Game description from the publisher:
Wings of Glory is a game system that allows players to recreate aerial combat during World War I and II, using cards and miniatures to represent the airplanes and their maneuvers. In Wings of Glory players will control one or more airplanes, taking to the skies to engage their opponents in aerial duels, or trying to accomplish a specific mission, such as recon, escort, or bombing.
The Wings of Glory: WW1 Rules and Accessories Pack is a complete game system that includes all the rules and accessories necessary to play the WW1 version of the game system. Players will find the core WW1 rules system presented in a beautiful forty-page color booklet with Basic, Standard, Advanced, and a wealth of Optional rules. Also included are all the rules and counters necessary to use special models (such as multi-engine bombers and balloons) and special weapons (anti-aircraft, rockets and incendiary bullets).
The pack also features four decks of Damage Cards (A, B, C, D); Target, Trench, Machine Gun, Anti Aircraft Guns and Bomb cards; four airplane consoles; two rulers; and counters.
Airplane miniatures are not included; the pack must be combined with two or more WW1 Airplane Packs or Special Packs (each featuring a miniature and its maneuver deck), or with a WW1 Duel Pack.
Wings of Glory - How to Solo
- Elegant visual presentation
- Sounds and visuals immerse the player
- Efficient tutorial system
- Buttery smooth interface
- Clean, crisp execution
- Polished gameplay
- Aerial dogfighting and bombing missions
- World War I skies
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- AI Play — adds three levels of AI play and online play to the experience
- Maneuvering Card Decks — Planes use unique decks of cards for maneuvering.
- Miniatures game blend — the physical game is actually more of a board game/miniatures game blend as you're using a measuring tool to measure range and actual miniatures of the planes as you dogfight.
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- Rebel Fury is a fantastic PC war game with deep board game roots.
- Lock and Load Tactical remains one of my favorite PC war games with deep board game symmetry.
- Pavlov's House is a fantastic PC war game with strong board game roots.
- Mr. President stands as a great example of how to take a complex board game into the PC world while retaining its board game elegance.
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- Scythe remains a classic game in both board and PC format.
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- But behind all this, you can definitely feel the digital respect at pace to the classic board war game Advanced Squad Leader.
- But at its heart, one of the big reasons why I like Panzer Core 2 so much is that when I'm playing it, I definitely feel so many strong board game elements at play.
- Strategic Command always makes me feel like I'm playing a great board game with all the digital enhancements that a PC environment can provide.
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- The host wants to revisit it.
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- I don't want to do a whole auction and bore you guys with videos about auctions and this that and the other. So I reached out to a bunch of you, okay, that have been loyal and I don't think I hit all of you.
- I don't want to beg beg for money. I'm never that guy. Never that guy.
- This is my problem. But, you know, I I like to handle things.
- I'm not one of these woke guys that that you know, oh well this, you know, this group needs to be blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. I love all people. I really do. I really do.
- I think either you're a piece of garbage or you're a good person. That's the only way I judge people. Okay?
- Can you beat me? Can you outplay me? Probably. Can you have fun at it? Can we smile at each other and laugh?
- I've done some heavy thinking. Not heavy thinking, but now that Gen Con's over with and I know Shil's coming, but you know that that's overseas and I you know I can't get there and uh maybe I'll do one video to cover it.
- The host is shifting focus from new releases to revisiting older games, partly due to health issues affecting the ability to learn complex new games with iconography.
- I don't want to clog up this channel with a whole another auction this early. I'll do something towards the end of the year for Christmas so you guys can get some good Christmas gifts.
- So, there's been a lot of controversy and I talked about it yesterday, last week, and uh with this board game critique and a bunch of other people, whether she this this channel is AI or not, who cares?
- I wanted to try to help somebody. Honest to God, just wanted to help him and they took offense to it and they deleted my comment. So, I went, 'Okay, there's something fishy here then.'
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- Guilty on all but one of the charges. I think Man City needs a huge punishment.
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- immediately identified with the planes, maneuvers, and setting
- resonated with the player, encouraging learning and playing
- Planes and maneuvers
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- I'm constantly trying to get my friends and family in the board games so I'll use Christmas gifts as a way to try and plant a little gaming seed that can be nurtured into a living growing organism that thrives on the social interaction and intellectual stimulus that can only be fed with frequent game playing
- when trying to choose games for people who may not be into board games I always try to match their likes and interests to the theme of the game
- if you're buying for young people then your job may be even easier kids are into so many things such as books video games TV's and movies
- if you aren't sure what interests people have for me I always go with the theme that most people can relate to
- you may only have a few shots to get them hooked so go with something that they'll meet Lee find interest in even if it's something you may not care for
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- Includes World War I rules and accessory pack
- Includes two copies of Battle of Britain
- Includes British bomber with solo rules
- Includes unopened units for WWI and Tripods and Airplanes
- Includes German bombers with rules
- Includes more Spitfires and WWI planes.
- Host doesn't know if they will get their money's worth.
- World War I
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- Hey everybody, we're doing an auction uh and uh it's going to start right this moment.
- I'm going to show you everything. We're going to do it a little bit better than last time.
- Uh, once you do that, uh, please put down what lot and how much you bid. I will get back to you if you get outbid.
- Uh, the first lot I'm I've got right in front of me, which is a ton of uh entire big box of comic books.
- So, a nice big healthy lot right there. So, uh, this is going to be Fate Forge and Orcquest.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm not going to edit that out. Why not? Why should I?
- Boy, today is not going well, huh?
- Uh, kind of a little bit of everything.
- Okay, you're going to get the main rule book here. You're going to get an expansion. You are going to get an accessory pack.
- So, uh, they got little magnets on the bottom of them so they stay in here as you can see.
- Uh, I don't know how well you can see them, but I've got all kinds of different pirates that you can you can use for uh any one of those two rule sets.
- Well, my perfection before I got hurt. This drunken dude. I mean, come on. That's a cruel cool crew cool crew mate.
- So, uh, they all are painted and they come in this nice little holiday tent to keep them safe and they're all magnetic base.
- Uh, this is the Whailing Citadel and there's another expansion. Oh, wandering forest is also in here.
- So, you're going to get all those maps and everything. Um, and all the miniatures that you need for it are in here, as well as uh uh the spell book expansion and everything else that you could possibly need to play this wonderful game.
- So, uh, good luck. That is lot number eight. Uh, and trip, uh, airplane tripods and tripods and triplanes.
- So, you get a whole bunch of stuff here for that. I mean, that is a massive set there.
- Uh, just [snorts] dream. Um, everything that you could possibly want.
- Uh, the brand new uh, Alien uh, set, meaning the miniatures. Um, the screen for it. Uh, aliens building better worlds.
- Uh oh, I missed some alien books here. Uh, the core rules for aliens, the Heart of Darkness for Aliens.
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- I don't go to our local game shops. I I because personally I can't stand people.
- And if GW did exactly what this man is doing, okay, this game would be alive forever.
- What I consider one of the greatest games of all time.
- And that's the thing that keeps me going because it's not it's not you're not faceless to me, okay?
- The 20s have not been very kind to me.
- If you fight hard enough if you give everything that you got and you don't quit ever. You just kind of keep keep plugging along.
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- painfully low price for the lot
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- Go look up Europa. You're talking almost $400, $500 a game.
- my first edition Blood Bowl is rare.
- My Warhammer is worth a ton.
- First edition of Space Hulk is worth a lot.
- It's It's literally tasteless [ __ ]
- Tastes like the color white. If white paste had a flavor, like white diarrhea [ __ ]
- I will cut you out of my life without even thinking without even thinking if that's what you want to do
- You either figure it out and see that these people aren't here for you. You're just entertainment for them. Or I'll just take you from this world.
- You get it out of your system or I'm not gonna let you kill your mother, I'm gonna kill you.
- I think the most important thing is is that you never give up on your family, on your children, on your grandchildren, and you give everything that you got.
- All I want written on my damn gravestone is I wish I was up there reading this.
- If in all these years I helped somebody, you want to know something? That's worth more than all the subscriptions, all the views, and all the [ __ ] YouTube YouTuber influencer [ __ ] that you can have.
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- low price for the massive lot
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- Go look up Europa. You're talking almost $400, $500 a game.
- my first edition Blood Bowl is rare.
- My Warhammer is worth a ton.
- First edition of Space Hulk is worth a lot.
- It's It's literally tasteless [ __ ]
- Tastes like the color white. If white paste had a flavor, like white diarrhea [ __ ]
- I will cut you out of my life without even thinking without even thinking if that's what you want to do
- You either figure it out and see that these people aren't here for you. You're just entertainment for them. Or I'll just take you from this world.
- You get it out of your system or I'm not gonna let you kill your mother, I'm gonna kill you.
- I think the most important thing is is that you never give up on your family, on your children, on your grandchildren, and you give everything that you got.
- All I want written on my damn gravestone is I wish I was up there reading this.
- If in all these years I helped somebody, you want to know something? That's worth more than all the subscriptions, all the views, and all the [ __ ] YouTube YouTuber influencer [ __ ] that you can have.
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- Two core sets
- Numerous extra planes (bombers, tripods, triplanes, biplanes)
- Extra counter sheets
- World War I rules included
- Aerial Combat
- World War I/II Aviation
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- Go look up Europa. You're talking almost $400, $500 a game.
- my first edition Blood Bowl is rare.
- My Warhammer is worth a ton.
- First edition of Space Hulk is worth a lot.
- It's It's literally tasteless [ __ ]
- Tastes like the color white. If white paste had a flavor, like white diarrhea [ __ ]
- I will cut you out of my life without even thinking without even thinking if that's what you want to do
- You either figure it out and see that these people aren't here for you. You're just entertainment for them. Or I'll just take you from this world.
- You get it out of your system or I'm not gonna let you kill your mother, I'm gonna kill you.
- I think the most important thing is is that you never give up on your family, on your children, on your grandchildren, and you give everything that you got.
- All I want written on my damn gravestone is I wish I was up there reading this.
- If in all these years I helped somebody, you want to know something? That's worth more than all the subscriptions, all the views, and all the [ __ ] YouTube YouTuber influencer [ __ ] that you can have.
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- Offers multiple ways to play solo (automatic movement rules, AI opponents, scenario-specific missions).
- Scalable ruleset from basic to advanced.
- Engaging miniatures and collection potential.
- Detailed movement and combat system.
- Flexible scenario design.
- Some expansion aircraft can be hard to acquire.
- Delicate plastic components for altitude stands can break.
- The playing surface may need to be wider than some players have.
- Aerial combat
- World War II
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- AI (Artificial Intelligence) — A system exists for controlling non-player aircraft, simulating enemy behavior.
- Altitude Tracking — Altitude stands and tokens are used to represent and change aircraft altitude in advanced rules.
- Bombing Runs — Specific scenarios involve performing bombing runs with unique mechanics for bomb trajectory and impact.
- Damage tokens — Tokens are drawn to represent damage taken by aircraft, with different types of damage having varying effects.
- Dice Rolling — Dice are used for attack rolls and potentially for AI movement determination.
- Maneuver cards — Cards are used to select and execute aircraft movements, dictating speed and direction.
- Miniatures combat — Players control miniature aircraft in tactical combat scenarios.
- scenario play — The game includes ready-to-play scenarios and the ability to create custom ones.
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- i will warn you though once you start collecting these little planes and flying them around you might just get hooked
- i highly recommend these rules particularly for doing little dog fights this system works really well
- the third way to play solo is that this game comes with expansions right you're going to start buying gonna buy more planes
- i'll leave a link in the description below by a chap named richard bradley aka herky bird and his rules this is what this thing's all about
- it's tactical miniatures game but it's dice spree
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- Simple rules with optional complexity
- Pre-painted miniatures
- Expandable with more planes
- miniatures game with airplanes
- Wings of War
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card-driven — players control the airplanes and fly them around the area using cards and stands
- miniatures — comes with miniature airplanes. And then the players control the airplanes and fly them around the area using cards and stands and trying to defeat their opponent.
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- don't wear a green shirt in front of a green screen. It looks terrible.
- We're still tweaking the logo a little bit even though overall it's pretty much locked in.
- I had one viewer comment that the logo the new logo in its original state kind of made it look like we play a lot of Euro games and family games mainly and although those are an important part of our game collection what we do want to showcase in the series we also play thematic games and and adventure games like like Space Hawk here.
- Games Workshop, they can be a little fussy about who uses their intellectual property. So, I don't want to risk legal entanglement.
- Space Hulk is not a cheap game. It's not something you can get very easily.
- If you really love Space Hawk and you wish you could play it, if you go on uh actually if you go on our Facebook page right now, I posted a picture of someone who recreated the entire game using paper, pen, and little meeples. So, you can play this game for about $5.