SteveT

Played our first game today. Was not good at all.  Points system is bizarrely unbalanced, way too many fiddly random modifiers and non-random modifiers. Assaults rules are far too unwieldy.

Wish it had the elegant simplicity of Bolt Action that effectively conquers all these things with less mental processing.

I came, I saw, I said “No”.

From online rules:

Dug in – the vehicle counts as being in Hard Cover to attackers and counts immobilised damage results as crew stunned instead. The vehicle cannot move for the entire game and is therefore always set-up onto the table (up to 12” from the player’s table edge) even in scenarios that do not allow initial set-up of units…[Read more]

Rules say at end of turn, you have a 50% chance, if you wish to try it, of making a group with Ambush take a shot instead.

But in what order is this done?

We had 5 in Ambush and the order would have affected who shot what.

This is questions that arose from an amphibious landing game, but applies to any situation with large transport units I suppose.

I have 2 landing craft each containing say 6 units.

First wave must consist of half my units, reserve wave then forming the other half.

I assume then I can only being 1 landing craft onto the map doing the first wave.…[Read more]

Just checking I’ve got this right…

I can find Landing Craft in a couple of Campaign Books. They have armour 6, except the big mechanised ones that have 7.

Now, it strikes me that the Armour 6 ones are going to take a hammering from any AT guns/tanks, and even a riflemen could destroy it with a single shot. Unless such craft don’t get treated…[Read more]

If exceptional damage is scored whilst rolling within a HE template….. must the casualty be taken from a man within that template?

How about normal hits? Could they be taken from outside the template?

Seems odd if “yes”

The Western Desert shows a painted “Afrika Korps Sd Kfz 233 armoured car”.  Yet I cannot find it on any of the Theatre selectors in the book…

I understand that any two friendly units cannot be closer than 1 inch to each other.

I can see why it was done to avoid confusing piles of figures.  But do any of you ignore this rule, especially for when a commander is running alongside another group?

On a similar note, the already–much-discussed rule of 1 unit per building (floor) seems odd…[Read more]

I have multiple Leaders on the board.

Can I use a Snap to Action on a leader to send an order to another Leader, who in turn activates his own Snap to Action….and so on?

This has probably been asked lots of times but I cannot seem to locate a definite answer for Rules v2.

What if a soft skin  is hit by an AP shell? Just roll once on the vehicle damage table?

What if a soft skin  is hit by an HE shell? Just roll once on the vehicle damage table with the HE pen modifier, or multiple hits needs a 6 to d…[Read more]

Rulebook says 10 damage of HE brings the house down.  (p.125)

But the entry for Goliath in the German armies book specifically reminds us of the rules for a heavy howitzer bringing down a building on 12 damage.

Anyone know why there is a disagreement?

Thanks

Mortar with Spotter.

If I give the spotter some kind of move order, can the mortar move too?

If I give the spotter some kind of move order, can the mortar keep up its indirect fire roll?

Thanks

Bunch of 10 green troops manage to pass a test to assault an enemy tank.

Bunch of 10 veteran grenadiers manage to pass a test to assault an enemy tank.

According to the rules, apart from the fact the vets would be more likely to pass an order test,   both are equally effective at the actual attack on the tank?

Hmmm…

Reasonably sure I am doing this right but …

A vehicle that has not been given no order this turn is assaulted by infantry who are under 6″ away. It cannot shoot in defence.  Does a vehicle with Recce have the same restriction? I think so.  The question arose as the recce vehicle was backed onto the table edge and had nowhere to run,