There are 17 missions, ranging from ambushing an enemy patrol to rescuing prisoners, blowing up bridges and storming forts with cannon fire and explosives. Your characters can also learn skills such as tracking, trapping, controlling bears and all kinds of daft camouflage tricks. You can improve your characters along the way by picking up extra equipment - if you want to buy it you have to raise cash by erasing the wildlife from the map and selling their skins. They in turn command an almost unlimited number of subordinates, either militiamen, braves or privates. You play the part of any one of 40 characters, from rangers to redcoats, Mohawk Indians to upper-class idiots. So what's it doing on sale in 1998?įields Of Fire is a cross between an 18th century musket-and-shot wargame and a role-playing adventure set in the American colonies in the 1750s.
Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.At first glance, Fields Of Fire looks uncomfortably like one of those old Impressions wargames - complete with naff-to-average graphics, a boring overhead view and simplistic controls. Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching.
Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. Simplified infantry maneuvers keep large organizations manageable yet accurate.Realistic combat model that allows for the simultaneous nature of combat.Easy to understand and straight forward rules which eliminate the need for math.Templates that are variable in size based on artillery caliber.Complete data on Major World Military Vehicles.Separate Game Aid cards for NATO and Warsaw Pact nations (both for 6mm and 15/20mm).Reproducible Templates for artillery and rocket barrages.Complete rules for infantry, AFV and Helicopter.With this simple, yet realistic rules compilation, you’ll be advancing across the board with your own tank battalion within minutes! Join the great tank commanders of history and play scenarios from the Fulda Gap to 73 Easting to the Battle of Baghdad. It can be used for skirmish, company, or battalion level games with equal playability and accuracy. It uses a 1:1 scale, so that each vehicle on the board represents one vehicle in reality. Fields of Fire(tm) is an Origins Award winning tactical combat miniatures game.