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1/3 of MSRP for any 1E BF stuff that's now available from PSC (or really, any other 1/100 scale model company) would be overpriced, IMO.

   
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 Jancoran wrote:
Flames of War has been my favorite game outside of Warhammer 40,000.

FOW eclipsed 40K for me years ago. I still like a lot of the miniatures for 40K but I just don't like the rules anymore.

Its got a strong following in our local group, too. We played a two-day Market Garden scenario recently that involved 12-14 players on six or seven 4x6 game tables pushed together. Right now, 6-8 of us are involved in an "escalation" league where we build and play an army to increasing point totals every other week. Next month we have a LW tournament coming up and in January we are doing another big multi-player scenario based on the Battle of the Bulge.

Personally, I've currently got three armies on the painting table; a German StuG Batterie (for the escalation league), a British Armoured Recce Squadron (for the tournament) and a German Panther Kompanie (just because the Battlefront plastic Panther kits are so cool!).
   
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I own a Stug Batterie list to go along with my good old Afrikacorps Panzergrenadierkompanie. So basic and so good for my style of play.

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 mdauben wrote:
 Jancoran wrote:
Flames of War has been my favorite game outside of Warhammer 40,000.

FOW eclipsed 40K for me years ago. I still like a lot of the miniatures for 40K but I just don't like the rules anymore.

Its got a strong following in our local group, too. We played a two-day Market Garden scenario recently that involved 12-14 players on six or seven 4x6 game tables pushed together. Right now, 6-8 of us are involved in an "escalation" league where we build and play an army to increasing point totals every other week. Next month we have a LW tournament coming up and in January we are doing another big multi-player scenario based on the Battle of the Bulge.

Personally, I've currently got three armies on the painting table; a German StuG Batterie (for the escalation league), a British Armoured Recce Squadron (for the tournament) and a German Panther Kompanie (just because the Battlefront plastic Panther kits are so cool!).


That game sounds good, we do a D-Day one most years, about six players and a smaller table due to space limits, game works really wall at larger sizes.

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Well if I knew nothing about 40K I could really happly play Flames of War forever the way the rules are in V3. I don't know what V4 will be like but every edition so far has done nothing but improve upon the original genius of it.

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 Jancoran wrote:
Well if I knew nothing about 40K I could really happly play Flames of War forever the way the rules are in V3. I don't know what V4 will be like but every edition so far has done nothing but improve upon the original genius of it.

Right now the path forward is a little unclear (at least to me). What I have heard is that next year a "version 4" set of rules will be released that will apply to the concurrently revised MW lists only. The existing LW and EW lists will continue to use the existing "version 3" rule set for now. This v4 rules set is supposed to at least incorporate some elements of the Team Yankee rules, including the 100 point standard game size.

Presumably, LW and EW will later be revised to work with the v4 rules set, although that's just a guess on my part.

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My understanding is a bit different. The V4 will be playable to all eras, however the force listings for MW will be updated, thus moving to the Team Yankee "100" point army vs the EW/LW "1000" point scale.

Of course, I could be mistaken.







 
   
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I wouldn't be surprised at all by a version of the rules that follows some elements of Team Yankee (the more streamlined systems for certain elements of the game)

However I'm not sure whether the 100 point base would work for FoW. There is a much wider range of abilities, special rules, troop and armour competency in WW2 that has to be represented when compared to TY. You could have something like the Soviet Shilka that costs 1pt in TY, and works at that level because of the relative scarcity of infantry and the likelyhood it will get popped by a tank at long range. You couldn't ever price a WW2 AA platform at the same rate in a WW2 scenario, to give one example.

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OK, what if FoW were 200 pts and TY stayed at 100 pts?

   
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To be honest, think that would just confuse matters!

What's wrong with the current system for FoW?

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It's not enough like the new system in TY?

   
 
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