In Clouds of Glory - WWI miniature aircombat

[GilmoreDK]

Hi there

I am new to this forum but I have been lurking for a while. I would like to show You a full 3D WWI air combat game we are curruntly working on. The game is called In Clouds of Glory. Game rules are currently in Danish but we are slowly translating them to English as we finish them.

The rules are about middle difficulty - A small 4-5 plane game takes about 2 1/2 hour while a big 12 plane combat takes most of a day.

We are currently running a 23 mission campaign with 8 players - Each player running a half squadron of 8 planes and pilots. The campaign runs from January 1917 to November 1918 with new plane types getting intruduced and old ones phaes out as we go. We play one mission for each month in the period. And as we go pilots must learn to survive, get experience or get killed in the proces.
More on the game, rules, mission reports and lots of pics can be found in the main game entry on BoardGameGeek: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/21706/in-clouds-of-glory

Until now we have scratch build all models in styrene, 1/350 scale  but 1/285 or 1/300 models (Navwar, Skytrex, Heroics and Ros) can be used as well. Note that there is full denotation of altitude - you slide the plane to the correct altitude and the planes can be turned full 360 degrees on their nose mounts.Flying stands are sharpened in one end and inserted directly into the foamboard terrain.







Mission reports with lots of pics:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/564047/marne-1918-final-mission-schlasta-la-vista
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/535861/bombing-mission-1918-a-black-day-for-the-luftstr
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/581647/zeppelin-bitter-combat-over-the-north-sea-januar

I hope You enjoy the pics...

- Gilmore

[Rev. Aubrey Upjohn]

Love the models and the idea. 

Those sharpened flying stands must be murder for the board. 

[GilmoreDK]

Those sharpened flying stands must be murder for the board. 

Actually no. The foamboards have proven remarkably resilient. We made the original 6 boards (3 countryside, 1 Aerodrome, 2 frontline) in 1993 and they have lasted two very lon campaigns in the 90ties. And since we have taken the game up again and played at least 30 games on them.

They need a bit reparing now. The paint is worn. But they hold together fine despite the huge amount of holes in them. If you use flying vehicles in your tabletop games i can only reccomend to build them from foam and use caobon rods (steering link rod for R/C planes)..

- Gilmore

[Dr. The Viking]

Lovely stuff!!!  I remember seeing it at Fastaval 1999 in Århus.