An LPS bonus mini-game, Winds of War (WoW) is a look at the efforts of the Japanese during World War II to create chaos, confusion and consternation in the United States by bombing the western portion of the states by means of explosives carried in wind-born, hydrogen-filled balloons. Sounds nutty, but it’s true. Anyway, WoW is a game; any hints of...
The players have to get their merchant ships from their home harbor to the destination harbor of the same color and back again. The war ships are used to attack enemy ships and defend their own ships. In the center of the game board is a island with two safe neutral harbors. The player harbors are guarded by coast artillery. Movement is determined by a...
“Good Luck, men; wish I were going with you.” In mid-1942, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) arrived in Britain equipped with B-17 Heavy Bombers. The B-17, nicknamed the “Flying Fortress” because of their heavy defensive armament. The USAAF Commanders adopted the strategy of taking on the Luftwaffe head on, in larger and larger air raids flying...
A collectible card game (CCG) set in the Wing Commander Universe. Players are captains of space carriers attempting to destroy the opposing carrier. Players use power points (starting with 30, gaining 2 more each turn) to launch fighters, play personnel, etc. Fighters move and fight at 7 locations, the two carriers and 5 "nav points". A carrier can be...
Wing Leader is an exciting new game system of large scale aerial combat in World War II. Based on a unique side-scrolling view, in which altitude is clearly visible, players can recreate the great air battles of the war. This first volume, Wing Leader: Victories 1940-1942, includes scenarios for the Battle of Britain, Malta, Coral Sea, Midway, North...
Ahogy a II. világháború a csúcspontjához ér, az égboltot úgy perzselik fel a hatalmas légiflották Európa és a Csendes-óceán felett. A nehézbombázókat mozgékony, karcsú vadászgépek kísérik, így vívva meg kétségbeesett csatáikat. A kísérők a heves harcban az ellenséges gépekbe csapódnak. A pilóták katapultálnak gépeikből, miközben századaik szétszóródnak a...
Two scenarios and 30 counters for Wing Leader: Victories 1940-1942, included in C3i Magazine, Issue #29. Scenario 1 - Cry Havoc, Tunisia, 21 March 1943. Description: As Patton's II Corps began to push out of the passes through the Atlas mountains and descend on the Axis flanks, low-level raids were launched against Mezzouna and motor transport columns...
Dogfight is a set of freely available variant rules for use with the counters and data cards from the GMT WWII air combat game Wing Leader, allowing a greater focus on the fighting in the immediate vicinity of the bombers. It has evolved greatly since its first appearance in 2017, and now consists of three editions - Dogfight Lite which retains the generic...
A Wing Leader: Origins 1936-1942 a GMT Wing Leader rendszerének harmadik kiegészítése. Az Origins a háborúk közötti és a háború eleji időszak izgalmas csatáiba repít el. Ez a kiegészítő a kétfedelű repülőgépeket gyors monoplánokkal párosítja Spanyolország, Kína és Lengyelország feletti harctéren. A nacionalista CR.32-esek a „Vörös” I-15-ösökkel csapnak...
Wing Leader: Legends 1937-1945 is the fourth expansion for GMT’s Wing Leader system. In Legends, we seek to cap the Wing Leader game system by bringing together previous games and expansions in a series of crossover scenarios. Featuring combat from the beginning to the very end of the war, Legends features some of the smaller air forces. The Chinese over...
A copy of Wing Leader: Supremacy 1943-1945 is required to play Wing Leader: Eagles. (From GMT's website:) Wing Leader: Eagles is the second expansion for GMT’s Wing Leader system. Eagles adds more aircraft, and more thrilling scenarios from the late war. Fly Hs 129 tank busters against the Soviet armored spearheads. Lead Ki-45 bomber-killers attacking...