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"...I actually enjoyed this show more than any other that I have been to in the past couple of years." Norm Smith, in Battlefields & Warriors, regales us with sights and surprises from this show, along with some great pictures! And check out the source of an insight that led Norm to conclude "It made me realise that considering these things went into the air in their thousands, the financial investment in longbow archers must have been huge."

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 3/22/2024


Fields of Corn & Rye

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"...I was pretty sure that I had found something that might do the job." Norm Smith, in Battlefields & Warriors, discusses a way he's found to address an old itch, namely adding texture and/or crop fields to tabletop settings. Check out what he finds to be a reasonable, cost-effective approach, considering that "...sometimes I think we have made ourselves a picture perfect world and lost something along the way."

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 3/11/2024


On wargames campaigns (after Polemarch)

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"If one is to do this, it is quite useful to read Caesar to see the kinds of things he considered important when choosing if or when to give battle." Prufrock muses about the value of running campaigns for the ancients gaming he prefers. See why "It turned out I'd rather refight Zama for the tenth time than try to sustain interest in endless minor encounters between similarly equipped neighbours over local concerns."

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 2/28/2024


Lord Stanley arrives at Piggy Longton 1472

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"...Piggy Longton is under the certain threat of Yorkist attack." Norm Smith, in Battlefields & Warriors, sets the stage for our next Piggy Longton encounter. Why must Lord Darcy cautiously accept help from one who is "...gaining a reputation of duplicity based upon political expedience."?

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 1/29/2024


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Game: Skies Above the Reich



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Publisher: GMT Games
Game Type: Board
Designer(s): Jerry White and Mark Aasted
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Description:


Skies Above the Reich is a solitaire game depicting a Luftwaffe squadron of Bf109s struggling to deter and destroy the relentless daylight raids over Germany during World War Two. The player’s individual aircraft, each represented by a stickered block, must confront the mighty “combat box” formation of the United States Army Air Force, a deadly terrain of B-17 Flying Fortresses. The game is a broad strokes depiction that presents the arc of the desperate air war. Stretching from late 1942 to early 1945, Skies Above the Reich follows that trajectory in a series of missions strung together to make a campaign. Each mission will take a half hour or more to play, while a campaign can last anywhere between 6 to 60 missions.


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Date: 1/2/2022
Poster: Pat L.
GMT's Skies above The Reich 1942 Campaign Intro & Mission 1 (video)

Prolific war game poster The Blue Tweezers played all 6 missions of the 1942 Campaign for Skies Above the Reich from GMT games. Watch these videos to see how he fared (a long, hard campaign that almost leads to overall victory). Click the following links to see: 1942 Campaign Intro & Mission 1; 1942 Campaign Mission 2; 1942 Campaign Mission 3; 1942 Campaign Mission 4; 1942 Campaign Mission 5; and 1942 Campaign Mission 6 & Campaign End.
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Date: 5/5/2020
Poster: Harvey M.
GMT's Skies Above The Reich 1942 Campaign Mission 5

The Blue Tweezers gives us a replay of mission 5 from Skies Above the Reich published by GMT games. It's a scramble interception over the target. But are the escorts still prowling?
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Date: 4/29/2020
Poster: Harvey M.
GMT's Skies Above The Reich 1942 Campaign Mission 4

Skies Above the Reich published by GMT games, gives you a chance to take to the skies and fight the epic air battles over Germany in World War II. The Blue Tweezers presents a replay of mission 4. With only two pilots on call and a Spitfire escort to deal with, can the Staffel make any inroads into this B-17 echelon formation?
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Date: 9/16/2018
Poster: Mark D.
Unboxing and look inside Skies Above the Reich from GMT Games.

Unboxing and look inside Skies Above the Reich from GMT Games, shared by Moe of "Moe's Game Table" fame.
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Date: 11/16/2016
Poster: Doug Holt
Altitude in Skies Above the Reich

Break Away by CLIMBING, or Break Away by DIVING? Jerry White opens the three-dimensional thinking needed when playing his GMT Games' Skies Above the Reich. How do you handle all the trade offs? Or, as Jerry puts it, "Weighing the advantage to do harm to the B-17 with the threat of harm from that same B-17 and its neighbors, is central to the play of this game."
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Date: 10/12/2016
Poster: Doug Holt
Terrain in Skies Above the Reich

"Skies Above the Reich is premised on a simple idea: the formation can be thought of as a terrain." Jerry White offers a game dynamics intro to his GMT Games' Skies Above the Reich. The game presents challenging Luftwaffe vs. B-17 formation clashes, played in missions and/or campaigns. "For the Luftwaffe pilot tasked with the job of knocking those B-17s out of the sky, that terrain was lethal."