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I settled on Americans early on, and once fighting first came out, I was in love. Green, confused, and cheap but with lots of cool toys, the Americans are an interesting contrast to the three other forces in Mid War at the moment. They are the only ones who don't get 4+ to hit ratings, they are almost universally conscript rated with most units having 5+ skill but at least get 4+ morale, with their infantry unpinning on a 3+. At the time of writing Americans currently have arguably the strongest tank, the sherman (I'm ignoring the Tiger.) It makes me a bit uneasy since I dedicated over half of my last post in this series to my dislike of heavy tanks and I intend to use at least 3 of them. Call me a hypocrite but I take solace from the fact that most panzer variants have a decent chance against them and my old nemesis, the churchill will soon hit the desert. Even the Germans are jealous. Before getting too deep into the tank question, I think the real power in Fighting Fi...

Canadian Nationals in September. My first time going to Nationals and only my second real  tournament. The ground is shifting under the feet of most flames of war players these days.  Version 4 and a return to midwar has rendered a lot of armies and lists unplayable, both literally  and in the moaning, hyperbolic sense. I was left relatively unscathed, late war Germans and  early war french weren’t hurt that bad but my opponents came out stronger than ever. There’s a  nasty trend in our club, a slow power creep in tanks. When we first started, my most common  match up was taking my StuGs and grenadiers up against British infantry and shermans. Now all  I fight is IS-2’s and churchills. Panzer 4’s and StuGs just don't cut it face to face with those monstrosities, now nebelwerfers and fausts made it work in the past but no more. I’ll admit the invincible 10 point panzerfausts were a little silly and nebs were arguably t...