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They are rare if using the lists to create your army

In Albion Triumphant 1, (mid + late), and clash of Eagles  they are limited to 1 regiment per brigade (so you could have up to 4 /5 battalions in a single brigade as Legere) and  in AT2 only 1 in 4 battalions can be upgraded to Legere across the whole army!

They dont lower the shooting dice in skirmish order as the whole unit skirmishes.  Its only mixed formations that drop shooting down to 1.

Legere units can be ordered in to Line, mixed line, assault coloumn, mixed assault coloumn, square, coloumn of companies (Clash of Eagles), Marching Coloumn or Skirmish formation.

You pay 3 points to add the…[Read more]

Intresting conundrum here…. I suppose because I’ve only played the game against beer & preztel gamers or historical gamers we’ve always tried lone wolf or pairs … we’ve also not played at about 600 points .. so 4 -5 planes with a mix of pilot skills

Now I’d think about dropping the points but not the board size… also play around with what…[Read more]

@james – can you start a new thread for us to discuss this in so we don’t take this rules one of topic?

Aircraft have a minimum move  so he’ll get one shot at it before  you past through..

You can’t outmanoeuvre people in clouds so run a swarm of PS2 guys and hide in clouds until he splits up his formation or you’ve got on the tail of the end of his column ..tail and shoot down his ..in a squadron of 5 you only need to shoot down 2 to break him

@Jim… you have to be careful with the glue from what I hear as its very easy to make the clear plastic bases go cloudy – I”ve not used them or seen them in the flesh myself this is just feedback I’ve seen over the years on vairious forums.

To be honest there is no point to giving the NCO a pistol…the game idea of the pistols is to give assault rule to the guys without it so the whole unit (less 1 guy) gets tough fighter in combat….

The actual TOE I suspect is that the BAR gunners carried the pistol as a secondary weapon…

Ok, reading the entry in question (us armies book pg 26).  It makes the distinction of NCO & Men in the composition line and in the options section .  For example it says NCO & up to 2 men can have SMGs, and upto 3 men can have BARs.

So the NCO can take a SMG but no other option,  the men part can change their rifle for either an SMG, shotgun or…[Read more]

RAW hat on….

If the unit is made up of 1 NCO & 5 men, the BAR entry excludes the NCO as he is not part of the men entry as defined in the unit compastion line.  However if you look at the Armies of the Soviet Union the upgrade options are normally written any soldier which is not defined so could be either the NCO or one of the men.  However t…[Read more]

Depends if you think the bunker could take a 122mm howitzer shell (heavy howitzer as found on the soviet SU152 – biggest gun in a BA army)… IF you think the bunker can withstand it then take it as a bunker if not then a building…

or you can take it as a heavier constructed building and say it needs an extra 1 or 2 hits to destroy

@Koin-koin – its from page 10 of Air Strike (although my copy doesnt have aircraft C!)

Air Strike is the Core Rules with some wording tweeked and the layout improved.  All 3 booklets from the core & Mig Alley + Air strike rules & extra scenarios added…. and a number of cards printed between the core box & airstrike

It’s based on mongoose’s v2 …not sure whats been changed but from what I’ve seen /heard from some of the YouTube videos it’s more tweeks than wholesale changed

@Dr Dave…. I’m also dsylexic (and dyspraxic) so spelling isnt my strong point!

1 – depends on what you mean by historical, unless you are looking at playing on a table the size of a tennis court with 101 charts and stuff like that there will always be an elament of game play

2- yes in the suplements (eg Albion Triumphant 1 &2 + Clash of Eagles)

ooh do share!

ps – for what its worth if Cunningham had been the british admiral as a Brit I would have liked it!  How about we see/ hear about the lesser known leaders in these historical based games?  (look at waterloo – everyones heard of Sir Auther Wellesley (but not by his name!), some of picton & Prince of Orange but what about about general Hill?  co…[Read more]

A rather generic idea ..would be… all of the men would be european flesh colour

British line Infantry – black shakos, dark red tunics with (colour -dependant on regiment) facings, white /grey trousers, white straps with light brown packs and ammo case on the belt, black shoes and waiste belt, grey roll on top of the packs

French Line Infantry…[Read more]

Due to lockdown the Chelmsford Bunker has a few of us discussing picking up BP, mainly peninsula war forces…we’ll see what happens when lockdown is over!

Thank you WL! (not sarcastic)

VaS items on the store have been updated now to read

“Please note this is a pre-order product and is due to be released TBC. <b>Any other products ordered at the the same time will be held until it is ready to go!”</b>

The other approach is just to play a KV1… then it doesnt matter what arc they are in, your still DV10+ :p