WaW'85 is already a complete wargame. All you need to convert the rules to miniatures play is range/scale conversions. That's it. Use all the other rules as-is. It has terrain effects. It has command range. Miniatures don't need facing rules any more than the hex and counter game does...

DPICM works well now, but totally sucked back then. The bomblets had something over a 30% failure rate. On the other hand, they sort of created an improvised minefield... And yes, you are correct that there is little reason to use these rounds in the game as long as regular HE is available...

Summary - The next volume has been split into two separate products, due to size. There's just too much to fit into one reasonably sized box! These will essentially be WaW85 volumes 2A and 2B. Mostly north German plain, with the West Germans, Brits, Belgians, and Dutch vs/ Soviets and East...

Update: OK, I found better info on the D-30. It should have the 5 range of its more mobile sister 2S1. Here's a video of one being fired.

The Field Station on Teufelsberg was a joint US/UK operation. Plus the US Air Force EW units at Tempelhof and elsewhere. Plus the UK Air Force units at Gatow. So many people listening to the radio... In my 3 years there, I never once worked with the French. They didn't play with others...

Reasons why the Warsaw Pact would have to invade Berlin - Artillery - each brigade had their own. Listening posts - easily destroyed by artillery fire, but can you ever be sure enough? Tank companies - the US Berlin Brigade had a "tank company" with 37 of the brand new M1A1 tanks. I don't know...

The unit had 12 brigades of 48 maneuver battalions. Very high tooth to tail, if the troops actually showed up to the muster call. But they didn't need much support, as they were defending the city from inside the city. They lived there, and most of the maintenance and logistics were provided...

Special Rule: Dismounted Territorials can ride the subway lines, and have buses, trucks and cars available for transport. When not in sight and not within 3 hexes of an enemy unit at the beginning of their activation, they can move up to 12 hexes from a City hex to a City hex, as long as each...

These are reservists, with all that entails, good, bad, and indifferent. In addition, not everybody is going to answer the muster to arms. I would organize a light battalion this way: 1 Co: 4x Territorials, 4x Fuchs, HQs 6/5/4. 2 Co: 3x Territorials, 1x Territorials (flipped), HQs 6/5/4. 3...

The Polizei had their own BePo units. In case of war, the Polizei were to maintain order and direct traffic to make way for the armed forces. What I'm talking about were Territorials with a fig leaf as "reserve police". I can't find much documentation about them. Their existence wasn't quite...

I'm doing this from memory, as the the original information has been obfuscated for obvious reasons. 60,000 men in the Corps, organized into 4 divisions, with 12 brigades of "crowd control/anti-riot" infantry. The Corps and Divisions, as far as I know, were for organization, support, and...

Other little known fact about potential war and West Berlin - The GSFG artillery division (34th Guards Artillery Division) was stationed in Potsdam, just outside the American sector of the city.

Little known fact about West Berlin - They were not allowed to have their own military. Instead, they had a 60,000 man "reserve police force" equipped with armored vehicles and heavy weapons. Yes, oddly enough, they were organized into 4 divisions of 12 brigades, with a corps commandant and...

I recommend you buy directly from the LnLP store here. Some of the other resellers appear to be a bit... confused/confusing as to what comes in their bundles. What you can get here now is: World at War 85 Storming the Gap (the base game). WaW85 The Expansion Pack (3 modules - Defense of...

Excellent point. I was trying to work within the game (for a change). Perhaps there could be a sheet listing which Missile equipped units have Assault AP, sort of like the High ROF HE list? Or would it be simpler to list which ones don't? If there's ever a new edition(or perhaps in future...

I play it this way - since zero hexes is less than the three hex minimum range, the unit in question has no AP dice, so cannot conduct close combat against heavy armor.

The rules say no, and that makes perfect sense. However... If you want to game it out, then the off-board strikes could be plotted on paper before any NATO units are placed on the board. Soviet planning doesn't always have to take local considerations into account. "The Stavka ordered a...

I, for one, am a huge fan of the "activation by card draw with two jokers" system. I've seen it used quite successfully in other games, and have made games with it myself. It is true that this system works better with more formations rather than fewer, but that is the nature of rules systems...

Real world context: NATO units in general, and US units in particular, are much larger than Soviet/Pact units. US tank platoons had 5 tanks, whereas the Soviet platoons had 3. Every US tank had a radio or two. Only Soviet platoon commanders had radios. US units were generally lead by...

You need to talk to Noble Knight Games about your order from them. The big Drive on Frankfurt map is out of print here. (You can still play it, both summer and winter, on the maps provided in the expansion.) Both books are available from Amazon, and NKG's website says they have at least one...