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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 5812560" data-attributes="member: 151">I've only played a few times, but I do posses a decent sized German army and am currently painting an American army.  Some thoughts:It is NOT CHEAP.  Even if you have the paints and other equipment, the miniatures can start to hit serious money.  Battles are waged on the company level, but purchased at the Platoon level.  You can purchase an infantry company for around $50...but the cost of an armored platoon can also be in that range (or more).  What isn't clear at first is that you need specific platoons for your army in specific lists....this may be intuitive to long-time wargamers, but was not to me when I started.  It plays fast, IMHO.  Once you get some players who know the basics, you'll spend more time thinking on strategy than worrying about details on the rules.  It is focused more heavily on tanks than infantry, generally and designed to be pretty accessible.  While there are multiple game types, the ones I've played have always been either capturing objectives or escaping a battlefield.I haven't heard of anyone really doing any sort of RP-ing within the system per se...while there ARE individual 'hero' units you can get (usually specialized command/Ace units like Hauptsturmfuhrer Wittman aka The Black Baron, for example), they are excpetions and still fairly expendable.  Individual units take a pounding in FoW, which I think would present a problem for an RP experience.</blockquote>

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