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Blue Max: World War I Air Combat

A board game by Phil Hall John Harshman
Publisher: Stratelibri
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Description

In Blue Max, each player pilots a WWI airplane in a dogfight. The game can be played as a campaign, with new planes becoming available as time passes, and with surviving pilots getting better at what they do. Each plane has a maneuver sheet showing which ones it is allowed to do -- some maneuvers can only be executed by ace pilots, and other maneuvers are "restricted" in the sense that they can't be repeated from one turn to the next (the plane would stall). If you "tail" another plane, its pilot must show you whether he's going right, left or straight ahead. You get to shoot ahead of your plane, unless you have a bomber with an observer/gunner in the back (swivel-mounted guns). Damage is rolled on a table that determines severity in terms of blue and red hits; you then draw the indicated number of coloued chits from a cup. Hits are taken to the wings, tail, engine, etc. There's a chance the pilot is killed, or that the plane catches fire. Fuel eventually runs out and the pilots fly off to meet another day --if they survived. This is a lot of fun with massive numbers of players; you can put the 20-odd planes on the map at once, balancing the better airplanes with weaker pilots. The second edition introduced crude altitude rules, and in 1995 GDW put out full-blown miniatures rules. The 2013/2014 edition had substantial changes, and can be found here.

Additional information

Mechanics: Hex-and-Counter Simultaneous Action Selection
Categories: War
Alternative names: Blue Max Les Ailes de la Gloire Blue Max Les Ailes de la Gloire
BARCODE: 8058056840059
In 3 wishlists This was seen 13516 times

Description

In Blue Max, each player pilots a WWI airplane in a dogfight. The game can be played as a campaign, with new planes becoming available as time passes, and with surviving pilots getting better at what they do. Each plane has a maneuver sheet showing which ones it is allowed to do -- some maneuvers can only be executed by ace pilots, and other maneuvers are "restricted" in the sense that they can't be repeated from one turn to the next (the plane would stall). If you "tail" another plane, its pilot must show you whether he's going right, left or straight ahead. You get to shoot ahead of your plane, unless you have a bomber with an observer/gunner in the back (swivel-mounted guns). Damage is rolled on a table that determines severity in terms of blue and red hits; you then draw the indicated number of coloued chits from a cup. Hits are taken to the wings, tail, engine, etc. There's a chance the pilot is killed, or that the plane catches fire. Fuel eventually runs out and the pilots fly off to meet another day --if they survived. This is a lot of fun with massive numbers of players; you can put the 20-odd planes on the map at once, balancing the better airplanes with weaker pilots. The second edition introduced crude altitude rules, and in 1995 GDW put out full-blown miniatures rules. The 2013/2014 edition had substantial changes, and can be found here.

Additional information

Mechanics: Hex-and-Counter Simultaneous Action Selection
Categories: War
Alternative names: Blue Max Les Ailes de la Gloire Blue Max Les Ailes de la Gloire
BARCODE: 8058056840059
In 3 wishlists This was seen 13516 times

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