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Summary of Contents
INTRODUCTION: Scales; Definitions;
Sequence of Play
MEN AND MACHINES: Determining Crew
Skills; Skill Rolls; Dazed, Wounded or Dead Aircrew; Crew Survival;
Experience; Spotting; Obsolete Aircraft (Optional); Mechanical Unreliability
(Optional); Destruction of Aircraft
SETTING UP A GAME AND DEPLOYMENT: Points
Values; Preparing the Game; Starting the Game; Victory and Defeat; Sequence
of Play
FLIGHT FUNDAMENTALS: Formations; Effect
of Altitude on Performance; Tailing; Order of Movement Actions; Movement;
Turning; Effects of Damage on Turning; Climbing; Zoom Climb; Climbing Half
Loop; Diving; Diving Half Loop; Stacking; Variable Dive Rates; Altitude loss
following a failed VPSR
SHOOTING: Guns; Arcs of Fire; Lines of
Fire; Target Priority and Timing; Aircrew Shooting; Shooting Procedure;
Modifiers; Hitting the Target; Automatic Hit Bonus; Ammunition Supply;
Damaging the Target; Critical Hits; Effect of Formations on Shooting;
Special Weapons; Combining Fire from Multiple Mounts
ATTACKING A SURFACE TARGET: Area Bombing
Attacks; Hitting the Target and Bomb Damage; Ground Attack with Guns and
Rockets; Hitting the Target; Guns and Rocket Damage; Anti-Shipping Strikes;
Deep Penetration Raids; Kamikaze Attacks
BIBLIOGRAPHY
GROUND DEFENCES AGAINST AIR ATTACK:
Anti-Aircraft Batteries; Heavy Batteries; Light Batteries
NIGHT ACTIONS: Markers; Spotting at
Night; Jamming and Interference; Searchlights
OPTIONAL RULES: Simplified Pilot Skill
Rolls; Losing contact with the Enemy; Dark Night; Weapon Alignment;
Transonic speeds; Computing Gun Sights; Aircrew Training; German Secret
Weapons; Re-arming and Repairs
SETTING UP A TYPICAL GAME
AIRCRAFT DATA AND THEATRES OF USE:
Understanding Aircraft Data Tables; Aircraft Theatres of Operation;
Australia; France; Germany; Great Britain; Italy; Japan; Poland; Russia;
United States; Aircraft Notes; Operational Theatres:
North West Europe, Southern
Europe and Africa, Eastern Front, The Far East, Other Theatres
APPENDIX A - A TASTER SCENARIO
APPENDIX B - AIR COMBAT FOR THE BEGINNER
APPENDIX C - TABLE OF AIRCRAFT WEAPONS
APPENDIX D – DESIGNERS’ NOTES
FIGHTER RECORD CARDS; BOMBER RECORD
CARDS
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