Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Bloody April canvas eagles

The month of April 1917 was known as Bloody April by the Royal Flying Corps. The RFC suffered particularly severe losses — about three times as many as the Imperial German Army Air Service  during the spring offensive in support of the ground assaults. 

We played 5 games in four hours (with two coffee and one lunch brake in between) we tuned up the game mechanics a little as we played, the game was on a six by five table with four players and was normally over in 15 minutes although one did last less than three minutes. 

We had a good day out, the Germans however had the worse of it and this April ended up very bloody for them!  I was happy how the rules played, the key to convention rules is simplicity and speed so you can churn players through the game. A big thanks to Ryan, Boyd Ian and Greg For the great games

























cheers
Matt

5 comments:

Cyrus said...

Great looking WW 1 planes Matt. Do you play Wings of War?

Bluewillow said...

Yes now and then in 1/72nd scale, one of the guys has blown up the cards so we can use them, but I actually prefer Canvas eagles as it gives more of a feel for the period.

cheers
Matt

Ray Rousell said...

It certainly looks like a fun game!!

Vinnie said...

Nice stuff Matty,

One day I to hope to have a club to call home..spent to much time away at the moment to really do any gaming.

Great stuff old friend

Kukuruza said...

Looks great - tells us mor about the rules :-)