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2008 Ranked #5,663

B-29 Superfortress

A solitaire air-war game has a bomber crew fly missions against Japan and try to complete a full tour. Weather, fighters, flak, and aircraft damage make each long-range raid a survival test.

Wargames Aviation / Flight Wargame Simulation Solo / Solitaire Game

Players

1-2

Play time

Not listed

Age

14+

Complexity

2.64/5

Rating

7.06

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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From the publisher's website: "B-29 Superfortress is a solitaire game featuring the technologically most advanced bomber of the Second World War - the B-29 - flying as part of the Twentieth Air Force from the Marianas Islands against targets in and around Japan in late 1944 and 1945. The game puts you in the cockpit of a B-29 Superfortress as you fly your missions over Japan.

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From the publisher's website: "B-29 Superfortress is a solitaire game featuring the technologically most advanced bomber of the Second World War - the B-29 - flying as part of the Twentieth Air Force from the Marianas Islands against targets in and around Japan in late 1944 and 1945. The game puts you in the cockpit of a B-29 Superfortress as you fly your missions over Japan. Your goal: successfully complete a tour of 35 missions and return home a hero for bringing the war with Japan to a close without a bloody hard-fought invasion of the homeland. Your missions will be varied: high level, low level, day and night. You will face fighter attacks, flak, searchlight spotting, and bad weather; not to mention damage to your aircraft to include a shattered windshield and compromised cabin pressure, loss of oxygen supply, damaged landing gear, knocked out navigation or communication equipment, ruptured fuel tanks, inoperable machine gun armament, and just about anything else that can go wrong with a 100 ton aircraft flying 1,500 miles to its target only to be met with fierce resistance from a determined enemy."

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Play and group

Players
1–2
Best with
2
Play time
90 min
Age
14+
Complexity
2.6/5
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Credits

Designers

2
Steve Dixon Shawn Rife

Artists

2
Randy Lein Brandon Pennington

Publishers

2
Khyber Pass Games Legion Wargames LLC

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