| Navy Fower Wun Seven | 19 Oct 2015 12:51 p.m. PST |
Has been posted by the Breakthrough Assault team:
link And I must say I like what I see – particularly the one off smoke bombardment that can be seen through with TI – that's gonna snooker a lot of the cheez fans! Also making assaults much rarer seems realistic – I never really saw WW3 as a bayonet crossing bayonet type of war…. |
| McWong73 | 19 Oct 2015 1:30 p.m. PST |
Yep, looking good. Cheers for the link. |
| Frothers Did It And Ran Away | 19 Oct 2015 1:53 p.m. PST |
Move – Shoot- Assault? I love the look of the models but if this is just another run through of FoW's rigid IGOUO sequence I'll be thinking about other rules to use the models with – Battlegroup's cold war book (whenever that might appear) possibly… |
| cosmicbank | 19 Oct 2015 5:51 p.m. PST |
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| cosmicbank | 19 Oct 2015 6:03 p.m. PST |
Battlefront does a good job of building up excitement before they release something. I wonder if Team Yankee is a test for FOW. 4. |
| Lion in the Stars | 19 Oct 2015 7:11 p.m. PST |
A friend of mine insists that TY is a preview of FoW4. I honestly can't imagine why BF would have gone to the trouble of the complete rules rewrite otherwise. |
| McWong73 | 19 Oct 2015 9:03 p.m. PST |
I think it more a test bed, but yeah. |
| VonTed | 20 Oct 2015 4:39 a.m. PST |
I just would like to know… when. When is it coming. |
| nickinsomerset | 20 Oct 2015 10:16 a.m. PST |
Not sure about the distribution of hits, does this mean that excess hits against an MBT in the open count against MBTs of the same unit within 6 inches even though it is hull down? If this is the case if the other 2 MBTs are out of 6 inches and hull down the excess hits are wasted? Just looking at the Arty, a Soviet MRR platoon commander calling in artillery? – No! Tally Ho! |
| coopman | 20 Oct 2015 11:50 a.m. PST |
FOW4? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I just got FOW3 about a month ago. |
| Visceral Impact Studios | 21 Oct 2015 5:32 a.m. PST |
At Historiccon a BF employee indicated sci fi rules are in the pipeline. Could be test bed for those. |
79thPA  | 21 Oct 2015 6:13 a.m. PST |
Is it possible they are converting to one platform for all time periods, past, present, and future? |
| wizbangs | 22 Oct 2015 9:13 a.m. PST |
I can't see it as a full-fledged rewrite. For example: all of the Team Yankee tanks are the same speed. By the 1980s there wasn't a discernible difference between them (excluding the M-1), so there's no reason to have all that excess data. While during WWII armor was in various stages of development so that it makes sense to have varying movement rates. I'm sticking to FOW3. I jumped off the GW wagon when I tired of playing "chase the codex" and have no intention of getting back on the wagon with FOW4. However, I do like some of the "fixes" in the TY description that sound more logical than current FOW fare, so I can see picking up a few of them as House rules. |
| backstab | 24 Oct 2015 6:57 p.m. PST |
Navy Fower Wun Seven
Also making assaults much rarer seems realistic – I never really saw WW3 as a bayonet crossing bayonet type of war…. No … You forget that western Europe is made up of built up areas every 3-5 or so KM so to clear those areas you need Infantry so Infantry assaults would have played an extensive part in operations. I've read somewhere that Soviet Company Commanders can call in Artillery … maybe Battalion mortars but that's about it. From what I seen so far, I think I'll be sticking with Sabre Squadron. Shame… I had hopes that Team Yankee would break the FOW "glam" cycle. |
| Petrov | 18 Nov 2015 9:16 a.m. PST |
FOW assault rules are terrible bulky and complex, and the kept them… |
| Navy Fower Wun Seven | 19 Nov 2015 11:29 p.m. PST |
No … You forget that western Europe is made up of built up areas every 3-5 or so KM so to clear those areas you need Infantry so Infantry assaults would have played an extensive part in operations. I didn't forget anything mate, spent many a year in NW Germany, but I remembered that Soviet OMG theory was to bypass areas of potential resistance such as built up areas…That's not to say that FIBUA wouldn't have occurred on the approaches to key points such as access and egress from river crossings and autobahn, but there wouldn't have been too many Stalingrads…. |
