WWII rules with 1 base=1 squad ?

[blacksmith]

Thank you very much NTM!!

[Elbows]

Fireball Forward is excellent (I game with one of the main playtesters who works with the author etc.).  However, all of the games I've played are 5-men to a stand, or half-squads per base.  I'm not sure if the rules insist on any particular scale.

That aside, it's a great game and plays excellent at company level. 

[sztrave]

Four more Battlegroup Panzergrenadier (2nd ed) AARs that I found really useful to understand how the game works:

http://saskatoonminiwargamer.blogspot.ca/2013/10/armour-clash-aar.html

http://saskatoonminiwargamer.blogspot.ca/2013/11/defending-kobrin-aar.html

http://saskatoonminiwargamer.blogspot.ca/2013/11/counter-attack-at-bereza-aar.html

http://saskatoonminiwargamer.blogspot.ca/2013/12/berezina-bridgehead-aar.html


-shaun

[blacksmith]

Battlegroup Panzergrenadier looks very interesting but it is not cheap. Will I need to buy game components and cards as well to be able to play a game?

[robh]

1 base to 1 squad is how we play Kampfgruppe Normandy (also works for the follow up Battlegroup xxx series of books). I much prefer it to the individually based figures.

My 6mm figures are based as 7 or 8 figures on a 30x30 base. So the same base works for Crossfire, KGN, Spearhead, Panzer Korps and Assault gun allowing us to play any scale of WW2 game from squad skirmish up to operational.

[sztrave]

Battlegroup Panzergrenadier looks very interesting but it is not cheap. Will I need to buy game components and cards as well to be able to play a game?

You do not need cards etc to play, but you do need some markers for some unit states, same as a lot of games.

[NTM]

Battlegroup Panzergrenadier looks very interesting but it is not cheap. Will I need to buy game components and cards as well to be able to play a game?

I think you may be confusing it with Battlefront WWII which does use cards for unit stats. the core rule book comes with Late War US, USSR & German cards IIRC. You will need to purchase additional sets for LW Brits, Desert, Far East & Blitzkrieg.

Got my copy of Battlegroup Panzergrenadier quite cheap. Ordered the reduced price 1st edition to see if I liked the system prior to release of the Deluxe but received the 2nd instead for less than a tenner.

[blacksmith]

I think you may be confusing it with Battlefront WWII which does use cards for unit stats. the core rule book comes with Late War US, USSR & German cards IIRC. You will need to purchase additional sets for LW Brits, Desert, Far East & Blitzkrieg.

Got my copy of Battlegroup Panzergrenadier quite cheap. Ordered the reduced price 1st edition to see if I liked the system prior to release of the Deluxe but received the 2nd instead for less than a tenner.

Well you're right as I was looking at Battlefront 
Do you know of anybody else who may be selling battlegroup panzergrenadier apart from Caliver?
thanks again

[NTM]

Sorry no, it's a Partizan press publication so Caliver will be the primary source. I've always had good service from Caliver so not had the need to look for an alternative source.

[blacksmith]

Sorry no, it's a Partizan press publication so Caliver will be the primary source. I've always had good service from Caliver so not had the need to look for an alternative source.

OK thank you. I've noticed there is a third edition deluxe but it expensive beyond reason. I'll probably order 2nd ed. form Minifigs as I also have to order some Germans and Russians.
Cheers,