4th Ed. First New Rule Found

[vince hughes]

I've begun the rather laborious task of having to read through the 4th edition rules. I say laborious as I and a good few others mentioned so many times to APL or its Reps to have some kind of designation to show either a new rule or a revised rule and thus save Grognards reading the whole tome. MB has written on CSW or the GC that this is something he will apply in later print versions. I'd have read them all by then so ........

Anyway, back to the subject in hand. Having reached page 3, I came across my first rule change.

I see now that as well as 3 combat units and 3 transports such as lorries, it is now allowable to also stack 3 APC's. This would make 9 units PLUS all that they may be transporting. I have a vision of a 27 counter stack as 9 vehicles carry 9 units and 9 leaders. Gawd save us if we then have a moved fired, disrupted and demoralised units amongst them LOL.

Its a strange anomaly though in that APC's are hybrid combat units stroke transports. So I can't remember why we were allowing them to treble stack with 3 x CU's and 3 x Trucks.

The rule has been given the obligatory highlighter pen mark and it will be onwards and upwards. My plan is to get all rules highlighted in this first copy of the 4th ed I have and then in the next copy I receive in my next box-set, to use different highlight colours for new rules accepted, new rules rejected, revisions accepted and revisions rejected.