Lebanon 1982 - AAR

[Westfalia Chris]

Try and keep up, it's called 'Force on Force' nowadays. 

Yes, that's what I meant, actually. Mixed up ruleset and publisher.

I'll happily tick the boxes for both systems though... I'll give FoF points for 'realism' and BA points for 'simplicity', but both are enjoyable games in their own right.

I just wonder if FoF will work fluently with larger numbers of tactical units - some of the scenarios in the Bush Wars book are huge. I just hope I'll get around with the 40-odd guerillas I have lined up for painting now...

[tomek917]

While I agree on the potential of the howitzer in direct fire mode, I wonder if "superheavy tank" doesn't make it too resilient, considering it only had 20mm armour, most of it almost vertical. That might explain the RPGs pinging off.

That was sort of a scenario technical thing too, I didn't wan't the biggest thing on the table to blow up by the first shot...well now it did once but not everyone can roll two sixes in a row 

[Arlequín]

I just wonder if FoF will work fluently with larger numbers of tactical units - some of the scenarios in the Bush Wars book are huge. I just hope I'll get around with the 40-odd guerillas I have lined up for painting now...

From my somewhat (sadly) limited experience of them, they work best at an optimum of a reinforced platoon.

They do cope with larger games, but like anything, the more units you add, the more it inevitably slows the game down. It still flows well enough though, just takes longer to work through everything. At a push and with plenty of time on your hands, you could play a company-sized game, but that's the limit in my opinion.

Less than a platoon, I would go for something like FNG, Platoon-ish is FoF territory and for a bigger game I would be tempted to try Bolt Action, despite it being supposedly a platoon-sized game.

[grant]

Great battle! There is an excellent Israeli film on Netflix right now, I believe it's called "Tank"; the film is pretty much shot from the INSIDE of a Centurion during the Lebanon 82 shindig. Very claustrophobic movie - but lots of neat stuff going on.

[carlos marighela]

Great battle! There is an excellent Israeli film on Netflix right now, I believe it's called "Tank"; the film is pretty much shot from the INSIDE of a Centurion during the Lebanon 82 shindig. Very claustrophobic movie - but lots of neat stuff going on.

Incredibly bloody silly film and a fairly tedious one if you ask me. Walk with Bashir was a much better film about the 1982 invasion of Lebanon albeit it's an animated flick. Still horses for courses.

[Wilkins]

I think it was released in the UK entitled Lebanon. It initially shows promise but the ending is a massive anti-climax. Interesting idea though