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Thank you guys for weighing in your opinions on this matter, it’s really been informative to hear all the different opinions. I can see both sides of the argument,-on one hand the new composition is more true to history. Take for example the standard German rifle platoon in 1941; it was 49 men strong with 4 squads of 10 men each with 6 riflemen, a…[Read more]

1. Reece – look like a cheap infamy platoon ( 1 infantry unit minimum size as opposed to the normal 2). The t Recce ability being purchasable for all their transports might make it worth it

2- yeah, they do all say Platoon Commander so you can pay what you want I suppose.  There are going to be loads of officers anyway, so I don’t think it’s a…[Read more]

Well the new generic platoon structure (outside of FAOs) is more historical.  Now one size fits all doesnt work but most of the time /for most nations this works

MMGs & HMGs were in a weapons platoon along with the heavier mortars, only the LMGs and light mortars were in platoons.  Tanks and artillery were not attached singularly to infantry b…[Read more]

I would like to give this a bump because I only recently became aware of Epic scale wargaming (both Napoleonic and ACW), and as a Wisconsinite my Union army wouldn’t be complete without the Iron Brigade.  I have been on the fence with making the investment into Epic scale because I have some concerns whether the epic scale models are going to be…[Read more]

I know this is just a tease, but so far, we’re not much of a fan of these new selectors and probably won’t use them in our group. To be fair though, we don’t really use the v2 selector much either as we tend to build armies based on scenarios. But here’s few oddities I’ve noticed so far. I could be wrong about any or all of these things.

1. The…[Read more]

Well WL are doing a Tournament recommendations …. but you’ll find that the TO will decide once they have the rules in their hands… they may bin the official platoons and say use the v2 ones <shrugs> who knows

I’m curious as to how this will affect the tournament scene. If there is limited numbers of platoons allowed in a tournament, then competitive players will have to weigh the options of what platoons would be most beneficial to run now that you can’t use flamethrowers, tanks, and artillery in the same platoon.

At this point we don’t know much,…[Read more]

Nat,

Yeah that does make sense. I guess we will have to wait for the official rules to drop before we know anything for sure.

But I’m liking what I see right now. 

Also, it seems like an odd choice to have “1 rifle platoon unlocks 1 of EACHother” rather then “one rifle platoon unlocks 1 other”. But then again, who would bring 2 rifle platoons…[Read more]

Ok warlords FB account has confirmed that it’s 1 rifle Platoon unlocks 1 each of the other 5 at the same time

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one other restriction – you can only have as many multiples of any Platoon type as you have Rifle Platoons. For example, if you want to field two Armoured Platoons, you’ll need two Rifle Platoons, and so on. Other than that – the choice is yours! [/quote]

now without the writen rules – this is just Marcus’ chat about it… it reads that i…[Read more]

From what I am reading, my gaming group is conflicted, it’s One Rifle Platoon for Each Support Platoon. Am I correct?

well this is only part of the equation… the rest is still in the dark!

we dont know what rules are changing
we dont know HOW the costs are changing
we dont know how unit composition is changing … it could be that compulsory choices must be taken at full strength.
etc etc

all in all it looks like a good change for gaming groups.  The…[Read more]

This looks somewhat more historical than v3

My bad, meant to say: ‘This looks somewhat more historical than V2’

Thanks Steve! I’ll check that out.