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On December 23, Battlefront announced the planned releases for 2022.




In Summary

Feb 2022

North Africa Compilation Book for all Desert Lists released so far (Fighting First/Armoured Fist/Avanti!/Afrika Korps). If preorded, you also get an aiborne card pack

2 New Army Deals ("Same Value range as hit the beach")

Kasserine: US vs Germans

4 M3 Lees, 3 M4 Shermans, 5 M3 Stuarts (US), 6 Panzer IIIs, 3 Panzer IVs, 3 5cm Pak38s (Germans)

Tobruk: Brits vs Italians

6 Crusaders, 3 Grants, 3 M4A1 Shermans (Brits), 5 M14/41s, 5 Semoventes, 2 88mm guns (Italians)

4 Army Deals

US: 3 Priests, 4 M10s, 3 Shermans, 5 Lees, 4 Stuarts and 2 M15/16 AA halftracks

Germans: 4 Panzer IVs, 7 Panzer IIIs, 2 88s, 4 LeFH 105mm Howitzers, 3 Pak 38s

Brits: 3 Valentine, 3 Grants, 6 Crusader, 3 Churchills, 2 Daimlers, 1 Dingo, 4 25pdrs

Italians 5 Semoventes, 5 M14/41s, 4 88mms, 4 100/17mm guns, 4 47/32mm guns

Dice tins for all factions

Various Terrain pieces, desrt themed.

Apparently a sale at the same time

Apr 2022

Team Yankee: Warsaw Pact

- ERA Upgrade Sprue for T-72

- T-72 and BMP Rifle Batallion army deals (usable for all Warsaw Pact armies)

T-72: 7 T-72, 5 T-55, 2 BRDM, 2 Su-17, 2 Hinds

BMP: 5 T-55, 9 BMPs, 2 BRDM, 2 Platoons of Infantry, 2 Flankers.

- Czech Equipment, and SU 17 Fitters

- Card Packs for East German, Polish, Czechs,

May 2022

Bulge : Germans

- Plastic King Tiger, Jagdtiger + More.

Panther/Jagdpanther/Hornisse options for lists

- Metal Volksgrenadier mdoels return (like return of US wienter infantrY)

Later in 2022

MW Eastern Front Compilation (similar to Desert Releases including starter kit and army deals)

Bulge British (including return of Comet kits + new Plastic WW2 Challenger sprue visible)

Team Yankee : Red Dawn (Soviet Invasion of the US vs US Partisans Wolverines)

Some stuff coming out to celebrate 20th Anniversary of Flames of War.

Re-stock of Great War, NAM, Fate of a Nation

Final Screen at the end has some pictures of experimental tanks (Mid-War Monsters)

I wonder if we'll be getting new releases for the North Africa compilation. I certainly hope so.

Very excited for Red Dawn - I want to see models for the US Partisans....

A re-stock of Great War, NAM, and Fate of a Nation will be much appreciated. I tried to bid on some Great War Germans on Ebay, prices getting a little absurd.

Mez

Is Red Dawn an actual liceceed game?

It's a Team Yankee expansion.

Red dawn is an interesting concept, sounds like something that should hit it off in the US. VDV and naval forces also fit my own northern front soviet VDV army, so looking forwards to some VDV lists and new units

Red Dawn before Checkpoint Charlie? How odd.

VDV and Marine forces for the Soviets would make more sense with a Denmark Expansion.

That Red Dawn expansion is the newest abormination from a long line of dogghak by Battlefront since 2018.

 Arbitrator wrote:
Red Dawn before Checkpoint Charlie? How odd.

They haven't even started working on Checkpoint Charlie, that was floated as an idea for a future project that they *want* to work on, more than an actual project that they are actually working on.

RazorEdge wrote:
VDV and Marine forces for the Soviets would make more sense with a Denmark Expansion.

That Red Dawn expansion is the newest abormination from a long line of dogghak by Battlefront since 2018.

As someone who's TY armies are Britain and East Germany it's hard to really care too much about Red Dawn. Even if I did collect US/Soviets, the whole scenario bleeds "Hollywood history" just a bit too much. Obviously Team Yankee as a whole is AU/What If, but invading the US feels too far for a setting that at least tried to cling onto believable in the fluff.

Most cold war wargaming is speculative fiction, the red dawn scenario is just so implausible but I expect it'll be a hit anyway. Who doesn't want to drive a t80 up wall street or whatever

Well if they are being true to the source material, "Red Dawn" would very specifically be a Soviet invasion from the South via socialist Mexico (following a soviet backed coup) with the support of Cuban and Nicaraguan troops and from the north via the Bering Strait, Alaska, and Canada. Most of the fighting is isolated to Alaska/Northwest Canada and the American southwest with a Soviet occupation zone that stretches from the rocky mountains to the mississippi river, though a number of american cities have been nuked (Washington DC among them).

So, no T-80s up wall street.

Yeah, I've seen the movie.

I'd brought up the idea of a Red Dawn scenario back on the Battlefront forums (when those still existed), but the idea was roundly ridiculed by everyone present at the time. As a result, I'm surprised to see it here. It might be interesting. But then again, someone at Battlefront seems to think that the Sgt. York could have been made workable with a couple of months of work, and that the RDF/LT had a snowball's chance in Hell of being accepted (not only did it not, but there were far more popular light tank designs also available at the time). So who knows.

Personally, I'd be more interested in them finally expanding the game to include (and I know this is just crazy-talk here) Southern Europe, or possibly East Asia.

Personally I would have preferred a Soviet invasion of Denmark and the Nordic countries covering VDV and Soviet Naval Infantry against Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (Strv 103c please and thank you). I'm not sure what they could conceivably add via Red Dawn for American players that isn't already well covered. I suppose they could take it as an opportunity to add some stuff to Canada? They could potentially add Mexico, Cuba, and latin american socialist stuff as more REDFOR but none of them really have any kit that really stands out as adding value to the red side of things.(unlike the diversity of kit that NATO/Blue currently enjoys).

Wolverines!

Looking forward to see what will be done with the Red Dawn book, should be fun.

Bulge Germany is exactly what I need; I've always been extremely interested in Market Garden & Bulge, and I'd love to see some plastic Tiger II's.

Glad to hear about Fate of a Nation restocks.

It's official:

Flames of War is now a Pulp Game, with "what if" Armylist options get more important than adding missing historical Stuff..

The new North Africa Book includes the old hypothetical Mid War Monsters but not actual new historical options.

http://www.breakthroughassault.co.uk/north-africa-now-thats-what-i-call-mid-war-desert/

Oh boo hoo. Flames of War has never been a particularly historically accurate game, your fault for treating it as such. Personally, I'm glad to see the MWM come back and hope they add more, including options for early and late war.

PS - the Bison is historical, 36 of them served in North Africa and some of those later took part in Barbarossa. There were 10 Tiger (P)s briefly in service though only 1 ever saw combat and the rest (plus a number of additional chassis) were converted into Ferdinands. There were over 100 P26/40s built (though only a handful completed) and used by the Italians and Germans in various capacities, albeit not in North Africa. About 150 Semovente da 75.34 (I.E. the Semovente "long") were built, about 60 were fielded by the Italians and 80 by the Germans, seeing combat deployments on both sides. 20-30 or so (depending on your source) Semovente da 90/53 were built and sent to North Africa, many of which participated in the defense of Sicily. There were 30 Churchill Gun Carriers kicking around though they never saw active service as by the time testing completed they were superceded by the more capable Archers and Achilles. 27 Boarhound armored cars were sent to North Africa, they saw light and sporadic combat but were used nonetheless. There were 40 M6s kicking around though they never left the United States.

Sounds like they added a good bit of historical content to me.

I loved the old midwar monsters, good to see them back. The boarhound and T14 look like fairly modern vehicles, would be a really cool looking, if totally unrealistic force

RazorEdge wrote:
It's official:

Flames of War is now a Pulp Game, with "what if" Armylist options get more important than adding missing historical Stuff..

The new North Africa Book includes the old hypothetical Mid War Monsters but not actual new historical options.

http://www.breakthroughassault.co.uk/north-africa-now-thats-what-i-call-mid-war-desert/

Flames of War has always been a pulp game lol. It's a mess historically (often swerving into open apologism).