Tabletop games
Fields of Fire
GMT Games, 2008
Fields of Fire is a tabletop game published by GMT Games in 2008. It is played with 1 player, from age 12 and in about 60 to 300 minutes.
- player
- 1
- minutes
- 60–300
- years
- 12+
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The box
- Publisher
- GMT Games
- Designer
- Ben Hull
- Artwork
- Donal Hegarty, Rodger B. MacGowan
- Year of release
- 2008
About the game
Fields of Fire is a solitaire tactical wargame originally published by GMT Games in 2008 that is designed to simulate various historical campaigns of wars between World War II and now. The game is card based with two decks used to play, including a terrain deck and action decks. You must build maps for missions and then use turn-based strategic actions. A single game consists of several missions from a historical campaign and each of these individual missions can be played in about 3 – 5 hours. It has won Games Magazine's award for Best New Historical Simulation Game in their 2010 Games 100 issue.
According to the manufacturer,
This game is based on three actual campaigns experienced by units of the 9th US Infantry (Regiment) in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. “Keep Up the Fire” is the motto of the 9th Infantry (Regiment), known as the “Manchus” for their service in the Boxer Rebellion.
A second edition was published in 2017 and a second volume featuring U.S. Marines was published in 2018. An expansion to the second edition was published in 2023.More from GMT Games
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