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Ooops, forgot to add my impressions from my Fistful of Tows games….

In “some” ways it reminds me of the old Warhamer space marine epic games (although perhaps it was because of the use of the D6, I’m going back 15 years here), and after a few small games you’ll soon get the hang of the system. There’s no “kooky” rules here, it’s a good, solid ruleset (YGIG), but I would say it comes into it’s own with LARGE games. One model represents a platoon of tanks, and the ground scale means you’ll be using some artillery on table.

The rules actually can be used for anything WW1 to date (so you can happily play WW2 with this ruleset), but the major asset of this publication is the painstaking collection of ToEs for just about any army for any period (there’s about 400 pages of these). I think that’s the scary thing about the rules when you see them, it’s a VERY thick tome. But the rules (including all the advanced rules for things like chemical warfare and tactical nukes that you’ll probably not be using) come to about 100 pages. Friends who have bought this book here in the UK think it’s worth a purchase just for all the ToEs 😀

I do remember having good fun with the game (although I was playing with the author), and we used it for many a club game (so it handles multiple players quite easily). We played using 6mm, which I would say in hindsight that these rules were designed around, but you could play in 15mm with Team Yankee miniatures (but I wouldn’t try any larger scale). We manly played WW3 style games, so I’ve no experience of using them to play periods like Vietnam. I’ve played a couple of WW2 games with them (a bit simpler as you don’t have as many extra rules for things like SAMs to worry about).

BTW here’s another video review (goes into a bit more detail)