@torros

The Battlegroup system has two modes of firing – Aimed and Suppressing.

With Aimed Fire you have to ‘spot’ the target each time, representing the crews ability to try for a killing shot through smoke, dust and general chaos of the battlefield. We assume all troops are trying to hide and make themselves a small target on the battlefield.

Suppressing Fire does not need to spot and its purpose is to pin down, rather than kill a unit. Pinning is very important in game as a pinned unit can do nothing until chits are taken to unpin, which in turn degrades a forces Battle Rating – their overall morale and army endurance.

A turn is a number of orders, rolled on a number of d6 according to force size, or a picked set number… a player can choose.

The player then activates units till they use up their orders. Units can do various things as well as the usual fire and move. Some units may have a communications role, other engineering etc.

The other player may also interrupt a players turn if he has units on orders that allow it – such as Ambush Fire. This keeps both players invested in each turn all the time.

@robert

Basing makes no difference, and nor does model size really (except the bigger the models the bigger the table).

All Battlegroup games are scale agnostic – play with what you like.

We use 10mm for NorthAG as it’s a nice bridge between 6mm and 15mm which to us has the best bits of both sizes. But the rules are designed to work with anything from 6mm to 15mm, and even 20mm if you have the room.

As for developments of the game, I touch on that in my interview at 5pm today so wont say much here…. 😉

@robert

Of the barrels I have had, the ones which were a little bent just straightened with my fingers. Not had to use hot water on any, but I imagine it would work.

Painted infantry pics…

I like the infantry models. They are the 15mm ones reduced down and done in Ultracast. Some mouldlines on a few but nothing that notices on the table… after all alk they are only 10mm foot to eye.

Ultracast stuff paints up very well and easy. I’m waiting on my British starter box to arrive and then I’m going to do myself an entire British force to go against my Soviets…