Flames of War Digital is Now Live!
February 5, 2015 by stvitusdancern
Battlefront has announced as of today, Flames of War Digital is now live and available (sort of). With this application you will have access to the entire Flames of War library, to include the rulebook, Know Your Enemy books, campaign books and intelligence briefings.
Of course as anyone would suspect there are some first day growing pains and they are working through them. It sure will be nice to have all that reference material right at my fingertips.You can even send Battlefront a message directly from the app.
As for my comment of "sort of", please let me elaborate, the app right now is only available for Ipads. So, this leaves me out, as I do not own any Apple products, but you sure can bet I will be grabbing this as soon as it gets released for Android.
Are you ready for digital warfare WWII style?
"With this application you will have access to the entire Flames of War library"
A step in the right direction. Paid for the rule book but unable to download it, and as yet certainly not the ‘entire flame of war library’ as quoted above.
You are correct, Battlefront is working towards that goal. Sorry for any confusion.
I just hope that they don’t leave out Windows Devices, too many firms focus on Apple and Android and forget the Windows platform entirely. I have a work issues iPad (no gaming stuff on that) and my own Windows Phone and Tablets, iPads are too expensive.
I see what you mean, but the developer perspective is quite different. Most of the time apps like these are first developed for iOS. The portation to Android or WinPhone is the same effort again. So to cover all 3 you have nearly 3 times the development cost. With tablet market shares of Android at about 72%, iOS 22% and Windows at about 6% (numbers from Q3 2014, http://www.statista.com/statistics/273840/global-market-share-of-tablet-operating-systems-since-2010/) it is quite clear where the developers will focus on. BTT: I think it is a great idea. Far to less companies in our hobby industry make use of modern devices… Read more »
Also, don’t forget that while Android tablets have a higher market share, the vast majority of profits from app sales come from iOS.
For most firms, it simply doesn’t make financial sense to spend money building mobile windows apps when you are likely to generate almost no revenue from them.
This is why companies built iOS first, then eventually Android. All the money is to be made from the iOS platform.