Bolt Action 3rd Edition -

[@TheKenthor]

I like the new assault rules. A better reflection of WW 2 combat.

[@GDWargames]

Hi Kenthor, i agree much more in line with ww2 combat, i like them as well, :)

[@gregbradfield1686]

This represents WW2 a bit beter now you will need to soften those positions prior to assaulting. Therefore more tactical. I don't care for tournament gaming I play BA for fun with the historical part being more important and I feel with these new changes in V3 Allesio and team are trying to make it more historically correct. Tournament tables would be set up not to favour anyone, so what is on one side is on the other and this resulted in bland tables now in V3 tables will need more terrain and hopefully we will see unbalaced tables. As in real life the terrain was never balanced and my have favoured one or the other. This could make the roll off to pick a table edge so much more important in tournament play.

[@GDWargames]

@gregbradfield1686 I completely agree, I'm all for the historical side as well, I have played a few tournaments and wasn't keen, I playing in my first v3 tournament end of September and will see how it goes but I feel in the last couple of years bolt action has moved more towards the competitive side than the historical side, I will see how the end of September's event goes and then give my opinion on we're I think V3 is heading

[@arkenhemnall6224]

Personally I'm dumbfounded as to why pins still make no difference in combat. The whole point of suppressing fire and pouring rounds on to the target unit is to allow a squad or whatever to more freely assault the target. The more fire on target the more likely the attackers will get in with better effect. As such pins still make no difference, and with the nerfing of pins only doing a -1 max to shooting, and that rallying a unit rallies off all pins (and now on max morale value of 11, not 10) any bulds up over more than one turn of shooting is quite possibly a waste of shooting, meaning that straight kills are going to be more important than pinning. Also i think the new rules are that if your assault range is chopped to 6" due to going over terrain to reach the traget unit (or that any part of ypur unit has to get over/past any terrain) the that counts as defender in cover too. I'll have to double check. Obviosuly we will have to see over the next months how it works, but I can't see assaults happening at all/ very much either way. I love BA, and the macro stuff overall looks great (army selections etc) but I'm sceptical of the micro stuff. We will see!!

[@GDWargames]

@arkenhemnall6224 I agree, we will have to wait and see how it plays, the majority of the changes I like, :)