Wings Of War: Watch Your Back!

Should this hit the table?

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Moderate level of interaction with a good balance between direct and strategic confrontation. Players need to pay attention to others' actions frequently, but cooperation is not a major focus.

Teach 2.4

Teaching signal

Replay 3.8

High replayability

Interaction 3.7

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.0

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 3.5

More strategic control

Table feel

Moderate level of interaction with a good balance between direct and strategic confrontation. Players need to pay attention to others' actions frequently, but cooperation is not a major focus.

Replay value

The game offers a high level of variability with different experiences each time it is played. The expansions available add new content and gameplay elements, enhancing replay value. There is significant strategic depth, allowing players to improve their tactics and strategies over time. The game scales well with different numbers of players without compromising its appeal or balance. While it may take some time to learn, the depth it offers makes it worth the effort. Overall, Wings of War: Watch Your Back! has a strong replayability score of 7.56.

Luck profile

The final luck score for Wings of War: Watch Your Back! is 7, indicating a moderate influence of luck on the game outcome. Random elements have a notable but not exclusive impact on the game, and players have substantial ability to mitigate randomness through strategic decisions and planning. The game outcome is primarily determined by player strategy and decisions, with luck playing a minor role.

Overview

What ABG knows about this game

Wings of War: Watch Your Back! is the second title in the WoW line and is again set in World War I. The game can be played by itself or mixed with Wings of War: Famous Aces for larger scenarios. It includes 5 models of planes: the Nieuport 11, Hanriot HD.1 and Halberstadt D.III fighters, together with the British/American DH4 and the Austrian Ufag C.I two-seaters. There are also 4 decks of movement cards, 1 deck of combat cards, rulers, counters and a promo card for the first set depicting an American SPAD XIII. The rulebook is the same as Wings of War: Famous Aces and it lists scenarios for each of the two boxes, plus a couple for players who own both of them. 18 airplane cards are for immediate use. A curious plane, useful for more variated scenarios, is the Nieuport 11 of the German Jasta 1, flown in action by Leutnant Gustav Leffers. In the box there are also a few weapon variants for owners of "Famous aces": Scaroni's and Fucini's HD.1 with twin machineguns instead of the single one that was the standard from the factory; a British DH4 with a twin machinegun in the rear arc; a DH4 of the American Expeditionary Force with twin machineguns both on the forward and on the rear arc.

Mechanism

4

Action Queue Player Elimination Simulation Simultaneous Action Selection

Family

3

Components: Miniatures Game: Wings of Glory Occupation: Aviator

Type

2

Thematic Wargames

Media

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