Rules Questions

[Anders Olsen]

Does the Rangers Lead the Way special rule apply to first wave missions?

[Benjamin]

In the partisan list. Can you take armored transport and the like from germany and italy?

It list the following:

CAPTURED VEHICLES

A Partisan force may include any vehicle with a Damage Value up to and including 9+ (medium tank). However, all captured vehicles must be purchased as Inexperienced and, in addition, all armoured vehicles have the Unreliable special rule to represent lack of maintenance and crew training.

TRANSPORTS AND TOWS

Common vehicles only

Note these are not subject to the Captured Vehicles rule above.

[Nat]

@Benjamin

see my post 190921 (pg34 of this thread)… but RAW = No, GAP (Game As Played) Yes

[wAbout]

Yes, rangers can enter the table prior to first wave.

• This reply was modified 5 months, 1 week ago by wAbout.

[Hoff]

• What happens if an immobilized armored vehicle gets a steering compromised, turret jammed, or engine damage result? does it die due to the double immobilized rule?

 

• Do rules that turn off infiltrate from Snipers, Observers, and Spotters (e.g. Hungarian Roving Patrols, Partisan Home Country, etc.) also turn off infiltrate for things like Soviet Anti-Tank Teams, Soviet Scouts, or Japanese Suicide Anti-Tank Teams?

• This reply was modified 4 months ago by Hoff.
• This reply was modified 4 months ago by Hoff. Reason: formatting

[Stuart Harrison]

Steering compromised or engine damaged would both be a second immobilised result, so destroyed (no pivots to reduce and no speed to reduce – the interaction between these rules and the immobilised rule should be tightened up).  Turret jam would depend on whether the vehicle currently has a valid working turret to absorb the result.

The second question is another where the wording should be tightened up (should probably read ‘infiltrators’ rather than ‘snipers, observers and spotters’).  As it is, it can be argued that other infiltrators aren’t affected.  In previous editions, the deployment rules were under ‘Setting up Observers and Snipers’ – if you prevented observers and snipers forward deploying, you would also automatically prevent units that deploy like them from forward deploying.

[Orlunu]

Am I blind, or is Germany missing the option for the B2 740(f) (gun tank, not flammpanzer)? The majority were kept as gun tanks, and it’s still sold as such on the webstore, so I feel like it really should be there but I’m not seeing it at all.

[Christoph Hintze]

Going through the new rule book and the new Armies of Great Britain book.  I can not find any mention of the Highlanders.  Is there any word as to when they will be available?

Thanks,

Stoff

[J Gregory]

Can a Forward Air Observer spot for a mortar team and then call in an Airstrike in the same turn? The FAQ says that a spotter/observer can only spot for one “Indirect Fire weapon” per turn, but I can’t find any reference to an Airstrike as Indirect Fire (in fact, the definition of IF on p.101 is “weapons that shoot HE shells indirectly” – an Airstrike doesn’t follow the IF shooting procedure, nor is a Strafing Fighter necessarily shooting HE). Guidance, please…

[Halfdanr]

Hello,
Some questions about combat jump:

1) Fire is resolved after paratroopers landed and are on a certain terrain. If shooting them with flak weapon, do they benefit from cover on the ground? Thematically they are shot mid-air.

2) What happens when unit forming a 1-inch line apart on the ground, overlaps own or enemy units when landed? Are troopers less than inch away from other unit considered on impassable terrain and die?

3) What happens if unit lands partially on a building? Is the 1-inch gap to be maintained also vertically? If cannot, is the one part of the squad destroyed as not aligning to jump deployment rules?

4) Is attack with flak weapon having HE value, resolved as on the ground (template) or as for aircraft mid-air hits (d3/d6 hits)?

Have you met any other strange examples?

Thanks in advance

[Ian]

Can you clarify if a forward air/artillery observer can call in the attack if mounted on an open topped vehicle? If so can he still do so if the vehicle has advanced? Ran?

 

Ian

[Josiah]

<p style=”text-align: left;”>Air/arty observers have actual clarity in the rules for when in vehicles: they can’t be issued a “Fire” order and as such cannot call thier strikes from inside a vehicle. They can still be used to spot for artillery though, so have a serious use case especially with things like nebblewerfers.</p>

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