My new game S.55 - Wings Over the Atlantic

[Angiolillo]

Some of you managed to try S.55 - Wings Over the Atlantic in Prague or in Lucca or even in Rome last year. It is a steamlined simulation of private and Regia Aeronautica air cruises across the Ocean in '20s and '30s, but some scenario can be added with US, Spanish and Portuguese seaplanes.
The game, produced with the blessing of the Italian Air Force, will soon be launched on Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...r-the-atlantic
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[Hedeby]

Kickstarter alert set up, looks brilliant

[tikkifriend]

Its a great game as Tim will confirm .Well worth an investment in the kickstart.
Most enjoyable even though I lost

[Jager]

Some of you managed to try S.55 - Wings Over the Atlantic in Prague or in Lucca or even in Rome last year. It is a steamlined simulation of private and Regia Aeronautica air raids across the Ocean in '20s and '30s, but some scenario can be added with US, Spanish and Portuguese seaplanes.

I'm assuming that you meant to write air races?

Karl

[Flying Helmut]

Its a great game as Tim will confirm .Well worth an investment in the kickstart.
Most enjoyable even though I lost

Most enjoyable, even though I didn't lose!

[Diamondback]

Expansion pack idea: Pan Am and Imperial/BOAC's big triple-tailed Boeing 314s bucking North Atlantic storms on the New York-Botwood-Foynes-Southampton route.

[Baxter]

Some of the button labels were in Italian. I followed the link and clicked on what I thought was "keep me updated" and going by the email I have received I ended up pre-ordering 3 copies by clicking 3 times on the screen to try and exit. Naturally I only am interested in one copy.

Not sure when this game will be published but my inept computer skills aside, this plane is available in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Marketplace. If you have that simulator and fancy flying around in it, it is not expensive. I am downloading my plane now.

[Teaticket]

Looks interesting. I'll be watching this one for the Kickstarter.

[Angiolillo]

Thanks everybody!

I'm assuming that you meant to write air races?

Thanks a lot for yor comment, very interesting. For us Italians, "raid" is clearly a word imported from English. But in Italian and French it has a sport meaning of long-distance treks or competitions to show ability and endurance, I now see - thanks to you - that this meaning is completely missing in English.

https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaire...ais/raid/66225



I did not really mean "races", they were not racing against each other (even if in the game, if you play in more than 1, there are several players cometing). They just attemted to complete long-range flights that none had done before, or to do them in mass flights of 12/24 planes (Italo Balbo was the one trying them, so "Balbo" still means a mass of planes).
At that time they spoke about "Crociere atlantiche", or "Atlantic cruises". I will correct this way.

Expansion pack idea: Pan Am and Imperial/BOAC's big triple-tailed Boeing 314s bucking North Atlantic storms on the New York-Botwood-Foynes-Southampton route.

Great idea indeed. But the game system should be somehow changed: now the game is based on the length of the steps you take from a city to the next along the path. It does not fits well single long-range flights. Must think about that.

I see that there was already a thread for it, besides, that I forgot and did not show up in searches:

https://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/sh...over-the-Ocean

[tikkifriend]

Most enjoyable, even though I didn't lose!

[Paukenschlager]

When is, roughly, the Kickstarter meant to start?

[Jager]

Thanks everybody!
Thanks a lot for your comment, very interesting. For us Italians, "raid" is clearly a word imported from English. But in Italian and French it has a sport meaning of long-distance treks or competitions to show ability and endurance, I now see - thanks to you - that this meaning is completely missing in English.

Interesting. I seem to recall that Raid and Road in English have the same root word. And that "Road" was often used to mean raid; e.a. on the Scots-English border in the 16th cen.

Karl

[Angiolillo]

When is, roughly, the Kickstarter meant to start?

In a few weeks. It also depending on how quickly we can spread the new and how many people will subscribe project and newsletter. Please help telling around.

Interesting. I seem to recall that Raid and Road in English have the same root word. And that "Road" was often used to mean raid; e.a. on the Scots-English border in the 16th cen.

Thanks again for the infos! Intriguing.

[Angiolillo]

Here a report of the very first session played:

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/325...-orbetello-rio

[Le Piaf]

The subject of this game is fascinating and, of course, very unusual in games... The time period is great.
Looking forward to it !

A) Will it include :
1) record attempts (speed/distance), such as :
- the solo flight Paris-New-York in 1927 by Charles Nungesser flying L'oiseau blanc then Charles Lindbergh on the Spirit of St. Louis
- the first crossing of the Andes by Luis Candelaria
- etc.

2) the first Airlines such as Air Orient…

3) Long flights to South America for Airborne postal services by e.g. the Compagnie générale aéropostale (1918-1933) with pilots such as Mermoz, Saint-Exupéry...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aéropostale_(aviation)

B) Will failure (engine, radio...), weather conditions, fatigue, crash, rough landing, navigation, piloting, night/day conditions... be simulated ?

C) Will there be many/several planes with specific characteristics ?

These questions only to know more of the game

Keep up the good work

(edit)
Just received a first newsletter about the game. I know more of it. It'll be about the... S.55 seaplane (as the title says it...). Seems promising !