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Hey guys, just thought I'd post here to say I'm getting into FOW... not bailed on 40k completely (I'm still somewhat addicted) but I took the opportunity of my brother's b-day to buy a present for the both of us and split it. I'll be taking the Germans and He'll be taking Americans... (101st, since he was part of the 101st in Afghanistan). Doing it because I think it would be a good break from 40k, hopefully being something more realistic and not OTT, and hopefully cheaper if we keep our lists small and use the plastic soldier company/ wargames factory guys.

We'll probably take a few months to figure out the system just with Open Fire, but I'd appreciate any advice on what units to get in order to expand... especially for my side, I'll let him decide his own... although at the moment I might still pick up the easy company models and some air support for him.

I've figured out easy army website pretty well... but as far as I understand the best way to maximize the Open Fire set would probably be the new books coming out so I'm kind of waiting for that as well. In that case I'd like to pick up some kind of German tank, probably panthers or panzer IVs. Probably also a bit of AA (maybe on a halftrack). But question... do I really have to get the book? I mean it seems like easy army is all you really need to play the game.

Welcome to the dark side!

Yeah you can get by with easy army and without the books.

You get a nice starting point with open fire, you can go a few ways,

1) grenadiers, back them up with more PaK 40's, HMG's and tanks (and AA and artillery)

2) panzer grenadiers - stick them in half tracks and add as above

3) Go Tanks and use the infantry as the support!

I often find 2/3 lists which I can make by buying 1 list and then only another couple of boxes/blisters

 Reaver83 wrote:
Welcome to the dark side!

Yeah you can get by with easy army and without the books.

You get a nice starting point with open fire, you can go a few ways,

1) grenadiers, back them up with more PaK 40's, HMG's and tanks (and AA and artillery)

2) panzer grenadiers - stick them in half tracks and add as above

3) Go Tanks and use the infantry as the support!

I often find 2/3 lists which I can make by buying 1 list and then only another couple of boxes/blisters

Thanks! I'll keep that in mind... want to stick to a balanced force, so the first two options sounds good. I'd like a few halftrack models as well. I kind of like the idea of some volksgrenadiers, backed up by panzergrenadiers (i was also looking at the nuts books because like I said, my bro is 101st). I'm thinking I could use the wargames/plastic soldier company guys for that?

I've just been basing my volksgrenadiers, the company box is not bad £30 or so, and has all the bits you need, so no messing with rifle, MG and assault rifles.

You could do a nice list with the two compulsory platoons, add in a squad of grenadiers (no option for half tracks sadly) and the StuG's and pak40's are both available as aupport

 Reaver83 wrote:
I've just been basing my volksgrenadiers, the company box is not bad £30 or so, and has all the bits you need, so no messing with rifle, MG and assault rifles.

You could do a nice list with the two compulsory platoons, add in a squad of grenadiers (no option for half tracks sadly) and the StuG's and pak40's are both available as aupport

You are talking about the battlefront one, yes?

I'm hoping that the new books coming out have some cool lists for me (once they get on easy army). Honestly, I really like the way the PCS and WGF dudes look, with their more realistic proportioning. Maybe I will also consider getting the half-tracks.

Put together the Starter set tanks yesterday with my bro, had a bit of trouble assembling those shermans... it takes a bit of fiddly work to get the tracks to go on right. But the fireflys and stugs went together fine.

And besides that... just learning the rules bit by bit. My first impressions are that this game has the potential to be more tactical than 40k... as long as it's not just two lists of tanks shooting each other.