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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Double Barrel Shotguns for 28mm in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 9 months ago
Found this listing:
The ‘generic shotgun’ should be a double barrel side by side for the period, but looks single barrel in the picture? If so, could still be modified to a side by side. Another option is to modify one of the two rifles i…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Double Barrel Shotguns for 28mm in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 9 months ago
Bad Squiddo has some Land Army ladies with double barrel shotguns. There’s the odd double barrel scattered through the VBCW ranges (Empress and Footsore) but you’ll generally be buying a pack of four minis for one with a shotgun, I think the Great Escape Games plastic gunfighters have a couple of double barrels on each sprue (2 part so can be…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Defeating the Japanese? in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 9 months ago
Spotters can’t fire weapons – from the FAQ:
“Can a medic or an artillery/mortar spotter fire the weapons of a
vehicle they are being transported in?
It’s the passengers doing the firing, and therefore medic
units, because they ‘cannot fire any weapons’, cannot fire a
transport’s weaponry.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Defeating the Japanese? in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 9 months ago
They don’t have any such rule that I’m aware of, they even have access to AT grenades.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Nebelwerfer questions in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 9 months ago
The only thing the nebelwerfer is treated like a mortar for is it’s range and template size. The whole ‘counts as a heavy mortar’ throw away is meaningless. Everything else relevant to a heavy mortar is eliminated elsewhere in it’s rules. Other than range and template size, none of the relevant rules are even specific to it being a particular w…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Questions on the Partisan Paris Uprising Reinforced Platoon in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 9 months ago
Go to an Armies of series book.
Go to a theatre selector.
Read the last para, and it should read something like this:
“A Soviet force for the opening of Barbarossa must comprise one or more reinforced platoons picked from the following Army List. Each reinforced platoon is made up as follows:”
All platoons are ‘reinforced platoons’. The c…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Sept 22 BA FAQ: Clarification Request & Feedback for Game Balance in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 10 months ago
@Nanashi, Vehicle Design Rules PDF (unofficial) suggests difference between soft skin and open topped should only be 35 points. Looks like an error to me.
It’s then only 20 points for the light AT gun, which should cost 50 points, and another 20 to upgrade to medium.
Should probably be re-costed from scratch.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Sept 22 BA FAQ: Clarification Request & Feedback for Game Balance in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 10 months ago
Personal opinion – the FAQ is a total misread of the rule as written.
As written, you replace one characteristic from AoGB with ONE characteristic (not national list of characteristics) from Western Desert. You don’t get Unsurpassed Bravery AND Manpower of the Empire, you get ONE characteristic. If there was an intent to change that specific ‘…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Indirect fire from moving vehicle in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 10 months ago
You are correct about the fixed rule being what prevents most (not all) indirect fire weapons from moving and shooting. Light mortars are generally not ‘fixed’ so can advance and shoot.
Vehicles are exempt from the fixed and team special rules – p104, Vehicles, Vehicle Mounted Weapons, Fixed and Team Weapons. This means there is nothing…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Small arms vs Open top in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 10 months ago
@Nanashi,
I’d refer you back to p101, Vehicles, Vehicles and Pinning.
The first sentence is the rule stating small arms can’t pin fully enclosed armoured vehicles.
Second sentence tells you that pins from heavy weapons vs fully enclosed armoured vehicles is dependent on experience.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Japanese Banzai from a Transport in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 10 months ago
You are correct. The Banzai rule only kicks in ‘If a Japanese infantry unit is ordered to Run towards (or charge) the closest visible enemy…’
What he is suggesting (running out of a transport) would come under the final paragraph of the rule:
“Note that a unit can be ordered to Run/Charge in another direction, but in that case it will follow…[Read more] -
Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Body Armour and Exceptional Damage in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 10 months ago
There is no difference.
You roll a 6 to wound, it causes a casualty. You then roll for the possible exceptional. If the second roll is also a 6, you choose the casualty, if not, the defender chooses. You’re not trying to score 7, 8, or higher, you’re simply required to follow a 6 ‘to damage’ with another 6. Super-sixes only exist in the ‘to…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Body Armour and Exceptional Damage in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 10 months ago
Snipers aside, a six on the roll to damage isn’t automatic exceptional damage, it’s a POSSIBILITY of exceptional damage – you have to roll another 6 to actually score exceptional damage.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Homebrew unit: Volksturm Panzerfaust Squad in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 10 months ago
Nat, that clause allows a unit with multiple fausts to spread them over multiple turns of firing and works in that case as each man with a faust has another weapon to use. It doesn’t provide any explicit exception to the ‘withholding fire’ clause in the shooting general rules.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Homebrew unit: Volksturm Panzerfaust Squad in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 11 months ago
“I’m aware, but as mentioned a unit armed with one-shot weapons only doesn’t work within the rules since all models in a squad must shoot if one shoots. I could not figure out a way to write an exception as a special rule without it being extremely ineloquent. If someone can come up with a eloquent ruling for a special rule, please tell me.”…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Homebrew unit: Volksturm Panzerfaust Squad in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 11 months ago
Go to Campaign Sea Lion and the General cost for pistols is +2 points as an optional improvement over ‘improvised handweapons’, with the exception of the Royal Navy Section, cost is 55 points for NCO and 4 men (11 points each), weapon is ‘pistols’ – 2 points less than normal rifle armed veterans
As well as those examples you’ve already mentioned,…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Homebrew unit: Volksturm Panzerfaust Squad in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 11 months ago
Pistols usually cost one point (except in Armies of France and the Allies for some ridiculous reason) + 1 point is generous considering it’s the same as tough fighter plus a ranged attack.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Multi Launcher – Line of Sight or Spotter in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 11 months ago
@ Jaesen – spotters are rare for multiple launchers, but one or two do exist – example, Ostfront, p63, Additional Units, Soviet Units, M-30 (a heavy multiple launcher that takes pins every time it fires and has to rally to re-load before it can fire again) has the option for a spotter.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Does Extended Last Levy have access to units added to Last Levy? in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 11 months ago
It’s a selector in it’s own rights, rather than ‘the Last Levy selector plus these extra options’, or words to that effect, so it’s not explicitly covered by amendments to Last Levy/special rules added for Last Levy. It would be covered by ‘late war German theatre selectors’ – it’s a German theatre selector and they don’t come much later 😉
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Are there any non-open top 7+/8+ vehicle with a Medium Howitzer besides BT-42? in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 11 months ago
@Kar98 – the question is specifically asking for non open-topped, that one’s open-topped.
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