Oh well, as you say, Warfare is new, and FFG doesn't have a lot of experience with minis games.  Hopefully they learn their lessons for next year.

And hopefully I can go next year!  I just need to find some people in the area willing to go to GenCon with me.

 One would expect a company which sells terrain for the game they are promoting would have used said terrain. I'm flabbergasted the tables weren't full of the modular buildings on the Premium Playmats DW side up. 

felkor said:

I would also suggest they try and not compete with WM straight up.  It seems many people were at other tournies and had advanced so they could not make it.

For the Flammluffen Axis mech,

My friend and I just started playing at Gencon, with both of us purchasing WAY to many units (Me allies, him axis).

He played with the mech in dual flammer mode one battle and having the 14 inch range worked very well, as he could stay outside of reaction range on the attack.

One question we had though, while it has dual flammers, on the unit description, it doesn't have a (2) next to it like other units with multiple weapons of the same type too.

Like the allied Honey light mech with the description dual phasers, but they are grouped together as a single attack.  And the Allies heavy tank with its dual howizters, still is only a single attack.

We played that it was only a single attack, as the same amount of fuel would be expelled through 2 seperate firing mechanisms vs a single higher pressure one.  The benefit of having 2 weapons for the Flammenluffen would be in the event of battle damage and it lost one weapon, it could still fire at normal ranges.  Oh, and the heavy armor (armor 5, upgradeable to armor 6) is very nasty for a medium tank.  Makes the allies armor 3 and 4 light/medium mechs look squishy.

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We did a playtest on Friday and really enjoyed it…then ended up buying near full armies on Saturday and playing all night in the hotel and then Sunday and monday nights back at my place.  Hopefully we will be their at the Gencon tournaments next year!

The stats for it are in the Zverograd campaign book. While in the statline it does not have a (2) beside Schwer Flammenwerfer in the entry for it above where the statlines are under weapons it lists "Schwer Flammerfwerfer (F), Schwer Flammerwerfer (F)". So it shows that there are two different weapons in the front arc… so yes, it is 2 seperate weapons, which is why you can use combined shots to just shoot it as one weapon with increased range as opposed to 2 seperate weapons if you choose.  Welcome to Dust Warfare! Now, back to the Front!

Shadow4ce said:

In fairness, they did use the Zverograd buildings, just one big one per table.

The playmats are a little on the smallish side, and two would not cover a 4x6 table. I would pay money for a Premium play mat that did.

The fact that 2 playmats is slightly smaller than a 6'4 table is one of the main reasons why I think I want to get a pair of them. I have decided I don't want to mess with my Citadel realm of battle table but I do want an urban ruins themed table for warfare so I am going to get the playmats. What put it over the top for me is the fact that they don't quite cover the entire 6'4 surface which gives me just enough room for my cards, tokens/markers and other gaming essentials like my water bottle or bottles (depending on how thirsty I am, ,lol) and other gaming detrius.

Strombole said:

Hmm.  That is a good point.  Though damage wise it makes it as nasty as the Allies Heavy with flamethrower (I'm at work so can't remember specific names…the Fireball I think), though only 8 inch range when using them as separate weapons vs the 12 inch of the fireball.  I guess that is a pretty fair trade off though, vulnerability to reactions.

Major Malfunction said:

Yeah, I bought one so far. Plan on getting three more. Four of them are just under 4'x6' which is perfect for our FLGS tables which have 1.5" metal borders on their 8'x4' tables. They are 33"x22" which makes four of them 66"x44" - 6" shy of 6' by 4" shy of 4' - perfect for my needs. 

Ya, I keep saying I need two but I what I need is four… brain fart….