Aces High - The Board Game

[Wlfgng]

Luftwaffe.. my god.. I remember... sheesh.

and Panzer (something)..

I remember thinking.. imagine what it'd be like if you could actually visualize it...   play it... imagine...

and along came HiTech creations to the rescue..
ok. so it was WB first but HT was at the helm at the time.

[Drex]

Hooligan has actually designed and published a wwII naval board game.  The name escapes me.


Drex

-The only time I fire the dice its for a 7 or 11

[streakeagle]

Panzer Blitz

[AKIron]

If not a board game then how about a "tour viewer". It seems likely that logs are kept containing info about fields attacked/damaged/captured etc.... Would be intstructive (and fun) to watch a tour played out over the span of a few minutes. Of course it wouldn't be necessary to see individual plane/gv actions, just major events like base captures etc....

[lazs2]

"I think Lazs should do the travel pocket version.

Drex"

I don't think that guys that are into strat or board games should be allowed to have their hands in their pockets.... least not in public.
lazs

[Wlfgng]

yep.. that's it

[Starbird]

hehe. Ok, yea I'm a geek. But I really do live in Romulus. Michigan. About a mile from Detroit metro (kdtw).

[Seeker]

Take a look at Rowan's "Battle of Britain"; if you can find it.

As a sim it was an apalling piece of work, but it also had a stragey side to it that was fascinating. You play the air commander, watching the battles play out on a map board, and you can "enter the sim" from the perspective of any of your units in any role - pilot or gunner, for example, or not fly at all and stick at being the Air comnader.

The concept of the game was great, it should have had IL-2 beat into a pulp, but the code execution was so atrocious it died upon release.

[SKurj]

Wasn't there another strategy game... Luftwaffe Commander or something like as well...



SKurj

[Goner]

Originally posted by AKIron
something like a computer based board game modeled on Aces High.

oh, for cod's sake don't give them any ideas !! they might fall for this and never do anything about their connections ...  

Goner

[streakeagle]

Rowan's Battle of Britain was partially patched, and works fine on my machine in that condition.

Ever seen several He-111s heading for London with full 109 and 110 escorts being intercepted by hundreds of Spitfires and Hurricanes?

This game can be awesome if you stay away from its bugs.

The BoB developement group (seen at the forums at SimHQ.com) has the source code and is steadily making improvements.

As an offline sim, I think it still ranks up there with IL-2. It had major problems, still has minor ones, but is really an awesome game that has been underrated and overlooked.

Every now and then I play it just for the view: sky full of planes twisting, turning, shooting, burning.

But AH gets 85% to 90% of my flight sim time. Nothing beats playing real people.

[AKIron]

Had another brilliant idea. How about "Aces High - The Card Game"  see your barrel roll and I'll raise ya a loop.

Just love embarrassing my squadies

[Wlfgng]

The card game.. has already been done..

WWI style with cards, or book pages (can't remember) representing maneuvers.. depending on what your opponent does.

funny chit