ZeroMoon17

Desperate measures is a great LW eastern front book, but Grey Wolf and Red Bear are your vanilla LW eastern front books. The three book bundle that you bought is up to date and the forces book gives you a good basic view into how each nation is organized and gives you some really good basic lists. Blood guts and glory is an excellent book for Americans (gives you access to m4a3 jumbo (76mm) and easy eights). EW for eastern front check out blitzkrieg, and Mid war there is only Eastern Front for the eastern front.

Guardian has most of the books in Stock, but they do have a lot of old books on the shelf that are no longer valid for play.

I'll show up Thursday with both a British campaign list and a 1945pt list.

I don't get a three day weekend in January :(. But I'd be OK with a Friday night game or Saturday event none the less. I know there was talk of doing a tanksgiving. I have time thanksgiving weekend to head up as well.

We play every Thursday night at guardian games in Portland. Come out and try a game or two, we all have armies to spare and would love to teach a new player!

To answer some of your questions (now that I'm in front of a keyboard)

1.  Diversity in lists - How lists are built in this game you have an HQ unit and Combat platoons as mandatory platoons.  Then you get tons of support units to support that core formation.  There are a variety of lists (especially for the US and GER), but if you have one set of infantry, that set will be able to work for both mid war and late war (early war formations may be a little bit different but usually you can make do).  Each time period focuses on something completely different and are very diverse.  Early war and Late war you will find the most options as those have recently gotten face lifts from battlefront.  In early war you have something like 9 nations to choose from, 3 theaters of war, and a TON of toys.  Late war you will find the mighty beasts of the war King Tigers, Panthers, IS-2's, Pershings, Comets, etc.  

2.  Ahistorical Amounts of Limited Resources - That is something that you may not enjoy about this game, you will see an ahistoric amount of King Tigers and other super heavies running around on the board, BUT the points system heavily penalizes them and you certainly are never forced to play with the limited number of toys.  If you want to run nothing but Shermans, T-34s, and Pz IV's then you can do so and be competitive against the big toys.  I.e. the King Tiger is NOT the King of the battlefield.  

3.  Where to start my collection - I would start with the Open Fire box if you are planning on playing US or Germans.  I don't play Russians so I don't know how to guide your first purchases.  For British I would start with a company of Infantry, 2 blisters of 6-pdr guns, Mortars, and 1-2 boxes of Shermans.  These are all late war armies, because that is what is played the most so you will have the easiest time finding a Late War game.   

4. Limited number of Competitive lists - Certainly not, there are some lists that are more competitive than others but each nation has a plethora of competitive lists especially in Late War and Early War (Mid war only has 2 source books so the number of lists is smaller).  

I'm down for a road trip up to SeaTac for a North Africa themed day.  I've been wanting to take my wife up to Seattle anyways.

I don't think there are any available Firestorm Campaign games for my brits to fight no?  So I'll be practicing for the tournament.

I'll be there again tomorrow night at 6 with my Brits for a game

That's correct Noland, I'm in the Portland OR area.

OK I'll bring my brits on thursday then.  Do you all usually play 1900 pts LW?

There are usually at least two people on game nights.  I'll be there this Thursday with LW Germans, if you want to nail down a game.

Sounds good, I'll be there around 6!

ZeroMoon17,

We can set you up on Thursday.

Thursdays we have been doing battles in the Firestorm: Overlord campaign.

That said, we also have done demo and ad hoc games onThursdays.

 

Your LW brits would fit right into the campian, if you are interested.

Next battle up is scheduled to be LW US vs. Germans, but we are flexible. We could throw togther a game of your Brits against another LW list.

 

Our current lists for the campaign are 1250 pts LW, US, BR and GE, so that is probably what people will have ready when they show up.

Paricipation varies between 2 and 4 guys on THU.

 

Sorry, but I don't have any Germans ready, myself. However, if SchnellerKarl, Lazarus, or Zeek show up, they have Germans.

 

Depending on traffic and trains, I get to GG between 6:15 and 6:30.

 

If you are curious, here are the campaign materials: Firestorm: Overlord http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=4495

 

this is our current thread: http://www.ordofanaticus.com/index.php?/topic/25927-firestorm-overlord-turn-3/

 

and this is the ealier thread: http://www.ordofanaticus.com/index.php?/topic/25089-firestorm-overlord-continues-open-to-new-players-and-old-hands/page-7

Unfortunately I don't have any Americans...  I would love to participate though!

Hey guys,

So I just moved to Vancouver, WA from Atlanta, GA and noticed that Thursday nights at Guardian Games is when people usually get together.  I was wondering if its a show up and whoever there will play or do we need to prearrange games ahead of time?  I was hoping to get a game in this Thursday and I'm planning on bringing LW British.

-Mike Henry

I'm currently putting together a mid war brits army and a Falschimjager unit. Would love to play a few games or even a North africa campaign.

I'll be running some form of Brits out of Nachtjager. Not sure which list yet.

Hmmmm, I don't think I have any forces for 1945. I have the armored recon for the brits, but I can't remember the book it came in.....dang..looks like Market Garden which is 1944. Oh well.

Check out Nachtjager, you can run some nasty lists with full platoons of challenger A30's.

I'll be there running allies.

-Mike Henry