“…an infiltrating squad and an army rule that allows you to start in ambush. This appears to have the effect of giving you control of objectives before the game starts.”

@Hoff – Yep, they can be sneaky that way.

“A recce unit can move as a result of it’s reaction, and ends with an Advance or Run order – do they not count as ‘an activ…

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Thanks for the response. I’m mostly thinking of situations where you have an infiltrating squad and an army rule that allows you to start in ambush. This appears to have the effect of giving you control of objectives before the game starts.

Typically, most if not all the situations you described would be rare, if at all. Because to take an objective, a unit has to be within 3″, and to do that it must move. Therefore, after its Advance or Run order, it claims the objective at the end of its activation. Provided there are no…[Read more]

If I give an Ambush order, does that count?

If I go Down for being shot at, does that count?

If I giving an Ambusb order doesn’t count…does converting it to a Fire or Down order count?

If giving an Ambush order counts…does starting the game in Ambush count?

Keep in mind, the “replacement” platoon officer’s only purpose is to issue “Snap To” orders, it does not confer morale bonuses. Play it both ways and tell me what you think.

If it gives something back that was lost (especially since inexperience officer teams are easier to eliminate), it just encourages people to keep utilizing that silly exp…[Read more]

However, I would remove the, “If a platoon officer (not company) is lost…” part. This only further encourages players to select inexperienced officer teams for their platoon commanders. This is just a bad loophole/technicality in the rules for army building that people take…[Read more]

In Bolt Action, the rules clearly indicate that a Rifle Platoon can not take any units with the Engineers rule. Taking such units required an Engineer Platoon. I don’t see any such restriction within the K47 platoon selectors – while the Engineer Platoon is still present, it seems like…[Read more]

However, the official “The Hungarian Army – Bolt Action: Third Edition” web-link does say, “Roving Patrols is an incredibly powerful ability that prevents your opponent from using special deployment rules or outflanking – ess…[Read more]

It’s not a downgrade to your own inexperienced units, it’s a downgrade to the enemy’s inexperienced units.

Bolt Action doesn’t currently include rules for artillery (or air, for that matter) observation vehicles, which would most likely result in the vehicle itself having that ability rather than carrying passengers and allowing them to use their ability from that vehicle.  If the rules were…[Read more]

Why is the FG42, the automatic rifle of the Fallschirmjaeger considered an assault rifle?

Rise up and take control…

Wow, this is a very cool idea for a supplement.  I especially liked the Soviet-Japanese portion of your supplement.  When I had my Japanese army, I built it along the lines of the 1930s Army.

Now I’m gonna have to rebuild that army to play against my Soviets … damn … more figures to paint, LOL.

Roll Sixes!

If the Officer has a Banner assigned to its team, and the officer team is riding on top of a tank, is the banner displayed?  This is dependent on the previous q…[Read more]

(Obviously if someone knows the exact colours I’m happy to r…[Read more]

If I were to write a WW2 skirmish rule set for tabletop miniature gaming were one figure is equal to one soldier and one vehicle model is one half-track, should the SdKfz 251/9 Stummel be given a transport ability to carry…[Read more]

New players sometimes forget the additional +1 to cover saves. Provided it is not advancing or running (from an order die).

Firstly, snipers have their own order die that they don’t have to share with another unit.

Secondly, a sniper’s main action requires a Fire order while a spotter’s main action is entirely passive not drawing attention to themselves.

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