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Fantasy Flight's new WW2 game 'Tide of Iron' now has a website. http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/tideofiron.html

The minis look like the best mass produced plastics yet. My guess is the vehicles are roughly 12-15mm and the infantry 15-20mm.

TIDE OF IRON includes:

• 1 Rulebook
• 1 Scenario Guide
• 216 Plastic Figures, consisting of:
- 54 American Regular Infantry
- 12 American Elite Infantry
- 6 American Officers
- 6 American Mortar Crews
- 6 American Machine Gun Crews
- 12 M4A1 Sherman Tanks
- 6 M3A1 Half-Tracks
- 6 GMC CCKW 353 Transport Trucks
- 54 German Regular Infantry
- 12 German Elite Infantry
- 6 German Infantry Officers
- 6 German Mortar Crews
- 6 German Machine Gun Crews
- 6 Panzer IV Tanks
- 6 Tiger I Tanks
- 6 SdKfz 251 Half-Tracks
- 6 Opel Blitz Transport Trucks
• 48 Squad Bases
- 12 Light Grey German Bases
- 12 Dark Grey German Bases
- 12 Light Green American Bases
- 12 Dark Green American Bases
• 2 Player Reference Sheets
• 12 Map Boards
• 28 Map Overlay Pieces
• 14 Black Attack Dice
• 6 Red Defense Dice
• 1 Round Track
• 1 Round Marker
• 1 American Victory Point Marker
• 1 German Victory Point Marker
• 110 Cards, consisting of:
- 90 Strategy Cards
- 18 Operations Cards
- 1 American Initiative Card
- 1 German Initiative Card
• 1 Initiative Token
• 88 Activation Tokens
• 32 Damage Tokens
• 36 Condition Tokens
• 6 Anti-Tank Specialization Tokens
• 6 Engineer Specialization Tokens
• 6 Flamethrower Specialization Tokens
• 6 Medic Specialization Tokens
• 6 Victory Objective Markers
• 8 American Command Objective Markers (various values)
• 8 German Command Objective Markers (various values)
• 8 Neutral Command Objective Markers (various values)
• 8 American Control Markers
• 8 German Control Markers
• 51 Command Tokens (in 1s and 5s)
• 4 American Concealed Squad Markers
• 4 German Concealed Squad Markers
• 8 American Transport Markers
• 8 German Transport Markers
• 8 American Off-Board Indicator Tokens (numbered 1-8)
• 8 German Off-Board Indicator Tokens (numbered 1-8)
• 38 Fortification, Obstacle, and Cover Markers, consisting of:
- 12 Double-Sided Pillbox/Entrenchment Markers
- 14 Double-Sided Tank Trap/Razor Wire Markers
- 6 Smoke Markers
- 6 Minefield Markers
• 1 Target Token
• 1 North Directional Marker

Tide of Iron
$79.95
Available in January, 2007

FF makes great games so this should be one more in the string. I just hope its as good as Memoir 44 from Days of wonder, but different enough not to be boring.

Fantasy Flight now has a great intro video of 'Tide of Iron' that shows the game in action. It's about 5 minutes long and is in QuickTime format.

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/tideofiron_downloads.html

Someone posted it on YouTube as well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXJcegCLKrk

More game companies should do this kind of thing.

Those are smaller then 15mm.... I would guess 10mm if you are lucky.

Those figs look bigger than 10mm to me, more like axis and allies CSG from WOTC. In fact the whole game looks alot like axis and allies from WOTC except a bit more diverse. And not prepainted...

They just posted the rules up as a .pdf. 16MB file. 48 pages.


http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/tideofiron.html