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Anpu-adom wrote:

Other fronts in WWI would make for much more interesting battles... it's just that the forces we are used to looking at for FOW are locked down into the trenches for basically 3 and 1/2 years.

The problem is that all armies would be comprised of rifle teams with a few HMG teams, cavalry, artillery and not much else. There just isn't all that much variation.

Yes by 1917/18 there would be a bit more variety but the problem remains that, in FoW terms, nearly every list would be rifle teams with slightly different hats.

Are you saying that it is the equipment that makes the game fun? 'Nam has relatively little kit, and is by all reports a very fun game.

Anpu-adom wrote:
Are you saying that it is the equipment that makes the game fun? 'Nam has relatively little kit, and is by all reports a very fun game.

It will be rifle team Vs rifle team and a few support options. In Vietnam it is carbine team Vs assault rifle team plus a lot of support options.

 Palindrome wrote:
It will be rifle team Vs rifle team and a few support options.

There's also machine guns in the platoons as well as trench mortars and rifle grenades. The only thing it lacks in the late war period is tanks that function like WWII tanks.

 George Spiggott wrote:

 Palindrome wrote:
It will be rifle team Vs rifle team and a few support options.

There's also machine guns in the platoons as well as trench mortars and rifle grenades. The only thing it lacks in the late war period is tanks that function like WWII tanks.

Remember too the trenches could have entirely new rules that come with the setting. WHo knows how combat will work in the trenches? Will they include drifting gas clouds? will they make storm trooper teams? Artillery would have to be different too maybe they have wont have spotters but instead you need to place observation posts? Maybe at a far fetch some tunnel warfare rules too? Oh and Flame throwers...

lots of really coooooool options they could explore to make it more varied and fascinating.

I imagine it's going to be only late war so they can have tanks.

 sing your life wrote:
I imagine it's going to be only late war so they can have tanks.

If the blurred blob is an A7V then that would be my guess as well.