Master Chief

Thanks, I agree. The minefield rules across the books (Battleground, Duel and Western Desert) are consistent. The “confusion” arises on how these rules are to be applied to clearing barbed wire, specifically using bangalore torpedoes.

The “special rules” for bangalore torpedoes that appear in the stats for many engineer units in the Overlord book…[Read more]

Thanks, but Easy Army only tries to put in the rules, it is not the rulebook. Where did Easy Army get the 2D6 from? The “Blowing it Up” section should be used only for weapons, because it mentions to use the HE value of the “weapon”, and I do not think bangalore torpedoes have a HE value. This leads me to think it should point to “Manual clearing”…[Read more]

I was thinking the “bangalore torpedo” special rule” was refering to this (I made changes in italics):

Overlord book, page 195

MANUAL MINE BARBED WIRE CLEARANCE BY INFANTRY
Any infantry unit that has at least five models inside near a minefield barbed wire can be ordered to attempt to clear it using their
bayonets cutters. The unit must be…[Read more]

I got the attached screenshot off Google books.

The “crew is stunned” part is just a lead in descriptive. In Bolt Action rule terms you just give the tank 1 more pin, and flip its Order die to “Down” if it has one, or take one out from the bag and give it a “Down” if it does not already have one. This simulates the crew not being able to do anything for the rest of the turn.

Check out the tread “Transport Vehicles” for a ewcent discussion on this.

Yes it should have both transport and tow capabilities while the 250/9 does not.

I believe the turret gives a tank 360° arc of fire, with no penalties. As for MGs, I do not think they give 2 pins.

I am guessing the door hinges are on the left of the door (when you are outside the truck looking straight at the driver’s door), and not on the right where they usually are. So the door swings open “clockwise” and not the usual anti-clockwise.

Page 79 of the 2nd edition, attached screenshot.

Haha I think you can still roll 2 dice and apply both results … one after the other, unless of course the first one destroys the vehicle. I do Stuart’s point about applying all damage dice simultaneously instead of sequentially. But I have always thought all hits from a single firing unit on a single target will score only 1 pin regardless of…[Read more]

Wow, there are rules hidden all over the place 😂 So no Pen for the D6 hits that passengers take for a vehicle being destroyed 👍

<p style=”text-align: left;”>My view isnthe “as per normal” refers to the normal way passengers are affected when a transport is destroyed i.e. take D6 damage and immediately disembark. It doesn’t say anything about adding Pen values, so it is just D6.</p>

Open-topped apply only to armoured vehicles (7+), not to soft-skinned (6).

Haha silly me, I never noticed 🤦‍♂️

I thought that fire from the same unit at a single target, regardless of number of weapons used, will only cause 1 pin if hit. In this case one of the hits destroyed the transport, so the panzerfaust shouldn’t cause another pin right?

For open topped armoured vehicles, small arms can only pin them (see attached page 118). Sniper fire against soft-skinned open top vehicles will destroy the vehicle when it scores damage. For armoured open top vehicles it can only pin.

Refer to 2nd edition page 116 (attached screenshot), the passengers should take the same number of pins.

For your 2nd question, we normally roll dice for each weapon type separately to determine which weapon hits/damages (although this might happen differently in reality where weapons are fired simultaneously). This is done as each weapon type…[Read more]