The road to Normandy (and beyond?)
Taking the first steps
So, Flames of War is a game that’s been on my radar for a while, even picked up the old starter set in college, but it’s not a game I ever really paid attention to until a week & a half ago, when I started watching unboxings & other videos to kill some time. Then my hand slipped, and wouldn’t you know it, an order was placed. That arrived today.
A 'modest' start to thingsSo I picked up the Panzer Kampfgruppe & Desert Rats Squadron boxes for the Germans & British respectively. There’s 100 points in each box, which as far as I can tell is the new standard, which is pretty sweet for how cheap they are. A mate of mine is interested, and they do a cheap set of 2d D-Day terrain, so that’s a goal to work for, and thanks to Pete The Wargamer on youtube, one that looks very quick & easy to achieve. Weather right now’s pretty rotten, and these definitely seem the kind of minis that are easier painted in sub assemblies, so next step is to take my time, plan things out, and then work in a disciplined, organised fashion……..
Or that works too, I guess.
Great start, would suggest you seriously consider the Hit the Beaches starter set too, that is amazing value and would go with your forces here to expand them with a few more options, the Americans could be used with the British, you get a LOT of bang for your buck in that set!
That’s definitely on the cards, does veer me dangerously close to the area of ‘collect all the armies’ though
You can field the US platoon as allied support to British and Sherman’s are in the British list so you are good for just British and German for now… although if you are like me… yeah i went for all the big four 😉
What formation cards are in the box? It looks like, for the Germans at least, they have multiple formations based around Grenadiers, so is it better cards wise for me to pick up the separate platoon box or do all the cards that come in the Grenadier company come with the Hit the Beach box?
Look on the Flames of War website for all the info you should need, find it in there store and then click the image and select related articles to go to the full description, i did try and paste the link for you but it would not let me here! Remember this is about £130 of goodies for £28 here on On Table Top! It is an amazing value starter set and ideal for expanding your collection at a fraction of the cost of buying individual box sets!
https://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=6490
Excellent starting point, I look forward to seeing the progress