Wings of War was almost in clinical death in summer 2011 and the name of the game changed from War to Glory and I think it is a good time to make a small overview. I prepared answers to some questions: What was released until now? Why the name was changed? How publishing of the game will continue?
Are Wings of War and Wings of Glory same games?
Yes, they are. Even there are two different names for this game, all components are fully compatible (but you still can not use WWI and WWII components together).
Why there are two different names for one game?
Game producer (Nexus Games International) completely ended releasing of the game and all other producing activity in summer 2011.
Fortunately, the game designer (Andrea Angiolino) saved his copyright for game system of Wings of War and he started to resuscitate the game with new company - Ares Games. The only problem was, that Wings of War was copyrighted name of someone another and for this reason, Andrea changed the name to Wings of Glory. One of autor’s conditions was complete backward compatibility with Wings of War.
What was released until today?
I will write about it in more details in other post, but let's summarize basic types of components which were released until today. Some of them is imposible to to buy, some are OK (new series):
- The Basic Sets – card kits (Fire from the Sky, The Dawn of World War II)
- Expansions - card kits (Eagles of the Reich, Flying Legend, Revolution in the Sky, The Last Biplanes)
- Starter Set - BoB = Basic Sets – miniatures = Deluxe Sets (three different)
- Separate miniatures
- Special Packs
- Game Mats I. - two different (Eastern and Western), connectible, an airfield on both of them
- Game Mats II. - three different (68 x 98 cm; countryside, city, coast), interconnectable.
- Game Mats II. - two more different (68 x 98 cm; no-man's land, industrial complex), interconnectable.
- Rules and accessories Pack - addition to the separate miniatures.
How will the publishing of the game continue?
- All new components will be released under trademark "Wings of Glory".
- Publisher left the card game system – all released components will be for miniatures system.
I will summarize each serie for easier orientation now. I apologize for the omission of card sets – there are too much plane types.
For complete overview I recommended Wings of War / Glory section on Wings of War na BoardGameGeek.com.
Image version on Czech subforum.
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