BoP 2025 Convention
The premier face-to-face Birds of Prey gaming event is coming in October, 2025, with the Convention 2025 returning to Dayton, Ohio, USA! Expect a raft of new aircraft and exciting scenarios to excite you and an amazing group of gamers to meet and fly alongside.
We anticipate having attendees from around the globe, letting you expand your set of gaming friends and finally putting a face and handshake to the email address.
The main gaming runs from Thursday October 2 to Saturday October 4, with a museum visit on Sunday, October 5. (Some of us will be arriving Wednesday evening and we hope to get together then.)
There will be visit to the amazing National Museum of the US Air Force, one of the largest and best preserved collection of military aircraft and missiles in the world! This visit is an added bonus for those traveling to join the event, and visiting with a bunch of airplane gamers is a doubly good experience. (Our gamers are generally more knowledgable than almost every docent at these facilities.)
The convention will be flying with Birds of Prey 2.0 rules and production E6BoP flight computers from the forthcoming BoP 2.0 Playtest Kit.
BritBoP 2025 Convention
Great Britain is once again hosting a face-to-face Birds of Prey gaming event, with the return of BritBoP 2025 to Aldershot, Hampshire. This is relatively close to London, with great access for those traveling to reach the event.
The main gaming runs from Friday June 6 to Sunday June 8, with optional museum visit and (possibly) additional gaming on the preceding Wednesday and Thursday.
A museum visit to Tangmere Military Aviation Museum is being organized (and there is discussion of one other museum visit), which is a special treat for those traveling to join the event!
The convention will be flying with Birds of Prey 2.0 rules and production E6BoP flight computers from the forthcoming BoP 2.0 Playtest Kit.
Last year's BritBoP event was a great success and much enjoyed by the participants. We strongly recommend making the time and travel to join in this years games!
BoP 2.0 Playtest Kit
Birds of Prey is undergoing a massive transformation, resulting in a game that is easier to learn, faster to play, and an even better simulation of jet dogfighting. The cornerstone of this game is the E6BoP, a flight computer based on real world pilot kit, that performs the calculations of flight rapidly and without erasing!
The new edition has matured greatly over the last year, but it will continue being refined and rewritten for much of this year. As an interim solution, we are offering a kit with the current playtest rules, play aids and a sample of ADCs, alongside the full production E6BoP. The current version of the game is mature enough to give a play experience that is superior to BoP 1.0.
The nine ADCs included are:
- MiG-15bis “Fagot-B”
- F-86F Sabre (early, slatted)
- MiG-21F-13 “Fishbed-C”
- F-104A Starfighter
- Mirage IIIC
- F-4E Phantom II (early, unslatted)
- F-16C Fighting Falcon block 30 (big-mouth)
- F/A-18C Hornet (early)
- MiG-29 9.12 “Fulcrum-A”
The interim edition includes materials for two players to enjoy BoP 2.0 and there are parts kits to let more players play. (Editions built around the E6BoP and other materials as PDF will be available when this release is delivered, in late March to mid April.)
The Interim BoP 2.0 kit can be pre-ordered from Ad Astra Games here.
Additional player E6BoP and flight aids can be ordered by clicking here.
A full boxed edition of Birds of Prey 2.0 Interim is available for anyone new to the system, and can be ordered at this link.
Orders outside the United States should directly contact Ad Astra Games by email by clicking this link.
Birds of Prey Links
The Airbattle Games team has maintains several points of contact on different sites around the web:
Get your questions answered, keep up with Birds of Prey news and even find a new game on the mailing list at: https://groups.io/g/airbattle
Get pre-release content at: https://www.patreon.com/BirdsofPrey730
Find video tutorials at: https://www.youtube.com/@airbattlegames9422
Live chat at: http://discord.gg/M7VzavJWu3
Play-test BoP 2.0 at: https://groups.io/g/airbattle/files/BoP%20Playtest
The Patreon site is very permissive. For whatever you choose to give (above a VERY low minimum), you get access to all the content produced for our Patreon page back to the first release from 2015.
Airbattle RAG 7 available
Airbattle RAG 7 is now available for sale as a printed product, or as an eBook!
This exciting new Birds of Prey product features an in-depth analysis of the kinematic performance of the AIM-4 Falcon family, with a focus on the reasoning behind the F-106's Super Falcon missiles. The product also includes all the scenarios and aircraft from the 2023 Birds of Prey Convention, and an account of the event, including the famous Kangaroo Court and call-sign assignments. There is one other extra-special aircraft data card, that continues our series featuring target types.
Aircraft included:
- MiG-27 “Flogger-D”
- A-10A Thunderbolt II
- F-17A Cobra
- Jaguar IM “Shamsher”
- Sea Harrier FA.2
- F-16I Fighting Falcon “Sufa”
- Mirage 4000
- Rafale B (F3-O4T)
- Jaguar IS “Shamsher” (late DARIN I)
- Tu-160S “Blackjack-A”
Airbattle RAG 6
Airbattle RAG 6 is now available for purchase. This folio expands your world of jet dogfighting with new aircraft missiles, and scenarios, featuring the new content released at two recent Birds of Prey Conventions.
“Strike from the Sea” was the theme of the 2021 Birds of Prey Convention and featured fights where at least one side launched from the deck of an aircraft carrier. Scenarios range from the icy waters of the Baltic, to the ever-tense Taiwan Straight; between the the two warring Koreas, and over the sweltering sands of Egypt.
“The Aircraft We’ve Longed to Fly” of the 2022 Convention featured aircraft that the designers and previous convention attendees selected as those they most wanted to see that had not yet been featured in a product. This adds some very exciting new aircraft, including uncovered gems from the early cold war though ultramodern aircraft that have barely entered service!
All this, plus several aircraft and missiles not featured at the conventions, make Airbattle RAG 6 a substantial addition to your air combat collection!
Good luck and good hunting!
