George

The German 1944 Kraftfahr Zug / Platoon 30 ton had 10 Lorries with 10 Drivers and no co  Driver.  Zugführer in light car with a Driver and a Kradmelder with a motorbike.

For these 10 lorries and staff 2 LMG are assigned.  The Zugführer had a pistol, all others a K 98. The MG had no special fixing point on the 3 ton Lorry. Under air attack the…[Read more]

No. A unit is a unit. Size doesn’t matter where break point is concerned.

to be fair, most tiny and a lot of small units are skirmishers anyway and as such don’t count towards the break point!

The notes at the top of each army list States the parameters.

I see. Thank you.

Would be doing ECWs.

So you are playing Small = frontage of half a large.

I was think Small should be half a regular. Otherwise if  two smalls contact a regular on the same flank, wouldn’t they end up looking a bit odd? Or does it not matter?

Taking it to silly extremes, if you had a great big line of regular size units and a long line of small units, then these…[Read more]

They had rules. But often ignored them. By intent, more often from Need.

Lucien Rousselot is a must and if you take the time to read it in deep it will help a lot. How it should have been. 😉

At Waterloo a lot of very old stuff was still / again  worn. The battlefield finds show old styles of Buttons. In line and even guard units there was a…[Read more]

About the Soviet infanty (not just SMG) companies….lets be honest with something like 8 rifle battalion org changes (including 3 guard changes) between April 41 and  May 45  its no wonder people get confused as to when and how they where formed :p

I mean it reads like some units could well have ‘skipped’ an org change because it happened so f…[Read more]

Marder III is a small designation problem. The first prototype of Panzerjäger 38″ (Sd. Kfz. 139) with 7,62 cm . Only 27 Feb. 1944 it became Marder III by order of Hitler. Until October 42   344 are made. 176 of them on 38 G base.

In November 42 building was changed to the “true”  Marder III with German 7,5 cm. In that month the base was cha…[Read more]

Yeah it was one of the changes to the red army after the winter war with Finland in 39/40 (the formation of SMG equipped companies…. cant remember if they were their own battalions or just a company within the normal battalion structure… its also where the first tank rider units came from.. but thats another topic :p)

The soviet book does…[Read more]

Right. Having now seen the diagram, the light cavalry would require a two move order to charge the Macedonian flank. Once it has charged, everything I said earlier happens.

Regarding supporting units – The flank rule that you have asked about is something that you have misunderstood. When the rule talks about how many supports can be on each…[Read more]

Yes Al, thanks , some very useful pointers there.

I should have added a diagram to better illustrate the situation.

[Persian Cav]                          [Macedonians]

[Persian Infantry] [Persian Infantry] [Persian Infantry]

So the Macedonians and Persian Infantry are all already engaged. 2 Persian Inf are in support

Next turn the Pers…[Read more]

Now to be fair they wheren’t supposed to have kept the bearskins….just like the Voltiguers shouldnt have kept their swords or the 2nd, 3rd etc battalions their egales….

oops….

:p

If you go to the facebook group – ‘Blood Red Skies Ready Room’ and look in the files section there is a FAQ file (latest is March this year) by Andy Chambers (the Author of the game)…

however the errata section (so points change on the P51, the Yak1 & something else) has gone missing … again! but there is a file from about a year ago with…[Read more]

I assume you are talking about the light horse? They may attempt to charge the Macedonian quarter that they start the turn in. From what you say, that is in the flank quarter, so, they can charge the flank. Meanwhile, the three Persian units to the front may attack the Macedonian front. The Macedonians are in trouble, as they cannot deal with the…[Read more]

Hi Koin-Koin, It has now been approved. Sorry for the delay.
Cheers
Craig

soviets are easier because even in 1941 they have whole units armed with SMGs… its just that if you wanted to make 3 units of rifle armed guys from a box you cant….(oh dear what I shame out of 2 boxes of guys I now have 2 units of SMG guys)

But yeah..with Bolt Action take the rules as a starting point and common ground for playing people..…[Read more]

1.  You can use the emplacements as terrain peices or as basing materials… which ever takes your fancy.. there is no right or wrong answer

2. Yeah you dont always get enough of the weapons you want in the boxs… for example the Soviet Infantry box doesnt give enough rifles… so if you can either use them then count as normal rifles when…[Read more]

Make it that you take damage if you leave..the same as if you are becalmed or drop 2 sails levels.

another alternative is to allow the following ship(s) to target the one that has left the table…measuring to the exit point.  The ship that left can’t fire back as all the crew are attempting to tack the ship round