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Denzark
09-11-2010, 11:34 AM
Hey guys - anybody played wings of war, a WWI biplane combat game with pre-painted metal minis?

Cheers

Denzark

PS want to know what its like, not just have you played it!!!;)

Gotthammer
09-11-2010, 01:43 PM
John of John's Toy Soldiers has some write ups on the game (http://johnstoysoldiers.blogspot.com/search/label/Wings%20of%20War). Haven't played it myself though.

Denzark
09-11-2010, 01:59 PM
thanks gotthammer - anyone else??

Aldramelech
09-12-2010, 01:36 PM
thanks gotthammer - anyone else??

Extensively. We love it. My Friend has all the WW1 aircraft and we have played the WW2 game as well.

It is simple to play and yet really captures the feel of air combat. There are no dice involved, the game runs on a card based system. Highly enjoyable.

Denzark
09-17-2010, 08:41 AM
Cheers fella might be tempted to give it a whirl. Treat your kite like you treat your woman - climb inside her 5 times a day and take her to heaven and back - woof!

Aldramelech
09-17-2010, 12:15 PM
My Oppo went to Colours last weekend where he purchased one of the new Barrage Balloons, its huge apparently. Cant wait to shoot it down.......

stampdog316
09-18-2010, 07:58 PM
Wings of War has a good following here in Austin. You can visit the Great Hall Games forum for any upcoming events or post if you want to play a casual game. We have also been looking at Check Your 6 which is a set of rules for WWII air to air combat. They just released a Check Your 6 Jet age version and some of the store are getting ready to use them for an Arab-Israeli War campaign.

Bigred
10-16-2010, 09:27 AM
I've got a thing for anything WWI aviation related and those prepainted minis are very hard to resist.

I'm gonna have to get into this one.

Aldramelech
10-16-2010, 12:28 PM
I'm an aviation nut, its where it all started for me back in the 70's, building serious 1/48th scale aircraft. Ive played every WW1 air game ever and trust me when I say "Wings of War" is hands down the best system ever. It really is simple, you'll be playing smoothly and without looking at rules in under an hour, and yet captures the first air war exactly with all the aircraft behaving exactly as they should.

Each Aircraft model (which are beautiful) comes with its own unique card deck, each card has a maneuver on it, you place three cards at the start of the turn face down and then reveal them. You place the Aircraft on the card and it follows the line printed on the card. There are certain rules as to which cards can be played e.g. you have to do a full speed twice before you can climb with most aircraft. To shoot you draw random cards from the shooting deck, the result you keep secret unless your on fire or blow up, Ive seen a guy run from someone with both guns jammed! lol. When you've played all three cards, you start all over again.

Problems: Only one and its a small and avoidable one. Don't get maneuver cards from other aircraft mixed up, like I said each type has its own unique deck.

Chocks away!

http://i749.photobucket.com/albums/xx135/andyblackmore/rmb.jpg

TSINI
10-16-2010, 12:43 PM
Our local group holds a big event every year with traders and competitions. we always have a wings of war participation game in the canteen, arguably the most popular participation game going. its such an easy game to get into, you basically all plan your moves ahead, then everyone plays out their cards in the prearranged order, and the cards physically provide the movement (a straight line move is a cards length)

very fun game, all it needs is enthusiasm!

Bigred
10-16-2010, 01:56 PM
Oh, you guys suck!

I'm gonna go buy some planes today. No one better stand between me and the Albatross's for their own safety.

Also, that Barrage Balloon mini is kind of awesome in its own right...

Aldramelech
10-16-2010, 02:59 PM
You wont be disappointed. They even got the fact that the planes of the period turn tighter to the right due to the rotary engines spinning that way. The Balloon is great fun and really makes the game fun, you'll spend lots of time sweating collisions with it :). The DR1 is sick! Not the strongest plane in the game damage wise but damn you can throw it about the sky.

Bigred
10-18-2010, 08:24 AM
OK some basics. There are so many rule boxed sets, and then the prepainted planes on top.

So what sets exactly do you buy to get started, and is the game designed for large numbers of players, or just 2-3 planes per player?

Aldramelech
10-18-2010, 08:50 AM
OK some basics. There are so many rule boxed sets, and then the prepainted planes on top.

So what sets exactly do you buy to get started, and is the game designed for large numbers of players, or just 2-3 planes per player?

You need the basic game box, which is just called "Wings of War", anything with "Wings of War, Blah, Blah Blah" is an expansion, worry about those later. You need some planes, make sure you get ones from the same period, and thats your lot.

The game can have as many players as you want with as many planes as you want, but to begin with I'd just have one per player.

In a typical game at my club we will have a two seater with 2 escorts vs 2-3 fighters. An objective is placed on the table and the two seater has to fly directly over it to win (bombs or photos, your choice). The other guys have to shoot down the 2 seater. Sometimes this can last a long time, sometimes the 2 seater gets blown up the first time it gets shot at! So we change sides and start again.

Sanguinary Dan
10-18-2010, 02:24 PM
I seem to be the only one who doesn't like it.

For WWI ACM gaming I still prefer Yaquinto's WINGS over anything else out there so I shouldn't be too surprised that I didn't like Wings of War. To my mind overpriced pre-painted a/c that no one seems to carry a decent selection of does not a good game make. Both are guessing games and generally ignore the OOD loop, but at least WINGS has a bazillion a/c to choose from and you don't have to hunt to hell and gone (nor sell your home) to find that 3rd or 4th SPAD.

Someday there will be a decent set of initiative/positional advantage WWI air rules with a solid flight model. But till then I'll stick with WINGS.

Bigred
10-18-2010, 02:54 PM
I got started with "wargaming" with Dawn Patrol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_in_the_Skies) from TSR way back in 1984.

So half the allure of Wings of War is the prepainted minis. Heck if I really wanted to, I could just use them in that old venerable game to dress it up a bit.

Aldramelech
10-19-2010, 02:07 AM
Mmmmmm, 2010, Internet, Ebay, Any plane is only a mouse click away...........

My friend got fairly lucky it has to be said, most of his collection came from two different bring and buy purchases where the sellers had collected 20 odd aircraft and sold them for peanuts. Our local independent shop sells them and he has a good stock, I haven't got any myself as there was no point as my friend has the whole range with plenty of duplicates. The only thing it lacks for me is I would like to see some seaplanes.

We have played the WW2 version as well and although its not bad, its not as good as WW1. I might get more interested when the model's get a bit more varied.

Larry: I was always a Blue Max person myself.....

Denzark
10-28-2010, 03:51 AM
Right. Mr A you're a bugger. I have asked for this for crimbo - intend to sweep the hun from the sky at the earliest opportunity.

Also, what are you doing in front of one of Her Maj's big yellow whirly birds of freedom? I had you pinged as a pongo...

You may, if you were careful, and knew what to look for, have spotted me in the finest Prussian Blue loitering alongside the Westminster Abbey Battle of Britain parade in a smart, uniform and airman-like fashion this year!

Aldramelech
10-28-2010, 05:48 AM
Right. Mr A you're a bugger. I have asked for this for crimbo - intend to sweep the hun from the sky at the earliest opportunity.

Also, what are you doing in front of one of Her Maj's big yellow whirly birds of freedom? I had you pinged as a pongo...

You may, if you were careful, and knew what to look for, have spotted me in the finest Prussian Blue loitering alongside the Westminster Abbey Battle of Britain parade in a smart, uniform and airman-like fashion this year!

Said big yellow bird is based at a large establishment in North Devon where people more of my Ilk hang out,
The nice people in blue let us play on their toys during my last visit.

Pongo? Bite your tongue Sir!

Denzark
10-28-2010, 01:30 PM
roll mats on arms perchance sirrah?

Aldramelech
10-29-2010, 01:38 AM
roll mats on arms perchance sirrah?

You could have wished us a happy 346th birthday yesterday, you miserable sod! ;)

Daemonette666
11-04-2010, 04:23 AM
Hey guys - anybody played wings of war, a WWI biplane combat game with pre-painted metal minis?

Cheers

Denzark

PS want to know what its like, not just have you played it!!!;)
I played a game of it at the new Gaming shop called "Hall of Heroes" in Campbelltown Sydney Australia. There is a good following there, and Matt is going to stock it on his shelves.

The game looks really good, and if you don't use the altitude rules, it looks very quick, easy, and fun to play.

I would recommend it.

Aldramelech
11-04-2010, 02:44 PM
I played a game of it at the new Gaming shop called "Hall of Heroes" in Campbelltown Sydney Australia. There is a good following there, and Matt is going to stock it on his shelves.

The game looks really good, and if you don't use the altitude rules, it looks very quick, easy, and fun to play.

I would recommend it.

Aint nothing complicated about the altitude rules.

If you want to climb you do a straight, followed by a climb, followed by a straight and if your plane is really bad the same again next turn until you have done enough climb moves for you to gain altitude (It depends on your plane how many climbs you have to do and you cant climb two cards in a row) you then add a plastic bit to your aircraft stand to show what altitude your at. If you want to dive, you just play a dive card and down you go. You get a bonus on shooting if your diving on a target and you get a minus if your target is one level above you, thats it........

40k_Dib
09-08-2011, 11:24 AM
It's quite a good game, with tier based rules that start out extremely simplistic (think standard dinner table board game), and move up to the complexity required to play scrabble (i.e. - a little thought required beyond rolling dice). I've played with the full altitude rules with extended family down to the age of eight with much success.

There are numerous forums across the net that have provided home brewed changes to the system, that are easily adaptable and add quite a bit more complexity and stregedy to it. I haven't had a chance to review the last update, the "flying Giants," so I cannot comment on that unfortunately.

Models are readily available across the net, although some of the first run models are a bit more expensive then the latter runs. Currently, it would appear that Fantasy Flight has parted ways with the game, and although the creators are looking for a new distributor, I haven't read much on where that stands as of yet. I don't expect the system to die, but I do see a down-grade in the population playing it over the near future; especially as "Check Your 6" modifications for WWI are slowly rolling about on the forums across the 'tubes.'

Joe
03-28-2012, 10:41 PM
I have SOOOOOOOOOO wanted to try out this game.