Snap Up New D-Day American Forces For Flames Of War
June 25, 2019 by brennon
D-Day is hotting up as Battlefront Miniatures provide those diving into Flames Of War with some cool new options as they fight through the Late War period. A new supplement leads the way.
This book takes things beyond the beaches of Normandy as you dive into the fierce fighting which erupted as the Americans and other Allied forces pushed further inland. The book will focus in on the forces that fought in Normandy and keep you historically accurate as it were!
Reinforce Your Invading Army
As you might have guessed the rest of June and July is very much focused towards the release of some new miniatures for the Americans. We've taken a snippet of the new releases to show off here but you can find more over on the Pre-Order Page.
The first two options that I wanted to draw attention to are the Armoured Rifle Platoon above and the Rifle Platoon below which really focus in on the use of infantry in your games of Flames Of War. Yes, there were lots of vehicles charging across the countryside but it was the regular soldiers who won the day.
As well as these infantry options there will be plenty of key vehicles for you to choose from like the M4 Sherman which comes in a larger set of five vehicles.
Artillery, smaller recon vehicles and more are also on the way but it seems like the focus is shifting towards an army which is quick and deadly, able to close in on the enemy position.
Supporting from the skies you've also got aircraft that would have been flying in from Britain. For example, here we have the P-47 Thunderbolt Flight.
Watch out for these dropping bombs on the enemy position, smashing them to smithereens before your infantry and tanks roll in. These aircraft were key to the success of the war effort, keeping the Axis airforce from harrying the advance.
Will you be picking up some of the American forces for use in Normandy?
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"Will you be picking up some of the American forces for use in Normandy?"
Seeing how much you have to keep on an eye on well done @brennon for this update think they only appeared yesterday. Will be interesting to see if avail ant open day at weekend, specially as I’ve now actually cleared most of my backlog of nearly finished stuff from a couple years back! Thunderbolts were capable of causing choas to both sides , no of battle reports from British Canadian units, of bombed by Thunderbolts ! Famous German saying ‘Ven the Luftwaffe flys across the Tommies go to ground ‘Ven the RAF flys accros we Germans go to Ground ‘Ven… Read more »
Some things never change 😉
Nice to see the infantry get updated for late war retail boxes (as before they were only in boxes marked for mid war), however not sure if the contents of the boxes have actually changed (as they use the same sprues) so you could buy either I guess. However there’s a LOT of bazookas on the sprues (more than you would actually need) for normal foot infantry (the Armoured infantry had a lot more issued to them), but that’s me just rivet counting again 😀 I’m presuming the Sherman box has 5 “basic” sprues of the 75mm Sherman and 2… Read more »
If you get the starter American army, I don’t see the point to get more tanks. I’d get planes and infantry to beef my army.
Except for M5 Stuart PSC one
Is taller, see my project ‘The Road to Falaise’.
I’ve not got an American force yet, but I could be tempted by this.
PSC do some nice kits, but I’ve always preferred Battlefronts vehicles, but I would happily add in PSC bits if needed.
How are people finding the V4 late war since it’s launch?
Those are Welcome release.
A great set of boxes they need some priest’s for mobile artillery.
Going to get my US Army done once I get the IDF done for TY, then onto the Germans. This is a lot of infantry to get done. 🙂 someday it will all be done LOL don’t know if I can fool myself on this either.