How to play Poker Squadrons: Battle of Britain on Mac

PlatformsComputer

Game summary

Fight the Battle of Britain, four Poker hands at a time! Poker Squadrons is a single-player card game where you play out the events of the Battle of Britain. You take control of a British Royal Air Force Fighter Squadron and are pitted against a computer opponent controlling the German Luftwaffe. Both sides draw cards from a shared 52-card deck to simultaneously assemble 4 poker hands to send into combat. The shuffled deck and opponent's AI ensure a unique challenge each time you play. Poker Squadrons brings you back to 1940, when Germany launched Operation Sea Lion, their plan to invade Great Britain. Events from the historic aerial battle are presented in the game's 18 stages, which are played in 4 phases: 1. Scramble: Draw cards to assemble the best 4 poker hands possible. 2. Secret Cards: Play a secret card increase your chance of victory in combat. NOTE: This phase is not available until stage 3. 3. Form Up: Drag to reorder your assembled poker hands to match up against the incoming poker hands, some of which may contain hidden cards that remain face-down until the combat phase begins. 4. Combat: You must win at least 3 out of the 4 poker hand matchups to clear each stage.
First released: Apr 2021

Play Poker Squadrons: Battle of Britain on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Poker Squadrons: Battle of Britain on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

Poker Squadrons: Battle of Britain installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Poker Squadrons: Battle of Britain like you would on any PC.
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