When visiting one of my local toy and game shops recently I bought a new card game, which I saw, called 'Dogfight WW1'. I was initially attracted by the colourful box.
The game is for two players aged 8+. The box contains 55 cards, consisting of 15 Victory Point cards (3 of each of the 5 categories: Speed, Manoeuvre, Range, Firepower and Height), 20 Entente Aircraft cards and 20 Central Powers Aircraft cards. Each aircraft is rates on a scale of 1-5 in each of the 5 categories. The values are supposed to reflect the performance of that aircraft but some of the ratings do not seem realistic to me. However, that does mean that cards representing early war aircraft are not totally useless when compared with later period aircraft. The cards are beautifully illustrated. One card, the Fokker D.VII is mislabelled as a Fokker E.V.
The game mechanics are fairly simple. In each round, one of the 5 categories is nominated and each of the two players selects an aircraft card from a hand of 5 cards. The aircraft scores in that category are compared and the higher score wins one of the Victory Point cards. There is a rule for dealing with ties. A Victory Point card may be used in play in a future round to gain an advantage. At the end of the game the player with the most Victory Point cards wins. There are more rules but this gives the basic idea. I consider it quite a nice little game and it could be used to introduce a youngster to some of the planes used in WW1. Other language versions are available.
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