Stuart Harrison

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.

If more than 50% of the unit are outside the cover, you are already covered by the first sentence of Targets Obscured by Terrain or Other Models ((the first sub heading in the text box) – “If at least 50% of the shooters in the firing unit can draw a clear line of fire to at least 50% of the models in the target unit then the target is not in cover.”

If your unit is in an area of terrain that you’ve defined as dense terrain (such as a wood) and you have at least half your models at the edge, you don’t count the cover modifier for that area terrain when shooting out.

If you have less than half of your models at the edge of the terrain you do count the cover modifier for that area terrain when…[Read more]