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