Wings of War: Burning Drachens
BGG rank
BGG #2,940
BGG rating
7.1

Wings of War: Burning Drachens

2005

Rules assistance for Wings of War: Burning Drachens

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2 players
  • 20 min
  • 10+
  • Complexity 2.0/5

For 2 players

Rules assistant for Wings of War: Burning Drachens

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Wings of War: Burning Drachens is a board game released in 2005 for 2 players, 20 minutes per game, and ages 10 and up. It was designed by Andrea Angiolino and Pier Giorgio Paglia and its main mechanics are Player Elimination, Simultaneous Action Selection, and Simulation.

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About the game

Wings of War: Burning Drachens is the third set in the Wings of War collection. It includes some of the most used airplanes of the WWI as the Nieuport 17-23, the Albatros D.III, the Pfalz D.III/D.IIIa. It also includes optional altitude rules, anti-aircraft guns and machineguns. Other additional rules are proposed for a more intriguing and varied simulation of WWI air combat, even if the basic system is the same, simple one of the first two sets. Huge cardboard observation balloons are the targets in solitaire and 2 players scenarios in which to use incendiary bullets or the famous Le Prieur air-to-air rockets. Other scenarios will include 1 and 2 players trench strafing missions. The set is totally independent, but it can be mixed in the others in the collection for larger scenarios. Card Decks A Damage Deck cards 1-36 C Damage Deck cards 1-17 D Damage Deck cards 1-8 2 Card Maneuver Sets A-J I Maneuver Deck cards 1-18 J Maneuver Deck cards 1-18 Airplane cards 1-16 A and B ground card deck 1-4 C ground card deck 1-3 1 Blank ground card no number

Publishers

  • Edge Entertainment
  • Ubik
  • Fantasy Flight Games
  • Nexus Editrice
  • Mad Man's Magic

Questions and answers

Wings of War: Burning Drachens 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.