Meer details tijd.
Peter details that a free Book for version 4 (V4) will be made available. The rule book is 110 pages long. Peter says there will be ways for people without a game store to access it. Not only will there be a free rule book, there will also be a free digital copy.
Free book!
There will be a conversion for every single book in LW and EW. They will be fully compatible in version 4. There are rule changes and list changes in the new lists. The example provided was Bridge by Bridge. There are 2 special rules that will no longer be used.
Forces of War will provide a version 3 and a version 4 toggle to allow people to switch between the 2 versions. Forces of war will print in the current format for EW and LW. The cards will not be for LW and EW. At the moment, Forces of War in MW will not work in the card format. This will require some new software and will be a project in the future. Top priority for BF is to get peoples LW and EW armies usable in V4.
Conversions van het bestaande voor EW en LW, maar dus wel dezelfde lists.
National rules remain. However a few individual rules will be made redundant such. Normal rules like storm-trooper remain. USA loses column security and tank telephones. Germans lose Kampfgruppe, Reich divided, mission tactics and rocket special rules. For the Soviet Union. Hen and chick, quality of quantity, volley fire, Commissar all remain.
AKA een aantal national special rules worden nu standaard of zijn niet meer van toepassing, maar de specials blijven wel.
Pete advises that the rules are less complex that the current version 3. Recce has been dramatically changed. Artillery units are less effective against tanks but better against guns and infantry. There is a table in V4 that modifies down the artillery anti-tank setting. For example anti-tank 5 becomes 4 and anti-tank 4 becomes 3.
Zie mijn vorige post
Peter advises that assaults have been slightly simplified but are largely the same as v3.
Gezien de hoeveelheid moeite die nu in assaults zit is dit waarschijnlijk een goed iets.
There is a new version of MW rules coming out and it will be written for the card based game.
Nieuwe MW.
There will be 2 new armies for the desert. There will be 2 new plastic box sets to match the new lists. There will not be new plastic infantry in the box. Battlefront think the current metal figures are pretty good.
Nieuwe desert lists.
Peter thought from memory that the US book would be the third release - after the initial 2 boxes.
MW US boek als 3rde
There will be some new plastic Italian tanks.
Plastics? in my italians?
MW, EW and LW will play the same. The difference is that the cards will provide more details on them that might be in the rules for the LW and EW versions.
Peter admits that the team have struggled with a recommended point level for MW. They have decided to stick with 100 points.
Team Yankee style points voor degenen die over die 100 verbaasd zijn. In TY is het een paar punten per tank iirc.
The rules will be living rules that will be updated as things change.
Meer errata toepassing? zoiets i guess.
The morale rules for V4 are very similar to Team Yankee.
Dit is een absoluut grote verandering. Niet meer onder half morale, nu als je nog 3 stands of 2 tanks over hebt en je hebt casualties genomen. Dit is echt een groot verschil, je zult enemy platoons toch echt helemaal af moeten gaan maken.
Air in LW and EW remains unchanged. In MW, each plane will require a model. However the maximum will be two per army
Ok, blijkbaar mag je dan twee vliegtuigen per force, die waarschijnlijk andere doelen mogen aanvallen? Zie geen andere reden in voor 2 modellen...
In MW, it will be easier to run multiple companies than in the current v3. V4 MW will be more like Team Yankee and will even allow allied companies.
All aboard the Allying Bandwagon!
There will be organised play and there will be campaigns released by Battlefront in the future.
Ben benieuwd wat dit gaat worden.
There will be 3 new missions in V4.
Zoals al gemeld.
BF are looking at options for dice tins. They want to produce them again but are not promising anything.
Ik wil nog een dice tin, dus chill.
There will be a starter set like open fire for v4. It will have both armies in it. It will be all plastic and more details will be released in December. There will also be the new starter sets for the armies too and will contain the A5 rules.
Duh, vervanging van doos in nieuwe editie.
In Team Yankee, the East German book is printed. A new US, Soviet, Australian and Canadian list are all coming next year. Peter thinks that TY has brought in new gamers. The expectation was that the majority of players were old FOW players but Peter thinks it was the other way around.
TY lists voor een hoop luitjes. Dat er meer nieuwe mensen in TY begonnen zijn dan uit Flames gekomen zijn is ook nieuw.
There will be new card packs for Pacific theater forces in MW.
MW pacific gaat ook iets doen.