Luftwaffe (board wargame)

Luftwaffe, subtitled "The Game of Aerial Combat Over Germany 1943-45", is a board wargame originally published by Poultron Press in 1969 under a different title, then subsequently sold to Avalon Hill, who republished it in 1971.

[2] In the late 1960s, Avalon Hill dominated the board wargame market, producing on average, one game per year with well-produced but expensive components.

These test games featured typewritten pages with hand-drawn maps and graphics and thin paper counter sheets, packaged in a plain manila envelope.

"[8] In A Player's Guide to Table Games, John Jackson noted that "The Allies have an advantage even in the short version of Luftwaffe, and to stop them, the Germans must hit the bomber formations hard and often."

Jackson found the Combat Results Table (CRT) "too unpredictable", and proposed a revision that used two six-sided dice to produce a bell curve of probabilities.

"[1] In The Guide to Simulations/Games for Education and Training, Martin Campion pointed out that "Luftwaffe contains some doubtful historical information — that bombing aircraft factories was highly effective, for example.