What's In The Box: Open Fire!

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What's In The Box: Open Fire! includes one 52 Page Full Colour Quick Start Guide, one 296 Page Full Colour Complete Rulebook, More Than 118 Finely Detailed Miniatures, V1 Flying Bomb Terrain Feature, Cardboard Terrain, Tokens, Objective Markers, Army Lists & 20 Dice. Over eighteen months ago we decided that we wanted the third edition to be a new milestone for the game, not just a more graphical and polished set of rules. We wanted to create the ultimate starter set for Flames Of War. With this lofty goal in mind, and the new technology of plastics to learn, we started down the path to Open Fire! Return to the Open Fire! Hub here...

Over eighteen months ago we decided that we wanted the third edition to be a new milestone for the game, not just a more graphical and polished set of rules. We wanted to create the ultimate starter set for Flames Of War. With this lofty goal in mind, and the new technology of plastics to learn, we started down the path to Open Fire! We ended up using three differing methods of plastic manufacturing (zinc casting, pantography and digital design) to produce the two complete forces in the box.  These two forces give you a British armoured squadron with support from some fearless US paratroopers to deal with the German grenadier company defending their V1 launcher (yes that is in the box as well) with the aid of a StuG platoon and some anti-tank guns. As well as the plastics, the box comes with a quick-start booklet, terrain, tokens, dice and a complete 296 page copy of the rules for you to dive into after you have played a few games. Open Fire! has been designed with the new gamer in mind, but every model in the box fits into our existing range, although the infantry set a new standard that you will see more of in the future. We could not be happier with how our first boxed version of Flames Of War has come out and we know this will make it even harder for players to resist having a go at WWII war gaming. ~ John-Paul.

The Quick Start Guide The Open Fire box set has a 52-page Quick Start Guide to help beginners learn Flames Of War. As a beginners guide, it is closer to a graphic novel than a rulebook, using diagrams, photographs, and tabletop exercises as much as possible rather than long wordy explanations. Like the Boot Camp videos, this booklet is organised as a teaching aid rather than a rulebook. After all there is a full copy of the rulebook in the box as well, so there isn’t much point in duplicating it, even in an abbreviated form. The Quick Start Guide starts by teaching the new player how shooting works, then once they have mastered the basics of shooting, the reader goes on to movement and more advanced shooting concepts like shooting on the move and using terrain to conceal their troops. Finally, having learned how to move and shoot, they go on to on to assaults and playing a full game. The second half of the booklet shows where to go next with a cut down Intelligence Briefing for each side allowing the players to add more tanks, infantry, guns, artillery, and aircraft. By the time the player is ready to add artillery, aircraft, armoured cars, engineers and other specialist troops, they will have read the relevant parts of the rulebook, so these are not covered in the Quick Start Guide. ~ Phil.
The Quick Start Guide & A5 Rulebook (One 52-page Quick Start Guide & one 296 page A5 full-colour rulebook included in Open Fire!)
Below: The Open Fire! 52-page Quick Start Guide.	Below: The 296-page A5 Flames Of War rulebook.

The Plastic Sherman V (Six models included in Open Fire!)

The Plastic Firefly VC (Two models included in Open Fire!)

The Plastic StuG G (Three models included in Open Fire!)

The Plastic Infantry (One sprue of Frame A & B included in Open Fire!)

V1 Flying Bomb Terrain Feature (One model included in Open Fire!)

The Plastic PaK40 Anti-tank Gun (Two models included in Open Fire!)

Cardboard Terrain, Tokens & Objective Markers (One set included in Open Fire!)

The Army Lists (One Allied & one German list included in Open Fire!)

The Dice (Ten Allied Dice & Ten German Dice included in Open Fire!)

Open Fire! on the Gaming Table