Craig

@legere TBH all you need is a token to go on the table to tell you if the ship has a critical effect…. then laminate the ship card are write the effects on there.

Aren’t armoury cards are both discard on use (unless the model has a rule to keep it – like judges do with lawgivers) and retain like resporators

The OT130 rules are in Ostfront …. as Soviet only…..

However the FAQ/Errata does allow you to add it (any captured tank to any force) for no other points cost but gaining the unreliable rule (same as Finish T34s) and recommended that its kept at inexpeiranced (but for Fins I’d say inexperienced or regular is fine)

Its basically a T26 with a…[Read more]

Thank you Stuart.

I’m not surprised that Walord starts another  range and then……   Being one of the crazy that likes scratch building I’m less affected than many others. I had hoped for an exension to W I.  In fact most of my hobby budget of last year went into “hardware”, antique stuff up to 1918. Like the cap of a sailor from SMS Emden.

Cruel sea is not the…[Read more]

The last question has been answered by Skytrex when they took over the rage last month…. there are currently no plans to expand that range…

Why distribute rules with no models /plans for making the models – well a lot of historical games use multiple manufactors, plus you get the intrest of the company management but then not the sales to…[Read more]

my view is that (as I’ve said else where) CA is a few ideas short of completion :p

but BRS v ground targets – see how many hex’s defending aircraft are away… thats how many turns go by before they turn up…half the turns (or turn 4 if not on the board) to turn up disadvantaged?

VaS idea… transports are free but you get a % of the BA points…[Read more]

I would go with the attacking force choosing the game…

IE if air units attack then its BRS (either airstrike or sqn v sqn)
if sea unit then its VaS or CS…

For VaS v transports I would see how many transports / proxies for them I have and then allocate BA army points to each transport with 10-20% allocated to convoy protection

ie a 1K BA…[Read more]

Hi Richard, sorry that there is not a simple answer to your question.  The Black Powder rules give you the flexibility to decide how to build your units so that you can use them if you already have a collection and what ever sort/scale of figures you have.  This does make it trickier for people starting out.

The BP rules don’t work in stands.  Th…[Read more]

Hi Richard, I’m not too sure on the question but I think you might be asking about the number of Warlord epic scale ‘stands’ in a unit?

I’m not sure what Warlord expected, but for the rules to work best the key thing is that the same convention is used by both sides. It’s a good idea if all units (infantry or cavalry) are just about the same fron…[Read more]

Hi Ken, not heard a dedicated Podcast yet, but there is a YouTube channel dedicated to Napoleonics https://youtube.com/c/NapoleonicWargaming .

well… its official…. you only get 1 blue card …

so yeah if you want to play VaS or CS in your campaign your iniative card deck gets bigger :
& either VaS or CS was a later addition and someone forgot to alter the number of cards in the rulebook on the number of iniative cards you get ….

Its an optional rule for large games… I’ll just add that if you put them line astern unless both ships are destroyers you can be touching base and be over 4″ away!!!  … so you’ll find a house rule is if ships are touching base then they are at point blank range / in proximity irrespective of actual measurement.

ps if you look in the ‘news…[Read more]

Right, pin markers have no effect on To Hit modifiers for indirect fire.

In the INDIRECT FIRE section of the rulebook.

“When firing HE shells using indirect fire, a 6 is required to hit, regardless of any modifier.”  Then 5+, 4+ or until you get a hit and are then “ranged in”.

Other than that, as you said, they do affect order tests.

When you flip the token over to be concealled you take the plastic model off… you auto generate a scout (blank) token so your army will be in one of two places at the end of the move.

Totally agree with the 80% written, I feel its missed the mark on the campagin side as if you have more than 2 players (so pretty much every gaming group /club!)…[Read more]

So I have a question….how many of each type of iniative cards are you supposed to have?