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On the massive damage question: They both have +4 armour penetration so it seems reasonable to me. Assuming actual damage was scored by busting through the boat’s armour, then the boat can trigger its special.

The heavy howitzer would still apply lots of pins though, on a hit, as it’s not a damage roll.  So in that sense the heavy howitzer is…[Read more]

Hi Tim – I think you are right. Using the example in the P&S rule book, ‘vanilla’ horse would be 41 points, including H-t-H of 8 and pistols. The poor old Northern Horse should therefore be 38 points, as you say, for losing one H-t-H factor (2pts) and their pistols (1pt).

You may already have seen it, but there was a very interesting book on…[Read more]

The Stalingrad book grenade adaptor option is for the German squad, same as the one in my attachment. So it cannot be used for Soviets or other nationalities.

I had attached a screenshot of the rifle grenade rules in one of the earlier posts in this thread. Check it out.

I take a look in errata&FAQ too, and there is no other info on shirkers or routed units.  So as I wrote, I agree with you, by raw reading the pins are to be counted to see if the unit is routed.

On Shirkers special rules says “always count pinned markers as double” so by raw reading seems count as doubled for order test, shotting and morale…[Read more]

* 1 pin = -1 moral penality

Yes, for morale testing purpose

* If morale penality = morale value -> then routed

No, the rule says the unit is routed when number of pin markers equal to the unit’s original morale

* Shirkers 1 pin = -2 morale penality, then 4 pins = -8 morale value penality -> then routed (in fact rulebook says “… looking to des…[Read more]

ORDERS chapter

“PIN MARKERS
Remember that each pin marker on the unit also results in a –1 penalty to its morale value…”

“UNIT SPECIAL RULES” chapter

“SHIRKERS
Not all those herded to the front and handed a rifle are willing participants. Some troops might be
conscripted militia from occupied territories, or they might be criminals or c…[Read more]

Hi Tim, a good spot! I don’t believe there is an errata for TKAK.

In this case I think the error is the standard stat. line should have H-t-H value of 7. This is representing the Northern Horse being a bit sub par at the start of the war, but that some units improved later in the war, so you can upgrade them to the normal 8. (This is similar t…[Read more]

Obviously   Battalions.   French Regiments had 4 front battalions but they rarely fought  together.

Oh yes, hedgehogs. I just form the muskets on the flanks of the pike block. It is difficult to make it look ‘pretty’. As hedgehogs don’t get formed too often in our games, we’ve been able to live with it.

The ECW armies would have formed their pike and muskets up in the same depth, which was probably just 6 ranks deep. The depth of formations had thinned during the experience of the Thirty Years War on the continent. So strictly speaking your pike and musket should be the same depth. However, I actually have my pikes in three ranks of 6 figures.…[Read more]

Thank you very much. I was in fact just facing this decision when I read your message.

I think the way forward for us, due to the lack of a gargantuan table, is to reduce all distances by 30%. Including unit frontages then.

12 men does seem about right then. (6 wide x 2 deep)    (actually 3 bases of 2 x 2 men)

Then I thought what about pikes.  …[Read more]

Bolt Action 2nd Ed rulebook page 42:

WE’RE DOOMED! – ROUTED UNITS
If a unit has as many pin markers as its original morale value, or more, then it is automatically and immediately destroyed – its morale has entirely collapsed and the unit is routed from the field. Thus inexperienced troops are routed once they have 8 pin markers, regular units…[Read more]

Hi Craig,

I’m sorry but I keep posting things that trigger the spam filter.

I made two post in my BRS dedicated thread and the non-https posted pics are not showing.

Cheers

A great looking game, Marco 👍

That is an excellent plan, Sadurian Mike. It does of course take longer to build two forces, but it allows you build the two armies for a particular battle or campaign and have everything for a fun game to put on. My regular gaming group tend to take this approach, often because we are not interested in collecting the same periods at the same…[Read more]

For ECW then most of your foot will be pike and shot. I’m afraid another decision stands before you (part of Pike Shotte’s flexibility). You will need to decide whether to field your foot formations of pike and shot either each as a single unit, or as three separate units, two shot and one pike. (This needs to be the same for both sides in a gam…[Read more]

The best Book is:  Die Anstriche und Taarnanstriche der Kriegsmarine by Dieter Jung and others.  There you find the corresponding German Marine names from the list linked by you and heaps of originally photos.  Captions are in English too.

I met the authours often, they had been the best experts in Germany. Some are dead now, shows how old I…[Read more]