Hi Dave,Friedrich August I. wrote:Hi Dave,obriendavid wrote:Did you use the new artillery damage rule and BUA rules during the weekend games and if so, did they work OK?
Cheers
Dave
The Artillery-Rules did work well IMO eventually they need some kind of fine tuning. Something came up wile using. FIBUA is best to ask Colin our expert fighting for and in BUA
Günter
Having experienced an assault under the old FIBUA back in December when my 3 battalions annihilated a single defending battalion with minimal losses (bar my traditional pruning of the high command) I certainly thought the new rules felt more realistic.
This time I was involved in 3 assaults. The first was made by 3 battalions finishing after a couple of rounds with the Russian defenders making an orderly withdrawal after failing a resolve check (they'd won the round they left too!). The second with 3 battalions (though one decided they had a pressing appointment elsewhere) was repulsed easily (with spectacular dead heading of senior officers) and the final one ended in the wholescale slaughter of the defenders.
However, having seen one loss and one win by default, for this last assault I tried to put in 6 battalions (2 were shy this time), had all officers out and even then it was close for a round or two before finally weight of numbers and lack of Russian reserves told - 42 dice to 8 if I remember.
New BUA rules definitely a success I thought - much harder to predict the outcome, thus more tension and most importantly (to me at least), more fun!
Colin