GMT's Skies Above Britain

07/17/2023

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2022 Charles S. Roberts Awards
Best Solitaire or Cooperative Wargame

American Tank Ace, Compass Games, designer Gregory M. Smith
Enemy Action: Kharkov, Compass Games, designer John Butterfield
Lanzerath Ridge, Dan Verssen Games, designer David Thompson
Resist!, Salt & Pepper Games, designers David Thompson, Roger Tankersley, and Trevor Benjamin

WINNER: Skies Above Britain, GMT Games, designers Jerry White and Gina Willis

01/17/2023

The official Tabletop Simulator module for GMT's "Skies Above Britain" is now live and available on Steam!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2904492754

Special thanks to Kent Hennessey for making the module!

10/06/2022

08/19/2022

Since the game will start shipping in about a month, this might be a good time to order a tablecloth or battle mat of your choice that can serve as your Bomber Formation Area and Lost Contact Area...

This lovely landscape fabric has billowy clouds on a light sky blue background. The fabric is from Elizabeth's Studios Landscape Medley and Faye Whittaker's Childhood Memory Collection. Note: The clouds range in width from about an inch to 5 inches wide. The left to right orientation of the cloud...

08/17/2022

Charging and shipping mid-late September 2022, according to today's GMT update.

04/09/2021

Call for playtesters!
Skies Above Britain is about to undergo a cycle of beta testing.

This round will involve two separate playtest teams:

1. A team brand-new to the game, who will be learning it "blind," from scratch, using only a physical playtest copy of the game and the just-completed rulebook, playbook and aids. They will play through our progressive-learning scenarios, which add components and rules sections until a player has learned the full game. Jeremy White is managing this team.

2. A team that blends several experienced Skies Above Britain playtesters and some new recruits. This team will use the Tabletop Simulator version and will play only campaigns (6-8 patrols to complete a "chapter" of the Battle of Britain; as many as 4 chapters can make a full campaign depending on how long your squadron endures). We need this team to do enough playthroughs that we can assess our victory conditions, see how long RAF squadrons in the game tend to remain combat-effective, and how individual pilots' careers develop (does the game produce ace pilots at roughly the historical rate?). Gina Willis (me) is managing this team.

If you are interested in volunteering for either team, please contact me. Thanks!

12/14/2020

https://youtu.be/Indwv2u8LuM

In this video, Co-Designer Gina Willis explains how dogfights work in Skies Above Britain. Enjoy!If you would like to learn more about Skies Above Britain or...

11/24/2020

Available for P500 preorder from GMT Games, starting November 24, 2020!