Inaugural Challenge FoF AAR

[Kingmaker]

HiHi

INTRODUCTIONs

As stated elsewhere there has been a fair amount of interest in ‘Forge of Freedom’ from both owners & non owners of the game, so what I will try to do here is give both a commentary on the Blitzes ‘Inaugural Game’ as it unfolds, and give a flavour of the game for non owners (this is a shameless attempt on my part to get more folk interested in playing the game )

I will use this post as a test to see if I have the techy stuff right for including screenshots.

Refresh about the game.

In FoF you play either Rebs or Feds, there are 5 scenarios and you are in sole charge of winning the War for your Nation, you will have to get to grips (and it’s a steep learning curve) with all aspects of the War; Military, Economic, Political, & Logistical.

There are 3 Rules levels, Basic, Intermediate & Advanced with a further 15 (including a Tutorial) levels of Difficulty. The solo game has a very sophisticated ‘Detailed battle’ option which can be played with 3D animation or 2D and gives everything we always wanted added to John Tillers BG games plus some, eg Cavalry that can see as it goes, line of sight alters depending on terrain, Infantry can deploy into line from column and from column into line and much much more, sadly it is too complex due to the initiative factors to be played as PBEM.

I will now try adding a screenshot of the suggested Setup I sent to Alasdair (Feds have to set the game up) hopefully it will show non owners the range of options open for setting the game up as you wish to play it.

Just in case it doesn’t come through, we are playing ‘the Coming Fury’ July 1861, me as Rebs Alasdair as Feds, with Advanced rules and at Sgt Major level, this is with the historical economic background (the Coming Fury’ can be played with a non historical balanced economy)



As I have never done one of these Report thingys before, any comments or advise (constructive please :) ) would be helpful, Cheers.

All the Best
Peter