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Expanded rule book

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captianbigmike
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all right i’ll admit it i’m cheap, poor college student. but does anyone know were i can find the Expanded rule book for free online? or am i going to have to go out and buy it?
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Just be aware they are optional, and not what I’d call generally accepted. Bit as long as you know who you are playing against and they are cool with it then you are fine.
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SNLF Paratroopers are just fine. Definant Paratroopers are reasonable. It’s just the Screaming Eagle Paratroopers that are overpowered.

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1. On stacking limits in a two player game you’re correct - 4 Units total. Only 2 units per player, and only 1 of the 4 can be a vehicle (whether it’s a Jeep or a King Tiger doesn’t matter). However in multiplayer games it may work a bit differently.

2. Units never block line of sight.

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5. You can’t die from defencive fire unless it was caused by a flamethrower; the three 6’s effect still applies. Except for units which are immediately destroyed (death by flamethrower, or a Carro Armato going up) the effects of damaged/destroyed/etc aren’t applied until the casualty phase after both players have made their attacks.
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A Possible Alteration To Aircraft Rules…

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The trick to aircraft is you actually have to practice patience.

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Over in the Rules Discussion of the Avalon Hill message boards, there’s that project called the “Historical House Rules [HHR]”, and it’s an attept to make the rule-cards more realistic and balanced for quite a few units (others were left alone). Has anyone tried using these? We gave them a spin the other night and they seem alot more realistic and had their actual historical capaicity on the battlefield. My only gripe is that the cards are in the A&AM colors, which means they’ll kill your printer if you want to print 'em up.

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Changing facing doesn’t take up movement “points.” When you get to your destination hex, you can face whichever hex side you wish. And instead of moving to another hex, you can change facing within the same hex.

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More rules help questions from a differnet newbie:

@djensen:

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Does this mean that each attack is set up completely seperately?Â Is there no way to combine fire against one opponent?

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Is this correct?

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