"Twin 8.8cm FlaK37 Railway Car Released" Topic

Now let me get this straight.
Even if totally out in the open, it cannot be seen.
It is on a huge honkin' flat car and cannot be dug in. Yet it is invisible.

Got it.

Even if it were hidden under a break away boxcar it would take at least a turn to acquire a target. So I'd throw that rule out.

If you're attacking marshalling yards, why wouldn't you be able to plaster it with mortar or arty?

Well if your allowed to "see" it from the start you would be able to rain artillery on it from the beginning thus making in not worth the points and so they wouldn't sell many of them.

I assume that in reality a railyard is plastered with LOTs of wagons and platforms. Of course you can plaster it with artillery, but that would be a waste. In reality, of course, these guns would open fire at distances that make prior identification more difficult then a tabletop may indicate, and their life expectency would probably be very low after identification.
Its like their arty – you either follow Battlefronts way of representing them on the tabletop or not. Realism does not transfer well into 15mm for modern wars.

I quite like the model but my first thought was "jumped the shark"

I like it. I will get one just to have it even though I will never use it in a game. Just to have it as a display model.

When will the release the railyard terrain piece, for it to hid in, LOL?

When will the release the railyard terrain piece, for it to hid in, LOL?

Well Battlefront has the turnouts and tracks to do just that. Of course that depends on how much money your willing to invest as Bf's train tracks can get quite expensive A cheaper alternative is Armaments in Miniature where they have a nice starter set and also sell turnouts, straight and curved tracks, crossings, etcetera. You will have to paint them yourself but that's the price you pay. Anyhoo Salut y'all

Bruce the Texas Grognard

I second the tracks by AIM. That is what I did because they are by far cheaper than BF's and the quality is there.

Thanks for the tips about sourcing track. Seriously, though, you'd expect it to benefit from that railyard rule in urban (or industrial) terrain, and not in the countryside, in the sense that it shouldn't bring some imaginary railyard with it, wherever it goes.

When you get your track, don't lay it out as it is on the box picture! Load distributes throughout the ballast to the subgrade in an angular fashion.

The blurb just talks about the 88 itself, though.
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Tim

I do wonder on how many occasions the Allies actually encountered these in railyards.

It also looks like the railcar is far longer than SMG range, which seems a bit "odd", even in the FoW fantasy WW2 universe.

So far as I'm concerned any unit in FoW that goes over 4inches in length as a mobile model, breaks the system entirely for just that reason Londongamer – things that approach that size can cause problems.

The non-linear scale is fine by me so long as you do not introduce items that would need rescaling to function – and this train wagon would fall into that category. 6mm does solve a lot of those problems – the guy advocating 2mm probably has a point in purely mechanical terms but that way insanity lies (mine I hasten to add, unless someone else has done a Cthulhu variant).

Fortunately the FoW players at my club all think the same so we don't have many models of that type around – and the Crocs which were the only one of that type played one game and everyone went – 'Ah, yes, OK, that's going to be a problem'.

Not that I've really felt the need to add a battletrain to my forces, but since I game in 1/87, it's easy to find track.

Wyatt