Game: Wings of War - Fire from the Sky

Thread: Re: When?

kduke — 2008-09-19T00:24:52+00:00

Fire will not include the P-38, or any other twin engined plane for that matter.

But I don't know when.

Thread: Re: When?

Chairman7w — 2008-09-18T23:51:37+00:00

Any update on this?

Thread: Re: Hellcat in Fire from the Sky?

Low Flying Tiger — 2008-08-26T16:38:53+00:00

"exchange cards" for Wildcats (and Reggiano Re.2002) with corrected fire power and strenght for owners of The Dawn of World War II?
Yes exactly! just like the "promo" cards from the other sets, a taste of Dawn of World War II for anyone who started wit this new set.

Thread: Re: Hellcat in Fire from the Sky?

angiolillo — 2008-08-25T08:20:39+00:00

The problem is that we have a fixed number of cards in the box. These "exchange cards" would be useless for most owners of the box (those not having the old DoW edition), and would impose to put less useful cards in it. If we do it in a booster with the maneuvre cards to be used with them, any owner of the booster can find them useful apart for the owners of the new DoW edition.

I'll speak about it with Nexus.

Thanks a lot!

Andrea

Thread: Re: Hellcat in Fire from the Sky?

Andy44 — 2008-08-25T08:11:42+00:00

Maybe Martin thought about idea of including into Fire of the Sky set "exchange cards" for Wildcats (and Reggiano Re.2002) with corrected fire power and strenght for owners of The Dawn of World War II?

Thread: Re: Hellcat in Fire from the Sky?

angiolillo — 2008-08-24T06:35:23+00:00

Well no, since they'd be without maneuvre decks. Thay will be with the miniatures that we will be released later in this year. We could consider putting them in a booster maybe, with the C decks and new color schemes.

All the best,

Andrea

Thread: Re: Hellcat in Fire from the Sky?

Low Flying Tiger — 2008-08-21T17:54:30+00:00

Any chance this set might suply the new versions of the Wildcat cards that changed in DOW?

Thread: Re: When?

Low Flying Tiger — 2008-08-21T17:50:04+00:00

kduke wrote:
I know of the Boardgamenews article with a long list of long range WoW plans.

Is there any more recent news about the timing for this?

ALSO, can we look forward to some 2 engine planes soon? The system (and our scenarios) would greatly benefit from some of those (just to look at Battle of Britain scenarios, having the Me 110 and 1 or 2 of the bombers would be really helpful.)

UPDATE-- We see now that "Fire in the Sky" will have some WWII single engine bombers (Stuka, Dauntless, etc.) but no twin-engined planes. Looks like we will have to wait for Me110, Mosquito, etc., into 2009...

I hope this will include a P-38 Lightning, The only US fighter in production from the beginning to the end of the war as well as all fronts.

Thread: Re: When?

kduke — 2008-08-13T22:14:27+00:00

Thanks Brian, it was. I saw the question when I was on the run and couldn't find it in a hurry.

To paste in the WoW info from that link and review dates:

Finally, there’s a ton of Wings of War items spread throughout the coming twelve months:
February—Flying Legend and Eagles of the Reich, two booster packs for the WW2 series; also, a miniatures package of WW1 airplanes
April—Immelmann and Dogfight Squadron, two booster packs to add more planes to the WW1 series
June—Fire from the Sky, a new game set for the WW2 series; also, a miniatures package of WW1 airplanes
October—Flight of the Giants, a new game set for WW1 that introduces a nunmber of bombers
December—Balloon Busters, a boxed set of WW1 miniatures that will include models for Drachen Caquot/AE800 and Nieuport 11 in two different painting schemes
In addition to all of this, Nexus is taking a cue from its line of WW1 miniatures for Wings of War and releasing a series for WW2. The 1/196 scale pre-assembled and pre-painted planes from the first years of that international conflict will be sold in complete sets and as individual planes. The first release will include the Supermarine Spitfire, Messerschmitt Bf 109, Mitsubishi A6M2 “Zero” and Grummann F4F-3.

The items listed for February-- DoWW2 boosters and Series 2 WoW minies-- were pretty available in the US by mid May.

Immelmann and Dogfight became available in July.

We have not seen any updates on anything beyond those items, (or any official announcements after this story came out) but the first two were approximately 3 months in becoming available in the U.S., so, with luck, we might see Fire in the Sky and Series 3 minies by late September-- but that's pure guess. It being mid August now and no postings of any of them in Europe, I'd say that is our "soonest possible."

As I said before, we may hope for these in our Christmas stockings...

Thread: Re: When?

MusicToEat — 2008-08-13T22:07:20+00:00

I believe this is the article he was talking about.

http://www.boardgamenews.com/index.php/boardgamenews/comment...

Thread: Re: When?

Monkatron — 2008-08-07T23:37:27+00:00

Can you post the link to the Boardgamenews article, please?

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angiolillo — 2008-07-17T11:00:17+00:00

One of the several variants of Hien included in the box.

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angiolillo — 2008-07-17T10:59:29+00:00

One of the Airacobra included in the box.

Thread: Re: Hellcat in Fire from the Sky?

angiolillo — 2008-07-07T06:18:14+00:00

Yes they do. And they fire both onward and backward.

Thread: Re: Hellcat in Fire from the Sky?

headlesstusken — 2008-07-06T02:06:25+00:00

Would the Dauntless/Banshee happen to be two-seaters?

Thread: Re: Hellcat in Fire from the Sky?

headlesstusken — 2008-06-23T17:19:50+00:00

Chronological order makes sense if that is what they are going for. It would be great to see the US Hellcats, Mustangs, and Corsairs of the later war! Maybe future releases...

Thanks to Andrea as well for your response. In my opinion, you are the hardest working man in the game business!

Thread: Re: Hellcat in Fire from the Sky?

kduke — 2008-06-23T14:47:39+00:00

Makes sense-- these things grow best when they grow with a specific chronological order, and starting "early" and working your way to later planes is a good idea.

Things got very confused over on the WWI side when the system jumped from "mid '17 and later" planes to much earlier models with the N-11 and Halberstadt (and Roland). I love having these planes, and they will be nicer still when we have the "Immelmann" booster, but they have set up some confusion in the system that it still has not recovered from.

I'm glad to see DoWW2 being more careful and hope that continues.

Thread: Re: Hellcat in Fire from the Sky?

angiolillo — 2008-06-23T05:34:19+00:00

Solrry no... US airplanes there will be several versions of P-39, P-40 and Dauntless/Banshee.

Thread: Hellcat in Fire from the Sky?

headlesstusken — 2008-06-23T04:38:49+00:00

I know everyone on earth is asking "is (so-and-so) plane going to be in the next set?" Forgive me. I'm just curious if the Hellcat is going to be available in Fire from the Sky as it was an excellent plane for the U.S. and a considerable improvement over the Wildcat available in Dawn of World War II.

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angiolillo — 2008-06-07T18:33:55+00:00

A Banshee (version for the Army of the Dauntless) in Free France colors, contiental Europe 1944.

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angiolillo — 2008-06-07T18:31:12+00:00

One of the last Dauntless in action in a drawing by Auletta.

Thread: When?

kduke — 2008-06-07T16:41:13+00:00

I know of the Boardgamenews article with a long list of long range WoW plans.

Is there any more recent news about the timing for this?

ALSO, can we look forward to some 2 engine planes soon? The system (and our scenarios) would greatly benefit from some of those (just to look at Battle of Britain scenarios, having the Me 110 and 1 or 2 of the bombers would be really helpful.)

UPDATE-- We see now that "Fire in the Sky" will have some WWII single engine bombers (Stuka, Dauntless, etc.) but no twin-engined planes. Looks like we will have to wait for Me110, Mosquito, etc., into 2009...

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angiolillo — 2008-05-26T15:35:10+00:00

Auletta's drawing of a Curtiss P.40 of the Flying Tigers in China.

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angiolillo — 2008-05-17T16:53:02+00:00

Auletta's cover art: an US P-40 F chasing a German Ju 87 B-2 over Tunisia.

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angiolillo — 2008-05-17T16:34:55+00:00

A Val from the Pearl Harbor attack.