"Jets or Props?" Topic

Do you prefer your historical air games to feature jets or propellers?

Props! Preferably biplanes, thank you!

Either or both…

The brother of a dear woman I knew was crew on Puff the Magic Dragon in Nam. He complained that civilian airlines looked for people with jet experience when flying props was harder. So he said.

That said, the air games I've played featured biplanes and triplanes.

Props!

Jet combat these days is about missile and radar technology. Korea is about the latest you can go for good dogfights.

So props, preferably the slower the better.

Depends all on the Period. Robert

J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS!

WWI for me. I like the early war stuff

Both!

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Either. The Speed of Heat and Air Superiority/Air Strike were some of my favorite games and they were all jets.

Wings of War is easily my favorite convention air game.

I used to like Mustangs and Messershmits but now I'd rather play something a little less reliant on finicky stands.

Scott Fisher's Check Your Six is one of the best games out there. Highly playtested, covers both props and jets, loads of scenario books. Its a total win.

Props, but slowly moving into Jets with my recent purchase of CY6- Jet Age.

I like all of them, from Fokker Eindeckers to F-22 Raptors.

(Not in the same game, of course)

Vril!!!…but I'll settle for props and up to '50's jets.

Props! Attached to WWI biplanes

Either.

Only props. As much as I love Check Your Six! I have never been able to get into Jet Age at all.

50s jets!

Props, W.W. I and II, mostly W.W. II.

Although I do like jet games also.

Best of both worlds: B-36s filling the skies raining death on the puny B-52s . . . oops, got carried away, I'm better now.

Seriously, jets.

And the occasional rocket . Robert

props

Props to early jets.

Once you get to BVR missile duels, well, that seems to take the fun out of it!

WWI to Vietnam. BVR missiles and the speed after that do take the fun out of it.

I actually dislike jets….

props

Props.

Definitely jets, especially 60's to early '80's, before BVR really worked and seems subsequently to have become the dominating factor in air war.

Both.

Props WWI style

Props WWI & WWII. I bought CY6 Jet Age but haven't played it yet.

Lancaster or Tornado?
Does 4 screws really beat 2 s?

Rotors!

I mix them all the time in Luftwaffe 1946.

Piston powered airscrews for me!

Robert, love the Komet. Technically speaking though, it does have a have a tiny prop at its front end.

KC

@King Cobra: that's a ram air turbine, powering the generator, not a propulsion airscrew.

Looks like you were the only one to catch that too King Cobra . Robert

Lion, I know. Just having a little fun!

It's the JET AGE!!!

Propellors, for minis, board and computer games (and real life! although my flying experience is limited).

@King Cobra: sorry, seems my joke/sarcasm detector needs to be re-calibrated… [embarrassed]!

Oh, let's not forget some of the other answers to 'both': McDonnell XP-67B, Ryan FR Fireball (and the later F2R Dark Shark), B36, Convair XP81, Caproni Ca.183bis, Curtis XF15C, P2V Neptune…

I perfer wings for my air games. If it flys, I will play.

Phil

I like the so called silver age of both.

For props, that is the 1930's, where biplanes dominated but monoplanes were about but not yet mature. The classic pulp era!

For Jets, that period just after the 2nd world war to the early 1960's, where there was not one 'fighter jet' form everyone followed (Compare say, the de Havilland Vampire with the F9F Panther with the Mig 15/Sabre) and gave us such beautiful monsters like the English Electric Lightning! The classic atomic era if you will!

Props. Especially if French in origin flying for the Spanish Republic:

Or flying for China:

The stranger the better, I say…

Leland R. Erickson

Well I game WWI to Vietnam. So that makes it Props Jets, and Rockets . . Robert

"The brother of a dear woman I knew was crew on Puff the Magic Dragon in Nam. He complained that civilian airlines looked for people with jet experience when flying props was harder. So he said." -posted by vtsoagames

That is true. Airlines want jet experience and props are harder to fly. I've flown both props and jets professionally. Also, airlines really want "Pilot-in-Command" experience on multi-engine aircraft.

Props, preferably on steampunk airships.

I can live with either. Since our air rules use notional planes--cuts down on the expense and storage space needed--for WWII it is props. Altho I have done Nam with both. Really love the Flying Dump Truck, Skyraider.

Props, WW I up to and including the Battle of Britain. Beyond that, my interest wanes as speed technology increases in importance.

Props, but jets are fun too.