at speeds of hundreds of miles an hour, scores of feet above ground. The roar of the aircraft's...
Following the outbreak of another world war in September 1939 the National Air Races, including its showpiece Thompson Trophy race, were suspended for the duration of the war. In September 1946 the National Air Races were back, now under the leadership of the Cleveland Air Foundation. The Thompson Trophy races, however, were changed from those of the...
Shadows in the Void is a unique spacefighter combat miniature wargame based on highly modified core rules of Hind Commander (mainly simplified and streamlined) and inspired by classic ancient Chinese military treatise The Art of War. Unlike most games within the genre, Shadows in the Void focuses on stealth, electronic warfare, and the interactions between...
Vandering Publishing's Shipwreck is a very basic game of modern naval warfare. It already has one supplement released - "Freeplay '88", dealing with a NATO exercise in 1988. The game has been compared to "Harpoon 4", perhaps unfairly, as while it covers the same topic (modern naval warfare), the aim is present a much more global scope. Command of small...
Victorious advance! A new game from our Air Force by H. Kallenberger from the collection "Scholz's artistic games". This game is adapted from real live and provides a fairly accurate picture of the use of air power. In it the combat units (bombers) are used to advance far into the enemy rear. These are heavy machines, suitable for carry large bomb loads...
From the back of the box: Wings of Death contains 48 finely crafted silver-plastic space fighters sculpted by the renowned Bob Naismith. Designed for play with ICE's explosive Silent Death spaceship combat game, these ships can also be used with any other space combat game or RPG. You get 4 each of 12 different designs, the same vessels included in the...
A miniatures focused wargame with simple rules for space opera style armada versus armada combat, for any number of players. The game emphasizes and promotes players to make their own miniatures to represent their armadas, using any material they have available at any skill level. Players start the game by allocating a number of unit points to create an...
Sink the Carrier is a co-op game, where each player take control of one Douglas SBD Dauntless, a dive bomber, on board the USS Yorktown carrier during the early days of May 1942 in the Coral Sea. The objective is to find and sink one of the Japanese Air Carriers. The Japanese army wins if players lose a certain number of planes or if the USS Yorktown is...
On the stage of the Pacific battle, there was a concrete confrontation that marked a milestone in history, that of the American aircraft carrier USS Yorktown against the Japanese aircraft carrier IJN Shōhō. It is said that it was the first naval battle where the ships never saw each other, and they faced each other launching airplanes to locate their enemy...