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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic NCO acting as a Loader in the forum Bolt Action 8 months, 3 weeks ago
NCOs are specifically prevented from becoming loader for a squad based team weapon.
MRB, p73, Weapons, Weapon Special Rules, Team Weapon, Squad Based Team Weapons, third sentence – ‘Choose which model becomes the loader – you can pick any model in the squad except the NCO…’
As written, there should be one weapon with no loader to comply with…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic What do YOU want to see in Bolt Action v3? in the forum Bolt Action 8 months, 3 weeks ago
“One a different note, how do you feel about LMGs, MMGs and HMGs all having the same range in the games?”
Machine gun ranges are a problem, partly due to attempting to fix LMGs being underpowered without changing the points from first edition, and partly because of compression on a 4’x6′ table with heavy artillery on the same table as small…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Marine War Dog team in the forum Bolt Action 8 months, 3 weeks ago
They cost 5 points more than a normal veteran, one point of that is tough fighter (most likely on the basis of the dog), get a rifle or SMG as modelled (another 3 points if you go the SMGs), and they get the doubled detection radius against hidden units. If you go adding more to them they become badly under costed. The fluff talks about them being…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic What do YOU want to see in Bolt Action v3? in the forum Bolt Action 9 months ago
Non disintegrating link for the MG 34/42:
Yes, it could be linked together to form longer belts, but it’s not a simple task in the field.
“IMHO, Brens, BARs, Lewis guns, Degtyaryovs, FM 24/29s, ZB27s, etc, etc, since they’re not belt-fed, are just automatic rifles….” We’re going to have to disagree on your conclusion. The BAR is the only aut…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic What do YOU want to see in Bolt Action v3? in the forum Bolt Action 9 months, 1 week ago
@ Lawrence,
“I will continue to quibble about the sustained firepower of multiple linked belts vs. continual mag changes though….especially when firing suppression or final protective fires.”
I would have to ask if you’re still on the divide between the Bren as a WW2 LMG, or the divide between the Bren and a post war GPMG/WW2 MMG? Which of i…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic What do YOU want to see in Bolt Action v3? in the forum Bolt Action 9 months, 1 week ago
Video on the Bren (and a few other MGs in use by the Brits early war) – the last 20 seconds or so show it in use on the tripod.
… and with the 100 round…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic What do YOU want to see in Bolt Action v3? in the forum Bolt Action 9 months, 1 week ago
1. Agree on shotguns.
2. Agree on FG42.
3. Totally disagree on the Bren gun. If you’ve ever been part of a team with one, you’d see the difference between it and a BAR immediately. The top fed system allows the second man to have the replacement magazine in place before the gunner has even finished the movement of tossing the empty mag under…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Senior NCOs in the forum Bolt Action 9 months, 1 week ago
Campaign D Day: US Sector
P158, Optional Rules (intro text states must be agreed by both players prior to beginning the game or promulgated by a tournament’s Tournament Organiser), Senior NCOs. -
Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Is the Steyr ADZG M35 Armor Car authorized for German Generic Reinforced list in the forum Bolt Action 9 months, 2 weeks ago
From the FAQ:
“New Units
These books occasionally introduce new units without the
accompanying text explaining in which selectors they can
be used.
As a general guidance in these cases, unless the rules in the unit’s
entry say otherwise, new units in these books are limited to use
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Artillery Observers in the forum Bolt Action 9 months, 2 weeks ago
“I’m a bit surprised by this answer as it assumes there is a difference between Artillery observers and spotters for on table guns and mortars”
There is a huge difference between observers and spotters. Despite similar ‘In Real Life’ practice, they are totally different in game concepts.
Spotters are a 10 point upgrade to indirect fire units w…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Indirect HE and Pins in the forum Bolt Action 9 months, 4 weeks ago
You are correct, indirect is ‘regardless of any modifier’ from the start and doesn’t re-introduce them later in the process.
For them to be correct, there would then need to be a clause re-introducing modifiers to the ranging in process – there is no such clause.
The total lack of modifiers other than the ranging in process is pretty much the…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Tank "size"? Described or Damage Value? in the forum Bolt Action 10 months, 1 week ago
Yes. It’s no different than the British calling the Vickers .303 machine gun a ‘heavy’ machine gun, while in game it’s an MMG – titles and descriptions mean nothing in game (usually reflecting what they called it in their own forces at the time rather than a comparison against a class of weapons/vehicles around the world), it’s the stats from the…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Tank "size"? Described or Damage Value? in the forum Bolt Action 10 months, 1 week ago
In game terms it’s a light tank.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic US ARMY Paratroopers 1919A6 LMG in the forum Bolt Action 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Yes, they do. The only weapons that benefit from the US ‘Fire and Manoeuvre’ rule are M1 Garand rifles/carbines and BAR.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Infantry Assaulting Tanks in the forum Bolt Action 11 months ago
You’re thinking of massive damage, which is a successful ‘roll to damage’ that beats the damage value by 3 or more – the two rolls are on the damage results chart, not the roll to damage. Failing the roll to damage means no massive damage, no 2 rolls on the damage results chart.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Late-war German Cavalry in the forum Bolt Action 11 months ago
Lack of horses is intentional – from the introductory ‘fluff’ for the 8th SS entry, “Having lost most of their horses in the battles on the Hungarian plain, they fought on foot in the rubble with great courage – any surviving horses providing much needed nutrition for the besieged defenders of Budapest.”
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Late-war German Cavalry in the forum Bolt Action 11 months ago
The only one I could find was 8th SS Cavalry Division Squad, Fortress Budapest p106, can have assault rifles all round and up to 4 panzerfausts but have no access to horses.22nd SS Cavalry Division Squad is on the same page, also no horses, no assault rifles and only 2 panzerfausts.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Infantry Assaulting Tanks in the forum Bolt Action 11 months, 1 week ago
@Greg, you may have tripped yourself up with terminology. There is no roll to penetrate, it is a roll to damage.
Penetration (pen) is usually a weapon stat that modifies that roll to damage. In the case of close quarters that pen value us generated by scoring hits (the second sentence in your quote – he rolled 11 hits giving a pen of 11). A…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Infantry Assaulting Tanks in the forum Bolt Action 11 months, 1 week ago
@Greg – you are correct for the damage results chart, the discussion is about the roll to damage, the step before you get to the damage results chart.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic One-shot flamethrowers in the forum Bolt Action 11 months, 2 weeks ago
From the FAQ:
“The Einstossflammenwerfer entry on page 35 states that these are
one-shot weapons. So we have two questions about the interaction of
the one-shot weapon and the flamethrower rule:
1) Can you confirm if single-shot flamethrower models are removed
once they have shot?
2) If the answer to the above is ‘yes’, and I choose not to sho…[Read more] - Load More