Peter Simunovich Interview 2023
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- The Kaiser interviews Peter, chairman at Battlefront / Flames of War about his history in the hobby, the company and the future of Major games like #flamesofwar #worldoftanks and #wwiii Team Yankee.
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I'm really enjoying FoW. Thank you
EDIT: Early war. I am excited
Early war is looking great.
Great interview, and looking forward to the Italy Front and Early War. It's great to hear Harry getting a mention, too :)
Yeah, some great stuff in the works.
I really like hearing Peter telling about BF. It shows how much life and enthusiasm is in this company.
Therefore I am sorry to make a correction: The biggest tank battle in cold war times is said to be the Battle of Chawinda in 1965 between India and Pakistan. But the Battle of Cueto Carnevale is a battle that should be noticed as well too. I think both battles are not very well know because of our western centric view, what we call - for no good reason if you ask me - "proxy wars".
Certainly it is largely unknown.
Cracking interview, as always Peter is very generous with his time as well as his transparency on what the future holds. I'm particularly excited to hear there's early war plastics on they way, including infantry!
Great shoutout to @FogofWar i hope you took the opportunity to convince the battlefront team to send him review samples!
Myself and Kaiser looking forward to expanding into early war and Team Yankee.
Yeah, he is determined to see early war being done properly, and it is coming.
Great interview. I like Peter's enthusiasm tempered with business savvy. The price rises are a fact of life, but it does mean that i'm more fussy about what armies I now collect.
He was a real pleasure to talk to.
What a great in-depth, open and transparant interview. Also good to hear that Battlefront values the brick and mortar stores. Really like the way they think and do business.
Thank you Kaiser and WoolyMike!
Keep up the good work!
Much appreciated!
Even with the price rises, pound for pound flames of war/team yankee are still some of the best value systems out there.
Oh, I agree, but I felt it was important to ask as there have been recent increases.
We had a great day at Battlefront filming this. Got to see some exciting stuff. All the staff were fantastic. Also note they do have an onsite shop too. Demo game tables are available to try out.
I didnt know they had a shop onsite too! Is it one you can stop by without letting them know, I may have to visit.
Need to check opening times, but is worth a visit.
Sure was a great day.
Please do a plastic Pz 38 (T) :) Good job MFA and thanks Peter
Thanks mate.
Great stuff
Thanks
24:44 yes…more infantry in the starter boxes - combined arms baby. The only other thing I would ask for in the starters would be the cardboard flats like they used to include. Or, perhaps sell cardboard flat terrain like Battletech’s done for alpha strike. Or deluxe purchase of starter box with 2-4 pieces of terrain.
I have asked him in the past about things like a playmat - he was of the view that maximum plastic is the way they want to go. I understand that, but I tend to think a bit of scenery and a playmat make for better starter sets overall.
Great interview. Packed with a lot of cool information.
Yeah, Peter was pretty glib about the near future.
At the same time the price has risen twice on the individual 5 tank kits, they have come out with half dozen super affordable army deals. I bought three Kasserine, three US USSR Team Yankee starter and 2 Hit the Beachs. I have not even been able to pick them all up but those sets offset any price increases... I can almost always get into a Battlefront army for $5 a tank for the main plts and then its 9-12 a tank/support vehicle depending on who and where you buy it. The infantry especially their metals are underpriced if you have ever seen the secondary market their scarcity creates.,
Their starter sets are amazing value for certain.
Will we ever see Battlefront dipping into the Korea War? Great interview btw. !
Thanks
Really great interview, and I'm totally jealous at all the looks behind the curtain. Really looking forward to what the future holds for all three product lines here!
It was a real pleasure to see all that stuff, we were not expecting to.
Pete came armed with a bundle of stuff to make a lot of people happy!
He sure did.
Sooooo looking forward to early war... RIVETS!
Very much so, and it looks like there is going to be a lot of kit coming with it.
Great interview
Thank you
World of tanks is like a perfect partner for my flames of war collection. Great for a quick fun game that I can also use some of my FoW tanks with.
I think it has been a great collaboration.
Some of the best and favorite Battlefront videos are the new years the year ahead videos. Also I would love to see a mid year update video, similar to this one but with a bit more detail, for example where BF actually is on its various projects, such as MW Pacific, EW etc.
Thx Peter and MFA for taking the time to put this video interview together! It's cracking good.
Thanks mate.
I want my polish cavalry to overrun the Germans
You never know I guess.
Great interview although I like to hear if Great War coming back. I see Nam is back
Yeah, it was not something he talked about. I imagine if they did, it would be a while off yet.
Cheers fella. Nice way to spend half an hour. Enjoyed that interview.
Glad you enjoyed it
When i am old. I want to be like these both gantleman.
Hey, I'm not that old man...
fantastic video and fantastic interview.
Nice to hear more confirmation on Mid war pacific. 12 different plastic kits for latewar leviathans....I got to not get my hopes up for the Doom Turtle.
I see still no news on checkpoint charlie, eh? Guess they gotta get NAM and FoAN back into peoples minds first.
They are definitely doing checkpoint charlie, just not in the next 6 months I guess. He has a long term schedule there but was not happy to talk about dates of anything more than 9 months out, which is fair - things change.
Pls give us back our propeller for WW2 aircraft... please please....
I am not a fan of the rules but the Angolan Boarder war is a dream for me.
Peter is very enthusiastic to cover the period.
I was really hoping they would reprint the BMD Bn.
Me too
These interviews with the BF guys are very informative, but I wish Kaiser wouldn't keep interrupting.
Roll on Oct and the Belgians . 😁
Shame we won’t be able to get the “McDonald’s” objective marker anymore. As someone who works at McDonald’s that was really funny seeing that in the army box
Yeah, real shame that. Who knows, maybe it will be released on special occasions in the future.
Great Interview, thank you very much. Will we see FoW Great War coming back? I'll hope so, I love the Miniatures! If you'll do Early War, what's about Plastic Renault Ft 17?
He didn't mention it at all. then again, I never asked, I suppose
Nato Forces :)
Indeed.
Great chat with Peter but I was hoping you guys might ask the question especially for UK players. Will the command cards and unit card packs be back in print and in stock on a more steady basis and this is across the board of all theatres. I'm especially trying to track down mid war North Africa for both Afrika Korp and British. But I'm also wanting the Bulge British and Germans. Also when will starter sets like British from Normandy onwards be back in stock? The UK always seems to get the short straw......
Interesting interview. It's a great shame that Battlefront don't keep their ranges going and support them over time.
At the moment, I can't get a whole bunch of buildings in the Battlefield in a Box range, which apparently aren't being made and no one knows when or if they will ever be made again. And Early War has been allowed to die - can't get any Polish models now. Who knows when that's coming back?
Fortunately, 3D printing has come to my rescue on both fronts. So cottage industries run from the garages of enthusiasts serve my interests in a flexible way, whilst a big company like Battlefront lets me down.
We talk quite a bit about early war in this very Interview. Including when it is returning and what people can expect.
True. But I was only hearing about France 1940. And how many years have the Polish figures and models been unavailable? I have no axe to grind here - I wish you guys and Battlefront nothing but the best. But I find it interesting to suggest that the big guys aren't always best for the hobby (IMHO).@@ModellingforAdvantage
I really hope the infantry turn out better, most of the plastic infantry I've painted is abysmal
Do you mean their o sprue hard plastic framed infantry? Or do you mean the other plastics they have tried over the years? I think their hard plastic frame infantry is excellent, but the rest of it is sub par... hence being excited for more of the good stuff.
@@ModellingforAdvantage The hard plastic frame infantry is decent, soft plastic is depressing. I wouldn't say any of it is better than what it replaced, which is sort of the bar in my book for what should constitute a new release. Not "well we can make this in plastic now and the rules will make sure we sell a lot of it" which seems to be the driving factor in V4 release content. I'd rather them at least think "we finally have something that looks better than the old stuff we made that is fetching huge sums on the secondhand market."
I agree, even the hard plastic infantry are starting to show their age compared to victrix. The soft plastics are really weird, some are so huge they are basically small 20mm instead. Miss the old metal as they had a more standardized look and size.
Okay I'm just starting to get into Warhammer the fantasy role playing game and Warhammer soulbound so I need miniatures for my role-playing game and I will tell you compared to Warhammer you were extremely extremely extremely extremely and did I say extremely well let me say it five more times extremely extremely extremely extremely extremely reasonably priced The problem is I live in Florida so the only thing anyone ever wants to play is Warhammer dungeons & dragons and magic I can't get anyone to play vampire the masquerade I can't get anyone to play Warhammer The fantasy role-playing game or Warhammer soulbound even though they're better systems I can't get anyone to play half the stuff I've invest in money in it and I'm still paying for so the short answer is Pete I was a long time customer I'm coming back slowly or the women will kill me you are extremely reasonably priced
Any word on rules for team yankee israeli centurions?
Nothing specific.
Peter, as his usual self, offers fantastic insight. Thanks for putting this together
I am a model builder--not a wargamer. I started model building as a kid in the 60s with the old Airfix 1/76 scale, then graduated to the more realistic 1/72, then 1/48 and finally the most realistic 1/35 scale as an adult. I also have armor and toy soldiers (like Conte) at 1/32 scale, and finally, the ULTIMATE SOLDIER and 21st Century Toys--1/18 airplanes and soldiers! I do like the 1/56 Rubicon models but am hesitant to start collecting this "odd" scale. I HATE wargaming figures, like the 28 mm Bolt Action, etc., because they look so unrealistic, with their huge, pumpkin heads, hands and weapons. Why not try to make your products more realistic, like the Rubicon 1/56 line? You will generate a whole lot more interest and money!
And for the record I don't think we all agree that plastic models are by default, or even on average, better. Most if not all the plastics vehicles I have seen are 5-10% oversized and more on the 17mm scale than 15mm. A lot of the vehicles have missing details due to corners being cut to simplify all the model parts into a couple sprues. Add to that the limited variety of models available due to plastic mold development overhead limiting releases to only the most popular stuff and there are a lot unsavory bits to basing everything around what you can plasticize.
Plastic's main benefit is durability, which is a nice feature but there are still a lot of parts that at this scale are fragile in either material format (plastic or resin/metal). Additionally the extra size on the plastic models also made them more durable, so it isn't really a fair comparison.
But I get that BF is a model selling business, and plastic models are where all the money is. But pretending like they are vastly superior/popular seems like an overstatement and not a good rational for designing the game around what can be produced in plastic.
Flames of War is 1/100 scale, not 15mm.
@@Hedgehobbit they are used interchangeably
I really enjoyed this …… but bro, let the man finish a sentence, please.
An interesting interview. However, in my humble opinion when BF say they are going to do Early war properly I am somewhat concerned because they then say box sets; thus suggesting overly simplified forces playing standard confrontational games of war. When Peter states historical authenticity I’m not sure he grasps that his perception of WW2 history may not match the actual and may be a tad simplified, not include many forces that actually were major participants or produce actual scenarios that will be reflective of ground conditions alas.
The early war has the most diverse and interesting operations for wargamers. Moreover, I very much doubt,as stated, we will see Dutch, Belgian or many other nations or a comprehensive range of French infantry types, Cavalry, motorbike and cycle troops will also likely be omitted. Nothing appears to be being done on Norway or Poland either and some disdain concerned with the Early war in the desert, Mediterranean operations and East Africa. There are some excellent airborne operations too. These being the very first and need to be considered to.
BFS early metal ranges were fantastic and allowed you to build some really interesting forces to explore the history but now it is so linked to commercial needs, understandably from a commercial basis, but sad from a wargaming perspective.
If you want early war in the Low Countries here I hope is some inspiration and let’s pray BF do this right and include what is needed ua-cam.com/video/kIM35j1W9yw/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
I think all those metal ranges are slowly slowly coming back; although I don't know that for certain.
@@ModellingforAdvantage TBH I hope the European French infantry figures get redone , as everytime I look at them , they remind me of the firemen from Trumpton . 🤪
@@lesp1964 haha
The Kaiser needs to learn to be a lot more quiet to let his Interviewee talk - it's very frustrating
You don't have to watch it...
Plastic Char b
Yeah baby!
Barf....gave up on this "historically flavored game" back in 1st edition... don't even get me started on their GW-pricing/production attitude. Not-for-me-ever-ever-ever
Each to their own.
Ex Kiwi fisherman turned gamer , thanks Peter your a champ.