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 This weekend i was at my local gaming store and saw a  Flames of war toury I was impress with it......

 Now what are the standard size armies that people  play.

 Plus i  was reading the   ostfront book and the poineer and  fallenschimff( sp) interested me any comments on those type of army?

FJ are a defensive force and have lots of charterer plus thier uniforms allow for some very cool painting.Plus thier have access to all the support options the germans have allowing you to customise your force with cool stuff it was my first army for FOW and still is my favorite 4 army's later.

1500 pts is standard.  I read a very very looong argument once about how the game is perfect at 1500 pts but if you are not overly competitive it works at any size.  The new rules even provide for 600 pt games if you want to break in slow...

1,500 points seems to be the most common -- enough points to field "interesting" things, yet low enough to allow the game to wrap up in under 3 hours. I've found that much bigger 1 on 1 games can take forever, especially when it's clear you're going to lose early on.

I'd suggest building your force to support the most common game sizes: 600, 1,000 and 1,500 points. After that, you usually have enough to be quite flexible. For new players, it's a bummer to have put together a bunch of stuff and realize you can't field a legal list with it, so follow the book guidelines as best you can.

As far as force selection, I can't help because I play Soviets!

- Bob

Well i was looking at the Ost front book the other day the charts are pretty straight foward, Plus I was going too make my army a actual army the 43thFallschrimimmer(sP) during the ardene offenive, I have access too all the actual unit sizes and some pretty interesting pics of actual troopers in down time ( thanks too my photo collection from squadron)

thanks for the suggestion and will take in advice

I take it you mean the 4th Fallschirmjäger Division..?