By Troy Hill
What do we eat on the Russian Front during Operation Bagration?
Baggy Rations, of course.
At least, that’s what gamers snack on while playing a historical-themed event this past weekend. Anything to support the FLGS, right? Whatever snacks the store had disappeared as our local Bolt Action players munched their way through three rounds of operational madness.
By Richard Steer
Flames of War began its Late-War Journey in June 2019 with the publication of Fortress Europe, bringing V4 into the 1944-45 era. Subsequent releases have seen Late-War develop with books covering the Normandy and Bagration campaigns, and most recently the Ardennes.
Throughout the last three years, however, there has been something missing. You can argue about their historical significance. You can make jokes about them breaking down, running out of fuel, and being unable to cross bridges. But one thing is certain: in the Tiger II, Jagdtiger, and Jagdpanther, Bulge: German contains some of the most anticipated additions to V4.
Do they live up to expectations? Let’s take a closer look at how these vehicles have been represented in the game.
By Richard Steer
A lot of the focus on the upcoming North Africa release for Flames of War has been on the new units that have been added, and the historical units that haven’t been. This is understandable because as gamers we love having new toys to play with. One area that I haven’t seen much discussion about is the force charts in the book and the way that the source material for the compilation has been combined. In particular, the German support options have some subtle structural changes that are worth taking a closer look at.
By Tom Burgess
My good friend Ed and I have been playing the campaign for the last couple of months. With our sixth game of the campaign we matched up for the River Crossing mission from the Bagration: Soviet book. Ed had bought which would give us the special pieces we needed for this mission. We played at 105 points.
The River Crossing Mission is much like the No Retreat…with a wide river down the board center. To balance the attacker’s difficulty of having to force a river crossing, the defender does not have an ambush in this mission and instead of having immediate reserves, they are delayed.
By Tom Burgess
My good friend Ed and I have been playing the campaign for the last few months and we have been having a great time with it. When it came time for our sixth game, the campaign called for the River Crossing special mission that was covered in the Bagration: Soviet book.
Previously we had to use standard mission instead of a special mission because we did not have the still yet to be published Bagration: German book. So this was to be our first special mission played from the Bagration expansion for Flames of War. This would require some special terrain pieces and assault boats.
Fortunately Ed had bought We knew this terrain pack would have a river mat and card punch-out assault boats we needed, but I did not realize how much this pack actually had in it. Yes, this pack had the river mat and special pieces but it had so much more.
By Tom Gall
With the new Bagration Germans lists, I’ve been quite eager to put them to the test on the tabletop. Here in Minnesota as the various quarantine rules have been loosening up, in-store gaming is starting to happen in various places. Walker brought his British against my Germans, for a game at D6 Games in Rochester Mn.
By Tom Burgess
Battlefront has released its Bagration German book. I was interested and how, or even if, the Battlefront team could make a unique new book when so much of the standard German units seem already accounted for. Though I was already quite content with the new book as is, it’s normally the Command Cards that take a new force book to the next level. That is the case here as I think these new Bagration German Command Cards take an already excellent book product and knocked it out of the park with these new command cards.
By Tom Gall
The Flames of War Late War series continues with the latest book Bagration German. This is force is the mirror to the . Battlefront has slated the book, command cards, unit cards are more for a January release. Already if you look at the Battlefront site, you’ll see a .
Will this book make up for the Russian advances contained in the Bagration Soviet book? Is there a new meta ahead? Will Hetzers Hetz? What surprises await? Let’s dive and see what Bagration German offers for you!
By Tom “Chairborne” Mullane
This is Part 2 of my playthrough of the mini-campaign in the back of the British D-Day Release.
My trusty opponent Shane competed in the “Sieze and Hold” mission last time, and for round two, we are reversing our roles.
I will be taking the Germans and a grenadier company, and Shane will be playing a Cromwell recce company.
The British are counterattacking to try and reach the Paratroopers who landed and held points the night before. let’s see how they fare.
By Tom Burgess
One of my major projects that I completed in 2019 was building an all-plastic German Mid-War East Front Panzer Grenadier force. And of course, what Mid-War German force can you have without Marders backing it up?
Unfortunately, Battlefront (BF) only offers the Marder III in one version and in metal resin. Luckily the Plastic Soldier Company Panzer 38(t) kit has the option to build two Marder variants. So I ordered a box from my local game store, Hard Knox Games, to add to my force.
