Ha with FOW's sliding scale the models can be inside each other yet 50m apart!sespe wrote:How did you make flames of war look so realistic?
Tank Troop Deployment
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Truscott Trotter
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Re: Tank Troop Deployment
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LOL! Nice photo of a tank parade. I think they may have found doing that in action a bit harder.
Okay, thinking behind this. Of course, in CoC you are not going to have a lot of vehicles and they are arriving in a column by road. So, the rule was designed to reflect the fact that in a column of march vehicles are usually a hundred yards apart, often more if the enemy has air superiority.
However, if you are playing Big CoC with whole platoons, you could equally rule that your tank platoon had broken out into a brietkiel or similar formation before entering the table. In which case more than one AFV entering in a phase is legitimate.
Its not a rule I am precious about. So do as you like, so long as you apply the rule to both sides evenly.
Rich
Okay, thinking behind this. Of course, in CoC you are not going to have a lot of vehicles and they are arriving in a column by road. So, the rule was designed to reflect the fact that in a column of march vehicles are usually a hundred yards apart, often more if the enemy has air superiority.
However, if you are playing Big CoC with whole platoons, you could equally rule that your tank platoon had broken out into a brietkiel or similar formation before entering the table. In which case more than one AFV entering in a phase is legitimate.
Its not a rule I am precious about. So do as you like, so long as you apply the rule to both sides evenly.
Rich
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Truscott Trotter
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You could of course say that with the short time frame of a phase that arriving in separate phases is close to simultaneous as practicable..........you could 
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I can understand the concept of spaced armoured deployment when it comes to roads, but without? However, in argueing with the rule mechanics, I don't see the point of having junior leaders in every tank and a senior leader as platoon commander on top when rolling command dice is pointless if only one vehicle per phase can enter. IMHO, the contradiction lies in the fact that usually the AFV are assigned as support to infantry platoons, whereas in the Big version they are controlled by one player on their own. or not?