This is a book for organizing Flames of War forces for the Americans in North Africa. Players can choose between companies consisting of tanks (three types), armored infantry, infantry, or M10 tank destroyers.

Flames of War is intended to be played in 1/100 (15mm) scale. That’s large enough that a force of two or three tank platoons have to be deployed with all their vehicles touching, or nearly so, and that is certainly the case here. Some people play with 1/285-1/300 miniatures instead. That gives a lot more space on the table, but the downside is that infantry is almost too small to be used.

Another criticism of Flames of War specific to the fourth edition is that orders of battle are much shorter and simpler that with earlier editions. One example in Fighting First is mortars, Historically, U.S. mortars are divided among 60mm mortars, deployed along with .30 caliber machine guns in weapons platoons, and larger, longer-ranged 81mm mortars deployed in mortar platoons. Fighting First seems to make no distinction between these types. ( )