Biltz’s Battlegroup Emerges From The Flames Of War Trenches
July 24, 2014 by brennon
Those following the Flames of War news recently will have seen that they are taking on The Great War, World War I, in an upcoming supplement through Wargames Illustrated. The first of their Battlegroups, Biltz's Battlegroup, has arrived for preview...
You get a whole bunch of infantry in the box, as you'd imagine, leaping out of the trenches and haring across No Man's Land as quickly as they could. As well as that you get machine guns and heavy guns alongside a HQ contingent and some tanks. That's quite the old school Panzer!
As well as this WWPD has been having a sneak peek at the Great War supplement and all it entails so head over to their site and check out Part One: The Overview as well as more articles.
Will you be getting into Great War gaming?
I’m really looking forward to diving into this. It will be my first experience with FOW.
Does anyone know if I will need the regular FOW rules to play this, or will the magazine supplement be enough?
You will need the core rules to play with the supplement.
These sets seem reasonably(!) priced compared to Battlefront’s second world war gubbins, what so!?!
To me it seems to fall in line with rest of the BF stuff.
If you want to compare it to the WW2 line, Blitz’s Battlegroup set contains infantry company + gun blister + two tanks.
I’m anxiously waiting to order both boxes….. and i would like to see pics of the new terrain….
I’m really curious as to how tactical WWI games play out. To me, every game would seem to fall into a predictable pattern: the defender gleefully shovels his opponent’s figures off the table while the attacker abandons hope and gets deep into his cups after the opening artillery barrage and the subsequent first turn where the MG’s turn everyone who’s left into red mist and bone chips. Am I wrong?
I guess it depends on a couple of things. 1) How historical do the players want their games to get? Let’s face it, there are a few things in FoW that are a little foggy in the historical dept, but it’s not made to be a perfect recreation and that’s fine. With a little of this “historical forgiveness” I’m sure FoW WWI games could play great. 2) If players want to get “hard core” with the historical aspect, they have to take a very careful selection of which battles they try to do. the great pitfall of historical gaming is… Read more »
So what you’re saying is, my assumption was a bit “over the top” 😉
Not at all. 🙂 Red mist and bone chips are a requirement!
“Aughhh! I have a piece of Cpl. Smithe’s pelvis in my EYE!”
“Tosh tosh, laddie! That’s just a scrap of what we call “secondary shrapnel.” 😀
As long as it wasn’t there before the bombardment :-).
Cant wait for this!!!