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British Commandos Now Official

Vastatum — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:29:12 +0000

For those of you wanting to play with the British Commandos in Flames of War, your wish has been granted. The Commandos were just made an official list for late war Britain. You can grab the Intelligence Briefing here.

1500 Point British Rifle Company

Vastatum — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:54:07 +0000

The British have fantastic artillery. They can use their 8 gun rule to completely destroy enemy positions and force any opponent to be wary about digging in for an extended period of time. With these guns as a backbone, this Afrika infantry list is tough as nails.

HQ 30 points

Rifle Platoon I 190 points

3 rifle/mg squads
light mortar team
PIAT team

Rifle Platoon II 190 points

3 rifle/mg squads
light mortar team
PIAT team

Machinegun Platoon I 155 points

2 sections

Machinegun Platoon II 155 points

2 sections

AntiTank Section 105 points

1 section 6pdr gun with jeeps

Tank Platoon I 240 points

1 Matilda II
2 Matilda II CS

Field Battery, Royal Artillery 445 points

4 gun sections

This army takes those 8 guns, and gives them enough firepower to protect them. The HMG teams will put up a fierce volly of fire against any enemy that gets close. The Tank platoon is there to support the infantry with smoke, This lets the artillery focus on killing things rather than blinding them.

You have enough anti tank between the piats, anti tank platoon and the tanks to put up a good fight, and they are spread across a variety of troop types. This means that even if your opponent can take out all your tanks easily, it isn’t going to cripple you since you have AT in other places as well.

This is a pretty basic army with no bells or whistles and can be used as a great starting point for a british infantry force.

600 Point British Infantry

Vastatum — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:17:18 +0000

This is a starting 600 point Afrika Korps list for the British Infantry. It takes a little bit of everything and is able to deal with very heavy armour as well as entrenched enemies. It is a list designed to give you models that you will use, to give you a feel for the game and how your army will play. It is very easy to expand on this list into a full 1500+ point army without having any models go to waste.

The idea behind this list is to use the heavy 17/25’s to deal with heavy enemy armour (seeing a panther in a 600 point list can be tough to deal with). The light mortars are to smoke targets so you can focus on dealing with one target at a time. The infantry have the numbers to stay alive for a long period of time, since you only have one platoon, if it runs away that is a very bad thing.

If you are assaulting, the valentine 2’s are there to back up the infantry charge and to take out moderately armoured threats. Since they have no HE let the infantry mortars / AA guns dig out infantry.

Rifle Platoon 145 points

command HQ rifle/mg team
rifle/mg section
rifle/mg section
light mortar team
PIAT

AA-Platoon 55

2 Portee 20mm

Mortar section 75

2 3″ mortars + observer team

Tank Platoon 150

3 valentine II

Anti tank platoon 170

command rifle team + jeep
2 17/25 guns + quad tractors

Matilda II Tanks

Vastatum — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:10:02 +0000

The matilda II is a close infantry support tank capable of taking a decent amount of fire due to its high armour. It also has fairly thick side and top armour making it ideal for making assaults along side the infantry it is supporting. They are slow, but they don’t need to move faster than infantry. Like most units in Flames of War, use them right and they are a huge asset, use them wrong and they’re a huge waste of points.

Mark II (Matilda II) (mid / late war)

This tank is cheap, with decent armour and an average main gun. It makes up for this with a higher rate of fire. if you need to engage a lot of moderately armoured targets . It can also stand up to fire far better than any assault gun platform. This tank fills a support role and moves with the infantry taking out halftracks and assault guns alike. With no HE they are not going to dig out machine gun nests but the british guns are more than up to that task. They also have a top armour of 2 which makes them very survivable when assaulting.

Mark II 76mm (Matilda II CS) (mid / late war)

This tank has a lower rate of fire and a lower anti tank value than the standard mark II but higher firepower. It doesn’t have HE rounds either so it wont be digging anyone out of cover, but what it does have is smoke rounds. These are very useful for blinding machinegun nests or at guns when your infantry is assaulting, freeing up your mortars to use their regular rounds.

Both of these tanks are good when used for the role they are designed in, supporting infantry, don’t expect to be doing any flanking maneuvers with them.

British Artillery

Vastatum — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:06:04 +0000

The British artillery is one of the best in the game. This is because of the numerous special rules that apply to them specifically. If you like a force that “pins and pounds” then there is no better force to do that than the Brits. First of all British artillery batteries have access to 8 guns this is double most of their opponents. All of the standard artillery rules apply about re rolling misses when using more than 6 guns but this is where the Brits pull away from the pack.

With so many guns available the brits are able to fire them in two different ways. The Stonk gives a double wide artillery template with no to hit rerolls, while a murder fires all guns at the same location granting the re-roll to hit. Both of these are useful depending on what sort of position the enemy is in. If they’ve dug into cover firing a murder is the way to go, but if you have just successfully grounded an enemy force in a weak defensive postion then the double wide stonk can be more effective.

The Stonk is also useful for hitting multiple platoons if they happen to bunch up. Your opponent will never make the mistake twice of placing their infantry close together after having two platoons grounded by a well placed stonk.

Should you be fortunate enough to be able to use “all guns repeat” after using a stonk on your target you have the option of calling “mike target” which brings the entire regiments guns down on the same location. This forces your opponent to re roll any missed saves, very powerful against dug in troops. This threat can cause a dug in opponent to abandon his line or face death by shell.

British artillery is fearsome and is the backbone of many successful British army lists.