Gaming! With no Foresight!
We are a Husband and Wife duo who are super nerds, love gaming, barely think things through and so decided to launch a youtube channel without thinking through just how much work it would be lol! But we really hope you enjoy our content and we look forward to chatting with you!
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Nicely played, both of you. I'm just getting started with this hobby and I learned a lot from you.
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Dude, your face when Bree said she still had 2 'toons of Canadian tanks to bring on was priceless 😂 I think that your deployment was a bit off though, and rushing the T55s in early on would have helped secure the opposite back line, even though casualties would have been high. Still loved watching it, and on to the next one, thanks again for uploading!
I will Def have to go back and rewatch this one. Its been so long that I cannot recall the specific instance but I can fully imagine the hilarity of it lol! And good call on the deployment, I am often far to cautious with my pact forces lol! Glad you enjoyed and thanks for the comment!
Clash of steel is nice to start, but you get a few tanks you won't use in bigger quantities because of their costs in FoW. If you like the bigger starter sets, you could also buy them 2 times, then you can built every version of every tank AND you have more than your 100 pints for a complete army.
Yea we have only used the Jagdtiger like.... maybe twice since we got it? Its often just to pricey to field, and honestly the level of AT and armour it has is just absurd, a couple Hornise can do the job just as well without attracting fire as much lol. Great point on doubling up on the starters though, I am working on an updated version of this video and will be sure to mention that as a tactic for quick collections!
Late to the party, but… Maybe I missed something, but the M109 deployment was just weird, and I don’t think they fired a single shot in the entire game, so there’s that. The Americans didn’t seem to have the numbers to counter what the Soviets brought to the table, but I suppose that’s what the first stages of Team Yankee (the book) tells you: it’s delaying tactics, slowing them down and thinning the front echelon herd until they’re reinforced. Enjoyed that guys, and thanks for uploading.
Probably either a misplay on our part or we plum forgot them lol. We admit we are not very good at the games lol! Also that is fair, and absolutely in line with the novel yea. In this case the heavy armoured cav using the M1A1HC's just spends to many points on the tanks and they don't really deliver enough during the game to make up for their expense sadly. Thank you for the comment and glad to hear you enjoyed! Hopefully will get some more WWIII content done soon!
I’m considering the game. Great vid.
Thanks! Hoping to make an updated version by end of summer! Hope you enjoy the game!
at 17:20 it doesn't look like side armor, your hitting front of turret so you should have rolled for front or side as the turret was turned to shoot infantry last turn.
Thanks! Almost always one or two things at least that we forget or get wrong lol!
Those 2 hills at the start of the german line look awesome...
Rock on minis
Air landing = screwed up
Gobos are the true race
The Germans r laughing at u
H for gods sake Jim push left
Tryanids for Life
Holy crap Jim push center
Dammit Jim Push right
Dammit Jim push left
Love all the nostalgic civilian vehicles!! Are they Hot Wheels? Is that a VAMP in the intersection?
Sadly not, 3d prints my mate found the files for on thingiverse I believe. And I believe so yes!
Beautiful work🎉 but I hope that your not done with it😳 you’ve just applied the basecolours
That was a great game. I was involuntarily wincing at the number of ones rolled for the Germans. Ditch those dice, old boy!
Really glad you enjoyed! And the dice are just the way of it lol, iv tried tons of different dice and almost all are the same lol
Thank you for the game.
Thank you for watching it!
Hi guys. Truly great game from you both. For the US forces, great game strategy. A layered defence is always in FoW, a good game plan. Let the other guy wear himself down, breaking through the layers. Very good placement of the 3 " guns . It really slowed his advance down, which is an important factor in a layered defence. Did you know that the 3" gun crews are the same crew from the tank destroyers, and they were trained as specialists in hand to hand assaults. With the tank destroyers, I deploy either M20 security sections or M8 Greyhound recon patrols. At 3 to 5 points per unit is very cheap and are both scouts. I use the MGs to deal with infantry units and the 37mm guns of the M8 to deal with half tracks. The 60mm mortar is great for pinning infantry. These units I use to support the tank destroyers or as independent fire brigades to deal with infantry units. For the German forces, firstly, apologise to your dice and offer compensation for your transgressions. So far, Bulge games have not been kind to you. But you are producing very historical outcomes. By this stage of the war, German pushes tend to get to the final objective, only to not have the units to take it. When facing a layered defence, you need a reserve force that you have kept out of action to make the break out. Flames of War are different from other games in that firing at everything you can will lose the game for you. It actually dilutes your firepower in a game where you must use the weight of firepower. Movement is your most offensive weapon. It is better to get closer or around the cover they are using, so you're hitting on 3 or 4s instead of 5 or 6s, even if your rate of fire drops. 4 shots that will probably hit is far better than 8 shots that might hit. With planning my forces, I start with the last turn and a small force to win the game. This is my breakout force and the reserve force that will stay out of action for the most part. The rest of my force it designed to get my reserve force to the last, the last turn in good condition. I normally expect 15% to 20% of my force to survive to the last turn. Game wise, this is what military planners refer to as the economy of force. No commander will never have the force he wants to get the job done. So your force will need to be stripped down to the basic requirements with just enough to also be flexible. As your plan will not be the only plan on the table so you need the flexibility to deal with the other guy's plan. For this, I look at units that value add to each other. Such as my example above. The tank destroyers protect the patrols from tanks while the patrols protect the destroyers from infantry. In this way, both units value add to each other by boosting their strengths. I hope my reply does sound critical as this is not my intention. Nor I hope it was not too boring as at the end of the day our hobby is all about the fun we have on the way.
It does not at all sound critical my friend, it is as always an excellent and well thought out comment! I will get Ben to read through the allied section you have. For my side.. yea I don't know what god I offended but my dice man... what the hell lol! As for taking that approach to building the force that's an interesting idea. I can definitely give it a go, I am just unsure how well it will work out in practice. Ben usually is able to outmaneuver and slow me down right of the bat to the point that I have to commit everything just to break through the first line! lol
@LackofForesightGaming Thank you, kind sir. I think you need to get a dice blessing or something organised fast. My friend Richard committed a similar offence to the gods of randomisation, and to this day, his rolls are rubbish. What amazes me is that the last game he had with really good rolls was back in the mid 80's. He claimes today that he can poison dice just by touching them. Lol. You can use smoke and smoke barrages to isolate a small section of his army for elimination. Smoke is handy for protecting you engineers while clearing mine fields. The thing I like most about FoW and TY is that the rules only provide a framework for your tactics, and you can't use the rules to win for you. Unlike say 40K. One of the things I get asked most from 40K players that are trying out FoW is what rules do I use to win the game. So, this framework allows us to try out many different things, including methods we use to construct our forces. These Bulge games you've done have been good practice for the real pressure cooker, Peiper's Charge P108. I would get your dice issues sorted first. Lol
Thanks for the game guys. Another tough mission for the attacker this one. The objectives are so far away.
Our pleasure as always! And thank you for watching! Yea alot of the book scenarios are very difficult missions for sure!
Nests are too good.
Aye that they are! Might have to start using pakfront lol
Your MG halftrack doesn't get abandoned because you were bailed in defensive fire. It's sits bailed out 2 inches away. If you had been bailed and failed a counterattack, then it would have been captured. So in that assault step you lost 2 infantry stands and one halftrack that you didn't actually lose.
Thank you : ) Assaults are the one part of the game we consistently seem to mess up lol
@@LackofForesightGaming don’t we all…. It’s the most complicated part of the game. I noticed you said this was one of the first assaults you successfully landed…. I recommend going in with just one or two stands….minimize defensive fire and force them to fall back, while only risking one or two teams.
heh yea... in like three years of filming I think this was the first successful contact through defensive fire and everything. Ben has a annoyingly good habit of maximizing placement of his teams to the point that hes almost always has 10 or more shots of defensive fire in almost every situation. And almost always seems to roll 5s or 6s lol. Our next game though I will try smaller assaults yea, see if I cant be more strategic in my placement of the teams : )
Bazookas hit on 4 in assault? Edit: just looked, they hit on 5s
Thought it was that, but Ben was insistent it was otherwise..
@@LackofForesightGaming it's on the card....
We don't have many of the cards unfortunately, just books. And have been jumping back and forth across game systems alot lately lol. Thats 100% on me not being more persistent in checking lol
You know, I haven't played Flames of War because I'm more of a Team Yankee guy and said I wouldn't play Flames of War because it seems to play the same gameplay as Team Yankee. But looking at all your units on the table (unlike the three units you get as NATO) as well as the diversity is really enticing, I kinda like seeing variety and a well painted army play it out. I've also never seen cards before (or didn't pay attention) those are really cool. I kind of wish they'd bring those over as well.
You can definitely have a much larger variety of units on the board with flames yea. Both in that the armies typically have more models, as well as the nations are far less homogenous. I have always wished they would bring the command cards over to Team Yankee though, would be a great way to add some variety to the game yea.
Good game.🎉 Now looking forward to Dark Elves battle reports 🥰
Glad you enjoyed! At the moment we dont have any dark elf collection to use yet but we shall def add it to our plans to acquire!
So there are two things canons are really good at now... not sniping single chars since the faq means they only can hit them on a direct hit. However... killing giants and... killing all other war maschines which is something you most definitly should have done here ;) Nice to see old world content for sure.
Goad to hear you enjoyed! Not sure yet on how to use the cannons yea, tried to fire at his hellblaster but the terrain placement made it rather difficult lol, but il keep that in mind for our next game! Might try employing a hellstorm battery!
Looking forward to the Giblins.. Even though this is cool too!
Hoping to have the Goblin games up through April : )
Where did you get those movement trays? The black ones?
3d printed for the most part by a local friend of mine, the files were found on cults3d, some of the others purchased from the Miniwargaming forge
I can vouch for the Miniwargaming Forge base and movement tray STL's. All my Old World minis are using them, and they're so much better than using the movement trays from WHFB
Quite so! I really need to order a fair few more from the @MWGForge.. like thirty or something more lol
Empire civil war is so cool! I love that both armies are quite distinct and very characterful
Very glad to hear you enjoyed! Its such an interesting narrative concept that we had to try out! Especially given the time its set in for the lore, it fits so well! And we both have Very different approaches to running the empire that it almost feels like a different army
I'm not a huge fan of Warhammer but always a pleasure to watch you play! Also I love the felt road! Have you or will you do a terrain overview some day?
Really appreciate you still watching mate! We have some more flames of war content in the works soon : ) And thanks! Yea it works surprisingly well for just being a roll of grey felt! And what kind of overview would you like? Iv done a video on how we set up terrain for our games, but like do you want more of a look on what we have? How we make it?
Loving the old world content and the Empire vs Empire matchups are fun. Good stuff, keep it coming!
Thanks mate! Our next two fantasy games will likely be Empire vs something else as Ben is working on his Tomb Kings presently and doesn’t have any newly painted models yet for bigger games with the Empire.
It's great to see the Night Goblins coming along. I've modified the slap chop method, especially for contrasting paints. I only do the last highlight in light grey for cold pallet colours and silver metal. my final highlight for warm pallet colours and non silver metals is done in a colour similar to Wraithbone. To me, with colours like yellow, red, and skin tone contrasting paints pop better with a change in final highlight colours. Give it a try. Medieval re-enactment I loved when I was in my 20s and 30s. It's not so much fun now that I'm in my 60s. Great Friday night show.
Indeed they are marching along! Got about another 60 spear lads to do up to get them all painted, but not sure I want them honestly. Might start bulking out to other greenskins, or get more squiqs lol I def will have tk try the warmer tans for the top colours yea, maybe on my next round of knights I do up for the Brets? And totally fair! It is great fun but can be hard on my knees as is and im not even 35 lol
@LackofForesightGaming The rules to WH have changed a lot since I last played 40K v4, which were the latest rules set back then. I can't remember the WH version. It seemed to me that the more goblins you had, the better. I would sparingly use their specialist troops. I would use them as a precision strike weapon while I used the cheapest goblins to block and delay the other player until I had cut out the heart of his army. So my basic rule was the more expensive his army, the cheaper I made mine.
Important note for people watching this video much later than the original release, the Chinese set called "Liberation" has been rebranded as "Clash of Steel" and is available in most western countries.
Yea this is pretty outdated now lol, but I don’t believe the contents of the Berlin themed clash of steel completely line up with the asian specific release Liberation, quite similar though if I recall correctly.
@@LackofForesightGaming Okay, so near enough then.
That is cool.. I like the Empire.. And cool dynamic with two Empire armies!
Very glad you enjoyed! Aye its a great dynamic, same overall army with two different approaches aye!
So I noted there were no comments on the early war kits. That because this was being marketed to Americans? There is still a range of nations to game, from Britain France, Germany, USSR, Poland, Finland or even the Japanese who fought with the USSR as well as China.
Im not entirely sure what you mean? My video covered all the starter set options at the time of its recording back in Feb of 2022. At that time there was no early warning starters (I dont think any have come out as yet?) and I do discuss the brits, reds and germans? Could you please clarify what your asking?
Do you prefer tabletop games where all the units are put in one "large unit square" like this game or Flames of War? Or do you like moving each individual bade more? The way Warhammer does it seems like a slightly quicker way of moving units but I don't have enough experience.
To be honest, i think I enjoy individual items more, but I love movement trays lol. I dislike games where its big blocks of troops on a single large base with no casualty removal though
thats fair!@@LackofForesightGaming
Vortex spells are not designed to cause damage the turn they are cast. See page 107: Magical Vortex does not require a target - instead, it uses a round template which is placed on the battlefield, not touching the bases of any models, and with its central hole within the range given by the spell.
Much appreciated! We were having a hard time referencing everything just from the pdfs : )
Great batrep guys. Can I ask how the audio/video was done for this batrep?
Thanks mate! Video is on my iphone 14, audio from a lavellin style mic set with hook up to the iphone via cable. They are starting to go though and meed to be replaced
Simple equipment. Great video. Well done.
The battle happened in Belgium for the most part. Thanks for the video.
Great game, guys. It turned out to be a very accurate Bulge game. A traffic jam followed by a German defeat. Actually, it was far more interesting than that. Traditionally, Allied armour is too light to play with the big cats. Yet, having limited turns, the German player could not hang back and press their advantage. So just these two things balanced the 2 forces. I have never had any luck with 2 tank platoons. The not in good spirits rule consuming 2 good tanks, and I see it was just as cruel here. So I prefer to leave 2 tank platoons at home. I actually can't repeat what a friend has to say about them. He had 2 platoons of 2 M1A1s each. By turn 3 both platoons were gone without actually hitting anything. It just was not his day. I like the German AA tanks as they are excellent anti infantry weapons. For the Germans, they were caught between stopping to fight and losing the game or bypassing the US positions and being shot to pieces losing the game. German side armour is often too light to be able to bypass and push through. For this game, the Germans just did not have the numbers to work through the issues. Try this game again at some point using Panzer 4s only and add another unit capable of firing smoke. Many of the German unit commands found that in this terrain, the Kingtigers were nothing more than fuel guzzling dead weights. There is much to think about and consider in this game, so I found it very interesting.
At around 10:43 , the US tank destroyers try “shoot & scoot”. But they already did a blitz. US can do only 1 move order, no? (Unlike germans w “stormtroopers”
If I recall they have a special rule that lets them, but Im not 100% on it, il try and check tonight : )
Yes the tank destroyers have Seek, Strike, Destroy as a US special rule. It allows them to attempt a Scoot if they Passed in a Blitz earlier that phase.