Sneak Peek at Cassino

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Sneak Peek at Cassino

Quem quiser dar uma olhadela ao que a BF está a preparar para Cassino.

Para quem gosta de paras alemães vai ter lista no livro garantidamente, bem como forças da Commonwealth (com os meus amigos commandos e acredito no apoio aliado de rangers pelo menos um pelotão), Polacas (estes últimos miticos pois foram os 1ºs a levantaram a bandeira), Americanas e Francesas com os seus Goumiers (aconselho a ver o filme Les Indigenes).

Citação :: The Ace of Aces
Of course, the most exciting inclusion in Cassino is Infantry Aces. We won't tell you too much at this stage other than its an exhilarating new way of playing Flames Of War.

Presumo que a infantaria vai ter um presente em Cassino, iremos ver, para já a BF desvenda só isto:

Assault Monster

Reconnaissance Man

Scavenger

Vendetta

Major Lightning

Meu palpite é que poderá haver um género de herói num único pelotão da Companhia. Aceitam-se apostas.

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Nova actualização da BF, ver aqui.

Destaco isto:
Goumiers (Fearless Trained)
They are ruthless. With Cautious Movement, they are tough to hit (considered Gone-to-Ground, even if they move in concealing terrain). They have the Assault Troops special rule, which means they will recover from being Pinned Down quite easily (they are also Fearless). As French Colonial Troops they hit in Assaults on a 3+ (normally Trained troops hit on a 4+), making sure there are few survivors to counter-attack. Finally, they are mountaineers, so no place is safe from their wrath!

Quem viu o Indigènes ou Days of glory é impossivel ficar insensivel aos Goums.

Citação :: Nisei (Fearless Veteran)
Following that we have the American Nisei, or second generation Japanese-Americans. It’s a well-known, yet sad fact that thousands of Japanese-Americans were rounded up and sent to internment camps in the western US following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Scared Americans quickly classed their own citizens as threats and sent them away. However, these internees were just as loyal to America as their jailors and nothing demonstrated this more than the Nisei volunteers of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.

This unit became the most decorated one of its size in all of the US army, past or present. Their fanatical devotion to victory was well noted by commanders on both sides of the war and Cassino was the perfect time to bring these heroic troops to the battlefield.

First off it might be noted that the Nisei ought to be Trained as they had seen only a little combat as the 442nd before Cassino. While true on the surface, a detailed review of the unit’s history reveals otherwise. The 100th Battalion formed the core of the Regimental Team and they had been fighting for a few months and rapidly gained the experience and reputation to equal other veteran forces. In fact, commanders relied on the Nisei to get missions done more often than other similar units, resulting in a relatively high proportion of days in combat. That, coupled with the unit’s performance during Operation Dragoon, the invasion of southern France, shortly after Cassino, and its combat record in northern Italy, demanded that this unit be one of the very rare exceptions where we would give them a Veteran rating.

Este BD que adquiri na FNAC retrata bastante bem a luta dos Nisei mas aqui no Norte de França e um ano depois.

nuno escreveu:: Agora um Comic:

Sgt. Rock returns in this new tale inspired by true events. From the bloody beaches of Normandy to the muddy forests of the Vosges Mountains, Easy Company is joined by Johnny Cloud, the Haunted Tank and other DC war heroes as they battle for their lives behind enemy lines against a force ten times their size.
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Citação :: (...)giving them the ability to pass company and platoon morale checks on 2+ (called Fighting for Dear Old Uncle Sam). Using the Round up the Huns! special rule, the Nisei rally from being Pinned Down on a 2+, which will allow them to keep pushing forward to victory. Finally, Go For Broke allows Nisei that are Pinned Down by defensive fire to try and launch the assault again, hopefully with a better result.

In the end the Nisei are a defender’s worst nightmare, they will not stop coming for you no matter how many casualties you might inflict. They are tough fighters and are truly among America’s best troops in the war.

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Felizmente pelo que li, o livro dá para fazer pelotões e companhias "normais", não só os jogos de skirmish, como se pensava.

Mais uma companhia.

Citação :: 4th and 8th Indian Divisions (Fearless Veteran)
The Indian divisions have been fighting for a while and their zeal for victory hasn’t diminished at all. These Fearless Veterans are exceptionally good at tackling the mountains of Cassino and bringing the fight to the Fallchirmjäger. The Indians have the capability to cross impassable terrain using the North-west Frontier special rule, so you can outflank Axis players using routes they might deem impossible!

Indians also have the War Cry special rule which means that their enemies must re-roll motivation tests to counterattack them in an assault. This means that Indians can push the enemy out of their trenches and foxholes and into the open where they can be gunned down or assaulted.

Furthermore, the Indian divisions contain tough Ghurka fighters. These fighters come from the Himalayan Mountains and have come to accept a tough life. They are ferocious in combat with their khukuri knives. The Ghurkas had plenty of opportunity to use these knives in heavily rocky and mountainous battlefield of Cassino. These knives give Ghurkas the ability to re-roll failed hits in assault. There will be few if any survivors left over from a Ghurka assault!

A infantaria está uma máquina de assalto, cavalaria é que nem vê-la, mas nem outra coisa era de esperar.

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Já tenho o livro Cassino é um livro ao bom estilo FoW, história da batalha, história das unidades, listas com o respectivo arsenal, não ter os polacos é um EPIC FAIL, mas os homens lá têm os seus motivos para o não terem lá colocados, pinturas e as novas habilidades, só jogaveis nesta missão Cassino.