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Angiolillo · 21 July 2003, 11:01 PM

Hello!

Since somebody asks, every now and then... "Wings of War"'s layout is almost ready. The artist is working on the boxes, depicting a classical Camel and a Dr.I on the "Famous Aces" box and Scaroni's HD.1 charging a Ufag C.I on "Watch your back!". Every box will contain 132 cards: mainly 20/22 airplane cards, 4 different manoeuver decks and a fire deck.

Mr. President of Nexus is at GenCon, a game fair in the USA, to fix details of foreign licenses and distribution: he is also the author & publisher of a brand new boardgame about Tolkien's "War of the Ring", so he is pushing the two together.

Anyway, the first two boxes of WoW are expected in the shops no later than october, in the Nexus edition with English, French, German and Italian rules.

For that time, we hope to have also a little site in English and Italian where to explain the rules, show the planes included, give informations about machines and pilots, discuss additional rules.

I'll keep you informed. Thanks for your attention!

Andrea

PS: here you have a totally provisory proposal for the first cover. Don't say anybody I showed it to you...

Angiolillo · 22 July 2003, 01:30 AM

Sorry for the subject. It got truncated by the attach, maybe...

Lufbery · 22 July 2003, 05:04 AM

No problem. We knew it was you and figured you'd be posting about your game.

Thanks for the update!

Regards,

Angiolillo · 22 July 2003, 05:50 AM

I imagine. But you could always belive it was a post about the card of Robert Alexander Little's Sopwith Triplane... A subject we have already discussed in this forum, by the way!

Scimitar · 22 July 2003, 09:57 AM

Hi Andrea,

Just to wait until october now...

Good sales, man!

Angiolillo · 22 July 2003, 11:03 PM

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Good sales, man!

Thanks a lot! And good luck to Canvas Falcons too!!!

Scimitar · 23 July 2003, 04:42 AM

Thanks a lot too, Andrea

Zif · 31 July 2003, 11:48 PM

132 cards !?

It is a lot !

I don't understand if it is a boxed game or a sort of "magic" policy, with different cards every selling deck.

can you explain ? Bye !

Angiolillo · 1 August 2003, 03:40 AM

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132 cards !?
It is a lot ! *

I don't understand if it is a boxed game or a sort of "magic" policy, with different cards every selling deck.
can you explain ? Bye ! *

No collectable card game!

Each box contains 21/22 airplane cards. Each player choose one or more of them. Each plane card has a "Manoeuvrability value" letter: if you take a Fokker Dr.I, for example, which MV is C, you have to take the Manoeuver card deck C. Each manoeuver deck is composed by 15/22 cards. Each turn you can use 3 maoeuvres choosing freely from your deck.

When you fire, the target has to draw one or more cards from the fire deck matching the firing class of the plane. Each fire deck is composed by 30/40 cards. All players use the same deck (if you play with some planes that have a firing class A and some at firing B class, you will have an A deck for everybody and a B deck for everybody).

Set n. 1, "Famous Aces", contains 21/22 planes (all fighters), 4 manoeuver decks and an A firing deck. Set n. 2, "Watch your back!", contains 20 planes, 4 manoeuver decks and a B firing deck, plus a target card (a building to be bombed, photographed or similar). Both sets have 4 cards with the summary of all the rules and icons.

There is also a ruler to measure the firing distance. There could be other accessories such as little pads to put your cards on and counters to remember special damages. There will be, if there are not surprises in the production costs.

With each set you can fly 4 planes at the same time. If you buy more copies of the same set, you can use more planes (this is why you have several cards with different plane colors).

Each set can be played separately or mixed with others.

Planes are Sopwith Camel, Sopwith Triplane, SPAD XIII, Fokker Dr. I and Albatross D.V in the first set, Hanriot HD.1, Nieuport 11, Halberstadt D.III, Ufag C.I and AIRCO/De Havilland D.H.4 in the second one. Other will follow, if the line is succesful enough.

This at the moment. Little changes are possible in the final layout phase (in these very days).

A little preview in Italian is at http://www.kaosonline.it/kaos.asp?s=44&k=6&id=220 .

Bye and thanks!

Andrea