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I agree only when it comes to sixes, yet I believe the rewards of getting a hit with a heavy or super heavy AT gun outweighs the risk of missing.

If you’re shooting at a veteran squad with the MMG on 5’s; odds are you’ll get ~2 hits and maybe a causality, however with a super heavy gun you could cause D3 pins, hit at least half the squad, and b…[Read more]

Definately.

As SteveT wrote, MMGs spread the risks/increase chancing of doing something minor rather than nothing.

To answer your other question, size of the gun doesn’t factor here, imo, as its chances to hit are the same (disregarding range, obviously).

As most main guns roll only one die, difficult shots that need, say,  a 6 or 7, are most likely to achieve nothing.  However, when are rolling 5 MG dice, you clearly have much higher chance of achieving something vs those hard-to-hit targets. And that pin may be all you need to shut the enemy down or even force a rout/morale c…[Read more]

I got the attached screenshot off Google books.

The SS Panzer Pioniere are in Campaign Fortress Budapest. Page 109

Like the Heer pioniere they can get mine clearing gear and other Pionier stuff and fanatics is in Special rules.  In real word the OOB was totally like Heer. That they use the word Sturmpionier there is ….

Thanks Lord Rao.

p.87 only mentions it in the fluff, it doesn’t appear in the selectors. however it does say they weren’t used in New Guinea, so that explains it.

im guessing I could use the generic British selector and chose the Australian National Rule, or check out the original Australian pdf.

Thanks to all anyway,

John

But all other SS units have the option of Fanatics, so I would think they would to?  Warlord even do figures for them, but their list is nowhere :p