V3 List reviews: US Rangers and Alpini italians

[@craigcameron3378]

Excellent, I'm just beginning the game with V3 and US Rangers are my first force. Gotta love the Chaffee too

[@bazza1carter]

AT rifles were always good 🙃Now with the longer range even better! Sadly the days of the vehicle rush is numbered... no more ambush area denial waiting for that Flamer team in a jeep :( Boo!

[@andersolsen3237]

Where do you get the points for the Italiens?

[@boltactiontutorialsbybomor3846]

@@andersolsen3237 Kaspar used v2 points

[@edfegan6678]

Are the points for the Ranger squads correct? Seem low

[@boltactiontutorialsbybomor3846]

maybe not

[@bazza1carter]

7 vets = 91pts + BAR and special ability... definately.

[@RIGHTTitan]

Ranger squad is NCO + 5 men for 70 pts. Add up to 6 more at 14 pts each. One more man to bring it up to 7 is 84. 6 pts for the BAR = 90

[@bazza1carter]

@@RIGHTTitan Looks like a typo there from the source material - a basic squad is usually NCO + 4 dudes, which at 14pts a dude will give you 70pts. Unless there's something in v3 that states buy a squad get a free dude...

[@RIGHTTitan]

@@bazza1carter that'd make a lot of sense. Seems very cheap otherwise.

[@nehrigen]

I am hoping that 1250 isn't the norm. I don't want 40 dice games, that just sounds too rough.

[@hyperlite6558]

You can limit the dice amount. 1250 pts at 15 dice as the norm seems fair

[@bazza1carter]

@@hyperlite6558 15 dice cap on 1250pts? Take everything as vet and add a DV10+ tank... and spend 21/2hours trying to kill something. No thanks!!!

[@bazza1carter]

That's what's been recommended. That's not to say that it's a hard and fast rule although it will be adopted by most. You can always agree with your opponent to play less points or fewer dice. The Italian list is focused on Alpini 'historical' build so fast and light. Some of the missing stuff like AFVs will add cost and thereby reduce dice count in other list builds.

[@merlin4084]

I've been trying to make lists for my French as I don't expect too much to be different, in terms of points costs outside of vehicles, and most of the time I'm barely able to get above 18 order dice, unless I'm really trying to go mad. For example, I made a French list of nothing but Inexperienced units and vehicles and got 29 order dice. But that list was nothing more than 8 squads of riflemen, 3 MMG teams, 3 Mortar teams, and 8 Renault FTs. The only thing that list had going for it was that there's far too much there for anyone to kill in 6 turns. But after that there's very little that the list is useful for. Don't worry. I think the mixed bag approach will likely be the way the meta will shape out in the end, as specialising in one thing isn't likely to do very well in the long run.

[@hyperlite6558]

@@bazza1carter Fair. I guess it's just more so people may try to high cap the dice count to be something reasonable