As we wrote in the previous article “A Long Journey Begins,” one of the design goals of The Battle of Five Armies was to give a more important and definite role to the characters in the battle. In our previous designs in this series, War of the Ring and Battles of the Third Age, characters are very streamlined. These designs are more strategic in scope. Differences …
This is the last article of the Galaxy Defenders Preview series, and describes the game’s Rank-Up System for agents; it also includes examples on how to “customize” each agent by creating some class templates to maximize operative efficiency on the battlefield. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger”… and GD Agents must become stronger than steel to beat the Alien challenge! In game terms, …
In the last article we presented the Albatros D.II; now it’s time to present you some of the aces who piloted this aircraft, which is featured in the WW1 Wings of Glory Airplane Packs: the German Aces Oswald Boelcke, Manfred Von Richthofen and Rudolf Szepessy-Sokoll. Oswald Boelcke Oswald Boelcke was one of most famous German flying aces of the First World War and, thanks to his …
Roberto Di Meglio, director of production of Ares Games, speaks about Aztlán, the new game by Leo Colovini that will be released at the Essen “Spiel 2012”. This third article is focused on the gameplay. As befits a Colovini’s game, the rules of Aztlán are deceptively simple. The rulebook is 12 pages long, but that includes the cover, the explanation of components, a page of strategy …
Kevin Duke, a long time player and supporter of the Wings of War/Wings of Glory game system, took part at the MidSouthCon and brought with him the first Wings of Glory releases – the WW2 Starter Set and the eight WW2 Airplane Packs to run volunteer demo sessions there. You can read below the report he wrote about the weekend with some pictures taken in the …
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