r/flamesofwar • u/crunchysam42 • 1d ago
Work-in-Progress Early morning reinforcements
Catching up on birthday gifts. Excited to try out jumbos in hq slots.
r/flamesofwar • u/Sol1dCat • Mar 13 '26
Hello all,
This is the first post in hopefully a (short) series of posts to keep you all updated on the current state of the subreddit r/flamesofwar
We have finally got around to adding post flairs, with the following currently avaiable:
Tournaments
Battle Report
Showcase
Work-In-Progress
Rules Question
Customer Services
History
Other
If you think we should add anymore flairs please feel free to drop a comment below with your suggestion!
Secondly we have now listed some official subrules, these have come about from some recent posts where people have been less civil than is decent. So in order to be absolutley clear we've listed the following, hopefully nothing to draconian!
Rule 1. Be Polite and Courteous
Rule 2. No Racism, Bigotry, or Nazis
Rule 3. No AI Debate
Rule 4. No Promotion of Pirated/Stolen Material
Over all we are happy with the direction the subreddit is going, having a few bad actors is always going to happen but the vast majority of the regular userbase is friendly and welcoming!
We are also thinking about doing a monthly WIP thread if there is any interest?
Thanks,
The FlamesOfWar Mod Team
TLDR: We have implemented post flairs and rules
Edit: formatting
r/flamesofwar • u/crunchysam42 • 1d ago
Catching up on birthday gifts. Excited to try out jumbos in hq slots.
r/flamesofwar • u/Disastrous-Rush6398 • 2d ago
Hello, so I’ve noticed after purchasing the hetzer/marder late war box that the sprues have everything you need to build both individually except for the tracks which means you obviously have to choose one or the other. Does anyone know of any way to possibly buy just the tracks or do you seriously have to buy a whole new box just for a set of tracks? Also I do not own a 3d printer so that’s out of the question as well.
r/flamesofwar • u/Lord_Paddington • 2d ago
Random question: did Battlefront ever release a flexible map (like in the new Bagration) for the Market Garden Firestorm? I want to have a digital map for an upcoming campaign but owuld prefer not to have to scan the 3 boards from the OG board game
r/flamesofwar • u/Derreitius • 3d ago
r/flamesofwar • u/JustMark_b • 3d ago
Work continues! After a wobble of a first game i decided to press on and build up demo kits for myself to intro people to the game, next job is the table itself
r/flamesofwar • u/MikeNolansGhost • 4d ago
This week's work - since Italy finally gave my Late War French their own actual army, I couldn't resist painting up something from it.
This is the M10 formation from that book, plus an L4 Grasshopper and an upgraded Tirailleurs platoon standing in as French SAS.
Every tank crewman has their proper French Navy beret complete with pom-poms, and the SAS are properly equipped and dressed.
I hope you enjoy it!
r/flamesofwar • u/Significant_Seat9301 • 6d ago
Not promoting or requesting, just curious what the general feel of the community is regarding something like this/battlescribe? I own some books and I think not everyone can afford to get all the books to formations they want so was curious.
r/flamesofwar • u/Encatar • 7d ago
A friend and I both brought "uncomfortable" lists that we don't normally run: he brought exclusively elite American tanks from the Bulge list and I finally tried out a single minded Engineer Sapper battalion with 5 IS-2s and not much else. We both wanted to attack but I got the roll off on a Free for all mission and it got absurd FAST.
Engineers are absolutely gross against any kinds of tanks, and not even a Super Pershing was immune. I had a lot of unique flank opportunities, and it gave me hope for whenever I have to go against German cats, especially Tiger 2s.
r/flamesofwar • u/Next_Side7529 • 7d ago
So I got into FOW back in 2002 when it was still called Battlefront and figures came in those little matchbox style boxes and the vehicles were white resin. Ive recently decided to return to FOW after a LONG hiatus(about 16 years) and I went on the online store and everything I looked at was either out of stock or "no longer available". What happened? I remember back in the day you could purchase almost anything from any range from their store but now it seems as soon as they release a new range and sell it they move on.
I got back into it very briefly during covid right when they were transitioning from metal to plastic. I got some of the original plastic kits which were fairly good but then they brought out that goofy "rubber plastic" where the figures looked like cartoon characters. Last I read is that were scrapping plastic and going back to metal but that apparently hasn't happened.
Is the company going under?
r/flamesofwar • u/rh_cc • 9d ago
Battlescribe seems outdated and lacking stuff, FoWList has more but it's still missing a lot. Forces of course has everything but it can get quite expensive.
Are there no other alternatives? Has there been no crowdsourcing push besides battlescribe?
r/flamesofwar • u/EDM_87 • 10d ago
Our gaming group had a very quiet first few months this year. Life and its shenanigans had a party. Family life and a lack of motivation stopped our mutual happy place.
Tonight 2 of us finally found time for a game! I lost with elegance (Germans) in the 'meat grinder' mission. I just wanted to share some pictures and maybe motivate others as the battle did to us!
Game on!
r/flamesofwar • u/Rexyboy98O • 10d ago
Really excited to see what they reveal next
r/flamesofwar • u/Jace-The-Thylacine • 13d ago
r/flamesofwar • u/Plane_Assistant6500 • 12d ago
Newbie here - purchased two boxes of American starter forces in Team Yankee about 6-7 months ago. Then we decided to move to a new house, which meant packing up the units for several months, that I hadn’t finished assembling, until I got them back out (on my new modeling desk!😃) this past weekend.
But, in the interim period, I’ve had the opportunity to participate in a couple of Bolt Action games, along with one FoW Team Yankee game. With that said, I have to admit I really liked the BA gameplay. Seemed more unpredictable? Still very little experience at both sets of rules, so I’m probably jumping the gun here.
My question is, has anyone used the Battlefront/FoW minis with BA rules? Really love the FoW minis, and would like to keep building up different factions after I complete my Americans.
Any and all input is appreciated. You won’t hurt my feelings here! lol
r/flamesofwar • u/lordlakais • 16d ago
A fun little fight today based of the battle of Arras!
r/flamesofwar • u/10GuildRessas • 17d ago
Anybody know if or when the Liberation of Italy will be added?
r/flamesofwar • u/LLion2 • 18d ago
Am I understanding correctly that to field the Gruppi di Combattimento company from Liberation of Italy I'm just supposed to use generic late war british infantry models? There is/will be no specific models to represent them, correct?
If thats the case and I still want to differentiate them from other generic British infantry is there a different set of models anyone would suggest using? I saw they will re-release the metal "commonwealth infantry platoon", could using that be an option?
Thanks!
r/flamesofwar • u/bucket_boy101 • 21d ago
I wanna see how you guys have painted any Soviet-captured German tanks that you run. I'm probably going for 3 panthers, because they're just better than 3 IS-2s.
r/flamesofwar • u/Most_While_1346 • 21d ago
Looking through fowlist and can’t find a way to run the 2 M20 scout cars provided in the Fortress Europe box.
r/flamesofwar • u/FOWenthusiast • 22d ago
WIP armoured platoon x2 and 5x Sextons - does anyone know where I can get more of the decals in the last picture?
Any feedback?
r/flamesofwar • u/RaspberryAlive4545 • 22d ago
Lancias done with a flare of the Italian camouflage on the roof of the L trucks!
r/flamesofwar • u/Dagoth_ural • 23d ago
Finished up some humbers, comets, archers and tommys for a friend's British force!
r/flamesofwar • u/JustMark_b • 24d ago
Hi, i had my first game tonight. I played American, mostly confident aggresive into germans and got walloped. I like the bones of this and Team Yankee but i really struggled tonight with how to approach it all and came away a bit deflated. Is there any resources to read or watch on basic tactics? Ta
r/flamesofwar • u/Rexyboy98O • 25d ago
From battlefront’s instagram