Flames of War

[Paint it Pink]

I have very few 15mm, and intend to buy 10mm for all new periods. So I guess turning up with a 10mm scale WW2 army at a FoW tourney is out? 

However, I'm not really a tourney player, so I can live with the loss. It will be up to individual players to decide whether or not they can live with the loss? If they can't then go FoW. If you can then don't go FoW.

[GordonY]

I recently aquired Flames of War second edition for £2 off Ebay, I plan on using it with, drum roll maestro please.......................... Pendraken minis.

You think my rulebook will object?

[sultanbev]

When they start doing e-version only rules, like the absurd FoG announcement, then most likely the app will indeed have a scanner that detects non-FoW models and blows up the file. Exploding kindle's anyone?  Once BF put barcodes inside their models, you know what's coming!

This just goes to show how Forged in Battle, Zvesda and PSC have made inroads into their previous market stranglehold. Rather than get all GW-uppitidy about it, they should embrace the change and start their own plastic injection line of kits and figures at good value prices.

Afterall 2012 is the year of change. That is what the Mayans were really predicting. I might even be buying some 10mm at the weekend which is about as a massive change as all of Syria converting to Judeaism....

Mark

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

If anyone wants to bring 10mm to Campaign they would be more than welcome, you just might have to be clever with your measurements and basing!
If I could get my club to switch to 10s i would!

[Luddite]

All you can do as a company, is produce good quality, comprehensive ranges, link them up to a good ruleset as a sales engine and back it up with solid marketing and customer service.

But then GW & BF both turnover millions each year, and we don't... 

Yet...

[Leon]

Yet...

"This time next year Rodders..."

[Hertsblue]

I recently aquired Flames of War second edition for £2 off Ebay, I plan on using it with, drum roll maestro please.......................... Pendraken minis.

You think my rulebook will object?

Mine started to fall to bits after the first game. As a book-lover that really cracks me up. 

[GordonY]

Yeah its a lovely book too, just like Black Powder, excellent eye-candy but not very good rules.

[Luddite]

Yeah its a lovely book too, just like Black Powder, excellent eye-candy but not very good rules.

You have a talent for extreme understatement GordonY.   

[Hertsblue]

Which is a shame since their information books are pretty well researched and well presented. What shoots it in the foot is the tendency for pages to start falling out after you've used them for a while. 

[Derek H]

Which is a shame since their information books are pretty well researched and well presented.

Usually.  But there are some major errors in some of them as well.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Topic is up to page 30! 

[sultanbev]

This doesn't come as much of a surprise unfortunately, this was the only direction left for their business model to maintain sales."

Surely they should see the way the wind is blowing and embrace the competition by officially allowing their models in, but then go ahead and invest in their own plastic injected range. The tooling for such is expensive and time consuming, but production is cheap and quick once set up, there is no way PSC and Zvesda can do everything needed. A "Budget Battlefront" range would be a more progressive and popular solution surely? And given the money they have already made, I'm sure BF could invest in more plastic injection moulded items than their rivals put together.

Banning other people's models is just petty, some gamers mix manufacturers on bases, imagine having to prize off non-BF figures from your infantry bases   I hope as many people pull out as to make any tournament pointless!

Mark

EDIT: Quote fixed.

[ciaphas]

i have been saying to the kids at our club that 10mm is the way and the rules should make no difference, a 10mm sherman individually based can fight FoW or rapid fire game with no problem only the based infantry is different but the expiediant of adding a dice to the table to mark casualties solves even this problem, but with the vast difference in cost even doubling up infantry would still work out cheeper, but you can only make the suggestion, they are certain that FoW can only be played in 15s as that is the scale in the book.

must be getting too much pocket money.

jon

[Steve J]

Seeing what kids spend on GW products, you know they have a lot of money. I was talking to a friend a couple of years ago, and friends of her son are given £100 to go and spend in town on a Saturday afternoon .