Round Two: Aerial Combat with Wings of Glory.

   Just the other day, I played a couple more game with my good friend, Danny with Wings of Glory. This game is fairly easy to play, as well as, it takes no time at all to set up to play. Of course, this does not mean that future boards are not in order to be made for this game. I have already seen a few games with stellar terrain that was a bit more third dimensional without effecting the outcome.
    In these game, we decided to try out some fancier rules. Nothing too harsh, since we are "baby-stepping" the game. I lost the first game, but won the last two. The different was having the tail gunners, instead of just fighter planes. It does change up the tactics and was a pleasant surprise to see that the maneuvers for each plane type made the two-seater planes rather handicapped with the exception of the extra gun.
    My wife, Kalissa played this last Saturday, so it looks like a big game is coming. I will just have to be sure to post that affair!

A Day of Wings of Glory: WW1 Dogfights.

     Recently, my good friend, Danny has been scratching an itch to play World War One Dogfighting. he recently had bought into the game Wings of Glory, since he always had a fascination with Bi-planes. I cannot blame him, since it was this era of flight that introduced the third dimension in today's modern warfare. It is during the time period where heroes were made in the skies. Who would find this boring?
    After buying quite a few planes and the rules to play the game, Danny had quite a few games before he brought it over to our house. He had even convinced his wife to play, in which, she shot him down in multiple games, even to the point that she and my wife should team up against Danny and I.
   Now, I have heard of Wing of Glory and Wings of War. I cannot say I know the exact difference of them, since I had not played either of them previously. But based on how the game went of us, Wings of Glory has the feel of....shall I dare say, X-Wing. It even occurs to me that X-Wing might be a space version of Wings of Glory. The difference, other than being a historical WW1 Aerial combat game versus Scifi, is that they use cards for movement and damage. Also, there are still advance game features, such as, attitude making it a 3-D game unlikely, what I imagined X-Wing to be. But let us face it, I do not see Wings of Glory working out as well with tournaments based off the card play. Whose deck of cards would you use for damage results? How easy is it to cheat in the game, since it is card driven and you are on a honor system on how damaged your plane is. Of course, this is comparing apples to pineapples.
    Danny and I played three games averaging at most, an hour. I won the first two, and he pulled off the last one. The card system worked pretty good. And because of this, we can clearly play on different types of tables We just stuck with the paper map for now. Anyway, it was a fun bunch of quick games. We will definitely play more games. Here are a bunch of photos for the game. They are not in order, but our games were not long enough to make an after action report. Maybe, later when we do larger games.


   

The amount of hits a play took in one game without being shot down. The plane needed 14 hits, it survived after 12.

AAR: Bolt Action: Must Be Raining Germans.

 

    The other day, I had the great pleasure of playing our new friend, Mike. Last game we saw him play was against my wife and her British Airborne. Since, he plays Germans, I decided to field American infantry. It never really fails that I fall flat on my face with other nations, since I play mainly Germans, This is not a statement that this fact makes my game running Allied Forces a handicap. I loose just as often with the Germans, If I am going to lay out any false claims, I will demonize the dice box, Danny left over! Yeah, that's what it was! The evil wooden structure forced me into silly decisions such as bad deployment and assaulting a Panther while surrounded by eager-beaver killer German infantry. 

    Anywho, it was a lovely slaughterfest of a game. We played the "Meeting Engagement" mission. We both decided for the sake of violence to leave nothing in reserve! "There they are; Get'em Boys!" My Americans mainly tried to do a Pincer move. I send people up the middle to try to fake out the Germans on my intentions. This did not work very well, since Mike kept down the center with a good field of fire in support covering the open areas of the Church. He had quite a few of assault rifles and MP40's  with his Germans. The Germans came prepared. I had a bunch of Thompsons and a BAR for each squad. I probably should have had some more BAR's considering a lot of the long range shots. 

   The first hurtful thing was the death of a Sherman after being hit with a Panther. Surprise, the Panther can kill a Sherman Tank! Since I had this Panther running around, I had to do something, based off the "Tiger Fear" rule attached to it. Mike might not have noticed it, but I never needed to add that rule as a modifier based on never seeing it. Since my men were in the way of the bazooka, I decided to assault it. Then, they failed to get out of the way based of the pins and then, were danced on the next turn. The bazooka took out the Panther with some good shooting, but it was the only unit to die on the German's side, and it was my Panther that Mike burrowed. The rest of the game came down to a series of assaults. I had on squad left after the whole affair. Though, if we counted the Nun with a Gun, in the Church as a counter assault, she won! 

The bazooka should have been more in the center.

Trying to race up the side of a hedgerow.

Hiding behind a church

This position of Germans seemed to do the most damage.

German advance.

Panther Power!

You can see the nun.

MG42,

The Sherman died with rolls of a 6, 6 and then two 6's. 

A lot of Germans.

My only Veteran unit of Airborne was shot to pieces with no problem.

This is the only squad who lost no one.