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Above the Clouds!
Above the Clouds! is a set of air-combat miniature wargame rules for fighting large air battles from the late 1930s through the 1970s.
What is Above the Clouds!
Above the Clouds! is a set of air-combat miniature wargame rules for fighting large air battles from the late 1930s through the 1970s.
The rules are intended to produce a free-flowing and fast game to represent air combat. Although air warfare is a very technical form of combat, rules which focus too much on the technical details quickly lose the "feel" of air combat by turning the game into a slow, plodding simulation where seconds of combat time require hours of game time to resolve.
To avoid this, a fairly minimalist approach was taken in the game design. Individual aircraft have unique capabilities, and pilot skill/experience determines advantages and disadvantages, but the emphasis in the game is rapid execution of turns so that they game moves quickly.
To achieve this, the following concepts guided the game development:
Game details
- Players
- 2–8
- Age
- +12
- Duration
- —
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Type
- Board game
- Year
- 2017
- Mechanics
- Dice Rolling · Hexagon Grid · Line of Sight
- Categories
- Aviation / Flight · Book · Korean War
- Designer
- Gavin Tovrea
- Publisher
- GT Publishing
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How many players is Above the Clouds! for?
Above the Clouds! plays with 2–8 players.
How long does a game take?
Playing time varies with the number of players.
What age is it suitable for?
It is recommended from age 12.
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