Alien Dave
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Post by Alien Dave on Jan 28, 2014 17:02:41 GMT
Here is the linky for the Wings at War page. There's starter packs for most periods, all conflict specific, with 1/600 minis from Tumbling Dice. I already have Thud Ridge and Flames over the Falklands. A bit of fudging and you can use hexes instead of centimetres and degrees. And finally, for those that want to use miniatures in more than one game system, the 1/600 minis look superkewl next to 1/3000 ships in Shipwreck!!! DW
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Alien Dave
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Post by Alien Dave on Feb 1, 2014 18:17:54 GMT
I already have Thud Ridge. You get all the planes you need in the pack, but there are stats for other planes in the period too. Thud Ridge gets you the scenario rules (10 pages) and 4x A-7, 4x F-4, 4x MiG-21 and 2x MiG-17 Falklands one get you rules, 6x Harrier, 6x Skyhawk and 4x Mirage You can take as many planes as you want, but your victory point target is based on a third of YOUR total points cost, so if you take 100 point of planes, you'll need 33 points to win. If your opponent only pitches up with 20 points of planes to begin with, you'll either have to scale back on your force or face the fact that you can't actually win the scenario (numbers off the top of my head for example purposes only). For info, a Harrier is worth 7 points, a skyhawk 4 points, while dropping bombs on a target is worth 1-2 points. Personally, I think the TD planes look just fine. At 3mm scale, there's bugger all to see, so exaggerated details or not, it doesn't make much difference. I've bought the starter packs based on a few criteria: - Cheap way into a period
- Homebrew rules are nice and simple and you can get the gist of them in about an hour
- Loads in the TD range, which look rather nice if you visit Mr TD at a show (and he's at most of them!)
- Quality is good, with very little, if any, cleaning up required.
Also, these models aren't exclusive to the period of the scenario pack. F-4s vs Mirages in Falklands '84 perhaps? Or Harriers/F-4s vs MiG-21 in Desert Storm? It can all be done with a little fudging.
DW
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