"basing for FOW cold war gaming" Topic

I have a bunch of 15mm modern/cold war era US Army and Russian Army that I'm going to base up for Flames of War Cold War era games.

How would you recommend basing up squads? I was thinking of 2 stands of rifle teams (each with a SAW gunner) and a small stand with a javelin for the U.S. The rifle teams would have a ROF of 3 for the SAW's.

I'm not sure how to do the russians. Maybe 2 rifle teams per squad with one containing a LMG and a separate small stand with an RPG. The Russian rifle teams would then have a ROF of 2.

Javelin was not used during the cold war. It did not really get into units until the mid to late 90's. The M-47 Dragon was the medium ATGM that was carried by troops up to the late 80's/early 90's.

Oops, I misspoke- they are dragons, not javelins.

Check out stopping the red tide if you haven't already. Nice set of Cold War rules using FoW and addresses basing and sizes.

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I went to his blog, but could not find his rules.

Ditto…..where are the rules!?

1) Click on the text at the bottom that says "View Web Version"

2) Click on the link on the right hand side of the page that says 'New v3.1 cold War Ruleset':

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If it is a 1:1 system therm surely individual bases so one can replicate the fire and manouvre of the period, not so important for the Warpact troops. But always looking for a set that would work in 20mm at 1:1, followed the link but could not find the link to the rules, am I just an old BAOR 1980s Luddite?!!

Tally Ho!

Flames of War puts 2-3 models on a small base (command units, special weapon teams) and 4-5 on a medium (a fireteam or ~ half a squad). large bases are for artillery guns with 5-ish crew. Have a look at their Vietnam stuff for examples.

Where units have one machine-gun per squad (or per two fireteams), you can either have two different types of infantry team (the FoW generic term for "a base of infantry models"), or aggregate the firepower across all the teams. For example, if you say a team of 5 guys with rifles has Firepower 1, and a team including a machinegun has FP 3, then you can either make a platoon consisting of 3 rifle teams and 3 MG teams, or simply have a "rifle/MG team" with FP2 and have six of those. Every second one may have an MG modelled on it, but the effect is "smeared" across the whole platoon.

IIRC, from 2nd edition Mid-War WW2 force lists, Battlefront have used both approaches, depending on the army being represented.

Sigh*

Nice. Had been discussing BFs move into Nam and my thoughts was it would have made more sense to go Korea or Cold War if they wanted to sell a shed load of tanks. Someone seems to have a done a nice lot of work on this.