Flames of War

As I said in the intro post, Flames of War has become an obsession of mine lately. I have always been a historical miniatures gamer at heart, but all my friends were playing Games Workshop games (Warhammer 40K and Fantasy Battle).

So imagine how excited i was when one of my friends (he goes by Cruft) asked if there were any World Way II miniatures games out there. I told him that there were several but Flames of War was the most popular currently. I showed him a couple of the books and the miniatures line and he was hooked.

We then decided to get the rest of the 4Cs involved dangled specific nations in front of the others knowing what would hook them as well. Clay plays the Imperial Guard in 40K so he was an easy fit with the Soviets and their propensity to use Komisars and lots of tanks. And Cliff loves playing the Orks so we showed him the Italians and the "8 Million Bayonet" rule, it also helps that he is about half Sicilian.

We have all started buying our armies, I have decided to run a Mid-War US Infantry Company based on 1/141st Infantry Regiment of the 36th Infantry Division. Cruft is building a MW German Panzergrenadierkompanie based on Rommel's Deutches Arfikakorps. Clay is creating a Tankovy Kompany with Tankodesantniki (specially trained tank riders). And Cliff is going to be running a Compagnia Motociclisti company for MW Italians.

This Sunday Cruft and I are going up to our LFGS, Great Hall Games, and hope to learn more about the game and some of its finer points.

I will keep y'all updated.

See ya on the battle field.

Good news everybody!!!

To steal a quote from Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth.

This will be where you can follow the life and times, the trials and tribulations, the wheres and the why fors of the gaming group in Austin, TX calling them selves the 4Cs of the Aporkalypse.

We are an eclectic group of individuals mostly involved in the tech industry in some way or another. From a couple of field technicians to a software trainer, from a department supervisor to a few quality assurance types. Oh and throw in a couple of high school students for good measure.

We play just about anything. Board games, role playing games, miniatures games, NO card games (unless its poker or Uno).

The current obsession for some of the group is the 15mm World War II minis game called Flames of War. My friend over at the S.S. Pequod has been mentioning it for the past few posts. More to come on that scene. We also have been playing in a Cyberpunk world and I am running a D20 modern alternative reality.

More will come as we go through the year. And not everything is going to be gaming, we do a ton of things outside of gaming as well.

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