Lacquered Coffins

2017
BGG Average Rating
8.5
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Players
2-16
Weight
N/A
Playtime
180 min
Age
8+

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📖 About This Game

Lacquered Coffins is a simple and fast-play WW2 air combat game aimed at between 4 and 20 aircraft per side. The game focuses on the interaction of fighters, bombers, ground attack and utility aircraft, and can be played on a 4' X 4' or 4' X 6' table. What does Lacquered Coffins offer? • Good balance of historical accuracy and simplicity • Bombing, Torpedo attacks and Reconnaissance all play an important role • Based on the first-hand accounts of pilots • 6 Missions included, land or sea battles can be fought • Stats included for over 200 Aircraft • Luftwaffe, RAF, Soviet, US, Japanese and Italian air forces all covered • 3 Periods - Early Mid and Late, showing the evolution of aircraft during the war • 4 Pilot qualities available - Poor quality pilots are less effective, aces are deadly • Free-form squadron building; aircraft, pilots and ordnance have points values • Simple to play, games take less than 2 hours Lacquered Coffins is aimed at 1/600 or 1/300 scale miniatures, but 1/144 could be used just as easily. The game requires minimal equipment, just dice, a tape measure and a circular protractor - No fancy flying stands necessary!