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Now live on Kickstarter!

[url]https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1992455033/battle-of-britain

We are very proud and excited to announce our newest boardgame – The Battle of Britain by Richard Borg, a remastering and upgrading of the classic, much loved old TSR classic.

Designed by Richard Borg, the highly acclaimed designer of Memoir 44, Battle Cry and The Great War (amongst others!), this upgraded version takes all the brilliant mechanics and features of the original game and adds new features to give an even more exciting and satisfying gaming experience, including new streamlined dogfighting and fuel rules, ace fighter squadrons and the ability to play shorter scenarios in 1-2 hours or the full campaign game in 3-4 hours.

Take command of RAF Fighter Command, marshalling your too few fighter squadrons to protect your homeland’s cities, industrial resources, airfields and vital radar chain against the waves of Luftwaffe bombers intent on destroying them and the swarms of fighters intent on shooting the RAF out of the sky. Is that bomber attack a feint or is it the main effort? Are they heading for London or Tangmere airfield? Can you thwart the Luftwaffe’s bombing missions, tear the heart out of their bomber and fighter squadrons and survive long enough to win the game?

Take command of Luftflotte 2 and 3 in Northern France and Luftlotte 5 in Norway and use your numerous bomber squadrons, protected by your numerous fighter squadrons, to complete a number of specific bombing missions to win the game. But don’t be fooled by your starting strength! Your losses will not be replaced as the Spitfires and Hurricanes carve holes in your ranks. Your medium bombers are not really suited to mass strategic bombing and will struggle to complete their missions. Your fighter squadrons, although mainly composed of the excellent Messerschmidt 109, will struggle with fuel, not having the range and endurance to protect your bombers properly.

In addition, the Plastic Soldier Company has added its plastic miniature expertise to create some fantastic little 1/300th scale plastic airplane models. The base game will have 12 Spitfire fighter models and 7 Heinkel 111 bomber models but we are hoping all you lovely Kickstarter backers will propel us past an exciting ladder of stretch goals to add Hurricanes, Dornier 17s, Junkers 88s, Stukas, Bf 109s, Bf 110s and even Blenheims and Defiants! Some of these will replace Heinkels and Spitfires to give more variety whilst others will be additions to the respective air fleets, and some (Stukas, Blenheims, Defiants and even the venerable Gloster Gladiator) will be Kickstarter exclusives.

Pledge now on Kickstarter and help bring this fantastic new game to life!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1992455033/battle-of-britain



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Wow - funded in under 5 hours!

Huge thanks to everyone

Now, lets get cracking on those stretch goals.........

Best wishes

Will



Automatically Appended Next Post:
Wow - funded in under 5 hours!

Huge thanks to everyone

Now, lets get cracking on those stretch goals.........

Best wishes

Will



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First Stretch Goal unlocked!

6 Spitfires to be replaced by 6 plastic Hurricanes (the real workhorse of the Battle of Britain!)

I nabbed an early bird - but I'm waiting for a lot more plastic planes to come with the box before really making a decision. Sixty quid shipped is nothing to sneeze at, especially with the pound recovering; the game seems priced to assume it will unlock quite a few "stretch goals" and if it somehow doesn't manage, I'm out.

Backed - although i do want the Croupier sticks

While it's not my cup of tea I wish you well with this new venture. If there's one thing you guys do time after time, that's to put out a great product.

@XKillGorex
Thank you!


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Blown through 2 more Stretch goals overnight!

GBP 25,000 - free RAF roundel and Luftwaffe cross stick on decals **KICKSTARTER EXCLUSIVE**

GBP 30,000 - replace 1 x Heinkel 111 with 1 x Bf 109 models

Cheers

Will


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ADD ONS:-
For all the early-birders (and anyone else!) who want to add any of the other PSC boardgames to their early bird pledge, you can now add any of the following to your pledge, at no extra shipping cost:-

Commands and Colours The Great War £45 (msrp £60)
The Great War, Tank Expansion £30 (msrp £40)
The Great War Whippet tank booster pack £13 (msrp £16.50)
Quartermaster General: Victory or Death £35 (msrp £40)
Hold the Line, The American Revolution £45 (msrp £60)
Hold the Line, French Indian Wars Expansion £30 (msrp £40)

When you are logged into Kickstarter there is a tab/button top right which gives you all your KS activity - go to campaigns backed and click on the Battle of Britain KS campaign. Next to your pledge on right near top is a manage pledge button, click and there you can increase the amount of your pledge to cover the cost of any add ons you want. When the campaign ends we will send you a backer survey to confirm exactly what you have pledged for.
Cheers
Will

 Mr Morden wrote:
although i do want the Croupier sticks

very close now!

Extra plane packs and oversize gameboard add ons!

You can add packs of extra airplanes:-

1. Pack of 3 Spitfires GBP 1.95

2. Pack of 3 Hurricanes GBP 1.95

3. Pack of 3 Bf 109s GBP 1.95

4. Pack of 2 Heinkel 111s GBP 2.95

5. Pack of 2 Dornier 17s GBP 2.95

6. Pack of 2 Junkers 88s GBP 2.95

7. Pack of 3 flight stands GBP 1.95

These detailed plastic 1/300th scale aircraft, together with their flight stands are also ideal for other WW2 aerial games, tabletop or boardgame.

Due to popular demand following our hugely successful oversize demo game at UK Games Expo, we are also now offering oversize 5’ by 3’ (approx.. 152cm by 91cm) game board play mats. Made from a durable, non tear vinyl material, they are easily rolled and unrolled and will be packaged rolled up in cylinder:-

Oversize playmat: GBP 45


https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1992455033/battle-of-britain

This KS is getting more attention in a parallel thread in the News & Rumours section:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/696413.page

so I am going to lock this one in favor of the other.