BattleFront Games

By Robert Kelly

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As I am all about Canadian subjects in gaming and modelling I could hardly wait for my Canadian infantry to arrive in the mail. In fact, I ordered three platoons.

I opened the blisters up with Matt Varnish looking on. We were both quite impressed with the inserted guide that showed the painted troops and how to base them. The moulding was for the most part quite good and the sculpts were of Battlefront’s usual high quality.

There are many people who enjoy our hobby of miniature wargaming in different ways.  Some love a great historical game, tailoring a board to match a particular battle, designing forces to match.  Others like a cooperative aspect to it, playing on teams, or making huge games that bring in lots of players at once.

Some are in it for the modelling and painting, designing elaborate bases, displays, or beautiful scenic pieces.  Others participate to test their competitive meddle against the best competition they can.  At any given point, some of us are in the hobby for all of these reasons.  I enjoy all these things, but I love tournaments. At a tournament, I can get three or more games against diverse opponents, and I get to sharpen my skills at something I enjoy doing. I get to see new techniques for painting armies and meet people with the same passion for this as me. I’ve made some great friends since I got going with

Since I began playing in 2011, I have only managed to finish first in a tournament once. But I felt with practice and opportunity, I might be able to claw my way into the big dance at masters in Indianapolis this year.  Last year I managed to climb as high as 22nd in the rankings. Maybe this year was my best opportunity. And so my travels began.  As our tournament season closes and another one begins this October, I’ll show some pictures of my journey throughout the past year, some big wins, some big losses, and some lessons I learned along the way.

Ed and Austin are back again!  This time they talk about more tactics, answer your questions and talk about upcoming Flames of War and Team Yankee events near you.  You do not want to miss these tips from NDNG’s Masters players.

By Paolo Paglianti
Photos by the author

By Paolo Paglianti

In September 2017, I decided to paint a new “modern” army for Team Yankee. This is Part 2 of a report about my experience and my “ideas” after a full year of tournaments in North Italy and a campaign at my club.

Formation 2

The second Formation is the Mech Infantry. British foot has a really good Assualt and Counterattack value (actually, the best in the game, with 3/3), so they can hunt down even the best Russian Afghani infantry, as well the US or West German one. Their units are really big, and with the “missed” rules you can divert the enemy fire on the bases you need less. The basic Infantry unit comes with 4 general infantry bases, other 3 with Carl Gustav (AT 17 will cast fear in any armoured vehicles, except US Abrams and West German Leo 2). The mortar is a good for some handy smoke or as a swapper to save more useful bases.

By NDNG_Dane, and Mitch Reed

The Warsaw Pact line up just added two more nations to  The Polish, and the Czechoslovakian People’s army are ready to head west and reach the Rhine within a week next to their Soviet brethren.

While many may think that this release is a new paint job on old models, we can tell you it isn’t. Besides the three new units in these releases, they have things the dedicated red horde player will love.

By Paolo Paglianti

Photos by the author

1985, West Germany. The British Army is there to defend all Europe from the Red Tide. With good tanks and excellent infantry, the BAOR can stand any Russian formation and counterattack at the right moment.

In September 2017, I decided to paint a new “modern” army for . This is a report about my experience and my “ideas” after a full year of tournaments in North Italy and a campaign at my club.

By Players at the tourney: Johnny Vasquez, Justin Rodriguez, Hyato Tukakosi, Scott Miller and Tom Richards 

Photos by: Hyato Tukakosi and Troy Hill

Compiled by Troy Hill (Edited to include Justin R’s comments).

I recently organized the Pacific South-West regionals, a two-day, five-round FOW MW Tourney held at . No Dice No Glory and  sponsored the tourney (along with the Team Yankee tourney the day before).

Since the tournament occurred one week after BattleFront’s new books for the Eastern Front, Iron Cross and Enemy at the Gates hit the shelves, I allowed lists from the new books in the event.

Afterwards, I asked players to send in their thoughts to several questions about how the new forces affected the games they played. Below are their responses. The only editing I have done is for spelling and grammar, as well as organizing their comments by category.

Final Standings: Surprisingly, the top player fielded a force from Armoured Fist – a Death or Glory list. Another Brit list took fourth. Soviet lists were second, third, tenth and fourteenth. Germans bunched in the middle of the pack at fifth through eighth place, with one at eleventh. The fourth Soviet player, Ramses, is a younger new player in his first season of playing Flames of War. Give him some time to learn both the game and his army, and he’ll climb the ranks.

My first article for WWPD was about the British Airborne.  And unfortunately thanks to the changing hosting rules of Photobucket.  My pictures there are lost for all time. But to be frank, there wasn’t much to see. It was a lot of blisters sitting atop a British Flag. Which my wife kept asking me if I was selling. The answer was always and still is, no. Especially now that this is all done.

This year saw the biggest improvements so far for Canadian Nationals. Read on!