Reply To: What do YOU want to see in Bolt Action v3?

[Mark G]

One aspect of the game has been puzzling me a while and feel considering how the HE mechanics work could better reflect ‘reality’ and totally change the way these are used in game. This is a conversation that was started between myself and a fellow player who happened to have severed in the RA, when I asked them how the use of HE relates to his experience.

My argument is – when using smoke it either hits the target you are aiming at or misses by a distance and in a certain direction as it has to come down somewhere.

Why then when we fire HE does it either hit or effectively miss the entire table? this has to come down somewhere and should be treated in the same way as smoke, introducing the possibility that you could cause friendly damage or some other unwanted effect.

Further more apart from the benefit of LOS that a spotter gives, the experience level of a HE team has zero outcome on the result. My suggestions would be.

Having a regular spotter HE team combination would increase the first time hit from a 6 to 5 and if it misses then the distance it misses by is reduced, the rest of the normal rules remain the same. (Veteran would reduce by a further 1).

Interested to hear others thoughts on the matter.