Too Fat Lardies

Restricted visability is the reason a tank MG is ROF 6 I do not see that applying to the halftrack mount. You are not peering out of a slit or 1" scope. Nor do I see it being run by one man alone. I would certainly not reduce a Hanomag-mounted MG34/42 to 6 dice. Plenty of visibility, stacks of ammo...

Or more correctly:

nota bene

where nota is from the verb notare, ‘to note’, as in ‘note ye well!’

Personally I prefer the hits as in open as I think grenades are underpowered and even more so now they are much reduced in number. I have not seen one used in last 2 years Yes, use of grenades does seem to be rare. It costs a whole CI to throw one, and there are always more pressing concerns vying ...

So, did anyone notice the SdKfz 221 has a two-man crew, a driver and a commander-gunner. That makes it a 1-Man-Turret, with all the wonderful penalties that go with it.

Kfz 13 has an armour of 1 - not very survivable. However, they do still stop rifle fire and cost you one point less.

Actually, at only 2 points they are quite a bargain. They used to cost 3 points and still do in the Consolidated list. Indeed, I think it’s unfair that they’re classed as low profile, when they’re fully as tall as a Pz 38(t). As further balancing I would add another house rule, namely that FT-17 cre...

FT-17 actually ain’t a bad tank for 1939/40 - under the Blitzkrieg handbook that is. For two points you get a very handy 37mm gun or MG, which can make quite a mess of enemy infantry. And, if you’re only up against Pz Is and Pz IIs or other early panzers with only 3 armour points, it’s actually quit...

Wartime photos suggest that mined roads were a thing — what we would now call IEDs. Typically they’d be found on dirt roads rather than cobble or asphalt. You see quite a few photos of armoured cars that have hit mines, presumably speeding along not paying attention to the road surface. My guess is ...

Hi Chris, Yes, we had a discussion about the various AT rifles a couple of months back, in a thread titled “World War 2 Anti-Tank rifles”. I seem to recall these larger calibre ones were huge beasts. The Finnish Lahti, iirc, was also very good. However, they were so large and cumbersome that someone...

Hi Levi, Yes, I would definitely go for “move on a 1”, especially in Big CoC. The problem in standard CoC is that you have so many uses for 1’s — not least firing LMGs — that you can rarely spare them on your armour, which ends up sitting idly by, often in a place where it can’t fire even if you had...