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So… are you playing Core Rules or Clash of Eagles Expanded rules? Or the revised Waterloo epic (which is somewhere in the middle… but I dont have a copy so cant comment further on that)
Now irrespective of that…
If charged in the front when your flanks arent secured by either a unit in square, building or table edge if your unit has ‘must form square’ (which 90% of units in Napoleonics do) then your charge reaction must be FORM SQUARE. If your flanks are secure then you can give the charge reaction of CLOSING FIRE! If forming square then you cant fire… its iether or.
Now where the difference in the rules comes in is the test to form square – in the core rules you always form a square unless your roll a double 1 with a double 6 meaning its disordered.
Clash of Eagles makes is a standard order check with failure by 1 making a disordered square, anything worse leaves you in a disordered state of base formation (ie line or coloumn). Now Prussian Square /solid square is that if you are in column then you’ll follow the standard rules (double 1 = disordered base state, double 6 disordered square)Is it a heavy weapon – yes
Does the base Pen change – NO! (The only thing that I’m aware of in the whole game that changes a base pen value is a german MG rule in one of the DDay selectors)
Does the heavy weapon have additional modifiers that apply to the Damage calculation- yesIt even says – Regardless of if the hit can damage it!
So the HMG is ALWAYS a heavy weapon and can ALWAYS pin an inexperianced vehicle.
pg 55, last line 1st (left) column and the first line of the 2nd (center) column, if you conduct traversing fire you cant then conduct closing fire (points 2 & 3)
So yes its once per player turn (or twice per round / game turn)…. the 2nd column on pg 55 makes it clear that is intended.
All the national, unit and theater rules in campaign books have ALWAYS been TO/Opponents permission only… people just dont play it that way- theres also optional rules in the armies of… and main rulebook that people play as standard allowed rules <shrugs>
Tiger Fear is still a mess and should be binned… personally I’d change it to a reserve rolls modifier for western allies vehicles only
Tank riders – TBH its a free rule, and gamers are finding interactions that werent thought of when the v1 books were written…
And yes 46 pages… or about 30ish if you take the unit stat blocks out.. is too long…
Further to Stuarts comment… It goes against the written rule to allow Banzai to assault…. irrespective of the WHY, the rule is clear, NO assaults from a transport. There has to be an EXPLICT rule saying this rule allows these models to assault from a transport to over ride the rulebook and allow it….
Section – Dismounting from a transport (sorry only have a ebook to pdf version so no page number)
[quote]it is not allowed to use this move to make an assault upon an enemy in the same turn, [/quote]Small arms NEVER get damage modifiers against armour (DV7+ vehicles)
Only heavy weapons (ie those with a PEN value of at least +1) get to use those modifiers.
(sorry cant give the page number… but underneath the table of damage values in the vehicle section… just before the modifiers chart)
[quote]
DAMAGE VS ARMOURED TARGETS
Because armoured targets have a damage value of 7+ or greater it is impossible for them to be damaged by small-arms fire. Hits from small-arms fire are ignored, they cannot damage the vehicle and hits do not pin. Note that open-topped armoured targets are an exception to this general rule, as described. When shooting against armoured vehicles with a heavy weapon, the following penetration modifiers apply in addition to the weapon’s own modifier as <snip>
[/quote]Important parts i’ve highlighted in bold
FAQ pg 30
[quote]
New Units
These books occasionally introduce new units without the accompanying text explaining in which selectors they can be used.
As a general guidance in these cases, unless the rules in the unit’s entry say otherwise, new units in these books are limited to use for scenarios and selectors from that book only. Unless of course you get opponent approval, or Tournament Organizers’ approval.[/quote]
So, basically unless the entry says you can use it in a Generic Reinforced Platoon then its down to opponents/ TO approval…so not really a stupid question, but indicative of the mess that BA v2 is becoming – and a large reason (along with the 35page FAQ/Errata) why people are asking for a v3….)
