Fighting Wings with Vassal

Vassal is a Java-based program that allows you to play Fighting Wings online / PBEM with your friends. To use that, you need a minimum of 2 things, the Vassal Game Engine and the Gamebox, plus optionally a saved game for starting new games.

Vassal Game Engine

The Vassal game engine is here : http://vassalengine.org/.Vassal Gamebox and Extensions

The "Official" Vassal Fighting Wings Gamebox and Extensions are available at Ian Wedge's page

Homemade Vassal Extensions

I made a couple of Vassal Extensions to help me play the PBEM ames :

Maps

• • Extended Sky Map (2.16 KB) (11/03/2012). The regular sky map in Vassal has 54 rows and 53 columns. This one has 154 rows and 98 columns.

  • Extended Sky Map 2 (2.20 KB) (11/04/2012). The regular sky map in Vassal has 54 rows and 53 columns. This one has 154 rows and 177 columns, and is numbered from hex 0001 instead of hex 1001.

  • Achtung Spitfire Ground Map (14.7 MB) (11/03/2012).

  • Buffalo Wings Ground Map (16.1 MB) (11/03/2012).

  • Over the Reich Ground Map (11.8 MB) (11/03/2012).

  • Battleaxe Campaign Map (6.4 MB) (11/03/2012).

  • Battle of Britain Campaign Map (4,7 MB) (11/03/2012).

  • Darwin Campaign Map (2.38 MB) (18/05/2013)

  • 8 AF Map (3,23 MB) (05/09/2018)

  • Operational Mission Track (1.33 MB) (11/03/2012).

  • Personal Operational Mission Track (6.49 MB) (02/03/2013)

  • Tactical Maneuvering Grid (844 KB) (11/03/2012).

Counters

Extra German counters, with sub optimal resolution (259 KB) (19/08/2011)

• • 2 Mediterranean Front Desert camouflaged Bf109E from Ian Wedge old Desert extension

  • 1 Eastern Front Fw89 from JD's "Whack the Piñata" double blind game, that Ian Wedge had put into a "special.zip" extension.

  • 1 Western Front Do17 counter.

  • 3 Ju87 counters, 1 Western Front, 1 Eastern Front and 1 Mediterranean Front.

Extra Japanese counters, with sub optimal resolution (59.4 KB) (19/08/2011)

• • 2 B5N Kate counters, 1 from the Akagi, 1 from the Shokaku.

Polish counters, with sub optimal resolution (70.1 KB) (19/08/2011)

• • 1 PZL P.11c counter

  • 1 PZL P.23b counter

Extra USA counters, with sub optimal resolution (122 KB) (19/08/2011)

• • OS2U Kingfisher counter for my "A Daring Encounter" game.

  • F4U-1 variation to the F4U-4 counter (only changed the name on the base in the new counter).

Land Units counters (844 KB) (18/05/2013)

• • BW, AS, OtR and WD land units, but not all of them.

• Markers

Ships (2.15 MB) (03/03/2013)

• • All ships from WD, and those from AS and OtR

OMT Markers (595 KB) (18/05/2013)

• • Border, Formations, Airbases, Targets, Weather, etc...

Reg's extra Counters

Reg's extra British counters (29/09/2013)

• • Defiant

• Fulmar

• Mosquito

  • Wellington

  • Blenheim I

  • Hurricane IIB Desert Air Force

  • Tempest II

  • Battle

  • Whirlwind

  • Blenheim IV