On March 11-12 Battlefront ran a live blog all weekend, with updates from our offices in NZ, the UK and the US, as well as reports from participating stores, hobby and history articles and videos, competitions and a video battle report.

NZ Studio - Sunday

10:15AM Sunday 12

Good morning from the NZ Studio

Welcome back to NZ everyone, as you can see we are picking up where things left off with getting armies ready. Hopefully we'll get some games in this afternoon.

10.44AM Sunday 12

More Missions Pack

The More Missions pack expands on the missions in the Flames Of War rulebook and provides a new way to choose which mission to play. The pack contains ten missions Each mission now has a double page telling you how to play the mission and detailing the mission special rules. You can either print each mission out on a single piece of paper (front and back) or print it as a booklet with each mission on facing pages. More Missions Pack...

10:59AM Sunday 12

Andrew's Motor Company

Andrew has been looking forward to updating his current British Desert list as it has not changed in seven years and in need of a makeover. Check out Andrews plan here...

11:15AM Sunday 12

Assembly Guide - German Panzer III

The Panzer III is the Afrika Korps' standard tank, making up over two-thirds of their tank strength. Aaron shows you how to assemble the new plastic model.

12:01PM Sunday 12

Know Your Enemy - British Recce

The British Army understands the need to keep an eye on the German forces so keeps regular patrols ranging out across the desert to make sure they can spot the enemy first. Universal Carrier and Humber Scout Patrols keep friendly forces safe from blundering into the enemy.

12:30PM Sunday 12

Studio progress update

Day two of the Launch Event and everyone is working away at building tanks! One of my favourite aspects of the hobby is getting to sit around with friends and just hobby, pulling out the glue and paint to get some models finished while shooting the breeze.  Wayne is working on his Germans for Team Yankee, getting some Leopard 1 tanks assembled. Sitting next to him is Chris working on some Panzerjager 1 self-propelled guns to make his Mid War army into an Early War one too. Phil is putting a basecoat on some of his Crusader tanks, lets hope these will bring him better luck in his next game. Meanwhile Sean is working on some Firefly tanks for his TANKS army. Andrew is working on some Grant tanks for both his Mid War army and TANKS army. Aaron is streaking ahead of the pack with his tanks looking in pretty good shape. There are a lot of projects going on in the office over the weekend, some of the guys are building Team Yankee models, others are working on TANKS and of course all of us have been working on our new Mid War models. Hard to beat a weekend of hobby action when it raining cats and dogs outside!

1:50PM Sunday 12

Know Your Enemy - German Guns

Ask any Allied Tanker and he will tell you that every German gun is an 88, not so in reality where the Germans have everything ranging from the small (but deadly) PaK38 5cm gun through to the 10.5cm Howitzer perfect for smashing enemy formations.

2:20PM Sunday 12

Khairul's DAK Panzers Take Shape

Not to be outdone by the rest of the team, Khairul (a prolific and talented painter from the factory in KL) has been working on his DAK force over the weekend.

2:30PM Sunday 12

Assembly Guide - British Crusader

The Crusader tank is one of the icons of the Desert War, fast, agile and packing a wallop for such a small tank, it doesn't want to stand still in front of the enemy for too long. Follow along as Aaron shows you how to assemble it.

3:45PM Sunday 12

Assembly Guide - German 88

No German army is complete with an 88, watch as Aaron shows you how easy it is to assemble.

4:55PM Sunday 12

Launch Weekend Q&A

Pete and the guys from the studio answer questions submitted by the community about the 4th Edition of Flames Of War.

5:35PM Sunday 12

Battle Report - Part 2

Who will triumph in the conclusion of James and Phil's Free For All battle? At the 62-point level, neither of their forces is particularly resilient, so victory could go either way...

5:50PM Sunday 12

Thanks for joining us!

Battlefront's 4th Edition Launch Weekend has come to an end. Thanks for joining the fun and excitement with us. We look forward to sharing more gaming with you, now that the latest edition of Flames Of War is finally here.

9:29AM Monday 13

V4 Books in Flames Of War Digital

Great news to start the week, all of the V4 Books are up in Digital. You can now download both of the FREE books (Early War and Late War Rulebook, as well as the Early War and Late War Special Rules book) and the new Mid War, Afrika Korps and Desert Rats books. If you don't have the Digital App installed on your Apple iPad or Android device you can head to the app stores and download it now. If you do, open it up now and you will see the books in the Featured category on the front page (Prices shown below are the NZ Dollar)

10:55AM Monday 13

YouTube Playlists

Looking to find the playlists for the weekends videos, or perhaps the Bootcamp videos then look no further! Boot Camp Playlist... Launch Weekend Playlist...