Also I don't know what to say about all
this, which will be hopelessly out of day any day now, and of which those
gamers who may be interested have much better blogs to go to, while those who
don't won't be that bothered!
Battlefront are a New Zealand outfit, GaleForce
Nine seem to carry the stuff over here and I think it's all 1:100 AFV's
with 1:144 aircraft, and not many figures - which would be a tad fiddly for
what appear to be quite formulaic tank-warfare systems.
I think these are Team Yankee which seems to preclude figures all together, so a
chess-like (without the skill), systematic slugging-match from rule-book fire
& movement-tables?
Ditto
Catalogue pages.
Tanks? A WWII version of Team
Yankee? Most of the scenery would scale-up for other 'small-scale' gaming
in '76th or '72nd?
The absence of figures is odd; all wars are
won or lost on the ground-gains or losses of the infantry! And there's a lot of
GW-type emphasis on buying into the
whole experience with team-dice and such-like.
Catalogue pages.
The third system in offer - Flames of War actually seems to allow
for some soldiers to join the fray! Although this outbreak of largess seems to
be limited to anti-tank artillery crews or the odd driver?
Catalogue pages
There are more figures on
the boxes than are otherwise in the catalogue!
GaleForce
Nine also supply 1:100 (described as 10-15mm)
scenics under the Battlefield in a Box
label for all their systems and more besides (note the sci-fi gun-towers).
Although smallish at 1:100, some of these
modern designs would make very useful background-buildings on HO or OO-gauge model
railways, where sub-scale can help give a sense of depth.
Brand-logo's to look-out for.
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