| mfastoso | 26 Jul 2012 10:11 a.m. PST |
I just posted to the website an Excel sheet that lists the type and number of elements needed for each scenario in the Rulebook. Enjoy and I hope its helpful! Here is the link fireballforward.com/downloads cheers,
Mark |
| Last Hussar | 26 Jul 2012 11:23 a.m. PST |
Why would anybody buy this – its a stupid name for a rule set… |
| Waco Joe | 26 Jul 2012 11:32 a.m. PST |
Eddie: "Why I oughta…"
Ben: "Ignore, him. He's just an internet poster"
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| Dynaman8789 | 26 Jul 2012 11:50 a.m. PST |
Could be worse, could be I Ain't Been Shot Mum… (I play them both) |
| Mooseheadd | 26 Jul 2012 12:38 p.m. PST |
I think LH likes alot of rules but if he cant even support this site with a membership. Im sure he cant afford Fireball forward or IABSM. |
| Ed Mohrmann | 26 Jul 2012 1:29 p.m. PST |
LH has probably never seen the movie… |
| redbanner4145 | 26 Jul 2012 1:49 p.m. PST |
Not as bad a name as the Italian rule set "Smooth and Rifled" |
| Ruben Megido | 26 Jul 2012 3:55 p.m. PST |
Once you tried every combination with "command, operation, war, mission, combat, battleground, battlefront, fire, panzer, battle and flames" it becomes quite hard to find a suitable name for a ruleset. Love the name "Fireball forward". Kind of cheesy but easy to remember. |
| Spreewaldgurken | 27 Jul 2012 10:47 a.m. PST |
Can we move on to more substantial criticism, please? For example, I'm fairly grossed-out by the long pointy fingernails of the guy who does the Tutorials on the Fireball Forward website… eek. |
| Ken Portner | 27 Jul 2012 1:23 p.m. PST |
What does it mean anyway? |
| Last Hussar | 28 Jul 2012 6:17 a.m. PST |
Irony and sarcasm, Lost on Americans. Lets see who is actually bright enough to see what I was getting at. |
korsun0  | 28 Jul 2012 6:24 a.m. PST |
It's a ww2 movie aint it…? One of the misfits come good genre……. |
| Mooseheadd | 28 Jul 2012 8:51 a.m. PST |
Yes Korsun i believe thats where they obtained the name for the rules. Movie was released in 1972. |
| mfastoso | 28 Jul 2012 9:08 a.m. PST |
Fireball Forward is a cheesy WW2 movie from the early 1970s starring Ben Gazara. When the rules were in their infancy I had to give them a name to be listed in a convention program. Since I could not confer with my co-designer at the moment I chose a name that I would not mind changing. But it stuck. People like it and I think it helps the rules stand out. If the name is going to keep you from trying the rules then I think it is your loss. they are fun and have a good feel of WW2…it they were not …we would not have sold out at Historicon. |
| Waco Joe | 28 Jul 2012 12:02 p.m. PST |
If my aged memory serves me there is a throw away line at the beginning of the movie where the hq is called some other silly "F" word and the new general says that is a stupid name for a headquarters. This is what the English call irony. Then again they also drink warm beer so they might be forgiven. |
| Last Hussar | 29 Jul 2012 4:09 p.m. PST |
Isn't somebody supposed to say 'Its perfectly okay to hate a set of rules based only on the name, and it isn't a stupid thing to do?' |
| Windward | 29 Jul 2012 7:22 p.m. PST |
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| Last Hussar | 30 Jul 2012 2:36 a.m. PST |
Really. That is a surprise. When some Yank says I'm never playing IABSM because it has a alledged silly name we are all supposed to be very respectful. Anyone who rejects a game, no matter which one, based purely on the name, is very foolish. |
| Last Hussar | 30 Jul 2012 2:39 a.m. PST |
Waco Joe. Learn what irony is. |
| Windward | 30 Jul 2012 6:20 p.m. PST |
Last Hussar As an IABSM player, I really get annoyed by ignorant statements like; "I know nothing about the rules, but I hate them because I don't like the name". I've heard it more than once with IABSM. If you have a valid reason for not liking the rules, please go ahead and state them, as Richard Clarke would say; "Horses for courses", not everyone will like Fireball Forword's approach or for that matter IABSM. But for a name choice is the most frivolous. |
Mal Wright  | 02 Aug 2012 8:32 a.m. PST |
Oh come on you blokes. New WW2 rules HAVE to have stupid names. There have been so many WW2 rules written that all the good names were expended twenty years ago!  Perhaps we need to recycle some names!  'Battleground' did that with my 'Battleground' rules released in the 1970's. Recycling…its all the rage. |
| Last Hussar | 03 Aug 2012 3:49 a.m. PST |
If there was an Olympic medal for missing the point. The point I was making was that IABSM regularly gets comments from (mostly) US posters "I don't care how good they are, they have a silly name." and saying that is a silly reason not to play a game gets people replying saying it is perfectly reasonable for someone to say that. I wondered what would happen if I said that about another set of rules. The fact that it is a US set of rules, with a name taken from a US TV show that no-one in the UK has heard of is a happy co-incidence. I would refer you to my comment of 30 Jul 2012 2:36 a.m
Anyone who rejects a game, no matter which one, based purely on the name, is very foolish.
(I can afford membership. I choose to spend the money on something else.) |
| IanB3406 | 03 Aug 2012 8:51 a.m. PST |
LH, I'm not sure how you would expect anyone to know this. I surely didn't and could only take your post at face value. It seems someone has hurt your feelings in the past with respect to iabsm. |
| The Young Guard | 03 Aug 2012 12:25 p.m. PST |
It's just game! Play it and like it = great Play it and hate it = ebay or sell at the club. I couldn't give a rats if the give was called "Fireball forward," "Mud and guts" or "don't shoot, let em burn!" As long as it plays well, and personally for me I can't find a set of rules for WW2 that works yet! |
| 1815Guy | 10 Aug 2012 5:25 p.m. PST |
Irony is indeed wasted….. but can somebody please explain to this lot about "Shut Up" Williams and "Lofty" Sugden……. and as for the Chinese cook…….. Ah Syn.. well the less said about him the better. |
| korsun0 | 15 Aug 2012 4:38 a.m. PST |
what about Captain Pugwash and Seaman Staines or Roger the Cabin Boy? |
| Mollinary | 07 Mar 2013 4:17 p.m. PST |
Korsun1, Apart from the good Captain himself they are just urban myths. The cabin boy was called Tom. Mollinary |
| lapatrie88 | 08 Mar 2013 4:52 p.m. PST |
Did someone already write "What Did You Do In The War, Daddy?" rules and I missed them? |
