By Chris Masucci

Being somewhat versed in WW2 wargaming years ago with Flames of War V2, my recent gaming time has been taken up more and more with Warlord Games’ 28mm take on WW2, Bolt Action. Scaling down the company level engagements of Flames down to a more platoon and infantry centric scene, Bolt Action has seemed to echo older editions of Warhammer 40k in the more recent years. Having an interest in the system already, late last year I finally decided to expand my collection into the realms of Bolt Action’s official sci-fi expansion

By Mitch Reed

In my last article I told you all about the armies you will find fighting on the Western Front in Blood and Valor from Firelock Games. In this article we will go over the forces that fought in East Africa during the Great War. If you did not catch my previous article, I would recommend you do, the first half of the article talk about how formations are built and what units comprise a unit.

Last year when I asked (begged) Rufus and Kai DeVane to help with Blood and Valor it was my intention to include the fighting in East Africa which is omitted from so many games. My love for the theater is due to the many books I have read on the subject, the colorful characters who played a role in the campaign and the fact that it breaks the trench deadlock vision that many gamers have when the Great War is brought up.

If you play 3d wargames, you will want to have awesome battlefields. And which scenario could happen without some hills? The ones made by producers like Battlefront or Games Workshop are wonderful, but if you need a number they can become quite expensive. So, here is how we can do easy, scenic, beautiful hills with very affordable costs.

Our 50th Episode as we close out our second year in existence.

In our second episode focusing on Glenn and Chairborne are back and they are joined by Tyler Stone. The guys go over what they have been up to and what is in-store for the future. They also talk about historical scenarios in Blood and Plunder

The upcoming Great War game Blood and Valor from covers many different theaters of the conflict and when talking about the forces and factions in the game it is best to detail the force lists in relation to where and at what time they are found in the Great War.

Players will see that the forces in are balanced to fight against all other forces in the game, so it may be fun to have East African German Askari fight against US Doughboys just to see what would happen. The first book for Blood and Valor covers the fighting on the Western Front, Gallipoli, the Near East and East Africa. This article will give you an idea of what forces are in play for the Western Front.

Jeff Mayo and company always put on a good show up in New Hampshire. If you haven’t gotten the chance to play up here in the North East in a while, come to Black Moon games in Lebanon. I’ll be there and I’m hoping to bring some friends.  email Jeff and let him know you’re coming, we have a few spots left. Join the fight and check out the event on our forums today (link below).

By Paolo Paglianti

The new Team Yankee V2 rules arrived with few surprises: we already knew they essentially would have been the Flames of War (FOW) V4 “updated” for the Cold War era. However, in the rule book we find a lot of references to the new British army book, scheduled for next February. So, let’s have a look at this update order of battle.

Guess what? When the new Team Yankee V2 rules come to the “picking your force” scheme, the example is straight from the new British book. So, even if we don’t have all the elements, we can a pretty good idea of our future British army will be, or – if we play something different – what we can face next year with an opposing player deploying the British Army.

By Tom Gall

Images by Tom Gall and Troy Hill, some courtesy of BattleFront

World War III

Team Yankee is a WWIII miniatures game set in approx the 1980s covering almost all aspects of modern warfare tanks, missiles, helicopters, strike aircraft, RPGs, it’s all in there.

The game over the past few years has matured substantially with forces that cover NATO (US, UK, ANZAC, Canada, French, Dutch, West Germans), WARPAC (Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia) and Mideast nations including Syria, Iran, Iraq, and Israel.

This article is all about version 2. What’s new? What stays the same?  Throw some screaming big hair metal/punk/rock power tunes into the stereo, crack open a can of new coke and let’s get to it.

The Great War games keep rolling out and for junkies of the conflict are in gaming heaven. The next big release is coming to your PC and it is a remake of one of my favorite games; Strategic Command Great War. For those of you who have not played any games in the series (WW2 came out exactly a year ago) they cover conflicts at the strategic level, so you not only control vast armies but also control the means of production, diplomacy and technological improvements of the nation you play.