This issue focuses on the Italians, from the invasion of France to the Greek mountains, from Eritrea to Abyssinia or Somalia, Yugoslavia, Ukraine, but also Sicily and even China. Also included, two countersheets and 32 scenarios, thus a thicker issue than our regular LFT mag with, this time, 104 pages.

Contents

– Editor’s Foreword
– Advancing Fire (an Italian project for ASL)
– 10 questions to… ECZ
– LFT Humor
– Villeneuve d’Ascq 2018
– The Bulgarian Armor 1944
– The Decima MAS
– I gruppi di Combattimento
– SS Italia
– Lighting Strikes : the Folgore Division
– Birds of Prey : Aerial support in ASL
– Italians in ASL
– Series Replay : LFT 214 A Grain of Sand
– Bibliography

104 pages - 99% is in English and one ad in French :-)

The Scenarios

All printed full color on matte paper.

ID Name Nations Date
LFT225 Blue Hell at P.A. ABRIES French – Italian 2 November 1940
LFT226 Veni Venezia ! Greek - Italian 19 November 1940
LFT227 Damsels in Distress Italian - Greek 19 November 1940
LFT228 Last Charge at Umbrega Italian - French 2 January 1941
LFT229 A Push in the Bush Italian / British 13 February 1941
LFT230 Italian Behemoth South African - Italian 15 February 1941
LFT231 Cub Cub Hills Italian -French 20 February 1941
LFT232 Heart of Darkness South African - Italian 22 February 1941
LFT233 Surprised Gideon Allied - Italian 6 March 1941
LFT234 Meat Meats Attack Italian - Belgian 22 March 1941
LFT235 Once More Unto the Breach British – German/Italian 6 April 1943
LFT236 Ethnic Cleansing Partisan – Italian 19 August 1941
LFT237 Roma Victor Russian - German/Italian 23 September 1941
LFT238 El Himeimat Ridge Italian – Free French 24 October 1942
LFT239 Armored Probe at Sidi-Nsir French – German/Italian 21 November 1942
LFT240 Commando Beach 1 Italian - British 10 July 1943
LFT241 Commando Beach 2 Italian - British 10 July 1943
LFT242 That Bridge Again British - Italian 10 July 1943
LFT243 Send More Pigeons II Italian – American/British 10 July 1943
LFT244 Venturi Effect Italian - American 11 July 1943
LFT245 Ciao Cina Japanese – Italian 9 September 1943
LFT246 Gladium Pro Patria e Rege Italian - German 9 September 1943
LFT247 Roter Mann Italian/Partisan – German/Militias 15 November 1943
LFT248 Hunting High German - Bulgarian 17 November 1944
LFT249 Winter’s Fury American – German/Italian 26 December 1944
LFT250 Decimation Italian - Slovenian 20 January 1945
LFT251 The Last Drive German – American 14 April 1945
LFT252 Fratelli… German/Italian - Italian 24 April 1945
LFT253 Axis & Allies German/Italian – American/Partisan 27 April 1945
LFT254 insurrection at Cividale SS - Italian 28 April 1945
LFT255 paper Tigers SS - Partisan 28 April 1945
LFT256 Radio X-MAS Partisan/American - Italian 30 April 1945

The scenario designers are, in no particular order :

– Philippe Naud
– Alexandre Rousse-Lacordaire
– Laurent Closier
– Lionel Colin
– Philippe Jathan
– Steve Swann
– Andrew Hershey
– Scott Holst
– Alan Hume
– Torsten Cumberland
– Brian Martuzas
– Jean Devaux
– Xavier Vitry

The countersheets

Italian Infantry

With all the Italian MMC needed to play ANY scenario involving Italian Infantry.

Aircrafts & Misc.

Aircraft, more Italian units (SMC, SW) plus all the counters needed in order to play the scenarios provided within this issue of Le Franc Tireur Magazine. Some of the SW are captured SW in Italian color for a better fog of war.

Derek Ritter has posted a couple of ’what’s in the box’ videos to Youtube. Click the links below to view them.

– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl13A21APBI
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR7mBNSBmYU

Documents

LFT14 VASL extension

(58.2 kio)

This extension contains all specific Italian counters for the LFT14 scenarios. As well as the *very* specific schoolgirls.

Sorry we have messed up

(393.9 kio)

Due to a mishap from our side, this sheet did not go to the printer, instead the back of a scenario got printed twice. It will be printed in the next LFT product and in the meantime, can be printed.

Errata

LFT 227 "Damsels in Distress"
Add after Italian set up :
"(EXC : ≤ 2 HS must set-up as Guards with the Schoolgirls)"

LFT 225 "Blue Hell at P.A. Abries"
We forgot to add the following instruction before the Italian OB set up :
set up north/east of 24A5-24I8-24N6-24Q7-24T4- 24T3-24Y2-24Y-41I1-41I10 in the following areas A-D etc... Sorry about that !

LFT 246 "Gladium Pro Patria e Rege"
Victory Conditions should read as follows :
The Germans win at Game End if they have amassed >= 12 VP (including >= 5 VP of infantry ; Prisoners are NA ; AFVs without functioning MA do not count) on / between vY1 - v GG5, provided there is no Mobile Italian fully-tracked AFV with funtioning MA in LOS and within 6 hexes of the German set up area.