About Aeronautica:
First off: It’s important for prospective purchasers to understand that this is a digital interpretation of a turn-based tabletop miniatures game – it’s not an arcade shooter like War Thunder or a flight sim like IL-2 Sturmovik. Instead, it’s a turn based tactical game with a flight theme using virtual dice to determine the outcome of shooting and other actions, and IMHO it’s very well implemented and a lot of fun to play. Aeronautica has a “WEGO” format: both opponents plan maneuvers for all of their aircraft, commit their orders, and then all the aircraft automatically move and shoot at the same time. Shooting is resolved with dice rolls (and yes, you can see the actual dice results for each shot), and you have the ability to instruct your units to focus fire specific targets, and/or expend extra ammunition (which itself is a rule from the tabletop game). Virtually everything you can do in the tabletop game, you can do here in this game. At launch, the game features two factions, the Imperial Navy and the Ork AirWAAAGH!, and units including fighters, bombers, heavy bombers and transports. The units themselves are based, again, on what is available in the tabletop game. There is a good tutorial that teaches you all of the mechanics in a very clear and digestible way, and a decent range of scenarios that can be played either singlepayer (against the computer AI) or via peer-to-peer multiplayer with your Steam friends (both friends will need to have a copy of the game). There is also a singleplayer campaign available, where you play against the computer.
