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Yeah I think you’re right.  It’s in contrast to Shrapnel which is a British round option and obviously can be selected for firing if they have the rule.  I’d agree the 3 Nap books could do with at least being brought into line with each other, if nothing else, by way of an FAQ/Errata/Update.  It’s not something Warlord tends to do though it se…[Read more]

If you look at most of the Napoleonic army lists they dont have howitzer entries so I would say they are factored in &  the 2-2-2 is for a full howitzer battery only

Simple reason is, that in the last month (also before C19) there were no interesting thing released. No Dr. Who, Bolt Action is becoming boring with always copying themself, no new books for HC or BP. The stuff from GoA is also going to a sleeping level. So I wait and hope…

Yeah we are planning to use 2 guns to represent our batteries just so that the frontage is correct in proportion to the battalion frontage.  It also helps prevent the key holing of artillery fire through a 1 cm gap between 2 infantry battalions.  We have it that each of the two gun barrels needs to be able to draw a LOS to the target unit for t…[Read more]

There’s some really interesting ideas in this blog. I hope I can usefully add to this:

As far as I can tell it wasn’t unusual to deploy ‘sections’ of guns in support of a handful of battalions doing a specific job on the battle field. To allow for this in Napoleonics, rather than overdo the fire factors I intend to use battalion gun ratings as…[Read more]

Yeah WL could do with a proof reader who plays the games!… And all 3 books could do with a V2 revamp with some more consistancy across all of them (why is it -8 points to down grade in Clash but half points in AT 1&2?) why do horse artillery go from being light smothbore guns in AT1 to being just smoothbore artillery in AT2? etc etc

Excellent point! For some reason I TOTALLY missed the downgrade option in the list pages 156-159, it’s the same (following a brief quick glance) in AT2.  Makes it easier for me as I wasn’t keen on the idea of allowing the use of half batteries in pairs (or adding yet more fiddly mechanics) as I don’t think that was the intention of the rule at…[Read more]

The blurb /writting about deploying as half batterys is the background /historical reasoning behind being able to take half batterys in your list.

The half battery option is for downgrading the unit when you purchase them, ie you are buying a small battery instead of a normal sized one.  (which is why in CofE lists they are written as ‘downgrade…[Read more]

And I thought this was a simple couple questions. To bad there aren’t any tournaments to drive judges crazy .  Anyway till more definitive answer comes along we’ll   house rule this one.

Thanks to everyone for input.

Nat / Andy,

Thanks again  for answering (or intending to answer) our questions!  We just started playing BRS so your help is much appreciated.

Best regards,

Bill S…

Just so you know; I’m seeing these questions but so far Nat has beaten me to the punch with a correct answer each time.