Tuesday 14 August 2018

Skies above the Reich GMT Games -1,000 th post on the Luftwaffe blog





Skies Above the Reich is a solitaire game depicting a Staffel of Bf 109s 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.


GMT games site and game play resources here



youtube reviewer blastpop plays the game here. A single click to view