Today’s Spotlight is Aeronautica Imperialis: Flight Command, a game of tactical aerial combat in the 41st Millennium by Binary Planets and Green Man Gaming Publishing.
Aeronautica Imperialis: Flight Command is a turn-based air combat game based on the latest version of the Aeronautica Imperialis miniatures game released last year by Games Workshop. The remote agri-world of Rynn’s World is under siege by the Orks. Join the Aeronautica Imperialis to defend Rynn’s World, or bomb it into oblivion as the Ork Airwaagh.
The game’s mechanics involve players attempting to predict their opponent’s movements, queuing up their orders simultaneously before watching the results play out in cinematic aerial dogfights. The game features a campaign and seven scenarios that can be played against the AI, or online against other squadron commanders.
You can watch the launch trailer below.
Aeronautica Imperialis: Flight Command is available on Windows PC via Green Man Gaming, and Steam for $24.99. The game is also 10% off thanks to the Skulls for the Skull Throne 4 sale event.
You can find a rundown of the game (via Steam) below:
Take control of the war for air supremacy in the 41st millennium.
Aeronautica Imperialis: Flight Command propels the excitement of the Warhammer 40,000 universe into the stratosphere in a richly detailed aerial combat game.
Enter the arena of tactical airborne warfare like never before as you launch into the war-torn skies of the 41st Millennium. Plan your manoeuvres and issue your commands, then pray to the Emperor (or to Gork and Mork) as your strategy unfolds in real time cinematic playback. Take to the skies as the heroes of the Imperial Navy and defend the Imperium or take command of the Ork Airwaagh and lead the planetary plundering from the air, for when the skies are dominated, control over the land soon follows.
Delivering a deep yet visually engaging combination of simultaneous turn-based strategy and atmospheric cinematic action, Aeronautica Imperialis: Flight Command takes the core mechanics and complexity of the tabletop game and streamlines them into an immersive tactical experience with more explosions!
“Hit ’em hard, Hit ’em low and give ’em plenty of Dakka” – Uzgob (call-sign: Mavarork), Kommanda of the Deff Skwadron
Key Features
- Become the Flight Commander of the Aeronautica Imperialis or Skwadron Kommanda of the Ork Air Waaagh and take control of the fearsome airborne war engines of the Warhammer 40,0000 universe.
- Simultaneous turn-based strategy meets real-time cinematic action. See the enemies of the Imperium of Mankind (or da puny humies) be destroyed from every angle.
- In-depth tactical elements including altitude, pilot commands and a wide range of weapon systems adapted faithfully from the tabletop game.
- Full single player air superiority campaign. Customise your squadron, level-up your pilots’ abilities with new skills, equip your aircraft with a deadly array of weaponry and build the ultimate flying force. then take on the might of the Airwaaagh’s fly boss over the skies of Rynn’s World.
- 7 scenarios – each one a self-contained story delivering a different challenge in either single-player or multiplayer online. Play each one as the Imperial Navy or Ork Air Waaagh!
- From Thunderbolts to Marauders, Fightas to ‘Eavy Bommers, take command of the mighty airborne engines of war from across the Imperial Navy and Ork Airwaagh!
“I give you command of the air. It is up to you how you take it.” – Warmaster Macaroth, dispatch to Admiral Ornoff, 773.M41
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