Buy Wings of War WWI: Burning DrachensWings of War WWI: Burning Drachens Product Description:
- Can stand alone, or expand your current arsenal
- Features exciting new planes and maneuvers
- Age: 10 +
- Number of Players: 2 - 4
- Playing Time: 20+ min
Product Description
Roaring two-seater planes fly over the trenches on recon missions, bombing runs, trench strafing, and daring rescues... Can you escort your planes to their targets and safely back home? Or can you prevent your opponent's planes from striking at the heart of your forces?
Burning Drachens is the latest in the popular Wings of War aerial combat game. Wings of War: Burning Drachens can be played by itself or mixed with Wings of War: Famous Aces or Watch Your Back! to play larger scenarios. It includes more planes, more scenarios and more obstacles.
Wings of War is based on accurate historical documentation to give players a fast and furious game experience.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Awesome Game
By Brian
This expansion to Wings of War is awesome! It brings in the rules for use of observation balloons. This wargame is one of the simplist to play and learn and is fast paced!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.GREAT WORLD WAR ONE FLYING GAME!
By P. A. Panozzo
This game is the third installment of the Wings of War series created by Andrea Angiolino and Pier Giorgio Paglia. It introduces Observation Balloons (German balloons were called Drachens), AA guns, machine guns, air to air Le Prieur rockets, trench systems, optional altitude rules and rules for solo play. The game can stand alone but if you are an aviation enthusiast and a purist (as I am!), you will want to acquire the complete game system: Wings of War WWI: Famous Aces and Wings of War WWI: Watch Your Back! are the first modules. The game is very simple to play, it plays quickly and it can be fun for an entire family! There are miniature, replica aircraft with their own maneuver cards that can be added to the game modules to enhance historical depth.Wings of War WWI: Flight of Giants is the latest module which introduces heavy bombers but it cannot stand alone like the other modules. I personally would acquire some of the many "booster packs" to expand the aircraft availability. All in all, it is a great game system and I highly recommend it!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
A good entry point or expansion to a fun game
By Jan Wolter
The "Wings of War" games are unusual in combining a fairly realistic and historically accurate military simulation with very simple rules. With the basic rules, you can easily teach the game to a new player in five minutes. Each player selects an airplane card, and the matching maneuver deck. They place their planes on whatever tabletop or floor they want to use as their game board. In each turn they secretly select the maneuver cards for the next three moves their plane will make, then the use the arrows on the maneuver cards as guides to simultaneously move their plane cards along the planned course. If the planes get within firing range of each other, the players draw cards from a damage deck to find the effects. You get a nice feeling of dogfighting as your cards slide around the tabletop. A fun casual game for adults and kids maybe nine and up.But that's not where it ends. First, there are lots of optional rules that add realism and complexity. You can use as many or as few of these as suit your fancy. "Burning Drachens" adds new rules for altitude, balloon busting, anti-aircraft, and strafing trenches to the rule sets of the previous World War One games, "Famous Aces" and "Watch Your Back". I have mixed feelings about these. They do add substantial realism, but they also add more complexity and bookkeeping. As you start keeping track of each plane's altitude with little counters, and tracking the reload status of each anti-aircraft gun with more little counters, and the damage status of everything with stacks of damage cards, one is inclined to start wondering why one isn't playing this on a computer, so the computer can do all this bookkeeping. As you add more rules, game play gets slower and more fiddly, and there is a certain loss of realism in that, because air combat is fast. You kind of have to find your own sweet spot with this.Second, one game isn't really enough. "Burning Drachens" definitely is playable on it's own. You can have nice two player dogfights, and there are even quite a few very playable solitaire scenarios. But if you like it at all, you are going to be tempted to buy more games. With other games you win a lot more flexibility in setting up scenarios, and it becomes easier to play with more than two players. This game includes only the "A" damage deck (for twin guns) but includes some single-gun planes that need the "B" damage deck. You can simulate "B" damage by drawing an "A" card and dividing by two, but it's nicer to have a "B" deck, which comes with "Watch Your Back". Both sides have planes using the "I" maneuver deck, but you can't fight them against each other because only one "I" deck comes with the game. So there is a bit of a slippery slope temptation to keep buying more stuff after you buy one game."Burning Drachens" might well be the best starting point if you just want to buy one game and try it out, assuming that you have the self control to start by ignoring all the balloons and special rules and just start with a dogfight with basic rules. Then the various add-on rules and solitaire scenarios provide a rich variety of other situations you can try out. If you want to be able to play with three or four players from the start, one of the other games might be a better choice though.One of the biggest innovations in this release is the altitude rules. It includes tons of altitude counters and climb dive maneuver cards for the maneuver decks in all previous games (decks "A" through "H"), so this is also an interesting expansion for people already owning the older games.
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