Violent Skies: Season 4 – First Team to the Solomons 1942-43

Sat inside the cockpit with the engine rattling through your bones, you turn to engage. Managing your energy and fuel, can you gain position to get a shot off? Or will the Bandit get the better of you? Sometimes it is better to disengage than push a losing fight. Violent Skies is a solitaire game of aerial combat in the Second World War. Using a game card that acts as your cockpit and also as a mission generator. The Player and Bandit take alternating actions to try and get a shot on the opposition's aircraft. This Fourth Season of the game puts you in the cockpit of the main fighters during the opening salvos of the Pacific War. From Thach Weaving Wildcats, nimble Ki-43 Oscars and deadly A6M Zeros, Players can forge pilot careers in some of the greastest aircraft of the Second World War. Including the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Battle of Midway, Operation Vengenace, the Solomons Campaign and the beginning of Corsair operations, Violent Skies 4 plunges you into the action. Each sortie lasts between 5 and 10 minutes, and the Player has a logbook to advance their career. As the Player completes a campaign, they have the option to keep the logbook and continue their career in different aircraft and theatres. All is needed is at least four D6, a small marker for the advantage track, and a pen or pencil for the logbook. Everything else is included in the minimal construction print and play PDF. Three optional counters are included and need to be folded and cut out but the rest is ready straight off the printer. Included as flyable aircraft are the Wildcat F4F-3 & -4, A6M2-21, A6M2-N, A6M3-32, Ki-43b, P-38G, P-40F, F1M2, F4U-1, P-39D. Each aircraft comes with a Sortie Card (your cockpit and mission generator), Campaign Tables, optional Damage Table, Skills sheet and counters. There are Logbooks for the Japanese and Americans in low ink and full colour, as well as a detailed example of play. .....and remember, never try to out turn a Zero or underestimate a Wildcat! All Violent Skies products are standalone and do not need other versions to play. —description from the publisher