Has anyone played a game yet? What scenario did you use and what issues did you have with the game?
My son and I played two on two, the BF-109E Ace and BF 110 versus the P-51 Ace and P-40 Warhawk Poor. One question I had was when climbing altitude, does that count as part of the move. So say you want to climb 1,000 in altitude with a normal speed of 4? Do you move three spaces and then the 4th is the altitude or do you move 4 spaces and on the last space adjust the altitude?
If anyone has any duplicates they want to trade, I have duplicates of:
Hurricane MKI (15/31)
Spitfire MKI Ace (28/31)
Kosciuszko Hurricane MKI (19/31)
BF109 E Wingman (4/31)
BF109E Ace (3/31)
Ms.406 Matifmaha (21/31)
BF109 Gustav Ace (6/31)
The only disappointing thing is that I got all of the planes that are in the Starter Kit in the booster packs too, except the BF-110C.
Booster Pack 1- I-16 Ishak (17), Kosciuszko Hurricane MKI (19), BF-109E Wingman (4)
Booster Pack 2- BF-109 “Gustav” Ace (6), P-40C Flying Tiger (25), C.202 Folgore (9)
Booster Pack 3- KI-6I “Tony” (18), MS.406 “Matimaha” (21), P-40B Rookie (24)
Booster Pack 4- Yak-I Rookie (31), Channel Front FW-190A (11), A6M2 “Zeke” (1)
Booster Pack 5- BF-109E Ace (3), BF-109 F “Friedrich” (5), C.200 Saetta Rookie (8)
Booster Pack 6- MS.406 “Matimaha” Duplicate, MS.406 Rookie (22), P-51B Mustang Ace (26)
Booster Pack 7- BF-109G “Gustav” Ace Duplicate, Spitfire MKI Ace (28), Navy F4F-3 Wildcat (23)
Booster Pack 8- I-16 “ABU” (16), C.202 Folgare Ace (10), Hurricane MKI (15)
I get my shipment, starter pack and case of 8 boosters, on Wednesday. I will post on the other thread what comes in each booster. Reminds me of the days when I would buy a box of baseball cards.
I can also write a review if you need it, but won’t be receiving my order for a few days.
Thanks Field Marshall. The planes look awesome, can’t wait.
Thanks, it does not seem as convoluted when you state it. Now it makes more sense. Are the only maps available in the starter set? I think I am going to laminate mine. How do you have your ships stored. I had to put Axis powers in one box and Allies in another because they are hard to tell apart sometimes.
I read those sections as I was executing an attack, but it gets so confusing with the three different levels. So hull damage is only used in sub attacks?
Looks like a pretty good list so far. I guess I will have to wait for the Corsair, one of my favorites.
Thanks for posting that, an interesting read. I think the paint job looks good and the canopy does not look bad. We will have to post photos of what planes we get. Do we know how many planes are going to be in the set yet? Are they going to be all fighters? It seemed like from the article that the heavy bombers, B-17, B-29, and Halifax will not be in the set. I wonder if they will have the fighter/bombers like the Avenger, Hellcat, Stukas, Zekes, etc.
I just got the revised starter and three of the Surface Action boosters and the armor-vital armor-hull confuses the hell out of me. I don’t get how you sink a ship taking all three of those categories into effect.
No, I haven’t seen any pics yet of the planes. I did read that the game was going to use altitudes and speed and that the airplanes lean and swivel on their base in order to show banking and climbing.
Thanks guys, it does sound like we were playing correctly. I forgot that I did capture three hexes that had Allied supplies.
I am so excited about this coming out. The wing spans range from 3 1/2 to 4 inches. I plan on buying a case of booster packs and the starter kit.
Hi Frimmel,
I was the friend that hkytown1 was referring to when playing BOTB. I understand about the Allies needing to fall back slowly and have enough depth behind them to slow the Axis especially the blitz move, but what I think we both had a hard time understanding was the supply tokens. It seemed like I, the Axis, had a bunch of supply tokens leftover that were not even used. We would use a supply token per movement, but you do not use supply tokens when bringing in reinforcements do you? I know you can carry them on a truck, up to six, into the areas but the truck stops when it encounters and EZOC. I just felt like I had more tokens than I could deal with and it did not seem right.
The game was really fun and we are getting together again to play soon. I have also recently entered into the War at Sea miniatures and as an aviation nut cannot wait for the Angels 20 miniatures to come out next month.