VB Lauchers – does anyone use them?
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I never used them before, but off-hand while they have shorter range than a light mortar, 2 of them cost the same as 1 light mortar, so you can equip them to 2 squads. They may come in useful for close support to provide smoke cover. They also do not suffer from the team rule, unlike a light mortar team.
Yes, as evidenced on page 11 of the Armies of France and Allies book (see also attached screenshot):
The VB launcher attachment for the rifle converts the rifle into a short-range light mortar with stats as follows. The infantryman equipped with the VB launcher can either shoot as a rifleman or as a light mortar.
It is like adding an LMG (longer range than rifle) to an infantry squad or a flamethrower (shorter range than rifle) to an engineer squad for 20pts, except that these are team weapons and require a loader/assistant. Some may say these are expensive, but they each have their use.
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“It also has a better penetration value than a rifle too.”
Good point, as its Pen +1 gives the VB a 50% chance of pinning a regular enclosed armoured vehicle which a rifle normally wouldn’t have (see Page 102 of 2nd edition below).
REGULAR VEHICLES
Fully enclosed regular vehicles that take a hit with a Pen value of at least +1 that can actually damage them (as described above for veteran vehicles), take a pin as normal. If a regular vehicle takes a hit with a Pen value of at least +1 that cannot damage it, it rolls a die and takes a pin only on a roll of 1-3, while on a 4+ it ignores the hit. This means it’s still worth firing heavy weapons at regular enemy vehicles in the hope of pinning them.And I just remembered this on page 72 of the 2nd Edition:
If a unit includes both normal weapons and indirect firing weapons (such as one or more light mortars inside a unit of riflemen), any mortar in the squad can pick a target individually, regardless of what the rifles and other mortars in the squad are doing. Ranging in is kept track of separately for each mortar (you might have to write things down…).
Assumimg a US squad has the maximum allowed 3 rifle grenade launchers, it will be able to hit 4 targets with one Order … this could be a useful option in the right situation.
I think the “largest” write-up on rifle grenade adaptors is on page 16 of the Battle of the Bulge book. I have attached a screenshot.
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