June 28, 2013 by warzan
Video Sponsor: Wayland Games
The time has come. Warren is finally ready to take on David and his Allied forces! Get ready as Warren rolls out with his STUG III army and unleashes the fires of hell!
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Great video guys, good to see a full game and with Warrens extra twists too.
Sad to see Sarah Jane get blown up, not so much Mel…. 😉
Mel is my favorite companion.
Big ginger poofy hair, great fashion sense, lovely little nose…
ahem
Sweet ! Especially I appreciate that I can count on u guys to be there with me during my friday night painting sessions. I depend on u fellas : ) And there they are : alternate camera angles, great ! I think its essential to be able to show several areas of the board where the action actualy is happening. I dont like the shaky cam stuff BTP or MWG is doing for example, here everything was steady and well focused. I think FoW offers itself well for filming with its big open areas, few things hidden behind terrain, imagine… Read more »
Loved the game and the rules twist ;0)
Great video guys thanks.
Warren I do like the look of your Stugs advancing in turn two, you could imagine them advancing out of the early dawn winter morning on yur snow covered board.
Was that the first “Gott in Himmel” of this series? If so I admire your restraint.
Great series. FoW looks a pure, unalloyed blast.
That was bloody marvelous. Great board, really nice scenario and nice clear gameplay and camera angles. Also nice to see a few more rules in play and different units ( for the allies at least). I reckon David had already sent captain america out through the sewers with the plans turn three….lol
Maybe David should get a go at devising the next scenario? How about setting up an ambush to recover the plans…..
Rule 1 of wargamig.
When you make a list….
Remember what you put in it… my Typhoon was sitting there waiting for me to roll some air power dice… just after the game b*tch slap me over and over for leaving her sitting on the side lines…
I R SMRT
Whoops, I was wondering…….it sounded like like you had something like that lined up…Maybe it was busy trying to shoot doodlebugs out the sky ; )
Great video guys.
How about you use your Typhoon in the next game ?
Maybe help Warren to round out his army with infantry artillery and some air power/anti air craft units, perhaps.
Then we can see more of the great game play F.o.W. has.
Not to mention the huge amount of enthusiasm and fun you both bring to this cool series.
Yeah I was wondering what happened to the air support, also don’t forget to take your tank terror motivation test for infantry assaulting tanks
Another very enjoyable vid, I knew warren would love stormtrooper moves.
Another wonderful gaming video – the great thing is, it is blatantly obvious that Warren and Dave are great sportsmen and thoroughly enjoyed it. The doodlebug artillery is a bit mad but very interesting. Warren’s blocking move was a gamble that really paid off very well in the end. And there is more to come? Well, to complement to horde of StuG’s, I think infantry, some artillery in the form of 105mm (towed or spg), some AAA to fend off the Typhoons (which Dave later realised he had forgotten), maybe CAS for Warren’s horde in the form of the Ju87-G… Read more »
Great job!
the Nachtwolfen don’t retreat, they merely advance in another direction!!!
Great video as always. I would love to see artillery in action, large formations of heavy artillery and smaller mortar squads would be great.
Keep up the great work.
See, now as far as i’m concerned. This is how to do a BoW show right.
Just like the previous episodes and those of the Dreadball academy series. It’s entertaining, it’s informative and it engages with the watcher and makes them feel included.
Nop notch stuff.
thanks Remember though not all shows can be the same, it’s just not possible for a small team to deliver more shows, with more variety, with better production, with more certain schedules, while also trying to reward backstagers for supporting us. We have to try to bring in, more people and make compromises on what we can achieve in the time we have. This can mean, experimenting with show formats, to see what’s good and what’s actually achievable on a regular basis, and like anyone else we watch show stats, so a show y only get a few thousand views,… Read more »
I can’t help being a little selfish in wanting things how ‘I’ like them but I know that my opinions are exactly that – ‘my’ opinions and I know that i’m not always going to like everything that you produce. As you say, you produce whatever gets the most views and I understand that. 🙂 Experimenting is good. It helps you to find out what works and what doesn’t. But the way BoW is running at the moment it all seems a bit ‘scattershot’ with bits here, there and everywhere. It almost feels like there’s no cohesion to the shows.… Read more »
Bloody hell. That was a ramble and a half. 🙁
Wall of text crits you for 2D6 damage.
Hey warren, here is proposed list for you. German Stug Batterie Tank Company, from Grey Wolf, page 58 Morale Points Platoons 2000 6 HEADQUARTERS Compulsory StuG Batterie HQ 1x CinC StuG G, 1x Begleit CV 110 – General Von Saucken General Von Saucken, 1x Sd Kfz 250 Half-track 65 COMBAT Compulsory StuG Platoon 1x Command StuG G, 2x StuG G, 3x Begleit CV 330 1 Compulsory StuG Platoon 1x Command StuG G, 2x StuG G, 3x Begleit CV 330 1 StuG Platoon 1x Command StuG G, 2x StuG G, 3x Begleit CV 330 1 WEAPONS SUPPORT StuG Platoon 1x Command… Read more »
That was a great show and rationed out over the day made good weekend viewing.
One of the key indicators for me is I sit there and try to beat your dice throws (maybe i should seek help)
I have enjoyed a lot of new formats especially when you draft in other gamers who play the game or the featured army.
The novice and vet combo gives a good insight into a game as well.
Hope to see more of Dave in the future, I think he’s a bit of a star.
oh yeah and Peri use to float my teenage boat.
I cannot believe how much I am enjoying a video about a game I don’t play. I’m scared.
And this a tournament game, as well.
If anyone want’s a army list builder for FOW go to this website: http://fowlists.blogspot.com.au/p/welcome.html. Again its only a list check as it doesn’t validate German tank platoons that need the same tank in it etc. But i have found it extremely useful more in this series to get list made in a way people can read. People have been asking how to expand the army from open fire and this was how I did it for this game: Use the Operation Market Garden Book!!! Armoured Compulsory Armoured Squadron HQ – 1x CIC Sherman V, 1x 2iC Sherman V (160 pts)… Read more »
I’ve watched all of these episodes now, and from time to time they are actually muddying my understanding of the rules. In the first episode or two you guys did little flash screens when you had got stuff wrong. I know it’s not possible to look up the rules while filming, but could you at least mention when there’s something your not sure about that its something you will check? Prime example this episode would be the assault of the infantry vs the tanks. The paras bailed two of the tanks, yet that seemed to have no impact? Also, the… Read more »
There are a few army lists for FoW which are actually designed to field an entire army of StuG tanks, or very close to it (The StuG Batterie from Grey Wolf is a good example). While those lists may not allow you to take 21 StuGs, Warren could at least get close!
As for an idea for the next video, I think it’s high time Dave got a little payback…maybe a scenario in which Dave’s 29th ambushes Warren’s Nachtwolfen tank column while they’re on the move, in an effort to get the plans back?
Yeah, I’ve pretty much given up on using this series to help with learning the FoW rules. Trying to be an introduction to the game doesn’t work if you’re going to cause confusion with Warren’s homebrew rules/lists.
Hey Warren,
Don’t know if you’ve seen it yet but if you hop over to the FoW website they’re doing a give away for Operations Overlord which starts today (Sunday). Basically sign up and send in 5 battle reports to the main site and they will send you a V-1 as well as a german scientist and cameraman mini.
You could use them like was do for Siege weapons in Warhammer. If you loose the crew you can’t fire the weapon.
At first I want to say that I really enjoyed the video
Warren if you want some infantry ( my proposition – SS-Panzergrenadier ) then also take a look at some artillery support ( maybe 15cm howitzers, 12cm Heavy Mortars or eventually 15cm nebelwerfer) .
Otherwise I have a feeling your Night Wolves might like some aircrafts as STUGs are IMO already more of mobile and better armored artillery rather than normal tanks ( my proposition for this is precision dive bomber Stuka)
good shows guys what about 500 king tigers next waran:)
I’m still watching, for next show or the one after please look at putting together a valid list, as in one from a book or pdf. Also consider a smaller point limit as this means when you put the list together you have to leave something out. If Dave had used the air support a different story entirely as the StuGs don’t stand up to air that well. Then look at doing one of the book missions, you can still use the V-1 as an objective and with those where the objective isn’t live until turn 6 is the time… Read more »
Your definition of a ‘valid list’ is an interesting concept but not necessarily a universal one! In tournaments etc I can see the need for completely clear point limits and army selections, but beyond that I’m not sure it is really that important. Surely if the people playing the game are happy with each other’s lists and the purpose of the video is not to teach how to create a ‘legal’ army list then it does not matter. Apocalypse works along those lines (although it still uses a points limit). Fun is the objective here. Fun to watch and fun… Read more »
Awesome video guys! This series is driving me leaps and bounds in actually getting involved with Flames of war. I’ve just ordered myself my first 1000pts of Fallschimjager with a big thanks to Dave for his help with the list :-).
Humm Well with my love for Market Garden maybe your Fallschimjagers would like to face off against me and Michael Caine with the Irish Guards.
(Michael Caine played J.O.E Vandeleur in the film A Bridge Too Far)