Renko

Those look great – what paint did you use for the aluminium – mine always seems to go dull?

The fighters are centre stage. You can get a good bomber game running with some of the Air Strike scenarios but fighters are the stars

No problem. People get hung up on bombers a bit – we tried to come up with some way to put them in scenarios with points but it just got too complex and open to abuse. It’s still open to abuse, but that’s the nature of some players 🙂

The bombers are totally free – however they’re only available in bomber scenarios. Unless there is any special circumstances they’re all Pilot Skill 3, which when carrying theor bombs and torps reduces to PS2 due to the “Laden” trait

Yes an unnamed Ace in a Wildcat is 123 points – there are “named Aces” coming that have 2 Ace skills but they tend…[Read more]

It’s the points for use in qames with points totals – note the B5N is incorrect and should read (-)

Most games are 500pts split between pilot crew quality and aircraft points as shown on the cards

You bought it, do what you want with it 🙂

However I’d be careful about making too many changes, particularly going to 5s & 6s. Get Air Strike – there are much more specific rules for attacking surface targets in there

There are a couple of suggestions I would make.

Firstly, your comment about speed seems to suggest you are trying to turn fight as the turning circle of a P51 will be wider than almost anything else as it has a higher minimum speed due to its high max speed. Solution, don’t turn fight, use energy. I’ll explain in a bit. The other issue with the…[Read more]

We switched to Open Play and have not looked back. The way to think about Ace Skills is just because one person is good at something and is in the same group as another talented person with a different skill, it doesn’t mean they are both good equally at the same things. In football Liverpool have Salah as a striker and Alisson in goal. Both are…[Read more]

No – Ace cards are specific to individual Aces. The retention test is per turn = these are Discards not Removes

Bombers are only available in scenarios that include them, tournaments wont use those scenarios

I was speaking to some Warlord guys over the weekend and they mentioned the first batch of Midway Starter Sets were now in Nottingham, so should be in peoples hands “soon”

The wording is “Both cards take effect – if applicable” – (Midway Pg 22) so you have to apply Great Dive.

Yes , but the stats are updated in this release to take account of the new “No Stall” Trait

I’ve not had a chance to compare the physical models however the A6M2 is a totally new sculpt  and it has different stats, including the new “No Stalling” trait. The main visual difference is the A6M2 has longer wings, and the A6M5 has three visible exhaust pipes each side at the edge of the engine cowling.

Sorry, I wont have a good word said about the Buffalo 🙂

https://twtrb.blogspot.com/2019/04/brewster-buffalo-in-blood-red-skies.html

Though this is probably a more reasonable and balanced view https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOLIVGvv6yY&t=526s

Yup – I think the issue is as much circumstances as a weakness in the Devastator – they did ok prior to Midway, and ANYTHING thrown in without escort would suffer, but the Devastator seems to have ben scapegoated a bit.

Hopefully the demand has been noted. I suppose the fact we have 4 options in your response shows that Warlord will struggle to keep everyone happy, but it certainly needs something

Hi Mike

Broadly agree – the aircraft in CS are a bit of a mess.

The rivet counter in me would point out Swede “claimed” three Zeroes, most recent assessments is he actually shot down none of them, and the ramming story is a pure fabrication (not his – just the “Yellow Press” as far as I can tell) .

The replacement of Swordfish Albacores on…[Read more]