Stuart Harrison

“Couldn’t help to notice that in your pasted screenshot, the tank is worth 20 extra points!”

Compare the weapons – Battleground Europe version has a medium AT, AoG has a light AT.  Light AT is consistent with the Char B1 entry in AoFatA.

Looks like a cut and paste error by the author of AoG – using the version of the rule from AoIJ instead of AoFatA.

Master Chief is correct by the base rules.  There is an optional rule on p217, Transport Units, that you might like to read and discuss with your opponent once you have access to your MRB again – it allows you to field multiple transports as a single unit with a combined transport capacity, but is not in play by default.

Yes, the turret can rotate exactly as if the tank received a fire ( or advance) order by any other means.

It’s the general rule that it can and nothing is stated to change it for reaction fire.

Reaction fire requires a unit not to have an order – there is no special provision for tanks to react if they already have an order.

If a unit has an ambush order it can initiate the ambush during the assault move, but that is entirely separate from reaction fire.

“The Axis Support unit is not limited to tanks, correct?  So if the Axis Support slot on easyarmy only shows a certain selection of German tanks, if I wanted to take an armored car or sp artillery, that’s legal?”

Correct.   Axis support is ‘… one extra unit…’, no suggestion that it can only be a tank, just that it can’t be a vehicle with dama…[Read more]

I would say no, except as a house rule agreed with your opponent.

Options available to the NCO specifically mention the NCO, otherwise there is no point mentioning him in any of the “NCO + up to ‘x’ men may…” options, you could just write ‘x+1’ instead (ie: ‘up to 4 men’ rather than ‘NCO + up to 3 men’).

“im pretty sure German supplied armour still benefits from the German special abilities, in this case the higher rate of fire for the vehicle machine guns.”

I would say it does for the Axis Support unit, not for the Hungarian slot unless specifically stated otherwise – national rules don’t carry over with equipment, just as Soviets and British…[Read more]

You have one Hungarian tank from the tank slot in your selector, plus you have national rule, ‘Axis Support’, which allows you a German or Italian unit which can also be a tank (the only damage value 10+ or 11+ optional allowed is the Tiger 1).

Master Chief is correct.  A penalty to morale does not equal a reduction in experience level – it doesn’t matter whether that penalty is loss of the NCO, a pin, or any other penalty, the unit is still the same experience level it would be without the penalty.

Empire in Flames threatre book has a Native Irregulars squad available to a number of armies, armament is rifles with an SMG option for the NCO rather than native weapons.

If deciding between firing HE or AP (weapons with both options have a number in the pen column and a HE value in the special rules column) keep in mind that a natural one will always fail a to hit or to damage roll.

This means you only need +1 pen to get the maximum “to damage” vs inexperienced infantry, +2 pen vs regular, and +3 vs veterans. …[Read more]

“These boats were designed to be carried from river to river on special carriages on armoured trains! Now there is a scenario!”

As I read it, that’s not a statement that a scenario has already been written.  It’s a bit of historical trivia followed by a statement/suggestion/idea that the preceding sentence would be a good basis for a scenario -…[Read more]

The long range penetration penalty is part of the additional penetration modifiers on p106/107.

First sentence of the paragraph introducing them (p106, Vehicles, Shooting at vehicles, Damage vs Armoured Targets, second para) – “When shooting against armoured vehicles with a heavy weapon, the following penetration modifiers apply.”  If it’s not…[Read more]

Correct assuming no other modifiers in effect- FT ignores cover and down but any other modifiers (small unit, inexperienced firer, pins etc) may be in play.

Dug in is -2 in second edition, so doubling it is -4.  Looks like the Western Desert author cut and paste from one of the theatre books drafted under first edition and missed the discrepancy.

“For the sake of simplicity, we’ll assume that most buildings are large enough for a single unit to occupy each floor. ”

In fairness to Warlord, it does say “a single unit”, not “at least a single unit” (or words to that effect) or followed by a maximum capacity in units or figures.

As soon as you start allowing multiple units per fl…[Read more]

p70, Weapons, Weapon Special Rules, HE (High Explosive), Multiple Hits.  The first sentence starts “Some units or weapons are capable of firing a number of shots simultaneously…”.  The rules that follow are applicable to any unit that fires multiple HE shots in a turn – it doesn’t matter whether it’s a single weapon within that unit firing m…[Read more]

1. No.  Nothing stops house rules if you negotiate it with your opponent but if nothing in the entry allows you to add more men – by the rules, no more men.

2.  The weapons line applies to all models in a unit entry unless specifically stated otherwise.  Nothing different is stated for the NCO so he is armed as per the rest of the unit.

The Command Post did exist when Tank War was published in 2014, unfortunately we lost that version of the Forum in about 2018.  It hasn’t been replaced in the current Forum.