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Blackflight Deluxe Edition

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Black Flight is a solitaire air war game in a narrative style about the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) and No. 10 (Naval) Squadron. Set in 1917, it is the first book of the Great War Series of games. It features a mid-sized table-top footprint and easy-to-learn rules. Gameplay involves dice, cards, and tables. You command a full squadron in a baptism of fire in the skies over the Western Front.

You will be called on to fly historic missions across the trenches and over No Man’s Land – and beyond, where the Germans wait patiently with their Albatros and Halberstadt scout planes.

Your orders will reflect the actual patrols of the time – OPs, Offensive Patrols that penetrated deep behind enemy lines; LPs, Line Patrols that ran north and south over the trenches; escort missions where you protect bombers, reconnaissance aeroplanes, photo reconnaissance flights, and artillery direction missions. The routes you fly will be historically accurate – yet through the careful construction of weekly changing tables, each game will be a new and different experience, ensuing extraordinary replayability.

At the core of the game is that you manage your own Naval 10 squadron. You will recruit your pilots and each will have unique characteristics as defined by a mix of 45 Trait Cards and 45 Vice Cards that give each the very strengths and weaknesses that reflected the times. With they lived in. Each time you play, your squadron will be different, your challenges will be unique, and your struggles will be memorable. Unique among aviation games today, Black Flight recreates the diverse personalities of the pilots themselves – some may be reckless, others ruthless, in the wake of bad experiences, their condition will deteriorate. Your best ace pilot, seeing one to many of his friends shot from the sky, may take to alcohol. Your most trusted and reliable cornerstone of the squadron may suffer a nervous breakdown. Yet the orders keep coming. Just as experienced by the real Naval 10 from May through July 1917, your losses will mount and your men will become progressively exhausted and stressed.

Designed by Thomas Van Hare, Black Flight depicts a desperate era of swirling, deadly dogfights during the First World War. Your pilots face intense challenges, combat stress, and the best that the German Imperial Air Service has, including Baron Manfred von Richthofen's famous "Flying Circus" Welcome to the Ypres Salient, the trenches, and the savage skies over No Man's Land.

 

• PLAYERS: 1
• COMPLEXITY: 7/10
• TIME TO PLAY: 30-90 Minutes

 

This deluxe edition contains:

• Canvas Map  -- 22” x 28.377”
• 108 Poker-sized Cards
• FIVE x Counter Sheets
• Aerodrome Map  -- 11" x 17" (card stock)
• Dogfight Map  -- 11" x 17" (card stock)
• Daily Operations Track  -- 8.5"x11" (card stock)
• Squadron Roster -- 8.5"x11" (laminated)
• Aeroplane Inventory -- 8.5"x11" (laminated)
• Separate Rule Booklet with Charts & TabIes and Separate Historical Content (both spiral bound)