{"id":788,"date":"2013-10-17T04:52:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T04:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/?p=788"},"modified":"2013-10-17T04:52:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T04:52:41","slug":"getting-started-in-wwii-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started in WWII Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while back, I got the Flames Of War Open Fire!<\/a> box set as a gift. \u00a0There’s 100+ 15mm miniatures in there, as well as the FoW rulebook, painting guides, and more.<\/p>\n

Since then, Too Fat Lardies released their excellent WWII skirmish rules, Chain Of Command<\/a>. Reading those rules, and reading the FoW rules, I quickly decided I’d rather play Chain Of Command.<\/p>\n

That doesn’t mean the Open Fire! box set is useless. \u00a0Far from it. \u00a0The miniatures in that box are of excellent quality, and there are a lot of them. \u00a0Chain Of Command is intended for 28mm, but the rules state it can be played in 15mm with no adjustments. \u00a0I already play Sci-Fi in 15mm, so I have lots of terrain that can do double duty. \u00a0Using the FoW minis to play Chain Of Command in 15mm is a no brainer for me.<\/p>\n

So, tonight I assembled a German platoon, as specified by the CoC army lists, from my FoW minis:<\/p>\n

\"Chain_of_command_german_platoon_raw\"<\/a>That’s the platoon command group in the front – a leader with a 2 man panzershreck team. \u00a0Then 3 squads, each with a leader and panzerfaust, a MG42 machine gun with 2 crew and a rifleman, and six rifleman.<\/p>\n

That’s 39 minis. \u00a0This is the core of your force in CoC.<\/p>\n

Here’s a size comparison between the the FoW minis and some 15mm Sci-Fi minis from Rebel Minis<\/a> I have in progress:<\/p>\n

\"Size_comparison_FoW_Rebel_minis_sci_fi\"<\/a>39 minis. \u00a0I’ve got a lot of painting to do. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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A while back, I got the Flames Of War Open Fire! box set as a gift. \u00a0There’s 100+ 15mm miniatures in there, as well as the FoW rulebook, painting guides, and more. Since then, Too Fat Lardies released their excellent WWII skirmish rules, Chain Of Command. Reading those rules, and reading the FoW rules, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[44,55,24,11,56,62],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wwii","tag-15mm","tag-chain-of-command","tag-flames-of-war","tag-rebel-minis","tag-too-fat-lardies","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}