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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Night Fight scenarios- Spotting targets before or after advance in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 11 months ago
Further to my last- timing of the spotting test – “… start the normal shooting procedure and declare the target. Then, before the ‘target reacts’ step…”.
Sequence would be:
Draw die and assign ‘Advance’ order to your unit.
Complete movement part of ‘Advance’.
Declare target for shooting part of ‘Advance’.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Night Fight scenarios- Spotting targets before or after advance in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 11 months ago
The shooting procedure is separate to and after the movement in an advance – I’d say they played it right.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic USMC Dog Teams in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 11 months ago
As I read it, Dog Teams only remove ‘Hidden’ within 24″ – I’m not seeing any interaction with the night fighting rules at all, so you would still need to actually spot your target at night.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Machinegun experten in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 11 months ago
Received today from Gregg:
“Removed from all. I’ll have to go back and create a copy specifically for the Omaha Beach selector.
Thank you for emailing me.
Gregg”
While Easy Army is very much ‘tools, not rules’, Gregg is pretty responsive when people tell him about a problem/ask a question.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Machinegun experten in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 11 months ago
You are correct. As a selector special rule, there is no reason for it to be available outside that selector.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic To what teams/sections does the British Paras Stubborn Rule apply? in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 11 months ago
From the FAQ:
“I want to collect an army of paratroopers. However there are no
specific paratrooper officers, snipers, MMG teams, etc to go with my
paratroopers squads. The same goes for all units of infantry with
special rules, like commandos, gurkhas etc.We assume that the special rules only apply to the ‘proper’
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Royal Navy Section in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 11 months ago
Royal Navy Section is in Campaign: Sea Lion, p34. They are Veteran Infantry – if you want to see their stats you can check them on Easy Army, British Army Coastal Defence Reinforced Platoon selector.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Firefight and hand grenade in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 12 months ago
“I thought this, but D2 HE there was in 1st edition, in 2nd edition there isn’t (1” is D3 in buildings).”
Last part of the last sentence of that paragraph I referred you to:
“… and note that both HE(D2) and (D3) use the 1″ template.”
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Firefight and hand grenade in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 12 months ago
D2 HE is first edition HE notation – to convert first edition HE to template sizes, see the HE chart on p70 of the second edition MRB and cross reference the ‘hits vs units in buildings’ column as explained in the para below the chart.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic (Japan) Tank Hunters question in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 12 months ago
Still has the order test – Tank Fear is an additional trigger for the normal order test, it doesn’t replace it. If one trigger applies (or another one, ie: shirkers) you have to take the test, just without the tank fear modifier in this case.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic French Laffly S20TL Six-wheeled Truck question in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 12 months ago
All empty transports can only fire one weapon unless they have a specific special rule stating otherwise. p114, Vehicles, Transport Vehicles, Role of Transports, third para. Any more than one requires passengers to fire the other weapons.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Italian rules: NO RUN! in the forum Bolt Action 3 years ago
FAQ under Armies of Italy and the Axis:
“If I play with an Italian army in a attacker-defender scenario, the
enemy can’t do a Run order in the first turn if the Italian is the
defender. Can an artillery unit move onto the board in the first turn
if it is in the first wave (it only can move with a run order)? And a
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Indian National Army in the forum Bolt Action 3 years, 1 month ago
Looks to be an author oversight as every unit on the surrounding pages includes the ‘selectors’ heading to show where you can use them. Shame it wasn’t fixed in the errata when they fixed the Native Irregulars on the previous page.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Soviet dog mine VS own recce vehicle in the forum Bolt Action 3 years, 1 month ago
I’d say it’s too late to react – general principle is that escape reactions are before the roll to hit and the roll you just got a ‘1’ with is the roll to hit for a dog mine.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Movement of spotters and the mortar team in the forum Bolt Action 3 years, 2 months ago
Normally no. This is the consequence of one being given an order or the other. Only one gets to act each turn.
The exception is when bringing in both from reserve, p131, Playing a Game of Bolt Action, Scenario Special Rules, Setting up Observers and Snipers, fourth para – “If a unit that has a spotter is left in reserve, the first time you s…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Officer bonus in the forum Bolt Action 3 years, 2 months ago
It’s a boost to morale, so affects any morale based test. (so both in your example, order test and morale check).
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic HE Template Overlap in the forum Bolt Action 3 years, 2 months ago
p107, Vehicles, Shooting at Vehicles, Hits From HE Shells, first para, first sentence “… the template is placed as close as possible to the centre of the vehicle.” and second para, first sentence “If a vehicle is caught under the template of an HE shot directed at a different unit, always use the front armour value of the vehicle as the vehicle…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Doubts about Forward Air Observer rules in the forum Bolt Action 3 years, 2 months ago
There is no line between the plane and the target – apply pins to units within 6 inches of the centre of the plane/marker and the same to units within 6″ of the target unit. (ie: two circles, not a racetrack shape).
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Is the Commonwealth box set usable for Pacific? in the forum Bolt Action 3 years, 3 months ago
End of ’41 and ’42 (ie: fall of Malaya, Singapore, Hong Kong etc, early Kokoda battles), certainly – KD uniforms were pretty much all they had and the equipment was the same. From about ’43 it had mostly been replaced with long Jungle Greens more suited to fighting in the jungles.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic 51st Highland Division in the forum Bolt Action 3 years, 3 months ago
To the best of my knowledge…
a) Were the arm patches and flashes worn on both the left and the right arms?
Yes
b) The additional decals of the blue square with the white diag line – was worn where?
They’re not additional, they’re alternatives to the black watch regimental patch (Seaforths?, KOSB?)
c) Were the long service stripes worn in t…[Read more]
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