Too Fat Lardies

Answering them one at a time. Smoke launchers on vehicles. They are mentioned on 11.8.2 - but I can't find any vehicle that has it listed - do I assume all tanks, or no tanks have smoke launchers? (as an aside, it makes for a good reason to include off-table mortars in a force). Assuming a tank can ...

No idea why they don't have a JL. I think their unpopularity is a combiniation of the lack thereof compared to pretty much every other combat unit, and the fact that they don't actually offer any new capability the core platoon itself doesn't already have. Which is a shame 'cause they're pretty much...

Hello Sharp Practicers! After getting into TFL through Chain of Command I'm now expanding into it's older sibling, Sharp Practice, as well! Having done most of my gaming in smaller scales since leaving Warhammer 40k behind many years ago, and my few 28mm+ forays since tending towards those periods a...

The pattern where infantry tanks become kind of irrelevant has been my experience, and I'm okay with that. Regarding balance, I'm a little concerned the list values won't balance - the cost difference between a medium and a heavy tank seems too small, but I guess play test first. That's kind of wha...

#1: Tanks being unable to normally use results of 1 or 2 is almost definitely intentional, to reflect their difficulty of coordinating with infantry in an infantry-centric game. Their visibility is *very* poor. That said, the command dice aren't really set up to accomodate an exclusively vehicle for...

Tactically the Schreck Tps fought as a whole. They were not used individually. Yeah, this is something I've mentioned before about their use in CoC. In infantry divisions they were a regimental support, part of the AT company and controlled in a similar way to AT guns. They'd be used in units and d...

Hmm, a bit of research has satisfied me that AP11-13 is at least in the ballpark for the strike values of 'fausts and 'schrecks, I hadn't realized how much smaller the bazooka was. (The 'faust may have actually been more devastating once it penetrated than the 'schreck, and that lends itself to a mo...

Hmm...I hadn't thought it through this far before, but if you wanted to price them based on their effectiveness like towed guns using the Coculator: 13 = Their primary strike (13 AP) +1 = half of their secondary strike (2 HE) 14/2 = 7 Support Points Figure a -1 for no JL, another -1 for a small crew...

"Chatty English rules", as a commentator of TMP once said, versus the SPI legal. style document. Well, I guess the summation from me would be: they is what they is. Rich I do not mean it as criticism, just analysis! There's a place for all different methods of presenting games, and they're each goi...

Well this conversation really moved on from when I started typing! I'm still going to post the analysis I wrote, because it was interesting to write out my thoughts and hopefully others will find it useful, as it goes into detail about the common thread I see in how the rules are presented. Rich - I...