This document has been compiled as an official FAQ for Blood Red Skies from various questions and answers within the gaming community. All answers on this document have been edited by BRS’ designer, Andy Chambers, and can be considered to be from an Official Source. Download
The 16th of October 2020 marks the 81st anniversary of the Battle of the River Forth. The battle brought a number of firsts to the Second World War. It was the first Luftwaffe bombing action conducted against a British target, it marked the first enemy aircraft to be shot down by a Spitfire and indeed the…
We’re taking a look at how to use the Air Strike rules compendium for Blood Red Skies to develop your own historical scenarios, with the potential to even tie those games in with other systems for combined arms set of linked scenarios. A number of Air Strike! scenarios use ‘targets’ as their objectives. These come…
MiG Alley shifts us into the future, moving away from the relatively sluggish prop-driven aircraft of World War 2 towards the shrieking jet aircraft of the Cold War! The Jet Age in Blood Red Skies To represent the technological leap forward that occurred between the end of World War 2 and the start of the…
Few flying machines can claim to be such icons of aviation as the Supermarine Spitfire. The telltale call of its merlin engine still incites the hearts and minds of any who hear it three-quarters of a century after the Battle of Britain. “Never was so much owed by so many to so few”. Designed by…
The Luftwaffe dominates the skies over continental Europe, ably assisted by the technologically superior Bf109E. Only the nimble Spitfire is a match for this Teutonic beast! When it was introduced in 1937, the Bf109E was one of the most advanced aircraft in the world, incorporating cutting-edge technologies and design techniques which gave it an edge…
The Battle of Britain has become one of the most storied episodes of the second world war. The frenetic battle for air supremacy of the English channel has captured the imaginations of writers, filmmakers and artists down the years, and is the subject of countless wargames. The Skies Over Britain With the fall of France…
Striking out of the deep desert, the SAS unleashed overwhelming force against lightly-defended Axis airfields. The workhorse of these raids was the humble jeep, modified for desert driving and loaded down with multiple machine guns. Using a mix of armour-piercing and tracer rounds, the SAS gunners made mincemeat of grounded aircraft. With the sun peaking…
With the new Bolt Action Campaign book, Mariana and Palau Islands, now available to order, we thought we’d take a look at the air war that raged above the waters of the Pacific. The Island-hopping campaign, in some regards, was dictated by the ever-present threat of enemy aircraft – launching from both carriers and island…
As winter closed in around the besieged city of Stalingrad, the desperate struggle for control of the city had entered its final stages. The German army had been completely encircled following the success of the Soviet offensives as part of Operation Uranus. A Luftwaffe Ju52 lands at an airfield near Stalingrad. It was decided that…
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