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Nat replied to the topic cost of Spanish Guerrillas? in the forum Black Powder 1 year, 9 months ago
Doesn’t surprise me…there’s points and stat inconsistencies in several armies across the 3 Napoleonic supplements
However the points are very easy to work out…if it’s not been answered (and I remember) I’ll work it out for you tomorrow
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SteveT replied to the topic Defeating the Japanese? in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 9 months ago
I play Japanese a lot and the thing I fear is the enemy keeping at range, especially artillery/mortars and tanks – suicide bombers can’t do much if the target is far away. Depends on the scenario, if high terrain or it’s one of those where you both rush in, chances are I am going to come off better, but any relatively open table really makes it…[Read more]
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Charge The Guns replied to the topic cost of Spanish Guerrillas? in the forum Black Powder 1 year, 9 months ago
Hi Richard, after a quick glance through it looks like you’re right and guerrillas, although included in the run through of Spanish troops, are missed out of the points summary at the end of the book.
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Nat replied to the topic Defeating the Japanese? in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 9 months ago
Can spearman attack a tank.
Yes, if they banzai they auto pass their tank fear check… however once they get there, can they hurt it?…
They need to hit (1 dice each..and if you moved* they need 6s, otherwise 4s – unless you run then it’s impossible to hit) each hit is +1 pen but limited to a single superficial hit on the tank at best…and…[Read more]
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Nat replied to the topic Defeating the Japanese? in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 9 months ago
following up from @Nanashi’s points
Mess his plans up…..
Cheep forward deploying units to run behind his spearmen – the Banzai rule says towards the closest visable unit (yes that includes the tank that they cant hurt & inexperienced artillery spotters :p) & spearmen have a 360 arc of sight. So if he wants them to move forward he needs to…[Read more] -
Nat replied to the topic Austrian Abteilung Rule in the forum Black Powder 1 year, 9 months ago
CoE page 71 2nd paragraph under the Cavalry heading…. … it allows you to split any unit with that rule to smaller units.
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invisible officer replied to the topic Indirect fire from moving vehicle in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 10 months ago
Well, in our home games nobody would use indirect fire from a moving vehicle. You have to stop and do the ranging process if you do not intent to wate amo by putting the rounds far away from target.
In real world indirect fire the smallest change of barrel to the side or up and down would have big effect. Even streets are not so smooth to a…
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Charge The Guns replied to the topic regiment vs battalion cost in the forum Black Powder 1 year, 10 months ago
Hi Richard – short answer: For Napoleonics you pay for a battalion, as in BP the basic infantry ‘unit’ on the table represents a battalion.
Long Answer!
Regiments and battalions can be confusing and sometimes we use the term interchangeably which can lead to further confusion. Typically a Regiment was an army organisational unit that cont…[Read more]
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SteveT replied to the topic Indirect fire from moving vehicle in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 10 months ago
Thanks Stuart.
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SteveT started the topic Indirect fire from moving vehicle in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 10 months ago
Still amazes me how I seem to find questions I can’t answer in the rules…
I know you can’t move a fix weapon with Advance and then Fire.
But I am not sure about firing a howitzer from a tank? I think its ok?
How about a mortar that is part of the weapons of a halftrack?
Thanks
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Charge The Guns replied to the topic Stands per unit in the forum Black Powder 1 year, 10 months ago
Hi Richard, the Black Powder rules don’t operate on ‘stands’. The rules differentiate units in to Small, Regular and Large. All units have to fit in to into one of these categories. You need to decide a rough frontage for each size of unit, and the only key thing is to make sure both sides in a a battle have roughly the same frontage for each si…[Read more]
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SteveT replied to the topic Small arms vs Open top in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 10 months ago
Not open-topped in the Italian list. (L3/33).
pp. 23–24.
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SteveT replied to the topic Japanese Banzai from a Transport in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 10 months ago
Rules are pretty clear . No assaults from vehicles
Under DISMOUNTING FROM TRANSPORTS
“Although a unit can use a Run action to dismount from a vehicle, it is not allowed to use this move to make an assault upon an enemy in the same turn”
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Nat replied to the topic Japanese Banzai from a Transport in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 10 months ago
Key point here….units must be on the board to be able to draw LoS, if you arent able to draw LoS at the start of the order you arent able to declear an assault – same reason as why you cant assault from outflank or reserves…
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SteveT replied to the topic Japanese Banzai from a Transport in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 10 months ago
Banzai is just variant of a RUN order. Passengers can’t run into combat from a vehicle.
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Nat replied to the topic Homebrew unit: Volksturm Panzerfaust Squad in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 11 months ago
@Nanashi – one shot (or limited number of shot) weapons dont have to be used when a unit fires, nor do they have to fire at the same target….
From the ONE SHOT rules. (sorry cant give a pg ref)
“If a unit of infantry includes a proportion of men armed with one-shot weapons, then each of these models is allowed to direct its fire against a…[Read more] -
Koin-Koin replied to the topic Play Area Size in the forum Blood Red Skies 1 year, 11 months ago
It’s all personal but I’m pretty happy with a 6×4 mat.
If you dig into the scenarios provided, there’s no need to go further for standard games but if it suits you to go big with custom scenario you can use more space.
One option is to get two mats that can be used side by side with one being see/ocean while the other is inland with one of the…[Read more]
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Koin-Koin replied to the topic Midway Starter Rules – Are they the same as Air Strike in the forum Blood Red Skies 1 year, 11 months ago
Midway includes the Air Strike rule set indeed so no need for this extra buy.
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invisible officer replied to the topic Multi Launcher – Line of Sight or Spotter in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 11 months ago
From first BA that question came again and again. Naturally Katyusha units and Nebelwerfer used spotters. Not wasting amo firing blind in indirect fire.
The rule writers tried to make the Multi launchers weaker for game reasons but in reality a Feuerschlag from a Werfer Regiment was devastating. Round 1 – Game end. Just a few surv…[Read more]
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invisible officer replied to the topic Homebrew unit: Volksturm Panzerfaust Squad in the forum Bolt Action 1 year, 11 months ago
Hmmm, sorry to say but that Volkssturm pistol stuff is historical fantasy.
Being and old professional historian and worse, from Berlin, I spoke for museum with many former Volkssturm men and former boys. Pistols had been relatively rare and got used by NCO and officers and MG teams as secondary arms.
The pics showing organised Volkssturm…[Read more]
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