06-16-2014, 02:26 PM | #11 | |
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Re: Ogre Designer's Edition Official Errata and FAQ (Draft of 14 June)
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Suggested wording: "Add “Infantry mounted on vehicles are always a single group (if more than three squads are mounted, they are organized as a 3/1 group and a second with the remaining infantry).” to the end of the section." |
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06-16-2014, 04:08 PM | #12 | |
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Re: Ogre Designer's Edition Official Errata and FAQ (Draft of 14 June)
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Right now we have the ambiguity to suggest what your saying.... (Infantry mounted on vehicles in the same square stack) I thought they were trying to say they don't stack. Thus 3 1/1 infantry riding 3 LT tanks in the same square do NOT become 3/1 infantry for ATT or DEF. (Unless they dismount then they can become 3/1)
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06-16-2014, 06:54 PM | #13 |
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Re: Ogre Designer's Edition Official Errata and FAQ (Draft of 14 June)
From the published rulebook I got the mental image of three Lt Tanks (French of course) carrying three separate squads of squads of infantry through the Ardennes Forest come under attack from a NAC GEV. The French tankers note the incoming rounds and the infantry vanish, to be found next turn huddled together as a platoon under the trees.
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06-16-2014, 09:15 PM | #14 |
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Re: Ogre Designer's Edition Official Errata and FAQ (Draft of 14 June)
Page 5, Section 6, 8.06.1
What happens to infantry which is still mounted on a unit, when they unit is rammed? "they" should be "the" What happens to infantry which is still mounted on a unit, when the unit is rammed?
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06-16-2014, 09:35 PM | #15 | |
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Re: Ogre Designer's Edition Official Errata and FAQ (Draft of 14 June)
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The issue in the errata/FAQ instead seems to be what happens while the infantry is still hanging on to the tanks. In that case, I think that each vehicle of infantry should be considered a separate squad: * 1 INF riding a LT has a defense of 1 for combat purposes. * 2 INF riding a SHVY has a defense of 2 for combat purposes (see the example in 5.11.2). * 3 INF riding 3 LT each have a defense of 1 for combat purposes. This does raise another issue for 5.11.1 -- what happens if a scenario permits INF to ride a Mark III (or larger) Ogre? That Ogre can carry 4-6 squads, which presumably need to group in 3s per 7.12.1. |
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06-17-2014, 07:17 AM | #16 | |
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Re: Ogre Designer's Edition Official Errata and FAQ (Draft of 14 June)
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7.12.1 Attacks on stacked infantry units (p. 16) Add “Infantry mounted on the same vehicle always form a single group. Other infantry in the hex may not be joined to this group." Yes, the intention of the errata is that:
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06-17-2014, 07:59 AM | #18 |
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Re: Ogre Designer's Edition Official Errata and FAQ (Draft of 14 June)
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11.04.3 Ramming buildings (p. 22) Should say “A Heavy Tank or Superheavy may ram once per turn. A Heavy Tank undergoes a 2-1 attack when it rams. A Superheavy undergoes a 1-1 attack, and also loses treads as an Ogre Mark I if optional rule 13.07 is in use. GEVs and GEV-PCs can only damage . . . ” Compare these four cases in the current rules: 1. Heavy Tank Does 1d6 damage to building Suffers 1-2 attack (1-in-6 chance of D, 1-in-6 chance of X) Damage is equivalent of a 1.5 Attack Strength attack on the Heavy 2. Superheavy Tank Does 2d6 damage to building Suffers 1-2 attack (1-in-6 chance of D, 1-in-6 chance of X) Damage is equivalent of a 2.5 Attack Strength attack on the SHVY 3. Superheavy Tank using 13.07 Does 2d6 damage to building Loses 5 treads Damage is equivalent of three 5 Attack Strength attacks on the SHVY 4. Ogre Mark I Does 2d6 damage to building Loses 5 treads Damage is equivalent of three 5 Attack Strength attacks on the Ogre ---- The Heavy/Superheavy in #1 and #2 get off very lightly compared to #3 and #4. While a case can be made that the Heavy doesn't ram as hard and so does less damage to itself, the firepower-suffered-to-damage-done ratio is significantly less than in cases #3 and #4. The most anomalous case is #3 - it somehow manages to take too much damage (compared to case #2) and too little damage (compared to case #4, considering that SHVYs normally suffer a 1-1 when they try to be like a Mark I, 6.07.1) at the same time. |
06-19-2014, 09:14 PM | #19 | |
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Re: Ogre Designer's Edition Official Errata and FAQ (Draft of 14 June)
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Either the extra infantry squads are very vulnerable (maybe packed on a big landing craft), their maximum defense is 3, and a D result wipes out all but two Inf. Or the infantry gain some cover from the vehicle (Ogres are big and have lots of nooks and crannies to duck into), so multiple Inf groups fit. Ogre Inf capacity is size -3, and the largest size is 9, so the largest ogre can cary 6 squads. "Any ogre bigger than a MkI (size 6 or larger) can carry two groups." Both groups take spill-over so they are still pretty vulnerable. |
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06-19-2014, 09:25 PM | #20 | |
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