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US 4,055,346 AGranted
Table war game apparatus
OwnerMarcos Garcia-Kuenzliinventor
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A game device providing simulation of air warfare between nations in which strategic-tactical maneuvers and stratagems occurring in actual air combat are used to obtain victory over an opponent. The game device includes a game board in the form of a map having irregularly shaped, discrete areas delineated thereon by perimeter lines and certain of the areas are distinguishable by color with such areas including those areas normally found on maps, such as cities, mountain areas, and the like. Positionable on these areas of the game board and movable thereon are a plurality of simulated jet aircraft and supporting platforms therefor with the platforms being provided in groups of distinguishable colors indicating flight altitude of the jet aircraft supported by that particular platform. In determining the results of various plays, a measuring device, designated a missile vector, is employed to indicate the results of the maneuvers during each player's turn in accordance with predetermined rules of play.
A game device comprising a game board having a generally planar playing surface, a map of a geographical area depicted on said playing surface by indicia, a plurality of irregularly-shaped discrete areas delineated on the playing surface by perimeter lines defining the boundaries of the areas, said discrete areas being of varying shape whereby the distance between any one perimeter line of one area and any one perimeter line of another area is varied, said areas being contiguous with certain groups of areas being distinguishably colored to designate obstruction areas and target areas, and a plurality of game pieces positionable on the game board with each game piece having a supporting platform positionable on the various discrete areas on the game board to enable the game pieces to be moved along the game board, the platforms being distinguishably colored to indicate the vertical position of the game piece supported by a platform.
A game device comprising a game board having a generally planar playing surface, a map of a geographical area depicted on said playing surface by indicia, a plurality of irregularly-shaped discrete areas delineated on the playing surface by perimeter lines defining the boundaries of the areas, said areas being contiguous, with certain groups of areas being distinguishably colored to designate obstruction areas and target areas, the obstruction areas and target areas representing mountain areas and cities, respectively, and a plurality of game pieces positionable on the game board with each game piece having a supporting platform positionable on the various discrete areas on the game board to enable the game pieces to be moved along the game board, the platforms being distinguishably colored to indicate the vertical position of a game piece supported by that platform, wherein the game pieces are miniature aircraft, and the color system of the platforms indicate the flight altitude of the aircraft supported by the platform, wherein the aircraft are separated into two groups which are distinguishably colored to be used by opponents playing a game with an equal number of areas designated as cities being assigned to each player, whereby the aircraft may attack the aircraft of opponents or bomb cities of opponents by maneuvering aircraft to change altitude by utilizing differently colored platforms and by moving from area to area during each player's turn in which a predetermined number of actions may be taken by each aircraft, and a measuring device means for determining whether an attacking aircraft has properly approached an attacked aircraft by determining whether the distance between the area of the attacking aircraft and the area of the attacked aircraft is between a first and a second distance, and for determining whether a missile fired by the attacking aircraft hits or misses the attacked aircraft by determining whether the distance between the area of the attacking aircraft and the area of the attacked aircraft is between said first distance and a third distance which is between the first and second distances.
An air warfare game device comprising a game board having a geographical area depicted thereon with target areas assignable to opposing players, said geographical area being divided into a plurality of irregularly shaped contiguous areas by perimeter lines with certain of the areas constituting the target areas, a plurality of simulated aircraft assignable to opposing players with the aircraft having distinguishable characteristics for recognition, each of said aircraft having changeable means associated therewith to indicate the flight altitude of the aircraft, measuring device means for determining whether an attacking aircraft has properly approached an attacked aircraft by determining whether the distance between the area of the attacking aircraft and the area of the attacked aircraft is between a first and a second distance, and for determining whether a projectile fired from the attacking aircraft hit or missed the attacked aircraft by determining whether the distance between the area of the attacking aircraft and the area of the attacked aircraft is between said first distance and a third distance which is between the first and second distances.
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