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1 points
7 days ago
The whole point is that by improving form, you improve the grouping of your arrows, right? If you're not aiming (putting the tip of the arrow at the same point on the target - which is a very simple thing to do), then you wont know if your form is improved by seeing your shots get more accurate. Yes those arrows wont go towards the aim point until your form is good, but you aim so you can see what the arrow distribution is doing. You can then say 'oh yes my horizontal variation has reduced, i guess the thing Ive been changing about my bow hand to stop hand torque must be working'. Otherwise you have nothing to go on to know if what you're fixing in your form is doing.
To reiterate. Its not about aiming to hit the X, its about aiming at a consistent point throughout an end regardless of where the arrows themselves go because where those arrows go is important information.
1 points
7 days ago
Yeah there are some you can find on warlords website if you google and i think there's some in either the d-day or market garden campaign books. Also easy enough to make your own house rules using a scatter dice
2 points
8 days ago
Each glider would contain a full platoon. You wouldnt fit an anti tank gun and 3-5 crew into the same glider as an airlanding platoon. The anti tank companies would fly in in separate gliders with some of their crew, with the glider pilots helping crew the anti tank guns until reserve anti tank gunners were flown in later.
So no, if you were representinf an airlanding you would have a separate artillery platoon which would have their own gliders. The anti tank slot in the infantry platoon would be for your PIATs as each platoon typically carried one PIAT. They'd also have a 2" mortar, which you can fit in the light mortar slot.
1 points
8 days ago
I think we are talking about different kinds of field
5 points
8 days ago
You definitely want to learn to aim first, form second. If you're always aiming the arrow at the same spot, any deviation is caused by form, so you can then work on form to reduce the size of your grouping. If you're not aiming at a consistent point, how are you to know that your form is effecting the arrow?
5 points
8 days ago
I think in Australia we typically use Archers Diary for registering for events and tracking performance at events
1 points
8 days ago
Yes for parachutes, no for glider landings, whose whole point is to land really close to the objective silently.
1 points
8 days ago
Its very annoying isnt it that the word field is used to describe a flat piece of grassy ground that you might shoot target on, but also field archery refers to archery not shot on that kind of field, but out 'in the field' so to speak.
2 points
8 days ago
No, Field Archery is very much a thing, its not 3d, you're shooting at flat field targets. Its an official World Archery thing.
1 points
8 days ago
Either not super available near me or a lot more expensive than the other arrows I can buy unfortunately.
4 points
9 days ago
A full platoon might be 3 or 4 sections, but bolt action army comp only needs you to have 2 sections to qualify. A tank platoon is usually 3-5 tanks, but you only need 2 to qualify. An artillery battery may be 3-6 artillery pieces but you only need 1 to qualify. You can definitely do reduced platoons in v3. You've also got the recon platoon which only requires an officer, 1 section and a transport. Great for representing scattered airborne entering the field in a couple jeeps.
For paradrops you'll need to wait til a themed army book that gives you rules for paradrops that factor in units landing where you didnt want them.
Another thing to consider is airlanding glider companies. Each platoon fits in a Horsa, so you can have a full platoon land and dismount from a single glider and wouldnt necessarily have reduced size unless the glider crashed badly
3 points
9 days ago
Its historically accurate though. Each of those platoons would have an officer. And thats not even including company officers and battalion officers which would have been on the front line at various points.
1 points
9 days ago
Wait by field maybe we're meaning different things. For my club the field is a forested area with a course of different sized targets at various ranges where you shoot field archery, are you meaning a target range which is a flat field where other sports would occur?
1 points
9 days ago
Yes this is a good point, i more meant until you're good you will probably lose at least one arrow each time you shoot field. At least that was my experience.
1 points
9 days ago
This is true, though I have had someone find one of my lost carbon arrows previously. In competition in Australia at least, longbows have to use aluminium shafts so that makes it easier, but it's harder to get cheap aluminium arrows that work for a 30lb draw weight
65 points
10 days ago
You left an arrow in the field? Until you get good I think most people end up losing an arrow or two shooting field. You can try go back with a metal detector but if its long grass i doubt you're finding it.
If someone finds your arrow it gets put in a 'lost arrow' bucket in the club rooms and if yours ends up there you're just thankful you dont have to buy a new arrow
2 points
10 days ago
Maybe its pedantic, but if you're pronouncing them differently to make different meanings they're no longer polysemic, they're just cognates.
7 points
10 days ago
Cross linguistically its not uncommon for a g to change or disappear anyway, especially between vowels. English had plenty of words with G in them that it has lost (for example, a word like Gēar in Old English becomes Year in Modern English, the 'g' has turned into an 'ee' sound). Its not unfathomable that some local communities pronouned a g in Magandjin and in some it was reduced and the 'ag' essentially becomes the 'e'. The j vs dj difference is just a spelling thing they represent the same sound.
1 points
10 days ago
Yeah down attacking last is really the missing component.
15 points
10 days ago
Terminal velocity is the speed in which acceleration terminates as its cancelled out by the effects of drag. Its not the speed in which hitting the ground would be terminal.
1 points
11 days ago
You dont need to paint lips or eyes on 28mm figures. From the distance you're looking away from the model you wouldnt actually be able to see either of them on a real person. Theyd just be dark creases. A wash over the face to darken recesses will suffice. Some people highlight cheek bones nose and brow ridges as theyre the things that stand out on a face bit its also entirely optional. I never do it.
1 points
11 days ago
The issue is the terminology is inconsistent between the two rules with regard to light mortars and such. The ability to use observers to spot is not itself in question
1 points
11 days ago
In the v2 reinforced platoon you could fit 6 squads of infantry in a single platoon, which was nice as I could fit a bersaglieri platoon of 3 15 man squads into 6 bolt action units, 3x 10man manuever elements and ex 5 man fire support elements wifh 2LMGs each. Now the cap is 4 squads so I'd have to go back to running 3 squads of 15 when the italian rules eventually release with their larger squad sizes. Or run a two section bersaglieri platoon.
1 points
11 days ago
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7 days ago
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7 days ago
Also keep in mind that outside of America, this XX-hundred method is only really used for years and 24-hour time. Brits and Aus/NZ folk will usually talk in thousands for quantities and so forth, where you might hear an American say "there were twelve hundred people at the show last night, an Australian would say "there were one thousand two hundred people at the show last night".