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  • Garry Wills replied to the topic Break tests in the forum Black Powder 17 hours, 10 minutes ago

    No, if you look at the reasons for taking break tests simply being shaken is excluded. Instead you are obliged to take a break test when you get excess casualties, i.e. those casualties that exceed your stamina level at any point in time. Normally you would do this after the unit has received all the fire it will get during the turn.

  • Nat replied to the topic Inexperienced offices in the forum Bolt Action 3 days ago

    point 1 is where BA was in v1 /v2 of different levels of officers… kinda agree that yes they should be limited

    … point 2 – you dont snap to yourself! so you are actually limited the officer to 1 snap-to .. the same as a command vehicle.

    Snap to works by:
    1 – issue order to the officer
    2- take any order checks that the officer requires
    3 – IF…[Read more]

  • Nat replied to the topic LMG Team in the forum Bolt Action 1 month ago

    to answer to the OPs question … where would you put it?  as a squad (where 3-4 man squads are deemed too small…) as a weapons team – now its in direct comparision to the MMG & LMG teams and to be honest you’re looking at 50 points for a regular team with an LMG (15 points for the LMG, 30 points for 3 crew, 5 points because it doesnt have…[Read more]

  • Nat replied to the topic LMG Team in the forum Bolt Action 1 month ago

    erm… the Bren was an LMG not an automatic rifle…

    also How a weapon is used is part of how a weapon is charcatised…. for example MMGs are just a game distinction, they were either light (squad) or heavy machine guns!

    Next point is … its a game that has more in line with comic books of the 80s & 90s + Hollywood films over historical…[Read more]

  • Nat replied to the topic B25 Strafer in the forum Victory At Sea 1 month, 2 weeks ago

    Sorry not looked at this forum for a few weeks…

    Have we (the wardroom) looked this aircraft – yes
    is it worth it – not really I’m afaid
    reason is that rate of fire isnt really taken into account … at best it would be a flight the same as the other B25s but with MTBs light gun

  • Koin-Koin replied to the topic FAQ in the forum Blood Red Skies 1 month, 3 weeks ago

    From various locations, here comes a set of official FAQ :
    – official WG BRS site (https://www.blood-red-skies.com/) : Latest FAQ is October 2019

    – official WG site (https://www.warlordgames.com/) : Latest FAQ is February 2021

    – official WK communty pages (https://warlord-community.warlordgames.com/wp-content/) : Latest FAQ is February 2022

    -…[Read more]

  • I’d go with that trucks taken out by small arms is a gameplay balancing act (they did roll on damage tables in v2 so the change is either gameplay or writters)

    Or house rule that the porteee / gunshield means you roll on the vehicle damage chart (full damage) instead of auto destroyed?

  • Theres a couple of issues here…
    1 – indirect rule allows the use of spotters.. which isnt really historical
    2 – it wasnt that accurate
    3 – BA isnt the most accurate game – either weapons, tactics or history

    4 – slot / unit compition within an army list – they removed medium mortars from the rifle pltn and let light mortars so that ther was a…[Read more]

  • Disclaimer – Dont have & havent played epic

    However, in standard BP artillery are a single gun in the rules with an optional rule to allow the size to be shown with additional models.. this is normally because only Russians (in Napoleonics) can have large batterys, everyone else normal or half….

    Looking at the stats you’ve shown I’d say that…[Read more]

  • So WLPA is based on the base costs of the ships as they are in the rulebook -0 with the biggest outliers (Alaska, Bismark, Yugumo etc) having the base cost guestimated into line.  Its a backward working of the points value then a review of the refit costs so they make sense.

    SHIPS is a ground up total recalculation – the guy who wrote it has…[Read more]

  • Nat replied to the topic Disorderly Retreats in the forum Black Powder 4 months, 2 weeks ago

    Aye, iniative orders are
    within 12″ of enemy
    before brigade commanders order
    1 move

  • So, looks like you are using WLPS (WarLord Points System – the rulebook points) …. this isnt that great espically with regards to the refit costs!  As a general rule of thumb I suggest only using WLPS for learning the game or quickly putting a last minuete game together at a club… A good indercation is how type93s can be either 5 or 10 points…[Read more]

  • Nat replied to the topic DoW Light Cavalry in the forum Black Powder 4 months, 2 weeks ago

    So a quick check in “master of the World” ESR campaign guide for the 1812 invasion of Russian [ I do love the colour plates they’ve put in for all the units involved (ok standard french line & light have indications rather that 100% of them) ]….And yes the DoW did wear French uniforms… the DoW ARE NOT the same as the Vistula Legion – they were…[Read more]

  • Black Powder?  BP Epic?

    might be best asking this question in the game specific channel as you’ll get a quicker response (most people dont look at this part of the forum)

  • Nat replied to the topic Chinese Army List in the forum Bolt Action 5 months ago

    2027 …if luck!

  • Nat replied to the topic Armies of Great Britain V3 in the forum Bolt Action 5 months ago

    The problems is that you are talking about ‘acquired’ ie NOT issued..  its not recorded how many units acquired stuff because.. its wasnt official, or uniform – & lets be honest as per the other issues people have noticed not surprising that its not there..

    motor battalion rifle section:
    8 men, NCO + transports driver had SMGs, 1 Bren & 5 rifles…[Read more]

  • 1 & 2 – yes …. standard British Army Sections only had one….. none standard units (paras, commando etc) did have multiple issued…

    3 – ok… that makes me laugh /cry …

     

  • All of a squads weapons MUST target the same enemy unit.

    UNLESS the weapon has indirect or limited ammo – in which case it may target a seperate enemy units.

    PINs – you pick the weapon (singular) with the highest potental number of pins and apply thoses pins.

    Limited ammo weapons – you select if it was going to fire before checking ranges, if…[Read more]

  • Hi, I just made a YouTube video explaining how mixed formations work. I have seen a lot of videos on how to play Black Powder but there is no video on how to form a mixed formation. So, I made one. Hope you watch and tell me how you like it.

     

    https://youtu.be/AUf2-6bw1Cg

  • So I’m taking that this is Epic and not 28mm…

    During the AWI / American Rev.  The British army tended to pull their Grenadier Companies out of the battalions and form pure (combined) grenadier battalions (same as they did with the light companies).

    So I’d go with padding to make the grenadiers a full 2 bases.

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