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I imagine you have your answer by now but for anyone else I’d recommend a hand drill (available at any hobby store or Amazon) using at least a 1.2mm or 1.5mm drill bit and the box art to approximate locations.

Just to close the loop on this incase anyone else comes here to look (as I just did) there is a PDF on the black-seas.com website with a points cost of 260 for each ship.

Airfix and Revell sell inexpensive 1/1200 plastic kits of Hornet, Enterprise, Zuikaku and others. The aircraft supplied with these ships are a tad oversize for 1/1800 but a little undersize for 1/1200 but they are separate. Or you could do what I do:

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1. Cut to size a piece of wood veneer for the ocean base.

2. Cut to size a blank for a…[Read more]

I read it as more a case of two rules 1)artillery can ignore units of skirmishers when forced to shoot the closest unit

& 2) artillery can ignore the skirmishers of a unit when working out LoS & to hit score…. ie ignore the skirmishers and hit the line /column behind them.

In 2nd Edition artillery coul ignore enemy skirmishers when firing in some cases. They don`t block them LOS. But can artillery fire through friendly skirmishers?

Example: french ligth battalion is standing betwen french battery and british infantry. British battery can ignore this skirmishers as they are far then 12″ from it and can hit french…[Read more]

Cheers Benji. Much appreciated

I am excited for this new line as well. I’ve always been interested in the American Civil War though since the original announcement I haven’t heard too much. What is the best way to get new information on releases or does Warlord Games not do too much in the way of releasing information until the product actually launches?

The 4.2 inch mortar btw is for the British (its the heavy mortar)

Warlord don’t have no, but I bought a 4.2 inch mortar in 28mm scale from madbobs miniatures, along with a few other vehicles warlord doesn’t sell. All you need is to get some crew members for it which isn’t hard. I would also recommend you have a look at places like Rubicon models, Blitzkrieg miniatures, paint and Glue Miniatures etc, as they sell…[Read more]

To be honest… not cost effective for warlord to do this.

If they only put a few in a blister they wont sell and so waste of money manufacturing them/ marketing & distributing them, too many and they either only sell one or two OR the ‘loose plane’ blisters out sell the based planes.

Dont forget that most things are made in house so resource…[Read more]

Hi George,

If you want to stay and defend the field then the unit can stay ‘bent’ as long as it stays there.  As this is a non-standard situation then I suggest agree a suitable method to allocate dice with your opponent.  Perhaps randomise which side gets the extra dice each turn?  You could also consider using the rules for buildings for troops…[Read more]

for  board sizes, the did say (although it might be v1) that they playtested on a 8′ 6′ board.

For bent lines, I’ve read it as IF you move, you need 1 order to straighten the line before heading off….ie you want to move 6″ down the road you need two orders

Also, this leads to a peeve i’m having with the scenario rules. Map sizes aren’t given. I get this in that playing with different size miniatures will mean different size maps (6 mm require less battle mat than 28 mm). I wish a chart was made for the scenarios giving recommended sizes for the type of miniatures being used (i.e. “In this scenario…[Read more]

So about the same level of checking as Cruel Seas before printing ?

Played our first game today. Was not good at all.  Points system is bizarrely unbalanced, way too many fiddly random modifiers and non-random modifiers. Assaults rules are far too unwieldy.

The system is a touch disorganised. It is a more complex system than Bolt Action since it adds a lot more tech, weapons and armour. It does take a bit of work…[Read more]