Stuart Harrison

@Peter, it wasn’t in the Armies of… book.  It’s a campaign book unit, Road to Berlin, p110.

“It would have been easy enough to just put fixed in each artillery unit listing.” – It would have been even easier to simply NOT remove it between second and third editions.  Maybe they were worried about line count adding up for all those artillery entries…?

“I’m just noticing that V3 and the new V3 German list no longer give AT, AA, or HE guns the fixed rule. ”

See the Weapons Chart, MRB p92 and repeated p314.  All those weapons have fixed in their entries on the chart.  I can’t explain why Warlord felt the need to delete the fixed rule from the individual unit entries and rely on a re-wording of…[Read more]

Here we go – centre and right are from the BEF command box.

Right hand model appears to be the officer from the BEF set:

The one on the left appears to be the mortar commander from this pack:

No.  You can only shoot at the moving unit that triggers the ambush.

Heer Grenadier Squad – 1x LMG (AoG p29)
Heer Veteran Grenadier Squad – 2x LMG (AoG p29)
Panzergrenadier Squad – 2x LMG (AoG p31)

The medic rule is only from the medic model itself, not any attendants – “If the medic’s own unit, or any friendly infantry or artillery unit that has a model within 6″ of the medic model itself, suffers damage from small arms fire…”.

I’m not seeing any option for German officers to be mounted at all.  The provision for mounting officers in the second edition was dependent on having cavalry squads in your force – a limber is not a squad.

I’d put that down to a probable anomoly where they haven’t yet considered the rule interaction between a ‘weapon’ which is fired normally, with it’s own ‘to hit’ mechanics,  then runs under the target to detonate (why no pen modifiers appy) and the newly introduced cover save, which would apply to ‘fired as normal’, unless stated…[Read more]

As written, it’s more like a fur-coated panzerfaust than a suicide AT.  It is a one shot weapon that is ‘fired as normal’ except that it has it’s own ‘to hit’ process using the chart instead of modifiers.

Apps are ‘tools not rules’ – they can contain errors.

What vehicle had you selected for your command vehicle?

I can’t test on the app as I don’t subscribe to it, but there is nothing in the command vehicle rule or the armoured platoon selector that prevents command vehicles also being in the second mandatory vehicle slot or the optional vehicle…[Read more]

“But you cannot buy a command vehicle if it isn’t the platoon commander.” Where is the rule saying this?  Or the rule you’re taking as suggesting it?

@ Nat – “As a comander they CAN give their +1 morale to infantry… (there’s nothing stating that they are limited to giving morale to vehicles so therefore the default rules of morale being applied to all friendly units in range should work”

Second sentence of the command vehicle rule, p149.  ‘The command vehicle adds a morale bonus of +1 to itse…[Read more]

“… and once its destroyed it can be run over by the attacking infantry” – This is incorrect as wrecks are impassable terrain, Damage results chart, Knocked out result, third sentence – “Either way, vehicle wrecks count as impassable terrain.”  It does lose the 1″ exclusion zone as it’s now not a unit.

Breakthrough doesn’t allow reserves.
Fog of War requires half of your force (rounded up) to be placed in reserve.

That is the conflict between the two.  The other two deployment types allow reserves, Fog of War requires it.

Default is a 360 degree arc.  Fixed limits the arc for some infantry and most artillery weapons.  Vehicles weapon arcs are specified on the weapons line of their entries.

The maximum/minimum is applied after ALL modifiers, not between the positives and the negatives.  “Regardless of how many pin markers it has, or how many bonuses or penalties apply, a unit cannot have a morale value of more than 11, or less than 2.” (p71, Orders, Order Tests, last para before the ‘At Full Strength’ sub heading, and repeated p73,…[Read more]

1.  Does it have a transport capacity?  Is it taken in a transport slot?  If yes to both, it’s a transport and suffers the transport’s draw backs.

4.  The only platoon that requires transports for it’s infantry units is the Recce Infantry Platoon.  The rest are optional 0-1 transport per unit, or in the case of the armoured platoon, no units to b…[Read more]