Italian Terrain & The Great War Comes To Flames Of War
June 19, 2014 by brennon
The folks of Flames of War have been talking a lot about fighting in Italy over the last few weeks and while you could say any green board is a field in Italy it would be great to make it look more accurate. So, see what you think of the Italian Houses and Walls that could be your troops next holiday home...
Taking a look at the houses they have plenty of firepoints but of course the main thing is that those roofs can come off and you can fit a few bases of troops in there to take cover from enemy fire and secure parts of the board. I love the idea of building-to-building combat and this is equally so in a more rural place like the countryside of Italy.
As well as the houses they've also come up with a selection of walls for you to use to give that authentic feeling of Italy to your board. You even get yourself a little shrine that sits on the side of the road and maybe it will bring your troops some good luck.
As well as all this gubbins about houses and walls there is a whole host of World War I goodies coming your way towards the end of the summer. In partnership with Wargames Illustrated Flames of War will be offering rules and army lists for British and German troops during this tightly fought conflict. Not only that but there are miniatures too!
You can take a look at some more of the Great War upgrades and such by following this link HERE but below is also a snippet of what you're getting in these army lists for a very different kind of war fought in Europe.
Look for this around August this year in issue 322 of Wargames Illustrated and fight out some of the biggest battles in World War I. It's great to see that they have a real push of support for this period of history and as well known as World War II is World War I also should be remembered and learned about I reckon.
What do you think?
I think those buildings are a bit basic,ok there pre painted but there is better out there
For WW1 I just have my doubts about this. I think it will be a short lived effort by Battlefront. again there are multitude of good figures and and better rules out there already
As long as its lived enough to get Spads in it and Gotha V bombers then I think it will do fine. I’d love to paint lozenge camo on everything German air related. The size and crudess of the tanks its like playing something out of Jeles Verne or HG Wells and still be correct to history.
Trench Mortars nuff said
Land raiders Warren? Those miniatures look great.
Were there really any tank vs. tank battles in World War I? I’ve heard of just one, something like three Mk IVs vs. one German A7. Of course there’s the mass tank action at Cambrai, but that’s with tanks only on one side. Some games I’ve seen, though, “squeeze in” World War I tank battles by postulating a continuation of the war into 1919.
http://home.comcast.net/~storto10/pbtomscen1.html
Not that I know of.
Some interesting statistics on numbers of tanks
Germany produced a total of 20 according to these figures. They also used captured British tanks
oops forgot the link
http://landships.activeboard.com/t35439129/total-number-of-tanks-usedproduced-per-nation-1916-1918/
Been waiting for this. I’m really not sure how FOW will go in a WWI environment but I’m keen to see. I’d hope they are not going to be armour centric, I know BF love tanks but smothering every game in armour is not going to get the right feel. There is real potential to create a good game in 15mm that provides the right feeling, I hope it works. Worst case the minis will be sweet.
Well Germany built 20 tanks during the whole war so not a lot of scope really I think 3 or 4 never made it out of the German factories The only real one I can think of is the one mentioned in the Battlefront article Sorry if this is what your link says Oriskany but the link wouldnt work for me, and just to be completely pedantic the War did last until 1919, the Armstice in November 1918 was just a temporary truce so technically the war continued until the signing of the treaty at Versailles even if there was… Read more »
Sorry about the link, it’s a very small page (might even be an internal page on a Comcast site). They used to be featured on the Michigan State University site but someone took them down. 🙁 It’s just a series of scenarios Tom Williams “The Dawn of Mechanized Armies” created for PanzerBlitz/Panzer Leader series of WW2 tactical games. Since there is only one tank-on-tank engagement on record (to my knowledge) in World War 1 (and I think only four total tanks were engaged), he postulated the possibility of FIGHTING 🙂 continuing into 1919 so he could build some interesting what-if… Read more »
Dave, have you seen ‘Der Rote Baron’?
Was that the German made film with the made up Jewish pilot???? If so yes I’ve seen that. Has him flying and albatross for most of the film and has the guy from Inglorious Basterds. An odd film but one that’s not totally terrible
“Why did you paint your plane red? You will lose all surprise!”
“I don’t want them surprised. I want them scared!”
I deny that Porco Rosso ever said that! lol
Oh, I know very little about the Richtofen, and not that much about WWI in general. I just remember it from the movie. But even with my limited knowledge, the movie seemed a little stylized. Is there ANY truth to the scene where he actually met Joseph Fienne’s character, the guy who would eventually shoot him down? This seemed far fetched to me.
Richtofen was shot down by Australian Infantry when he flew too low
I’ll admit I had to look up that Porco Rosso reference. Cute. 🙂
Wasn’t the Red Baron’s girlfriend (a nurse, I think) also the actress who plays Cersei in Game of Thrones?
Right about the same time she played the drug queen in the new Judge Dred?
The 2012 Red Baron film was awful, tried to make him into some romantic hero
Would rather watch Aces High or the old BBC TV series Wings, in which they used some lovely 1/6th scale R/C models
There was another recent wwi film called flyboys. Had some cool dogfights and take down the zeppelin-scenes in it.