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Wings of Glory Unboxing: Battle of Britain Starter Set
July 4, 2017 by stvitusdancern
Today we're taking a look at the Battle of Britain Starter Set for Wings of Glory from Ares Games.
The starter set includes four assembled and pre-painted aeroplanes, a rulebook, scenarios booklet, two movement rulers, manoeuvre decks and aeroplane console boards.
Licensed pilot Gianna is in her element here as she and John discuss the content and gameplay of this Starter Set.
Have you guys played any Wings of Glory yet?
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Fun fact about the Wings of Glory system.
Wings of Glory was originally Wings of War and released only in Italy in 2004. In 2004 Fantasy Flight Games made an official English version. They then made official versions in German, Greek, French, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Czech, Portuguese, Swedish, Finnish and Japanese.
In 2011 FFG dropped distribution.
The mechanics are what FFG based X-Wing on but obviously revised the rules or mechanics but you can see many familiar aspects of Wings of War in X-Wing.
I believe if you love aircraft especially WWII aircraft and also love miniatures, this is a great way to get started. Ares Games has had previous starter sets and there are plenty of expansions. IMHO, Ares could do a better job to promote the system but since it has been around since 2004 maybe they are no longer interested.
Unlike X-Wing which I play competatively and has a lot of meta, I play Wings of War casually and to reproduce the great air campaigns of WWII. The starter kit manual has several scenarios but you can easily research and add your own. I researched the Aces of WWII and from the material I have been able to find have tried to recreate the great air battles. We have simulated the B52 bombing raids into Germany which is fun. Someone in my club has repainted the P-51s for The Tuskegee Airmen and we use them for scenarios. The system scales well to larger battles provided you also scale the players.
The rules scale well too. You can start with basic rules for dog fights and then add more advanced rules as you are comfortable. They have rules for bombing, AAA and strafing of ground targets and it is always fun to add those elements.
If you want to go back to WWI aircraft, this seems way more popular than WWII. I have not done so but some people at my club have played “Legacy” version of a WWII game where they combined Wings of Glory and Flames of War. Where they went back and forth as parallel games but the result of one game impacted you troops etc. in the other game.
Sadly, it is not nearly as popular as X-Wing. Also Sadly, Ares has not done well in bringing some favorites of the Pacific Theater and they have stopped printing some aircraft as well.
One last thing, if your going to play, get a nice mat. There are official ones but you can also find 3rd party mats.
Given the deluge of miniature game engines on the market, I am afraid Wings of War is mostly over looked which is really to bad.
Thanks Gianna & John ( not Justin as stated in the artical discription )
Excellent little video of unboxing Wings of Glory’s Battle of Britain starter set.
Love to see a demo game with in the near future. Hope that the others at BoW allow you to film & post it.
Truly a fantastic game. Setup time is minimal and you can spend the majority of your time playing. Models are prepainted and once again spend the time playing. Really fun to have a large group of people playing and it creates really fun “dogfighting” because of it.
We play Wings of Glory about as often as we play X-Wing, and I still alway call it Wings of War.
Not boring at all guys! Really enjoyed that – thanks 🙂
I see that the error in the article description has now been corrected
I have the WW1 version and love it. Planes – and models of planes – were my first nerd hobby and it’s great to combine that with my current nerdery.
I can’t seem to find the BoB stuff in stock anywhere at the moment.
And sadly it seems like an awful lot of the early war stuff from the WWI sets is also OOP.
Not sure what country you are from but in the USA the starter set can be found at Miniature Marketplace, Coolstuffinc.com and Amazon
If you cannot find the starter set, you can purchase the rule book, accessories kit and whatever aircraft you want. The starter set just makes it nice all in one box type of thing but is not necessary.
Yes for more aeroplane waffling, please.
Yes for a demo game, please.
I wonder if the shape of the Spitfire has somehow worked its way into the collective British subconscious – every time that I see one, I feel happy and reassured.
Maybe you can give me a demo game on wolsung bootcamp John?
Great game but I am more of a fan of the WW1 version. I love the early planes and the variety of designs and colours.