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Played a great game tonight! Brtist seizing their objective on Turn 7 for a minor Victory!

On turn 5 - I had two British infantry units within initiative and movement range of one of my opponents Panzer IVs.

One was in position to assault the rear and one the flank of the Panzer. Neither unit could be shot at on the way in as they were out of LOS of the tank and my opponent had left it unsupported with no other units within 10cm!

I assault moved both units in - the one attacking the flank had to do so through a hedge.

This is how we worked out the attacks - please could you confirm we played it correctly.

Panzer IV rolled 1 dice needing a 4+ to hit (3 basic, with -1 for being attacked in flank and another -1 for being attacked in the rear.

Any hit secured by the PzIV would be allocated to my unit attacking its flank.

My unit assaulting the flank rolled 5 dice, (4 basic with +1 for assaulting) needing 5+ to hit due to attacking over a hedge.

My unit attacking the rear rolled 5 dice (4 basic with +1 for assaulting) needing 4+ to hit.

If either of my unit's seured any hits on the Panzer IV its save would be reduced to 6+ due to being hit in the flank/rear.

Did we play it right?

Regards

Andy

Sounds good to me!

Phew!

Needless to say - the Panzer IV went up in flames!

In fact both of my opponents Panzer's were Ko'd in Close Assault clearly reflecting the vunerability of unsupported AFV's to infantry at close quarters!

Regards

Andy

It's a nice feeling successfully assaulting tanks

Thinking back we had another CA question as well - but in the end we avoided having to deal with it!

In the Initiative Phase - if a unit is within 10cm of a unit that has already moved into Close Assault using its own initiative - does it physically have to move in order to support the attack?

Or can it just declare its is supporting the other units assult and stay in position?

If so - I assume it is still subject to Counter-Fire?

Regards

Andy

Thinking back we had another CA question as well - but in the end we avoided having to deal with it!

In the Initiative Phase - if a unit is within 10cm of a unit that has already moved into Close Assault using its own initiative - does it physically have to move in order to support the attack?

Or can it just declare its is supporting the other units assult and stay in position?

If so - I assume it is still subject to Counter-Fire?

Regards

Andy

The unit in support can stay still according to the rules. The example Pete used in the book was from BKC I and in the old rules support had to move -- a bit too much like Warmaster. Anyway, Pete rectified the rule in CWC and BKC II but didn't change the example in the latter.

Chris