Articles about playing Blood Red skies and collecting Blood Red Skies planes from Warlord Games.
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…
With the addition of the Me 262 jet fighter to Blood Red Skies, Tom takes a look at some of the tactics you can use to outfox the Allies! How Jets Work Providing no enemy aircraft are within 9″ of a jet, it immediately gains an Advantage level on activation. Combined with a high speed,…
On the ninth day of Christmas, Warlord said to me… It’s day 9 of our Warlords 12 days of Christmas. Carrier borne aircraft swarm the skies over the Pacific. The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle, widely regarded as the turning point for WW2 in the Pacific theatre. Integral to the battle were…
On the second day of Christmas, Warlord said to me… It’s day 2 of our Warlords 12 days of Christmas, check out the upcoming Blood Red Skies Squadrons – some of the first releases for 2020! 4 new iconic aircraft are almost ready to take off from the Warlord Factory in the all-new Warlord…
With cold nights drawing in, we’re looking to bring some sun into our lives – lets head for the North African coast with Blood Red Skies: Sandstorm! Welcome to the Western Desert! It’s November 1942, the Afrika Korps is in full retreat after the decisive battle of El Alamein. Ahead of the pursuing 8th Army…
Welcome to the D-Day 75th Anniversary Warlord Games Campaign! We’ve been really excited about the forthcoming Bolt Action campaign book; D-Day Overlord. This release, combined with the commemorations being held as part of the 75th anniversary of the landings in France, means we plan to have a big focus on all things D-Day related. As…
Need to know how & where to play your battles? Unsure about logging your victories? All your questions are answered within these key D-Day Campaign documents: Registration Your first step in taking part is to Sign Up; that is, to create a player account on the D-Day website. This account will not be linked to…
Over 3,200 reconnaissance sorties were flown in the run-up to D-Day, by specialist units of the British 2nd Tactical Air Force and the American 8th Air Force. Pilots were able to range back and forth across occupied Europe at high altitude, photographing enemy installations with almost complete impunity. The RAF’s photo-reconnaissance capabilities reached their…
Unlike the battles for France and the Low Countries, Greece and Yugoslavia, the Luftwaffe did not enjoy its customary air superiority over North Africa… With an aggressive aerial bombing campaign threatening the British Isles and a war rapidly spiralling out of control across the world, the RAF squadrons in places like North Africa initially had…
Tom Mecredy
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