Just had a game with my 9 yr old. Great fun. And that was with stripped down rules (no damage cards, no equipment cards and just the stat additions for the Heroes). With the full rules I think hours of fun will be had.

The simple mechanics make this really accessible for the boy (we have played a few games of FOW and he knows what he's doing, but we both struggle to remember all the rules which really slows things down).

Not sure I fully like the initiative rule though. Maybe a random initiative each turn would be better, perhaps roll d6 and add your initiative value to it, so it still favours the better tanks , but you've always got that chance to get your shot in ahead of Wittman. Don't know, perhaps something I'll playtest later on.

Yes I'm going to surprise my son with Tanks when we got out of town on a vacation soon. We started with 40K years ago, but he's mid 20's now so something faster but appealing will be a good fit. Cheers everyone.