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Birds of Prey: Missile With A Man In It
Birds of Prey: Missile With A Man In It
by Ad Astra Games (2019)
Player Count
2 to 8

Player Ages
14+

Playing Time
2 hours to 8 hours
Categories
  • Wargame
  • Expansion for Base-game
  • Miniatures
  • Modern Warfare
  • Aviation / Flight
  • Designers
  • Tony Valle
  • Philip A. Markgraf
  • Kenneth Ellis
  • Mechanisms
  • Hex-and-Counter
  • Simulation
  • Artists
  • Lee Brimmicombe-Wood
  • Philip A. Markgraf
  • Joy Cohn
  • Kenneth Ellis
  • Tomasz Niedzinski
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    Description

    Few aircraft embodied “the future” like the F-104 Starfighter. The shining needle-like gleaming metal fuselage and pressure-suit clad crew evoke spaceships more than aircraft. Lockheed’s legendary designer Kelly Johnson interviewed fighter crews during the Korean War and created a simple fighter that maximized performance. His team conceived of the smallest aircraft they could wrap around a powerful engine. The Starfighter served with many air forces around the globe, in roles from interceptor to nuclear bomber.

    But reality was harsher than space age dreams. The F-104 gained its Missile With A Man In It nickname in an era when many spacecraft exploded in the first moments of flight. The Starfighter’s cutting-edge design and all-for-performance approach led to a career marred by far too many losses of aircraft and life.

    Missile With A Man In It contains every F-104 Starfighter combat variant, plus the proposed CL-1200 Lancer. The included opponents promise a wealth of Zipper-centric mayhem. Scenarios includes every known historic F-104 encounter, struggling over Hainan Island during the Vietnam War, battling between the two Chinas across the Formosa Strait, or soaring against the backdrop of the Himalayas in the Indo-Pakistani Wars.

    Learn to fight the Starfighter from Killjoy, teaching players to employ the aircraft’s unique “double-attack” fighting style. Explore the Starfighter’s achievements in the USAF’s Operation Feather Duster evaluations, and about the Starfighter’s infamous safety record, digging into the history, causes and myths.

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