 July 6, 2019 - 6:43am | Wings of War was a great WW1 arial combat game: diceless, rewarded smart tactical thinking, a lot of fun and the models looked great. Saddly the company went out of business and every knuckle head on ebay decided they had to recoop x3 the price for their games and model planes. I had bought 2 German plane models, inculuding the Red Baron, and 2 allied planes for opposition back in the day and trotted it out for visitation with my daughters on a rainy day earlier this year. We had played a few games at the local game stor and they absolutely loved the game, such that I went looking for a copy of the game for them only to discover WoW was out of print. Luckily another company created Wings of Glory which is the same rule system and 100% compatible to the original. We just had another game day: me, the girls and my fiance, and what a blast that was. Something about having command of a vehicle and taking it into combat draws people in. Back in the day when I was a teen I was adicted to Star Fleet Battles, Car Wars, Ogre, and Star Frontiers. My daughters LOVE Star Frontiers and Wings of War/Glory. Once at Historicon I sat in on a huge American Civil War iron clad navel game with six players to a side and half of them below the age of 16 and it was a blast with no one's attention wandering. I'm going to put forward the premise that this type of wargaming is the most effective draw to bring youth into the Hobby.     I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 August 2, 2019 - 6:26am | "I'm going to put forward the premise that this type of wargaming is the most effective draw to bring youth into the Hobby." That's kinda hard to argue with. I wish I'd gotten more mileage with my kids out of Pirates of the _____, the game in which you snap together sailing ships from plastic cards. |
 August 2, 2019 - 1:42pm | "I'm going to put forward the premise that this type of wargaming is the most effective draw to bring youth into the Hobby." That's kinda hard to argue with. I wish I'd gotten more mileage with my kids out of Pirates of the _____, the game in which you snap together sailing ships from plastic cards. It is probably easier to get someone involved this way than starting off with an old RPG. Joe Cabadas |
August 3, 2019 - 7:29am | "I'm going to put forward the premise that this type of wargaming is the most effective draw to bring youth into the Hobby." That's kinda hard to argue with. I wish I'd gotten more mileage with my kids out of Pirates of the _____, the game in which you snap together sailing ships from plastic cards. That sounds intriguing. A friend just gave me the pandemic game looking forward to try it. Just this moring I discovered the existence of a evolving Wings of Glory vs King Kong expansion. It was envisioned as a solo cenario but then someone adapted it to a convention game and posted a 3 page doc on the WoG facebook page. So now I'm looking for a 6 to 10 inch tall gorilla figure. and planning to surprise my kids with this. Last i looked it Tripods and Triplanes expansion of Wings of Glory is still in pre order for the non kick starter folks.  So that is a can kicked down the road.Also just sat in at a board game convention and played Zombiecide (spelling?) wicked fun cooperative game that i highly recommend. I played the fantasy based version that had your classic D&D type characters trying to survive but i got the impression there were other versions of the game to appeal to people who like other genres. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
