Dogfight?

[Majpalmer]

Anyone else here old enough to have grown up playing this? I guess it was my what passed for my first flight sim. I was 10 when it came out. Little SPADS and DVIIS. 

Edited April 3, 2022 by Majpalmer

[RNAS10_Mitchell]

Little green spads  and red Albatros,   (or dr1),  on stands.  Board game. Draw cards for loop, barrel roll  etc...?

 

Never seen it.  ?

 

Got it for Christmas mid 60's...

Edited April 3, 2022 by RNAS10_Mitchell

[Majpalmer]

My version (1962) had Fokker DVIIs. Yes. Little stands. Plastic Maltese Crosses or Roundels when you scored a kill. Ace! Two kills Double Ace!!. And you could risk landing on the AA (50/50 chance you die) and attack planes on the ground. Best card was the Loop. I'd let a guy get on my tail and play the Loop card and you were on his six. Of course, if he had a Loop card you were dead, unless you had two. 

 

And anyone who has played IL-2FC has seen his wing sheer off in a high G maneuver, just like the Alb on the box cover. 

Edited April 4, 2022 by Majpalmer

[RNAS10_Mitchell]

Some cards were machine gun burst  and shot down I think?

 

Long time ago for sure.  I think it was 64-65-66 maybe...

 I think I played with the planes more often than actually playing the game. Lol  they had yellow props that spun..heheh

And yes the art looks very familiar to the players of this sim.

Edited April 4, 2022 by RNAS10_Mitchell

[Majpalmer]

I'd forgotten the yellow props!

[ACG_Bobo]

I still have mine from the 70s...I bought a new one when I moved out and realized that I missed it and that it was actually important. 
I gave it up when Avalon Hill's Richthofen's War came out in '72.
Then we moved to Fight in the Skies (1975) made by the same folks who did D & D (TSR and designer Mike Carr) and then one called 'Wings' (1981 from Yaquinto) that had a 'duel' mode that slowed already super slow play down to a standstill, but we loved it.

But yeah,  good old Dogfight...I liked it more than my brother and my buddies so I had to practically beg them to play it with me!
Dogfight was part of a trilogy by MB that had Skirmish ('Mercan Civil War) Broadside (Napoleon era naval combat) and Dogfight.  All three games rocked.

Edited April 5, 2022 by III./SG77-K_Bobo

[Majpalmer]

Loved Richthofen's War, with the little red counters for the Baron. Even had a Bloody April campaign game. 

 

And I had an SPI game titled "Flying Circus"! I think it came with their magazine. I recall a cover photo that was a still from The Blue Max movie. "It's cruel world, Stachel." 

Edited April 6, 2022 by Majpalmer
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[JGr2/J5_Klugermann]

Still have Dogfight and Richthofen's war.

[Majpalmer]

What planes came with your version of Dogfight?

[JGr2/J5_Klugermann]

Spad 13s (olive) and DVIIs (red)

[Majpalmer]

Ditto

[masterofCFIT]

This thread had me curious, theres Control Panel run versions of some of these old Board games https://boardgamegeek.com/image/5138612/flying-circus-tactical-aerial-combat-1915-1918

[Majpalmer]

I had Flying Circus. It was an S&T magazine game, produced by SPI in the 1970s. It was something like Avalon Hill's Richthofen's War, but with smaller counters. 

[MajorDogbite]

On 4/2/2022 at 10:41 PM, Majpalmer said:

Anyone else here old enough to have grown up playing this? I guess it was my what passed for my first flight sim. I was 10 when it came out. Little SPADS and DVIIS. 

Too old to remember if i played this lol

 

[Majpalmer]

Damn! Someone if older than me?

[ST_Catchov]

Pffft .... youngsters. I'm so old I remember the good old days. Sure, kerosene lamps, no electricity or running water, regular beatings, leaky roofs, no money, rags for clothes, a five ten mile walk to school through croc and snake infested wetlands, rabbit stew tenderized with buckshot and a three-legged dog but we were happy. 

[=IRFC=Gascan]

 

Funny that I actually do walk uphill all the way to work in the morning, then uphill all the way home afterwards. Can't wait to tell the youngsters about when my submarine takes an angle...

[BlitzPig_EL]

But, is it full of eels?