Flames Of War Sees Germans & Soviets Clash In New Supplements
July 26, 2018 by brennon
Battlefront is taking the fighting of Flames Of War to The Eastern Front with two new supplements and a new two-player Starter Set called Battle Of Stalingrad.
The set will come with five plastic tanks for you to start playing out the battles through these urban environments as well as the rules and a quick-start guide to get you stuck into the game. Alongside the release of this, you'll also see two books which expand on the forces from the period and help you bring to life appropriate scenarios too.
The releases for this new wave will begin in August and run all the way through to November so you have plenty to look forward to if you want to play as Germans or Soviets in your World War II games.
New Front, New Force
As well as the Starter Set you'll also find a good starting point with two new Starter Armies which are themed around this particular frontier. Here we have Nikolay's Steel Wall...
...and Dietrich's Ghosts which are all plastic. This means that if you want to expand on the Starter Box for Stalingrad that we mentioned above, or you just want to jump right in, you have some new options to explore.
As I said; the range will be expanding throughout the rest of the year and it will come alongside a new campaign, organised play events and more. You can see the list of releases HERE and get more information on what you might need to book into your calendar HERE.
Which side will you fight for?
"The releases for this new wave will begin in August and run all the way through to November..."
this looks brilliant and I see the brick factory is coming out.
Very cool! Hopefully @oriskany will do an article series on the Eastern Front too!
Thanks, @koraski – we are still rolling through the Kursk series at the moment (nothing more Eastern Front than that) and we hit Stalingrad pretty hard last fall for the 75th Anniversary. The Stalingrad thread, however, has been lost to the “BoW 1.0 Archives” at the moment (last sighted in the Indiana Jones warehouse next to the Ark of the Covenant) 🙂 so maybe I’ll have to re-post it … perhaps as a Project this time?
I was teasing.
I wasn’t. You know the more I think about it the more I might go ahead and re-post that Stalingrad 75th Anniversary material as a Project. 🙂
I wonder if this starter set will introduce the Eastern European Axis Forces (and the Italians) a bit more than they have done in the past. As far as I know the Romanian and Hungarian forces were overrun by the Russian 6th army that broke the stalemate around the city. However usually most “wargamers” don’t collect what’s seen as inferior armies (instead preferring to opt for SS and soviet Guards), but these “other” forces made up the bulk of the action and there’s no good reason why Romanian and Hungarian armies have to always have to face these elite forces… Read more »
Hence why we are getting the KV-1, 1s and early war T34 for Tanks. I would like to see the KV-2 and the Ferdinand some time soon. Heck, just give us card packs GF9. Sadly looking through the release schedule for plastic kits we won’t be seeing anything particularly new or interesting coming to Tanks.
nice, really nice, need more plastic
And there’s scenery, Stalingrad buildings very nice
Nice to see a lot more plastics on the way especially of some stuff that no-one else makes yet.
Those are some nice boxed sets.
I would love a better picture of that gaming mat. A nice city mat is just what the doctor ordered for Team Yankee.
The starter sets have been good and looking at these makes me wonder if I shouldn’t delve off into the Eastern Front too despite steering well clear of this for years. That being said the contents of these, both from a game and hobby perspective isn’t overly ideal.