George

They dont lower the shooting dice in skirmish order as the whole unit skirmishes.  Its only mixed formations that drop shooting down to 1.

Legere units can be ordered in to Line, mixed line, assault coloumn, mixed assault coloumn, square, coloumn of companies (Clash of Eagles), Marching Coloumn or Skirmish formation.

You pay 3 points to add the…[Read more]

Yes, remember that Clash of Eagles was written and published well before the second edition of the Black Powder rulebook. So, the references to the main rulebook are the first edition rulebook.

Generally, the supplements are compatible with BP2 but not 100% compatible, like the example you have asked about.

Intresting conundrum here…. I suppose because I’ve only played the game against beer & preztel gamers or historical gamers we’ve always tried lone wolf or pairs … we’ve also not played at about 600 points .. so 4 -5 planes with a mix of pilot skills

Now I’d think about dropping the points but not the board size… also play around with what…[Read more]

My base of choice is high enough to give a good grip option. Not making the guys touch the miniature.  Much less breaking or bending.

It is also easier to paint with such a handle.      Clear plastic is no option for me. It is not invisible. And my big guns are far too heavy, my 21 cm mortar would break clear plastic.

My material is cheap…[Read more]

Hmm, that RM project looks like a peasant’s cart, not  a military one.

Why are peoples not using the superb Warlord one?

New stuff? I would be much more happy with a field kitchen or the German amo  cart.

I use the Warlord round ones for all team weapons as so far they all fit.

For all artillery I use a consistent size as I like conformity in the game —6cm x 12cm MDF—  either bought as such or cut myself from long pieces from the art shop, works out very inexpensive indeed. The material seems to adhere well to metal (and all artillery I have is m…[Read more]

Yeah it was a confusion over team weapon crew losses vs artillery crew losses.  Wonder why they decided to treat them differently…

Cheers

@james – can you start a new thread for us to discuss this in so we don’t take this rules one of topic?

Aircraft have a minimum move  so he’ll get one shot at it before  you past through..

You can’t outmanoeuvre people in clouds so run a swarm of PS2 guys and hide in clouds until he splits up his formation or you’ve got on the tail of the end of his column ..tail and shoot down his ..in a squadron of 5 you only need to shoot down 2 to break him

@Jim… you have to be careful with the glue from what I hear as its very easy to make the clear plastic bases go cloudy – I”ve not used them or seen them in the flesh myself this is just feedback I’ve seen over the years on vairious forums.

I thought this would have a simple answer, until I checked the rulebook,  shooting section, taking damage:

“If the target is a weapons team, for example a bazooka or medium machine gun team, then exceptional damage indicates that the weapon itself has been damaged or rendered inoperable in some fashion, so remove the weapon and its firer…[Read more]

To be honest there is no point to giving the NCO a pistol…the game idea of the pistols is to give assault rule to the guys without it so the whole unit (less 1 guy) gets tough fighter in combat….

The actual TOE I suspect is that the BAR gunners carried the pistol as a secondary weapon…

Sorry for the late reply, Angel. On FB I just use my name Alex Elstone

Remarkable answers on such a specific question, thank you!

Ok, reading the entry in question (us armies book pg 26).  It makes the distinction of NCO & Men in the composition line and in the options section .  For example it says NCO & up to 2 men can have SMGs, and upto 3 men can have BARs.

So the NCO can take a SMG but no other option,  the men part can change their rifle for either an SMG, shotgun or…[Read more]

RAW hat on….

If the unit is made up of 1 NCO & 5 men, the BAR entry excludes the NCO as he is not part of the men entry as defined in the unit compastion line.  However if you look at the Armies of the Soviet Union the upgrade options are normally written any soldier which is not defined so could be either the NCO or one of the men.  However t…[Read more]

Officers and NCO should lead, not kill 😉

Hmm, “to use it to carry a mortar/MMG Team” sounds like you intent to use it as troop transport like a lorry. It was None. The Heeresfeldwagen carried some amo and the  baggage.  Sometimes some footsore Or hitched a ride but and it was not allowed to travel on it if the feet are OK.

It was no vehicle that would be seen in first line. Just in r…[Read more]

Depends if you think the bunker could take a 122mm howitzer shell (heavy howitzer as found on the soviet SU152 – biggest gun in a BA army)… IF you think the bunker can withstand it then take it as a bunker if not then a building…

or you can take it as a heavier constructed building and say it needs an extra 1 or 2 hits to destroy