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I believe that they will be resin and not plastic. There are rumours of a few additional types of troops as well

Hmm…reminds me of the movie Up where the dogs keep getting distracted by squirrels. “Here we go, men, we’re almost to…Hey, Squirrel! (and the whole battalion stops to look).”

I confirm that the Bangalore regulation says “… or other obstacles …”
and also in “Normandy Fortifications” chapter, “Anti-Tank ditches” paragraph: “…combat engineer can clear adiacent strip by receiving an DOWN order,…”

6+ hits for barbed wire, minefield and others obstacles (then also anti-tank)

Thanks, I guess this is what we have to go with…[Read more]

Good point. It still works as long as the engineer unit is 1 inch away from the target unit. It could place the explosives at its current position and advance 4 inches away. The target unit will still be covered by the HE 4in template. I have amended my assumption below.

(b) Attacking enemy units: I assume the engineer unit that is at least 1…[Read more]

Problem with this bit:

“(b) Attacking enemy units: I assume the engineer could “advance” 4 inches away from an enemy unit and detonate the explosive. The enemy unit will be hit by HE 4″ with number of hits to be determined by 4″ template.”

You can’t start a turn adjacent to an enemy unit to place the explosive – you would have had to breach t…[Read more]

That’s a shame, since the new models will be smaller, as far as i know. But if we get plastic minis and maybe one or two additional models per box, i won’t be too dissapointed :p

Thanks for your answer!

If a unit is in the wood, it remains in open order.

as to artillery, this is probably why the author only used a single gun to represent artillery. It is just a single model, so doesn’t need to change formation.

Hello, Mike:

I read your introduction with interest (all the way across the Atlantic!). I, like you, have a military background (retired Army officer; combat veteran; battalion command). I also like certain historical periods, perhaps: ancients; Arthurian period; Napoleonic; AWI; ACW; and 20th century. However, I also am drawn to a series of…[Read more]

The Tsan Ra are being resculpted for the next edition of Antares. I am not sure but I suspect that Warlord will not be restocking them until the new models are available.

Black Powder will meet your needs very well with those sort of forces.

There  isn’t a points system anymore. There was a rudimentary one in v1 if the rules but no army lists. Since then, some supplement books for the period have been released and contain pointed armies. The supplements have some suggestions for alternative rules but were wr…[Read more]

Summing up schematically

1) Fully enclosed tank hit by heavy weapon (heavy weapon has penetration value >= +1) that can’t damage it (a roll to damage of 6 + pen value < tank armour value)

2) vehicle is:
Inexperinced then take pins (example, HE2” D3 pins)
Regular then roll a dice and on a 4+ ignore pins (50% ignore pins)
Veteran then ignore pins

I remember reading somewhere in the “D-Day Overlord” manual where it said something like “… or other obstacles …”.
For me 6 hits to destroy even anti-tank obstacles.

A bow question.

Some units in the earlier period (Italian Wars) get the option to replace their arquebuses with crossbows for 0 points (pp98-99), but English Tudor longbowmen pay an extra 1 point per Shooting Value ‘pip’ for their bows (18″ range costs 2 points per pip instead of 1 point for 12″) (p.115).

According to p201 and the summary chart…[Read more]

Thanks guys – this totally clears everything up. I appreciate your time!

Hi, I’m Mike (aka Sadurian Mike), a member of the old forum back in the day. I’m a contemporary military historian by training and education, currently working as a civilian contractor to the MoD. I have interests in most periods, although Late Medieval/Early Modern (what used to be called the Renaissance) and C20th are my particular areas of…[Read more]