Flames of War General: Valentine Lovers Edition

Flames of War SCANS database:
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---Includes our Late War Leviathan rules!
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Current Veeky Forums fan projects - Noob Guide &FAQ, and a Podcast
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Quick Guide on all present FOW Books:
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Archive of all known Panzer Tracts PDFs: mediafire.com/folder/nyvobnlg12hoz/Panzer_Tracts

WWII Osprey's, Other Wargames, and Reference Books
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and, for Vietnam.
mediafire.com/folder/z8i8t83bysdwz/Vietnam_War

--Guybrarian Notes:
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400gb.com/u/1883935

Panzerfunk, the /fowg/ podcast.
panzerfunk.podbean.com/

vimeo.com/128373915

flamesofwar.com/Portals/0/Documents/Briefings/CariusNarva.pdf

flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=1949 the Azul Division: no longer linkable off the main page

Which army do you play the most?
strawpoll.me/4631475

what actual country are you from?
strawpoll.me/4896764

DISCORD
discord.gg/drZbxvm

docs.google.com/document/d/1JWmbvVANUraO9ILWJZduRgiI9w4ZC3ytNUQE8rK7Xrw/edit?usp=sharing an "i want to get a starter set" for late war.

Do you play TANKS? what is the local scene / meta like? (multi)
strawpoll.me/12127794/r

/fowg/ Discord
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Other urls found in this thread:

youtube.com/watch?v=RqCac3jR6Qw
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youtube.com/watch?v=bNjp_4jY8pY
youtube.com/watch?v=RKxzdasGU0M
twitter.com/SFWRedditGifs

Old Thread

youtube.com/watch?v=RqCac3jR6Qw

This is a really beautiful kit. Probably won't buy these for TY because lol spam hordes, but if Battlegroup NORTHAG includes an option, I'd be down to buy a box.

Sergeant york is in because only soviets aren't allowed kit that's coming online this year.

Is there any proof it is in? BF aren't retarded; they know if they include that it'll look terrible compared to the realism constraints warpac have to live with. They can add little stuff that's a reskin of other things slightly ahead of time, like the MCT but they'll know adding entirely new capabilities that infamously didn't work is just totally validating requests for the T-80U.

One of the battlefront dudes (James maybe, even though he isn't with the company anymore) was defending it when people were bashing it, so I wouldn't rule it out. This is the same game where a Chieftain has FA 17, so can we really rule anything out?

>This is the same game where a Chieftain has FA 17, so can we really rule anything out?
Sanity

Defending it is different from actually including it in a book though. It would just be too stupid. They might, heavy emphasis on might, do Sheridans. Those are at least sort of around. The York didn't even work.

Got any proof?

So far the only thing questionable as far as the timeline are the Krasnapol projectiles on the Acacia.

Those technically shouldn't be in service until 1986 or '87.

To bring in a unit that never even entered production would just be idiotic.

Bumping with crazy Yugo tank.

Yes, they crammed a 6pdr into the turret. Upside down, it looks like.

Interesting design.

What are some other less common tanks from WWII that don't get too much attention?

Sure, everyone knows the big ones, but what are some lesser known tanks that you find interesting or unique for one reason or another?

Personally I love the Tetrach and Locust, but with how much I gush about them around here I don't think they qualify as "don't get much attention".

I think the Ram probably qualifies. Nobody pays any real attention to it or it's variants, despite the conversions seeing widespread use in NW Europe. You've got Badgers (Rams with flamethrowers with/instead of the turret), Kangaroo transports, the Sexton was made from the base chassis, and it got used as an observer tank and artillery tractor/ARV.

I'm all about prototypes that didn't enter production because the war ended but were functional and ready for the war. Stuff like the Black Prince, T28, T29, super-hellcat.

>TFW the T-44 was produced in several versions but never deployed.

Where is Discord? How can I shitpost without Discord?

>So far the only thing questionable as far as the timeline are the Krasnapol projectiles on the Acacia.
And the MCT. More importantly we're missing things that were here like ERA.

Isn't ERA supposedly another one of those edge cases where it wasn't fully implemented until 86 or 87?

I know people keep saying they saw it in 85, but supposedly the official documents list it as being in service after that.

Is that a somua with an improvised turret?

Normal turret with the Cupola modified by the Germans to have a hatch, and with the gun mount extended by the Yugoslavian Partisans to fit a whole 6pdr into the turret. It's a beat up old girl.

And I am NOT looking forward to that cupola job on the conversion I'm making for it.

it's a fucking bogandof tank, what it is.

Somuas don't deserve such hate.

I really doubt it, but has anyone here built the FFI rifle platoon (FR860)? BF lists the contents as 25 riflemen and support weapon options, but doesn't detail what exactly those support weapons are model-wise.

Any guesses to what new kit PSC will be spoiling in about 12 hours?

Gepard? Centurion? Char B?
>hamilcar?

It's going to be wwII.

How are the T-35s in V4?
>I'm trying to summon hype enough for me to finish painting them

small GuP news:
The Centipede team is essentially Villian tier now

The multiple weapons rule hurt their cannon performance as they also suffer the additional +1 for hen and Chicks. MG fire on the move still works fine. I just bought 3 to support some infantry. I am hoping to use them as an assault threat against infantry.

I'm hoping for Valentines, but I'm usually dissapointed.

Prepare to be apointed.

IT'S REALLY HAPPENING

pls archer

IT'S HAPPENING!

>PSC makes valentines
>Phill begins to cheers them

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>PSC valentine
>no valentines in MW forever

All they need is enough pre-orders.

And with the way people have been bitching and moaning about them not being in Mid-War yet, that shouldn't be a problem.

>And with the way people have been bitching and moaning about them not being in Mid-War yet, that shouldn't be a problem.
Also many LW soviet players that want a mob of 10 tanks with good AT and armor for 230pts.

That's on T-72s, for example the Kontakt-1-equipped T-72Bs and B1s you see everywhere in Russia.
The T-64Bs (and T-80Bs, too...) of the GSFG were equipped with Kontakt-1 ERA from 1983 to 1985. And then, in 1985, the Soviets came up with the T-80U, but that's a whole different thing.

The only thing I don't like about the willstarter is that I can't support my store when buying them.

Given how small PSC is (2-3 guys?), they don't really have other options I can think of.

I'm getting one or two boxes for my LW soviets.
Same slot as T-70s, only a bit more expensive, vastly superior in every way but speed. Yeah.

I need something cheap to deal with the emerging transport mg hordes.

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Did michael bay paint this?

>not recognizing Communist Sensationalism

>Priority_Sturmovik_Support_PrePatch.jpg

>Grand artisanship worthy of The Motherland's Finest Accomplishment

>Grand artisanship worthy of The Motherland's Finest Accomplishment
but that's wrong

What are peoples issue with this painting? Seems like a pretty accurate representation of a German position being overrun at Kursk or such.

Do you honestly think that it's accurate?

Tanks don't get that close together unless they wall want to get shot, the tanks are split between types assigned to at least four entirely different company types, for some reason the Germans are attacking through their own artillery (based off the way the destroyed tanks are positioned and the nebs) and the sky is way too crowded. It's an obviously exaggerated painting that depicts very little accurately, which is what people are making fun of.

That's the Battle of Kursk, you dummkopf.

It is a very exaggerated painting that's supposed to be of kursk, yes. Doesn't change that it would match or resemble nothing that you'd find at kursk. People are making fun of the exaggeration.

The fate

No that's a napoleonic era battle with tanks and planes

>all those planes in the sky five seconds away from imminent collision
Are you retarded or just blind?

Ah the parking lot, the trademark of Flames of War.

what did he mean by this?

>what is the battle of Prokhorovka

It's part of the battle of Kursk user.
You can read more abput it here
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Prokhorovka

Mostly myth I'm afraid.

Might be of interest to people here.

youtube.com/watch?v=bNjp_4jY8pY

its been around for a little while but a good presentation.

>more than 45 minutes long

I'll have to take a look at this when I have a bit more time.

this guy smashes most tank myths with a hammer.

ok, 50,000 tanks at Kursk was a myth, but for fuck sake it is still the largest tank battle in history. accurate figures were more like 8,000 tanks total for the entire thing.
that's still a fucking lot, considering 73 easting only had 850-ish tanks present
and the US only had 36 tanks at the one ridge battle, the rest was bradleys

It's not the largest tank battle in history.

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Okay, so if Kursk isn't, then what is?

A strong argument could be made for the Second Battle of El Alamein.

I've seen the Battle of Brody mentioned as a alternative.

Dubno 1941

We have a winner.

Do you have sources to substantiate any of this?

Because a quick wikipedia check puts soviet armoured losses alone at kursk as well higher than the number of tanks present at any of these battles.

The difference being "the battle of kursk" covers two entire operations, while the battle of prokhorova is said to be the biggest single tank battle of the war. If you want to count the whole thing you also have to count the whole of barbarossa or at least Uranus, which still wins.

At this point the real question is what defines a battle, which is semantics.

Can someone edit Red Thunder so it doesn't have that white boarder around it?

I heard Battlefront has a version without the white border. Might be worth checking out.

That means giving them money. After their recent fuckups, he'd be somewhat justified in thinking they don't deserve it.

Guess he'll have to deal with the white border then. The world is a cruel place.

If somebody has Photoshop or another program capable of doing such a thing.

I know I don't.

Upgrading zvezda short 75mm lees to long 75mm guns with remains of BF grants. Zvezda 37mm guns are too thin and fragile, so I changed turret with BF ones.

The BF ones come with enough spare parts to do all that and still make the base Grants?

Awesome work on those conversions!

Yes, except storage bins on its back. There are only a pair of sloped bins makes them in parallel with the ground when attached. Actually there are a pair of additional squared storage bins looks sloped when put on the tank but I did not found any pictures of lees used such type of bins.

Thanks!

fokkin noice mate!

hah
Kursk was a 3 part offensive, and it was OPERATION CITADEL and then the soviet counter.
barbarossa / uranus was earlier: zitadelle was to be longer than just kursk, but, we see how Kursk fared.

done.

go home user, you're drunk

that's a ....very soviet assault in that webm.

G A V I N
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Nice wiki page user.

Absolute madman. This is awesome. How much fiddling did it take to put the long 75 into the Zvezda kit?

So on a scale of Warhammer Fantasy to Battletech how dead is this game?

You need to cut exceeding part of BF gun like picture to fit it to zvezda hull.

Not dead at all, well as always depends where you play. It's just a bit divided ATM, as some people are sticking with V3, and others are moving in with V4.

MW looks like it's finally getting back on track at my FLGS. All the Fighting First stuff has sold out. The British and German releases were lackluster and they didn't sell at all.

TY at least is pretty big. We've just had a summer campaign (in it's last week now) and we're getting wave 2 stuff.

/NVA/
youtube.com/watch?v=RKxzdasGU0M

I know people who regularly play both, so I don't exactly follow...

you do not have the right to shitpost some deluded murrkan's fantasy all over our pure virgin thread. cheers

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>dead socialists
>mfw sovietboos have the most expensive army

You literally have to seize the means of productions to be able to afford your $500 army.

HE PLANNED THIS ALL ALONG
THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN