I have been
preparing FoW presentation in school where I work, for quite a long time. The selfish
reason is that I desperately need an opponent to play with. The non selfish
reason is that I think that young people should see something aside from
computer games.
The greatest
problem for me was to make enough tables and terrains so that both public and
the guest players could enjoy the game. Most of my pupils play World Of Tanks and
other computer games but are not familiar with tabletop games at all.
The general idea
was to invite my friends who were veteran FoW players and to make a mini
tournament. Since this was not supposed to be a competitive tournament I
suggested that Dorian, Milan, Deka, Uroš and Vlada make some lists that they
really like, preferably tank lists, so that a game could be fast and attractive.
We played Late War in 1500 points. First mission was Breakthrough and the
second mission was Counterattack to make things as fast as possible.
There were some 20
participants that day. We all enjoyed the tournament much. The main goal was
attained since after that tournament we made a club in our school were my pupils and I
play FoW once a week. One of the classrooms where I usually have classes served
as our Cabinet war room.
With my pupils I
play Early War and I hope that soon we will be able to play Mid War too. We do
not lack enthusiasm but what we really need are the V3 rule books and some
other armies apart from the Red Army (hahaha). I can make almost all Soviet EW lists, a couple
of German EW lists and one British EW list and now we plan to expand our German
arsenal. Since the English language is a bit of a problem too I have started to
make some scripts with only the basic rules in our language. I have prepared
some unassembled models and soon I will start to teach my pupils how to
assemble and colour them. We plan to
invite in the future pupils from other high schools in our town, but that will
be material for another article...
