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I’ve also picked up a 3D print of a KV1 up-gunned with a German 75 and an M3 Scout Car with MG34s instead of Browning .30 cals.  These are for a Brandenburger unit to use….

Howdy Steve T!

These points become “moot” IF someone notices and does something about it….

The Army Builder app does me no good.  I’m a low-tech old guy with a dumb flip-phone.  I’ve bought the Army books and the Campaign books.  I build my units with pencil and paper….

A)  I’m not asking about anything one-off/obscure/experimental.  I’m…[Read more]

Thanks, I’ll definitely add the Chaffee to my 1000 point list, or even my 750 point list. 🙂

You have a rules lawyer? What does he do?

Oh ok, good to know. Inexperienced gives me some budget HE, but regular makes sense because more morale, harder to kill, and can take a spotter so it can sit behind cover.

Our gaming group’s Rules Lawyer is in love with Chaffees, specifically for the recce ability.  You could definitely do worse….

Aidan, a heavy mortar is an excellent idea.  IIRC, you need to take a Regular unit to get a spotter.  I’d recommend it….

Yeah an inexperienced 4 man crew heavy mortar for 46 points is tempting…. Who cares if it’s inexperienced when it can sit back with 72″ of range, nearly untouchable? I also have a friend who has a 3d printer, maybe I could call in a favor, or do as you said and DIY a mortar. Nice thing is they are simple looking.

Oof, yeah, the 88 looks like a…[Read more]

Yeah , why not. If you also have the option of the Heavy variant of mortar, I’d be tempted. They are really nasty for slamming into enemy held objectives, buildings,   suppressing tanks, and rendering AT guns ineffective. I stopped bringing my German Flak 88s to most of our games as a cheap enemy mortar can easily shut it down.

You might even be…[Read more]

I was thinking, there’s been some pictures floating around the internet of homemade mortars…. So would it be worth it to DIY a mortar to give my army some HE? The Perry box comes with radios that I could use to make a spotter as well.

Warlord has great customer service. I bought the Victory at Sea battle for the Pacific starter set, it was missing the turrets for one of the cruisers. They promptly replaced them.

Ah ok, that makes sense. Thank you, I’ll get back to the drawing board!

I would avoid getting into close combat if you can with what you have there, as so many other troop types are better at it (Japanese, German SS , any engineers, or Veteran infantry of any kind, huge units  of inferior troops ).  You can really play to the strengths of that special rifle ability.  Having been on the receiving end of that re…[Read more]

Now that I think about it, rifles are pretty good in a US force, and you can only take up to 4 SMGs in a squad. So maybe I just go with all rifles and “tough fighters”?

Yeah as a college student going through flight school, budget is a big concern for me.

Oh ok, good to know. Of course I would have to lose some points for another officer.

Yeah I just now realized that it probably isn’t a good loadout with all the different ranges, I was attempting to make an assault force…

It would be nice to have multiple…[Read more]

And it’s less of a points sink.

Ah I see, thank you very much. I was leaning towards the Chaffee because it looked fun and had recce, and I wanted something unique that doesn’t appear on a US list much. And yeah lol, a Panther’s gun or a Flak 36 won’t care about the armor either way….

If you are going to be facing historically accurate opponents, then as someone who plays a lot of  German vs US, I would say the German tanks/AT guns won’t care much either way that you have 8 or 9 armour. I know the Chaffe would be more annoying for me to face. Tanks only gets a few good shots per game and you can deny them their best…[Read more]

I know you are coming at this having just 1 box, so it poses a unique challenge

(On the 2 platoon thing being cheating or not: As it’s all point based, it’s all good. Unless you are in some tournament or scenario that specially says 1 platoon max per player. I know when we started it was a way for us to use our then limited pool of figures.)

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