Nat

Warlord dont make mats, they get them from another company (name escapes me at the moment)

The issue is that most of warlord games are what I call ‘frame work’ systems not ‘RAW’ systems.

What I mean by that is they are a frame work for clubs and groups to build upon/tweek to fit existing models or terrain or experience from other systems compared to say GW or Privateer Press’ RAW systems which tell you everything from unit base size to…[Read more]

the game isnt ganular enough for that level.  so 3-4 guns is a half battery, 6-8 a standard and 12+ is a large (russian) one.  With the guns being classified as battalion, light /Horse, foot, and heavy/siege.

Dont forget if you look in the Napoleonic supplements and the rulebook you’ll notice some units change which type of guns they have … a…[Read more]

@steiner & Stuart – just to confuse things a little though… a rule of picking a target before rolling to hit is on the units of soviet snipers* in the Stalingrad campaign book as part of their special rules.

*sniper detachment & Zaichata squad

erm….oh you might be right… got me doubting myself now…

<runs off to check>

If you’re soviets….

A – you’re in a squad, have access to body armour so are pretty much going to get there…
D – none, upgrade to the Rok5 and cant be picked out

:p

overall though
A – dont lose an order die on a failed fuel check

(fuel check is my wording for when you roll to see if the flamethrower has run out of fuel – by calling it that…[Read more]

@Steiner, – yep, rece is only for unactivated units

@Nigel – the greyhound has the ability to rece away if it hasnt already activated… speed a unit is moving at is considered in the base to hit (ie not an extra modifier) for shooting – it’s speed does alter the to hit needed in assault.

@Stuart – indirect fire (the only way to hit top armour) has a +1 on the damage table as well.

@Stiener -…[Read more]

Hi,

i’ve put some player aids in the thread ‘news from the wardroom’ which you may find helpful…

but to answer your questions:

1)you always need a 4 or more after D6 + modifiers, so yes if you have more than 3 negative modifiers over positive its an auto miss
2) yep, 30″ max range against moving targets – 1″ is ~ 1K yards… so the 30″ range…[Read more]

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.

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.

So the new rulebook has started shipping!  (got my shipping confirmation yesterday),

Oh so background mixed in the rules paraghraphs again…..

Just to add
4) building are hard to bring down with canon balls… not the sort of thing that could be done in a short space of time (even a couple of hours).  Look at some of the building still standing that where under fire during that time period.
Also buildings are abstract,  its very hard to find a single building big enough for 700+ men to f…[Read more]

Yes there are no points in the rule book, however points and stats are still in the supplements

Hi Nigel,

re frontage yes in line they would have the same frontage, ie small unit of 8 models of Cav take up the same foot print at 16 infantry. when in line.

For whats easier, depends who you are planning on playing.  As IO said, ask potential opponents, you may be able to combine orders and get cheaper delivery OR they already have a force…[Read more]