pokerguy wrote:


I think I've mentioned this before, I played Blue Max with a group every weekend from 1986 to 1996 using 1/72nd scale models. We have many aces and several Pour le Merit recipients and Victoria Cross recipients. Round about 1988 we added altitude to our game. We also modified the entire damage table to allow observers to survive, implemented an 'Air Force / Dauntless' type of deflection, and other miscellaneous rules to make the game more character based without going overboard into a 'Wings' type game.

For the past 6 months, the group has gotten back together playing once a month. We have created aircraft data for around 200 WWI aircraft types, all the maneuver charts (with altitude), made homogenous stands, and a 10' by 20' tarp with hexagonal print that is precisely the same size as our stands. We get a regular turnout of about a dozen players, with a list of nearly 20.

All in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA at Gauntlet Games.

It's a tremendous amount of fun!

As far as best Allied plane of the war, hmmm, I would say the Snipe or the Martinsyde F.4 Buzzard. However, the French had some phenomenal aircraft ready to go into service early 1919, most notably, the Nieuport 29, but also several really fast four gun (2F, 2R) two seaters ready too; Breguet 17, Spad 20, and Salmson 5, if memory serves.