George

Thankyou for your post.

A Combined Arms forum has now been created.

Exactly, Nat, exactly.

@SteveT – I always have a bone of contention when people come in to a game specific group /page/ forum and then say play a different game instead…

I mean I’m here because I play/ want to play X game so lets talk about X instead of telling me the Y is better!

I have no idea….todays news letter says that skytrex has the official control of the ‘cruel seas’ brand….

Hmmm…..

(1) Play to the strengths of the army you are using. What are the Russians good at? How can you make the most of the edges only they get? As others have said the Russians have everything you need, from really heavy stuff to cheap convicts. You can expand them to give yourself more optionsI play Japanese a lot , for example, and don’t usually…[Read more]

Right.

Then if a howitzer is facing South and the spotter is somewhere North facing North, and he spots on behalf of that howitzer,  the howitzer is then lobbing a shell to its own rear, which doesn’t make sense to me.

Thanks Stuart. So, I think the intended way to do indirect fire for a howitzer or Fixed Mortar is to rotate the base so the target is in its firing arc. i.e. issue an Advance order.

There is another curious little question that is then raised. If a spotter is doing the targeting,  the spotter could be anywhere. Does the howitzer still rotate…[Read more]

It is a particularly strange thing when you have a howitzer who must use its forward arc for direct fire, but can fire behind itself if using indirect fire…

I don’t have Epic, I can only assume they are referring to deep formation from Clash of Eagles. A column formation other than march column is clearly a valid option. One of the things with Warlord stuff is they are not great at being consistent from one publication to another.

Not under the standard rules but they are allowed ‘deep formation’ in the Clash of Eagles supplement (p.96), which gives them some benefits in movement and combat resolution but greater vulnerability to artillery and reduced combat dice.

1. Well that is a bit unfair, the break tests are integral to the close combat results section.

2. No the victorious units excess casualties are removed after all the ‘necessary break tests’ have been done. This is a case of the rules not being explicit as the victorious units don’t need to take break tests. However it is implied by how the rules…[Read more]

Going off patchy memory & 2nd hand info (from the BRS readyroom FB group ,that’s run by one of the beta group I think) but its not a seperate printing but rather corrections done during printing.

I say i’m going off 2nd hand info because neither myself nor any of my local group actually have the midway starterbox!!!

The initial run of boxes did have several issues.. including the planes being put in to the wrong slots before being sealed which lead to large numbers of planes being broken in transit.  And IIRC yeah WL did acknowedge the connector size issues… if you let the CS guys know I’m sure they’ll replace them all for you.

Sound like you got one of…[Read more]

@ArtfulB….Albion Triumphant 2 pg 105 – KGL LINE have rifle mixed formation and are 40 pts

The KGL light battalions also have the same rule BUT are equiped with rifles so is pointless & NOT charged (i’ve done a breakdown of the points… they are costed for having rifles across the board)

@Stefan – KGL have rifle mixed formation during the 100 days (Albion Triumphant 2) which is the extra point. (their skirmishers fire as rifles).  In the Peninsular (Albion Triumphant 1) they are the same cost as the British Red Coats.

Ideas /suggestions for how to deal with Japanese with Russians…

1) heavy tanks – I like the IS2 or the ISU-152
2) protect the tanks by taking out the suicide guys… if you lose a unit to kill them – oh well
3) green inexp rifle squads sat near a Politruk (Stalingrad book) who’s out of LoS
4) Tank riders and /or assault engineers as Vets with…[Read more]