"Battlefront: "Flames of War Needs You!"" Topic

FOW is the only rules system where I have seen judges allow players to line up vehicles as if on review to fire at a single target; as if.

I have seen 8 halftracks lined up shoulder to shoulder like there was nothing out of the ordinary with doing it.

This will occur in any game where the model scale is significantly different from the ground scale.

Don't try to talk reason, Bill. Some folks turn a blind eye to the distorted ground scales or other idiosyncrasies of their personal faves but are unforgiving with others.

to line up vehicles as if on review to fire at a single target

And I bet the target just sat there instead of actually dodging! As if! That's just absurd that the target wouldn't scramble for cover.

Oh wait. You mean these are models on a notional representation of a battlefield and not the real thing? So I might witness, say, ground scale compression, simplification of variables, or other similar concessions to making a playable game experience out of an extraordinarily complex real-world situation? Hmm…

FOW is the only rules system where I have seen judges allow players to line up vehicles as if on review to fire at a single target; as if.

I have seen 8 halftracks lined up shoulder to shoulder like there was nothing out of the ordinary with doing it.

Oh, please. I have seen that at conventions for as long as there have been conventions. There are none so blind as those who will not see.

As for "judges allowing players", you are asking them to forbid poor tactics. There is a cure for that, and it's called an artillery or air strike. You do not bunch up more than once if your opponent has Stukas, Sturmoviks, Typhoons or P-47s. Or, heavy artillery.

"FOW is the only rules system where I have seen judges allow players to line up vehicles as if on review to fire at a single target; as if."

Been watching this happen in games for 30 years with all sorts of rules. it's nothing unique to FoW

So it doesn't happen in Rapid Fire? As if.

What does judges have to do with it? Nothing to do with the rules but the players instead.

I recently watched an Axis and Allies game and I was stunned, no, shocked, at how the players stacked up their units.

This will not stand, sir.

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FOW is the only rules system where I have seen judges allow players to line up vehicles as if on review to fire at a single target; as if.

You must not have ever seen a micro-armor game being played. I saw this regularly back in the day while playing Tank Charts, Challenger, etc. Any game with distorted ground scales & explicit range bands for firing will exhibit this behavior IMO.

Hijacked on the first post!

Egad, and NO SINGLE POST afterwards has anything at all to do with the News article!

So, is this a sign that they are concerned that FoW is slipping off the radar ?

I'd say this is sigh that sales growth has slowed. Most companies need an influx of new customers on a regular basis to grow. And bottom line growth is the name of the game.

What about Canada, or have we already become the 51st state?

That's politics, Skeptic. ;)