Combat Aces: WWI

The skies over the Western Front have become a chessboard. Combat Aces is a different kind of WWI dogfighting game. Instead of testing your reflexes with complicated flight controls, it asks you to think like a fighter pilot. Read the fight, choose your maneuver, manage your energy, and try to figure out what the other pilot is going to do before he does it. Each dogfight unfolds one decision at a time through a book-inspired maneuver system. Climb, dive, turn, build speed, and fight for position. Get it right and you may find yourself on the enemy’s tail. Get it wrong and he may be on yours. Speed and energy matter. Push the aeroplane too hard and you can stall, spin, overspeed, or even suffer structural failure. Gunfire and collisions can damage your engine, controls, and airframe, and that damage changes the way your aeroplane flies. Sometimes winning the fight is only half the battle. A damaged aeroplane may leave you with another decision: keep fighting or break off and try to make it home. Take command of your squadron, keep your pilots alive, build victories, and see who survives long enough to become an ace. FEATURES • Choice-driven WWI dogfights built around tactics, not reflexes • A distinctive book-style maneuver system • Speed, energy, and throttle management • Progressive engine, control, and airframe damage • Stalls, spins, overspeed, and structural failure • Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, and Expert flight rules • Squadron campaigns with individual pilots and victories • Position, pursuit, and energy-based tactical combat • Flight School and Solo Training Flight • Live cockpit instruments and recorded pilot voices • Strategic depth without flight-simulator controls Combat Aces is an independently developed game created by a professional pilot with a lifelong interest in aviation history. It is made for people who love aviation, strategy games, tabletop tactics, and the history of air combat. Buy it once and the whole game is yours. No ads. No subscriptions. No pay-to-win. Study the situation. Choose your maneuver. Turn the page.