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After a quick bit of research, I have decided that I have two sections of Bolsheviks, a platoon would have four sections. So that's half the force done.
On a recent episode of All Along the Watchtower they discussed their distaste at Battlefront having SS insignia patches available for their figure cases. This topic has also made it to Dakka.
I do find myself wondering how the the authorities in various European countries will react to this, as such things are illegal in a number of countries.
Anywho...
In the dim and distant past I have dabbled with Flames of War. I didn't get as far as playing a game, but I did buy some figures and paint them. But beyond that I can't say that I have ever really fancied it from an aesthetic perspective - it just never looks right having that many tanks on the table, and those lines of tanks also don't look right.
It also bothers me that the game is littered with special characters.
But, in the past few days I have been looking for a podcast to listen to, while painting, and found Radio Free Battlefront.
Now were I a Flames of War player, no doubt I would think this podcast great and a sign of how much research goes into each army. But as someone who doesn't play the game, I found the whole thing strangely pornographic, and slightly distasteful.
I have no problem with playing games based on recent history. And I understand that Battlefront have opted to go for a tournament style of game. And no doubt the Liebstandard in Tiger tanks is the optimal list for the game - or whatever. But....
The best way to describe the but, is in Max Hastings excellent book, Overlord, he quotes a German tank commander who described himself as feeling like a hero in a Wagner opera when in combat. Which Hastings points out is hardly a good thing, and thankfully not something that many allied soldiers would have felt - or indeed were encouraged to feel in their training.
Yet Battlefront appear imbued by this masturbatory festishistic approach to warfare. And indeed encourage the players to join the orgy.
Which perhaps explains why so many people criticise the game as unhistorical, and why the morally relativist denizens of dakka can get themselves tied in knots over the issue of why the encouragement of people to display SS insignia on their carrying cases, in order to put a few more pennies in Battlefront coffers, might not be such a good thing.
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