Peter Simunovich Interview 2023  

MORE PLATIC. I'm really enjoying FoW. Thank you EDIT: Early war. I am excited

Great interview, and looking forward to the Italy Front and Early War. It's great to hear Harry getting a mention, too :)

Great stuff

Great interview. I like Peter's enthusiasm tempered with business savvy. The price rises are a fact of life, but it does mean that i'm more fussy about what armies I now collect.

I really like hearing Peter telling about BF. It shows how much life and enthusiasm is in this company. Therefore I am sorry to make a correction: The biggest tank battle in cold war times is said to be the Battle of Chawinda in 1965 between India and Pakistan. But the Battle of Cueto Carnevale is a battle that should be noticed as well too. I think both battles are not very well know because of our western centric view, what we call - for no good reason if you ask me - "proxy wars".

Cracking interview, as always Peter is very generous with his time as well as his transparency on what the future holds. I'm particularly excited to hear there's early war plastics on they way, including infantry! Great shoutout to @FogofWar i hope you took the opportunity to convince the battlefront team to send him review samples!

Please do a plastic Pz 38 (T) :) Good job MFA and thanks Peter

24:44 yes…more infantry in the starter boxes - combined arms baby. The only other thing I would ask for in the starters would be the cardboard flats like they used to include. Or, perhaps sell cardboard flat terrain like Battletech’s done for alpha strike. Or deluxe purchase of starter box with 2-4 pieces of terrain.

We had a great day at Battlefront filming this. Got to see some exciting stuff. All the staff were fantastic. Also note they do have an onsite shop too. Demo game tables are available to try out.

Even with the price rises, pound for pound flames of war/team yankee are still some of the best value systems out there.

What a great in-depth, open and transparant interview. Also good to hear that Battlefront values the brick and mortar stores. Really like the way they think and do business. Thank you Kaiser and WoolyMike! Keep up the good work!

Great interview. Packed with a lot of cool information.

Sooooo looking forward to early war... RIVETS!

At the same time the price has risen twice on the individual 5 tank kits, they have come out with half dozen super affordable army deals. I bought three Kasserine, three US USSR Team Yankee starter and 2 Hit the Beachs. I have not even been able to pick them all up but those sets offset any price increases... I can almost always get into a Battlefront army for $5 a tank for the main plts and then its 9-12 a tank/support vehicle depending on who and where you buy it. The infantry especially their metals are underpriced if you have ever seen the secondary market their scarcity creates.,

Will we ever see Battlefront dipping into the Korea War? Great interview btw. !

Pete came armed with a bundle of stuff to make a lot of people happy!

Really great interview, and I'm totally jealous at all the looks behind the curtain. Really looking forward to what the future holds for all three product lines here!

Great interview

World of tanks is like a perfect partner for my flames of war collection. Great for a quick fun game that I can also use some of my FoW tanks with.

I want my polish cavalry to overrun the Germans

Great interview although I like to hear if Great War coming back. I see Nam is back

When i am old. I want to be like these both gantleman.

Some of the best and favorite Battlefront videos are the new years the year ahead videos. Also I would love to see a mid year update video, similar to this one but with a bit more detail, for example where BF actually is on its various projects, such as MW Pacific, EW etc. Thx Peter and MFA for taking the time to put this video interview together! It's cracking good.

Cheers fella. Nice way to spend half an hour. Enjoyed that interview.

I am not a fan of the rules but the Angolan Boarder war is a dream for me.

fantastic video and fantastic interview. Nice to hear more confirmation on Mid war pacific. 12 different plastic kits for latewar leviathans....I got to not get my hopes up for the Doom Turtle. I see still no news on checkpoint charlie, eh? Guess they gotta get NAM and FoAN back into peoples minds first.

I was really hoping they would reprint the BMD Bn.

Roll on Oct and the Belgians . 😁

Pls give us back our propeller for WW2 aircraft... please please....

Shame we won’t be able to get the “McDonald’s” objective marker anymore. As someone who works at McDonald’s that was really funny seeing that in the army box

These interviews with the BF guys are very informative, but I wish Kaiser wouldn't keep interrupting.

Nato Forces :)

Great Interview, thank you very much. Will we see FoW Great War coming back? I'll hope so, I love the Miniatures! If you'll do Early War, what's about Plastic Renault Ft 17?

Great chat with Peter but I was hoping you guys might ask the question especially for UK players. Will the command cards and unit card packs be back in print and in stock on a more steady basis and this is across the board of all theatres. I'm especially trying to track down mid war North Africa for both Afrika Korp and British. But I'm also wanting the Bulge British and Germans. Also when will starter sets like British from Normandy onwards be back in stock? The UK always seems to get the short straw......

I really hope the infantry turn out better, most of the plastic infantry I've painted is abysmal

Interesting interview. It's a great shame that Battlefront don't keep their ranges going and support them over time. At the moment, I can't get a whole bunch of buildings in the Battlefield in a Box range, which apparently aren't being made and no one knows when or if they will ever be made again. And Early War has been allowed to die - can't get any Polish models now. Who knows when that's coming back? Fortunately, 3D printing has come to my rescue on both fronts. So cottage industries run from the garages of enthusiasts serve my interests in a flexible way, whilst a big company like Battlefront lets me down.

Any word on rules for team yankee israeli centurions?

I really enjoyed this …… but bro, let the man finish a sentence, please.

Okay I'm just starting to get into Warhammer the fantasy role playing game and Warhammer soulbound so I need miniatures for my role-playing game and I will tell you compared to Warhammer you were extremely extremely extremely extremely and did I say extremely well let me say it five more times extremely extremely extremely extremely extremely reasonably priced The problem is I live in Florida so the only thing anyone ever wants to play is Warhammer dungeons & dragons and magic I can't get anyone to play vampire the masquerade I can't get anyone to play Warhammer The fantasy role-playing game or Warhammer soulbound even though they're better systems I can't get anyone to play half the stuff I've invest in money in it and I'm still paying for so the short answer is Pete I was a long time customer I'm coming back slowly or the women will kill me you are extremely reasonably priced

I am a model builder--not a wargamer. I started model building as a kid in the 60s with the old Airfix 1/76 scale, then graduated to the more realistic 1/72, then 1/48 and finally the most realistic 1/35 scale as an adult. I also have armor and toy soldiers (like Conte) at 1/32 scale, and finally, the ULTIMATE SOLDIER and 21st Century Toys--1/18 airplanes and soldiers! I do like the 1/56 Rubicon models but am hesitant to start collecting this "odd" scale. I HATE wargaming figures, like the 28 mm Bolt Action, etc., because they look so unrealistic, with their huge, pumpkin heads, hands and weapons. Why not try to make your products more realistic, like the Rubicon 1/56 line? You will generate a whole lot more interest and money!

The Kaiser needs to learn to be a lot more quiet to let his Interviewee talk - it's very frustrating

And for the record I don't think we all agree that plastic models are by default, or even on average, better. Most if not all the plastics vehicles I have seen are 5-10% oversized and more on the 17mm scale than 15mm. A lot of the vehicles have missing details due to corners being cut to simplify all the model parts into a couple sprues. Add to that the limited variety of models available due to plastic mold development overhead limiting releases to only the most popular stuff and there are a lot unsavory bits to basing everything around what you can plasticize. Plastic's main benefit is durability, which is a nice feature but there are still a lot of parts that at this scale are fragile in either material format (plastic or resin/metal). Additionally the extra size on the plastic models also made them more durable, so it isn't really a fair comparison. But I get that BF is a model selling business, and plastic models are where all the money is. But pretending like they are vastly superior/popular seems like an overstatement and not a good rational for designing the game around what can be produced in plastic.

Ex Kiwi fisherman turned gamer , thanks Peter your a champ.

An interesting interview. However, in my humble opinion when BF say they are going to do Early war properly I am somewhat concerned because they then say box sets; thus suggesting overly simplified forces playing standard confrontational games of war. When Peter states historical authenticity I’m not sure he grasps that his perception of WW2 history may not match the actual and may be a tad simplified, not include many forces that actually were major participants or produce actual scenarios that will be reflective of ground conditions alas. The early war has the most diverse and interesting operations for wargamers. Moreover, I very much doubt,as stated, we will see Dutch, Belgian or many other nations or a comprehensive range of French infantry types, Cavalry, motorbike and cycle troops will also likely be omitted. Nothing appears to be being done on Norway or Poland either and some disdain concerned with the Early war in the desert, Mediterranean operations and East Africa. There are some excellent airborne operations too. These being the very first and need to be considered to. BFS early metal ranges were fantastic and allowed you to build some really interesting forces to explore the history but now it is so linked to commercial needs, understandably from a commercial basis, but sad from a wargaming perspective. If you want early war in the Low Countries here I hope is some inspiration and let’s pray BF do this right and include what is needed ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kIM35j1W9yw.htmlfeature=shared

Plastic Char b

Barf....gave up on this "historically flavored game" back in 1st edition... don't even get me started on their GW-pricing/production attitude. Not-for-me-ever-ever-ever