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Against the Odds 29: Buffalo Wings 2nd edition

Against the Odds 29: Buffalo Wings 2nd edition
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Prix : 35.00 €

Editeur : Against the Odds

Référence : ATO29

Format : boite

Periode : Seconde guerre mondiale

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While air aficionados and gamers may have friendly disagreements about, "What was the best Allied fighter of WWII?", when asked, "Which was the worst?” the stubby Brewster "Buffalo" always comes near the top of any list. Though reportedly a pleasure to fly originally, by the time it was weighted down with armor, guns, self-sealing gas tanks, radio, and the other bits of modern equipment, it lost both speed and maneuverability. A dismal failure all over the Pacific, the Finns flew the “unmodified” versions and loved it. In the early months of "The Continuation War," the Finnish Brewsters scored heavily against everything in the Soviet air arsenal, and the planes were still in use through the middle of 1944.

Back in 2012, we released our “Buffalo Wings” game as an intro to J.D. Webster's "Fighting Wings" system of air combat. Buffalo Wings centers on the Finnish-Soviet air actions of 1939-41 (both "The Winter War" and "The Continuation War"), with a faster playing set of rules that makes for easy entry into the "Fighting Wings" game system. While this is a complete, stand-alone game, it's also a useful expansion to the FW line and fully compatible with the system. Buffalo Wings is fast moving, with both solitaire, 2 player, and multi-player scenarios, ranging from 1 on 1 dogfights to "1 versus many" episodes against bombers (which have "auto fly" rules or can be handled by a live player) and escorts. All this combined to make it one of our fastest “sell-out” games.

So we revived Buffalo Wings with our first-ever Kickstarter, with upgraded graphics and “stretch goals” that added more planes, more scenarios, and lots of extra goodies.

We upgraded the original map, and added a “blue sky” map to the back side (compatible with the Clash of Arms' Wings of the Motherland release that covered the entire Eastern Front air war.)

Upgraded counters, plus additional plane charts that give you interesting variants of the planes and means lots more playability. You will pit Brewsters, Hawks, Me 109s, and other Finnish planes against a diverse sample the Soviet air force, from I-16s and LaGGs to MiGs, Yaks, Pe2s, and more. Full-color rules and cover stock charts are both real upgrades to play.