ZeroMoon17 Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 So people have been tossing around the idea of doing an escalation league, and I've heard a lot of talks about maybe doing more in the Mid War department. I know we currently have the Overlord Firestorm campaign going on right now, but I thought it would be fun to do a Raiding Aces campaign as kind of an intro league at GG. Since each Raiding aces force and garrison force are sub 1000 pt lists it could be a great way to introduce newer players to the game. I figure that the Overlord campaign will run clear into february/march but we could start some time after that. I'm posting here simply to gauge interest. http://www.flamesofwar.com/Default.aspx?tabid=146&art_id=2991&kb_cat_id=103 It's designed as an escalation campaign where your first battle is 500 pts, second is 700 pts, and last is 900 pts. Thoughts? Rules: http://www.flamesofwar.com/Portals/0/Documents/RaidingAces/Raiding-Aces.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barca Posted December 5, 2015 Report Share Posted December 5, 2015 Good timing. My desert fort has shipped :-) Goes well with raiding aces. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threejacks Posted December 5, 2015 Report Share Posted December 5, 2015 As a new player,escalation formats always interest me and this one being in a desert setting,I can see that making terrain rules a bit more simplified and thus another good thing for those learning the system. I have my Open Fire set built and have been reading the main rulebook a bit but have yet to try the game.After looking through the rules that came with Open Fire,and the main rulebook I purchased,im actually a bit more confused by the more simplified rules of the starter set and am not seeing a very good continuity with the main game.This is mainly why I would feel more comfortable learning the game in an escalation setting:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barca Posted December 5, 2015 Report Share Posted December 5, 2015 Your comparison is correct. Open Fire! is designed to be a starter, introducing new players to the slimmest of core rules, with special rules and variants trimmed away. Also, most of the national rules and special flavor is missing, by design. It does not work for an experienced player to try to use OF as a simpler version of FoW. You are used to a lot of special "tools", and therefore, going back to a primitive tool set probably won't work. Open Fire! -> Full FoW rules: Yes Full FoW rules -> OF: No. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroMoon17 Posted December 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2015 I picked up a desert fort last thursday at GG as well. 50% off, for a limited time offered piece of terrain I just couldn't pass it up >.< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barca Posted December 5, 2015 Report Share Posted December 5, 2015 I hope you did not blame that one on me. ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgentP Posted December 6, 2015 Report Share Posted December 6, 2015 Im 100% in on any escalation league starting after February 7th. This is perfect for me. Does a league like this allow all nationalities, or is it limited to the North African conflict? I have Finns and Soviets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threejacks Posted December 6, 2015 Report Share Posted December 6, 2015 Looks like ill be starting an Afrika Corps army. And possibly a Desert Rat one too:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolo Posted December 7, 2015 Report Share Posted December 7, 2015 Is it themed North Africa? Reading the rules ... it seems that using the raiding forces would be a must since a normal force might eat a raiding force for lunch. I think I am in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barca Posted December 7, 2015 Report Share Posted December 7, 2015 A quick list of forces: Strictly North Africa: 1941-43 http://www.flamesofwar.com/Portals/0/Documents/RaidingAces/Raiding-Aces.pdfpart III: Your Force, page 21Raiding Forces:1-BR2-IT3-Free French4-GE5-USGarrison Forces:6-BR7-IT8-Free French Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barca Posted December 7, 2015 Report Share Posted December 7, 2015 Im 100% in on any escalation league starting after February 7th. This is perfect for me. Does a league like this allow all nationalities, or is it limited to the North African conflict? I have Finns and Soviets. AP, Battlefront has some raiding support for Finns, just not a Raiding Aces campaign that includes them: Finnish ErP4 long-range patrols ########################### Battlefront briefing: Kaukopartiojoukot: Finnish Raiding Forces, 1942-1944, Approved Briefing http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=2024 Search results http://www.flamesofwar.com/Default.aspx?tabid=55&search=Kaukopartiojoukot Internet research (quick and preliminary): Finnish Special Detachments and later Er.P 4 (Separate Battalion 4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erillinen_Pataljoona_4 Web article (archived) LONG-RANGE RECONNAISSANCE TROOPS Kaukopartiojoukot 1939 - 1944 https://web.archive.org/web/20090831140341/http://geocities.com/finnmilpge/fmp_erp4.html Discussion of WWII Special Forces: ########################### The best "specialforces" of ww2. http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=10507 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barca Posted December 7, 2015 Report Share Posted December 7, 2015 Note: Apparently, the Raiding Aces Campaign Pack is no longer available via the online store:Raiding Aces Raiders Campaign Pack (FW303A)http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=2991Instead, everything is a downloadable PDF, but no carrying case, and the PDF map is obviously NOT laminated.Battlefront articles on Raiding Aces:http://www.flamesofwar.com/Default.aspx?tabid=55&search=raiding%20acesThis seems to be the Raiding Aces "Hub" page:Raiding Missions: Missing in Action & Chart the Unknownhttp://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=2980 Download links are also here: Raiding Aces: A Raiding Escalation Campaign in the Sahara, 1941-43http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=3060 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threejacks Posted December 7, 2015 Report Share Posted December 7, 2015 Im assuming then that Burning Empires is the main source book for this campaign? And I noticed that the Germans have what seems to be a Glider unit that's available via pdf? Probably a bit complicated for a new player to the game but damn,thats cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barca Posted December 7, 2015 Report Share Posted December 7, 2015 Im assuming then that Burning Empires is the main source book for this campaign? Yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barca Posted December 7, 2015 Report Share Posted December 7, 2015 And I noticed that the Germans have what seems to be a Glider unit that's available via pdf? Sunday afternoon at GG I saw a German Glider box on the shelf in the FoW section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroMoon17 Posted December 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2015 I hope you did not blame that one on me. ;-) No I did not, I took the blame for that one, and I regret nothing ;) Im 100% in on any escalation league starting after February 7th. This is perfect for me. Does a league like this allow all nationalities, or is it limited to the North African conflict? I have Finns and Soviets. Unfortunately this particular event is themed North Africa, so Italians, Brits (commonwealth), Germany, France (both vichy and free), and US combatants. The good news is a box of infantry and maybe a couple of guns is all you really need for the garrison force (the US force is restricted to infantry only so you could get away with one to two boxes of infantry and play the whole event) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barca Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 It is possible that the tournament periods will line up same as last year. If so, then you could plan your raiders, EW and MW- lists to use common platoons. So your raiders could share stuff with your EW / spring tournament list. Maybe guns or infantry or both (maybe armored cars), could be re-use in mid-war list (Enfilade!)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolo Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 Barca, I was at GG yesterday and they had at least three Raiding Aces Campaign Packs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barca Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 Thx. Will be @ GG on thurs eve. Will look for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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