Counter Attack

As I progress with my homebrew aerial combat rules, I find myself wanting to upgrade my planes.

Currently, I'm using a mix of Tumbling Dice 1/600 and Irregular 2mm planes.

I went with these because they were small, allowing maneuvers on a small board.

But with abstract, relative maneuvering, I don't need as much space. I can probably use a larger scale. I have a couple 1/300 (I think) scratch built WW1 planes.

But I only have these 2. I would have to build more to have enough for missions.

I could follow my original intention, and use sci-fi minis, like my scratch built rockets, to replicate aerial combat. I'm not just feeling space.

So we come to my latest craze - counters. I'm looking at getting airplane counters that I can use for my games.

I found some good jet age counters. They have Korea, Vietnam, and Cold War planes.

But I'm not feeling jets either. When I think of playing air combat, I hear the whirr of props in my head. I want something pre-jet.

I'm looking for some WW2 counters. I thought about ordering a copy of the 1993 Avalon Hill game Mustangs and scavenging the counters from it. But I find the counters a bit busy.

I'm still looking for good WW2 counters, but in the interim I went with these.

The counters come from TSR's 1983 board game, Dawn Patrol, from ebay. I recently picked up a copy from ebay. The rules are not particularly good, but the counters will work. I just wish they had a better background.