by Tom Burgess
After playing several city fights with the new Version 4 Mid War East Front lists, and I decided to turn our attention to more open field battles.
We set up an East Front looking table with few woods, wheat fields, a couple of built-up areas, and a rail line. We also increased the points we were playing at from 55 to 81 points as that’s what we’ll be playing at Advance the Colors in October.
By Mitch Reed, photos by Firelock Games
You have heard us talk about it on podcasts, seen us post on our Facebook page and now Oak and Iron is here!
The team that brought you Blood and Plunder has expanded its gaming line to include the battles on the high seas with , a 1/600 scale naval game that they have been showing off at events over the last few months.
We were lucky to get Mike Tunez the lead developer at Firelock Games so answer some questions about this great new game.
Check out our or go to Firelockgames.com to get in on this Kickstarter campaign right away.
By Benny Christiansen
I have always had a weakness for the huge battles. I love seeing the terrain setup – with a “story in mind” so to speak – and then the first few turns in the game, making the first efforts to win the battle.
In this article, I will attempt to describe how I plan the 38,000 points battle and my thoughts in the process, as well as being a tiny battle rep with pictures and video. The primary intention here is to inspire others by sharing the experience. The setting is in LW, but I believe it can be done in any of the games in FOW. I am well aware there are many other ways to do this, and I encourage anyone who finds large battles interesting, to try it. It is not the same as making a tournament. I think that an event like this is more interesting for the historically focused players than a tournament might be.
After a good start, I was in the top half of the classment. Now we need to fight some serious fight! (If you want to read the first part, just click here!)
For the second game I met Alberto De Luca, the owner of (the Italian Battlefront official importer) and host of the tournament. After one year of tournaments and events on Team Yankee, I consider Alberto and his wonderful, tireless wife close friends even outside the hobby. Needless to say, Alberto knows the game very well and is one of the top players in Italy. He had a Russian list with two tank Formations, a Grant one and a mixed one with dreadful KV-1, Valentines (“Tovarish Dimitri, they are the tanks I lent to you and now you use them against me!”) and a 10 T60 tanks strong platoon. Also, he had two mortar troops to barrage the enemy line while the tanks march full forward.
by Troy A. Hill (Photos by the author, graphics courtesy of Warlord Games)
I’ve managed to get my US Bolt Action army into a playable state that I’m not embarrassed by. I do still need to finish my various vehicles for it (a few are still in boxes).
My sell-off of models from my previous games garnered me enough hobby dollars to hit up my Friendly Local Game Store (FLGS) for a new box from Warlord. Combine this with the new Western Desert book for Bolt Action, with some additional forces, and I’ll be good for the upcoming Duel in the that No Dice No Glory is sponsoring this February at Orccon in Los Angeles.
In this episode Ed, Austin and Mitch re-cap the Flames of War Charity event they held for TAPS.org at Your Hobby Place in Fredericksburg VA. The guys raised almost $500 for TAPS and you can hear all about the event in this podcast recorded right after the dice were put down.
After one year of intense gaming on with my British BAOR army (of which and ), I decided to try the WW2 side of Battlefront rules. has lots in common with Team Yankee, so I basically had the same ruleset with much more variety in army lists.
I chose the British Mid-War army in the desert: partially because I already had some V1 pieces, but also since I planned to paint the US Army (the other army I’d like to paint) in the Late period for an internal campaign we’re going to have at our local club in early 2019. So I fast-painted the missing pieces and formed a list of Desert Rats. The first tournament at a stone’s throw was Hobby Model Expo on 30th September. Hobby Model is one of the most important shows in northern Italy: everything related to modelling hobbies is there, from miniatures to plastic models, from painting to lots of soldiers of any scale.
Folks, sometimes we get lucky. Jon Russell wanted to get out the word about all the great news coming from Warlord games, so we quickly put together a podcast to get it to you. Tom and Mitch talk about Cruel Seas, Blood Red Skies, Fall of France, and the upcoming Korea book.
by Tom Burgess
My friend Charles and I recently linked up for another go with Fate of a Nation. In our earlier game, Charles running his Egyptian T-54/T-62 Tank Battalion had little trouble sweeping aside my AMX-13 Israeli Tank Company – . This time we swapped sides, with me playing an Egyptian T-54 Tank Battalion and Charles running an Israeli Sherman Tank Company based force. We played at 75 points and rolled up Counterattack as a Mission.
Today Glenn (Triple G) and I come to you live from the Crossroads Tabletop Tavern in Manassas Virginia. We speak to John Hornberger who opened up what I consider the coolest place to dine, a restaurant that is focused on gaming. You can eat and play games from his collection of over 1400 games of all types for all ages. You can also pick up some of the many games he has for sale in the store. If you want a really neat experience, for you and your fellow grogs or even your family, check this place out.
