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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Some Academy of Street Fighting/Skirmish questions. in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 2 months ago
“A force for a skirmish game “cannot include […] Artillery (i.e. field artillery, anti-tank guns and anti-aircraft guns)”. ”
There are three basic types of units in the game, Infantry, Artillery, and Vehicles. In this case, the list is sub types/classes of Artillery. The Sahariana is not Artillery, it’s a Vehicle.
“A force for a skirmis…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Non-open top transports other than the French? in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 2 months ago
Campaign: Road to Berlin has a Polish Home Army modified SdKfz 251 with enclosed roof (p56), but that’s the only other fully enclosed transport that comes to mind.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Advanced BA Rules Questions: Kaukopartio Long Distance Recon w/ Transports in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 2 months ago
@Rage – the OT130 is added to the Soviets in Ostfront, p31. It makes mention of the OT133 as a minor modification that would have little effect in game (turret moved to the other side, and larger fuel tank). There is no mention of which selectors it is available for, or any provision for the Finns to use it.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Advanced BA Rules Questions: Kaukopartio Long Distance Recon w/ Transports in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 2 months ago
Unit abilities/special rules don’t get transferred to any transport they may happen to be in, so that would be a no unless specifically stated in their special rules (and it isn’t).
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Air strikes – target moves in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 3 months ago
Artillery barrage targets a point on the ground – units in the danger area can move away and are only at risk again if you get a delay and move the impact point.
Air strike targets a unit – if the unit moves, the strike moves with it. If the target is destroyed and you don’t get a rookie pilot or delay result, it’s wasted.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Clarification for playing Motorcycle troop correctly. in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 3 months ago
@Neely Clapp – they are not ‘in soft skin vehicles’. They are an infantry unit with a movement upgrade, and are ‘…generally treated as infantry except as noted below…’ (motorbike rules, second para). If it doesn’t say to treat them as something other than infantry for a given purpose in the motorbike rules, p90, then they are treated the s…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Australian troops in Burma? in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 3 months ago
Found this on the AWM London site which seems to comfirm the impression I had above:
“Australian naval vessels stationed in the India Ocean at times served in Burmese waters, but no Australian units served in the campaign, although many airmen of the RAAF served in RAF squadrons, and in 1945 some Australian Army liaison officers served in…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Australian troops in Burma? in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 3 months ago
Other than POWs moved to the Thai/Burma railway from Changi, closest deployment of Australians I can think of would be Borneo – Curtin opposed Churchill’s orders (given assuming Australia’s approval) to send the 6th and 7th Divisions to Burma after the 8th Division was lost in…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Clarification for playing Motorcycle troop correctly. in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 3 months ago
I would say this bit “But, if the motorcycle squad advances 12” the riders can then dismount and advance as Regular infantry” is conflating a unit that dismounts from it’s optional bikes with an embarked unit disembarking from a transport that has advanced. The first is a single unit acting on one Advance order. The latter is two separate uni…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Indirect Fire Arcs in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 3 months ago
You’re not following what I’m saying. The howitzer will have to rotate using an advance order, so will no longer be firing to it’s rear. It’s the same as when it uses an advance to rotate and fire with direct fire, just there is no effect of the -1 to hit modifier due to indirect fire not using modifiers, only the ranging in process.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Indirect Fire Arcs in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 3 months ago
It’s the weapon’s arc that dictates whether the weapon can shoot with a Fire order, or it has to use an Advance to rotate and bring the target into it’s arc. The spotter’s position is irrelevant – so long as he has LOS to the target his LOS can be used by the weapon crew.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Indirect Fire Arcs in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 3 months ago
The howitzer can fire in it’s rear arc direct as well, it simply needs to use an advance order to rotate and fires at -1 ‘to hit’. p67, Weapons, Weapon Special Rules, Fixed, third para provides the provision for fixed weapons rotating and firing on an Advance order, p95, Artillery, Artillery and Shooting, Arc of Fire, first para shows this as…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Indirect Fire Arcs in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 3 months ago
I’d say you’re playing it correctly.
Fixed weapons make no distinction for indirect fire, nor does indirect fire include an exception to the fixed rule.
Fixed weapons firing outside your arc requires that you rotate using an Advance order, normally with a -1 ‘to hit’ – indirect ignores modifiers, so that doesn’t affect an indirect shot once…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Clarification for playing Motorcycle troop correctly. in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 4 months ago
@ Charles – The rule doesn’t specify when they dismount, just as a part of an Advance. As they are a unit with a special rule, not a transport with passengers, I’d rule out getting 2 moves (1 before and one after the dismount). As Bolt Action doesn’t do proportional movement (doing a portion of movement before the dismount at bike rate and the r…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Clarification for playing Motorcycle troop correctly. in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 4 months ago
“The rules allows for motorcycle units to take a motorcycle with side . So when a motorcycle section/squad has a motorcycle with side car in it, so is it then treated as like motorcycle/sidecar operating by itself and uses the soft vehicles rules and needs a 6 to damage it.”
No. If it’s an infantry unit with the motorcycle rule it stays an…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Clarification for playing Motorcycle troop correctly. in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 4 months ago
First point – don’t confuse infantry units with the motorcycle rule (ie: German Kradshutzen, AoG p22) and vehicle units which happen to be motorbikes/combinations (ie: German Motorcycle with Machine-gun Sidecar, AoG p71).
Infantry with the motorcycle move like wheeled vehicles except they can make as many turns as you like. They still take…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Cheeseball victory for 'Top Secret'. in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 4 months ago
Not sure how you are getting this.
Top secret there are no units set up on the table – all units start in reserve. (last paragraph of set-up, MRB, p138)
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Second Wave vs Reserves in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 4 months ago
Set-up heading, second sentence of the paragraph for second wave “It is kept in reserve and may enter from Turn 3 from any table edge.”
Similarly in the para for third wave “It is kept in reserve and may enter from Turn 4 from any table edge.”
In this scenario, ‘First wave’ is your on table deployment. There is no true ‘first wave’ by normal…[Read more]
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Second Wave vs Reserves in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 4 months ago
Can you give an example? I haven’t read all the way through all the scenarios in the campaign books to have those particular ones come to mind.
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Stuart Harrison replied to the topic Second Wave vs Reserves in the forum Bolt Action 2 years, 4 months ago
First wave come on in the first turn and don’t need to roll. Reserves come in from the second turn (except Top Secret) and do need to roll. Ouflankers are a sub-set of reserves, can come in from third turn and do need to roll.
That’s speaking generally – variations will be in scenario special rules (ie: Top Secret which treats turn 1 as if it w…[Read more]
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