Good to see you back with a FOW report, they are the best one on the entire internet. A note on mission. CounterAttack is broken and have been replaced by Counterstrike making it more of an equal fight. Thanks again for making the battlereport, I really enjoyed it.
Way to go Jacob. You mentioned when you visited Gajo games in SLC, that Jon always wins, but looks like the dice were with you. Great Bat Rep gentlemen.
Enjoy watching your games. I have a question though in regards to the armour and how it is presented on the table. Tank units seem really bunched up or in lines and in perfect formation like Napoleonic infantry in line. Does it have to be played like that? i think somewhat spaced out would look more "real" for the use of a better word.
you can play it more spaced out, play on a larger table, even play with smaller models etc. honestly though, When you are actually playing the game all of that just kind of disappears in the narrative of the battle you are creating. I think the parking lot syndrome for lack of a better term is a rules based artifice. For example, you have a piece of terrain long enough to conceal 4 wheel to wheel tanks. If you spread them out "realistically," they won't all fit in cover and the ones in the open will give away concealment for the whole platoon.
Another example that the true strength lies in combined arms. Tank on Tank is always a bit meh. But at least you had fun and the game was quick. The table layout was also a bit open for my taste. Any way thanks for the report.
@@AllMiniaturesGreatandSmall - There are games and there are wargames. Chess used to belong to the second category but it become so stylised it lost any pretence of simulating reality. It’s still the 👑 of games but is not a wargame. FoW is VERY stylised.
