Storm Above the Reich is a solitaire game depicting a Luftwaffe squadron of Fw190s struggling to deter and destroy the relentless daylight raids over Germany during World War Two. The player’s individual aircraft each represented by a stickered block must confront the mighty “combat box” formation of the United States Army Air Forces a deadly terrain of B-24 Liberator heavy bombers. Like its counterpart Skies Above the Reich the game is a broad-stroke depiction that presents the arc of the desperate air war. Stretching from late 1942 to early 1945 Storm Above the Reich follows that trajectory in a series of missions strung together to make a campaign. Each mission will take a half hour or more to play while a campaign can last anywhere between 6 to 60 missions.

Storm Above the Reich is a stand-alone game; you don’t need Skies Above the Reich to play. However it can also serve as an expansion for that game. Storm uses the same rules as Skies and components in one game transfer seamlessly to the other. Combined Storm and Skies present eight formation maps six pursuit maps B-17s and B-24s. In Storm you get an oversized staffel of 18 Fw190s with the option of augmenting it into a Sturmbocke staffel. In Skies you get a staffel of Bf109s and with the games combined the staffels can also be combined. 

Components:
One 17” x 22” map board (double-sided)
One 22” x 34” map board (double-sided)
One 8.5” x 22” off-map display panel
One 8.5” x 11” pad: Pilot Roster & Staffel Log (double sided)
Two countersheets (one sheet of 1” counters; one sheet of 5/8” counters)
60 blocks
Two sticker sheets
96 attack and continuing fire cards
Four bi-fold player aids (11” x 17” double-sided)
One pursuit map (8.5” x 11” double sided)
One interception map (8.5” x 11” double sided)
One rule book
One situation manual
One advanced rule book
Two 10-sided dice