They really do look good! I just played around with placing four of them together, and they line up okay graphic wise, but it would have been super nice if they would have designed them to line up if you added more then two together. It would have only required the river to exit the center of the mat on one side. Oh well, I doubt anyone buys four of them anyways.

I must say, I like having the images posted right in the thread. I hate having to open up a ton of more windows just to view the pics. Much easier for me to scroll down to skip over them... or better yet, have a forum where we can chose to have the newest post at the top. Like all major forums.
 

csadn said:

Actually, I do use photobucket!  When I upload the pics to photobucket, I resize them so they aren't so damm big, but sometimes it must take a while for them to resize on photobucket. I actually left 3 pics out because they where giant size. I hate the huge pics too, sorry!  They are normal, medium size from my point of view, hopefully they are to everyone else on here as well. They should be 4x6 size, roughly.

HMS Hajj said:

As far as having four mats goes, I think this is the kind of game that if two people enjoy it, some of the hope is that different players will buy a certain amount of the game materials (mats in this case) and can then combine their respective resources when playing. So two players having twop mats each is something I could see happening a lot more than one player buying four mats alone. Although in time, I can see some diehards such as myself, eventually acquiring four mats!

Hopefully the pics are all coming through now completely resized, below are the other three I left out last night. I guess photobucket just takes a bit of time for it to resize the pics. When I added them into this post tonight, they came through just fine, but last night, they were the super huge variety. I'm hoping that all of them are now roughly about 4x6 in size. Not too small, and not too large!  A couple of these came out kinda dark anyways, but hell, I'm just happy to be able to get them on here in the first place!

I have a buddy of mine who nearly went with doing miniatures in 1/144 for the ole' Avalon Hill game Mustangs! a long time ago. When I began doing Wings of War for the WWII planes, he mentioned to me that with the miniatures I have,  they might work for Mustangs! too. He correctly pointed out that we would just need a game area with hexagons.

A long time ago, I had a clear plastic mat overlayed with hexes, and I was thinking that these game mats (WoW) bear a similiar resemblence to the old Mustangs! gameboard, minus the hexes. Then I remembered the old clear plastic mat with hexes, and I started wondering if there was a company that still made clear mats with hexes? If there is, it would be neat to piece together a clear overlay for these game mats and give Mustangs! a try! Just a though; an idea to get maybe a little extra mileage out of these mats and the 160 or so WWII (soon to be 200+) 1/144 scale minis I have. I think he still has that game too...anyway, here are a couple more pics.

kaufschtick said:

For me they come in at about 6" square. When you're posting half-a-dozen or so at a time, well, you do the math (and then realize some folks around here don't seem to know what the "edit post" function is for...).

I'd just like to be able to hit a link I can open in a new tab, is all.

 Just got back from Gen Con today and after looking at them several times over several hours of shopping I finally broke down and purchased them. I really wished they would of had them on display somewhere as everyone was looking at the box and wanted to see them on the table.(They may of had more sales...) But for some reason, nothing. - Even the two demo tables did not have them, go figure.

 On another note, I really wanted to purchase some more planes. Right now I have all series one and four from series two. My goal was to finish set two and get all of three. But alas, they had no deals on purchasing sets and at $13.00 and $16.00e, I'll pass and grab them from ebay. On a positive note FF did manage to get me for around $130.00 bucks as I said, both mats and a copy of WoW Fire from the Sky, along with lots of Deck Sleeves for the cards.(which I did not know existed).

Can't wait to roll out the mats Monday at the local game store...

Game on brothers.

Which sleeves work with the cards?  I've seen some sleeves mentioned on their site, but none that mention usage for WoW.

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kaufschtick said:

Well, for Mustangs, Blue max, Fokker fodder or any other hex or sqaure based game it is better to buy a mat from here: www.hotzmats.com/  I really reccomend the european field mat, if you get it two sided you can use one side for Wow and the other for hexagon based games. They are not that expansive, it is from Canada BTW. The 3" hexagons are perfect for 1/144.

Here is a picture of the hexagon side: i72.photobucket.com/albums/i199/Judas_photos/Picture029.jpg The trenches in it are marked out with Memoir hexagons but we have gotten some brown cloth band now, I plan to make my own hexagon markers with trenches on based on real air photos. The baloons are marked with GW paint cans here, now we use ping pong balls instead with a glued on nail so we can fit it to a Wow stand.

But you should know that hotmatz are better for higher altitudes (where most of the battles were fought). They are also a lot larger than Wow matz and can also be put together (even if I have seen no need for it with 16 players). In WW1 some dogfight were fought at the low altitude that the Wow mats show but for a WW2 game it really doesn't fit. Dogfights there were fought at a lot higher altitude.

Here are the deck protectors from FF. One set says Mini European and the other American. They said at the FF booth these are the ones that go with  WoW so here we are. Not bad $2.00 per 50 of them.

Cat #FFS02

1-11/16 X 2-5/8 (44x64mm)

No sure why picture not shown...

Anyway, it doesn't bother me scrolling down pictures as much as is does every time you log into the Forums and after you hit Boardgames you have to scroll forever to get to the Wings of War selection...

So there is no difference between Mini-European and American?  Just different names for same product?

Not a bad price at all.

I feel the same way about having to scroll all the way down.  A nice small menu across the top like they have now for the main forum topics would be nice.

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There is a difference in the cards, I forget what the size is on the other.  One package is Yellow and the other is Red.(we want the Red)  I'll try and figure out why my pic is not working from photo bucket.

Dorb said:

To insert a picture: First open the picture in Photobucket and right click, choose "copy location". Then use Insert/edit photo (the icon that looks like a postcard) here. left click on the frame once and then press ok.

Thanks, now I know,,,and that;s half the battle.

A local player bought the mats at our store.  They are very nice, but much to small for the games we play at the store.  They would be perfect for use at home with 2-4 players though.

I've got both halves of the mat and have played 4vs4 games easily. I'm sure that  you could successfully have 6-a-side games on that size of surface, perhaps even larger. The maps are perfect for a 6x4 foot table IMO, there's just enough space left on 2 sides to place the aircraft's control boards.

IRM said:

That is still rather small, we usually have 6 players or possibly eight. When we have more than that we turn the map around and use the Blue max/Canvas eagles rules instead since we think they work better with larger games (just my own and my players opinions, we think Wow gets a bit slowed down with many players while Blue max usually takes about the same time if you are 4 or 16 players). We have made conversion rules so we can use the same pilots for both games :)

But a map should be enough for 8 players and a frontline, some targets, balloons and 2 airstrips. If everything gets to close the game tends to be reruns of the old games. Force the players to fly a bit before bombing or observing something.

Maybe they should add some more parts for the map, 2 more at least so we can get enough space.