Canadian Army List (Fanmade)

Interesting ideas, but I’m not sure they special rules hang together- what made you choose them?

Extra pins is crippling. I can wipe out an inex unit with 4 shots. Were the that brittle in combat? They are worse than shirkers for no reduction in points.

Is fantic or stubborn warranted (even at 1 point)? What mades you offer that? I’m not sure I recall any actions where Canadians fought to the death…?

Mobile assault – ignoring the -1 to hit is a US rule as they have semi auto rifles, the Canadians did not.

Dismounting from a running transport (24″ with a wheeled truck) with a fanatic unit and running at the enemy 12″ puts your units between 36″ and 48″ (depending on deployment rules) down the table on turn 1. Chuck a Capt in there for +3 morale and test on 10s. Not sure that works…

Outflanking – I’d argue that this makes them better than most raider units like the LRDG and SAS… were they?

Land assault – again – why are they better shots in the water?

Any particular reason you’ve made the Skink so much more lethal with the Hispano cannons as opposed to the Polstens? You’ve made each of their 8 shots equivalent to a light AT gun when the rounds are virtually identical – only a 10 to 50 metre per second increase in muzzle velocity. That would be a marginal increase in pen at best (dubious if worth anything in a game with broad brackets rather than fine increments), not 2 steps up the ladder.

OK interesteing I’d never heard of ‘If D Day’.

Special rules: why not ‘add’ one to the options on the Commonwealth units? So give them another choice but keep the basic free obs and barrage rules. Pick something interesting and well documented to guide you.

How about ‘Volunteer Army’: Keen but inexperienced
All inex units are green. This makes the army interestng as it encourages the use of inex units.

Also perhaps create force selectors for a particular battle to ‘guide’ the formations so for example they might have to take 2 inex units and an inex officer as the compulsory units.

Tanks that never saw combat – I’d suggest experimental would work for them – always requires an order test. Problem with enemy with 12″ is you have to measure it… and that will give away ranges.

The skink – the Hispanio cannons: Perhaps a better option would be +1 pen on the Lt autocannons AP rounds? A 20mm simply does not have the range nor punch of a 45mm AT gun or 2pdr.

In that case why not look at the canadian beaches TO&E on D-day and write a selector representing that force they make them stubborn in that selector? The advantage is stubborn, the disadvantageis they are limited in what kit they haev (I guess little in the way of support weapons)

This means you can give the whole force stubborn without breaking things in generic selectors. The Canadians weren’t all paras (that’s who normally get stubborn) but they could have been in certain events.

Just a thought 😀