Rapid Fire! Reloaded - a brief solo try

Having just obtained the new slim and trim Rapid Fire! Reloaded rules I thought I would give them a solo bash using the 'Mouen' Normandy scenario included.

Must say I wondered what they could streamline from Rapid Fire 2 as already a pretty bare-bones set of rules (designed that way and work as intended).

Infantry fire is simplified with a cut down fire table with adjustments now to dice rolls for cover and suchlike.

Biggest change is that Infantry based in multiples (ie 2 figures per base) are a tad more durable as 3 hits are rounded down to 2 hits with no carry overs to next turn.

This helps AT gun crews (usually 3 figs) as you must inflict at least 3 hits in a turn to destroy them otherwise hits ignored.

Anti-Tank fire is also simpler (hard to believe I know) with armour classes now being numerical and therefore a hit roll is adjusted by plus or minus to dice roll when comparing armour class to gun class.

You need 4+ to hit an AFV target so if -3 factors overall its a miss (say maybe -1 for armour vs gun, -1 for cover and -1 for movement)

Gone also is light and heavy damage with AFVs simply being damaged or destroyed with 2 x damage equaling a brew up.

Artillery is as per RF2 and any AFV is still susceptible to 'death by a 6' if artillery firing is medium or heavier.

Morale and Close Combat seems pretty much the same with just some minor tweaks to factors.  

Only a brief trial of RFR (so I likely missed some changes) but seems like a slightly faster playing version of standard RF which may or may not be necessary/suit as per ones tastes.

The table from direction of German lines around Mouen

Germans around Mouen as Panther troop arrives on Turn 1

Shermans brewed by Panthers as Infantry Companies advance

Firefly Troop has Routed off table (failed Morale after taking damage from a PzIV) also some Infantry casualties from Nebelwerfers and on board HE

British advance with 'brightness of their rightness' as Germans defend in 'the gloom of doom'