Advance order and team weapons

[Haskeer]

1. Advance order says you can move then fire – can’t find anything to say otherwise, so I’m assuming you can’t fire first then move?

2. Squad based team weapons ( I.e. Lmg and light mortar) – if the loader is killed are the effects permanent or can/must the role be taken over by another rifleman? I’m thinking that I can’t see any negatives to losing the light mortar loader so seems to be the obvious first choice casualty in the squad??

3. Medium mortar team – any negatives to being down to the last crewman? Can’t find any effect on movement and indirect fire not affected by loss of crew??

Thanks in advance,

John.

[Greg S]

1. You must move first.

2. If the loader is killed, the effect is permanent. But as you say there is no effect on mortars.

3. The only effect is a -1 to morale and order tests. (p42)

[Haskeer]

Thanks Greg. I was expecting a movement penalty for a mortar crew to be down to one man, it’s hard to imagine one guy, carrying tube, base plate and ammo, running as fast as an infantryman, but so be it!

😂

[Greg S]

Yep, one guy can run carrying a heavy mortar on his own and set it up ready to fire. Or single handedly maneuver a 25 pounder half that distance. 🙂

[Stuart Harrison]

“Or single handedly maneuver a 25 pounder half that distance. 🙂” – er… no!

In the middle of the sentence telling you heavy and super heavy artillery can’t move on a Run order – “… as well as any lighter gun whose crew is reduced to a single man,…”

[Greg S]

I stand corrected. Thank you.

[Nat]

1. IN one of the campaign books (bulge I think) there is a variant that allows you to shoot with the -1 penalty then move…but this is a campaign scenario style alteration and not for pick up play

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