Bloody April, 1917 award winning board game goes digital!

[panzerde]

Seems like exactly the sort of thing that makes great sense as a digital conversion. I'm a lot more likely to play this with the PC doing most/all of the bookkeeping!

[acctingman]

I need CY6 like a crack addict needs, well.....more crack 

[JudgeDredd]

Am I reading right, development won't start until 2017...so likely will get in 20182020?

Fixered

[em2nought]

I've always expected someone to make a digital version of Ace of Aces.  It would be easy to just fly in WOFF, ROF, WWI FS:SDOE, or Canvas Eagles and take screenshots at just the right moments in order to create the books.  I even considered trying it myself at one time.

[Barthheart]

I've always expected someone to make a digital version of Ace of Aces.  It would be easy to just fly in WOFF, ROF, WWI FS:SDOE, or Canvas Eagles and take screenshots at just the right moments in order to create the books.  I even considered trying it myself at one time.

This! I've always wanted a digital flip book version of Ace of Aces. Tried several times myself with Visual Basic and then again with just a data base program. Turns out I'm too lazy to be a programmer. 

[rocketman]

Ages ago I played Dawn Patrol - is this game similar to that one? I have always felt it would make a good conversion to digital.

[Nefaro]

Ages ago I played Dawn Patrol - is this game similar to that one? I have always felt it would make a good conversion to digital.

No, this is not similar to Dawn patrol.  Bloody April isn't about dogfighting/BFM, but about mission planning & execution for multiple flights, and air defenses to some extent. 

The scenarios in the tabletop usually cover a few hours to a day, over a small section of the front.  But hopefully the digital version will have more extended campaign options with carryover & such.



The other tabletop game they're currently developing, Check Your Six!, is more like Dawn Patrol.  Except it's World War 2 aircraft, the system is 'WEGO' style, and the mechanics are more a derivation of another old WWI tabletop dogfight game, Blue Max.

[Rayfer]

Nef....thanks for the link to Check Your Six. That would be way more appealing to me than Bloody April if it comes out in digital. 

[Nefaro]

Nef....thanks for the link to Check Your Six. That would be way more appealing to me than Bloody April if it comes out in digital.

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Hopefully it'll do well enough to warrant the Check Your 6! Jet Age version too.  Would enjoy the Korea-Vietnam-Arab&Israeli settings more myself, but it's all good.  We haven't had much of this stuff in PC format.

[Lord Zimoa]

Hopefully it'll do well enough to warrant the Check Your 6! Jet Age version too.

All current published and upcoming unpublished scenario books of both CY6! and CY6! Jet Age will be covered. We plan to guide you from WW2, through the start of the Jet Age like Korea, Vietnam to the last of the real dog-fighting jets in the Israeli-Arab Wars and a bit beyond.

So the first release of CY6! will just be the first base game and we see it more as the start of a large new series of games.

Beta is planned to start end of this year, aim is to release of the first part Q2 next year and build the series out over the next two years to come afterwards.

[Barthheart]

Thanks for the update!  O0

[Nefaro]

Awesome.

Figured we'd draw one out, if the threads went on long enough.  >:D