How much actual area does a hex represent?

I found the motherload!  Including how to make new maps.

http://aaminis.myfastforum.org/about30671.html

Lots of guys play 40K in my area, all the FLGS have tourney’s.

japanese soldier says “big tank make our things go BOOM! but i will make big tank go BOOM!, wait won’t i also go B-!”
Bomb explodes! (Soldier acidently blows up base waiting for a sherman)

Look left under you name.

The same hex is neither front nor rear. Currently this only matters for one unit, the Archer, since otherwise it would be able to fire in the same hex.

Superior Camoflauge prevents you from targetting a sniper in cover, but if there is another legal target (in this case the PG), then you can simply target it and then blast hits everything else in the square.  This is somewhat like firing at a transport, where you can’t target the unit being transported - but blast will still hit it.

By the way,  one other way you can do set-up that we prefer:  1) Look at the battlefield carefully,  2) put a divider thru the middle of the field so you can’t see opponent’s forces as they are set up.    Makes for a more dramatic and interesting design!    Also we add one other feature we like:  Start 4 hexes in instead of 5… again we feel it makes for a more interesting approach (in this case, we also add one turn to max length of the game, 11 instead of 10.

In reality, it was preferential to have infantry in front of the armor.  In most historical cases, sending armor ahead of infantry resulted in the armor getting devastated by anti-tank fire.  Being inside an armored vehicle, one couldn’t hear the enemy and certainly had a hard time seeing small units that were waiting to ambush.

Possible solution: It would be best if you were using a hex map with numbered hexes (like battletech).  Both sides can write on paper where they are deploying their units.  When a player wishes to move a unit, the unit is revealed starting in the hex it began in.  If a player uses the unit to fire it is revealed.  This way, if your opponent rushed armor onto the battlefield then they would suffer the risk of taking anti-tank fire from a very close range, and that would mimic reality.  Perhaps enemy positions could be revealed when you’ve moved one of your units into an adjacent hex.

Ambushing is such a basic element of ground battle and I regret that it wasn’t included in the rules.  I guess thats what house rules are for.

Here are the d-fire rules…

Just keep it simple…  when you move a unit… from one hex to another… if both those hexes are adjacent to an enemy unit, then that enemy unit can try to disrupt you.

Adjacent means same hex or bordering hex.

In some cases, you are forced to use defensive fire while the moving enemy unit is in a particular hex.  For instance, if an enemy tank tries to move out of a hex containing one of your soldiers, if you choose to use defensive fire, you would likely have to do so while the tank is in the first hex (your hex).  That’s because once the tank is in the next hex (one hex away), most soldiers attack value at Range 1 can’t result in enough successes to match the defense of the tank to disrupt it.

Provoking Defensive Fire: A unit provokes defensive fire when it moves from one hex adjacent to an enemy unit into another hex adjacent to that same enemy unit. The hex a unit is in counts as adjacent to that unit.

Soldiers and Vehicles: Soldiers don’t provoke defensive fire from Vehicles. They can move around an enemy tank or even enter its hex without getting shot at by that Vehicle. Soldiers can exploit enemy Vehicles’ blind spots to move safely around them, but enemy Soldiers see them just fine.

Defensive-Fire Limit: A given unit can make only one defensive-fire attack per phase. For example, a US bazooka team fires defensively against a German tank in the Axis player’s movement phase, but when a second German tank moves into the bazooka team’s hex in the same movement phase, the bazooka team can’t use defensive fire—it’s already fired defensively this phase. During the Axis player’s assault phase, the bazooka team will be able to use defensive fire again.

Optional Defensive Fire: You aren’t required to use your defensive fire if you don’t want to. For example, if your opponent moves a weak unit to provoke defensive fire from one of your units, you can choose to “hold your fire” and let the weak unit pass in order to be able to use defensive fire against a more dangerous enemy moving later in the phase.

Multiple Defensive Fire: If more than one unit has the option to take defensive fire, you can make one unit’s attack before deciding whether the other units also attack.