Historical Tournament

[keithdone]

Would it be feasible to run a historical F o W tournament? By that I mean that the tournament doesn't have Germans vs Germans or US vs Brits engagements.

I would imagine you would have x amount of axis positions and x amount of allied positions in the tournament and the number of players on each side must be equal. All battles are fought against historical opponents.

Individual merit would be on a point system and, at the end of the day, the tournament would declare who won the war (based upon total points for axis players and total for allied players).

For all I know, this is how tournaments are run anyway! Haven't even got a copy of the source book yet! Hmmm....should I go Russian or Wermacht!

Regards,

Keith

[shags]

As far as we can tell, tournaments are fought in a similar way as warhammer tournaments, if 2 Brit armies face each other, then it's a training exercise.


As for the historical, not really sure how it would go. Maybe something we could try for a day at club to see how it goes...

If you want to try flames keith we have more than enough armies between us for you to go nuts. Don't know if we are taking it to winter retreat but if we are you can grab a game if you want...


Shags

[keithdone]

I wouldn't mind playing a game at Winter Retreat - then, if committe, I would want to build my own army (that personal thing you get when attached to miniatures!)

I used to play WWII wargames in the late 60's to early 70's with friends using Airfix soldiers and models, long before formal rules arrived. We made rules up as we went.

Seeing Flames of War got me all nostalgic about collecting WWII stuff again.

Regards,

Keith

[Krimm]

Hi Keith,

While it would be ideal to have a axis vs allies type tournament, FOW tournaments are still fairly small in QLD 10 or less.

I look forward to you getting an army. Russians are a bucket load of mini's though.

Krimm

[draco84oz]

keithdone said:

Would it be feasible to run a historical F o W tournament? By that I mean that the tournament doesn't have Germans vs Germans or US vs Brits engagements.

I would imagine you would have x amount of axis positions and x amount of allied positions in the tournament and the number of players on each side must be equal. All battles are fought against historical opponents.

Individual merit would be on a point system and, at the end of the day, the tournament would declare who won the war (based upon total points for axis players and total for allied players).

Technically speaking, to have a proper "Grand Tournament" with FOW if you wanted to keep it purely historical.

What could be done instead would be to have players sign up for a map-, territory- or narrative campaign, much like GW did for some of their mail-in campaigns listed in White Dwarf (eg. A Dark Conspiracy WD205).

It is entirely possible to keep this historical through narration:
- The French fought on both sides of the war, as pro-Vichy (pro-German) and Free French Forces
- The Germans had Indian (British rules) allies in some of the European sectors
- The Italians fought both for and against Mussolini (especially after the Allies invaded Italy)
- When the Germans launched Operation Barbarossa they not only had German but also Polish (Soviet/US rules), Croatian (Soviet/German rules), Austrian (German rules), and Italian troops
- When the Allies invaded Italy, the commanders had all sorts of problems since their armies had troops from over a dozen different countries!

So with a little "tweaking" of the history - and prehaps using rules that allow you to field less motivated or trained troops - it is entirely possible to run a historical campaign/tournament.

[draco84oz]

draco84oz said:

Technically speaking, to have a proper "Grand Tournament" with FOW if you wanted to keep it purely historical.

Oops, I meant that if you wanted a "Flames of War Grand Tournament" it would not be possible to keep it purely historical.

[shags]

I raised the question of a historical tournament on the FOW web site, you can view it here...

fow.flamesofwar.com/viewtopic.php?t=8143

It would appear that most of the flames tournaments are based around that kind of scenario, and certiainly the Battlefront tournament kit(?) is geared for it.

From what people have said i get the feeling that you would get an all round mix anyway.

Shags

[draco84oz]

Just to let you know, one of the articles on the main FOW site leads to a pack for organisers of a tournament.

One of the things that is included there is a spreadsheet that automatically determines match-ups. All you put in is name, force nationality and results, and it spits out the order.

Cool, huh.