Introduction

    Hi, my name is George Martin and welcome to my website dedicated to the Avalon Hill Boardgame B-17: Queen of the Skies.

    B-17: Queen of the Skies is designed primarily as a solitaire boardgame around the Eighth Air Forces daylight bombing campaign over Nazis Germany and Occupied Europe in World War Two. Your goal is to complete 25 missions and earn that ticket home.
    Each mission begins by selecting the target city. The B-17 marker is then moved across the strategic map board zone by zone, from England to the target and back. In each zone, however, there is the chance that enemy fighters will appear. Die rolls determine the number, type and position of the fighters. You must allocate defensive machine gun fire, hoping to knock down the fighters or spoil their aim. After the B-17 fires, the fighters get their chance. Charts are consulted to determine if hits are made, where the damage is and how serious. The Queen is an incredibly tough plane and can take a lot of punishment, but there is always the chance of that lucky hit that will bring her down. As the mission grinds on, you start to sweat - wounded crewmen, low ammunition, burned out engines, oil leaks and more fighters. Will you make it...?

    I am currently involved with several online or virtual B-17: Queen of the Skies campaigns. A list of those campaigns is give below and I am also currently playtesting a variant of B-17: Queen of the Skies by Dave Rosner based on the 306th Bomb Group. See the link below for more information on this variant.

    If you have any questions about this site or B-17: Queen of the Skies please contact me: mailto:lurchy@totalise.co.uk

Contents

B-17: Queen of the Skies Campaigns I'm involved in:           B-17: Queen of the Skies variant for Bomber Command:
        88th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force                                        Bristol Blenheim Variant Rules (Work in Progress)
        99th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force                                        Vickers Wellington Variant (Work in Progress)
        200th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force                                        Avro Lancaster Variant Rules
        400th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force                                    Bomber Command Campaigns:
    Playtesting a variant by Dave Rosner:                                      101 Squadron, 2 Group, Bomber Command (Playtest Campaign)
        306th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force

Resources I use when playing B-17: Queen of the Skies:
        Crew Name Generator - I set the Obscurity Factor to 10
        Home Town / State Generator

Recent Updates
28th March 2005 - Updates to 400th and 200th Bomb Group Campaign pages.
6th March 2005 - Updated Missions for 'ZOMBIEASY' on Campaigns page and Capt. Drew's Crew page.
3rd March 2005 - Added Blenheim Home page and various files.
2nd March 2005 - Added 101 Squadron pages. Updated the Campaigns page and 1st Lt. Carraway's Crew page.
28th February 2005 - Updated Missions for 'SCUTTLEBUTT' on Campaigns page.

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