[NOUVEAUTES] BattleFront

Vu sur le face book  dédié à FOW en Français :

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Les nouvelles neuves de BF pour 2016 !!!
Nouveau front: le Pacifique en début d'année, une refonte des livres sur les Ardennes, 2 nouvelles nations pour Team Yankee, et le Mid-War, oui plus tard, quand nous aurons le temps, vous comprenez nous avons beaucoup de projets en cours...

https://www.facebook.com/groups/flamesofwarfrance/1024896727552607/?notif_t=group_activity


Hum, j'attend avec grande impatience la refonte sur les Ardennes

J'attend qu'ils me livrent ma commande d'abord...

Les bouquins sur les Ardennes sont prévues pour la semaine prochaine, un avant gout ici :

http://www.wwpd.net/2016/08/flames-of-war-bulge-compilation-sneak.html

Et des nouveautés en plastiques :

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Additionally, there will be a plastic sprue released that has the 4 sdkfz 234 variants on it, so plastic pumas for everyone. As well, finally the M10 plastic sprue will be released, with 3 variants, M10, M10C and M36 Jackson.

Pour info il y aura des listes Britanniques dans le bouquin allié :

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Desert Rats Armoured Squadron
Desert Rats Motor Company
Desert Rats Rifle Company
Armoured Squadron 29th Brigade
Rifle Company 53rd and 51st
Parachute Company 6th Airborne
Airlanding Company 6th Airborne

D'autres infos pour les germains :

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- FHH 106. Panzerbrigade lists has now option for CV besides RT (nice!).
- Other Panzerbrigades got option for CT besides RT (also nice!).
- SS Kampfgruppe Hansen is based on motorised Panzergrenadiers and SS Schnellgruppe on Recon units.
- Skorzeny Group team now doesn't do anything when it fails a skill check rather then gets destroyed.

Review du bouquin Allemand pour les Ardennes :


http://www.breakthroughassault.co.uk/2016/08/draftreview-ardennes-offensive.html

Review des Britanniques, toujours pour les Ardennes : http://www.breakthroughassault.co.uk/2016/08/monty-rescue.html


En tout cas concernant, les Allemands, le changement  pour les commandos skorzeny vont les rendre intéressants ( ils devaient pas en vendre beaucoup jusque la  )

De nouvelles infos sur les bouquins :

http://www.wwpd.net/2016/08/flames-of-war-panzers-to-meuse-from.html

http://www.wwpd.net/2016/08/the-ardennes-offensive-reviewed-and.html

Maintenant autour des Américains :

http://www.breakthroughassault.co.uk/2016/08/old-blood-guts-preview-battle-bulge-american-lists.html

Hop la une autre review des rosbifs:

http://www.wwpd.net/2016/08/preview-commonwealth-forces-in-battle.html

Preview sur le site de battlefront cette fois ci

http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=5298

Nouvelles boites pour battlefront, c'est du tout récent!

l'avantage, le livre d'armée et le livre de règle sont dans la boite
après ils ont l'air très porté sur l'année 1945

la boite anglaise
http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=5295

la boite américaine
http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=5296

la boite allemande
http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=5293

la boite russe
http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=5294

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après ils ont l'air très porté sur l'année 1945

Clairement, et j'ai aussi l'impression qu'ils veulent refourguer les boites de chars qui doivent mal se vendre( JS 2, Pershing, panthers....Tous les chars d'on les règles/coûts en point sont Hamha mal conçut...)

oui, pareil chez les anglais, ils ont essayé de placer les cromwell

Le M10 plastic est sortie :

http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=5284

Un récap ( et liens pour télécharger) des différentes campagnes de BF :

http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=4501

Les suppléments sur les Ardennes sont maintenant disponible sur Force of War.
A noter qu'on y trouve aussi les listes de la Hermann Göring sur le front de l'est.

Une nouvelle version de FOW est en cours pour Mars, il y a un résumé du podcast qui en parle ici :

http://hastyattack.blogspot.fr/2016/10/why-we-fight-7-summary-of-information.html?m=1

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1. Battlefront (BF) are looking to bring out a new Team Yankee (TY) style hardcover book for Vietnam and Fate of a Nation. I.E a new rule set based on the TY ruleset.

2. Peter is personally keen on a Bush War/Angola list. We might see this in the future.

3. BF are committed to finishing off Berlin. We should expect a compilation in March 2017.

4. The big news – There will be a version 4 of the rules. This will be in two ways. Firstly there will be new rule book for EW and LW. This will allow all of the current EW and LW books to be used with the current points values, including the new Berlin compilation that is about to come out. 95% of these books will be compliant with the new V4 rules

5. For MW, there will not only be a new rule book but it will be accompanied by new dessert lists. Initially these will be for Brits and DAK. Other dessert forces and then Eastern Front lists to follow. These will be a new 100 point style system. There will be cards.
I think this will be great. MW is my favourite period and is currently a bit stale. It seems the perfect place to start again for BF. I cannot wait to dive into this period again with new rules and lists.

6. The new V4 rules will be inspired by TY. However Peter went out of his way to say they will not be the same. To paraphrase him, WW2 is a much richer historical period than the Cold War, with more forces and troops and vehicles. The rules will need to match.

7. There will be a new V4 rulebook. How this will work exactly was not detailed. This is awesome news. I got a free V3 rulebook when that book came out and that really kept me excited about the new rules. Hopefully this will do the same for V4.

8. The rules will be more streamlined and won’t cover every possible point like the current 300 odd page V3. Instead there will be a new Letters from the Front type document with a cooler name that will serve as a living document to accompany the rules. I see this aimed more at the tournament gamer than the Friday night garage gamer.

9. The new rules will retain the current morale and motivation settings. Peter used the example that Fearless Veteran will remain. This to me is good news. This is one of the charming aspects of FOW and something that isn’t really in TY.

10. Even though cards were announced, Peter did say that players don’t need to use them. The current TY doesn’t NEED the cards. This might be how older gamers with big collections can get by without the cards.

11. BF are still working on how to distribute cards. Selling packs was raised as an option. However it sounds like nothing is yet set in stone. BF is looking for feedback on this.

12. Forces will remain. Peter did say there is a big effort involved in updating forces but he sees it as critical to the game. I for one love forces and easy army before it and would struggle without this excellent tool. If you haven’t tried it, it can be found at forces.flamesofwar.com

13. BF are trying to be cautious with the new rules. In summary it seems there are still discussions and heated agreements over aspects of the rules in the playtest group. Peter was careful to point out that this game is precious to BF and they are not treating the new version and the potential fallout lightly. They are calling for reasoned feedback as his team are working very hard on the release and contents. I am personally pleased to hear this. Like many, I have invested lots of money and time in this game and want to hear that it is being cared for and hopefully will be just as good or better in version 4.

14. The distribution timing and exact method is still being nutted out by Battlefront. However it seems likely that the new V4 and MW releases will be timed together.

15. One of the most interesting points of the conversation was around why. Peter said that BF need to change, FOW is slowly reducing in popularity. A 300 page rule book is a barrier to entry and that modern games sellers need to change to be more acceptable in the modern, internet-based marked. This will attract new players and keep the game viable.
I can see this everywhere. I personally think this is the right thing for BF to do. Lead the market with innovation. The alternative is a slow and painful decline.

16. There will be new plastics for MW. YES!!!

17. We should look out for a new Aussie TY list. YES again!!

18. Peter personally committed to return to answer questions at a later date. He asked for feedback via WWPD. There is a thread on the excellent WWPD forum at http://forum.wwpd.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=20227

Annonce officiel de la v4 :

http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=5409

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The New Flames Of War in Ten Quick Points
with Phil Yates

As the author of the latest edition of Flames Of War, I’ve been asked to summarise what’s great about the new Flames Of War.

1. The new edition of Flames Of War has slimmed down, to just over a third the size of the previous Version 3 rulebook. Unnecessary flavour text has been trimmed away and long, hard-to-apply rules have been revamped. The result is a fast-playing, easy-to-learn game.

2. The new unit cards turn many of the old special rules into simple numeric ratings, so for example, there is no need to remember British Bulldog as the card has Motivation 4+, but Counterattack 3+. Likewise, Wide Tracks is now just an easier roll to cross terrain.

3. The flavourful special rules are still there. The Germans still have Stormtroopers and the British still have Tally Ho and Mike Target. Better still, the rules are revamped to work with the new edition making them shorter, sharper, and more relevant to your games.

4. Flames Of War retains (and expands) the tactical challenges players face, while getting rid of ‘gamey’ complexity and hidden ‘gotchas’. Hit allocation is down from four pages of complexity to two short and simple rules – you hit what you shot at (with additional hits going to their nearby friends) and the player being shot can roll a die to rearrange things if they don’t like your choices.

5. The game is fast and bloody (or is that even faster and bloodier?). The new Dash movement (replacing At the Double) allows for quick repositioning without taking double hits, making manoeuvre more important than ever.

6. Manoeuvre warfare has also been enhanced by the new reconnaissance rules that allow units to spearhead your advance, grabbing bits of No-Man’s Land to add to your deployment area.

7. Combined arms have become more important than ever as each type of weapon has become more useful against its preferred target. Artillery is now much more efficient at digging out infantry, while the infantry’s anti-tank guns are more survivable and better at protecting them from tanks, but vulnerable to infantry in turn.

8. The new rulebook has three new missions to give players new challenges, while the existing missions have been improved with better reserves rules, new victory conditions, and a new victory points table.

9. Players have much greater flexibility in how they structure their forces. You can have any number of company-sized formations in your force and then add support to back them up. As long as one of your formations is still fighting, the battle’s on. With 100 points being the new medium-sized force, getting your force ready for battle has never been easier.

10. The release of the rules will be accompanied by two new books and a whole new range of plastic tanks and guns for the war in the Western Desert. The British Desert Rats and German Afrika Korps have never looked so good, nor been so much fun.

The final result is a game that keeps all the great things about Flames Of War, the colour and depth of play, while making the game easier to get into and play!

~ Phil.

Sur le early et late war :

http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=5410

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Flames Of War, 1939-41 and 1944-45 rulebook and Special Rules and Warriors, 1939-41 and 1944-45
with Wayne Turner

Flames Of War, 1939-41 and
1944-45 rulebook
The new Flames Of War, 1939-41 and 1944-45 rulebook contains all the rules you need to play Flames Of War, The World War II Miniatures Game Fourth Edition. This rulebook, along with its accompanying book Flames Of War, Special Rules and Warriors, 1939-41 and 1944-45, has been written so they can be used with all the great Intelligence Handbooks already available for Flames Of War.
This extensive library of Intelligence Handbooks covers Early-war 1939-41 and Late-war 1944-45 periods with a massive selection from a great variety of nations and campaigns.

Inside you will find rules for terrain, movement, shooting, artillery, and assault. In addition, there are ten missions and their rules. National special rules for the United States, Germany, Britain and the Soviet Union are included. Fortification, an armoured train, and night fighting rules are also covered.



Flames Of War, 1939-41 and 1944-45 rulebook Flames Of War, 1939-41 and 1944-45 rulebook and Special Rules and Warriors, 1939-41 and 1944-45
with Wayne Turner

Flames Of War, 1939-41 and
1944-45 rulebook
The new Flames Of War, 1939-41 and 1944-45 rulebook contains all the rules you need to play Flames Of War, The World War II Miniatures Game Fourth Edition. This rulebook, along with its accompanying book Flames Of War, Special Rules and Warriors, 1939-41 and 1944-45, has been written so they can be used with all the great Intelligence Handbooks already available for Flames Of War.
This extensive library of Intelligence Handbooks covers Early-war 1939-41 and Late-war 1944-45 periods with a massive selection from a great variety of nations and campaigns.

Inside you will find rules for terrain, movement, shooting, artillery, and assault. In addition, there are ten missions and their rules. National special rules for the United States, Germany, Britain and the Soviet Union are included. Fortification, an armoured train, and night fighting rules are also covered.

Flames Of War, Special Rules and Warriors, 1939-41 and 1944-45
Flames Of War, Special Rules and Warriors, 1939-41 and 1944-45 provides you with updated special rules and Warriors so that you can continue to use your Early- and Late-war Flames Of War forces with the new Flames Of War, 1939-41 and 1944-45 rulebook.

Under the heading of each Intelligence Handbook, you will find a list of rules sorted by nation. Each of these sections also contains updated versions of the Warrior rules from the same Intelligence Handbook.

It’s Free!
Both these books are free. Just show your Version 3 rulebook to your local hobby store, get a sticker, and you will get both the 108-page Rulebook and 64-page Special Rules and Warriors book for free!

Enjoy!

~ Wayne.

sincèrement il faudra la jouer cette v4 et voir ce que cela donne.

Après, je ne le cache pas, je suis allé avec jordane vers fow pour jouer du WW2 et la V3 était géniale car elle prenait tout en compte.
Déjà sur la v4, je n'apprécie pas trop le nerf des observateurs, des staff team et des équipes de commandement.

Après on verra... faut jouer pour voir

L’avantage c'est que bf va donner accès gratuitement accès aux régles pour le late et le early, du coup si on veut testé y aura pas de souci.

Aperçu des cartes  pour la guerre du désert :

http://www.wwpd.net/2017/02/afrika-korps-for-v4-previewed-and.html

http://www.wwpd.net/2017/02/desert-rats-for-v4-previewed-and.html

Ça change pas beaucoup  par rapport à la V3 pour l'instant...

Une review de la V4 :
http://www.breakthroughassault.co.uk/v4-the-king-is-dead-long-live-the-king/

les changements de la V4 :

http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=5469

Pour recevoir gratuitement lles livres gratuits de la nouvelle version:

Il faut envoyer un mail demandant la pouvelle version à battle front avec une photo de son bouquin de règle V3 à cette adresse :  customerservice@battlefront.co.nz

Les changements de la V4 pour le late war :

http://www.wwpd.net/2017/02/flames-of-war-version-4-for-earlylate.html

mail envoyé pour avoir la V4

Règles spéciales pour le Late war en V4 :

http://www.wwpd.net/2017/03/fow-version-4-late-and-early-war.html