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Rules assistance for Dogfight: A Game for Owners of Wing Leader
Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.
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- 60 min
Rules assistant for Dogfight: A Game for Owners of Wing Leader
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Dogfight: A Game for Owners of Wing Leader is an expansion for Wing Leader: Supremacy 1943-1945 released in 2018 for 2 players and 60 minutes per game. It was designed by Philip Sabin and its main mechanics are Dice Rolling and Simulation.
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About the game
Dogfight is a set of freely available variant rules for use with the counters and data cards from the GMT WWII air combat game Wing Leader, allowing a greater focus on the fighting in the immediate vicinity of the bombers. It has evolved greatly since its first appearance in 2017, and now consists of three editions - Dogfight Lite which retains the generic simplicity of the first version, Dogfight Deluxe which is a much more sophisticated and physically accurate system which differentiates between all the many available aircraft types, and Dogfight Full Circle which uses shorter turns and replaces the 3D-enhanced side-scrolling perspective of the other two editions with a fully 3D 360 degree top-down viewpoint. All three game versions are available at https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/149562/dogfight, and the final two have YouTube videos showing complete sample games.
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Questions and answers
Dogfight: A Game for Owners of Wing Leader supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.
The listed playing time for Dogfight: A Game for Owners of Wing Leader is 60 minutes. This is the publisher’s estimate for a full game. The actual duration depends on the group, the player count and familiarity with the rules: first sessions usually run longer, while experienced groups often finish faster. Setup and teaching time are not included in this estimate.
Dogfight: A Game for Owners of Wing Leader belongs to these categories: Wargame, World War II, and Expansion for Base-game. Its main mechanics are Dice Rolling and Simulation. Categories describe the theme and setting of a game, while mechanics describe what players actually do on their turns. Each mechanic links to a catalogue hub with similar games, which helps when you want something comparable.
The credited designers of Dogfight: A Game for Owners of Wing Leader are: Philip Sabin. These credits come from the published game data and name the people responsible for the game’s design, not its illustrators or publishers. Designer pages on MeepleRules collect other titles by the same designers, which helps when you enjoy a game and want to find similar ones.
The catalogue lists Dogfight: A Game for Owners of Wing Leader as an expansion for Wing Leader: Supremacy 1943-1945. Expansions add new content, rules or scenarios to the base game and usually cannot be played on their own, so you need Wing Leader: Supremacy 1943-1945 to use it. Check that your edition of Wing Leader: Supremacy 1943-1945 is compatible, as some expansions were revised between editions.