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  1. The life and times of a new player - Desperate times....

    I have finally got some WGF series I miniatures to use:

    Sopwith Camel - Olislager
    SPAD XIII - Baracca
    Albatros D.VA - Weber & Jentsch

    Now with these and my "Famous Aces" set I am ready to play, but with Zoe out injured who would be my next combatant...

    Step up my 5 year old son. The conversation went something like this:

    Son - They are cool, can we play with them?
    Dad - Sort of...
    Son - Please ...
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  2. The life and times of a new player - The first game!

    Zoe had invited me to the weekly meeting of the Canberra Gaming Society to have more formal go at WGF (is that right?).

    As I really had no idea of the types of missions available, Zoe suggested that we play a "destroy the balloon" scenario. I was handed a French Nieuport with rockets and young Andrew was using a Flemish insignia Sopwith Camel.

    Zoe had a German balloon and a Fokker D(?) for company.

    To cut a long story short, I managed to get ...
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  3. The life and times of a new player.

    Here is the first of hopefully many blog entries about my foray into the world that is "Wings of Glory".

    Well, it all started recently at Wintercon in Canberra, Australia. Being a pretty big Advanced Dungeons and Dragons player back in my late teens and early twenties, the interest in wargaming had never really dissaperard, just diminshed.

    Thanks to my 5 year old and a desire to get out of the house, we headed off to see what the Flames of War crowd were up ...
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