Similarly 5 guys with SMGs spraying fire at an enemy unit.  If there happens to be an intervening unit,  not a single bullet will go anywhere near.

Otherwise units must have a special rule that allows  advanced deployment – Russian Scouts for example.

Recce has no effect on deployment at all.

Whether you insist they dismount or not, they can probably claim the macguffin in the first turn, (depending on terrain).

And they might be hard to hit with, but they can do a whole heck of a lot of damage.

I think that you should follow those guidelines for the first play as you’ll learn how those card impact a force and its counterpart then go to more self created forces as you’ll know what are strength and weakness of your planes.

Let me clarify, it wasn’t our dirst game of BRS, it was out first game after 18 months of enforced absence.

The sce…[Read more]

We selected our theatre and doctrine cards randomly and my opponent drew Numbers.  Suddenly his force of 4 109s jumped to 6!  Since our forces were pretty much equal on points, things did not look so good for my…[Read more]

So all other modifiers apply: pins, range, movement, small target etc.

I hunted through some playtest documents, but couldn’t find any other rule that made it more explicit.  And my original version is packed in a box somewhere, so I can’t look at that.

Both sides deploy their ships normally, THEN roll for scouting points and possibly redeploy. If both sides were able to redeploy their ships who redeploys 1st?

If you have 7 or more scout points all of your destroyers and cruisers you detached to scout can immediately be deployed on the board can’t they?

I would roll off to see who d…[Read more]

Am I right in assuming that ALL deep deployed carriers can deploy all their aircraft straight away or do you need 10 scouting points?  I am specifically asking about deep deployed carriers.

That is not clear.  The rules for Deep Deployment say you can have ‘any number’ of their planes on the table, but the scouting table implies you need 10 s…[Read more]

Aircraft apply all modifiers except range. Torpedo bombers hit on a 5+ does that mean you add a further +2 because they are firing torpedoes, needing 7+ to hit?

That is not correct. Normal Aircraft apply no modifiers.  Only Kamikaze attacks apply modifiers.

https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/80128-lets-make-soviet-russian-female-battalion-for-bolt-action/

My Googlski is good, da?

If all three hit and penetrated and you rolled an unlucky 1,1,1 for damage results, that’s still 4 pins.

For example the German army selector lists a S…[Read more]

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Late war rifle platoon:

https://www.battleorder.org/ussr-rifle-co-1944

I had to use google translate.

My late war Partizans have a captured Panzer IV.  Using the the rules in the Partisan book it always does really badly (Green plus extra pins), but i…[Read more]

But generally not in specific campaign selectors.  For example if you were playing the Market Garden campaign you would only have Paras.  If you wanted to recreate elements of a specific unit or a specific battle then you wou…[Read more]

Winning combat, moving D6″ and then taking your action is great, if you can pull it off.

Warlord’s minis are nice, but you can buy an entire 1/3000 fleet for the cost of one battleship 🙂

I read that part of the rule to suggest that the morale check takes place after casualties have been suffered and that only one morale check is required.

If the enemy is a dangerous one, approach cautiously with cover.  Don’t park your Opel next to him.

If both players have them, I guess roll off to see who goes first, then alternate.

2.  Normally you cannot leave the table under any circumstances, so a unit moving due to a FUBAR would move to the table edge and no further (or along the table edge to get away from en…[Read more]

I don’t think we ever got confirmation about Kamikaze, but we just played that Evasive cancels the Kamikaze reroll.

It would be good to know how the designers and playtesters have resolved these issues, eh?

I did  some playtesting of the Beta for Mongoose and lot of playtesting for VAS’s predecessor A Call to Arms.    And I suspect admitting that will open myself up for criticism.  But please bear in mind that I got no payment for  playtesting VaS exce…[Read more]

Firstly its not hordes of uniformed guys all in the same colour.

Secondly, it wasn’t straight forward to assemble a large enough army of figures.   They come from at least half a dozen differnet manufacturers as well as ebay and took me several months to acquire.

Thirdly: it includes a whole h…[Read more]

Infantry spaced 1″ between bases generally can possibly need more hits than targets with 1″ HE.  So if I get 4 hits I may actually hit only 3 guys because of the chain requirement. *

AP generates more kills than A…[Read more]

I know Mongoose were planning a 3 book set before this became Warlord’s game.  I haven’t seen the rules in the starter game but I assume Warlord is planning something similar.

A) 1 pin for hitting and destroy the transport, forcing the transported unit to dismount with 1 pin; or

B) 1 pin fit hitting, 2 extra for 2 x crew stunned and destroy the…[Read more]