[L.T. Russell]

Huh?  That’s my old argument.  It’s not what the weapon is called, it’s how it actually works.  That’s why the Fallschirmjager FG42 is an automatic rifle and NOT an assault rifle.  It has a bipod and fires a full-length rifle cartridge.  Assault rifles fire a reduced-length rifle cartridge.  That’s why a BREN gun is an automatic rifle, not a light machinegun.  It fires from a box magazine, just like the BAR or the FG42.  It’s NOT belt-fed, like the MG34, MG42 or Browning 1919A6.  Belt-feed is the defining difference between an automatic rifle and a light machinegun.

[L.T. Russell]

Howdy Danielius!

Just noticed your post, sorry for the late reply.  I just did some quick research in my printout of the K47 pdf and you’re right.  I’m gonna check with the local game store owner, who’s also a ranked Bolt Action player.  I’m thinking that with the standard Schwerefeld Projektor being mounted on PUMAs, PzIVs and Panthers, and a Thor costing a couple hundred points more, I’d be expecting some sorta upgraded Schwere or Super Schwerefeld Projektor.  Maybe a PEN 5 or 6, instead of a 4?

 

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Howdy Ghettotech!

I’m on the road, so I don’t have my rulebooks handy.  IIRC, in Bolt Action, all units with FLAK trigger automatically, no matter what their dice status, including friendly units.  ‘Course I could easily be wrong.  Yeah, there’s very few actual K47 units with the FLAK capability, but that’s why you include Bolt Action units.  The ability to use Bolt Actions units, as well as K47 units is the main thing that attracted me to K47 in the first place….

 

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Howdy Nat!

Thanks for the response and the info on where rules are.  It’d be nice if rulebooks could contain all the info in one place….

Those may be the rules.  They make no sense to me.  I get that Warlord Games wants to sell lotsa the new Allied jump mechs and Fireflies, but coming from Reserve and being able to basically land anywhere on the playing area means they’re dropping outa the sky, and that is what FLAK is for.  What’s the difference between shooting at an attacking aircraft and shooting at incoming mechs, jump troopers, etc?  If anything they’d be easier targets….

 

 

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I can’t speak to the “app”, John.  I’m just an old flip-phone guy….

[L.T. Russell]

Howdy Nat!  My contention is that LMGs are belt-fed.  A BREN is magazine-fed…

A LMG has a crew of 2, is belt-fed, is air-cooled, is fired from a bipod.  An MMG has a crew of 3, is belt-fed, is fired from a tripod. Some WWII MMGs were water-cooled.  LMGs and MMGs fire rifle caliber ammo.  An HMG fires a much heavier cartridge, something in the .50 caliber/12.7mm range….

An automatic rifleman can be given a loader and now they’re a “team”, but their weapon is still not an LMG ’cause it’s not belt-fed….

I don’t know what game you’re playing, but all the campaign books I bought are historically-based and all the individuals described are actual historical figures….

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Howdy John!  I think the idea is that the Partisans are using armor they captured from the Germans.  I doubt either the US, Canadian or British militaries were handing over any tanks to Partisans.  Just one guy’s $.02….

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Howdy Mike!  This is just based on my experience as a light infantryman.  Generally speaking, LMG teams don’t move around by themselves, they’re usually attached to some other unit; either attached to a squad to beef up a squad-level mission, or with the other LMG team and a fire team for security as part of the support element in a platoon-sized operation.  Generally speaking, the patrol leader doesn’t move with/direct the fire of the gun teams.  The leader moves with the maneuver element.  Usually the assistant patrol leader/platoon sergeant directs the support element’s fires.  IDK why Warlord Games doesn’t allow LMG teams as an independent element, there ARE every other kinda teams; AT rifle teams, flamethrower teams, MMG teams, etc, etc.  Then again, I’ll fall back on my usual arguments; A) In WWII, the Germans were the only army with an ACTUAL LMG, everyone else was using an automatic rifle, except for the few US units that had the 1919A6 Brownings. B) I content that most a the game designers at Warlord don’t actually know squat about firearms.  One guys $.02….

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Howdy Darin, John!

Yeah, I just checked my Armies of Great Britain 3rd Edition, and there’s no listings for any of the other Commonwealth nations.  I “assume” this will be coming later or perhaps is out on a PDF….

 

[L.T. Russell]

NICE stuff, Jim!  I don’t model anymore.  I was out of gaming for nearly 30 years, so I don’t have paints, brushes, etc. anymore, and my eyesight is fading with age.  These days I pay the talented ones to produce my gaming gear.  I’ve picked up sprues, stowage kits and bits and send them along with models to my guy, Dustin, in TN.  Generic minis and models are so boring.  I’d add some pictures, but I’m pretty tech-illiterate….

 

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Howdy Bob!  I agree with the idea of fielding the experimental models.  As a German player, I’d like to use the Katchen, an APC version of the Hetzer, the Kugelblitz, and the upgraded Ostwind/Wirbelwind; twin 50mm autocannons in a turret on a Panther chassis….

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Makes sense to me, Caleb….

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No problem, Bob.  I complain a bit about firearms, ’cause I’m under the impression that pretty much no one at Warlord Games seems to know how they actually work.  IMO, these errors seem to always benefit the Allied players, at the expense of the German players.  One of my contentions is that magazine-fed guns, like the BREN, Lewis, ZB26, Nambu, are not actual LMGs, like the MG34 and/or 42, even if used in that role.  They’re not belt-fed, so they’re automatic rifles, like the BAR….

Good gaming to you, mate!

 

[L.T. Russell]

Howdy Bob!

If you look close, you’ll see my initial post was from two years ago, referring to Konflikt Version 1.  Yeah, IMO, it’s gotten totally out-of-hand in Version 2.0.  Now all these countries that never even had a real belt-fed LMG in WWII suddenly have one on every single armored suit.  And there’s a buncha special exceptions so now the one man with an LMG attached to his arm can somehow do the work of two, and still somehow fire at max-effective range, without a tripod or a T&E device.  The British robots are the most ridiculous.  One robot doing the work of a three or four man crew.  The Lancer is the most broken.  Somehow this one robot is doing the work of 12 men.  My Warlord Gaming group refers to them as the Cheaty British….

 

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Howdy Mike!

IIRC, some of the Version 2.0 scenario books have provisions for playing “Special” characters/historical figures.  IDK if this was deliberate on Warlord Games part to link the miniatures with the game, but it seems like it.  I’d imagine it’s the same idea behind the KELLY’S HEROES models and miniatures.  Just one guy’s $.02….

 

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