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20 July 2012

Random Friday Wargaming: Flight Leader

Take to the skies and blow up the bad guys! Flight Leader put you in the pilot's seat. There were a lot of expansions and articles around this one. It's odd that there was always a ton of material for it, but you'd have trouble finding it on the table at a convention or game gathering.







Flight Leader is a turn based, hex and counter tactical game of "modern" air combat (Korean War to 1986). Each turn is 30 seconds, each hex is 1 km, and each counter is a single aircraft. It was known as Check Six when first used by the Military for training pilots as part of Project "WARRIOR"

Discuss it over at ConSimWorld!

Master links/images from Boardgamegeek.com; message boards linked to Consimworld. Other links to the actual game pages...


By: Brant
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  1. Jack Nastyface23 July, 2012 04:04

    One of my fav games from back in the day...loved the board and variety of planes; game made better much better by the introduction of phased movement.

    Only beef I ever had was that it didn't include some of the key differences between period aircraft. Fer example, in the screen shot above, the only diff. betwixt the Mig-15 and the F-86 is in armament (2M vs 2C). IRL, flight performance between these two rivals had a telling influence on outcomes.

    But you are right...almost never see this at game cons...

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