Late War Leviathans Coming To Battlefront’s Flames Of War
April 26, 2024 by brennon
With the release of Clash Of Steel, Battlefront Miniatures are looking to introduce some Late-War Leviathans into your games of Flames Of War. A free PDF is going to be available next week for those wanting to slot these 15mm scale heavily armoured behemoths into their armies.
Maus // Flames Of War
Rolling beasts like the Maus and the T-44 are going to be getting rules for you to play out some Late-War What If? moments on the tabletop.
T-44 // Flames Of War
Whilst a lot of these tanks never really got to see the light of day, they could end up popping up in some of your games as you tell a different story for the tail end of World War II. This means that if you have thought about picking up Clash Of Steel or you have it sitting in your collection, you can crack those tanks out and use them alongside your Flames Of War armies.
ISU-130 // Flames Of War
If you fancy your tank-on-tank battles then stick with Clash Of Steel. If you want to throw in your infantry and play out bigger battles then consider exploring the free PDF next week that introduces these vehicles into Flames Of War.
There are lots of tanks getting rules for different nations like the Soviets, British, Americans and the Germans. You should find something that suits you.
Do you like the idea of running Late-War Leviathans in your Flames Of War games?
"Do you like the idea of running Late-War Leviathans in your Flames Of War games?"
Battlefront seems to be fading into irrelevancy. I used to love FoW. Don’t even own a miniature of book anymore.
Well the game sort of morphed into it’s current iteration due to the playerbase. The first edition was a lot more historical and used more combined arms a lot more in the army lists. Alas Battlefront started to “listen to it’s playerbase”, the problem was the listened to the tourney portion of the playerbase (who frankly didn’t care about the history, it’s all about the stats, and how to build a WINNING army list). So we ended up with wall to wall tanks, experimental tanks (remember when they added the Sgt York AA tank to Team Yankee and the Dicker… Read more »
Lot of truth there. When I first got into wargaming I was a poor teenager who dreamed of playing FoW in second edition. I bought the books and a few miniatures to prepare for that someday. All sold now. I would buy those starter sets you describe.
One interesting fact (or rumour) that I heard when FoW launched was originally they were going to use a different set of rules written by Fire and Fury games called “Battlefront” (believe it or not). It’s one you might remember that had a load of unit cards featuring painted Battlefront resin miniatures (back when they came in the little green boxes prior to the blister packs) as the artwork. https://www.fireandfury.com/battlefrontmain.shtml But allegedly Battlefront decided to take the rules “in-house” rather than work in a Partnership with Battlefront being in New Zealand and Fire and Fury Games being in the USA… Read more »
In regular games these things would be too silly, but it can be interesting if they are part of a special scenario.
They should not be simple replacements for whatever the most powerful realistic unit in an army was.
It is kind of cool that players who buy into ‘clash of steel’ will have the option to try standard FoW with the same units. Such things are always good, especially if it’s done with free material.