Brilliant victory in Ghamal! Terrorist stronghold in Capital of Edalla province smashed by armed forces! At 0500 hrs this morning, elements of the 27th Naval Scout Regiment, 345th tactical surveillance squadron and the 9th Orion Army’s famous 32nd Mechanized Brigade began the first stage of an operation to attack a terrorist stronghold. The Naval Scouts infiltrated the old town in central Ghamal just before dawn. Their mission was to contact local informants to find the exact location of the stronghold. After conducting a low altitude pass to confirm the intel, an aircraft from the 345th was shot down but conducted an emergency landing in the vicinity of the terrorist hideout, a highwalled compound in the heart of Ghamal’s old town. Despite the original plan calling for the 32nd mechanized to prepare an attack at dawn the next day, the decision was made to commit an all out assault at 0945hrs, mere minutes after aircraft was downed. The bravery of our soldiers in conducting a hast...
Written by Jordan A. Vandergragt, Games and Theory special guest. This time on The Games and Theory podcast we talk about some strategies to up your game and crush your enemies in Flames of War. Much of the podcast discussion revolves around having a "theory of victory". The basic idea is that as long as you build a list that has combined arms, (infantry, mobile firepower and at least one bombardment) you can win any match with the right plan of attack. This means a bunch of different things that we ramble about in the episode, but in this article I'll attempt to explain my personal theory of victory for my tournament list, as well as discuss a bit about modeling and preparing the army. It took me far too long to decide what force to play at the upcoming tournament at FDB in Gatineau. We haven't had many local mid-war events since the new dynamic points came into effect, so there are a lot of things I wanted to try. My favourite force for mid war is the British crusad...