Wings of War vs. Wings of Glory

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G'day Fellow Pilots!
Keith has asked me to give a summary of the differences &/or changes introduced by the relaunch of Wings of Glory compaired to Wings of War slanted mostly towards the newer players who may not be aware of the development of the Game from its inception.

Introduction:

You must remember that when Wings of War was introduced with Famous Aces it was a Card based game with no minatures.
As the game progressed there were new rules written to cover the 2 seater Aircraft that were introduced in the Watch Your Back box then further new rules came with the Burning Drachens box which introduced Balloon Busting.
The Rules set now had the additional option of playing with Altitude which became possable with the introduction of the minatures with Flight Stands & pegs.

Next came the Flight of the Giants box which introduced additional rules for Large Bombers.
About this time Nexus who were the suppliers went into liquidation & the supply of models dried up before any of the Bomber models became available. There had been 4 series of Scouts & 2 Seaters introduced over a period of time but trying to find supplies became a real headache.

One thing to remember is that as the expanded rules became available in the various Box sets the Rules were not rewritten like for example Games Workshop's Fantasy & 40K rules but only added to to cover new gaming options with new Aircraft etc.

The one problem was that you really had to buy all the new Box releases to get the new added rules.

Now that Ares have relaunched the Game & issued the new Rules & Accessory Packs ALL the Rules are now available in one book & are set out in excellent sections with great illustrations to highlight the rules.

Whilst there are no huge changes to the old rules there are many subtle changes & in my opinion improvements.

Part Two of this Thread will highlight the main changes & differences.