Monday, 30 June 2025

WW1 Aerial Card Game


Quick and easy to play and with an alternate (and to be fair, more ‘wargamery’) set of rules available on BoardGameGeek.


There are twenty aircraft types for each side - note the lovely artwork on the two examples above - and fifteen of the action cards (three of each of the five types depicted).

 Laurel and I braved the thirty degrees plus heat on Sunday to visit our usual boot sale. It was quite small in terms of the number of sellers and buyers, presumably the weather warning deterred many from attending. Despite the paucity of sellers I managed to pick up the small card game you see above for the princely sum of £1.

Dogfight was released in 2015 and was designed by Martin Wallace - a designer of many boardgames (I own his excellent version of Waterloo) and personally known to a number of readers of this blog (sadly I am not in that number!).

The game is a type of Trumps style game where the applicable aircraft rating - determined by any one of the five action cards you see above for - is compared to the opponents with the highest score being the winner. Simple but effective although as mentioned, there is a meatier set of rules available from BGG which would sit rather more comfortably with the WW1 aerial enthusiast.

The artwork on the aircraft cards is very nice and would be useful for painting colour schemes for the aerial model gamers amongst us.

All in all, a nice acquisition for a £1 and a game that can be easily played anywhere and with a very quick set up time.

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