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Re: Castles in the Sky is up on the Osprey Site
« Reply #15 on: January 16, 2023, 12:06:14 pm »
Very handy! I'm hoping to get this to the table sooner rather than later ;)

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Re: Castles in the Sky is up on the Osprey Site
« Reply #16 on: February 21, 2023, 10:05:51 am »


As many of you know, when I was writing Castles in the Sky there was a strict word count for the book.  However, I wrote so much content that I had to go back and remove some of it from the book.  Even with my edits, the final book is still larger than any of the other Osprey Wargaming Series books!  Instead of the normal 64 pages, it is 80 pages of content! 

To make the rules fit to the new expanded size, I still had to cut out some rules and other details that I wanted to keep in.  The biggest space eater, was the ship templates.  Therefore, I had to remove a lot of ships.  Therefore, each fleet was left with only 1 Battleship, a cruiser of two, and 1 or two escorts.  All nationalities lost at least a single ship to make space.  I want to make these ships available to the community here on the blog!

Over the next few weeks the blog will have new and expanded content for Castles in the Sky.  You can see the first entry with some new ships for the British, French, and Germans.  In addition, there are rules for the Regional Powers that never made the book.  You can find this new content here:

http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/02/wargame-design-castles-in-sky-new-ship.html
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Re: Castles in the Sky is up on the Osprey Site
« Reply #17 on: April 03, 2023, 11:38:13 am »


More new ships can be found on the blog this week!

You can find them here:
http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/04/wargame-design-castles-in-sky-new-ship.html
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Re: Castles in the Sky is up on the Osprey Site
« Reply #18 on: April 06, 2023, 07:49:36 pm »
Nice! Exciting to see you continuing to expand the game  8)

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Re: Castles in the Sky is up on the Osprey Site
« Reply #19 on: April 26, 2023, 05:47:48 pm »
An amazing method for basing ships for Castles in the Sky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r6zRwoI37I
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Re: Castles in the Sky is up on the Osprey Site
« Reply #20 on: April 26, 2023, 09:41:30 pm »
Great use of stackable bases, and the color coding was a good bonus.
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Re: Castles in the Sky is up on the Osprey Site
« Reply #21 on: May 03, 2023, 06:41:54 pm »


The last rules update with Ground defense rules and ground defense stats is up on the blog. 

http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/05/wargame-design-castles-in-sky-ground.html

I will have a PDF version with the addendum data on Wargame Vault on the Blood and Spectacles page in a few weeks.  Until then the blog should get you through.  Enjoy!
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Re: Castles in the Sky is up on the Osprey Site
« Reply #22 on: May 07, 2023, 03:33:13 pm »
The Joy of Wargaming has been ramping up to play some games of Castles in the Sky.  Here are some of his initial attempts at playing the game.  Might be of interest to those here:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP97jruI5to&t=43s&pp=ygUaY2FzdGxlcyBpbiB0aGUgc2t5IHdhcmdhbWU%3D[/youtube] 
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Re: Castles in the Sky is up on the Osprey Site
« Reply #23 on: May 12, 2023, 05:15:56 pm »
Joy of Wargaming has even more Castles in the Sky content up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfFao729cSs

There are a few rules errors that I address in the comments.
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Re: Castles in the Sky is up on the Osprey Site
« Reply #24 on: May 15, 2023, 02:46:40 pm »
If anyone speaks German, perhaps you can give me an overview of this video? 

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHHaqd1KTns[/youtube]
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Re: Castles in the Sky is up on the Osprey Site
« Reply #25 on: May 19, 2023, 09:25:00 am »
As promised, I put all the blog content of new ships, expanded rules, the QRS, and a few other tidbits into a PDF and put it up on the Wargame Vault.



You can find it all here:
https://www.wargamevault.com/product/436354/Castles-in-the-Sky-Addendum?src=newest_recent


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Re: Castles in the Sky is up on the Osprey Site
« Reply #26 on: May 21, 2023, 12:44:55 pm »
Annnnd....purchased ;)

Thanks for putting this together!

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Re: Castles in the Sky is up on the Osprey Site
« Reply #27 on: May 22, 2023, 10:26:00 am »
Thank you for the support!
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