Transport in NA series

I agree

That’s kinda of my point…who would pay 2 points MORE for 1 pt extra speede and 1 less armour?

Ahhh, Kelly’s Heros, now there is a movie I should dig out again.

@Rikolus:

That’s funny Grim, because our group has also been playing that the attacker has to roll 4+ afterwards to destroy the transported unit.  However, if it survives, we do put an immediate face-up Disruption marker on that unit (which gets removed of course at end of the turn if he’s still around…)    But we were not aware of the HHR you mention.
    Is it one composite set of suggested optional rules?    If so, could you post where the HHR would be found?

Ask And Ye Shall Receive

@Rikolus:

1)  Hidden Deployment.  After agreeing on the map and Objective hex, we put a divider through the middle and set up forces having no idea what the opponent will select or where he’ll deploy.

We used to do that for Warhammer and Flames of War, but now we use pennies we painted white and marked with the name of the unit underneath. This is so that we can play with a Fog of War sometimes as well, since we can move them around the board and the enemy still not know what’s there until LoS is determined. It’s cool for night battles too (or a good ol’ fashioned “dawn raid”).

@Rikolus:

2)  Four Hexes In, instead of Five.  Seems rather small and innocuous, but after a couple plays, everyone agrees that the advance into combat is more strategic and interesting with that two extra hex separation.  To make up for it, we play you can win on Turn 7, but game ends after T 11 (instead of 10).

We play on 8 maps (I bought a second starter just for more maps) and up to 3 hexes in. The tactical maneuvers before any shots are fired are way more complex than the 5 hexes on 4 map pieces. Blegh.

@Rikolus:

3)  Paratroopers cannot land in Forest Hexes.

We play with a rule that a Paratrooper must “target” a hex. On a 4+ he lands in the hex he wanted to land in. On a 1-6 he lands in an adjacent hex (it’s a hex and the game uses a d6, so it’s easy to determine where he lands). If he lands in a forest he lands disrupted. If he lands in a lake he’s removed from the game.

-=Grim=-

word up yo! :mrgreen:

@killercelery:

I finally made my choice.  I’ll keep my units in ziploc bags, but I’ll transport them in a used ammo box.

thats what  i do to, it works. why make it more complicated, i dont need to look like some mafia sniper carrying a big long black box around. allthough i do use a WWII ammo can, not my Nam ones. :wink:

A few of my friends and i decided that in world war 2 the artillery pieces were moveable. The conclusion that we came to was that if a tank or half track were to pull the artillery piece, you would have to roll a die to determine whether the tank could carry the piece. On a one two or three the tank didnt have enough strength. One disadvantage that we made was that the vehicle lost 1 speed to compensate for the weight of the piece. Another disadvantage is that it counts as two pieces and if the tank is destroyed while pulling it then the piece is also destroyed. when the tank is pulling the piece and both are in a hex, they count as one unit. Let me know what u guys think and if u have any better ideas. -PEACE

one of the defining characteristics of a “tank” is the turret, this is true. but over the years the difanition of a “tank” has disolved, most people would see some armored machine of war and simply call it a tank. Armor, a big gun and some weels/treds and you got a tank, thats what it really comes down too now a days.

allthough the Jagpanther didnt have a turret it was one of the first " tanks" with if my memory serves me a reverse axel displacment set up, allowing the thing to pull a 180 in a shorter amount of time than most “tank” turrets took to rotate front to back.