Sad news indeed. What a fantastic legacy of game designs Dean has left behind. My first Dean Essig design was a CWB Antietam game in the late 80s "In Their Quiet Fields". So many years ago.
Thank you - that is a handy link. The correct answer is B) - no MG fire at all is allowed and the ROF weapon may fire once only in the AFPh as ROF was retained in the MPh.
I would suggest B). Only the MA has ROF - the various MGs do not (unless the MA is an MG), so additional fires should not apply to them. I don't see how the EXC in D3.31 changes this as it relates to halving of FP for BFF. I am using the latest release of the eASLRB (v2.01).
This might just be me, but I found that VASL 6.6.3.1 with VASSAL 3.6.1 retains the missing maps bug. Works fine with 3.5.8 (which is an easy work around).
That worked great with both 3.5.8 and 3.6 of VASSAL. Thank you.
I made a copy of my VASL extensions folder to include loading of the extensions as part of the test - all loaded fine under both versions of VASSAL.
I did try a Beta 3.6.0 and did see the bug with the maps, but didn't report it - my bad. I assumed - wrongly - that the final version of 3.6.0 would fix it. I will know better next time.
Some further details:
The board directory and the board files are exactly the same as used with VASSAL 3.5.8 - which worked fine.
EDIT - I reverted back to VASSAL 3.5.8 and everything worked fine. So this looks like an interaction between VASL 3.3.6 and VASSAL 3.6