Now that we are a few weeks into the New Year, I am looking ahead into what 2015 will be like for me on the FoW front. Last year it seemed like I was heading to a tournament at least once a month if not more, and by looking at my standings and counting the number of entries, it was a busy year for me. I also, like most of us added to my current armies or started some new lists. The one big addition was the introduction of the Great War period by Battlefront; I have written a lot on how great this period is to play and I will have more on this below.
So what does 2015 have in store for us?
New lists, old products
I always think there is something to finding your “list” in FoW. It’s a list that give you all of the capabilities you feel you need to be competitive, I picked the word “feel” with purpose, since I do not think there is a great amount of science in list selection. Many look over a list and say the same things; “..yep, yep, recce, template, this for smoke, yea it looks good”. I think that a list should be more tuned to a player’s style rather than a checklist of capabilities. Take recce forces for instance, everyone will state it is a must have on every list, yet I have seen few players use it well. In fact I learned more on how to use recce when it was used against my Westphalian Infantry list from Remagen. Finding out how some opponents used recce to push back my panzerfaust trap teams was a hard learned lesson in how to properly use these forces.
