FoW For The Win: ‘Nam Week – Basic Training Part 1
August 5, 2013 by warzan
Warren has gotten in to the spirit of things and brought Gareth from Battlefront to have a look at Flames of War Vietnam and joining them are two of the guys from the Chelmsford Bunker! We're about to take our first Tour of Duty so GET TO THE CHOPPER!
Here's the run down on what you can win:
Prize 1: US Rifle Company
1 x Tour of Duty Rule Book
2 x Rifle Platoon VUS712
1 x Machine gun Platoon VUS708
1 x Mortar Platoon VUS705
Dice and Tokens VE003 VE004
Crashed Huey VE107
Loach VUSBX04
Prize 2: PAVN Army
1 x Tour of Duty Rule Book
Dice and Objective VE002 VE101
Infantry HQ VPABX06
Infantry VPABX07
Weapons Company VPABX08
Divisional Fire Support VPABX09
Local Forces Company VPABX10
To win all you have to do is comment on anything that we send out this week and at the end we'll pull all the comments in to one big pot and pick two winners before announcing them on not this coming Weekender but the one following it.
So get commenting and enjoy the week!
Wow, the videos come fast today!
Nice playthrough guys, enjoyed myself as usual with your videos. Really hope more people get interested in to this game. The Huey objective is great, loved to pait mine very much.
Keep em coming!
As a person who has experienced only the WWII aspect of Flames of war, it is awesome to see how the whole atmosphere changes in ‘Nam.
Not sure if the part after 8:37 was supposed be in this 😀 But game looks great. The table looks awesome. Really lookin forward to get deeper into the action and to see how things work.
3rd Nam vid of the day. Keep em coming!
Everyone gonny get shoot get line
I like the hidden aspect to the PAVN local troops.
That’s what is was like with the VC. They could be anyone and anywhere. Led to a lot of crap for the civvies unfortunately.
Big FoW player and I have been working on my Gary Owen company since tour came out. Love the different feel for automatic rifles, ambush, helicopters and medics. Not a huge Vietnam war fan per se but the challenges and modern weapons and units make this game really fun! I am looking foward to more and seeing what we’ve been doing wrong.
Oh and think about time travel possibilities… just sayin you coud do it.
I like the mechanics of this game so far, though I probably won’t be getting into it. Unless I win one of the prizes of course. XD
its a trap! the farmers are not pleased. great video warran
Unlike the FoW videos, this one seemed very rushed, hurried. Wasn’t as relaxed as the many other videos. Glad to have the intro to Tour Of Duty, but it just doesn’t matchup to the other FoW 2.0 ‘easy going, just a couple friends learning the game’ style that I enjoyed so much.
different style of video 🙂
We do all sorts round here you know 😉
I like what I’ve seen of the game so far 🙂
I really like this so far I can see so much potential for this to expand even further
Great terrain. I love those pre-painted huts.
Looking forward to seeing a board with a lot more jungle, want to see the yanks out of their depth.
(gotta) GET SOME GET SOME GET SOME (FoW Vietnam)
cool. pre-painted buildings look ace, the way the Americans can deploy by helicopter looks pretty slick, pretty easy, no buggering about with a tonne of special rules – really am loving this Vietnam stuff more n more with every minute
Its lookin epic guys
It does seem a bit one sided. If anything, the culture references teach us that the Americans were cool. It’s hard finding people who will want to play the VC, I’m guessing. Maybe not.
I’m thinking that friends who get together for this hobby have to buy and paint an equal amount of VC for every point spent on US or Anzac
It really strikes me as a game for buddies to play together (not against one another)
Isn’t that what the prize for? 🙂
Well i would play the vc, because i like hordes of men storming the usa lines and i hope the vc get a rule about their tunnel systems. As far as i know the vc were very fast movers in the jungle. they invent the famous pacour run style and uses tunnels. Hide and seek 🙂 oh boy i can imagine ambushes with booby traps raids on outposts and maybe the tet offensive? let the yankees fly and give me a showel and a battalion of vc jungle fighters and we will see who will win in the end 🙂
amazing table
Awesome again NAM week is the shiz
3 things:
1 – You guys should do WFB and 40K videos like the first FTW series – Very funny, couldn’t stop watching them and I learned a freaking lot from the.
2 – This one indeed was not what I was expecting after watching the first series of videos. Let’s see how things evolve through the week
3 – Questioning? Warren would’ve shoot those villagers from the chopper….
cheers from Brazil
3. Excactlu. When they run they are vc. When they stand still they are well trained vc.
How can you shoot women and children?
I love the idea of the American deployment of being well anywhere and I am waiting to see how this develops and the differences between it and the WW2 game
I really expected a good Ol’ Yo Joe! 😀
Cool stuff!
Sorta interesting to see this setting turned into a game.