In reply to a comment by Neil Patterson about his recent battle report entitled LITTLE GREAT WAR: KAVKAZ CAMPAIGN EPILOGUE, Archduke Piccolo stated that:

One change to the rule set I will make is to increase the machineguns 3 Strength Points. At 2SP, they are too brittle. … I’m thinking of increasing the MG range, too, to 4 grid areas instead of 3, one more than rifle range.

It might not be such a bad idea to reduce to 2 grid areas the effective range of rifles (and MGs too maybe) whose targets are in any kind of cover. This on top of the existing penalties.

Part of the tabletop battlefield featured in Archduke Piccolo’s recent battle report. © Archduke Piccolo.

Interestingly, I have been thinking about this very element of my draft PORTABLE BELLE ÉPOQUE WARGAME rules … and although I had come to slightly different conclusions, I am now having a re-think.