Head To The Desert With New Mid-War Flames Of War Releases
January 14, 2022 by brennon
Battlefront Miniatures has been showing off the new Mid-War options landing for Flames Of War. You can currently pre-order the new North Africa book alongside two new Starter Sets AND Company Boxes for the four nations taking part in this World War II conflict.
North Africa // Flames Of War
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This new book comes with army lists for playing as the Germans, Italians, British and American forces that battle across the Western Desert and Mediterranean. This includes Armoured, Mechanised, Infantry and Airborne forces PLUS special forces like the British Commandos and American Rangers.
FIRST LOOK | North Africa Compilation
As well as that, the book also comes packed with detailed unit histories that you could use to inspire a new themed force or two on the tabletop. Hobbyists and painters will also find painting and basing guides for making properly awesome desert-dwelling armies.
New Flames Of War Starter Sets
As well as the new book, there are two new Starter Sets that offer up options to play as all four of the factions. We start with Kasserine...
Kasserine Starter Set // Flames Of War
Kasserine Starter Set Contents // Flames Of War
The Kasserine Starter Set gets you going with the Americans and the Germans on the tabletop. You get a whole host of tanks and guns plus a complete rulebook and quick-start rulebook. You can also take a different approach to the desert war with Tobruk.
Tobruk Starter Set // Flames Of War
Tobruk Starter Set Contents // Flames Of War
This boxed set switches this up and introduces the British and the Italian forces clashing on the tabletop. Much like with Kasserine, this comes with a bunch of plastic tanks and artillery plus the core rulebook and quick start guide.
If you were so inclined, you could maybe even pick up both of these sets and turn them into a BIG Allied Vs Axis fight for the desert.
New Flames Of War Starter Forces
If you want to expand those sets or you want to approach Flames Of War from a different direction, you can also pick up four new Starter Forces which have been designed to match the four nations presented so far.
German Afrika Korps // Flames Of War
Italian Avanti // Flames Of War
British Armoured Fist // Flames Of War
American Fighting First // Flames Of War
These sets offer up a few more options for playing Flames Of War with additional tank units, artillery pieces and more. Much like with the Starter Sets, they also come with a smaller rulebook for you to dive into alongside the updated and tweaked unit cards for the various tanks on offer.
This then means that if you want to play out the Mid-War period of World War II you now have six ways to do so. As mentioned, all of these sets can be pre-ordered today so you just need to work out where you're going to start!
Which set appeals to you?
"This then means that if you want to play out the Mid-War period of World War II you now have six ways to do so..."
Think the Italians are on a hiding to nothing in the Tobruk set, Shermans and Grants vs M13/40’s , those 90mm Anti tanks guns are going to be busy.
Great to see a choice in starter sets
An interesting additional set of tanks could be good seeing if they make a difference to the well known battles that everyone has seen an player many a time before to re-right the history books.?
Not really happy with this. Sure, there are a few legitimate units being added, but most of the new stuff are concept units? or ones that never really made it to the front lines? Really? that is where we want to take mid war? They left out so much from 3rd edition that actually fought…but instead of adding them in…they add fantasy stuff? I’ve been playing since 2nd ed. I have sizeable forces for all four nations…and it really bugs me that I can’t play with a good chunk of my collection. When Mid War first was released, they said… Read more »
Remind me when we had that Desert war bootcamp for FoW.
It feels like decades ago, but I’m sure it’s not been that long, or has it ?
Time to dig out my DAK.