Nat

please dont take this the wrong way…. but you are falling in to a common pit-fall… (took me a couple of years, and playing around with house rules /interpretations for VaS to realise it )

Bolt Action is not a historical simulation game but a beer & pretzel game based on the Hollywood vision of ww2.  What this means is that some things make…[Read more]

nope… spotters are their own unit with the following exceptions

they dont generate a order die – they have to BORROW the weapon teams order die to act… this is why they are removed when the weapon team is..
they always count has being down, unless they have the borrowed order die next to them
the weapon team with which they are purchased can…[Read more]

As far as I can tell, the cost of a M/C + sidecar is covered in the cost of upgrading to motorbikes

IE you can put 10 guys on 5 motorbikes or 5 with 5 sidecars or 10 motorbikes… its all the same cost.

So … when you form square you are limited to 1 dice of shooting per face as a standard rule
first fire – the first time this unit fires it adds one extra die.  If it can split fire, either by being in a building or in a square then it adds that 1 dice to 1 of those attacks

So even if the British player doesnt want to use 2 dice from a square…[Read more]

vets get pinned when hit by small arms out side of vehicles… pinning also means troops keeping their head down which your’d do even in a half track…. I see no reason why the experiance of troops should alter if they get pins

tweak #1 – by soft targets you mean softskins, infantry & artillery?
tweak #2 – hmm…. would that count as a different ammo type for when going in to ambush?  or is it mandatory?

LMGs – as you say… appear a lot… so wouldnt touch at this time

Vehicle MGs – is this a blanket all none pintel LMGs, MMGs & HMGs apply an extra -1 mod on all…[Read more]

… hmm…. keep the automatic pins for any transported unit, but the vehicles themselves give them a roll to immediately rally (shrug off) the pin.  vets 3+, regular 4+, inexperienced 5+

This keeps it roughly the same but you wont see all the transports suddenly become vets to protect the guys inside…..

Not for infantry… to be honest I thought they were the company insignia for the turn backs on the tunics…. <shrugs>

As the rules say – being dug in gives no intrinsic benefit to assaults,  what you are talking about with sandbag walls is all ready covered by the core rules of obstacles soft /hard cover.

There is nothing stopping you putting the initial foxholes immediately behind a brick wall (hard cover obstacle).

1st question is – which campaign book are you reading?

However my read of the Dig In rules from ‘Duel in the Sun’:

Where Scenarios allow it units can begin a game Dug in.  Units deploy as normal but must be marked as locations can be re-occupied by other units later in game.

Use – Units count as being DOWN when shot at unless they have an AD…[Read more]

You have a truck + 3 teams = 4 dice in the bag for units waiting to be deployed.

When you pull a die to deploy you can choose what unit to deploy – until this point the unit is NOT in the truck, it is separate deployment… So yes, you can deploy a team into the truck when the truck is still waiting to be deployed….

You may see that you dont…[Read more]

Transport units are a unit and therefore ALL the normal deployment rules apply.

– So yes they can be deployed either on the table or in Reserve as you see fit.
-They provide an order die… the only die NOT placed in the bag for deploying are those that have forward deployment so they must be placed in the bag….

when you say they cant do…[Read more]

well….. this is where BA fall apart… its NOT a tight competitive system, but rather a framework (why multiple campaign books played against each other can break the system)…

So basically theres two approaches… one is its a friendly game, and if thats historical & you pay the points then use it!  (this is what I would go with)
the other…[Read more]

eg Rheinbund are moral 5 with rifle mixed in the unit entries

the Westphilian Cuirassiers lose 1 H2H & the Guard du Corp 2 H2H between the unit entries and the stat charts.

Theres all sorts of miss-prints in that book between the army entries and the stat -charts at the end of the book… missing rules, missing /incorrect stats etc etc

The book is AT BEST a frame work starting point for you & your mates to work off…..

However historically Bavarian Cheveaux Leger were equipped the same as most other french…[Read more]

I like the house rule of … if down then they’re not in the way as they are on the ground trying not to be hit
If they are in the way (model height + 1″ as per normal) and the roll to hit fails by 1 (ie soft cover mod) then that counts as a hit against the unit in the way :p

@lawrence well you’ve got a couple of issues…

1 – game balance, LMGs went up to RoF 4 in v2 because they werent in use
2 – time frame – the RoF is not actual but game balance slant on effectiveness
3- Role – just because something isnt a X weapon in the view of modern eyes doesnt mean it wasnt used in that role… examples would be the MG43 or…[Read more]

Its still in beta, but aside from the fact that ALL types of soviet comissars disapeared last update is pretty much there.

Actually …. scrub that… cant use it today – no abilty to select a nation to create a list!

The answer to that is very nebulus…

Its down to the TO…thats the bottom line of Tournaments.

Its their choice to what books they allow… they can over-ride the FAQ, and often do limiting armies to units from X books… Some will make allowances for a specifc army ie theirs a tournament near me that will only allow armies of books, but allow…[Read more]

Guts & Glory is the BP Epic …

its two small (single re-enforced brigade) sides… OR 1 moderate force