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    Does anyone know about this version of the computer game?

    http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/529307

    I found this link by accident and haven't been able to find a link to it.

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    I've never seen that one before... would like to know more if anyone can kind some thing out about it.

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    It appears to be a version created on the Vassal game engine. I can't find it on thier site, so it was probably removed due to copyright issues. Here is the Vassal site link
    http://www.vassalengine.org/communit...come&Itemid=25

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    The WoW computer game was proposed for home use on X-Box, PS-3, Nintendo and the like. This computer game was not going to be a combat flight simulator; rather, it would play the same as the board game does now.

    The awesome IL-2 Shturmovik (best ever WW2 flight sim) game has just migrated from PC to the afformentioned home entertainment systems. This may leave the designing and marketing personnel to ponder if enough sales could be generated by a computer game that mimics a tabletop board game when there is a full-action simulator out there. I'm not sure of the project will continue or be scrapped.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Walahalla View Post
    Does anyone know about this version of the computer game?

    http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/529307

    I found this link by accident and haven't been able to find a link to it.
    The user "bayernkini" at the Yahoo WoW discussion group
    http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wow_nexus/
    made it, but for private use only since there are licenses around for an online WoW. You may try to contact him. You could enter the group and privately answer to message #7101.

    Quote Originally Posted by SHVAK View Post
    The WoW computer game was proposed for home use on X-Box, PS-3, Nintendo and the like. This computer game was not going to be a combat flight simulator; rather, it would play the same as the board game does now.

    The awesome IL-2 Shturmovik (best ever WW2 flight sim) game has just migrated from PC to the afformentioned home entertainment systems. This may leave the designing and marketing personnel to ponder if enough sales could be generated by a computer game that mimics a tabletop board game when there is a full-action simulator out there. I'm not sure of the project will continue or be scrapped.
    The WoW computer game was ready, with no fear of flight sims - they have been there for ages. I even contributed together with my cousin to IL-2 Shturmovik years ago, sending scans of original manuals of WW2 Italian planes so that they could be flyable with all the inner details needed and not just "non-player characters", by the way.
    The game was presented in final form at GenCon last year.

    http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2008/10/more-board-game/



    But then Big Rooster who was making the software went bankrupt. The project will start again, but I don't know if the work done so far will be useable or all will start from scratch.
    Last edited by Angiolillo; 09-22-2009 at 08:41.

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    That's both good and bad news about the official Wings of War video game.

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    I can recall seeing X-Box and PS-3 and/or other titles associated onto this product, but its another lesson you cannot always believe what you see or read.

    Best wishes for a future product.


    PS - I was also involved with IL-2 design.
    Last edited by SHVAK; 09-22-2009 at 10:40.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SHVAK View Post
    PS - I was also involved with IL-2 design.
    Great! Congratulations for such a great game!

    My cousin was part of an Italian forum of enthusiasts of IL-2. I hepled him to scan the Fiat Cr.42 manual that went with the plane, borrowing it from a friend who is an aviation historian, and the same for two more manuals (maybe Mc.200 and SM.79?). What he said was that if the software house had details of the inner views of the plane, they could be piloted in a "Mediterranean pack" that was under design. I don't know how it went in the end, but I think that these planes were delayed anyway.

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    Angiolillo

    This issue raises a certain question. As game designer, and with so many different forums kicking around, where is the best website to obtain the latest release information/official rumours (ie plans for Series 4 and Series 5 miniatures)? There are rumours floating around some sites, I witness (your) posts at others, but I see nothing far in advance at the Nexus web site.

    Thx - hope that you do indeed release a Hanriot HD1 sometime soon.

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    I post all news here:

    http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wow_nexus/

    Places like the one we are now are anyway quite quick in bouncing the news.

    Sometime, something can leak somewhere else if it is in the subject of conversations around.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Angiolillo View Post
    The user "bayernkini" at the Yahoo WoW discussion group
    http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wow_nexus/
    made it, but for private use only since there are licenses around for an online WoW. You may try to contact him. You could enter the group and privately answer to message #7101.



    The WoW computer game was ready, with no fear of flight sims - they have been there for ages. I even contributed together with my cousin to IL-2 Shturmovik years ago, sending scans of original manuals of WW2 Italian planes so that they could be flyable with all the inner details needed and not just "non-player characters", by the way.
    The game was presented in final form at GenCon last year.

    http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2008/10/more-board-game/



    But then Big Rooster who was making the software went bankrupt. The project will start again, but I don't know if the work done so far will be useable or all will start from scratch.
    Nice. I'm going to see if I can get that module.
    Last edited by Potenza; 11-25-2009 at 07:01.

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    @Potenza can you let me know how you go with that. Would be good to see how it goes.

    Cheers
    GW

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    Here's hoping a good version of the computer game shows up soon. It would only fan the flames of my nuttiness for WoW.



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