The Burning Blue: The Battle of Britain, 1940
BGG rank
BGG #5,390
BGG rating
7.7

The Burning Blue: The Battle of Britain, 1940

2006

Rules assistance for The Burning Blue: The Battle of Britain, 1940

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2 players
  • 300 min
  • 12+
  • Complexity 4.0/5

For 2 players

Rules assistant for The Burning Blue: The Battle of Britain, 1940

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The Burning Blue: The Battle of Britain, 1940 is a board game released in 2006 for 2 players, 300 minutes per game, and ages 12 and up. It was designed by Lee Brimmicombe-Wood and its main mechanics are Dice Rolling, Hexagon Grid, and Simulation.

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About the game

(from GMT games website:) Beginning with the fighting above the Channel convoys and ending with the assault on London and the fighter-bomber offensive, The Burning Blue simulates battles between German air power and the British air defence system. It recreates the tense minute-by-minute 'plotting board' battles between RAF fighter controllers and the Luftwaffe air raids.[...] Based on original archive research and with the help of pilot veterans of the Battle of Britain, The Burning Blue models this famous conflict in unprecedented detail. Playable and exciting, the game provides new insights into this turning point of World War Two. COMPONENTS : 684 full-color die-cut counters One 22"x34" full-color mapsheet [730 Kb] 40-page Rule Book 48-page Scenario Book 2 11x17 Hostile Raid Displays 1 11x17 Royal Air Force Squadron Tote Board 2 Player Aid Cards Logsheet Booklet 2 6-sided dice DESIGNER Lee Brimmicombe-Wood ART DIRECTOR/PACKAGE DESIGN Rodger B. MacGowan MAP ART Lee Brimmicombe-Wood COUNTER ART Lee Brimmicombe-Wood Burning Blue uses a system similar to the one used in Downtown: Air War Over Hanoi, 1965-1972

Questions and answers

The Burning Blue: The Battle of Britain, 1940 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.