Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: composer99

Christmas present to yourself? Either way, nice.

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ORIGINAL: jhyden

I remember in 3R, Armor units had an 'exploitation combat' phase and I will be interested to find if there is anything similar to that in MWIF.

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ORIGINAL: jhyden

and music.

this has got to be one of my favorite all time songs for gaming.

Renaissance - Tyrant Tula: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp7YjTnrDFw


I am wishing myself luck in learning this game. I recognize certain concepts from playing 3R. I've never played a game on a global scale, however I have played in both theaters. Most memorable are AH's War at Sea and Victory in the Pacific. Those were good Level 1 Strategy board games and a big step away from Risk. That's about it for my experience with The Navy until WITP.AE (of which I am at the Guadalcanal scenario). I've thought about getting a good submarine game in the past but it never happened. I guess my main interest up to the point of WITP.AE was always Tactical and Armor (I've played lots and lots of Steel Panthers and its variations).

I remember in 3R, Armor units had an 'exploitation combat' phase and I will be interested to find if there is anything similar to that in MWIF.

kudos on having the tutorial series available from the menu.

thanks for reading ~

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ORIGINAL: rkr1958

By the way, MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone.

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ORIGINAL: Courtenay

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ORIGINAL: jhyden

I remember in 3R, Armor units had an 'exploitation combat' phase and I will be interested to find if there is anything similar to that in MWIF.

WiF is unusual among WW II operational level games in that it does not have some form of motorized movement phase. What it does have is the blitz result on the blitzkrieg combat table. (These are two different things.) If you roll high enough on the table, not only are the defenders removed from the map (not necessarily killed), but if the attack was in clear terrain, the attacker gets to advance two hexes. This can be a lot more devastating than it sounds.

P.S. You will discover that WiF is blessed with two different sets of combat results table, and you have to choose which set to use in a game. The rules do not tell you anywhere, but the 1d10 table is meant to be used when you are not playing with divisions, and the 2d10, which inflicts higher casualties, is meant to played when you are playing with divisions.

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ORIGINAL: brian brian

Victory in the Pacific is an excellent game and also serves as a good way to begin understanding World in Flames. WiF owes a lot to VitP.

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ORIGINAL: rkr1958

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ORIGINAL: jhyden

and music.

this has got to be one of my favorite all time songs for gaming.

Renaissance - Tyrant Tula: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp7YjTnrDFw


I am wishing myself luck in learning this game. I recognize certain concepts from playing 3R. I've never played a game on a global scale, however I have played in both theaters. Most memorable are AH's War at Sea and Victory in the Pacific. Those were good Level 1 Strategy board games and a big step away from Risk. That's about it for my experience with The Navy until WITP.AE (of which I am at the Guadalcanal scenario). I've thought about getting a good submarine game in the past but it never happened. I guess my main interest up to the point of WITP.AE was always Tactical and Armor (I've played lots and lots of Steel Panthers and its variations).

I remember in 3R, Armor units had an 'exploitation combat' phase and I will be interested to find if there is anything similar to that in MWIF.

kudos on having the tutorial series available from the menu.

thanks for reading ~

AH's 3rd Reich, Victory in the Pacific and War at Sea got a lot of playing time from me during my college and early post-college years in the late 70's and early 80's. My AH's 3rd Reich play was entirely solo; but VITP and WAS wasn't. I played many hours and late into the early morning again a childhood friend and next door neighbor of mine. We also played many hours of touch football and woffer ball in his backyard. Fond memories.

He passed several years back at the age of 50.

I can say from personal experience that if you loved playing AH's 3rd Reich, VITP (and WAS) and invest the time to learn and play MWIF that not only will you get many enjoyable gaming hours in return; but that MWIF will likely become your favorite wargame EVERY!

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ORIGINAL: Courtenay

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It is good that you are doing the Barbarossa scenario with your own set up. The quick start setup they give you has a truly awful Russian set up; I sometimes suspect it was made to give the Germans the opportunity to use some rules that don't come up very often, in particular, overrun.

One thing you should at some point do is to set up a unit two hexes away from one of your opposing stacks that can be overrun, and then do so. This can be a little tricky, since the moving units' move has to be broken into two parts, first adjacent to the unit and then the overrun. This can be done, but you have to learn how to do it, and it is better to do so in a learning environment than in a real game, where you might get frustrated.

Overruns of land units don't happen very often, but they can be game changers if you pull one off.

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ORIGINAL: jhyden

Sounds good Ron! One of my best friends from ninth grade was named Ron. Both our families were military. My dad was retired (Army) after 20 years (WW2/Korea) and his dad was still on active duty. After a year of living across the street from me, they moved on base (Lawton/Ft.Sill in OKlahoma) for a year then went to Germany. We stayed in touch for awhile but eventually lost contact.

-James

I'm in the Pacific Time Zone or -08.00 GMT

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ORIGINAL: Ian R

Have you started playing yet?