Fields of Fire Deluxe Edition

Fields of Fire Deluxe Edition

Fields of Fire is a solitaire game for the command of a rifle company between the Second’ World War and the present. The game differs from many tactical games in that it has no randomness and is card-driven. There are two decks used in the game. The terrain deck is based on a specific area and is used to create a map for the various missions your company must carry out. The action deck serves many purposes in controlling combat, command and control, and various activity attempts. The company's units are counters representing staff elements, squads, weapons teams, forward observer elements, individual vehicles or helicopters. A single game is a mission and many missions from a historical campaign are linked together so that the player manages experience and replacements. A mission can be played in about 1 – 4 hours.

What's new in the Deluxe Edition

The Fields of Fire Volume I Deluxe Edition is a fully revised edition of Fields of Fire Volume I. Based on feedback from the last 15 years, hundreds of hours of playtesting and long discussions with the design team, the Deluxe Edition presents Ben Hull's masterpiece of tactical infantry command in a way that is accessible to the modern player, while retaining all the deep complexity that veteran players have loved all these years.

New features include:

– A rewritten series rulebook. The Deluxe Edition comes with a rewritten third edition rules set, packed with examples, diagrams and clarifying notes, while maintaining continuity with the second edition rules. Series developers Andrew Stead and Colin Parsons worked to eliminate ambiguities and edge cases throughout, creating a greatly improved reference manual for the game.

– Getting Started Guide. Although Fields of Fire has a reputation for being difficult to learn, the Starter Guide makes it easy. Each chapter of the Starter Guide gradually introduces new rules through training exercises that teach you the basics of infantry combat. Later exercises serve as advanced guides on creating air strikes and making the best use of support vehicles.

– A complete starter mission. A standalone mission tailored to ease new platoon commanders into the full game. This mission can be played repeatedly with various simplified rules so you can adapt to the full historical campaigns.

– Four fully redesigned mission books. Using the much-improved format from Fields of Fire: The Bulge Campaign, the Normandy, Heartbreak Ridge, Naktong River and Vietnam campaigns are presented in a clearer and expanded form.

– Over 200 updated counters as well as various additional reference indicators and new units.

– New lift cards to support the Heartbreak Ridge campaign.

– An entirely new set of redesigned support items player, including new diagrams and air attack planning cards.

This game is based on four real campaigns experienced by units of the U.S. 9th Infantry (Regiment) in the B’ World War, Korea and Vietnam. The 9th Infantry is known as “Manchus” for their service in the Boxer Rebellion. Their motto is «Keep Up the Fire».

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