Jim checks in with the war on the eastern front, will the Soviets win the day again?
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This is true. Developing chaos! 😀
Despite some of the drawbacks for gaming fidelity, 20mm makes for great looking games
The scale is a LITTLE big for the scale of the table, but it allows for great looking models.
Rapid Fire has always been the 20mm WW2 game
We’ve played it for over 20 years at our club now.
We can have a good game of 8-10 turns on a club night or bigger all day games that let us use all the toys.
@damon – Always fun to have a good mash-up once in a while! 😀
Well, add another rules set that I need to look for! Rapid Fire at 20mm.
I may need to remodel the attic to hold all of my miniatures!
He who dies with the most toys wins!!! ??
Rules to live by! 😀
an the bear pushes back.
Uncle Joe’s got a fistful of T-34s for ya!
The issue with big cats is just what I thought, when I exmined the picture for what is on the board. If Rapid Fire is good for 20mm, I hope it´s good for 15mm as well. Or do I have to start things in yet another scale 🙂 ?
Honestly, @jemmy – I always play with AT LEAST one scale down from what the game is published for. For 28 or 20mm games, I usually build and play in 15mm. I would play Team Yankee and similar games in 6mm if I had the figs (actually, by that point I would stick with GHQ Microarmor). So if you’re interested in this system and already have a 15mm force, you are fine in my book.
Rapid fire is single figure bases for infantry. But for 15mm I don’t see why you couldnt easily replace each figure with a FoW base
You’ll get to see the rarities to the big cat’s more clearly with the smaller scale fighting table.
This is very true. Tough to show that these tanks were 1/100 until you have 100 tanks on the table. 🙂
RF works with smaller scales, infantry is represented by companies of 8-12 figures so multi-based is not a problem so long as you can keep track of casualties on each company.
Smaller scales are usually the better way to go, at least when playing with armor.
You used to be able to get some really great deals on the Rapid Fire rulebook with a bunch of Valiant Miniatures Soldiers and a couple of Armourfast Tanks to refight Normandy. The orginal Valiant plastics are a little on the large size to be called 1/72 scale or 20mm, but they are remoulding them to a more suitable size. Really nice plastic figures though.
Good info! Have you tried any of PSC’s 1/72?
My 1/72 are mostly PSC with some Armourfast and Italeri thrown into the mix. Not many painted but all lovingly built and stored in a box!
Yeah, I STILL gotta finish my 28mm DAK force from the BA boot camp.
All built, all primed, all base-coated, zenith highlighted, and about 2/3 through block colors.
Great looking battle, and no cats were injured in the making.
None of the big Soviet late war stuff either, like ISU-152 or SU-100 or ISU-122.
Panzer IV’s rule, forget the cats, even if I used one at the last bootcamp!
All of us have a weak moment once in a while. 😀
I had three SS platoons of Panthers, 2 platoons of SS Tigers, and 2 platoons of Panzer Lehr Panthers against Damon two weeks ago in Panzer Leader. Even then they were less than half my force. The rest were … yep … PzKpfw IVs (Hs, specifically, and some JgPz IV / 48s).