Storm Above the Reich is a solitaire game depicting a Luftwaffe squadron of Fw190s struggling to deter and destroy the relentless daylight raids over Germany during World War Two. The player s individual aircraft, each represented by a stickered block, must confront the mighty combat box formation of the United States Army Air Force, a deadly terrain of B-24 Liberator heavy bombers.
Like its counterpart, Skies Above the Reich, the game is a broad strokes depiction that presents the arc of the desperate air war. Stretching from late 1942 to early 1945, Storm Above the Reich follows that trajectory in a series of missions strung together to make a campaign.
Each mission will take a half hour or more to play, while a campaign can last anywhere between 6 to 60 missions. Stand-Alone and an Expansion: Storm Above the Reich is a stand-alone game; you don t need Skies Above the Reich to play.
However, it can also serve as an expansion for that game. Storm uses the same rules as Skies, along with components in one game transfer seamlessly to the other.
Combined, Storm and Skies present eight formation maps, six pursuit maps, B-17s along with B-24s. In Storm, you get an oversized staffel of 18 Fw190s, including the option of augmenting it into a Sturmbocke staffel.
In Skies, you get a staffel of Bf109s, along with featuring the games combined, the staffels can also be combined. COMPONENTS one 17 x 22 map board (double sided) one 22 x 34 map board (double sided) one 8.5 x 22 off-map display panel one 8.5 x 11 pad: Pilot Roster & Staffel Log (double sided) two countersheets (one sheet of 1 counters; one sheet of 5/8 counters) 60 blocks two sticker sheets 96 attack as well as continuing fire cards four bi-fold player aids (11 x 17 , double sided) one pursuit map (8.5 x 11 , double sided) one interception map (8.5 x 11 , double sided) one rule book one situation manual one advanced rule book two 10-sided dice Vendor: GMT
