Stuart Harrison

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.

Apps are ‘tools not rules’ – they can contain errors.

What vehicle had you selected for your command vehicle?

I can’t test on the app as I don’t subscribe to it, but there is nothing in the command vehicle rule or the armoured platoon selector that prevents command vehicles also being in the second mandatory vehicle slot or the optional vehicle…[Read more]

“But you cannot buy a command vehicle if it isn’t the platoon commander.” Where is the rule saying this?  Or the rule you’re taking as suggesting it?

@ Nat – “As a comander they CAN give their +1 morale to infantry… (there’s nothing stating that they are limited to giving morale to vehicles so therefore the default rules of morale being applied to all friendly units in range should work”

Second sentence of the command vehicle rule, p149.  ‘The command vehicle adds a morale bonus of +1 to itse…[Read more]

“… and once its destroyed it can be run over by the attacking infantry” – This is incorrect as wrecks are impassable terrain, Damage results chart, Knocked out result, third sentence – “Either way, vehicle wrecks count as impassable terrain.”  It does lose the 1″ exclusion zone as it’s now not a unit.

Breakthrough doesn’t allow reserves.
Fog of War requires half of your force (rounded up) to be placed in reserve.

That is the conflict between the two.  The other two deployment types allow reserves, Fog of War requires it.

Default is a 360 degree arc.  Fixed limits the arc for some infantry and most artillery weapons.  Vehicles weapon arcs are specified on the weapons line of their entries.

The maximum/minimum is applied after ALL modifiers, not between the positives and the negatives.  “Regardless of how many pin markers it has, or how many bonuses or penalties apply, a unit cannot have a morale value of more than 11, or less than 2.” (p71, Orders, Order Tests, last para before the ‘At Full Strength’ sub heading, and repeated p73,…[Read more]

1.  Does it have a transport capacity?  Is it taken in a transport slot?  If yes to both, it’s a transport and suffers the transport’s draw backs.

4.  The only platoon that requires transports for it’s infantry units is the Recce Infantry Platoon.  The rest are optional 0-1 transport per unit, or in the case of the armoured platoon, no units to b…[Read more]

“All these transport vehicles MUST have the Recce special rule, or must be given the Recce special rule at +10 points per vehicle, even if their entry does not normally allow this option.”

No wriggle room, but that last bit covers your 251/1.

“Weapons cannot be fired indirectly by a unit that was in Ambush that turn – indirect fire takes time”.  Nothing stops you putting your mortar in ambush, but you can’t do anything with it FROM ambush (except go Down if shot at).

At the end of the option to take additional men is “…alternatively, a Captain or Major may be mounted on a horse for +5 pts, getting the cavalry special rule (see p89).”

You can do one or the other, not both, so if he’s taken additional men, no horse.  If he takes the horse, no additional men.

Most likely an intended cross reference to the only other related morale bonus, that from a nearby friendly officer.

The fact you complete the orders in sequence (any sequence you like) not simultaneously.  You still have to see what one unit achieves before the other can start it’s assault.

There are no exceptions to the ‘natural 1 is a fail’.

You need a successful roll to damage to destroy a soft skin or open-topped armoured vehicle in close quarters, all the automatic bit does is skip the damage results charts once you’ve achieved that successful roll to damage.

“On p. 122, it is explained that the player who successfully rolls to hit and damage can choose which model to remove.”

That is not what it says.

It says “If the sniper successfully rolls to hit and damage, the firing player can pick the squad leader in the target unit as the casualty,”  next sentence extends that to leaders of other infantry…[Read more]