Included in Top Cover: Fighting Wings Journal #1. Australia’s Pacific Air War: In a one-sided fight over Rabaul on January 20th, 1942, Japanese Zeros annihilated a small force of RAAF Wirraway armed-trainers, which were all that stood between Japanese air power and Northern Australia. Little bothered by the smattering of slow climbing American P-40...
Aim: To be the richest to travel around the world. When one of the players run out of money, the game is over. The winner will be the one with the most money and property. Players choose a coloured plane to represent themselves, and start out with a specific sum of money. They take turns to spin the arrow dice for the number of squares that their planes...
A simple game of racing about the world to pick up and deliver cargo. In Wide World Travel Game the players fly around the world to a list of destinations collecting cargoes at each then attempt to return to their starting point before the other players. Each player is given a set of "destination cards" and looks at the first one. They then move their...
“Good Luck, men; wish I were going with you.” In mid-1942, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) arrived in Britain equipped with B-17 Heavy Bombers. The B-17, nicknamed the “Flying Fortress” because of their heavy defensive armament. The USAAF Commanders adopted the strategy of taking on the Luftwaffe head on, in larger and larger air raids flying...
"Board & card game for 2 players. Takes place in the Wing Commander Universe. Abstract skirmish level Fighter combat. Each figure represents a single Fighter. Victory: You win if you destroy the opposing Wing Commander." The game provides statistics for seven Terran Confederation Fighters and seven Kilrathi Fighters. Each player starts with two Heavy...
Wing Leader is an exciting new game system of large scale aerial combat in World War II. Based on a unique side-scrolling view, in which altitude is clearly visible, players can recreate the great air battles of the war. This first volume, Wing Leader: Victories 1940-1942, includes scenarios for the Battle of Britain, Malta, Coral Sea, Midway, North...
Ahogy a II. világháború a csúcspontjához ér, az égboltot úgy perzselik fel a hatalmas légiflották Európa és a Csendes-óceán felett. A nehézbombázókat mozgékony, karcsú vadászgépek kísérik, így vívva meg kétségbeesett csatáikat. A kísérők a heves harcban az ellenséges gépekbe csapódnak. A pilóták katapultálnak gépeikből, miközben századaik szétszóródnak a...
Two scenarios and 30 counters for Wing Leader: Victories 1940-1942, included in C3i Magazine, Issue #29. Scenario 1 - Cry Havoc, Tunisia, 21 March 1943. Description: As Patton's II Corps began to push out of the passes through the Atlas mountains and descend on the Axis flanks, low-level raids were launched against Mezzouna and motor transport columns...
Dogfight is a set of freely available variant rules for use with the counters and data cards from the GMT WWII air combat game Wing Leader, allowing a greater focus on the fighting in the immediate vicinity of the bombers. It has evolved greatly since its first appearance in 2017, and now consists of three editions - Dogfight Lite which retains the generic...
A Wing Leader: Origins 1936-1942 a GMT Wing Leader rendszerének harmadik kiegészítése. Az Origins a háborúk közötti és a háború eleji időszak izgalmas csatáiba repít el. Ez a kiegészítő a kétfedelű repülőgépeket gyors monoplánokkal párosítja Spanyolország, Kína és Lengyelország feletti harctéren. A nacionalista CR.32-esek a „Vörös” I-15-ösökkel csapnak...
Wing Leader: Legends 1937-1945 is the fourth expansion for GMT’s Wing Leader system. In Legends, we seek to cap the Wing Leader game system by bringing together previous games and expansions in a series of crossover scenarios. Featuring combat from the beginning to the very end of the war, Legends features some of the smaller air forces. The Chinese over...