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fireball forward world war 2 wargaming rules fireball forward world war 2 wargaming rules fun world war two company level wargaming rules that are short on charts rules and brain pain but are long on tactics we are still developing these rules but already have a following top notch historical scenarios are also being created we are the guys that author the skirmish campaigns and check your 6 books here i will update everyone on how the rules and scenarios are progressing and invite feedback british cromwell hunts whittman a pic from a fireball game at fall in 2010 friday july 15 2011 fireball forward facebook page hey all i just started a facebook page for fireball forward if you are into social media like the page for updates and chat about the game just search for fireball forward cheers mark posted by mark fastoso at 8 52 am no comments thursday july 14 2011 blog moving to the website hi the blog is now moving to the fireball forward website at www fireballforward com i will be making new entires there check it out i just wrote about historicon 2011 cheers mark posted by mark fastoso at 9 12 am no comments wednesday july 6 2011 website is live http fireballforward com lots to check out and download posted by jonathan the lurker at 8 18 am no comments thursday june 2 2011 playtest kit and historicon hi all sorry for the long hiatus from posting good news tho the playtest kit is about 90 ready to be sprung on the world just needs some more editing the rules are being built as programmed rules meaning you read a certain amount and are then ready to play a specific scenario read a little more and you can play the next scenario eventually you will have worked your way through the entire rules set and can do anything this is how the original squad leader rules were created and laid out as a 13 year old i was able to teach myself squad leader so they must have been doing something right we are also including copious examples to help people visualize the rules the examples are in side bars that line up with the rules they are illustrating i took this idea from julia child as that is how she laid out mastering the art of french cooking as a 43 year old i was able to teach myself how to cook delicious french dinners for my wife so julia must have been doing something right the playtest kit will include the first rules section infantry combat the accompanying scenario easy company s assault on the guns at brecourt manor a quick reference sheet and markers it will be available for free download from our up and coming website the website will also have other goodies like troop labels one off scenarios and videos that demonstrate the rules historicon is approaching and according to the event organizers fireball forward is going to be the 5th most run game at the con i am running two guadalcanal scenarios there is also going to be a few normandy games us and brits some philippines 41 and a tunisia 42 tank battle so there will be a good cross section of games to choose from nothing from russia this con as curt daniels has run at least three russia 41 games at the last few conventions if you like ss tigers then get into sean barnett s villers bocage scenarios good stuff look for us at historicon we will be in the same place for the entire con i would love to meet you all and answer any questions you have stop by and have some fun with fireball forward cheers mark posted by mark fastoso at 11 47 am no comments saturday march 19 2011 i m happy to report that mark has begun a new draft of the rules and it s damn good it s a re write of the draft i did a while back which was overly lawyerly hard to read the new draft is set up in stages with scenarios inserted so you can play as you go there are lots of pictures examples in the margins always great the first stage covers basic infantry and we re thinking of making it available as pdf so folks can check it out and give feedback that said mark and i are committed to ironing out all the details before releasing the full thing so it ll be several months yet at least before the rules booklet is available we re planning to have all major theaters of wwii worked out and to really capture the differences based on historical written accounts which we re constantly reading anyway the rules are aimed at re creating for the players the same kind of tension story lines described by combatants who were there we began with late war western front europe worked out armor rules artillery flamethrowers moved on to pacific jungle fighting very different and recently began work on desert fighting mark came up with new rules for long range visibility which was a huge factor in the desert i just finished reading brazen chariots by robert crisp and then played mark s first desert scenario definitely feels right although it was purely an infantry fight can t wait to do armor i ve been developing rules for bicycle troops and cavalry philippines saw both in spades jerry frazee and his crew in north carolina worked out rules for eastern front including a commissar table which is a total blast always injects a huge dose of communism into the story line good bad ugly as it should be to answer some recent questions from jan in copenhagen labels are not mandatory but they re cool to look at and help narrate the story you can download pdfs for labels if you want them from the files folder here http games groups yahoo com group fireballforward for bases you can t beat gale force 9 they re inexpensive and super accurate laser cut http www gf9 com store product_info php cpath 64 products_id 368 fbf is intentionally relaxed about basing dimensions anything roughly the size of flames of war units work just fine you can always use fow units if you want easy to get on ebay or make your own the bases in the photos above are 3 4 inch x 1 inch squads and 3 4 x 3 4 leaders teams anything about 15mm x 25mm will work with the labels on those pdf s lastly your table is certainly big enough several scenarios are very small just 2 x 3 feet approx 0 66m x 1m thanks for all the interest and encouragement must game jonathan posted by jonathan the lurker at 7 01 am 3 comments thursday december 16 2010 japanese invade philippines 1941 yesterday we playtested a filipino welcome the first scenario of a series about the fall of the philippines what a blast here s the historical setup date december 22 1941 at dawn the main japanese invasion forces began hitting the beaches at five separate sites in lingayen gulf four of these were completely undefended allowing the japanese to race inland and cut the coastal road only at bauang were filipino troops waiting at the beach here the headquarters battalion 12th infantry philippine army led by american officers with one 50 caliber and several 30 caliber machine guns faced the oncoming japanese as the kamijima detachment approached the shore the filipinos opened fire and it was effective fire indeed the fil am forces had gambled and placed their 50 cal in a patch of scrub well forward right on the beach and it paid off lt col kamijima s daihatsu landing barges were hit before they even reached the beach and when the troops finally began spilling out the majority were left cowering in the surf or floating face down only a handful of troops made it off the boats in good order unfortunately for the filipinos that s all the japanese needed right away they launched a banzai charge against the 50 cal designer s note the banzai rules are very lively and a definite high point a leader initiates banzai and he brings along with him all good order subordinate troops in contact whether these have already moved or not so it s extremely dangerous and the feel of it matches the suddenness so often mentioned by defenders in written accounts this banzai charge consisted of two squads and one platoon leader and it suffered withering fire on the way in which killed the leader however both squads pressed onward perhaps inspired by the late platoon leader s example and they closed into contact with the filipinos next by miraculous luck the filipinos prevailed in close combat thanks to adrian reen schuler rolling snake eyes for his japanese what a wild fight the filipinos now sensed blood in the water defenders from inland converged onto the landing site and pinned down the ija with small arms plus two 30 cal browning machineguns with losses mounting the ija scrambled to get troops off the beach in ones twos their teams began to make it to a blind zone behind some scrub hidden from filipino fire they gathered there and launched another banzai charge inland toward one of the brownings despite more withering fire on the way in this charge carried the position wiping out both the browning and another fil am position immediately behind it the japanese were finally on the move the bulk of the troops back in the surf were finally able to rally get off the beach and a battle of manuever developed in the dunes there were 3 or 4 banzai charges in total i can t recall but ultimately the japanese controlled only two of the three victory locations they need to establish the beachhead honors went to the filipinos everyone had a blast with this one the feel of the engagement seemed just right and there were loads of tough tactical choices to be made on both sides historically lt col kamijima suffered terrible losses at bauang and he might have been thrown back into the gulf entirely but the fil am defenders ultimately had to withdraw because other japanese elements were threatening to cut the coast road behind them in this scenario that dynamic is represented through initiative chips the fil am forces have one permanent chip but it s lost as soon as a good order japanese squad exits the board behind them toward the coastal road we kicked around various refinements to the rules which might make the game better seemingly an endless process but the results are worth it next time we play this one we ll see how it goes this is the first of eight scenarios covering the fall of the philippines the next represents the very first tank on tank fight for us forces in wwii when m3 stuarts of the 192nd tank rgt faced japanese armor at agoo this link has that story http www proviso k12 il us bataan 20web morin htm in a later scenario lt ramsey s famous charge at morong the u s army s final horse cavalry charge ever will be represented cheers jonathan tristram miller posted by jonathan the lurker at 7 50 am 2 comments wednesday november 24 2010 banzai fireball forward and the pacific war last night the lead elements of the ichiki detachment clashed with a combat patrol from the 1st marines west of henderson field the marines led by captain charles brush played by doug austin had a report that a japanese patrol was headed his way and set his command of two under strengthed rifle platoon and a machine gun section in a cordon defense to prevent japanese infiltrators from reaching the airfield the north part of his line covered two trails that led through a coconut grove while one platoon covered the jungle to the south the marines hunkered down and waited with fingers on triggers for the japanese to appear the platoon guarding the coconut grove played by bruce weigel decided to move out and either clear the area or make contact they were making steady progress with no sign of the enemy until suddenly the sound of rifle fire broke out from the jungle to the south the lead elements played by tom garnett from the japanese force had entered the jungle in an attempt to outflank the marine position here they ran into the usmc platoon commanded by lt jacym played by latham fell lt jacym had been moving through the jungle himself and in doing so got his platoon strung out and disorganized in the unfamiliar terrain but luckily one squad was in position to meet the japanese a firefight erupted which drew more marines towards the action just then capt shibuya played by tim tilson burst into the jungle leading two squads of crack troops see photo above after firing a quick volley shibuya screamed banzai and led his men forward into close combat with the americans a few bar men in the jungle opened up on the screaming mass of japanese but the fury of the charge was not to be stopped shibya s men overran the marine squad giving them the bayonet stunned by this assault the marines were unable to react and the lead elements of colonel ichiki s detachment successfully navigated their way through the jungle and on to henderson field captain brush realized that his line had been penetrated and decided to retire back to the marine perimeter so went the first pacific war scenario using fireball forward everyone had a great time and agreed that the game felt like it was a guadalcanal fight up until now we have been playing mainly normandy russia and sicily scenarios although they each have unique terrain features they are similar normandy had hedgerows russia has thick woods and fields and sicily has cactus hedges but other than that they are the same guadalcanal is totally different jungle coconut groves banyan trees kunai grass and bare slopes all conspire to make the environment of the fighting a completely different experience than europe and russia in fact that was the case during the war the us was unprepared to fight in the jungle at least at first our goal in fireball is to get at that feel of a totally different environment without having to create alot of new or special rules we are trying to tackle this as we develop the main rules and not do the pacific as an afterthought in a supplement created later the rules should work across the board for all types of terrain which is why i am preparing to do north africa scenarios next north africa being another place with totally different terrain challenges i think the way we are approaching guadalcanal terrain is working and in the end we will have a great set of rules for jungle and a fun guadalcanal scenario book i also plan to try out some later pacific stuff tarawa or iwo to make sure that works and jonathan miller is creating a scenario book of the japanese invasion of the philippines 1941 can t wait happy thanksgiving mark ps we do have rules of banzai charges which everyone loved even as i was explaining them the gamers could hardly wait to try them eyes widened and i swear i saw the japanese players starting to drool congrats to tim tilson for launching the first successful banzai charge of fireball forward posted by mark fastoso at 6 11 am 3 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom followers blog archive 2011 5 july 3 fireball forward facebook page blog moving to the website website is live http fireballforward com lots to june 1 march 1 2010 26 december 1 november 1 october 1 september 1 august 2 july 1 june 2 may 3 april 2 march 6 february 6 contributors dr dzoe jerry jonathan the lurker mark fastoso