Force on Force

For the last few days I have been looking online at a new set of rules put out by Ambush Alley Games called - Force on Force.  It is an adaption of their older game Ambush Alley which pitted a modern regular force against an insurgent.  Due to player request a mod was put out called Force of Force that allowed for two regular armies to fight one another.  Since then, Osprey Publishing (creator of those wonderful, thin books about every obscure unit or piece of equipment one could ever want, such as "Soviet Combat Furniture, 1944-1945) has teamed up with Ambush Alley Games to produce a new edition of Force on Force combining both original rule sets, updating them, and adding lots of pretty pictures.

I have a copy in the mail from Amazon.com and will give some more info on the rules when they come in.  For now I will just say that what I have been hearing has been intriguing.  Instead of giving units a complex stat-line like the Warhammer games do, or even numeric ratings like Flames of War does, FoF uses different sizes of dice (D6, D8, D10, D12) to represent the differing qualities of the units.  Units are not set up with both players having a set number of points to spend but rather the units are based off of actual TO&Es and it seems that a certain degree of imbalance is to be expected.

The game is supposed to be able to work in just about any scale, but usually using 15/20/25-28mm models.  The game designers personally use 15mm and these look like they may be the cheapest option.

For a good while I have been looking at getting an AK 47 Republic campaign going but have been held off by the cost of buying multiple armies on top of the several other game systems I am already playing.  One advantage of FoF seems that it uses much smaller units than many other games out there.  I have taken some of the left over Peter Pig minis that I was using for a Mercenary Army based off of Mike Hoare's 5 Commando from the Congo War of the 1960's and have based them on pennies.  Thus far they are looking pretty nice and as soon as I procure myself a decent camera I will hope to add some photos of the five I have done so far.

I will keep you all posted on the progress of my adventure into Force on Force as time goes on, and will hopefully be able to get some good games in with my buddies here.