Re: [GZG] FT Light: 5 is the new 6?

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Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:07 AM, John Atkinson
<johnmatkinson@gmail.com>wrote:

> On 7/29/08, Indy <indy.kochte@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Hah! Have you played Flames of War? I have heard many people cry
> > "cheese!!!!" whenever a German player takes things like Hummels,
> Nashorns,
> > or heaven forbid, Ferdinands and Tigers (or King Tigers now). I've
heard
> the
>
> I will say as a caveat that it's not putting a heavy tank or heavy
> tank destroyer on the field, it's the way some players want to field
> them.  A full strength Heavy Panzerjaeger Battalion is about 30
> vehicles.  I've seen more of certain models on the table than were
> produced in reality.	And King Tigers. . . Don't get me started.  But
> that was in Command Decision games.
>

(now where IS that pesky "get John started" button hiding...  ;-) )

>
> > "cheese" cry in the groups I play with, but not very often. I hear
it
> more
> > in groups I don't play with. Personally, I like playing the Germans
> > (particularly 21.Panzer and 10.Panzer, both in North Africa). They
may
> have
> > some really nice units, but they had their own challenges. Fielding
a
> Tiger
> > or two against a Strelkovy force is NOT going to win any games for
the
> > German - but the other players don't want to see that. They just see
this
> > heavily armored beast rumbling around that they have nothing to stop
it,
> and
>
> If they are playing Western allies and they DON'T have a fighterbomber
> with 5" rockets specifically for that reason, they have forgotten how
> that war was fought historically.

A lot of them have. A lot of them are re-learning.

Who said history doesn't teach? :-)

Mk