Craig

Intresting… (just doing a bit of reading up) Folgore was a single poorly equiped division (& was destroyed in the 2nd battle of El Alamein (the one british history remembers, but doesnt remember the Italins in it!).

So the Western Desert book having them without LMGs, but SMGs to make up for it is possible

Hi Matt, I think the pose is a limitation of the strip approach and the moulding process.  The pikemen ‘at porte’ with the pikes forward are sideways on the sprue (pics of the sprues on the Warlord site).  There are individual musketeers firing on the cavalry sprue to use as dismounted dragoons, commanded shot etc.  To get a strip of figure…[Read more]

Yes, exactly what Nat was saying. Do not expect consistency or fine-tuned balanced in some of the campaign books, as they were often design as stand alone experiences.

It could also  simply be they missed the LMG line in Western Desert, but it has not yet been picked up in Errata.  It is very odd that an infantry unit not to have that, unless t…[Read more]

ah yeah…. that would increase the difficulty some what…

ouch….. dont know which of the two posts is the harder to read!

OP has <tags> on each line
Stuarts reply is about 2-3 words per line….

:'(

probably best emailing the question in to the CS team then posting the reply here,

No,  their rules dont state that they have to be deployed… so (IIRC) the concensouse on FB groups is just having them in your list is enough

Only 17 months out and the other side of a BP (Napoleonics) version….!

Dont forget that if you hit the opponent takes a boom chit… boom chits win games not shooting down planes (although that helps :p)

EG you hit, opponent takes a boom chit they then try and save the damage (lose of advantage level)… when boom chits = planes +1 then they run away.

Theres the Japanese swimming tank with a waterlined version… dont think I’ve seen a Sherman DD waterlined one…

points on campaign books….

i) they are all (except when in a seriers like DDay or Italy) independant of each other – they like to pretend that only they, the core rulebook & armies of… books exist
ii) often they have completely different authors (this is why the same unit can have different rules!).  The Author will put in the rules they…[Read more]

Yes…. unlike a 15mm ww2 game the turret is just a way of changing the arc of the weapons….

1, Moral tests dont take place in combat…. its like game of thrones – you win or you die :p
2, every one fights! no hiding at the back

Bump so people can find it!

Ok… Local X has two parts.

Part 1 – If an enemy flight crosses its base during the movement phase you get X = AD against that one flight (remember flights move one at a time)
Part 2 – In the AA step of the gunnery phase you get to add X AD to the AA pool, but must target enemy flights in base contact with your ship.  Note some times these die…[Read more]

There is certainly a case that these units are given too many bonuses and special rules, however one thing I do is modify the close combat such that if an attack column charges into contact and fails to break their opponent, then they are forced into a disordered line formation, losing the +1 attack column bonus. This is a beefed up version of the…[Read more]

More Byzantine stunners!👍

Well…. one issue is which motorbike unit… (there are a couple of motorbike and sidecar units that go in the armoured car slot and have a higher DV)

I would personally NOT classify them as infantry whilest mounted (including bicyle and cavalry units) because they have taken the transport upgrade option…. however I dont think theres any rules…[Read more]

Yes, I got in to wargaming just as WRG 6th came out.  This was the era of Javelin, Dart and Heavy Throwing Weapon combos.  I can remember Byzantines having all sorts of cool kit with integral archers in units and loads of armour.  They seemed very cool to teenage me, so I’m not sure why I never collected them.  It may have been becuase I could…[Read more]

Gosh – those are stunning! Wonderful paintwork on those.  It is a very tempting army.  Was it this one that Phil B described as the ‘Rolls Royce of Byzantine armies’ in the WRG list book ? 🙂