FoW Armoured Fist British Force
Planning the force
So I want to start a Mid-War Flames of War British force. Where to begin?
Well I had some objectives:
- I wanted to be able to field different formations with a mixture of unit types, but Tanks are mostly what this game has been about; although I’m hearing that the latest edition has balanced this a bit. Many tournaments and games at my club work on the 96-120 point range so looking at towards 200 points worth of units I can reconfigure would be ideal.
- From a cost point of view the current Battlefront range looks better than previously when I collected mostly PSC and Zvezda vehicles to build my LW German forces. Some of the starter forces look good value and I also have some Shermans from my first Open Force starter set that I could repurpose (hope the pedants don;t look too close).
- It has to have a 25 pdr Artillery unit as that’s what my uncle served in. You can’t build a formation around this, but they can be used as support within a formation or on their own.
So after investing in the Armoured Fist book and the online Forces-of-War army builder I worked out the following unit inventory that supports a variety of formations I’ll explain later.
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