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Rules assistance for Wing Leader: Legends 1937-1945
Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.
- 2 players
- Complexity 3.0/5
Rules assistant for Wing Leader: Legends 1937-1945
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Wing Leader: Legends 1937-1945 is an expansion for Wing Leader: Supremacy 1943-1945 released in 2021 for 2 players. It was designed by Lee Brimmicombe-Wood and its main mechanics are Dice Rolling, Square Grid, and Simulation.
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About the game
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 Nanking, the Yugoslavs over Belgrade, and the Bulgarian defense of Sofia all appear. The last gasp of the Regia Aeronatica over Sicily and Calabria are captured in a series of exciting scenarios. There are new scenarios for China and France. Old favorites, including the Pacific and Eastern Front, also feature, matching Italians against Soviets or recreating the famous Battle of the Bismarck Sea. New Aircraft range from the obscure Yugoslav IK-3 interceptor to the American P-26 ‘Peashooter.’ Italian types including the G.55 fighter and the Z.1007 bomber also appear. Players will need copies of all previous Wing Leader products to fully enjoy this expansion. In addition to new aircraft and scenarios, Wing Leader: Legends features a whole campaign system, replicating the experience of the desperate air battles over Kursk in the summer of 1943. Contents: 1 x Campaign rules and scenario book 1 x What ADC Do I Use? booklet 1 x countersheet 1 x sheet of Aircraft Data Cards 1 x combined sheet of Aircraft Data Cards and counters 1 x Campaign map 2 x Campaign order of battle cards —description from the publisher's website
Mechanics
Designers
Publishers
- GMT Games
Questions and answers
Wing Leader: Legends 1937-1945 supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.
Wing Leader: Legends 1937-1945 has a complexity rating of 3.0 out of 5 from BoardGameGeek players, which makes it a medium-weight game. The rating reflects how much rules knowledge, planning and decision-making a typical game demands. Expect a longer first teach for heavier games, and use a preparation guide before game night.
Wing Leader: Legends 1937-1945 belongs to these categories: Wargame, World War II, and Expansion for Base-game. Its main mechanics are Dice Rolling, Square Grid, and Simulation. Categories describe the theme and setting of a game, while mechanics describe what players actually do on their turns. Each mechanic links to a catalogue hub with similar games, which helps when you want something comparable.
The credited designers of Wing Leader: Legends 1937-1945 are: Lee Brimmicombe-Wood. These credits come from the published game data and name the people responsible for the game’s design, not its illustrators or publishers. Designer pages on MeepleRules collect other titles by the same designers, which helps when you enjoy a game and want to find similar ones.
The catalogue lists Wing Leader: Legends 1937-1945 as an expansion for Wing Leader: Supremacy 1943-1945. Expansions add new content, rules or scenarios to the base game and usually cannot be played on their own, so you need Wing Leader: Supremacy 1943-1945 to use it. Check that your edition of Wing Leader: Supremacy 1943-1945 is compatible, as some expansions were revised between editions.