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Stringbags

Summary of Contents

INTRODUCTION: Scales; Definitions; Game Play Concepts

MEN AND MACHINES: Determining Pilot and Gunnery Skills; Skill Rolls; Luck; Dazed, Wounded or Dead Aircrew; Crew Survival; Experience; Spotting; Obsolete Aircraft; Mechanical Unreliability; Destruction of Aircraft; Large Bombers

SETTING UP A GAME AND DEPLOYMENT: Points Values; Preparing the Game; Starting the Game

SEQUENCE OF PLAY: Campaign Game Timer; Victory and Defeat for stand-alone games; Victory and Defeat for campaign games

FLIGHT FUNDAMENTALS: Formations; The effect of altitude on performance; Tailing; Order of Movement Actions; Movement; Turning; Climbing; Zoom Climb; Climbing Half Loop; Diving; Diving Half Loop; Stacking; Variable dive rates; Altitude loss following a failed VPSR; Leaving the table

SHOOTING: Guns; Arcs of fire; Lines of fire; Shooting between Height levels; Target priority and timing; Aircrew Shooting; Shooting Procedure; Modifiers; Hitting the target; Automatic hit bonus; Guns and Ammunitions; Damaging the target; Critical Hits; Effect of Formations on shooting

CRITICAL HIT TABLE

SPECIAL OPTIONAL RULES: Repair and Rearm; Flying Circuses

ATTACKING A SURFACE TARGET: Hitting the Target and Bomb Damage; Ground Attack with Guns; Hitting the Target with Strafing Attacks; Attacking Balloons; Strafing Trenches; Deep Penetration Raids; Ground Defences against Air Attack

A CAMPAIGN SYSTEM: Set-Up; Campaign Missions; Special Rules regarding Interaction of Certain Missions; Force Selection and Game Duration; End of Mission; Inter-Mission Phase; Prototypes

BIBLIOGRAPHY

DESIGNERS NOTES

AIRCRAFT DATA: Aircraft Data; Aircraft Theatres of Operation; Austria Hungary; France; Germany; Italy; Russia; United Kingdom; United States; Aircraft Notes

AIRCRAFT THEATRE LIST: Austria-Hungary; Belgium; France; Germany (Western Front, Russian Front, Middle East); Italy; Russia; Turkey; United Kingdom Royal Flying Corps (Western Front, Middle East); United Kingdom RNAS (Western Front, Middle East); United States (American Expeditionary Force)

GAME RECORD CARDS; CAMPAIGN ROSTERS

This page last updated on 15/07/2006