Recent content by Chris Milne

It seems you guys have had a good time with this baby. I soloed it once, and got a way into it before realising that using Pope's historical orders was really hurting the Union (why I was surprised by this is anyone's guess - I suppose I just didn't think through the implications), and I quit...

From memory of the ftf playing I had in September, they linked up. Didn't have an ounce of impact on the play, though... I'm looking forward to hearing of the playing. Who has which side?

OK, guys. It's been about 3 weeks, and ... Anyone played it? Unfortunately, I've been cramped for time just keeping up on VASL, but here's a thought. I think the Soviets are best off attacking from the railway line area, unless there's some obvious reason not to because of the German...

Having won this as the Brit, I would say that a German left hook through the grain might give better odds of victory than a main effort up front. However, that risks leaving insufficient time to break through and grab everything. Some success depends on the initial rocket FFE. If this can...

Methinks you will find the answer in the ASOP, if you can struggle through the list of possible MPh actions. Dash is declared before smoke grenades can be placed (which occurs within the unit's MPh and therefore counts as movement).

It's a good thing that Ole's around to correct my errors (within a minute, too!) Another new thing learnt this week, and a damn sight easier to deal with than the weird dense jungle/indirect fire ruling... :)

I don't know of an all-encompassing help file. There are certainly posts and such scattered around that cover parts of VASL. To grab parts of a stack: 'Expand' the stack by double-clicking so that you can see all elements of it. Use shift-click to pick multiple elements. Note that it's...

No eRB handy, so I can't look things up to support this, but I've always played it that the sniper counter must be rolled for as well if it's not selected by the player. I believe it's an eligible target and therefore may be chosen by random selection. I think where A14.31 uses the term...

Couldn't agree more. Timing is everything. I have a nifty ability to break my tanks' MGs, but keep intensive firing those MAs without any problems.

I confess to dicing Serge Lemay in our current Warfare HQ PTO tourney game (One Log Bridge). I have a squad with 2 lt mtrs hitting the treeline across the stream. In my last 3 fire phases, they've got 3 CHs (1 per fire phase) on the same hex. Not bad for weapons with ROF 1. Two of those CHs were...

You're going to be missing the desert rules (Chapter F). That prevents the following at the very least: [CoB]: Play of the 'desert' Mongolian Sov v IJA scenarios. [GH]: Play of beach landings (sand rules). [PB]: Can't think of anywhere that Chapter F comes into for PB. [ABtF]: Bridge...

> A Japanese light mortar ('knee mortar') fires HE at a dense jungle hex at a > range of 2 hexes. Chapter H indicates 'Air Bursts are NA' at this range. > Could you indicate whether we are treating this correctly: > > A critical hit is achieved. Should we apply the inverted -2 Direct Fire...

I'm not going to deny that. I think it was an 'error' in the original Chap H notes - just some wording that appears slack in this modern age of ASL rules interpretation. Got the response from Perry. I've put it in the Perry Sez folder, but a summarisation is this: CH applies a -2 TEM...

Hmm. More complex than I'd thought. I've submitted a Q&A to Perry - anyone care to place bets on the outcome?

ASL still the most played for me. Also play Gamers stuff, principally CWB/RSS. I'd love to get into OCS one day. GBoH features now and then. My main ftf opponent enjoys the card-driven games (I get to try PoG for the first time on Thursday), so they come out every now and then. Looking at...