WWI Aerial War Game

Rules

by Mike Crane

This game is designed to simulate—in a general way—aerial combat in WWI. For models I chose the Fokker D-VII and the Nieuport-17. I chose the Fokker because it is easy to make and the Nieuport-17 because it was used by all of the allied air forces. Well, I really chose it because I think it looks good.

The models should be photocopied onto card stock and assembled using rubber cement. The models are more difficult to put together than the models in previous games, but don’t worry, you will get better each time you make one. I think the game will be worth it.

Directions:

  1. Using a stylus or a dried-up ballpoint pen, score all of the places on the model that will be bent (the struts, where the wings, wheels, and horizontal stablizers connect to the fuselage).
  2. Cut out the parts of the model.
  3. Bend the lower wings, wheels, horizontal stabilizers, and upper wing supports away from the fuselage halves.
  4. Rubber cement the fuselage halves together.
  5. Bend the struts and cement them to the tips of the lower wings.
  6. Cement the upper wing to the top of the struts and the upper wing support extensions.

WWI Aerial Wargame


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