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‘Bazooka! Bazooka, now!’ Even as the din swallows your shouting, you see a trooper levelling his rocket launcher at the great beast’s tracks. As the echo of the blast dies away, the crack of rifle fire breaks out, and an ominous clanking and rumbling… Suddenly, out of the flames roars a Tiger tank! Leaping from your trench you run forwards. Looking around, your entire position resembles a cauldron of fire-every roof ablaze, black smoke billowing into the night sky. With a thunderous crash another shell smashes into the wall above you, showering your trench with rubble. Her first request to expand her Army was aircraft, so I’m going to get some P-40’s and I may just have to get myself some Stuka’s.Buy Cheap Flames Of War Starter Set Models Now, Get 29% Discount Off RRP - Same Day Dispatch In Stock Orders Though that’s mainly because she’s gone on holiday back to China for the summer and I was left instructions to build and paint her Americans. I’ll chart my progress in building and painting both armies in future issue, yes, I’m painting Coco’s army.
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If you’re interested in WW2 as a gaming period then Flames of War is definitely worth jumping in on, and this is a great starter set to get your teeth into. Both armies are great starting points, at this scale the vehicles are a breeze to paint, as yet I haven’t started painting the infantry, so I can’t comment on how easy or not they are, but by next issue I’ll get you my verdict in the Editor Challenge article. I doubt I’ll manage to get another box as cheap. I paid £30 which included my postage, so a serious bargain. I’ve been really impressed with this box set, especially the value, in the UK you can pay anywhere between £30-40 depending where you purchase it from. I’m going to be playing the German army and Coco snagged the US, though I’m expecting to build a Chinese army at some point for her, but that will be a topic for a future article later in the year. Once I’ve bought that I’ll start to look at options to expand both armies.
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My plan going forward is to initially pick up another set of Hit the Beach, a it’s great value for money with some excellent contents. I’d probably also some M5 halftracks to make the infantry more mobile, and probably switch from airborne infantry to mechanised infantry. Hit the Beach ist das ultimative Starter-Set und enthält ein komplettes A5-Regelbuch sowie eine deutsche und amerikanische Starterarmee. So if you decided to pick up two set this will give you a massive 16 tanks, this would take you up to around 65 points, and you could add artillery to this and a couple of M10’s to push this towards 100 points. So, what tanks do the US forces get in the box The US force is just under 50 points like the Germans, it comes with a parachute platoon and a handful of Sherman’s, tanks tanks…and obviously this draws a lot of new folk towards the US forces initially, then they discover how nails the German armour is and switch lol. I’d personally prefer to add Panthers rather than StuGs,to beef up the armour, though a lot of folks will most likely veer towards the Tigers. You could add another additional Hit the Beach set and easily build a 70-80-point army, which would only need to add something like a Neblewerfers and a unit of three StuGs and will take you up to 100 points give or take a couple. The Germans come in at 45 points, which is a good starting point. – 1 x US Parachute Rifle Platoon qrf_soft qrf_softĪ German Grenadier Kompanie Supported by Panzer IV Tanks and PaK40 Anti-tank Gunsġx American Sherman Tank Company of 75mm & 76mm Sherman Tanks Supported by US ParatroopersĪctual miniature wise you get the following in the box It features two starting armies, one for the US and the other is late war Germans. This is the 4 th edition starter set for Flames of War and it’s jam packed full of goodies to get you started in the games. I’ve always been tempted in the past but the combination of resin and metal parts had always put me off getting into the game, but with the push towards more plastic I decided to bite the bullet and grab a copy of the starter set. Playing and painting this scale will be a new challenge for me as I’ve never gone below 20mm before, yet this year I’ve started by Team Yankee and now Flames of War. Recently I decided to jump into playing WW2 in 15mm, yeah, I picked up a copy of Hit the Beach by Battlefront Games.