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About the Soviet infanty (not just SMG) companies….lets be honest with something like 8 rifle battalion org changes (including 3 guard changes) between April 41 and  May 45  its no wonder people get confused as to when and how they where formed :p

I mean it reads like some units could well have ‘skipped’ an org change because it happened so f…[Read more]

Marder III is a small designation problem. The first prototype of Panzerjäger 38″ (Sd. Kfz. 139) with 7,62 cm . Only 27 Feb. 1944 it became Marder III by order of Hitler. Until October 42   344 are made. 176 of them on 38 G base.

In November 42 building was changed to the “true”  Marder III with German 7,5 cm. In that month the base was cha…[Read more]

Yeah it was one of the changes to the red army after the winter war with Finland in 39/40 (the formation of SMG equipped companies…. cant remember if they were their own battalions or just a company within the normal battalion structure… its also where the first tank rider units came from.. but thats another topic :p)

The soviet book does…[Read more]

Right. Having now seen the diagram, the light cavalry would require a two move order to charge the Macedonian flank. Once it has charged, everything I said earlier happens.

Regarding supporting units – The flank rule that you have asked about is something that you have misunderstood. When the rule talks about how many supports can be on each…[Read more]

Yes Al, thanks , some very useful pointers there.

I should have added a diagram to better illustrate the situation.

[Persian Cav]                          [Macedonians]

[Persian Infantry] [Persian Infantry] [Persian Infantry]

So the Macedonians and Persian Infantry are all already engaged. 2 Persian Inf are in support

Next turn the Pers…[Read more]

I didn’t realise that they had SMG units so early on.

Personally, I wanted mostly rifles, but with such big squads (up to 12 in Bolt Action I recall off the top of my head, though all my historical research has found the limit to be 11) even the free green squad of riflemen takes a big chunk out of the available rifles.

I think throughout the w…[Read more]

Now to be fair they wheren’t supposed to have kept the bearskins….just like the Voltiguers shouldnt have kept their swords or the 2nd, 3rd etc battalions their egales….

oops….

:p

If you go to the facebook group – ‘Blood Red Skies Ready Room’ and look in the files section there is a FAQ file (latest is March this year) by Andy Chambers (the Author of the game)…

however the errata section (so points change on the P51, the Yak1 & something else) has gone missing … again! but there is a file from about a year ago with…[Read more]

I assume you are talking about the light horse? They may attempt to charge the Macedonian quarter that they start the turn in. From what you say, that is in the flank quarter, so, they can charge the flank. Meanwhile, the three Persian units to the front may attack the Macedonian front. The Macedonians are in trouble, as they cannot deal with the…[Read more]

Hi Craig,

Thanks for considering me as a candidate but I’m not sure I’m the right person for this.

I’d like to provide some help here but the moderator thing as I understand it seems quite serious and may be a bit over the kind of involvement I can handle.

If you think I can be of any help and elaborate a bit what you expect from me, I’ll give…[Read more]

Hi Koin-Koin, It has now been approved. Sorry for the delay.
Cheers
Craig

Thanks, I was worried someone would say that!

John

Those Corsairs should have been done a long time ago.