tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430244424351512966.post3675854608028169287..comments2024-03-19T16:55:34.065+08:00Comments on One Sided Miniature Wargaming Discourse: Wings of BoomSun of Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07315805432481558574noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430244424351512966.post-68990369593212852012015-11-11T16:01:30.780+08:002015-11-11T16:01:30.780+08:00> I think with SoG the opportunity was missed t...> I think with SoG the opportunity was missed to make detachable mast/sail sets. <br />Our first prototype had removable masts and even sails, to be able to unfurl them or keep them closed. After studying the engeneering of it all, Ares Games decided that it was not safe to implement that since models must be fiest of all game pieces, and so they have to be sturdy. The risk of breaks and of holes becoming too loose to keep stuff in place aftyer a short while was too high - even if the publisher's interest would have been to sell ships again, ;) they preferred to make them more durable.Angiolillohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529327568190843326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430244424351512966.post-81930792939641973962015-11-09T02:41:05.520+08:002015-11-09T02:41:05.520+08:00That's excellent news! All I'll need to do...That's excellent news! All I'll need to do is print some Mexican roundel decals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430244424351512966.post-41175869908967553662015-11-09T02:08:03.564+08:002015-11-09T02:08:03.564+08:00Well after the last release - B-17 and Lancaster, ...Well after the last release - B-17 and Lancaster, including a Dambusters one with all you need for solo scenarios against dams - a new row of 4 planes have been entered production: P-47D (razorback), Bf.109 K-4, D4Y-1 and D4Y-3, Douglas Dauntless/Banshee. Then a Battle of Britain set will follow - with time. But supplies should not be lacking.<br />Alas markings for P-47s are 510th FS, 405th FG, 9th AF USAAF; 63rd FS, 56th Fg, 8th AF USAAF; No.135 Squadron RAF. No Aztech eagle this time - maybe with future reprints. Mohrle's "Touch of Texas" has a nice snake head, anyway.<br />Angiolillohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529327568190843326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430244424351512966.post-72753623131310513152015-11-09T01:47:18.738+08:002015-11-09T01:47:18.738+08:00Thanks very much for taking the time to answer que...Thanks very much for taking the time to answer questions - it is very kind.<br /><br />If I might make a humble request, if you plan more planes please consider a Thunderbolt with the Aztec Eagles' markings.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430244424351512966.post-43133063458821940452015-11-08T19:04:12.448+08:002015-11-08T19:04:12.448+08:00Good to hear. The only thing that is holding me b...Good to hear. The only thing that is holding me back with Wings of Glory WW2 is the availability of planes. I enjoy the WW1 game the most. With Sails of Glory, we are putting the models to good use with other rule systems. I think with SoG the opportunity was missed to make detachable mast/sail sets. Sun of Yorkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07315805432481558574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430244424351512966.post-23077157636060405092015-11-08T17:26:48.227+08:002015-11-08T17:26:48.227+08:00Thanks again for the comment! When I invented the ...Thanks again for the comment! When I invented the game back in 2002, I was pretty sure that it would never sell a single copy in Germany. In 2004 the WWI version (cards only) was being releasaed and I found a specialized distributor who already had a WW2 collectible card games in catalogue - Mad Man's Magic. They took it for German language expecting more copies sold in Switzerland and Austria more than in Germany, but they succesfully distributed it in their homeland. Actually they have been the first foreign publisher of the game after the Italian edition appeared, in May 2004 - even earlier than the first English edition by FFG in June. Later, as soon as they appeared, MMM released the WW2 card version and both the miniature versions. They even made a short spot with the Red Baron himself:<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-qhclwgbRY<br />Ok, sorry, with the actor Matthias Schweighöfer.<br />After many years, Mad Man's Magic stopped distributing the game and Heidelberger started doing it in German. They are still translating both Wings of Glory and Sails of Glory (the Napoleonic era naval version). German planes are sold there as well as the others. On www.wingsofwar.org 173 of the 4.147 members registered as from Germany (I guess that it is the third group for size after all USA/UK/Commonwealth countries and the 230 Italians). Some of them statred the Prague Summer Con to meet Polish gamers half way, a little but very friendly Wings of War/Glory convention held every year and always with some German players joining.<br />I am actually very glad of all that.<br />Angiolillohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529327568190843326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430244424351512966.post-24301442759469582502015-11-08T06:05:05.470+08:002015-11-08T06:05:05.470+08:00I echo Paul, it is an excellent game. It is easy ...I echo Paul, it is an excellent game. It is easy to see from my blog that I have had a lot of fun playing a lot of games of Wings of Glory. It looks great, works straight out the box, easy to set up, relatively simple to play (but endlessly extensible) and is easy to bring new players into the game.<br /><br />It is a classic. Sun of Yorkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07315805432481558574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430244424351512966.post-50733183282840745242015-11-08T02:51:10.473+08:002015-11-08T02:51:10.473+08:00Reading the legal text, there's less scope tha...Reading the legal text, there's less scope than I'd thought:<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_section_86a<br /><br />One the one hand, the game maybe tenuously "promotes art", but on the other hand I fully understand your distributor not wanting to dance with the real possibility of 3 years in prison.<br /><br />Out of curiosity, do the German planes sell well in Germany?<br /><br />More than a great game, an <i>excellent</i> game.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430244424351512966.post-85943581770829669202015-11-07T22:56:12.603+08:002015-11-07T22:56:12.603+08:00>It's a great game.
And thanks a lot for t...>It's a great game. <br />And thanks a lot for the comment. Really.Angiolillohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529327568190843326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430244424351512966.post-34809558569809389942015-11-07T22:55:35.138+08:002015-11-07T22:55:35.138+08:00Well, our German distributor did not quote any exc...Well, our German distributor did not quote any exception to the law nor allowed any escape - no swastica, stop. He said that he would have had troubles in any case. Sorry. <br />I had more than one relative in the Resistence. My uncle has been imprisoned by nazi occupiers in Rome and even tortured. No sympathy for them. Still, every time I see these reduced swastikas I feel that there is something missing. So you did well completing them. ;)Angiolillohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529327568190843326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430244424351512966.post-68603582244018438692015-11-07T21:21:25.956+08:002015-11-07T21:21:25.956+08:00Perhaps it's classified as a game, bit like ch...Perhaps it's classified as a game, bit like children's toys?Sun of Yorkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07315805432481558574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430244424351512966.post-85637202591247689852015-11-07T00:35:04.210+08:002015-11-07T00:35:04.210+08:00I would have supposed this would have met the crit...I would have supposed this would have met the criteria for the historical recreation exception to those laws. Interesting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430244424351512966.post-58026201424170346062015-10-24T16:29:02.886+08:002015-10-24T16:29:02.886+08:00It's a great game. Fully understand about the...It's a great game. Fully understand about the crooked cross. Will be interesting if one day it extends to the rebel flag in the US. <br /><br />I painted in the detail on the cross as I'm a historical accuracy over political correctness, but with no intention to offend anyone. Sun of Yorkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07315805432481558574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430244424351512966.post-85820308821267255532015-10-24T11:32:29.923+08:002015-10-24T11:32:29.923+08:00A little paradox - when that happened, it was for ...A little paradox - when that happened, it was for upper view of planes so not even for German ones, but Finnish. So not even with a connection with German nazis...Angiolillohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529327568190843326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430244424351512966.post-68811761127301732672015-10-24T11:30:48.976+08:002015-10-24T11:30:48.976+08:00Sorry it's not me - I just designed the game. ...Sorry it's not me - I just designed the game. The problem is that our EWuropean distributors would have problems seling a plane with a swastika in Germany and maybe other cvountries. At first, when Wings of War was a cards only game, we objected not only that it was historical, but also that it was just a tiny symbol on a very few cards in sealed packs within a sealed box, but it was not enough - it seems - to fit with local laws. So we had to give up.Angiolillohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529327568190843326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430244424351512966.post-79863856321464784532015-05-19T15:54:00.678+08:002015-05-19T15:54:00.678+08:00It's really irks me that the designers of the ...It's really irks me that the designers of the game left out the swaztika. Yes people automatically associate it with Adolf Hitler and the third reich but a symbol is nothing more than a symbol. In reality it is the user who is evil. Historical accuracy should not be watered down.Josh111https://www.blogger.com/profile/10126862348512770716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430244424351512966.post-52153519518116339592014-09-06T12:29:31.521+08:002014-09-06T12:29:31.521+08:00Great looking set upGreat looking set upCaptain Richard's miniature Civil Warhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17149386738466118837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430244424351512966.post-49861544400177729132014-08-03T03:07:08.534+08:002014-08-03T03:07:08.534+08:00Hey, it lokks like a real picture!
Regards
RafaHey, it lokks like a real picture!<br />Regards<br />RafaRafael Pardohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00482026140017463557noreply@blogger.com