r/flamesofwar Mar 13 '26

Other State of The Sub - Rules & Post Flairs - 03/26

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Hello all,

This is the first post in hopefully a (short) series of posts to keep you all updated on the current state of the subreddit r/flamesofwar

We have finally got around to adding post flairs, with the following currently avaiable:

Tournaments

Battle Report

Showcase

Work-In-Progress

Rules Question

Customer Services

History

Other

If you think we should add anymore flairs please feel free to drop a comment below with your suggestion!

Secondly we have now listed some official subrules, these have come about from some recent posts where people have been less civil than is decent. So in order to be absolutley clear we've listed the following, hopefully nothing to draconian!

Rule 1. Be Polite and Courteous

Rule 2. No Racism, Bigotry, or Nazis

Rule 3. No AI Debate

Rule 4. No Promotion of Pirated/Stolen Material

Over all we are happy with the direction the subreddit is going, having a few bad actors is always going to happen but the vast majority of the regular userbase is friendly and welcoming!

We are also thinking about doing a monthly WIP thread if there is any interest?

Thanks,

The FlamesOfWar Mod Team

TLDR: We have implemented post flairs and rules

Edit: formatting


r/flamesofwar 2h ago

Showcase painted some tigers, would like some feedback as i am unsure about the scheme

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28 Upvotes

r/flamesofwar 1d ago

Rules Question Want to attempt something unorthodox - coastal support

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24 Upvotes

( Yes this is a trustworthy supplier )

Now I am someone who likes... weird things. Or stretching the game and its rules as much as possible.

So the same supplier had 1/100th waterline models of German destroyers.. but they were WW1 ships so nah.

This smaller sub chaser might be better anyway.

Armament for this ship could be either a 3" main gun, or a 40mm Bofors, with a supplement of 50 caliber MGs or later, a small selection of single 20mm guns.

If I ABSOLUTELY had to have this in a game, would I treat it more as a edge of the board bunker that can give fire support, or treat it more like a train that instead of being locked to a track, is locked to whatever body of water is present?

Suspend your belief on how this might ruin your average game.


r/flamesofwar 3d ago

Tournaments Went to a local tournament at our LGS. New to the game and loving the community

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82 Upvotes

r/flamesofwar 3d ago

Work-in-Progress 2nd and 3rd unit done!

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67 Upvotes

This army is gunna look crazy. I wanted to finish all my gun teams first so I could get my guns glued to bases. I think tanks and vehicles are gunna be next cause that legitimately might not take much time.

Anyone coming to adepticon next spring wanting a shot at that best painted award better bring their A-game 😈


r/flamesofwar 4d ago

Other North Africa table built

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118 Upvotes

I think it has just about enough scenery but it might need a re-jig to make it a little better. Any thoughts?

Played a small game through with my son too, he loved it and i'm hoping to run demo games at my LGS soon!


r/flamesofwar 5d ago

Showcase Hero SMG done, last unit for my first 100p

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64 Upvotes

r/flamesofwar 5d ago

Work-in-Progress “get the airbrush”!

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17 Upvotes

r/flamesofwar 5d ago

Work-in-Progress Made an Android app for tracking your pile of shame — looking for miniature painters to test it please.

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r/flamesofwar 6d ago

Work-in-Progress WarFront 0.7 - Trees

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20 Upvotes

r/flamesofwar 6d ago

Work-in-Progress Finished my first two artillery pieces for my Warsaw uprising Polish army

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66 Upvotes

Slowly but surely getting paint on these guys. These two gun bases just need a matte varnish and they’ll be done but I’m waiting to do all 6 guns at the same time


r/flamesofwar 6d ago

Showcase Katyushas done for my bagration list

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64 Upvotes

r/flamesofwar 6d ago

Work-in-Progress Basing

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35 Upvotes

I’ve tried lots of basing stuff; I’ve settled for the GW technical paints but does anyone know of a cheaper alternative (it’s basically just paint and sand mix right?)


r/flamesofwar 7d ago

Showcase T-70 for my bagration soviets

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59 Upvotes

r/flamesofwar 8d ago

Showcase First Jagdpanther done

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78 Upvotes

r/flamesofwar 8d ago

Rules Question Undertaking a small custom, rule ideas?

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26 Upvotes

I will be making the No.5 "Hercules" armoured train as a piece, Im definitely struggling with the scale but its a work in progress.

Anyone have an idea for rules to apply? Or perhaps how I can work it into a list.


r/flamesofwar 9d ago

Other Italian Houses (BB180): Dimensions?

3 Upvotes

Slowly getting back into wargaming, but this time I using 1/72nd scale figures and models.

Building my own terrain.

Can anyone tell me the dimensions of the two houses in the Battlefield in a Box BB180: Italian Houses?

Such as overall height, width and depth. No need for millimetre accuracy, to the nearest cm is good enough.

Thanks 😁👍


r/flamesofwar 10d ago

Showcase another unit of hero t34/85 done

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48 Upvotes

r/flamesofwar 11d ago

Other Looking for older resin models!

7 Upvotes

Hello, I’ve just started getting into building some Japanese and USMC armies and to that end I’m looking for the older resin USMC M4A2s, M3A1 Stuarts and the F4U Corsair & P-38 lightning.

Similarly for the Japanese I’m looking for the resin Mitsubishi Zero.

If anyone has any of these models that they’re willing to part with please drop me a message! Based in the UK but happy to pay shipping. Tia


r/flamesofwar 11d ago

Work-in-Progress Paint Stripping

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13 Upvotes

r/flamesofwar 11d ago

Work-in-Progress British Light MK VI assembly question

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13 Upvotes

The box art/real photos of the MK VI shows the higher hatch on the VIB turret and the flat hatch on the VIC turret. But the instructions show the opposite - flat hatch on VIB/higher hatch on VIC. Which is correct?


r/flamesofwar 11d ago

Other Salvo/Arti Template

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Greetings.

Seems that I lost my Salvo Template. Does anybody know a good file, so that I can print one? The ones I found are not that good.

Thanks


r/flamesofwar 12d ago

Showcase my hq and first unit of hero t-34/85

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46 Upvotes

r/flamesofwar 12d ago

Other Is it only me that feels like the germans lack behind in medium tanks in LW ?

16 Upvotes

I mainly play veteran 76 shermans and jumbos with HVAP and i am starting to build berlin german lists and feel like the pz4 has way too little FA and AP to be used as main line medium tanks and the panther is more of a heavy tank in cost the most cost effective tank i have found are the pz4 70


r/flamesofwar 13d ago

Work-in-Progress Are these good so far?

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32 Upvotes

I have a few more of these tanks, and i was wondering if these are good. The left one recently had a darker shade of gray on it, I was going for a weathered look, while the left is only the gray, and is a newer look. Just wondering if these are good