Author Topic: Crimson Skies: How best to start? (Read 6793 times)

abhorsen950 · « **on:** January 18, 2010, 04:07:49 PM »

Hey guys, just had a look the crimson skies battle report again and i really want to play! Are these the rules? http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7&products_id=1286
Im really interested in playing also can you use any model planes?
Heres some ideas :
http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=28122
http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=33806
Im also thinking of buying a few plane kits and going wild.

Love to hear from you all

Steve

Operator5 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 18, 2010, 04:20:39 PM »

The rules you linked to are for the clix version of the game. I'm not sure which battle report you are looking at, but if it is the non-clix version, you will want to look for the rules from FASA and not WizKids.

abhorsen950 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 18, 2010, 04:44:58 PM »

Okayyyyy cause i really dont wanna use clix :| might just try and grab some free aerial combat rules
thanks for that though ill keep looking

Steve

Modhail · « **Reply #3 on:** January 18, 2010, 07:12:05 PM »

The rules are very much out of print, so you'll have to depend on a lucky Ebay find to get the rules...

As an alternative, might I suggest Crimson Eagles? It's a fanmade hybrid of the old Crimson Skies rules and setting with the Crimson Eagles rules.
Yahoogroup with downloads here
Developer's blog here

Good hunting!

abhorsen950 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 19, 2010, 05:43:53 PM »

Funny you should mention crimson eagles i stumbled across it last night

Cheers guys

Steve

Puuka · « **Reply #5 on:** January 19, 2010, 07:33:33 PM »

I didn't mind the WK rules. I still think WK would have had a more successful game if they had made it using dragons and other mythical flying beasts and used Mage Knight heroes as the aces.

flooglestreet · « **Reply #6 on:** January 19, 2010, 07:42:48 PM »

You can get the planes from Iron Winds metals.http://ironwindmetals.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=14&osCsid=c876cced3a656f18a6e7b81b8b94d3d9

YPU · « **Reply #7 on:** January 19, 2010, 09:46:20 PM »

Funny, I was looking in to this as well. The rules used to be available online somewhere I believe, but I cant remember where...

Crudeboy · « **Reply #8 on:** January 20, 2010, 03:29:18 AM »

Current eBay auction if you're interested in paying 50 bucks for it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/FASA-CRIMSON-SKIES-8000-UNPLAYED-VINTAGE-BOARD-GAME_W0QQitemZ280453543662QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item414c5576ee#ht_500wt_1182

New at Noble Knight Games:

http://www.nobleknight.com/ProductDetailSearch.asp_Q_ProductID_E_10608_A_InventoryID_E_2147627336_A_ProductLineID_E__A_ManufacturerID_E__A_CategoryID_E__A_GenreID_E_

It took me some searchin', but I managed to grab everything they printed over the span of last month. I don't think Ral Partha Europe has the core rules, but they still have a few sourcebooks for fairly cheap.

dexter · « **Reply #9 on:** January 21, 2010, 11:28:27 PM »

Quote from: Crudeboy on January 20, 2010, 03:29:18 AM

. I don't think Ral Partha Europe has the core rules

no they haven't had it for sale since Ral partha europe reformed

Also if you have the box set it comes with 3d card aircraft so you can use those at 1st ,u dont need to spend more on metal aircraft yet.
dex

Crudeboy · « **Reply #10 on:** January 22, 2010, 03:22:53 AM »

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Also if you have the box set it comes with 3d card aircraft so you can use those at 1st ,u dont need to spend more on metal aircraft yet.

Yup. I found a site the other day that had hexagonal tokens of all the main aircraft from the boxed set, but I can't seem to find it at the moment. I'll look again once I'm at home and toss up a link.

YPU · « **Reply #11 on:** January 22, 2010, 10:47:10 AM »

That would be awesome.

Modhail · « **Reply #12 on:** January 22, 2010, 04:03:41 PM »

Crudeboy, did you mean this one?

Operator5 · « **Reply #13 on:** January 22, 2010, 04:09:30 PM »

Those are nice hexes. I like the flipped damaged version. Perfect for a game if you don't have the metal planes.

abhorsen950 · « **Reply #14 on:** January 22, 2010, 06:38:16 PM »

Cheers for the help guys.
Tho tbh i think im just gonna turn to some Aircraft modelling.

Cheers for all your help

Steve

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