Too Fat Lardies

Also a number of campaigns you get much higher support levels than in the basic missions and can then afford the expensive toys 😉 Of course, your core platoon is usually pretty shot up by that point, so you often need it! I have noticed for the high level support lists it seems impossible to get th...

I've gone with the same dark gray color I use for panzer gray. I prefer the extra contrast when viewed from above, especially since the top of the head is going to reflect more light than the rest of the figure (esp. in 15mm) and appear lighter by comparison.

Command Decision has 15mm, although the way their packs are set up is a little inefficient for CoC. I'm sure Battlefront (Flames of War) have them too: their platoon packs tend to be a good starting point.

The LeIG18 crew will be part of the infantry regiment (or schutzen unit) and so wear the same distinctions (White and pink respectively). . The PAK36 crew will again be part of the infantry formation unless they are from the Panzerjager/Panzerabwehr Abteilung when they would be pink. Artillerie reg...

You made me curious, as this is my primary period too, and I have some gun crews in progress that I briefly doubted! A quick search of period photographs confirms the artillerists wore the same uniform as the infantry (red corps color as artillery), while the armored car crews wore panzer black, and...

The shock is quite brutal, and in conjunction with the pre-game barrage effect can make it very difficult to get anything done. Theoretically, the in-game counter-tactic would be to start deploying early in the rear, so that you could rally the shock off before moving up to fire. In practice I'm ske...

It might all be a wash, anyway. The advantages gained by the attackers being initially concealed by the smoke as they approach would be negated (if not being even more disadvantaged) by being silhouetted as they emerge from the smoke. Agreed, the danger of presenting a silhouette outweighs most of ...

When the unit Breaks (Shock double the number of figures) you roll the Squad/Section Breaks event. The Leader Routed events only happen when those Leaders leave the table, usually due to the Turn ending while they are with a Broken unit, but also if a unit that Breaks moves far enough to go directly...

Just saw this as I was wandering through the other forum sections (I play CoC). If you don't have Platoon Forward, I would strongly recommend it, even for pre-rifle periods. The mechanics for solo play are system-agnostic, and the character-based elements can scale up or down command levels (a capta...

#1: My group randomizes which casualty result affects the leader instead. In this case a roll of 1-3 on the leader check would spare a member of the rifle team, a 4-5 would spare a member of the gun team. #2: That's how we do it as well (including proportioning the "5"s and "6"s as evenly as possibl...