I have looked at BoW for time now, and would like to ask the following questions.

I have played ToI a couple of times, and really enjoyed it, how complex is BoW compared to ToI?

Furthermore I really liked the fact that there was a lot of avalible scenarios for ToI, not only in the basegame, but also in the desginer book, normandy expansion, fury of the bear, and days of the fox, and that the scenarios had a great replay valvue.

Is this the same for BoW?

How many scenarios are there in the basegame, in the warden of the west, and the north? And how is the replay valvue of the scenarios?

Fauerholdt said:

BoW Core Game=10 Scenarios

WotW=3 Scenarios

WotN=I guess also also 3

Plus there is one On Line Scenario in BoW Support. & FFG promises more.

The Game also comes with Cards that allow you to create your own Battles(troops & Scenery)-Skirmish game

Replay value is good as eventhough the Scenarios are Set the Games will play differently due the changing orders.The Skirmish Game of course will be different every time.

I don't have ToI-but from just looking at the Rules it's more complex than BoW,a lot of that is simply that warfare was simpler in BoW Feudal world.

OD

Fauerholdt said:

The main differance in scenarios between ToI and BoW (I have both) is that BoWs scenarios are not only more objective based but most importantly balanced. It is something that FFG lcked heavyly in ToI. AS you might remember from your first games with ToI the scenarios where just horrible out of a couple of scenarios in the base game there were 2-3 balanced ones and to make matters worse the rest was so unbalanced that you didn't even had to play it to see it was just badly planned out. It was the min factor why i didn't play ToI much, because I had to look for opinions/reviews whether the scenario was a total waste of time or a proper gaming experiance. (After the first five I lost all hope in 70/30 chance of finding a good scenario)

In BoW all scenarios are fairly balanced with the exeption of those that consist of King in the North/ RIckard Karstark (if you play wise it might only come down to proper strategy gints those leaders). But really the leaders are nothing compared to the scenario issue in ToI. Future expansions in both BoW and ToI have/might prove/n that FFG had strted taking seriously the aspect of starting scenarios

Although Grandmikus is correct as to the (im)balance issues of the core scenarios, one thing I have found with all these games is that they are nothing if not greatly customizable, especially as far as scenarios go. Ultimately, Tide of Iron is slightly more complex and both are fantastic games. Hope that helps.