Talk:Flames of War

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Contents 1 Merge 2 scale 3 squads 4 Requested move 4.1 Survey 4.2 Discussion 4.3 Result:moved 5 Criticism

[edit] Merge

merging it is a good idea, how do you do it?

merged Travelbird 17:56, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] scale

If I recall correctly they use 15mm figures but 1:100 scale models? (15mm and 1:100 are slightly different...) Mathmo

[edit] squads

"stands reperesenting half-squads", not so. Fraction of a squad perhaps, but always exactly half?? Nope, not at all. Mathmo 03:58, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

• Flames of war → Flames of War … Rationale: Correct capitialisation —Pak21 08:36, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Survey

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• Support: simple, non-controversial and correct --Pak21 08:39, 23 June 2006 (UTC) (nominator)

[edit] Discussion

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[edit] Result:moved

Ia gree with the rational. -- Kim van der Linde ^{at venus} 13:23, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism

"The Cost of building an army is very reasonable compared to most wargames on the market. (A typical 1500 pts army comes in at less than $250 - which is quite cheap compared to other Wargames, like Warhammer 40K)"

On the other hand, you can buy a whole DBx army at the price of one or two boxes of 22mm (1/72) figures, which can cost as little as 3.50 pounds (that's about $6.00), so, no, FoW is not 'very reasonable'! You 're comparing it to Warhammer and perhaps other games of the same expense level.

Still, a decent Warhammer/40K force can be had for about 150 pounds (which is about $250-80) if you start with one of the army deals and add a few models, and that's including the modelling material costs.

In fact, if you actually play WHFB or 40K, one reason it's hard to get into FoW is exactly because the costs of the two games are both high!

I 'll think about an edit to this and submit it at some point.

I'd say the cost is not insanely unreasonable, however FoW is far from cheap. Sure you can do Warhammer Cheaper than what was stated above, however it would be a rare person indeed who would argue with the statement that in general FoW is a little cheaper than Warhammer. Both games can be a made a little cheaper by going for certain types of troop selections, but what you should be looking at is what the average gamer for each of them would spend. A FoW gamer would spend less, however I'd doubt the difference is really that much and as such there would be frequent overlap of some FoW spending more than some cheap Warhammer players would spend etc... Mathmo 15:48, 7 November 2006 (UTC)