Burst of Fire: first steps
What you need to play
- Core rules
- Spiral bound books will be available shortly on this website
- Detachment and/or unit cards
- Detachment lists currently available for free on this website:
- Unit cards will follow shortly
- Miniatures or counters
- 2D counters will be available shortly on this website
- A gaming table and battle mat (min. 4 by 4 feet)
- Terrain
- 2D terrain will be available shortly on this website
- A pencil and a sheet of paper / Burst of Fire Combat Score and Action Point Counter (Grab them for free)
- Up to five friends sharing the same love for wargaming
- Eight 6-sided dice (D6)
- Effect tokens & smoke markers (Grab them for free)
- Burst of Fire Random Event & Effect Cards (Grab them for free)
Scales to play (or size does not always matter)
Burst of Fire was developed in 20mm scale but you can play with miniatures from 6 mm to 28 mm miniatures on your tabletop. A table measuring at least 4 by 4 feet is recommended. On the field, one miniature represents one soldier, support weapon, or vehicle. Because of the scale, most of the weapons do not have any limitations of range. A Karabiner 98, for example, had an effective range of 500 meters. Games rarely exceed 200 meters of distance.