4th Edition Rules - comment now or forever shut yer trap!

[Airlifter]

Well,
there is also the cold steel option from Infantry Attack. Is that realistic for WWI only?
Ottavio

It's not that it isn't realistic. Certainly there were times in WW2 when soldiers went to the hand-to-hand level. That rule was added to IA really to give it an unusual flavor. i mean, after you've covered several hundred yards of barbed wire, moving SLOWLY cuz you're trying to stay linear, and cut up by machine guns, when you finally get tot hat opposing trench you want to really kill the bastards dishing out all that pain and mayhem you've been experiencing. So we added the rule for "flavor". I don't think PG really needs that flavor added. And frankly I've played quite a few IA games and I hardly ever use Cold Steel. Too risky. Turns any punk unit with a leader into a potential killer. We also had originally about 5 or 6 types of artillery fire, but cut that back a bit as overkill.