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Mike, two things,
1) most game systems keep points cost calculations in-house to stop people creating their own units that can then break the systems. We can extrapulate a number of the costs but with tanks you have roundings and (hopefully) proportional costs so costs from that wont be exact. To put a build your own tank program out is bad for the part of buisness of selling books.
2) what we have in BA v3 is get-you-by lists only that give us enough options to field 90%+ of what WL produce / sell model wise. We’ll see end of january with the release of the german book just how much is ported over from v2 from the campaign books. <fingers crossed>the v3 get-you-by lists are copy and pastes with minor CORE rule changes from the armies of books … historical unit changes werent updated – even those that have been in the v2 FAQ for YEARS!
The campaign book corrections likewise havent been factored in to the get-you-by lists…
We currently dont have any dates for when the minor nations will be updated to v3 properly – but the 5th of the major nations is January 2026, so most likely after that 🙁
-And yes thats the answer to both your questions, please dont think too much about the stats – Bolt Action is history past through the filters of comic books, ‘common knowedge’ & films rather than a historical simulation…
Barrage or any indirect that hits a building /unit in a building then tests to see which floor it explodes on! – You can either target empty building OR units within building, but you cant target buildings that have units inside. (gameplay reasons). This means when calling in a barrage you roll for every building in range as if its a unit because you might just blow it up!
From v2 (cant recall if majorly different in v3) any level where you could stand /place models is counted as a floor plus any shaped roof. You roll starting from the roof to see if the shell explodes (4+). If not roll on the next floor unit either you hit the lowest level OR the shell explodes.
You then roll to see the number of hits the shell does, as 10+ will bring the building down, even if the floor is empty. If not empty you then half the hits if down and roll the FULL number of hits against the unit occupying the floor – yes this means you can hit models multiple times.
So buildings… in real life are great hiding places… right up until spotted then they become death traps when targeted by artillery. So that bits correct. As is ruins making for far better cover and protection. (The German army hated that the Luftwaffe had bombed stalingrad before they attacked for that reason).
As to using them – yes because I like to make themeatic tables, and only after the troops have engaged or theres been a prep bombardment on a specific defended area would you not have buildings.
oh I fully agree that WL could and SHOULD have read through their own v2 FAQ and made sure that every point was covered in the rules…. but they didnt so the v3 FAQ is going to be longer than that of v2 🙁 – although I read that FAQ entry as extrapulating /using the HQ as precedence for not allowing it. In v3 the rules are that the HQs are the limited exceptions (so yeah its a 180 in what HQs can do but no in spotters)
there was a couple of spotter vehicles in the later campaign books…
My point was that spotters are only 10 points each and not locked to their parent weapon anymore so if you give them more maneoverablity & surivability you are increasing what you get for that 10 points
