Blood Red Skies

Blood Red Skies is a 1/200th scale tabletop miniatures game, designed by Andy Chambers, where you command formations of fighter aircraft in battle. Action in the game is fast-paced - with six or more planes per side, a thrilling dogfight can be fought in forty-five minutes or less.

Blood Red Skies: US Ace Pilot Pappy Boyington
Gregory Boyington first flew in combat as part of the American Volunteer Group, the ‘Flying Tigers’, in China before America’s entry into WW2. In 1943 Boyington rejoined the US Marine Corps and began flying combat missions, taking command of Marine fighter squadron VMF-214 (Black...

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US Ace Pilot - Boots Blesse
Frederick Corbin "Boots" Blesse (August 22, 1921 – October 31, 2012) was a United States Air Force major general and flying ace. Graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1945, he subsequently flew two combat tours during the Korean War, completing 67 missions...

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US Ace Pilot - Royce Williams
On 18 November 1952, piloting a Grumman Panther, Lt Royce Williams of VF-781 destroyed four MiGs in a single encounter that lasted no more than 35 minutes. During a series of air strikes against the North Korean port of Hoeryong, the four MiGs were...

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P-47 Thunderbolt Ace: 'Gabby' Gabreski
"Gabby" Gabreski was the top USAAF fighter ace over Europe during World War II and would go on to become an Ace of the Korean War (one of only 7 US pilots to become an Ace in two different wars) and a Colonel during...

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P-40 Warhawk Ace: 'Tex' Hill
"Tex" Hill was born in Gwangju, Korea whilst under Japanese rule but was raised in Texas. Graduating from Austin College in 1938, he entered service as a United States Naval Aviator, earning his wings as a TBD Devastator torpedo bomber pilot aboard the USS...

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Fw 190 Ace: 'Pips' Priller
Josef ‘Pips’ Priller fought in France and the Battle of Britain before being transferred into Adolf Galland’s wing, JG 26. A year later Priller took command of the wing and fought skilfully against worsening odds over NW Europe. Priller claimed 101 victories in 307...

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Bf 110 Ace: 'Bombo' Schenk
Wolfgang ‘Bombo’ Schenk flew from the earliest days of the war, fighting over Poland and Norway before being injured by Hurricanes in May 1940. He moved east for the invasion of the Soviet Union, leading his squadron of Bf 110’s in 300 ground attack...

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Fw 190 Ace: Otto Kittel
Otto Kittel flew first in Yugoslavia and then on the Eastern Front from June 1941 at the very outset of Operation Barbarossa. He claimed his 100th aerial victory in September of 1943, his 150th in April of 1944 and his 200th in August the...

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German Ace Pilot: Walter Borchers
Walter Borchers flew Me110s with ZG 76 in the early phases of the war, scoring 10 victories in the aerial battles over France and Britain in 1940. Borchers’ unit was made into a night-fighter squadron incorporating Ju 88C heavy fighters for the Defence of...

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Messerschmitt Bf 109G Ace: Erich Hartmann
Erich Alfred Hartmann (19 April 1922 – 20 September 1993) was the most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. He was credited with 352 Allied aircraft downed - of which 350 were Soviet and 2 American over the course of WW2....

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Messerschmitt Me 262 Ace: Walter Nowotny
Walter Nowotny (7 December 1920 – 8 November 1944) was an Austrian-born fighter ace of the Luftwaffe. Credited with 258 aerial victories over 442 combat missions. He achieved 255 of these victories over the Eastern Front whilst flying predominantly the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 but...

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Soviet Yak1 Ace - Lydia Litvyak
Lyda Litvyak joined the famed Soviet all-female 586th Fighter Regiment in 1942. She scored her first two kills three days after her arrival becoming the first woman fighter pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft. After shooting down the German ace, Erwin Meier, he...

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Soviet Ace Pilot: Mariya Dolina
Hero of the Soviet Union Mariya Ivanovna Dolina enlisted as a volunteer in the 269th Fighter Regiment in 1941 and flew 200 combat special missions in an antiquated U-2 training aircraft carrying orders, mail and medical supplies for the hard-pressed Southern Front. In 1942...

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Polikarpov I-16 Ace: Lev 'Sokol' Shestakov
Shestakov graduated from military college in 1936 and immediately applied for service in Spain, joining a Republican fighter squadron, where he claimed eight solo victories and 31 shared victories in 90 sorties in his I-16. At the start of Operation Barbarossa, Shestakov found himself...

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MiG-3 Ace: Alexandr Pokryshkin
Pokryshkin was a three-time recipient of the Hero of the Soviet Union decoration during wartime - for his exceptional air combat record of 53 solo kills and 6 shared ones (though these tallies are disputed nowadays). He was airborne on the first day of...

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Yakolev Yak-1b Ace: Vladimir Pokrovsky
Pokrovsky began flying I-16s in the Northern Fleet's 72nd Mixed Aviation Squadron, flying over the Murmansk Front during the early period of the war. Like many pilots, he switched aircraft many times, from Hurricanes to Kittyhawks, Airacobras and Yak-1bs. Models supplied unassembled and unpainted...

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Blood Red Skies Japanese Ace Pilot: Isamu Kashiide
Kashiide was an experienced combat pilot at the outbreak of the Second World War having fought Soviet pilots at the Battle of Khalkhin Gol in 1939. He went on to win fame as one of the few pilots able to shoot down the massive...

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Blood Red Skies Japanese Ace Pilot: Joichi Tomonaga
Tomonaga was born in Nagan prefecture in 1911 and fought in the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. He was assigned to the carrier Hiryu at the outbreak of WW2 and led a squadron of B5N torpedo bombers during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Tomonaga...

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Blood Red Skies Japanese Ace Pilot: Takashige Egusa
Egusa was born in Hiroshima and graduated from the Etajima Naval Academy as a dive bombing specialist in 1930. He fought in China and was later stationed on the carrier Soryu where he became commander of an Aichi D3A (Val) dive bomber squadron. Egusa...

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Blood Red Skies Japanese Ace Pilot: Satoru Anabuki
Satoru Anabuki was born in Kagawa Prefecture and graduated from the Tokyo Army Aviation School in April 1941. He served with the 50th Sentai (squadron) in the conquest of the Philippines, claiming his first three victories. In 1942 Satoru’s squadron was re-equipped with Ki-43...

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