August 22, 2014 by warzan
Warren & Dave are back for another installment of Flames of War For the Win and this time they're talking about ambushes!
The guys will be going into how they work on the tabletop and of course how you should then be applying the tactic against your enemies. These are some very cool and sneaky rules!
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Excellent Video guys
Good stuff – looking at adding some Hellcat TDs to my new army (yes I’m a noob) and ambush is a lovely little trick they have
Great opening, guys! AMBUSH! Dave isn’t having it. 🙂 “I was GOING” to be nice . . .”
And I definitely liked this episode’s “Know My Enemy” segment, and Robin’s preference for Easy Eights. I know Fireflies are very popular in Flames of War, but it’s nice to see American Easy Eights get some love. 🙂
I’m not sure you got that thing about Line of Sight correct, I’m sure it’s 360 degrees, to be out of sight, you would need a forrest, wood, building, hill etc between you and the target.
Bearing in mind you can see 6″ into a wood.
Also pretty sure Ambush isn’t allowed outside of your own deployment zone in most missions.
Don’t feel bad about troubles deploy 88s, @warzan . 88s are difficult to deploy in almost any game system because while they are devastating weapons, they’re also very large, very obvious, and completely unarmoured. Also, they scare the crap out of people so they’re always the first thing your opponent shoots at. Long range artillery (25 pounders, 105mms, etc.) are favourite “88 busters.” I noticed in the video “footnotes” for rules clarification, that the ambush rules might be a little different for “heavy, immobile, or breakthrough” guns. Just asking the FoW experts here . . . would the 88 (especially… Read more »
An 88 is immobile. You need a transport to move it at all. So no ambushing with it.
Best of digging them in and going to ground with them.
Erwin Rommel and numerous British tankers in North Africa would like to have a discussion about that “no ambushing with 88’s” thought.
You can ambush with 88s, but there are limitations in placing them.
Page 266 in rulebook:
“Heavy and Immobile Gun teams and vehicles equipped with a weapon rated as Bunker Buster cannot be placed in Ambush closer than 16″/40cm to any enemy team within Line of Sight.”
i thought regular ambush was only on your deployment zone (or sometimes with a special rules like panzerfaust trap it will be either your deployment zone or the no man’s land)
do i make a mistake ? (i’m french and it happened that i don’t understand some tough sentence)
Oh : another tips here :
1) if your scenario have prepared position the troops that are ambushing may start dug in,
conceal and bulletproof can give you a serious advantage.
2) don’t be too quick to reveal your ambushes.
You are correct. Deployment zone is where you will ussually deploy.
USA Tank destroyers work a touch differenty 🙂
love the video… makes me want to spend more money
I want to play an ambush with a copy of flames of war
great video guys
I havent used ambush alot. What i would like to c is how can i handle delayed reserves. I always seem the get the worst end of the stick on that one.
Aweom video once again guys. I really appreciate your in depth stuff.
Great video – hope to see a lot more individual tactic videos and maybe an occasional game employing ‘tactics so far’.
Another great video, thanks.
poor Stugs
Another good video. Do like ‘know you’re enemy’.
Any chance if some bat reps soon ?
Bat reps would be great.
I would love to see Dave and Warren swop outfits for an episode
Really love your FOW video’s guys, great job!
I would like to see the 8.8 ambush in the upcoming game 😀
One of the Afrika Korps tricks with the Pak38 was to hide it very close to the opposition, even manhandling it into position during the battle because it was small enough and light enough to manage whereas the Pak40 was just a bit too big. I like the ambush rules. Keeps people guessing 🙂
Amazing video. I am a new flames of war player and this has really cleared up the ambush rules for me
Great video and really useful tactics.
Dave certainly caught off guard by that ambush 😀
Great video! And I like this series highlighting different rules and aspects of the game. Though I’m wondering, are we going to see any more full games played out?
I can see LA Rochelle having more US armour with Tigers exposed to nifty 6 pounders, Big Macs hold the fries, as ever informative, the info encouraging, the scenery as ever awesome, with more B and Q mats repositioned. So what with Recon, Smoke, Artillery, now Ambushes…..Awesome guys, awesome and then some…..
love the strategy and tactic videos