jesselowe Posted December 12, 2014 Report Share Posted December 12, 2014 So the official Forces of War site is now live. First impressions: not enough lists, and they want $1 per list (with a 25% discount if you buy all the lists from a book). So far, kinda bummed about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Glacius Posted December 12, 2014 Report Share Posted December 12, 2014 Well, they did actually make something. You can't really fault them for wanting to get some sort of return. And a $1 a list is not horrible. That means any of the large books will fall under $20 easily. I'm just bummed there are no midwar lists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jesselowe Posted December 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2014 Problem is that, as far as I can tell, it has pretty much the same functionality as EasyArmy, but for a lot more money (EasyArmy clocking in at $2 a book, IIRC). Which makes sense, because it's the same program... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZEKE Posted December 12, 2014 Report Share Posted December 12, 2014 Good Ol pencil, paper, and calculator. They also work when the internet is down or during a power outage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fingolfen Posted December 15, 2014 Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 Jesse - there's been a lot of discussion on this over at the BF main page... key things to remember: 1) $1/book was ridiculously cheap and was unsustainable. Greg couldn't even run the servers on that. 2) EA got to use BF IP for free because EA was essentially a beta test of what Battlefront wanted to do for an online list system 3) Forces of war is, quite frankly, EA... the same guy (Greg) is doing the coding... 4) Going forward buying the hard copy of the book and then all of the lists on EA will be cheaper than the same book was in previous years by a couple of bucks ($30 books are now $20, $50 books are now $30). ... and what Zeke said... ;) ... although I tend to use Excel for my lists... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordGrumpus Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 I like it, a dollar a book was always too good to last long. Had it been ten bucks a book , I'd still have used EARMY. This book price reduction makes it all worth it, and of course all the lists and PDFs will make it onto the site eventually, but I did finally get to make some new Nisei U.S lists with it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taran.shannara Posted December 17, 2014 Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 with easyarmy, the only book I didn't have was the Rising Sun one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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