[Stuart Harrison]

From the FAQ:

“Page 147 “The special abilities of officers and other HQ units
mounted on transports work as normal, as long as they are being
transported in soft-skinned or open-topped armoured transports.” Does
this mean that an observer in an open-topped or soft-skinned transport
can call air strikes and artillery barrages?

No, they cannot do that because you would need to
issue a Fire order to the observer, and you cannot do that
on transported models. That sentence allows the use of
passive abilities, which do not require specific orders, like
a medic’s area of effect, or the ability of an observer to spot
for indirect-firing units.”

[Stuart Harrison]

In the MRB list, the veteran premium is only applied to the base anti tank rifle team cost with the panzershrek as a fixed price upgrade.  In AoG, the veteran premium is applied to the regular panzershrek team as a whole.  It’s a function of the unit pricing system throughout Bolt Action.  Opinion – all options should have pricing by experience level, not just the option to add additional men.

[Stuart Harrison]

Nothing stops you taking a spotter with an inexperienced unit, that doesn’t change the fact that only regular and veteran units can use them for line of sight.

[Stuart Harrison]

20th June 2025

Bolt Action: Third Edition Errata & FAQ

[Stuart Harrison]

The token is a model or marker and is placed 18″ from the target in any direction (it even makes reference to using a single agreed point on the model/marker for measurement at the end of the paragraph your quote is taken from).

[Stuart Harrison]

Multiple HE hits only yield a single set of pins, see p100, Weapons, HE (High Explosive), Multiple HE Hits, second para.  The pins from HE (or other multiple pin weapons) replace the standard single pin for scoring hits on a target unit, they’re not in addition.

“I then fire the hmgs at the same target, hit and roll to wound” shows a misunderstanding of the sequence of events.  Each step of the shooting sequence of events is completed for the unit before moving on to the next step.

You’re not resolving each weapon in sequence then moving on to the next – you’re declaring targets for the whole unit (even if you’re splitting fire across multiple targets), rolling to hit for the weapons firing, rolling to damage for all hits, rolling saves for all eligible targets, removing all casualties, taking a morale check if required.

[Stuart Harrison]

Most likely they will re-appear in the Commonwealth book, when it comes out…

“For the first time, Italy and France will have their own standalone books, bringing them firmly to the table as ‘major’ Bolt Action factions, and the Commonwealth will join the stable, not as an appendix to the Armies of Great Britain, but as its own unique book covering half a dozen different nations!”

The Bolt Action Roadmap: Into 2026

[Stuart Harrison]

Steering compromised or engine damaged would both be a second immobilised result, so destroyed (no pivots to reduce and no speed to reduce – the interaction between these rules and the immobilised rule should be tightened up).  Turret jam would depend on whether the vehicle currently has a valid working turret to absorb the result.

The second question is another where the wording should be tightened up (should probably read ‘infiltrators’ rather than ‘snipers, observers and spotters’).  As it is, it can be argued that other infiltrators aren’t affected.  In previous editions, the deployment rules were under ‘Setting up Observers and Snipers’ – if you prevented observers and snipers forward deploying, you would also automatically prevent units that deploy like them from forward deploying.

[Stuart Harrison]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburgers

[Stuart Harrison]

@ Wolfy, units in buildings are eligible targets, as are empty buildings.  Note that only one rocket can hit each building (p157, Buildings, Shooting Against Units in Buildings, Indirect Fire Weapons Against Buildings, last para).

[Stuart Harrison]

Second edition “If a vehicle listed as a transport/tow picks a weapon option that means the transport loses it’s transport/towing ability, it no longer counts as a transport/tow for the purposes of force selection, but …” – the criteria is being a transport or tow that takes a weapon option that removes it’s transport capacity, and the consequence of meeting that criteria is  being moved to a different slot. (note, Errata expanded it to any option that removes transport capacity, covering the White taking recce)

Third edition “If a vehicle listed as a transport/tow picks a weapon option that means the transport loses it’s transport/towing ability. It no longer counts as a transport/tow for the purposes of force selection, but …” – the only change is that full stop.  The criteria is orphaned from the consequence of meeting it by poor punctuation.

[Stuart Harrison]

“First obvious one, German halftracks with the rear-mg option taken would lose transport capacity, but are portrayed in the rulebook as transporting. Is the error here just with the pictures and expectation? Well, probably no because…”

You’ve misread the rule (at least in part due to an editing cock-up between editions replacing a comma with a full stop, but we’ve had this mis-read in previous editions too, so not your fault).  It doesn’t mean all vehicles lose transport capacity because they take an option.

There are vehicles where taking an option removes the transport capacity as part of that option – ie: MRB, p230, M3 White Scout Car, you have an option to remove the transport capacity and replace it with the recce rule.  Same page, Jeep entry, you have the option to add an MMG, losing all transport capacity.  These are the vehicles being discussed in that rule.

The part where it goes on to discuss vehicles with transport capacity taken in non transport slots applies to vehicles such as the German SdKfz 251/9 Stummel, MRB p214 – a half-tracked SPG with transport capacity.

[Stuart Harrison]

According to AoUS (p78), the reconnaissance jeep doesn’t have an upgrade option, just the MMG.  The airborne armoured jeep comes with HMG as standard.

[Stuart Harrison]

Same effect as last time, just this time the author forgot to change the wording for the reason when cutting and pasting from the M3 Stuart entry.  AoUS first edition wording for the M24 ‘Vulnerable’ rule was “Vulnerable: because of it’s light armour, all shots to the side and rear of the vehicle get an additional +1 penetration modifier (ie, in total, +2 for side hits and +3 for rear hits).”

[Stuart Harrison]

@Wolfy,

Looks to be a supplement author goof mentioning Ambush when it’s not applicable.

The same rule in AoUS (Sherman Calliope, p63, and USMC International M2-4 Rocket Truck, p75) has deleted the bit in brackets, and with it any mention of Ambush.

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