UK based Mongoose Publishing have done a deal with Flames of War publishers Battlefront to produce the first strategic supplement for the game. A Bridge Too Far will be published in July.
The additional boardgame component will include a rulebook, 46 plastic playing pieces, battle arrows, dice and a new multi-part gameboard that measures 55cm by 120cm. That’s quite big!
Battlefront, based in New Zealand, published Flames of War (aka FoW to fans) back in 2002. It’s now a very popular World War 2 minis wargame.
Flames of War uses 1/100 scale minis (that’s 15mm scale) for troops but aircraft tend to appear on a 1/144 scale. The mechanics make use of d6.
There are plenty of other source books; Osfront, Afrika, Eastern Front, Fortress Europe, Monty’s Meatginder and Bloody Omaha to list just a few – so we’ll have to see what Mongoose and Battlefront mean by “first strategic supplement” but it’s bound to be interesting.
Now I'm confused. That supplement came out back in April. I'm guessing Mongoose are taking on a wider distribution deal for them with some of their games though.
Plus it's not there first ever Flames of War stand alone boardgame. That was Firestorm: Operation Market Garden which was released about 12-18 months ago!
Yeah… just finding out about the confusion. The “announcement” this blog post is based on is dated today and is at the Mongoose Yahoo Group. I think a login is needed.
Angus Abranson; close to the way of the Mongoose has left this comment on my Facebook – it looks like a quote/comment he's been given;
“No, it's a new deal that will help Battlefront get some of there board games and other bits into the mainstream hobby distributors and thus to more stores. Mongoose will be just acting as a kind of consolidator/fulfilment service for them.
They are doing the same thing on a bunch of Gale Force Nine's D&D accessories and maps.”