That said, why is the old Q&A still posted on the MMP site?
One might as well ask why the errata from
Journals 11 &
12 are not yet up on the site, either. Back when I was compiling the errata for MMP (quite a few years back), it took
two years for them to update the web site with what was then the latest compilation. All they had to do was format it for HTML and upload it. After that debacle, I (a) stopped bothering to compile the errata and (b) stopped expecting to see up-to-date errata on the web site. Off the top of my head, I think all of the US / Japanese / Chinese / Landing Craft errata and Q&A currently in the "Chapter H" section should be moved to the "1st edition" section (although each entry would need to be double-checked to be sure). The "scenario errata" section for
Paratrooper and
Yanks also needs to be updated. I'm not
surprised that this doesn't get done regularly, it's time-consuming and nobody shouts your praises for doing it. I would have thought that it's an essential part of customer service, though.
The bottom line is, the only way to make sure you have an up-to-date errata listing is to create your own compilation and update it yourself -- adding new entries as required, and deleting entries no longer required. That's what I've been doing since ca. 1995 ....
Do you recall the change to the dozers rule? NRBH.
I don't have the specific details to hand. IIRC, there was an errata note buried in the 1st ed. Chapter G rules for dozers. That errata note was expunged from the 2nd ed. Chapter G rules, I think following a query from me to Perry about it, because it affected the Sherman Dozer in the British vehicle notes as well as the US vehicle notes (and the errata had not been incorporated into the
FKaC Chapter H pages). I guess the decision was made that the errata was no longer desirable (it added a +2 TH DRM when firing through the front, or something like that?). Any way, the deletion of the errata from Chapter G affected the US vehicle notes in the same way -- there used to be errata for that vehicle, and now there isn't. Hence the "silent" change.
Given the "buried" nature of the original errata (a small entry in the rules for dozers, a rules section that I imagine is very, very rarely consulted by anyone) and the general non-appearance of Sherman Dozers in official scenarios (or even unofficial ones!), it's entirely possible that I'm the only person to ever notice this.