boardgamevideo
  • Trending
  • Videos
  • Games
  • Channels
  • Lists
  • Shorts

Explore

  • Home
  • Trending
  • Channels
  • Videos
  • Games
  • Lists
  • Shorts
  • Conventions
  • Year in Review

Browse by type

  • Reviews
  • How to play
  • Playthroughs
  • Unboxing
  • Top 100 lists
  • Featured videos
  • Trending this week
  • Rising games
  • Games with fresh review perspectives

Information

  • About
  • Contact
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy

© 2022–2026 BoardGameVideo.com

Powered by BGG
  • Videos
  • Trending
  • Shorts
  • Channels
  • Games
  • Lists
Feb 16, 2023·Unboxing·08:28·113·Watch on YouTube

RAF- August 1940: The Battle of Britain

Conflict Boardgaming

Conflict Boardgaming

Watch “RAF- August 1940: The Battle of Britain,” a board game unboxing for RAF from Conflict Boardgaming on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by Conflict Boardgaming on YouTube:

An unboxing of this game published by West End Games in 1986, and designed by John Butterfield. I believe GMT games has published an updated version of this game, with nicer components and map.

More videos by Conflict Boardgaming

  1. Toy soldier rules- Guns & Grenades11:10
    Toy soldier rules- Guns & Grenades
    Conflict Boardgaming
  2. Phobos Rising turns 2 & 36:09
    Phobos Rising turns 2 & 3
    Conflict Boardgaming
  3. Phobos Rising turn 1a5:55
    Phobos Rising turn 1a
    Conflict Boardgaming
  4. Phobos Rising Intro5:30
    Phobos Rising Intro
    Conflict Boardgaming
  5. Tank Chess3:51
    Tank Chess
    Conflict Boardgaming
RAF

RAF

1986·John H. Butterfield

1 players
180 - 600 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach

About RAF, from BoardGameGeek:

This solitaire game of the Battle of Britain is card-driven with card decks covering Events, Attacking Forces and suspected targets. Game mechanisms deal with Radar warning(and lack of), weather and observer corps. The cardstock map covers southern England with graphics for airfields, industrial sites and ports. You control British, Commonwealth, Polish and Czech Air Force Squadrons, positioning the day's patrols where you believe the Nazis will strike. Day after bloody day, the RAF must rise to battle the modern fighters of Luftflotte 2 and 3 while Nazi bombers pound England into ruin - and submission. You must intercept German bombers, sacrificing dwindling men and equipment to halt the German war machine. The game system controls the Luftwaffe, directing a coherent bombing campaign against targets vital to British survival. A unique card system hides the strengths, compositions, and targets of the German strikes until after you've decided where your squadrons will patrol, and which raids you'll intercept. You make the decisions that could save democracy. RAF offer three scenarios. The Hardest Days, The Thin Blue Line, and The Battle of Britain cover the entire struggle from beginning to end. The game is playable in as few as 3 hours or as many as 10. RAF includes: One full-color 22" x 34" map of southern England 160 full-color counters 134 target, event, and force cards (the rules correctly indicate 134 playable and numbered cards. There are 3 blanks in each set that are not used in the game bringing the physical count to 143 - 144 including dummy "title" card.) 16-page rules book One six-sided die Counter tray with lock-on lid Game scale is Gruppen and Squadrons with one-day turns. For one player. Three to ten hours to play. Ages 12 and up. (from the back of the box and user's description)

Designer

John H. Butterfield

Artist

Kevin Wilkins

Publisher

Hobby Japan

Categories

Aviation / FlightWargame

Mechanics

Area MovementCard-Driven
View on BoardGameGeek ›
RAF

More videos by Conflict Boardgaming

Toy soldier rules- Guns & GrenadesReview11:10

Toy soldier rules- Guns & Grenades

Conflict Boardgaming

Conflict Boardgaming

Phobos Rising turns 2 & 3Playthrough6:09

Phobos Rising turns 2 & 3

Conflict Boardgaming

Conflict Boardgaming

Phobos Rising turn 1aPlaythrough5:55

Phobos Rising turn 1a

Conflict Boardgaming

Conflict Boardgaming

Phobos Rising IntroReview5:30

Phobos Rising Intro

Conflict Boardgaming

Conflict Boardgaming

Tank ChessReview3:51

Tank Chess

Conflict Boardgaming

Conflict Boardgaming

Related Content

More RAF videos
game

More RAF videos

channel

More videos from this channel

Home
Videos
RAF- August 1940: The Battle of Britain