Fistful of Lead..... convince me

[crafty]

My 2 cents. Awesome fun. Can't go wrong if you're up for a hollywood/narrative style skirmish game. Great for low figure count, multiplayer games.

I've introduced FFoL to a bunch of my mates from work this year, most of them had never played a minis game at all. They aren't rivet counting wargamers that would enjoy simulating the Drive on Moscow etc etc.

The FFoL rules are pretty straight forward, easy to learn. Never had a drama teaching it. This year, we've played a couple of zombie/survivor games and a 'Saving Private Ryan' game....even a African militia vs. terrorist game.



Today we're heading to the club (Darwin, Northern Territory...no lock downs) for out last outing before Christmas, we'll play another 'Ryan' game because they loved that. I'll try to post some piccys this week, all going to plan.

The thing I really like about it is that it has a DIY/customisable element to it that ports to almost anything. I bought the PDFs from War-game vault, super easy...now I print off blank cards and customise characters from 'Zombie Lords' to 'Becky the High-School-Sweet-heart' to 'Captain Miller/Tom Hanks'. If you enjoy this part of the hobby - tinkering with scenarios & characters - it's a great system.

You'll also have to print off counters etc etc...not a big drama for people on LAF that post amazing diorama-style terrain & figures.

As others have said, it's not a game for the 'power gamer' or the history boffin. I would add that there is a lot of 'gotcha' style card play - forcing re-rolls, healing damage, weapon jams, for example - and if that style of game play frustrates you, you might not enjoy it as much.

The card play mechanisms add a lot of narrative good times. The pay off is well worth it.

[flatpack]

FFOL rules = fun = money well spent.
Enough said.

[Bravo Six]

As others have said, it's not a game for the 'power gamer' or the history boffin. I would add that there is a lot of 'gotcha' style card play - forcing re-rolls, healing damage, weapon jams, for example - and if that style of game play frustrates you, you might not enjoy it as much.

That sounds like TONS of fun! Thanks.

FFOL rules = fun = money well spent.
Enough said.

Perfect!

[Harry Faversham]

I'm getting the 'Starfighters' supplement for Crimbo, so spent yesterday hunting down and dusting off some kites ready for action. I'm going to transcumbobulate outer space into WW2, so today will be spent nicking one of Herself's light blue bed sheets and adding some clouds. This evening will be spent learning RAF 1040 slang while listening to the 'Battle of Britain' film soundtrack. Wizard prang old boy, chocks away Ginger...
only FFofL can do this!

[flatpack]

Harry,
I’ve already started going down this road, of converting star fighters to ww2.
Aiming at using 1/600 aircraft as I have plenty of them already painted up.
Tried it out already, and like I’ve read somewhere else about the rules, don’t try and stick to formations in the air, as the planes end up all over the shop - I guess that’s like a real dogfight ?
Need to sort something out for speeding up and slowing down, as in the original rules, I can’t see any limiting factors except full speed or coming to a standstill as these are spacecraft.
Coming to a standstill don’t work with aircraft as the have a tendency to fall out of the sky  .

[has.been]

Having had the honour of playing in a Flatpack aerial game,
I must point out another way to plummet from the sky.
The steeper the dive (I was told) the more accurate the
Dive Bombers load delivery. Keen to be VERY accurate
I went into an almost vertical dive. What I wasn't told
was that wings can only take so much pressure... Oh S#1T !!!!!

[The Great Mahoo]

I haven't seen much on Fistful of Lead until reading through this thread.  How well might it play solo?  Any thoughts on the Starfighter variant? I'm looking for new space battle rules to try out.

[BaronVonJ]

Mahoo, do a search for “Fistful of Lead” here on LAF, and you’ll get quite a few threads to read.
A little Googling will get you even more battle reports and reviews as well as a ton of games my blog.