Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Ive heard rumors that new afika books are on the way, but have not been able to get more information. I was looking at getting into africa, but don't want to get invested if new stuff is coming soon.


Max

If you check this article
http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=3689

Their plan for the year doesn't seem to involve mid war

Bummer, I really love mid war. I am new to the fow scene, but it looks like the africa book was written for 2nd edition.

It is still very usable though

The North Africa book is still quite usable, the list for my Italian Bersaglieri are from it, and to my knowledge the other lists in the book are at no major disadvantage.

Also, it will not be invalidated when they do release a new version, so you would not have to worry about having a useless book when they release the new one.

Well,late last year one of the Battlefront bigwigs let it slip in an interview that they were heading back to the Mid-war period this fall.
Whether this still holds depends on how their deadlines end up matching their plans this year. Last year pretty much everything got pushed, resulting in the Market Garden compilation getting pushed to after Christmas many places.

However, there is good news for Mid-war players. In the latest news bulletin from battlefront, they state that:

Mid-war Arsenals:
Version Three Update
"Phil has updated the arsenals for the mid-war books: North Africa and Eastern Front. The new arsenals correct errors in the originals and bring them in line with the latest version of the rulebook.
He is currently working on updating the intelligence briefings themselves and you will be able to download these over the next while. "

This info found on the Battlefront website.

Here is a link to the arsenal lists: http://www.flamesofwar.com/Portals/0/Documents/Briefings/Mid-war/Mid-War-Arsenals-V3.pdf

So over the next weeks/months, it seems that the updated lists from the North Africa book will be getting updated and released as PDF´s.

For the past two year at least, this has been the precursor to new books. This was the case with Grey Wolf/Red Bear, as well as the Market Garden book set.

Anyways, that´s my take on it, I´ve been gaming FOW for the past 4 years, and retailing it for 2, so others may have different/more enlightened views.

 General Seric wrote:
The North Africa book is still quite usable, the list for my Italian Bersaglieri are from it, and to my knowledge the other lists in the book are at no major disadvantage.

Also, it will not be invalidated when they do release a new version, so you would not have to worry about having a useless book when they release the new one.

In terms of the modifications and arsenal updates, do you know if the old designation of Italian Trench guns has gone for good? Are solothurns, 47mm and 65mm AT guns just man portable now?

Since I´ve never played Italians I can´t say for sure, but looking at the arsenal entries, it does look like it... The 65/17 is classed as light, the others as man-packed.

Are you guys refering to this?

http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=3806

What is he updating? Is he just standardizing the language and stats for the gear?

Vanders wrote:

 General Seric wrote:
The North Africa book is still quite usable, the list for my Italian Bersaglieri are from it, and to my knowledge the other lists in the book are at no major disadvantage.

Also, it will not be invalidated when they do release a new version, so you would not have to worry about having a useless book when they release the new one.

In terms of the modifications and arsenal updates, do you know if the old designation of Italian Trench guns has gone for good? Are solothurns, 47mm and 65mm AT guns just man portable now?

Yes, no "Trench Gun" designation on any of those, they are man-packed (and light for 65/17).

Actually, there was no Trench Gun designation in the North Africa book (though I have never used the 65/17 so I could be wrong on that, but I don't remember seeing the rules anyway)

To back up what Xanthos says, I asked about this on the FoW forum a while ago and was told that there will be a PDF update of the mid war books at some point.

 Pacific wrote:
To back up what Xanthos says, I asked about this on the FoW forum a while ago and was told that there will be a PDF update of the mid war books at some point.

I believe I saw a link on the FoW site saying that North Africa (along with two other V2 books) were updated with a new pdf.