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Crops and trees often contain too much inherent moisture to burn. Crop fires are far rarer than house fires… I think.

Give it a long hot summer – dead or dry undergrowth then it all burns.

Hi there! I’m the chap wot wrote it… and yes, Garry has it spot on.

It’s really dependent on size of units and the brigade frontages. that was the problem from the start, with some folks having physically smaller units than others and now with the “epic” scale it’s even more fluid with potentially 100 figure regts. I hope that helps in some small way?

Finishing up the last squad on my russians, primered them yesterday and will start painting today.  They were the toughest set I’ve put together thus far, fighting to get the arms and weapons to work together resulted in glue all over some figures.  Often took several tries to get things positioned to where I was happy with them.  I ended up ha…[Read more]

Frustrating isn’t it! I believe they vary in size, one of the maps is easy to size as 6 feet across by 9 feet, others are clearly smaller. The best bet is to scale them relative to your brigade frontages. Obviously these will be different depending n whether you game with 28 mm or 15mm figures.

Fire is difficult in writing  gaming rules.

In hot sommers woods can burn from the smallest spark, in winter or wet weather they will not burn at all. Even if a plane crashes there. And jungle……

Or take the pics of Russian villages burning. Often with captions like Burned by Soviets on retreat or by German attackers. (That wanted to…[Read more]

Well, the wording of the rules does say you roll for burning when firing at units in the building. But, aside from that, maybe it could be argued troops wouldn’t risk the thrower running out of fuel on a “Maybe”?

Then how about this: Why can’t forests burn, or fields of wheat?

I agree 100%. My current order has been sitting in the UPS depot for almost 2 weeks.  I am not blaming Warlord at all, who always do their best to get stuff out , as they are overworked.  When I learned my latest order was using UPS my heart sank – their reputation as an international joke precedes them.  And this, my first experience of them, wi…[Read more]

Hi All,

Thanks for the comments. I have now started to work out a list to collect. This brings me to the question of Uhlans. Could the Polish Lancers be used to proxy for them?

Regards

A.

Yay, my Order with the RM included the RN, the KM and my book so maybe I’ll finally get those.

touche good sir! :p

Yea, hence he is no longer a “sniper” is also in quotes 😄 Technically he becomes a 1-man LMG “team”, although still called a “lone sniper”.

Hence the ‘upgrade’ being in inverted commas :p

but the unit is still called a sniper :p

Shoot at them before they get in range?

Also, one obvious point – if it was only alight if they cause a hit on the occupants – what if no one is in the house?

We’ve always played mixed formation gets one die. It’s all a fudge anyway. French line 1/6 skirmish – so about 100 men in reality. In a British bttn it’s only 1/10, so about 60 men. The questions should be is the effect about right. I think the answer is “yes”.

…however if he ‘upgrades’ to an LMG he goes back to taking a team weapon without a crew so suffers the -1.

Yes, and he will no longer be a “sniper” and does not do exceptional damage (as clarified in the latest FAQ).

There is also the japanese lone sniper…however if he ‘upgrades’ to an LMG he goes back to taking a team weapon without a crew so suffers the -1.

Good shout.. will need to go back over the rules.