Re: Pre-battle reconnaissance
I would agree with Big Al. The spotting rules we have are pretty good.
What you have suggested would be interesting but I would worry that it
will slow the game up and may mean that it may not be
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nick.skinner@...
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#88
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Re: Pre-battle reconnaissance
Richard
What sparked the thought?
Was it the fact that we have seen examples of attackers being thrown off
balance by some "unexpected" forces/dispositions, if so I might argue that
better use of
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Alan Reynolds <gfy07@...>
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#87
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Pre-battle reconnaissance
Gents
A pre-battle reconnaissance system has just struck me, that would
allow for an attacker to have some prior knowledge of what he is
coming up against.
At the start of a game there is a facility
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richardclarkerli
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#86
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Re: Rifles against tanks
Probably a "What?!!" but I am sure that "we are unworthy" (this was typed
whilst grovelling in front of the holy writ as received on my equally
unworthy computer).
Alan
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Alan Reynolds <gfy07@...>
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#85
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Re: Rifles against tanks
Am I a God or what?!!
wrote:
in late
Bren
Panthers).
inside
make the
visors
tank would
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richardclarkerli
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#84
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Re: Rifles against tanks
According to the oracle in these matters (my father-in-law), even in late
war, the anti-tank platoon when all else had failed would load up a Bren
with AP rounds and try and hit the same spot on a
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Trevor Harwood <TrevorH@...>
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#83
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Re: Rifles against tanks
Sounds good to me, there was always a chance that vision blocks or visors
etc would be hit and any calibre bullet whizzing round inside a tank would
make the crew uncomfortable to say the
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Alan Reynolds <gfy07@...>
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#82
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Rifles against tanks
As some of you may realise their is a function in the rules that
allow rifle sections to fire on weakly armoured vehicles and drive
them back. This was originally written to stop people driving all
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richardclarkerli
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#80
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Re: Rifles against tanks
Asbolutely right (for a change), Buttoned up tanks with lots of fire coming
in-good chance of the vehicle at least backing off.
In addition, if scots are involved and accompanied by a piper, the
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mikeqchromeuk@...
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#81
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Re: Norwegians?
Nod
Saw that first site the other day. The officer's "kepi" is pretty
easy, I'll just use the heads from 1870s Wurttemburgers, but the
Finnmarkslue, as you so eloquently put it, is less clear. I
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richardclarkerli
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#78
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Re: Norwegians?
Your right, the caption on the pic states they were used for policing. But
knowing the frogs, maybe some had surrendered before the outbreak of
hostilities.
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mikeqchromeuk@...
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#79
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Re: cretin
I rest my case.
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richardclarkerli
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#76
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Re: Norwegians?
Aynsley,
Not too well read on the campaign - the naval conflict was one of the most
interesting of WWII.
take a look at http://www.nuav.net/Nouniforms.html. looks like very little in
the way of a
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mikeqchromeuk@...
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#77
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Re: cretin
richardclarkerli@... writes:
Have you been watching those strange films again?
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mikeqchromeuk@...
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#75
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Norwegians?
This may seem a trifle daft, but does anyone know of any manufacturer
of 15mm Norwegians for 1940? I want to extend the supplement on the
Russo-Finish war to include this campaign as well. It's a
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richardclarkerli
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#74
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Re: cretin
Sounds like a victory for common sense. Well done the discussion group,
our value is proven! (actually, that deserves another exclamation mark
so her it is: !)
Richard Clarke wrote:
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nick.skinner@...
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#73
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Re: The skirl of the pipes
Haven't you heard "Deutschland Deutschland Uberalles" on the bagpipes? And
hopefully you never will.
Were the peeps as effective later in the war as many replacements to
Scottish units were not
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Trevor Harwood <TrevorH@...>
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#72
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Re: cretin
No. It was aimed entirely at you, essentially for
your puerile overuse of the exclamation mark! (see,
one's enough)
I am saying that it should provide a movement bonus,
but not with a card. The
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richardclarkerli
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#71
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Re: The skirl of the pipes
"Donald was ordered to play "Pibroch o' Donald Dubh" which luckily the Black Watch recognized."
Who the hell else would have been playing the bagpipes? or were the Germans using bagpipers at this
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Harpers
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#69
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cretin
Presumably your cretin comment is aimed at those who either don't bother to
read or fail to understand an argument. The use of a bonus card, in other
words a command and control bonus, is precisely
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mikeqchromeuk@...
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#70
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