Given how many years it's been since Series 9, and that they just looped Series 1 back for a third release, I thought it might be time to take a look at the potential future of WGF again, assuming it's not being elbowed aside into Reprints Only to make more room for BSG. Let's stipulate for purposes of this discussion that I'm not even looking at Special Packs...
As I see it, there are three potential roads forward for the next "mainline" release:
- Series 10, four new sculpts
- Second run of Series 5, eight new decoes
- Third run of Series 2, eight new-to-Ares decoes possibly including Nexus schemes
So we're kinda looping back to 2013 again and revisiting this old thread: https://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/sh...-sets-are-left and building on it with new data and Lessons Learned. I can see three key criteria to qualify a plane for a new sculpt...
- Existing Wings of War card or other mention in "official" docs (point chart, altitude table)
- >100 aircraft of the type deployed
- Participant in events of historic significance
And where we are... Tandems and Macchi flying boat in bold.
Series Entente scout Entente tandem/specialty CP scout CP tandem/specialty 1 SPAD XIII
Sop. Camel--- Alb. D.Va
Fok. Dr.I--- 2 Sop. Snipe AIRCO DH.4 Fok. D.VII Roland C.II 3 Nieu. 17/23 RAF RE8 Alb. D.III [B]UFAG C.I 4 RAF SE5a Breguet BR.14 Pfalz D.III Rumpler C.IV 5 M-S N
AIRCO DH.2--- Fok. E.III
Halb. D.III--- 6 Sop. Tripe
Hanriot HD1--- Avia. D.I
SSW D.III--- 7 SPAD VII Bristol F2B Alb. D.II Halb. CL.II 8 Nieu. 28 Macchi M.5 flying-boat
(single-seater, "specialty")Fok. E.V/D.VIII Hann. CL.IIIa 9 Nieuport 11 Sopwith 1-1/2 Strutter/Comic
(single-seater, "specialty")Phonix D.I Albatros C.III
Last time, we ended up with this list: cards without minis in bold
Entente scout Entente tandem CP scout CP tandem Bleriot XI (unarmed)
M-S A.1
M-S L
Nieu. 21 (swap N11 cowl onto N17 sculpt?)
Nieu. 27
SPAD S.XII
AIRCO DH.5
AIRCO DH.6
Bristol Scout
Bristol M.1c
Austin-Ball A.F.B.1
RAF FE8
Sopwith Tabloid
Sopwith Pup
Vickers FB12
Ansaldo A.1 Balilla
Ansaldo S.V.A.5
Thomas Morse S.4
Sopwith DolphinM-S BB
SAML S.2 (shared sculpt with Avatik B.I, re-winged?)
SAML S.1 (=Aviatik B.I)
Vickers FB5 "Gunbus"
RAF F.E.2b
Avro 504 (single)*
Avro 504 (2-seat)
Caudron G.4
Breguet Br.M5
Voisin 5
Voisin 8
Bleriot XI-2 (unarmed)
Dorand AR.1
Dorand AR.2
1914 Farman S.11 (unarmed)
1915 Farman F.40
M-S P
Nieu. 12 (1s and 2s versions)
Salmson 2
Paul Schmitt 7
SPAD A.2
SPAD S.XI
AIRCO DH.9a
Armstrong Whitworth FK8
Armstrong Whitworth FK10
Martinsyde F.4 Buzzard
Martinsyde G.100 Elephant (by size + rear-gun)
RAF RE7
RAF BE12 (by size)
RAF BE2c
Sopwith Bulldog
Sopwith Cuckoo
Ansaldo S.V.A.10
Fiat R.2
Pomilio PC (and maybe PE?)
S.I.A. 7B.1
Anatra DS
Lebed 12SSW D.I (slipstream in with Nieuport 17? this and E.IV only listed for card completion)
Fokker E.IV (unlikely)
SSW D.IV
1916 Hansa-Brandenburg D.I
Alb. D.I
Halb. D.II
Taube
LFG Rol. D.II
LFG Rol D.VIb
Junkers D.I
Pfalz D.XII
1918 Pfalz Dr.I
Alb. (OAW) D.IIIPhonix C.I
1916 Hansa-Brandenburg C.I
1916 Lohner C.I
1915 Lloyd C.II
1916 AEG C.IV
AGO C.II
Alb. C.I
Alb. C.V
Alb. C.VII
Alb. C.X
Alb. C.XII
Avia. B.I
Avia. C.I
DFW C.V
Rumpler C.I
Halb. C.V
LVG C.II
Junkers CL.I
Junkers J.I
Kindly refrain from getting into the weeds with WWII like last time... but what needs to be added or subtracted, and how many balanced sets can we see to be wrung out of this?
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