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Yeah it was one of the changes to the red army after the winter war with Finland in 39/40 (the formation of SMG equipped companies…. cant remember if they were their own battalions or just a company within the normal battalion structure… its also where the first tank rider units came from.. but thats another topic :p)

The soviet book does…[Read more]

Yes Al, thanks , some very useful pointers there.

I should have added a diagram to better illustrate the situation.

[Persian Cav]                          [Macedonians]

[Persian Infantry] [Persian Infantry] [Persian Infantry]

So the Macedonians and Persian Infantry are all already engaged. 2 Persian Inf are in support

Next turn the Pers…[Read more]

Now to be fair they wheren’t supposed to have kept the bearskins….just like the Voltiguers shouldnt have kept their swords or the 2nd, 3rd etc battalions their egales….

oops….

:p

If you go to the facebook group – ‘Blood Red Skies Ready Room’ and look in the files section there is a FAQ file (latest is March this year) by Andy Chambers (the Author of the game)…

however the errata section (so points change on the P51, the Yak1 & something else) has gone missing … again! but there is a file from about a year ago with…[Read more]

Hi Craig,

Thanks for considering me as a candidate but I’m not sure I’m the right person for this.

I’d like to provide some help here but the moderator thing as I understand it seems quite serious and may be a bit over the kind of involvement I can handle.

If you think I can be of any help and elaborate a bit what you expect from me, I’ll give…[Read more]

Those Corsairs should have been done a long time ago.

soviets are easier because even in 1941 they have whole units armed with SMGs… its just that if you wanted to make 3 units of rifle armed guys from a box you cant….(oh dear what I shame out of 2 boxes of guys I now have 2 units of SMG guys)

But yeah..with Bolt Action take the rules as a starting point and common ground for playing people..…[Read more]

Thanks for the answers 🙂

As i only play personal for fun and have no ambition to play at tournaments i think i can do it whatever i want 🙂

But you frightened me a bit. I have not controlled if the weapons for soviets are enough 😉 But i will build them soon….

1.  You can use the emplacements as terrain peices or as basing materials… which ever takes your fancy.. there is no right or wrong answer

2. Yeah you dont always get enough of the weapons you want in the boxs… for example the Soviet Infantry box doesnt give enough rifles… so if you can either use them then count as normal rifles when…[Read more]

Poorly written rules, many repetitions, conflicting rules 🤷‍♂️

To avoid disputes, I would follow a rough reading of the rules. So the Russians follow their “Demolition Charges” rule and the Americans their “explosives” rule:
Americans can put explosives on obstacles and buildings.
Having said that by agreeing between players, the rules can be…[Read more]

I agree with Masterchief.

N.1 damage roll per model.
Tough fighters or weapons with a special “assault” rule that succeeded on the damage roll, reroll a second time.

Jaesen

If you’re talking about moving for purpose of making indirect fire ranging reset, I’d say that a hull/chassis pivot in place would not count, nor would simply turning a turret.  The key term being “in place”.

I just add how the movement must be done to reset the indirect shot adjustment. From rulenook “…to count as ‘moved’,…[Read more]

Bolt Action 2nd Edition page 79:

The attackers make one assault attack per man (keep in mind that some weapons and special rules confer additional attacks). As there is no taking cover from a grenade blast, bayonet thrust or point-blank shot, all close quarter attacks against other infantry or artillery crews hit automatically. Roll to inflict…[Read more]

Stalingrad book Page 133:

DEMOLITION CHARGES
New option for Pioneer and Assault Engineer Units.
New Options – One man may be equipped with Demolition Charges in addition to his other weapons at a cost of +5 pts

Special Rules
– Demolition Charges: Once per game, an engineer unit may use a Down order to place a demolition
charge token at any…[Read more]

Make it that you take damage if you leave..the same as if you are becalmed or drop 2 sails levels.

another alternative is to allow the following ship(s) to target the one that has left the table…measuring to the exit point.  The ship that left can’t fire back as all the crew are attempting to tack the ship round

I’m guessing December for release of the rulebook going off the release date of the convoy pack