That ADG game WIF BLITZ might just be real

[ezzler]

2/28/2015: Two New Pre Orders Available - Fatal Alliance: The Great War and Blitz! A World in Conflict

Compass Games and Australian Design Group are very pleased to announce a strategic partnership to produce both Fatal Alliance - The Great War and Blitz! A World in Conflict (formerly known as WiF Blitz), in 2015. These exciting new games are both based on the multi International award winning game World in Flames™, adding new dimensions to this fine game system.

You can read more about these two titles by clicking on the “Pre-Orders” tab at the top of this page. Both games will be released this year (that’s 2015), and some components are already being manufactured at the time this news story was published.

For the (long suffering WiFFer) – Yes, it’s been a long time coming but finally your patience is about to be rewarded. For customer privacy reasons, any pre-orders placed with ADG cannot be passed directly to Compass Games. Therefore, those who pre-ordered through ADG shall need to re-submit their order with all your current contact and card details here at the Compass Games website (you can do this by clicking on the “Pre-Orders” tab at top of this page). For those who hadn’t pre-ordered the game already, it’s not an exclusive club – so go ahead and order now.

Thank you for your continuing support for our games and we wish you and your family all the best what is shaping up to be a great year.

Regards
Ken Dingley
Bill Thomas
Harry Rowland
Compass Games and Australian Design Group

[AlbertN]

Checked that page already.
Will wait though to read snippets of rules and so forth before to make decisions.
What I like of WiF is the flexibility to build a stronger navy / airforce / land force depending on my plans and so forth - and the less counters of Blitz seems to deny that. But it is a premature judgement seen the few screenshots present.
I noticed though the units have "steps" with different combat value (or whatever is called, strength or so!).

On the other hand is funny that the Compass webpage about Fatal Alliance in the screenshot listing the colours of "Major Powers" of WW1, has Japan but misses Austro-Hungary! (Which if I remember well is white, on tabletop).

[Orm]

On the other hand is funny that the Compass webpage about Fatal Alliance in the screenshot listing the colours of "Major Powers" of WW1, has Japan but misses Austro-Hungary! (Which if I remember well is white, on tabletop).

Austria is alreade occupied by Germany and Hungary is just a minor that Germany can align so why would they list them as a major power? [;)][:D]

[AlbertN]

quote:

On the other hand is funny that the Compass webpage about Fatal Alliance in the screenshot listing the colours of "Major Powers" of WW1, has Japan but misses Austro-Hungary! (Which if I remember well is white, on tabletop).

Austria is alreade occupied by Germany and Hungary is just a minor that Germany can align so why would they list them as a major power?

That was a note on the WW1 brother that Compass Games is doing.

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: Cohen

quote:

On the other hand is funny that the Compass webpage about Fatal Alliance in the screenshot listing the colours of "Major Powers" of WW1, has Japan but misses Austro-Hungary! (Which if I remember well is white, on tabletop).

Austria is alreade occupied by Germany and Hungary is just a minor that Germany can align so why would they list them as a major power?

That was a note on the WW1 brother that Compass Games is doing.

I thought my winking and laughing would show that I was joking.

But I am not sure that the marketing people who wrote the text for Compass Games has a clue on the difference between WWI and WWII.

[bo]

ORIGINAL: ezz

2/28/2015: Two New Pre Orders Available - Fatal Alliance: The Great War and Blitz! A World in Conflict

Compass Games and Australian Design Group are very pleased to announce a strategic partnership to produce both Fatal Alliance - The Great War and Blitz! A World in Conflict (formerly known as WiF Blitz), in 2015. These exciting new games are both based on the multi International award winning game World in Flames™, adding new dimensions to this fine game system.

You can read more about these two titles by clicking on the “Pre-Orders” tab at the top of this page. Both games will be released this year (that’s 2015), and some components are already being manufactured at the time this news story was published.

For the (long suffering WiFFer) – Yes, it’s been a long time coming but finally your patience is about to be rewarded. For customer privacy reasons, any pre-orders placed with ADG cannot be passed directly to Compass Games. Therefore, those who pre-ordered through ADG shall need to re-submit their order with all your current contact and card details here at the Compass Games website (you can do this by clicking on the “Pre-Orders” tab at top of this page). For those who hadn’t pre-ordered the game already, it’s not an exclusive club – so go ahead and order now.

Thank you for your continuing support for our games and we wish you and your family all the best what is shaping up to be a great year.

Regards
Ken Dingley
Bill Thomas
Harry Rowland
Compass Games and Australian Design Group

Okay I surrender is this a computer game or a board game?

Bo

[Klydon]

Both are board games. I didn't think they would ever get done because they were not going to have 1000 preordered.

I think the Blitz product has some possibility simply because of the 4-8 hour playtime means it is a reasonable playtime structure. How well it captures the flavor of regular WiF remains to be seen.

I have dinked around with the earlier versions of the WW1 variant. It looked good then. I even modified a set of older WiF maps for it and messed around with it solo. It could easily be one of the best WW1 games going much like WiF is for WW2. It may also have some of the same drawbacks (how long to complete a game, etc).

I will get the Blitz product first simply because I think I can talk my current gaming group into at least giving it a shot where I know we would not get a game of WiF in, not to mention the versions of WiF I have are the older versions.

[AlbertN]

Indeed both are board-games, albeit maybe for some a Vassal version will be released (pratically a software which translates on pc-platform games, but there is nothing automated like in M-WIF.)

And Blitz one has chances because as stated above, game time. Time irl is a big issue, and tabletop games cannot be left on dedicated rooms for long (usually one lacks a dedicated room, a matter is having a game there for a weekend and another is for months).

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: bo

ORIGINAL: ezz

2/28/2015: Two New Pre Orders Available - Fatal Alliance: The Great War and Blitz! A World in Conflict

Compass Games and Australian Design Group are very pleased to announce a strategic partnership to produce both Fatal Alliance - The Great War and Blitz! A World in Conflict (formerly known as WiF Blitz), in 2015. These exciting new games are both based on the multi International award winning game World in Flames™, adding new dimensions to this fine game system.

You can read more about these two titles by clicking on the “Pre-Orders” tab at the top of this page. Both games will be released this year (that’s 2015), and some components are already being manufactured at the time this news story was published.

For the (long suffering WiFFer) – Yes, it’s been a long time coming but finally your patience is about to be rewarded. For customer privacy reasons, any pre-orders placed with ADG cannot be passed directly to Compass Games. Therefore, those who pre-ordered through ADG shall need to re-submit their order with all your current contact and card details here at the Compass Games website (you can do this by clicking on the “Pre-Orders” tab at top of this page). For those who hadn’t pre-ordered the game already, it’s not an exclusive club – so go ahead and order now.

Thank you for your continuing support for our games and we wish you and your family all the best what is shaping up to be a great year.

Regards
Ken Dingley
Bill Thomas
Harry Rowland
Compass Games and Australian Design Group

Okay I surrender is this a computer game or a board game?

Bo

warspite1

There is a link to ADG's site bo. Click on the games to see the detail

http://www.a-d-g.com.au/

[bo]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: bo

ORIGINAL: ezz

2/28/2015: Two New Pre Orders Available - Fatal Alliance: The Great War and Blitz! A World in Conflict

Compass Games and Australian Design Group are very pleased to announce a strategic partnership to produce both Fatal Alliance - The Great War and Blitz! A World in Conflict (formerly known as WiF Blitz), in 2015. These exciting new games are both based on the multi International award winning game World in Flames™, adding new dimensions to this fine game system.

You can read more about these two titles by clicking on the “Pre-Orders” tab at the top of this page. Both games will be released this year (that’s 2015), and some components are already being manufactured at the time this news story was published.

For the (long suffering WiFFer) – Yes, it’s been a long time coming but finally your patience is about to be rewarded. For customer privacy reasons, any pre-orders placed with ADG cannot be passed directly to Compass Games. Therefore, those who pre-ordered through ADG shall need to re-submit their order with all your current contact and card details here at the Compass Games website (you can do this by clicking on the “Pre-Orders” tab at top of this page). For those who hadn’t pre-ordered the game already, it’s not an exclusive club – so go ahead and order now.

Thank you for your continuing support for our games and we wish you and your family all the best what is shaping up to be a great year.

Regards
Ken Dingley
Bill Thomas
Harry Rowland
Compass Games and Australian Design Group

Okay I surrender is this a computer game or a board game?

Bo

warspite1

There is a link to ADG's site bo. Click on the games to see the detail

http://www.a-d-g.com.au/

Thank you gentlemen for your information, I guess my question might be why is a board game being advertized on a computer companies posts.

Bo

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: bo

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: bo



Okay I surrender is this a computer game or a board game?

Bo

warspite1

There is a link to ADG's site bo. Click on the games to see the detail

http://www.a-d-g.com.au/

Thank you gentlemen for your information, I guess my question might be why is a board game being advertized on a computer companies posts.

Bo

warspite1

I guess because this is a game by ADG - who make WIF. Fatal Alliances is a WWI game based on WIF, while WIF Blitz is some kind of WIF lite.

So for those folks keen on WIF and ADG's products - Khaki-in-Flames being one - then why not?

[Numdydar]

ORIGINAL: bo

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: bo



Okay I surrender is this a computer game or a board game?

Bo

warspite1

There is a link to ADG's site bo. Click on the games to see the detail

http://www.a-d-g.com.au/

Thank you gentlemen for your information, I guess my question might be why is a board game being advertized on a computer companies posts.

Bo

And both these games will have an AI [:D]. Although I do hear that it will be highly variable and difficult to adjust the difficulty [:'(]

[bo]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: bo

ORIGINAL: warspite1


warspite1

There is a link to ADG's site bo. Click on the games to see the detail

http://www.a-d-g.com.au/

Thank you gentlemen for your information, I guess my question might be why is a board game being advertized on a computer companies posts.

Bo

warspite1

I guess because this is a game by ADG - who make WIF. Fatal Alliances is a WWI game based on WIF, while WIF Blitz is some kind of WIF lite.

So for those folks keen on WIF and ADG's products - Khaki-in-Flames being one - then why not?

Why not, my dear warspite I will tell you why not, I got a little excited thinking that some kind of variation of MWIF was forthcoming for the computer and I had missed it somehow, these posts are about MWIF not ADG. Period end of story in my humble opinion.[:(]

Bo

[Klydon]

I think the post was a good one. I don't visit the ADG site that much because nothing ever really changes there, so I am glad someone posted about this to draw the attention of the community here who could also be interested in other WiF products.

I believe it is safe to say that most who have MWiF also have some version of the WiF game as well.

[bo]

ORIGINAL: Klydon

I think the post was a good one. I don't visit the ADG site that much because nothing ever really changes there, so I am glad someone posted about this to draw the attention of the community here who could also be interested in other WiF products.

I believe it is safe to say that most who have MWiF also have some version of the WiF game as well.

As my wife end all arguments with one word, FINE![:(]

Bo

[CrusssDaddy]

Blitz looks functionally identical to Axis & Allies, with some extra production bits grafted on and some enhanced unit diversity. Not my cup of tea. I'll add, the map is absolutely bizarre looking. What the hell happened to the good ol' US of A? It looks like a police sketch of America, where the person doing the describing to the artist didn't get a good look at the perp. Is it some kind of forced perspective effect? Why wasn't it repeated in reverse for the eastern hemisphere? Gibraltar, what's going on there? Who gave Scandinavia steroids and why? What is that awful italicized font all over everything?

Difficult to look at that map and not laugh at the incompetence of it.

[warspite1]

Got to say that map is erm..... really not great. I pre-ordered this many years ago when this was first announced. Thankfully its been so long the credit card I used will have expired. I do not like the look of this at all.

Fatal Alliances looks better though - just a shame about those hideous Final Edition maps [&:]

[Joseignacio]

ORIGINAL: bo


Why not, my dear warspite I will tell you why not, I got a little excited thinking that some kind of variation of MWIF was forthcoming for the computer and I had missed it somehow, these posts are about MWIF not ADG. Period end of story in my humble opinion.[:(]

Bo

Not a variant. Too much change, too much abstraction for this. If you ever saw it, you wouldn't really relate it to WIF, which doesn't mean that it's not a good game (like so many others).

Just looking at the images you can tell:

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[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Joseignacio

ORIGINAL: bo


Why not, my dear warspite I will tell you why not, I got a little excited thinking that some kind of variation of MWIF was forthcoming for the computer and I had missed it somehow, these posts are about MWIF not ADG. Period end of story in my humble opinion.[:(]

Bo

Not a variant. Too much change, too much abstraction for this. If you ever saw it, you wouldn't really relate it to WIF, which doesn't mean that it's not a good game (like so many others).

Just looking at the images you can tell:

upfiles/24922/B49CDB647AEB4DEFAC364DF19D12E564.jpg

warspite1

The latest pictures of the maps look even worse than this....

[Orm]

warspite1

The latest pictures of the maps look even worse than this....

Could you, please, post a link to it so I am sure that I look at the same picture?