"Luft Krieg by DP9" Topic

Don't see a lot of press on this game (it's been around a while)

Here's a review:

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It seems to work more at a flight level than a 1 on 1 duel and caters to a lot of Luft '46 weird world II x-planes…

There's a supplement that allows for aerial fortresses which has me thinking nostalgically about Crimson Skies.

Yup, it's pretty interesting. I think the 'problem' is the Silhouette system that DP9 uses. It's rather different and gamers tend to be … set in their ways.

A small problem is finding all the what-if aircraft!

I would love to know the build point value for the Silhouette system as it is quite versatile but its wacky math using multiple d6s confuses me.

I also think it kinda misses its niche – there is a gap in the 12+ fighters/side air wargames and it could have filled it but overcomplicated in a few un-needed areas

EDIT: I found I-94 (the guys who make the stickers) make a lot of weird ww2 stuff; between that and the integral Kreig models they have most stuff covered…

The Silhouette point-value system is the same in all the early books. Having a spreadsheet really makes it easier to put together, cube roots are annoying.

I don't have any e-copies of the vehicle construction rules on this computer, unfortunately, but if you buy an e-copy of Heavy Gear v1 link you can find it there. It's reasonably straight-forward, except for those annoying cube roots I mentioned.

I also reviewed a game dealing with similar content: Luftwaffe 1946.

This is a much more old-school game without the RPG mechanic. It is more 'normal' than Luft Krieg but pilot ability seems abstracted and the altitude bands and carry over movement more fiddly.

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Both games just kinda miss the mark for me – they could work well as squadron level rules (i.e. each player has 8-16 planes not the 1-2 you have in say CY6) but they just overcomplicated it too much for that; whilst not having the detail of more 1 pilot-1 plane games.

I will freely admit I like the 'scale' of Luftkrieg.

The vision I have of WW2 is large flights of aircraft, so I want rules that will support that.

Crimson Skies is pulp gaming, where the aircraft is at least as much a character as the pilot. So you really need a different kind of rules for that.