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IJN Aircraft Box: 1 x Nakajima G8N “Rita”, 4 x Mitsubishi A5M4 “Claude” fighters, 4 Yokosuka MXY-7 “Ohka” Kamikaze.

Ah I see what you mean now. Yes you are right, we still need to roll on the vehicle damage chart 👍

“A sniper hitting a soft-skin kills it (automatic exceptional damage of 6+”

This is still incorrect.  Hitting is not enough, you have to roll to damage, requiring a 6+ to damage a soft skin (p91, unit special rules, Sniper, fifth para – “If the sniper successfully rolls to wound and damage…” – my bold), then if your roll to damage is…[Read more]

hmmm…..confused now! (doesnt take a lot some days :p)..I’m reading what you’ve written differently…. its reading to me like your saying if you roll a 6 to wound then that’s it the softskin is dead.

But they are still a vehicle, so you still need to roll on the vehicle damage chart (4+ to kill it… so a sniper who hits then rolls the 6 to…[Read more]

Yes that’s basically what I said but in a longer winded way 😂 A sniper hitting a soft-skin kills it (automatic exceptional damage of 6+), hitting an armoured open-topped just pins it (because its automatic exceptional damage only scores a 6+ and cannot damage armoured open-topped vehicles).

Sorry @Master Cheif but the Exceptional damage rule doesnt come in to this as the sniper (unless its OstFront Ziestsev) needs a 6 to wound the softskin, as a small arms theres no bonuses to the wounding roll against a vehicle.  Once its ‘wounded’ you then roll on the vehicle damage chart.  There is nothing on that chart that allows for m…[Read more]

“In any case I do not think there is a need for the sniper to target an open-topped vehicle’s crew. If the sniper hits an open-topped soft-skin (if there is one), the vehicle is destroyed because the sniper’s exceptional damage would mean it has rolled a 6+ for damage.”

1.  Open topped only applies to armoured vehicles – first words in the rule…[Read more]

Bolt Actiin 2nd Ed page 116:

Units carried aboard a transport vehicle cannot be targeted directly by the enemy.

The USN is still missing any dive bombers or torpedo bombers. So with that in mind, I predict that the upcoming US Aircraft box will contain 1 B-17 stand, and 4 stands each of Wildcats and Brewster Buffaloes.

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On a more serious note, I second the comment made by Hobbs. The Atlanta-class light cruiser would be a good addition (USS San Diego…[Read more]

You can get 1/1800 aircraft models on Shapeways. I’d check there first if you’re interested in unbased aircraft.

The Strasser would have been pretty much the same as Graf Zeppelin had it been completed. As such, it would be a pretty low priority for a new ship model.

Right now, I’m still waiting for an announcement of actual US bombers. So far, the only planes released for the USN are Corsairs and Hellcats. I’m also looking forward to the lighter ships -…[Read more]

@Danny – the Bren Carrier is 60 points at regular, AoGB p57.   The MRB version is 70 points, but the MRB doesn’t have the mortar carrier version under discussion.  The difference in price is the MRB version having recce where the army book doesn’t.

its true, short article in wargames illustrated.

combat revisited to reduce the endless buckets of dice and I think pretty big overhaul of points

to late for me moved on to Infamy Infamy, not impressed when rules need this much revising less than 2 years in!

Grenades either slow the game down for little benefit, ie the use of 1 per unit… hits 1-2 people with a normal hit or you end up with rules saying you can use X grenades here but only if Y can happen.
OR they are totally overpowered … a unit of 12 guys throwing grenades against a unit of 8 vets… each vet getting hit 2-3 times..

THey are a…[Read more]

1.  Yes.  Vehicles don’t suffer from the ‘fixed’ rule, which is what stops infantry medium and heavy mortars etc from moving and firing.

2.  No ranging in benefit if either the target or the firer has moved since the last shot.

3.  No.  You get a vehicle with a mortar as it’s weapon, effectively a self propelled mortar.  It’s not a trans…[Read more]

Moving and shooting without a penalty is a VERY BIG advantage in the game. In the case of the M1 Garand, it is a good measure. In other cases, if it was the American doctrine, fine then.

I really like that every nation has some special rules, because it give move historical authenticity to the game. As far as it does not unbalance the game too…[Read more]