Reply To: Reign of the Neckbeards (or why do historical re-fights).

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Nice link for the downloads there Torros. Looking at the site, there’s a fair few books offering about 8 scenarios in each suitable for a large scale skirmish game. Most of the Free/sample downloads are for the early war period however (so no big tanks around for these battles), but early war is actually THE most interesting period in WW2 as the armoured stuff on both sides is barely “fit for purpose” (with no one side having a technological advantage of the other).

You could easily do the refight (Poland vs Germany) by using the Battlefront/Flames of War minis based singularly for rulesets like Bolt Action and either leave ranges as they are (makes it look more believable as max range on the rifle nor look lees like max range you can throw a potato), OR scale everything down for a smaller table by using centimetres.

https://www.flamesofwar.com/online_store.aspx?CategoryID=13259

Still you could rapidly build up an skirmish style “army” for not a not of pennies (as you may not want to bung shedloads of money into early war at the start (until you get the “early war is GREAT wargaming” bug).