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Anyone know of any good air combat games, how well they play, and how their mechanics work? I know of wings of glory for ww1 and ww2 and Im considering getting wings of glory ww2, but fantasyflight games sold the license to another company and its taking forever for them to come out with all the famous fighters. Also is their any modern air combat miniture games?

Modern air combat is jolly hard to do, primarily because it's such a brief, automated, one-sided affair in most cases. You just don't get tense dog-fights in modern air warfare. Lock-on occurs at a distance of several kilometres and a pilot will kill his opponent sometimes before he has even seen him with the Mk 1 eyeball. Add to that the fact of the immense speed at which these guys move! Even given their computer-assisted lightning reflexes, they are moving several table lengths every turn.

That said, near future offers some options, with the introduction of gravity suits that support the execution of dynamic aerial manoeuvres even at top speed, and the potential for a battle space that isn't simply overwhelmingly dominated by a single side.

I am hoping to release AirFrame - the game of near-future aerial combat - next month for public beta and the finished product in February. Play testing so far had been positive, with high-g manoeuvres giving plenty of tactical interest. At the moment, the principle challenge is making the airframes fast enough to feel futuristic whilst making it possible to play the game on a 4x4 table.

The game is also fully compatible with MechaWar, allowing players to fields airframes in direct support of their mechs, or even to pit mechs against airframes.

R.

At a dog fighting level i think this is pretty much it at "official" level games. However a quick google search turned these up:

http://www.sturmovik-commander.com/

http://www.metroeastgaming.org/cscamp.htm

http://www.raidenminiatures.co.uk/10.html

http://www.juniorgeneral.org/air/ww2fast.html

http://lasthussar.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/battle-of-britain-free-wargames-rules/

http://web.archive.org/web/20100408103447/http://www.freewebs.com/tommiatkins/blazingskies.htm

http://www.freewargamesrules.co.uk/uploads/7/0/8/1/7081303/flaming_aces.pdf

Sturmovik Commander is quite possibly the best set of rules I have played as far as combination of ease and accuracy.

Check your 6 is good too but it better suited for a lower model count.

if you want to play a WWI game, Canvas eagles is the best I've ever played, unless you want something very simple then go with wings of war... errr... wings of glory.