CASTLES IN THE SKY

Flying Battleships!

Osprey have a new set of rules: Castles in the Sky (CitS). It is a new attempt to produce a ‘fin de siècle’, flying battleships system and is ideally suited to play with miniatures (like the huge range from Brigade which are heavily featured within the publication). You need models, a ruler, loads of d6 (preferably in three different colours), some marker chits, and lots of pretty terrain (back to Brigade!). It covers all sorts of ship classes, biplanes and dirigibles. Unlike many games (say, Imperial Skies) CitS allows for extensive use of multiple height bands: ten, in fact. In CitS, 0 is ground level (landed or crashed) right up to altitude 9 where the crew need breathing equipment, and mountains and terrain with height come in between. The soft back book has 30 pages of rules, 20 pages of Terran national fleets (all the usual suspects!) and about 20 pages of scenarios and campaigns. Illustration is both excellent and evocative and the book is liberally plastered with shots of models and terrain (again: Brigade). It is due out in June for £14.99 – go to ospreypublishing. com for more info!