Profiles of planes and pilots, with a history of their service and how they are used in the Blood Red Skies game.
Dive back into Blood Red Skies with a brief look at the Imperial Japanese Air Forces – both Army and Navy. Drive the enemy back in the Emperor’s name! Like the Americans, the Japanese did not have a dedicated air force, with the operation of aircraft being handled by the Army Air Service and the…
Dive back into Blood Red Skies with a brief look at the United States Army Air Force and the US Navy! Fight across two oceans in defence of Freedom! Unlike the British, Germans and Soviets, the United States did not have a separate air force. Instead, aerial combat was handled by the doughty pilots of…
Dive back into Blood Red Skies with a brief look at the Royal Air Force – join the “few” and help defend the sceptered isle from the marauding Luftwaffe! Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” – Winston Churchill Formed from the amalgamation of the…
Dive back into Blood Red Skies with a brief look at the Luftwaffe – join some of the war’s finest aces in a desperate struggle for control of Europe’s skies! Despite the treaty of Versailles’ prohibition on warplanes of any kind, Hitler’s Reich continued development of aircraft technologies in secret, often using commercial enterprise as…
Though not officially participants in the Korean War, the Soviet Union nevertheless aided both the KPA and the Chinese PVA. Troops of the Soviet 25th Army were stationed in Pyongyang for a number of years in the aftermath of World War II. This precipitated a reorganisation of North Korean armed forces following the Soviet model….
We’re heading back to the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa for a look at some early war Soviet aircraft for Blood Red Skies! Warlord Resin These aircraft are manufactured in the new, ultra-detailed, Warlord Resin! and come with all the cards and advantage flight stands that you need to field them in your games of Blood…
Heralded by the wail of Jericho’s Trumpet, the ground-attack arm of the Luftwaffe screams into battle with the arrival of the Junkers Ju-87D Stuka in Blood Red Skies! Designed in the early 1930s, influenced by the experiences of Ernst Udet and the experiments undertaken by various nations during the Inter-War years, the Stuka was an…
Over 3,200 reconnaissance sorties were flown in the run-up to D-Day, by specialist units of the British 2nd Tactical Air Force and the American 8th Air Force. Pilots were able to range back and forth across occupied Europe at high altitude, photographing enemy installations with almost complete impunity. The RAF’s photo-reconnaissance capabilities reached their…
A wave of new aircraft joined RAF squadrons last year, including the magnificent night fighter and maritime strike aircraft – the Bristol Beaufighter. With its armament of four 20mm cannons and six .303 machine guns, delivering 780lbs of ordnance per minute, the Beaufighter was one of the most heavily armed aircraft in the world. Designed…
Adapted from the Nebelwerfer artillery weapon, the Werfer-Granate 21 was used extensively against Allied bomber formations. The tactics used by US Army Airforce bomber formations proved to be particularly effective against interceptors, maximising the firepower of each aircraft by making sure the defensive machine guns have mutually supporting arcs of fire. This evolved into the…
Tom Mecredy
Dan Hewitson