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Uckers is a board game for two to four players traditionally played in the Royal Navy. It has spread to many of the other arms of the UK Armed Forces as well, including the Commonwealth Forces. It has spread to many of the other arms of the UK Armed Forces as well, including the Commonwealth Forces.
Players have the option to fight for either the Royal Air Force (RAF) or the Luftwaffe. After that is the choice of playing as either the pilot or the controller. Pilots fly in missions and take out enemy aircraft. Controllers make strategic decisions for the battle. The game offers two control options: simple or easy.
Royal Air Force (Middle East) Central Gunnery School (1943–45) [14] Royal Air Force and Army Co-operation School RAF (1918–19) became School of Army Co-operation RAF [65] Royal Air Force and Navy Co-operation School (1919) became Royal Air Force Seaplane Establishment [66]
Their Finest Hour is a simulation of the Royal Air Force and German Luftwaffe aircraft during the Battle of Britain from July to September 1940. It offers eight flyable aircraft, two RAF (Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane) and six Luftwaffe (Messerschmitt Bf 109 E, Messerschmitt Bf 110 C-4 "Zerstörer", Junkers Ju 87 Stuka, Dornier 17 z-2, Heinkel He 111 H-3, Junkers Ju 88 A-1).
The company consulted the Royal Air Force on various aspects of the game including turn rates, cockpit layout, workings of the weapons systems and wing-sweep mechanics. This authenticity was one of the major selling points of the game. [3] The Operation Desert Storm add-on was released in 1994. The add-on disk comes with a new desert flying ...
In 2017, PSC Games acquired the license to the game, and produced a second edition, featuring streamlined rules for dogfighting, fuel, and ace squadrons. [2] A single plane-versus-plane tactical wargame titled Battle Over Britain: RAF vs Luftwaffe, Summer 1940 published by Minden Games in 2013 is not related to the original TSR/SPI game. [4]
The team should represent a "wide cross-section" of age groups from their RAF Section. [2] The Team Captain manages the team and delivers orders in the Drill competition. An RAFAC Officer should accompany the teams to the competition.
The complete game consists of twenty or twenty-two rounds each with slightly different rules. In Phase 1, there are 7 deals. In deal 1, only one card is dealt to each player; in deal 2, two are dealt. In successive deals the number of cards dealt increases by one each time up to seven cards. Eldest hand leads to the first trick.