Tiger Wings - the Unboxing (1 Viewer)

[Greg Boeser]

Well. It's finally here.

Let's see what's in it.

There's so much stuffed in the ziploc, I'm afraid to try to get it out without damaging something.

There's a second bag that contains Kickstarter Exclusive content. I think.

 

[Greg Boeser]

The contents of bag #1
This is the retail publication that can be ordered direct from LPS or found in your local game store.

1. The Against the Odds Campaign Study #2
TIGER WINGS WWII Tactical Air Combat Over East Asia campaign booklet - 29 pages of historical commentary covering the aerial campaigns of the first seven months of the war in the Far East, 24 pages covering the game rules, 7 pages of the basic Quickstart rules, 24 pages of historical scenarios pitting the Army and Naval air forces of Imperial Japan aganst the scattered forces of the Western colonial powers.

.2 One sheet of 280 double sided, die-cut counters, representing the aircraft, ships, and ground targets as well as status markers used in the game.

3. Quickstart flight and combat play aid card.

4. Two sided (land/sea) 22"x34" map. An interesting feature is you can backfold the map so that the last section of the land map becomes a coastal strip on the sea map.

5. A pack of Aircraft Data Cards representing sixteen of the Allied and Japanese aircraft types that took part in the campaigns, as well as the flight and combat play aids for the full Tiger Wings game.

6. A deck of 9 bomber cards representing the main bomber types in theater in a simplified way.

 

[SaparotRob]

I played desk top strategy games all the time when I was in college. Never actually did any studying.

 

[Greg Boeser]

I played desk top strategy games all the time when I was in college. Never actually did any studying.

Same. It took me 31 years to get my bachelor's.

 

[Jadera]

I played desk top strategy games all the time when I was in college. Never actually did any studying.

Hey thats what I do in school now too!

 

[SaparotRob]

Yikes.

 

[Greg Boeser]

The Tiger Wings magazine can be seperated into its individual components by opening up the staples and pulling out the sections - Campaign study, Quickstart rules, Tiger Wings rules, and scenario booklet. This is a nice feature. It keeps you from having to flip through 80+ pages trying to find what you need.

 

[Greg Boeser]

The nine bomber quick reference cards.

G4M "Betty", G3M "Nell", Ki.21 "Sally", Ki.48 "Lily
B-17C/D "Flying Fortress", B-17E "Flying Fortress", Hudson Mk. I/II, Martin WH-3, Blenheim Mk. I/IV.
These cards provide the limited information needed when the scenario pits fighters against non-maneuvering bombers flying in formation.
The front of the card lists the name, class, and type of aircraft, defense factor (its toughness rating), damage factor (hit points to severe damage/destroyed), max bomb load, crew size, ceiling, max and min speeds when clean and loaded, speed loss penalty for losing an engine, severe damage penalties to min and max speeds, nationality symbol, top view of the aircraft, size modifier, and VP value for severe damage/destroyed.
The back of the card lists the defensive gun coverage, a/c protection, and any blind spots

 

[Jadera]

is this a board game?

 

[Greg Boeser]

Yes. Some of us go all out and paint aircraft miniatures, mount them on telescoping rods, and play in 3D.

 

[Jadera]

Yes. Some of us go all out and paint aircraft miniatures, mount them on telescoping rods, and play in 3D.

wow that sounds fun!

 

[Jadera]

Yes. Some of us go all out and paint aircraft miniatures, mount them on telescoping rods, and play in 3D.

do the planes come with the kit?

 

[Greg Boeser]

The Fighting Wings series of boardgames has been around since the early 1990s. Over the Reich covered the (daylight) air war over Western Europe 1943-45. Achtung! Spitfire! covered the air war over Western Europe 1940-42.
Whistling Death covered the war in the Pacific 1941-45. These are all long out of print. Wings of the Motherland covers the Eastern Front. These are all the boxed games from Clash of Arms. Against the Odds magazine put out Buffalo Wings, covering the Finns vs USSR using a simplified rules format. It was so popular they did a second printing a few years later that also sold out. Tiger Wings is the latest installment, covering the opening months of the war in Southeast Asia and the southwestern Pacific. There was also a magazine supplement, Top Cover #1, Spitfires over Darwin, that covered the Australian defense of their homeland and New Guinea.
Recently, JD Webster, the game's designer, has been publishing new and updated Aircraft Data Cards, sometimes as mini-campaigns with scenarios, as pdfs on Wargames Vault.

 

[Greg Boeser]

do the planes come with the kit?

No. The boxed games come with die cut counters. If you want miniatures, you have to buy them yourself. Popular scales are 1/300, 1/285, (these are microarmor scale), 1/350 (model ship scale), 1/600, 1/700 another model ship scale). Hex printed game mats are available from various manufacturers, or you could make your own. I made one that only cost $2500 back in the late '90s. A few yards of cloud pattern flannel - $3.99 a yard, some 3" hexgrid iron-on appliques, $10, and a new dining room set when I wrecked the dining room table using it as an ironing board - $2450