Warlord Games & Airfix Team Up For New Blood Red Skies Set
October 12, 2020 by brennon
Warlord Games have teamed up with Airfix to produce a new Blood Red Skies set which uses the 1:72 aircraft from the well-known model manufacturer. Take a peek at the Battle Of Britain Set they've now made available for pre-order.
Airfix Presents Blood Red Skies // Warlord Games
This set uses the rules by Andy Chambers and uses them to show off a dogfight between two Supermarine Spitfires and two Messerschmitts. There is a focus on this being all about the action with fast-paced gameplay, no bookkeeping and no need to pre-plot. Everything you need to play is included in the set from tokens through to dice, templates and more.
Battle Of Britain // Warlord Games
This obviously pushes Blood Red Skies to a somewhat larger scale but I like the idea of making this a fun little set for someone to pick up if they know someone is really into their Airfix kits. Grab this, build and paint up the aircraft and you've got a fun game to play every so often. I could have seen this being something me and my granddad would have played as an example!
I would doubt we're going to see this version of Blood Red Skies expanded upon to quite the degree but I could see this being a fun alternative all the same. Could you be tempted by this or would you rather go for the standard version of Blood Red Skies?
Let me know in the comments below...
"Could you be tempted by this or would you rather go for the standard version of Blood Red Skies?"
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I can see why Warlord would think a tie in with Airfix is a good idea. I’m not convinced it is. If those are the 1/72 scale Spitfire and Me109 plastic kits I built a couple of years ago they suck. Good luck to them but I think this is a distraction that takes resources away from supporting the 1/200 scale game. I could see sense in going to 1/144 given the number of plastic kits available at that scale. Warlord’s time might be better used getting some of the out-of-print leaders reprinted (Galland etc.), making the original Spitfires and… Read more »
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Couldn’t someone who own Blood Red Skies and a bunch of plastic kits just improvise that? Or simply download the pdf rules?
All they need to do is rescale the ruler and make some tokens to indicate advantage/disadvantage/neutral.
And I’ve seen airfix kits for sale at considerably cheaper prices. £60 for four kits plus the rules etc seems a lot of money.
Honest question: Do people play this game?
I’ve never bought in, nor played Blood Red Skies, but I also don’t know anyone personally who has bought into or played it (which is rare, as at least SOMEONE I know will buy some stuff, even if it just sits on the shelf.) I see Warlord’s name on the box and assume (with their distribution) it has an audience out there somewhere in the world, I just haven’t run into those people yet. I always thought the planes looked puny & small, but I am no expert.
I bought just the starter and played a few games. It’s not bad. I did paint the minis.
I’ve been tempted to add some other planes, but not done so. Don’t like the oversize bases needed for some of the bigger planes made of metal, rather have plastic.
Obviously covid put a damper on any more dogfights, but in a 1000 years when covid over I may have another go.
Nice touch indeed but the lack of availability of the regular starter set, the fact that the hard plastic released after the 4 original (Spitfire, Me 109 E, A6M Zero an P51 Mustangs) are largely inferior to the later released Hurricanes, Me 110 or FW 190 is a bit mhm yeah painful. If they were to rerelease the original 4 in hard plastic no doubt I would get some more of then 😛
If they can come up with airplane cards for other airfix planes, and a set of stands, this would work as a purely fighter vs fighter game and for the battle of britain, i think it is perfect. This is how to make a participation game at a convention or just as a school project to showcase aspects of teamwork, wargaming or physics ( geometry, etc ). I thnk this is where the game should have been originally but understand, the wargaming market is not the model building market and airfix spitfires and Me109s are things we build years ago……and… Read more »