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Dr Dave replied to the topic Line ahead, formations and orders – am I missing something? in the forum Victory At Sea 9 hours, 51 minutes ago
Thanks Nat, but – and don’t tell Warlord this – but I’m using 1/6000 scale ships. So the ranges and model size discrepancy is much less apparent.
so where is the section on smoke?
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Dr Dave replied to the topic Line ahead, formations and orders – am I missing something? in the forum Victory At Sea 18 hours, 58 minutes ago
Ha! Found it!
Page 59: “Squadrons”
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Dr Dave started the topic Line ahead, formations and orders – am I missing something? in the forum Victory At Sea 19 hours, 14 minutes ago
I bought the VaS rule book months ago and gave it a read through. I made notes and wrote a 2-page summary of the sections relevant to what I wanted to do. So on Saturday HMS Exeter sighted smoke bearing red 100, and then made the signal “I think it is a pocket battleship”, followed soon after by “enemy in sight”. So two of us played out the River…[Read more]
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Dr Dave replied to the topic Waterloo French Cavalry brigade – composition in the forum Black Powder 1 month, 2 weeks ago
I’d assume that the rules as written are trying to allow players to field variety over totally authentic lists? In reality the II Reserve cavalry Corps was composed entirely of Dragoon regiments (8 of them). Similarly the IV RCC was all Cuirassier.
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Dr Dave replied to the topic Can Charging Units Fire? in the forum Pike & Shotte 3 months, 2 weeks ago
It’s worth remembering that professionals call it “fire and movement” for a reason, not movement and fire!
It’s always struck me as odd that you advance against a prepared foe and you have the drop on him in the firefight. So as you plodded across the field to get within range what on earth was he doing?
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Dr Dave replied to the topic Epic ACW question about Cavalry and dismounted cavalry in the forum Black Powder 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Mick,
The point is that often a brigade would put an entire regiment up front in skirmish order. This way – if you use the mixed order as well of line plus skirmishers – you could really swamp someone with skirmish shooting, perhaps someone who was reluctant to (or couldn’t) use it – such as defending a fort, buildings, line of cover…[Read more]
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Dr Dave replied to the topic Epic ACW question about Cavalry and dismounted cavalry in the forum Black Powder 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Garry, you’re right to a point. But the aim was really that standard represents 300. The average strength of a confederate regt at Gettysburg say.
Cavalry dismount as skirmishers because that’s what they did. I’ve never read pf them being formed in ranks and files when fighting on foot.
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Dr Dave replied to the topic Epic ACW question about Cavalry and dismounted cavalry in the forum Black Powder 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Sorry to be the “wet blanket” here but the intention in “Glory Hallelujah!” was that a standard cavalry unit dismounts as a standard unit of skirmishers. It was that way for two reasons:
1) keep it simple
2) if units drop by one size when dismounted then it means that for a small unit 1/2 hold horses when it would become a tiny unit – obviously…[Read more]
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Dr Dave replied to the topic ACW Glory, Hallelujah – charge rules in the forum Black Powder 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Hi there Tom – I’m glad that you like it.
1) As per the normal rules troops in buildings would not count as formed. I take this t be because in a cluster of buildings the attacker would be able to tell precisely which buildings were occupied and which ones were not. So we play that just like normal.
2) Yes – that was the intention. The modifiers…[Read more]
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Dr Dave replied to the topic Can Charging Units Fire? in the forum Pike & Shotte 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Dave is assuming a miscalculation when it could simply be that whist the brigade commander ordered a charge, the unit command thought it wiser to advance and fire. I’d always allow them to fire. The idea of a unit doing nothing is just… well…. plain silly.
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Dr Dave started the topic Mamelukes? in the forum Black Powder 4 months, 2 weeks ago
I’m pondering getting the Chasseurs a cheval of the Garde in 25/28mm
Does anyone make Mamelukes that might fit with Warlord figures?
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Dr Dave replied to the topic Large unit stats in the forum Black Powder 6 months, 4 weeks ago
Why not count uber large units as two standard units in extreme cases. 1000+ might be in this realm of an average French bttn (at Waterloo) is 600.
…and while I’m here don’t forget that most cuirassier regts at Waterloo are small units!
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Dr Dave replied to the topic British Commandos – no Bren? in the forum Bolt Action 6 months, 4 weeks ago
Thanks Jim. Seems like a glaring omission though.
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Dr Dave started the topic British Commandos – no Bren? in the forum Bolt Action 6 months, 4 weeks ago
In the plastic sprue there’s a K-gun, but no Bren… have I missed it somewhere? How do players plan to make a commando troop without Brens?
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Dr Dave replied to the topic Is there a British Commando 2" mortar model? in the forum Bolt Action 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Ha – so there is. Somehow I missed that. Many thanks!
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Dr Dave started the topic Is there a British Commando 2" mortar model? in the forum Bolt Action 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Is there a British Commando 2″ mortar model?
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Dr Dave replied to the topic Bolt action infantry base size in the forum Bolt Action 9 months, 1 week ago
Thanks All. Don’t tell anyone – but I’m not going to use BA. I just wanted to make sure that I wasn’t going to wreck 300 infantry for future BA use.
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Dr Dave started the topic Bolt action infantry base size in the forum Bolt Action 9 months, 1 week ago
So the bases as supplied are 25 mm diameter dics.
I presume that there is nothing to stop me using 20 mm diameter discs?
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Dr Dave replied to the topic Black powder /American Civil war epic battles in the forum Black Powder 1 year ago
Would I be right on assuming that the split stats page 83 ect. 12 pdr smoothbore , 3 ~2~1 means close range 3 dice to hit , medium 2 dice and1 dice long-range – yes, that is correct
Skirmishers …are these impervious to being targeted ? No – they the shooter suffers a penalty of -1 for the target being in skirmish order
Army lists in Glory Hal…[Read more]
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Dr Dave replied to the topic British & Canadian Army Infantry (1943-45) in the forum Bolt Action 1 year ago
How do they compare to the older plastic set? I think that they are better. All of the SMLEs have their bayonets fixed – which is much more authentic.
Do the figures in this new box set look more beefier or slimmer than the original set: they are beefier, slightly but look and feel better for it in 6 basic poses then you added the arms / weapons,…[Read more]
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