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ADG's WiF Annual 2008 is now available.

I haven't read it myself yet, but it looks like there are some rules clarifications / minor rules changes, as well as new kits (counters etc.)

I assume that the new kits won't be included in MWiF, but it would probably be a good idea to include changes to RaW (I think it is only minor changes).

Maybe someone who has read the Annual can list the RaW-changes?

Regards
Nikolaj

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From ADG's site
http://www.a-d-g.com.au/


2008 WiF Annual (incl Factories in Flames) NEW!
Description

Australian Design Group is pleased to announce its greatest ever annual, the 2008 World in Flames Annual. Several years in the making it breaks all ADG records (and not all to do with timeliness), our first magazine in full colour, our first magazine with its own mini-magazine and the first to contain 3 (count 'em 3) great new World in Flames kits. In particular, it includes:

• a 72 page full colour World in Flames Annual containing hints, strategies, historical notes and after action replays on all of our World in Flames in game;

• a 20 page full colour mini-magazine insert containing the rules, charts, cards and play aids for the 2008 WiF Annual's kits;

• 200 full-colour counter Factory in Flames countersheet;

• Factories in Flames kit;

• Commandoes in Flames kit;

• 3d10 in Flames kit; and

• 1 full colour WiF Combat chart.

The centrepiece of the 2008 WiF Annual is Factories in Flames, a remarkably elegant and simple design that encapsulates all the difficulties and advantages of running your economy at optimal efficiency while fighting for your life on fronts a thousand kilometers apart. It links production to actual cities and allows you to tailor your strategic warfare to specialise the damage you do to your enemy's industry all using a system that if anything is even simpler than the standard game's mroe abstract production.

The 2008 World in Flames Annual is Australian Design Group's most lavish production yet. It is available now and we hope you enjoy it.

Good Lord, Commandoes in Flames... That sounds like too much fun.

I'm holding out for Penguins in flames with the Antartica map.  [8D]

ORIGINAL: Mitchellvitch

Good Lord, Commandoes in Flames... That sounds like too much fun.

yes, i'd love some info on that!

Penguins in Flames - my laugh for the day. Cheers!

I would have liked to see Penguins in flames... if only for a rather different (NHL playoffs) reason. [:(]

Yes, quite a few errata but really more in the way of clarifications. The Commandoes in Flames (or Going Commando) allows 1-2 units per power, except for Ch., Fr., and It. The US has the Rangers, the CW has the LRDG, the Germans have Brandenbergers and Schwimmpanzers and the Japs have a Mech SNLF. Mech rules are like the funnies now. The Commangdoes can move through? and trace supply through enemy ZOC. A fun addition. You'll need continous lines to avoid having a flipped plane be eliminated.

I'd recommend anyone interested in the game to order a copy of the Annual.

I believe the errata in the Annual will  be included in the MWiF game.
 
Lars

ORIGINAL: lomyrin

I believe the errata in the Annual will  be included in the MWiF game.

Lars

I can't confirm that until I see what was published in the annual. But I saw many of the drafts leading up to the published errata and I intend to include them in MWIF product 1.

How about Flames in Flames.  Better pyrotechnics with cardboard. [:D]
 
Seriously, though, I may just have to pick the new annual up...it's been ages since the last one.

ORIGINAL: wfzimmerman

ORIGINAL: Mitchellvitch

Good Lord, Commandoes in Flames... That sounds like too much fun.

yes, i'd love some info on that!

Part of it is 8 land unit counters. 5 of them are SKI DIV-like division sized unit. I say SKI DIV-like because they have the ability to ignore enemy ZoC for movement & supply in certain terrains. 2 of them are German & Japanese units similar to the US ARM marine (This rule also clarify that the US ARM Marine and the British ARM Marine are ARM DIV, and are not Marine units in any way, they can only invade -- so they are halved and can't attack across all sea hexsides for instance). The 8th Land unit of the countersheet is a Russian Cavalry MECH, considered as a MECH for all purposes, but with a huge 7 movement factor.

There are other part of it like the Coastal fortification markers that add combat factors against invasions, and the road & rail line markers used to built or damage rail & roads.

and the road & rail line markers used to built or damage rail & roads.


Wow! This can be interesting! I know of a few rail hexes our group have been dreaming about. Lane must have been responsible for this...

For those interested, I've updated the Excel counterlist of WiF FE counters by adding the 200 counters of CS39 (FiF) to it
(http://perso.orange.fr/froon/WiF/wif.htm).

100 of them are in the land units, 1 in the air units, and 99 in the markers units.
Amongst the 100 land units, most (55) are the new Flak counters (AAA & SAM) that are an option within the FiF option, and a lot are in the fort category, like the coastal forts (16) and the shipyard (21) (the rule says thay are built like forts, so I put them here).
The rest (8) are extra land units.

Australian Design Group is pleased to announce its greatest ever annual

I always like ADG's ever cheery sales pitches!

ORIGINAL: Froonp

The 8th Land unit of the countersheet is a Russian Cavalry MECH, considered as a MECH for all purposes, but with a huge 7 movement factor.

Late in the war, the Soviets in the Far East created an intriguing unit which was a mixture of fast Russian tanks and Mongolian cavalry. I wonder if this new land counter is meant to represent that formation?

ORIGINAL: marcuswatney

ORIGINAL: Froonp

The 8th Land unit of the countersheet is a Russian Cavalry MECH, considered as a MECH for all purposes, but with a huge 7 movement factor.

Late in the war, the Soviets in the Far East created an intriguing unit which was a mixture of fast Russian tanks and Mongolian cavalry. I wonder if this new land counter is meant to represent that formation?

I belive this is it.
The annual says :
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Mechanized Cavalry (1 counter)
The Soviet Mechanized Cavalry represents the heavily mechanized rapid-penetration formations developed by the Soviets, and employed to great effect in the 1945 Manchurian campaign. It is treated as an extra mechanized corps for all purposes.
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ORIGINAL: Froonp

ORIGINAL: marcuswatney

ORIGINAL: Froonp

The 8th Land unit of the countersheet is a Russian Cavalry MECH, considered as a MECH for all purposes, but with a huge 7 movement factor.

Late in the war, the Soviets in the Far East created an intriguing unit which was a mixture of fast Russian tanks and Mongolian cavalry. I wonder if this new land counter is meant to represent that formation?

I belive this is it.
The annual says :
*************************
Mechanized Cavalry (1 counter)
The Soviet Mechanized Cavalry represents the heavily mechanized rapid-penetration formations developed by the Soviets, and employed to great effect in the 1945 Manchurian campaign. It is treated as an extra mechanized corps for all purposes.
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Where is the Red Ball Express? it has always seemed to me that WIF gives short shrift to American mobility.

Now if you would just embed pictures of every unit in the Excel spreadsheet... just kidding. Handy tool, thanks Patrice.

Rob

ORIGINAL: Froonp

For those interested, I've updated the Excel counterlist of WiF FE counters by adding the 200 counters of CS39 (FiF) to it
(http://perso.orange.fr/froon/WiF/wif.htm).

100 of them are in the land units, 1 in the air units, and 99 in the markers units.
Amongst the 100 land units, most (55) are the new Flak counters (AAA & SAM) that are an option within the FiF option, and a lot are in the fort category, like the coastal forts (16) and the shipyard (21) (the rule says thay are built like forts, so I put them here).
The rest (8) are extra land units.

ORIGINAL: Yohan

Now if you would just embed pictures of every unit in the Excel spreadsheet... just kidding. Handy tool, thanks Patrice.

Rob

I did not do that, but I did post a reduced scan of the countersheet at :
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/froon/WiF/c ... /index.htm

Click on the miniature to have access to the reduced scan of each countersheet. There is also the history of each countersheet that has an history.

One of the changes from the 2008 WIF Annual is to the USSR-Japan Peace. It says that the USSR can cede all the hexes on the Pacific Map to Japan.

I propose that for MWIF we designate the hex I have the cursor on as the upper left corner (inclusive) of the area given to Japan. That is a forest hex 5 hexes north of Blagovyeshchensk [an excellent name for a child born out of wedlock]. this would give Japan the three ports Nikolayevsk, Alexandrovsk, and Sovietskaya Gavan, as well as Komsomolsk. The only thing north/east of this of any value are three more ports that go nowhere, so I'll include them too as part of the ceded lands: Okhotsk, Magadan, and Petropavlovsk.