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Designed By	Phil Yates
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Published By	Battlefront Miniatures Ltd
Year Published	2002
# of Players:	1 − 2
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 2 players Recommended with 2, more than 2 players (11 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	120 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	10 and up (2 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (3 voters) [poll]
Category	Miniatures Wargame World War II
Mechanic
Primary Name	Flames of War
Alternate Names
Expanded By	Avanti Savoia: Intelligence Handbook on Italian Armoured and Infantry Forces Diving Eagles Flames of War: Bloody Omaha Flames of War: Fortress Europe Flames of War: Afrika Flames of War: Cobra Flames of War: D Minus 1 Flames of War: D-Day Flames of War: Festung Europa (Late War 1944) Flames of War: Hell's Highway Flames of War: Monty's Meatgrinder Flames of War: Ostfront Flames of War: Stalin's Onslaught Flames of War: Villers-Bocage Stars and Stripes: Intelligence Handbook on US Armored and Infantry Forces Za Stalina: Handbook on Soviet Armoured and Cavalry forces Show More »
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	Description Edit \| History

Flames of War is a World War II tabletop game where you use armies represented by painted miniature tanks, soldiers, artillery, and aircraft against another similar opponent's force.

To begin all you need is the Flames of War book/rules and a starting force of miniatures depending on what type of army you want to collect.

The game uses 15mm scale (around 1:100) miniatures, allowing miniatures from other manufacturers to be used. The game aspires to provide a good balance between playability and simulation and has a typical game running under 2 hours.

The Second Edition Rulebook launched in August 2006, took a lot of advice from the players and integrated a lot of the FAQ material previously written to cover First Edition.

Flames of War current rulebook range

Expanded by:

Introduced by:

Flames of War: Open Fire

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1	General Tigers	2009-10-31	oolaa	2
3	News Flames of war mid- and late- war tournaments at Game 09	2009-10-14	alepulp	0
12	Reviews A Couple quick thoughts on FOW	2009-08-05	Teamski	24
3	Rules Silly question on Army Lists....	2009-07-23	Teamski	2
22	Reviews FoW review – mid war period	2009-07-07	Dzon Vejn	5
0	Strategy Recon on recon FoW game, anyone try one here yet....?	2009-06-20	TRDG	0
1	General Hit Location on Tanks	2009-06-09	grahamj	1
4	Sessions A Story of Three Flames of War Matches	2009-06-09	robbbbbb	0
3	General Oh Snap!	2009-05-26	Warpiglet	7
3	General The learning process	2009-05-19	Warpiglet	8

	Recommendations

Weak Recommendations
Warhammer Fantasy Battle	Fire and Fury	Flames of War: D-Day	Battlefleet Gothic
Warhammer Ancient Battles	Napoleon's Battles

Very Weak Recommendations
De Bellis Multitudinis (DBM)	Warmaster	Johnny Reb III	Victory at Sea
Field of Glory	Mordheim - City of the Damned	Legends of the Old West	Stalingrad: Intelligence handbook on Soviet and German Infantry Forces
Great War at Sea: The Mediterranean	Cold War Commander	Epic Armageddon	Check your 6!
Lord of the Rings - Tabletop Battle Game

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Official Quick Reference Sheet v2

Here is the official quick reference sheet for the "Flames of War" 2.0 rule book. This QR sheet is available from them (www.flamesofwar.com), but its not very easy to find and most don't know about it. So here it is. Easy to find now. Download and print for your games. Its better than having to use your rulebook, or better still, tearing out those two pages from your 2.0 rulebook.

RayGuns

2008-03-27

EliteTroops.pdf

Elite Troops rules

Firepigeon

2005-11-28

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419	An european Ameritrasher/Wargamer got to Essen 2008 - photo heavy!!	2008-10-28
282	Things BGGeeks just can't seem to grasp	2008-09-03
185	Last game purchased, that you regret	2009-06-27
178	Wargamer roll call	2007-03-16
170	Images of female beauty on BGG	2005-10-03
169	Humor and Oddities in Wargames	2007-12-10
154	The Revenge of Wacky and Bizzare Things We've Read on the Geek (add your own!)	2005-09-16
151	Remembering George Carlin (1937-2008)	2008-06-23
150	Top 100 Historical Wargames - 12/31/2008	2009-01-01

	Statistics

Board Game Rank:	649
Wargame Rank:	192
Num Ratings:	350
Average Rating:	7.16
Standard Deviation:	1.92
Num Views:	65647
GeekBuddy Analysis:	Analyze
Similarly Rated:	View
Avg. Game Weight:	3.0
Fans:	15

Personal Comments:	144
Users Owning:	503
Users Wanting:	23
Users Trading:	19
Has Parts For Trade:	3
Want Parts In Trade:	3
Price History:	View
Total Plays:	855
Plays This Month:	5

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Avanti Savoia: Intelligence Handbook on Italian Armoured and Infantry Forces

Rank	0
Num Ratings	2
Average Rating	7.00
Average Weight	2.00

Owned	10
Prev. Owned	1
For Trade	1
Wanted in Trade	1

Wishlist	3
Comments	1
Year Pub.	2005

Diving Eagles

Rank	0
Num Ratings	2
Average Rating	7.00
Average Weight	3.00

Owned	11
Prev. Owned	1
For Trade	1
Wanted in Trade	2

Wishlist	3
Comments	1
Year Pub.	2003

Flames of War: Bloody Omaha

Rank	0
Num Ratings	11
Average Rating	7.20
Average Weight	3.75

Owned	37
Prev. Owned	0
For Trade	1
Wanted in Trade	2

Wishlist	2
Comments	3
Year Pub.	2007

Flames of War: Fortress Europe

Rank	0
Num Ratings	7
Average Rating	7.90
Average Weight	4.00

Owned	44
Prev. Owned	0
For Trade	0
Wanted in Trade	0

Wishlist	0
Comments	1
Year Pub.	2008

Flames of War: Afrika

Rank	0
Num Ratings	38
Average Rating	7.38
Average Weight	3.33

Owned	90
Prev. Owned	3
For Trade	4
Wanted in Trade	0

Wishlist	3
Comments	11
Year Pub.	2006

Flames of War: Cobra

Rank	0
Num Ratings	8
Average Rating	7.41
Average Weight	3.67

Owned	31
Prev. Owned	0
For Trade	0
Wanted in Trade	3

Wishlist	1
Comments	2
Year Pub.	2008

Flames of War: D Minus 1

Rank	0
Num Ratings	12
Average Rating	7.33
Average Weight	3.33

Owned	48
Prev. Owned	0
For Trade	1
Wanted in Trade	1

Wishlist	3
Comments	2
Year Pub.	2006

Flames of War: D-Day

Rank	0
Num Ratings	9
Average Rating	7.27
Average Weight	4.00

Owned	36
Prev. Owned	0
For Trade	0
Wanted in Trade	1

Wishlist	3
Comments	3
Year Pub.	2007

Flames of War: Festung Europa (Late War 1944)

Rank	0
Num Ratings	28
Average Rating	7.56
Average Weight	3.29

Owned	80
Prev. Owned	1
For Trade	3
Wanted in Trade	0

Wishlist	6
Comments	7
Year Pub.	2006

Flames of War: Hell's Highway

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Num Ratings	0
Average Rating	0.00
Average Weight	0.00

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Comments	0
Year Pub.	2009

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Flames of War: Festung Europa (Late War 1944) Army Book	http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/25786	2006-10-17
Flames of War: Afrika Army Book	http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/24014	2006-10-17
Flames of War: Ostfront Army Book	http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/24016	2006-10-17
Wikipedia Flames of War	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flames_of_war	2006-08-02
Afrika PDF Corrections just released	http://fow.flamesofwar.com/viewtopic.php?t=40874	2006-07-20
Ostfront PDF corrections just released	http://fow.flamesofwar.com/viewtopic.php?t=40876	2006-07-20
Game review at La Tana dei Goblin	http://nuke.goblins.net/modules.php?name=Reviews&r...	2005-08-25
FoW homepage	http://www.battlefront.co.nz/	2004-05-24

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