New MiG Alley Pre-Orders Scream Towards Blood Red Skies
July 1, 2019 by brennon
Warlord Games is moving towards the age of jet engines with pre-orders now available for the new MiG Alley set for Blood Red Skies.
This set focuses in on the aerial fighting during the Korean War that Warlord Games are also looking at in Bolt Action. MiG Alley was the name given to the northwestern portion of North Korea, at the mouth of the Yalu River. It got its name thanks to the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 that were flown by North Koreans, some Soviets (although unofficially) and the People's Republic Of China.
In response to this threat, the Americans got the North American F-86 Sabre into the skies. This set then enables you to play out a dogfight between these jet engine planes, screaming across the skies at high speed.
Whilst I do agree that planes of all kinds are cool, I'm very much a fan of the traditional propeller-based planes. They have an elegance and style to them that I don't think can be matched.
Could you be tempted by this as a little aside to the World War II dogfights of Blood Red Skies?
"This set focuses in on the aerial fighting during the Korean War that Warlord Games are also looking at in Bolt Action..."
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Those are nice.
Tempted on this one.
@brennon watch the Hunters with Robert Mitchum and you might get a bit more enthusiasm for the period.
The Bridges of Tok Ri not bad either.
Ooh the F86 Sabre one of the first swept wing jet fighter’s in the us air force.
I’ll snag this one up for sure.
But I do hope they don’t stop bringing us the WWII planes. So many good prop planes yet to be brought into Blood Red Skies.
@Dennis Cross I would imagine they will, especially as many of the WW2 types, such as Mustangs, Seafires, Yak’s were still flying in the war, particularly in the early stages before the Chinese entry into the war.
I shall be flippant, when will Warlord be bringing out the Top Gun licenced game?
Being more serious, I don’t know anything about Blood Red Skies’ mechanics, but if Warlord brought it out a Falklands version with Harriers, that would have me hooked.
Boardgame geek says there already was one :
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6766/top-gun
Although you’d probably want Airwar C21 which has been used by @Oriskany in the Sitrep OPS Center episode about the Falkland war :
https://www.beastsofwar.com/news/sitrep-podcasts-ops-center-episode-5-intro-to-the-falklands-war/
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/34413/airwar-c21-2nd-edition
Once we get some missile rules all will be ready for us to game any period… vietnam would be a good start
Resin? Plastic? Metal?
Mig Alley … probably one of the last flightsimulators I’ve ever played.
It’s that interesting era where guns are still used in dogfights.
Hope the models are of the hard plastic, not the soft plastic as in the BRS core set