Mark Prichard

The Japanese Banzai Rule allows a Japanese Infantry unit to run at the closest visible enemy and shed a pin marker.  Units in a Transport do not have line of sight so they cannot assault from a transport vehicle.  So can a Japanese Infantry unit Banzai from a transport?

If a unit has salvo, it will cause the targeted unit to immediately take a break test is a casualty is inflicted. What happens if a unit is charging and a unit uses salvo against it during its closing fire and the break test results in a “stands it ground”? Does the unit finish its charge or is it stopped?

If a unit is given the charging order but does not have enough movement to actually reach the targeted unit, may that fire during the fire phase?

Can dragoons fire their firelocks from horseback, or do they have to dismount in order to fire?

Soviet Shtrafbat squads allow a Squad to have up to 7 unarmed men. According to the Armies of the Soviet Union unarmed men neither shoot or attack in close quarters. In the errata on page 16, it says that unarmed models have no ranged attack but may fight in close quarters combat. So which one applies in close combat?

Can Officers stack their morale bonus so that a units gets the benefit of two officers morale bonus if in command range?

I remember a thread about this topis previously, but could find it. So if an officer is on a transport during the reserve roll does he give his morale bonus to the transport for its order test?

If a transport and an infantry unit are coming in from reserve. Do you prior to making a reserve roll for the transport have to designate whether the infantry is in the transport or not? Otherwise you could fail the roll for the transport and then roll to bring on the infantry by itself.

In a number of scenarios instead of deploying on the table, the forces come in on the first wave or reserve. When coming in on the first wave the rules state that no order test is needed for units coming in on the first wave. However, the shirker special rules says that they must be given a order regardless of pins. So do shirkers have to make…[Read more]

If a rocket launcher targets a unit that recces away out of line of site, does the launcher still get to target all the other units within 6″ as normal?

When troops are dug in, they are considered down even if they are not there is a -2 to the hit roll and halves the hits for HE. If given a down order it is compounded so -4 to hit, but does that mean it halves the HE hits again? So if you get 8 hits from an HE4 it would be halved to 4 hits and halved again to 2 hits?

Also, if troops are in a…[Read more]

The rules state that when a unit in a wooden building is shot at by a flamethrower, on a follow up roll of 4,5 or 6 the building is on fire. Does the flamethrower have to hit the unit in order to light the building on fire or can it light the building on fire even if it misses?

When conducting a preliminary bombardment or artillery barrage, does a mortar/artillery spotter get targeted as a separate unit or is it just the mortar/artillery?

According to Easy Army the 320mm Spigot Mortar uses the 4″ template, does D6+2 Pins and has a +1 penetration.  Does that mean it has an overall penetration power of +5 (4″ HE +which would dole out +4 Pen plus an additional +1 pen) or is it limited to only +1 penetration overall?

If a infantry unit successfully assaults an armored vehicle but fails to destroy it because it either fails to penetrate its armor or only gets a crew stun, immobilization or a fire does the vehicle take a pin for the assault or only the pin per the damage roll?

If a unit is down and is charged the rules says that hit cannot do exchange of missiles and fights after the charging unit.  What happens if it survives the first round of combat?  Does the Down unit continue to be Down for follow up combat?  I think it is still considered Down regardless.