So, in answering a question for another board member, I've come across an issue that GF9 needs to address...

Nothing in the rules prevents active tanks from ending their Movement on top of other active tanks.

This leads to a second issue...

With the exception of Assault Guns, nothing in the rules prevents a tank in such a stack from shooting another tank directly above or below it in that stack (though the "any other tank" clause of the Line of Sight rule makes below arguable).

Can anyone give a page reference/ruling link that disputes this?

Just picked my jaw up.
Words fail me.

In casual play, no, you don't. But in a game with a tournament scene, that which is not prohibited by the rules as written is allowed.

Best to get an official ruling/errata on this from GF9 before folks paint jobs get messed up.

Same story with moving over tanks.

Sure but sometimes there is no space to make a imaginary "around" route. 1 move can move a tank around a tank. Like jumping. I is legal, right?

Joining in the "silly season" of unusual things...

On my way home as I was stuck in a traffic jam, thank you York Ring Road, I realised two more things, one similar to the tank stacking.

1. There is nowhere in the rules that says you cannot lay your tank on one side, only that it has to be square to the arrow. so you could move forward and then tip the tank on one side with its track touching the arrow., thus reducing the front aspect to any potential attackers and giving you a better chance of hiding it with other tanks.

Silly?, most definitely, as ridiculous as tank stacking? most certainly, disallowed in the rules? no.
As a quick test just now,
4 T34/85s are easily stackable if they have the flat cupola.
Stug G, Comet,Cromwell and ISU152 are splendid side dwellers.


2. There is no requirement for a player, when shooting with a tank, to target the ENEMY player's tanks.
Consider, two buildings as near as they can be to each other,. As a Brit I drive 2 sherman V (4 hit points) in between the houses, making sure there isn't a gap wide enough for a tank to drive through.
I have 2 stationary Fireflies behind them and close range. It's quite acceptable, rules wise, to shoot the shermans with the Fireflies as the higher init tank only has to "pick a target".
The Shermans are destroyed and so block the way between the buildings, forcing my opponent to have a much longer drive round to get to me.

In this case, the attacker and defender player is one and the same.

As I have stated before, one would hope that if anyone in a tournament tried the stacking or lay on the side that they would be immediately ejected for unsportsmanlike play (or just for being a t**t) and forfeit their entry fee.

Stacking - it is weird - Imagine this! You move a fast tank to finish it's move in top of another tank THEN You activate a tank underneath and moves another X moves. This way You can get a moving-stationary tank using other tank as a free ride :)

Shooting Your own tank - sure You can.

Moving through - I accept this explanation - simultaneous movement follows the idea of a destroyed tank shooting.

Nor myself. But this is a rules hole that is significant enough that it needs to be plugged, as well as the leaning tanks and friendly fire points you raised.

Quite right. I've read dozens of rule books and none of them have had to go to the extreme of listing things the players cannot do.

I do see the original poster's point that someone in tournament play may try something weird like that. My response would be to finish the game then shame him publicly as much as possible :-)

Since we are straying from the rule question into a more open discussion realm I am going to lock this topic.

Edited by user Wednesday, November 9, 2016 2:31:46 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified