Fields of Fire Learn to Play: Episode 2 - Turn #1

[@rockfacenew]

We need more videos!

[@blakeleblanc1]

Bravo Alexander, thank you! Between your in-play comments, Ares Ba, Slrbrastias, and others in this thread, this video series will go a LONG way toward helping myself and others learn how to enjoy this excellent game!

[@jamesmhebert]

I cannot thank you enough for your willingness (and guts) to continue to take on FoF. It's a game I want to learn (if only to discover whether I like it!) but whose 4 million rules really throw me. Thank you, and lead on!

[@daykz69]

Really appreciate you doing this Alex it very much helps to get going in the game and provides the visual interaction for me to bring some rules to life better than I understood them at the time. I know there will be errors made but I believe that this is just what happens in boardgaming and war Games/Euro games in particular. Please keep them coming!

[@SIrbrastias]

-Remember the Command modifiers, e.g +1 for No Contact (4.1.2) -You can't order units to move and then seek cover. Once the subordinate unit leaves the HQ card it has to act on its own Initiative. -General Initiative uses the lower number in the Star Icon. -Don't place PDF for Special VOF, e.g. Mortar/Artillery. (6.2.2) -The second combat should have ended with a PIN result if you had added the terrain modifier (you correctly pointed out that it should have been included in an earlier combat situation) -You cannot place a Package on a card that already contains enemy units. So not two spotters on the same card for example.

[@AlessioBeatrice]

"You can't order units to move and then seek cover. Once the subordinate unit leaves the HQ card it has to act on its own Initiative. " Ok, but they are adjacent cards and both have radios so they can communicate, no?

[@SIrbrastias]

The first thing he does is using one order to send a squad ahead and then another to have it look for cover. The squads don't have radios, so that's not allowed.

[@edwardcason721]

instablaster.

[@mrgreggles998]

Thank you for doing these vids and for the commentators for rules corrections.

[@stephenlyons604]

Please continue - this is a tough one to get into...

[@abeheron]

at 5:11 when you sent the squad to scout - you can't ask it to find cover as by this stage is no longer in 'earshot' communication with your PL HQ. And the squad doesn't have a radio. You would need to wait until the Initiative phase for the squad to 'hopefully' get a point of initiative command to be able to search for cover.

[@crushingit5128]

That's 100% correct. 1st action in the game and its already incorrect. But that's common since the rules are hard to understand and get more incredibly finicky the more you get into the game. The game is so overrated. But fun to watch for some reason.

[@abeheron]

Yes rules are quite finicky (and this is coming from an ASL player... ), but for the most part it isn't important to get everything right (since the game can be so random anyhows). The one rule that should not be gotten wrong though is Communication, because it is a central aspect of this system....

[@user-td4gi3ho3h]

The rules are absolutely abysmal, I'm finding them such a deterrent to playing (just bought the game). It's a super interesting game system but when even guys who run board game YT channels have trouble it makes me wonder what on earth they were doing when they wrote the game...if not for videos like this I would probably box it up and not play. So frustrating.

[@abeheron]

Also if I'm not mistaken per rulebook, you don't use the Random Selection method for resolving combat (as it is all simultaneous and does not make a difference). The reason Random Selection exist for resolving Potential Contacts is because one resolution of PC may change the Contact Level (from Engaged to Heavily Engaged, etc.) and influence the draw of cards.

[@MC-ip8gb]

Thank you , just received the game for Christmas , this should make learning it easier.

[@warlord76i]

At 12:02 u have to consult a chart, where it says if u found a strong building or just a normal cover if i recall correctly .

[@andreagrp9048]

I was waiting for this video, thank you for sharing. I read there are some mistakes but I bet who’s the one play this game error free! Keep it up

[@roblinxweiler9951]

The first contact was even worse than you thought... you pulled a 3, which is Artillery, not Mortars! So your first two scout squads both ran into artillery fire! Yikes!!

[@Hakucho64]

Both of the units that were hit should also have received pin markers, see 6.3.2.C.

[@sentient02970]

LOL "Because I'm a huge wuss."

[@OnesUponaGame]

LOL! At 8:16 you said "headless chickens", but I swore it was "Hitler's chickens!" :)

[@fsmoura]

dang, i'd have testified in court that he had said hitlers chickens, thats how sure i was lol

[@francoismessier3106]

The arty observer cannot go on the same card as the mrt one. You have to redraw its placement. Basicaly, only one pdf is permitted out of a card. Also, the observers have a limited number of calls. The first one count as one. Finnally, both observers needs to be places under thé default ennemy cover.

[@ThePlayersAid]

François Messier i fixed the cover in the next video upon realising my mistake

[@evildrganymede]

@@ThePlayersAid I guess that next video was never released? Can't seem to find it in the videos section.

[@thelastmotel]

@@evildrganymede Sadly, a lot of wargaming channels suddeny stop with their tutorial series, especially for this game, or games of equal or highly complexity. I'm watching videos to learn both FoF 1 & 2, and the only series on them that don't cut short, are jam-packed with mistakes, and so all but useless. Some mistakes are expected, especially if there are corrections, but putting up an entire series with contiuing mistakes, well, that's just a shame.

[@thgenral]

Alexander, you are of age that you would be working at least 40 hrs weekly. I’m retired and have time on my hands. Do you play games by email.

[@fsmoura]

Lol every comment is someone pointing several mistakes. Rough game. You step out of the hedgerow, get shredded into a thousand pieces by incoming fire. And your men all die in a series of incorrect ways. ( oДo)