"FOW 1918" Topic

Nothing like the right motivation!
My hobby trends around my family… having 2 wee ones at this point make sit very hard to sit down and get any painting or playing done…

The WWI rules supplement will be in Wargames Illustrated #322 (US).

To aid you in your figure organization the promo PDF I saw had:

German
Co HQ: 2 x Command Pistol Teams, and up to two Anti-Tank Rifle Teams

Infantrie Platoon: Command SMG, 6 x Rifle Teams, 2 x Rifle Grenade Teams

HMG Platoon: Command Pistol Team, 4 x HMG Teams

Stoss Platoon Command Pistol Team, 4 x Pistol Teams, 1 x MG Team

Infantry Gun Platoon: 2 x 7.62 Krupp Guns (No Command Team?)

Panzer Platoon: 2 x A7V (or Beute Mark IV) (No Command Team?)

Brits:

Co HQ: 2 x Command Pistol Teams, optional Sniper Team

Rifle Platoon: Command SMG, 6 x Rifle Teams, 2 x Rifle Grenade Teams

HMG Platoon: Command Pistol Team, 4 x HMG Teams

Mortar Platoon: 3 x 3" Stokes (No Command Team?)

Artillery Detachment: 2 x 18pdr QQF (No Command Team?)

Heavy Tank Platoon: 2 x Mk IV Male/Female (No Command Team?)

Medium Tank Platoon 1 or 2 Mark A Whippet (No Command Team?)

The interesting part to me was some platoons having no command team present. Maybe they are "independant" or maybe there are some harsh command and control aspects to these "attachments?"

Note that the captured British (and French) tanks were referred to as Beutepanzer, not Beute. The latter just means 'captured' or 'looted'.

Robert

I assume the British 'SMG' teams are supposed to represent some other sort of close quarter battle weapon. The use of SMGs in WW1 wasn't exactly extensive…

The list I saw had 2 MG teams and a command pistol team, rather than smg teams. Maybe this is to reflect the presence of Lewis guns.

Sorry…that was a bad copy/paste on my part. The British Command teams were "Pistol" vice "SMG" teams.

VB