Farmpunk Pulls The Trigger

by SandWyrm

Farmpunk and I were going to head down to Gamerz last night for some free Flames of War action, but we decided that it wasn't worth the gas or the 1.5 hours of round-trip driving to get there and back. So we headed over to the GP North instead. Where Farmpunk used his points to buy the FoW starter box.

We played a few Sherman vs. Stug scenarios before discussing what armies we want to collect. Farmpunk wants to do French troops, but that's kind of limiting era-wise. So he's talking about doing mid-war Americans to start with (possibly painted as Free French). I'm wanting to do North African Germans, so at least that would let us get in some Rommel vs. Patton action. Looking through the North Africa book, I tried to come up with some ideas for the kind of Afrikakorps force that I want to do.

What's nice about Flames is that you have multiple army lists per faction. So if you want to do a German armored company, your minimum is a PzIII/IV HQ tank and 2 PzIII/IV platoons. You then have a limited number of options for filling out the rest of the army. You don't just get to pick anything else from the book that you want, as in 40K. In flames, the individual lists dictate your options. In Armored companies, your infantry options are limited. In infantry companies, your armor options are limited.

The point costs will be different for the same unit in different lists too. I like that.

Want to do a Heavy Armored Company? Looks like that's 4 Tigers at 1500 points. Ouch! 3 is the minimum you can take, and there aren't a lot of other options available to that list. On the up side, the list would cost less than $100 to collect. :)

I'm actually pretty interested in the armored car company, but while it's flexible and has variety, it doesn't seem to have access to Marders. I like Marders, so I want to find a way to use some. :)

Hmmnnn... choices choices.