"Prussian MMGs as 'artillery' for HotT" Topic
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| rsutton | 04 Nov 2025 11:20 p.m. PST |
More progress this week.. link Nā
Robin |
| Grelber | 05 Nov 2025 9:20 a.m. PST |
I understand the German MG08 as well as the similar British .303 Vickers was able to do indirect fire, like artillery. On the other hand, I don't think I've ever read an account of somebody being caught in indirect fire from the Vickers, nor have I ever seen any rules that allow this to happen. Still, since you plan to use the Maxims as artillery, you might want to look into this a bit. Grelber |
| Royston Papworth | 05 Nov 2025 10:42 a.m. PST |
Over the Top. (The Command Decision WWI rules) had a rule allowing for MG barrages. I think it was a British only rule, but old age may be ago play here… |
79thPA  | 05 Nov 2025 11:49 a.m. PST |
They can be a poor man's artillery by establishing a beaten zone via indirect fire. You can certainly call them artillery for the game, or you can use them as shooters and increase their range. |
| Eumelus | 05 Nov 2025 11:54 a.m. PST |
"Artillery" in HotT is artillery renaissance-style: direct fire only, with range about equal to cavalry charge distance. So heavy MG, in a VSF context, makes perfect sense for a HotT order of battle. I'm glad to see the paint conversion of the Airfix WW1 Germans into FPW troops – that was something I thought of doing way back in the day (along with Foreign Legion troops, with some knife-work to their kepis, as French)… |
| Kropotkin303 | 05 Nov 2025 12:56 p.m. PST |
When I was working at a museum in the UK we were listenning to interviews with old soldiers in the First Wold War. Apparently HMG were used in indirect fire during barrages. Somewhat curiously they were sited in corrugated iron enclosures. Report was the gunners went deaf! |
| rsutton | 07 Nov 2025 1:39 p.m. PST |
Yes, the term 'artillery' in HotT is (I feel) a proxy for longer range weapons more effective than hand held distance shooting weapons, if that makes sense. Best not to think of it as just meaning field guns etc although of course it includes them too. It's very much a reflection of the granular nature of the rules system
Robin |
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