George

touche good sir! :p

Hence the ‘upgrade’ being in inverted commas :p

but the unit is still called a sniper :p

There is also the japanese lone sniper…however if he ‘upgrades’ to an LMG he goes back to taking a team weapon without a crew so suffers the -1.

Good shout.. will need to go back over the rules.

Well as of wednesday, the RM should be shipping this weekend.

For anyone interested, Warlord kindly confirmed that this file is the same as that in the starter set, just presented in a more basic form online:

http://www.warlordgames.com/downloads/pdf/Pike-and-Shotte-Samurai-Army.pdf

George,  leaders only have to check for casualties inflicted after the unit is shaken, so probably only once in your example. (p.74 in BP2)

They got what was available. Begging and stealing.   In general those with Vorposten units had more and heavier than those with minesweeping ones.

It was a slow process. Even the large Vorpostenboote had to wait long for better guns and steel shields.

Yeah first thing I did but I suspect they have their hands full of epic civil war orders :p

A never ending story ?    Fools day I received a new UPS info:   Passed Customs.     OK, sounds well, but I had the same notice at the beginning of march. Postition is 3 days later still the same, just inside  Germany, not a step nearer to Prussia.

Over 2 months…… .    (It’s no true Brexit  problem, DHL too is slower now but needs 3 weeks…[Read more]

Well, I’ve been playing BP since day one. All my standard units are 36 figures, which is what they were, generally, before Warlord decided to subtly raise the prices by reducing the number of figures in a box.

That is not helpful, though. What is helpful is to know, or remember that there is no figure count in the game. The only thing that is i…[Read more]

I agree with Gary, too. When in Mixed Formation, it is the skirmish screen that is firing, not the whole unit. As only a small proportion of the unit is deployed as a skirmish screen, giving it an extra die based on the size of the unit would be unrealistic.

Same thing if the unit is in Attack Column, really.

The important thing is to keep the unit frontages  as close as possible.

I apply it such that mixed formations always have 1 dice, which is the literal interpretation of the rules. Giving them an extra skirmisher die doubles their fire power with only a 50% increase in numbers.

The 2nd edition ruleset couldn’t possibly accommodate the scenario books, but by and large there is good consistency with BP2, but you need to check  each specific rule that you select. For example the rules for Generals were modified in BP2 but you still have the option to go with the BP1 option in order to fit with CofE for example.  An e…[Read more]

Someone out there must have bought the Samurai Starter Set…

Going off memory, you get some for signing up & some more for following warlord on instargram & facebook..

If you go to the store and sign in then you can look at your medals and see why they where awarded.

Thanks Slarty. I think I have found Warlord’s “official” army lists, but for all I know they are the same as Greene’s

They come with the starter set.

Question is….can I get just the list booklet as I don’t use 28mm for this conflict…

Hi Steve.

Alessio says this is a hold over from 1st edition back when flame throwers hit automatically.
“I will errata it, stating that it just needs to be in range, regardless of whether it hits the squad or not.”

​Guess this means Flamethrowers just got a bit more lethal ​when clearing buildings.

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