Balance your airplane, manage speed, and coordinate a silent landing in a white-knuckle cooperative cockpit simulator that utilizes a hidden dice-placement matrix and zero-communication turn phases for the ultimate two-player tactical puzzle showdown.
Sky Team (designed by Luc Rémond and published by Le Scorpion Masqué) transforms the immense tension of commercial aviation into a highly immersive, dedicated two-player cooperative game. Moving completely away from standard competitive drafting or loose, chatty teamwork, this award-winning title forces both players into absolute, silent synchronization. Stepping into the roles of a Pilot and a Co-Pilot, players must work together to safely guide a massive airliner down from 10,000 feet and land it at a busy international airport before running out of fuel or stalling in mid-air.
The primary strategic hurdle lies in assigning your private dice pool to the instrument panel while forbidden from communicating during the round. Each turn begins with a brief discussion before both players secretly roll their four colored dice behind a private screen. Once the dice are cast, absolute silence descends. Players alternate placing one die at a time onto shared control slots on the central cockpit board to modify core flight vectors. Crucially, the Pilot and Co-Pilot must perfectly match or balance each other's inputs on the Artificial Horizon to keep the plane from banking out of control, while simultaneously allocating dice to engage the landing gear, deploy flaps, contact air traffic control to clear the approach lanes, and brake upon touchdown. It is a masterclass in clean, high-tension cooperative design that packs hidden information, tight probability management, and a sprawling, multi-airport modules campaign into a smooth 20-minute session.
Game Specs at a Glance:
Age Range: 12+ Years
Publisher: Le Scorpion Masque / Hachette Boardgames
Play Time: 20 Minutes
Player Count: 2 Players
Complexity: Low-Medium (Cooperative Play, Limited Communication, Worker Placement with Dice, Dice Management)
What's in the Box?
- 1 Multi-Layered Instrument Panel Board
- 1 Rotating Jet Engine Axis Disk and 1 Altitude Tracking Strip
- 8 Dice (4 Blue Pilot Dice, 4 Orange Co-Pilot Dice)
- 2 Hidden Player Screen
- 10 Double-Sided Modular Airport Approach Cards
- 35 Wooden and Plastic Tokens
- 1 Flight Log Campaign Book
- 1 Rulebook