Fields of Fire Deluxe Edition

What’s New in the Deluxe Edition?

Fields of Fire Deluxe Edition is an expanded and improved edition of Fields of Fire Volume I. Based on the past 15 years of feedback, hundreds of hours of playtesting, and long discussions with the design team, the Deluxe Edition presents Ben Hull’s masterpiece of tactical infantry command in a way that is accessible to the modern gamer while retaining all of the deep complexity that veteran players have grown to love over the years.

New features include:

    A Rewritten Series Rulebook. The Deluxe Edition comes with a rewritten 3rd Edition ruleset, packed with examples, diagrams, and clarifying notes while maintaining continuity with the 2nd Edition rules. Series Developers Andrew Stead and Colin Parsons have worked to eliminate ambiguities and edge cases throughout, creating a much improved reference manual for play.
    Training Material. While Fields of Fire has a reputation of being difficult to learn, the Field Manuals make it easy. Each chapter in the Basic Training Field Manual incrementally introduces new rules through training exercises that teach you the basics of infantry combat. In the Advanced Operations Field Manual you'll find guides on setting up for air assaults, defensive missions, and making the best use of supporting vehicles.
    A Full Stand-Alone Mission. Keep Up the Fire! is a WWII based stand-alone mission tailored towards easing new company commanders into the full game. This mission can be played repeatedly with a variety of simplified rules to allow you to adjust to the full historical campaigns.
    Four Fully Redesigned Mission Books. Refining and improving the new campaign book format that began with Fields of Fire: The Bulge Campaign, the Normandy, Heartbreak Ridge, Naktong River, and Vietnam campaigns are presented in a clarified and expanded manner featuring newly written background notes and additional features for this edition.
    Over 200 updated counters plus various additional reference markers and new units.
    New elevation cards to enhance the Heartbreak Ridge campaign.
    A completely new set of redesigned player aids including new charts, logsheets, Command Display, and air assault planning cards.
    A 3.5" Game Box

The Game

Fields of Fire is a solitaire game of commanding a rifle company between World War II and Present Day. The game is different from many tactical games in that it is diceless and card based. There are two decks used to play. The Terrain Deck is based on a specific region and is used to build a map for the various missions your company must perform. The Action deck serves many purposes in controlling combat, command and control, various activity attempts. The units of the company are counters representing headquarters elements, squads, weapons teams, forward observers, individual vehicles or helicopters. A single playing is a mission and several missions from an historical campaign are strung together for the player to manage experience and replacements. A mission can be played in about 1 – 2 hours.

This game is based on four actual campaigns experienced by units of the 9th US Infantry in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. The 9th infantry are known as the "Manchus" for their service in the Boxer Rebellion. Their motto is “Keep Up the Fire.”

Component Photos are of the 2nd Edition and may not reflect the layout of the Deluxe Edition components.

COMPONENTS

    1056 Unit Counters and Markers (5/8")
    Three Terrain decks of 55 Cards each
    One Set of 11 Heartbreak Ridge Cards
    One Action Deck of 55 Cards
    Six Player Aids
    One Command Display
    One Air Assault Display
    One Helicopter Control Card
    Two Company Log Sheets
    One Fields of Fire Series Rules
    Five Mission Books
    Two Field Manuals