Stuart Harrison

“First obvious one, German halftracks with the rear-mg option taken would lose transport capacity, but are portrayed in the rulebook as transporting. Is the error here just with the pictures and expectation? Well, probably no because…”

You’ve misread the rule (at least in part due to an editing cock-up between editions replacing a comma with a f…[Read more]

According to AoUS (p78), the reconnaissance jeep doesn’t have an upgrade option, just the MMG.  The airborne armoured jeep comes with HMG as standard.

Same effect as last time, just this time the author forgot to change the wording for the reason when cutting and pasting from the M3 Stuart entry.  AoUS first edition wording for the M24 ‘Vulnerable’ rule was “Vulnerable: because of it’s light armour, all shots to the side and rear of the vehicle get an additional +1 penetration modifier (ie, in…[Read more]

@Wolfy,

Looks to be a supplement author goof mentioning Ambush when it’s not applicable.

The same rule in AoUS (Sherman Calliope, p63, and USMC International M2-4 Rocket Truck, p75) has deleted the bit in brackets, and with it any mention of Ambush.

I’m pretty sure you can’t see it because there isn’t such a rule, and hasn’t been in either of the two previous editions to the best of my memory.  Next time someone tells you there is, place the onus on them to show you the rule (and please do come back to share if he can show you one).

They may be getting confused with the Demolition mission,…[Read more]

AoG, p85,  It’s in the Armoured Cars part of the army list with the 250/10.  Making the 250/11 requires taking one of the options, so you might only see the 250/10 in the app.

@L.T. Russel – AoUS third edition pre-orders have already reached quite a few people.  The 57mm and 75mm RCLs are one entry and other than lacking the gun shield option, are the same as a light howitzer – missed opportunity to make them an infantry team.

@Michael – also note your reference image for the FG42 doesn’t suggest the effective range is only 300m, it states that they weren’t able to get meaningful results beyond that range due to conditions on the day, then goes on to say ‘… although analysis of the following indicates that no critical deviations are anticipated at longer ranges.

If…[Read more]

@Peter, it wasn’t in the Armies of… book.  It’s a campaign book unit, Road to Berlin, p110.

“It would have been easy enough to just put fixed in each artillery unit listing.” – It would have been even easier to simply NOT remove it between second and third editions.  Maybe they were worried about line count adding up for all those artillery entries…?

“I’m just noticing that V3 and the new V3 German list no longer give AT, AA, or HE guns the fixed rule. ”

See the Weapons Chart, MRB p92 and repeated p314.  All those weapons have fixed in their entries on the chart.  I can’t explain why Warlord felt the need to delete the fixed rule from the individual unit entries and rely on a re-wording of…[Read more]

Here we go – centre and right are from the BEF command box.

Right hand model appears to be the officer from the BEF set:

The one on the left appears to be the mortar commander from this pack:

No.  You can only shoot at the moving unit that triggers the ambush.

Heer Grenadier Squad – 1x LMG (AoG p29)
Heer Veteran Grenadier Squad – 2x LMG (AoG p29)
Panzergrenadier Squad – 2x LMG (AoG p31)

The medic rule is only from the medic model itself, not any attendants – “If the medic’s own unit, or any friendly infantry or artillery unit that has a model within 6″ of the medic model itself, suffers damage from small arms fire…”.

I’m not seeing any option for German officers to be mounted at all.  The provision for mounting officers in the second edition was dependent on having cavalry squads in your force – a limber is not a squad.

I’d put that down to a probable anomoly where they haven’t yet considered the rule interaction between a ‘weapon’ which is fired normally, with it’s own ‘to hit’ mechanics,  then runs under the target to detonate (why no pen modifiers appy) and the newly introduced cover save, which would apply to ‘fired as normal’, unless stated…[Read more]

As written, it’s more like a fur-coated panzerfaust than a suicide AT.  It is a one shot weapon that is ‘fired as normal’ except that it has it’s own ‘to hit’ process using the chart instead of modifiers.