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Guts & Glory is the BP Epic …

its two small (single re-enforced brigade) sides… OR 1 moderate force

The real observer was an expert. Specially trained and normally doing nothing else. A spotter was just an ordinary man that had a base training in gun spotting. Every officer and NCO had that ability in the big armies.   So the different rules are historically correct.

But  armies tended to misuse specialists. But mostly in desperate si…[Read more]

“I’m a bit surprised by this answer as it assumes there is a difference between Artillery observers and spotters for on table guns and mortars”

There is a huge difference between observers and spotters. Despite similar ‘In Real Life’ practice, they are totally different in game concepts.

Spotters are a 10 point upgrade to indirect fire units w…[Read more]

I’m a bit surprised by this answer as it assumes there is a difference between Artillery observers and spotters for on table guns and mortars. The Bolt Action errata seems clear about spotters. Maybe there is an intention for there to be a difference?

>Note that spotters are always ignored for the purpose of victory conditions
(e.g. they cannot…[Read more]

The firer would need to take a Fire order test to fire if it has pins. If the order is passed then the mortar hits on whatever it needs. If it’s already hit the target on a previous turn then it needs a 2+. It is the order test that is the element here that is impacted by pins.

You are correct, indirect is ‘regardless of any modifier’ from the start and doesn’t re-introduce them later in the process.

For them to be correct, there would then need to be a clause re-introducing modifiers to the ranging in process – there is no such clause.

The total lack of modifiers other than the ranging in process is pretty much the…[Read more]

Besides Facebook, does anyone know if there is any other site to download all the Bolt Action Alliance stuff?

The name of its entry in the Japanese forces book is something of a giveaway.

“TYPE 97 CHI-HA MEDIUM TANK”. :p

It mostly seems to be a criterion of which slot it gets put in armour lists, and/or how it was used, and yes, the bizarrely named “damage value”.

Tank size occasionally crops up in some rules: like a tank ramming a building, or (fr…[Read more]

Yes. It’s no different than the British calling the Vickers .303 machine gun a ‘heavy’ machine gun, while in game it’s an MMG – titles and descriptions mean nothing in game (usually reflecting what they called it in their own forces at the time rather than a comparison against a class of weapons/vehicles around the world), it’s the stats from the…[Read more]

It’s not a trait as such – if your plane has the dive bomber designation it can make dive bomb attacks

In game terms a tank size is its damage value?