Monday, 18 January 2010

Wings of War



I recently purchased a box of Wings of War and a couple of planes. It has been heavily recommended to me and it does look good. It's a simple card-manoeuvre system and card resolved combat.

I read the rules over a few beers that evening.

It turns out that I had bought a Series 1 game and Series 2 planes.

So late that night I went on eBay and made a profusion of bids. I woke up this morning without total recall and found that I had bought an entire Jagdstaffel.

Ha hum. Better find something to sell before the Civilian Authorities see the size of the military budget.
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  1. Blitzspear18 January 2010 at 22:33

    QUOTE(I woke up this morning without total recall and found that I had bought an entire Jagdstaffel.)

    That made me laugh out loud, thanks for that.

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  2. Karitas18 January 2010 at 22:42

    "Better find something to sell before the Civilian Authorities see the size of the military budget. "

    Stunning sentiment, well-prhased.

    made me chortle.

    Let's hope that remains classified top secret :)

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  3. The Inner Geek19 January 2010 at 01:10

    I understand. The only thing worse than being outbid on everything you try to get on ebay, is not being outbid on any of it!

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  4. Frederick Paul Kiesche III19 January 2010 at 01:58

    Looks something (to me, from one picture) of the "Ace of Aces" game in which each player had a book of what you saw from your WWI cockpit and depending on what happened, you turned to a page to show what happened next--loop, fire your guns, get your opponent, etc. That game (Flying Buffalo, maybe?) led to a number of sequels with other WWI airplanes and you could mix books from various sets. I still remember one Origins where you kept stumbling across people playing pick-up games of Ace of Aces. (There were other games spun off using the game mechanic, including, IIRC, a fantasy game--maybe "Other Worlds"?) Looks nifty, let us know how it is.

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  5. John Lambshead19 January 2010 at 08:09

    Dear Blitz
    Moral: never bid on eBay late at night after a beer (or two).
    John

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  6. John Lambshead19 January 2010 at 08:10

    Karistas
    Trouble is the civilian authorities control the security services in chez Lambshead.
    John

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  7. John Lambshead19 January 2010 at 08:11

    Dear Geek
    I am having my own personal credit crunch.
    John

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  8. John Lambshead19 January 2010 at 08:13

    Dear Fred
    I used to play Ace of Aces on the London commuter trains. It made 'points failure at Bromly South' less unbearable.
    John

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  9. shaun19 January 2010 at 13:11

    Hi John I have a few bits Just the planes as I was going to fiddle with Aeronautica Imperium
    but just loved the models so perhaps like malifuso we can have a crack at it some time

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  10. John Lambshead19 January 2010 at 14:18

    The next tranche of planes arrived this morning. How about a game tomorrow evening?
    John

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