Airfix Battles - Play through

At UK Games Expo I picked up Airfix Battles the introductory wargame (with bonus cards) for a bargain price as Airfix are not going to support it (Morphius indicate that they plan to re publish but without any branding as a generic WW2 game). 

I had had a bash at the first scenario a while back but then hadn't had time to reflect on the game - so DK and I had a go at scenarios 1 and 2. 

The game is driven by command cards which can be used as basic (fire or move - there is reinforce but we didn't try this), special orders (do something special) or interrupts (bugger up you opponent on his turn!). 

The game itself is self contained - so I didn't need any miniatures to play it (but they would be nice), with card chits and paper maps. The combat is brutal and with the introductory scenarios I felt that the lack of units as you learnt how to play was limiting (but made sense, we still have to do armour). As far as the results went DK did smash me twice .... Next time the fatherland will be successful. 

We did like the command card mechanic and even the set up for scenario 2 meant that it has replayability - need to go through some more scenarios and rules (tanks!) but this game has legs. 

I managed to download some extra cards and scenarios. There are also solo and group play rules. 

Morphius may bring out the rules for NOT playing on a grided board in the future, but time will tell. 

Morts