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July 10, 2006
Flames of War 2nd Edition
I have written about Flames of War a few times in this blog. It's now the defacto standard in ww2 gaming (at least in this corner of the world), and is the only historical game that really caught on. I know quite a bit of WH40k players who's now playing FOW instead.
There are many nay sayer re FOW as well, and the criticism are generally the same one leved against GW: The rules are simplistic, they are "dumbed down" for the masses, they have no command control rules, they are just a dicefest, etc. All the charges are all true, but they are also irrelevant IMO. FOW is a great gateway game that gets people (many of whom are previous fantasy gamers who wouldn't take a second look at historical stuff) playing historical game. The rules might be simple, but they do reward historical tactics. Rules and figures are well packaged so that people can get started without having to become an expert in WW2 TO&E.
In fact many old grognard in the club have converted. Long time Empire players are seen discussing the point cost justification of an Italian trench gun. Yes discussion might have more of a tournament slant where value/point cost becomes paramount, but the fact that people are now pushing lead instead of NOT pushing lead is IMO a good thing.
Another kudo for BattleFront (manufacturer of FOW) is how they went about releasing their 2nd edition rules. From my memory, every company that releases rules (be it the Evil Empire of Games Workshop, all the way to WRG of the historical folks), when a new edition comes out, your old stuff (usually just the rules, but sometimes rules changes are radical enough that entire army gets ditched because it's no longer effective) gets tossed out, and you get the pleasure of repaying full price for the rules and army list all over again.
This latest FOW 2nd edition release is a real class act and should be a lesson for all rules producer. I bring in my old first edition book into a retail store, they put a sticker on it, then hand me a 2nd edition book. That's it, no questions asked and no $$$ changes hand!
The army list upgrade is a bit more complicated, but still better than industry average. Instead of the normal rules upgrade where massive changes in rules usually cause some major overhaul in army list. In this case the changes are pretty minor, limiting it to price adjustment and small changes elsewhere (removal of the ronson rule makes Sherman much more competitive value-wise). You do have to pay for the new army lists ("source books"), but all the changes will be released as a free PDF download sometime in the future so the new books aren't strictly necessary.
When I first heard about the 2nd edition rules I though that great, it'll be some cheapo black and white staple together thing. Instead we are getting a full color, >130 pages worth of high quality stuff (albeit in a digest size so the print is a bit small). This "mini-me" rule book is complete, and is devoid of most fluff so it's actually preferred over the standard 2nd edition rulebook that'll be coming out within the month.
A quick glance through the 2nd edition rulebook shows that there are no major changes. Only some changes involving close assult, air strike, and clarification in hit assignment. All the changes either simplifies the rules, or just a clarification of existing stuff. A right direction IMO (not the disastrous path taken from SL to ASL)...
Now that I am reasonably enthused about these rules right now, I think the first of my WW2 rules playoff will use it. I have a few candidate for scenarios already and will finalize that soon.
Posted by msoong at July 10, 2006 01:25 PM
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