"Anyone played Blood Red Skies?" Topic

Hi again, we had a couple of games of Blood Red Skies at our club today for the first time, and I think rather enjoyed it!
I have put a brief description of what happened on my Blog at this link

No pictures sadly barring this one as I didn't think it was a vary photogenic game, and I was concentrating on the rules!!!

At Historicon was regretting not trying all kinds of game era I like but never played.
I love aircraft but never played a game of them.

I decided not to stock them in my store. My sales are mainly Wings of Glory.

I tried Wings of Glory (WoG) when it was still branded Wings of War but struggled with the need to have a separate control board for each plane in play (which to me slowed game play if you had more than 4 planes under your control. I had invested in some 1/300 metal aircraft as I preferred using those to the WoG plastics.

When Blood Red Skies (BRS) arrived I re-purposed these miniatures to play BRS (I used Litko stands and pegs with magnets for mounting, and counters placed on the stands to indicate the Disadvantaged/Neutral/Advantaged status of each plane).

Now I could control 8 or 12 planes without slowing game play too much, and I was sold on it.

With another player, I had tried games of WoG and then BRS, and he preferred BRS. It inspired him to invest in the BRS Battle of Midway set + additional planes so he could play Pacific Theatre scenarios.

In the past few years, as well as the Pacific Theatre, we have played Western Desert and Battle of Britain campaigns (all as 2-player campaigns).

I would definitely say BRS is more the "fun" game than WoG and that is one of the reasons I play it.

it is a very good game, which reproduces squadron tactics really well. Many air games concentrate on one v one and aircraft performance, but few show the advantages of formations and wingmen as well as BRS. It also plays fast and rewards tactical thinking

We haven't played WoG for several years now. Most WW1 games developed into an adult game of Twister and I think we tended to feel that the card movement system was slightly juvenile so it fell out of favour and most of our group sold their planes off. I tried BRS recently and thought it was a big improvement on WoG and if I was looking to get involved in gaming WW2 air wars again I'd use BRS.

"developed into an adult game of Twister"

:)))

I remember when we played air games on the floor, and we just scooted around, butt, I digress. ;)