George

It’s a classic tabletop  problem. You see everything so recce is not really necessary.

The Kradschützen had been recce units, most serving with the Panzer units.  Moving as fast but also able to dismount infantry for supporting the tanks.  The problem was the bad ratio of sidecar bikes between driver and infantry dismounting, 1 to 2. So most uni…[Read more]

The beta rules are for mongooses v2 of the game… some of the rules have been changed… so float planes might not actually appear as while they are in the beta they are also included in the aircraft X trait…. but no observation planes are in the QSR.

So i’d hold off until end of Jan when the rule book is released before trying to alter…[Read more]

Well, not everything is possible. The Webbing Pattern 37 web Equipment has some parts that fit only to special others.

That link brings you to a page with the regulations.

http://www.karkeeweb.com/patterns/1937/1937_manuals.html

But the basic is cast on the miniature anyway. Belts and amo pouches are there.

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Officers rarely wore the…[Read more]

in a field situation there is no such thing as equipment in the wrong place… the ammo pouch is where the hand goes, same with bayonet fob…. but its how the individual wants to carry it (we used to be able to tell whos belt kit was whos by that).

also you are looking at everyone carrying kit for squad weapons … ie whilst the gunner and…[Read more]

BP2 specifies that an artillery battery should be the same width as a small infantry unit.

For weight reasons Napoleonic land based field guns had been made Brom bronze.   Some older iron guns got used , in, 1812 a few old iron field guns got used in Prussia  with rear units.    Fortress guns are often iron, the weight being not important. In general an iron gun of same calibre was cheaper but heavier.

Navy guns are mostly iron too, n…[Read more]

I use 60mm wide bases.

I’m with you on avoiding command levels lower than 7 but those with such low command levels need to get off their backsides and move closer to the troops they are giving orders to!

I wouldnt use a staff rating of lower than 7 outside of the personality traits table because 7 is the average roll of 2D6.  Which when you start using rules like unreliable or units over 12″ from commander you then end up not having any control over the unit and it does nothing more often than not.  So whilst it may be historically accurate game w…[Read more]

As I said before, look at the section on Commanders in the BP2 rulebook. There is a small table there that you can roll against that gives your Commanders traits. These may be positive or negative and each has an instruction on how he will act.

Nice one, Nat. I was just about to look it up as I’ve just got back home from work.

From the Napoleonic supplements:The default is 0 points for a Staff rating of 7, 25 for 8 and 75 points for staff rating 9.

staff rating 10 is reserved for special characters,  some nations have lower costs such as the Russians pay 20 points for SR 8 (to a max of 50% commanders) and can’t have 9, then the old guard list pay 35 for SR8 &  f…

@stevet – as I said earlier massive damage still applies

I’m not aware of how the points work for Commanders. I don’t use points, so don’t know. I can take a look in the supplements later to see how they’ve handled them. Maybe the Hail Caesar army lists will give a clue as there are quite a few pointed armies in those.

So… from one HE strike each soft-skin take only 1  hit  (and 1 roll maximum on the damage table)? I assume so otherwise this will be a massacre :p

yeah that rule is there…cant give a page number as my PC has messed the pages of my digital copy up!… but in the basic shooting rules ‘Roll to Damage’ section it says is says “Regardless of any modifiers
that apply, a roll of a 1 is always a failure”

@danny G Delong:

1) Soviet army Machine gun Artillery platoons… basically think instead of infantry squads you’d have 2 or 3 MMG teams…. its not something you can currently take in the game, unlike say soviet AT gun platoons

2) Artillery can only take exceptional damge from heavy weapons.. sniper rifles are in the small arms catergory.

I have done this using Warlord’s volley light together with a model railway speaker. There is a video on my you tube channel; https://youtu.be/iaRBPhSC9Ug

Regards

Garry