Blitz Action

[Hermila Farquhar]

BlitzAction - A design where the moving parts of abreak-open gun's action, rather than being incorporated within the body of the receiver, are mounted to the trigger plate. Similar in construction to aDickson Round Action. Often seen on German and Austrian over&under guns. And, because it does not involve an extraordinary amount of extra engineering to configure three locks side-by-side-by-side, blitz actions are frequently used to build Drillings.

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When bait gets nervous and fish start busting the surface, anglers need a tool to deliver a fly, quickly and precisely. The Blitz series of fly rods combines years of knowledge and experience on both coasts while targeting hard-fighting, lightning-fast fish. This rod was designed to allow anglers to have the confidence to know when they spot a pod of bait busting the surface, they can quickly load and deliver a fly, often at distance and with lines of varying densities, without worrying about anything else.

The Blitz is a fast action rod, with a mid-level of stiffness to deliver heavy lines, and large flies at distance. This is ideal for anglers fishing long intermediate and sinking lines and weighted flies.

All seven models feature alignment dots color coded by line weight, RECOIL guides by REC, and ultra-lightweight chromium-impregnated stainless-steel snake guides. All models are full wells grips with fighting butts. Blitz blanks are finished in a deep turquoise, with dark blue thread wraps and silver tipping.

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The boat landing events are part of the eleventh annual Landing Blitz in which representatives of state departments and local partners such as lake associations and cooperative invasive species management areas give boaters tips to prevent the spread of invasive species and comply with recently-updated laws. Similar AIS Landing Blitz events will be held in each of the Great Lakes states and Canadian provinces.

AIS Awareness Week is sponsored by EGLE's Water Resources Division, in partnership with the departments of Natural Resources and Agriculture and Rural Development, federal agencies and private and nonprofit organizations.

Registration information is available in the spring for the annual Aquatic Invasive Species Landing Blitz. Event hosts can choose any date/s within the event period to host the event at a local boating access site. To prepare to register your local landing blitz event, please compile the following information.

As a reminder, the Landing Blitz is a collaborative outreach campaign to raise awareness about preventing the spread of aquatic invasive species (AIS) through recreational boating and related activities. This year's Landing Blitz will build on previous events. Local volunteer partners will deliver consistent messaging ("Clean, Drain, Dry", etc.) about preventing the introduction and spread of AIS from the movement of watercraft and equipment between water bodies at both public and private boating access sites throughout the state. Media involvement (press releases, local news stories, social media, etc.) will also be used to create a larger impact. This year's event will again be a Great Lakes Regional AIS Landing Blitz and include events not only in Michigan, but also events in each of the other Great Lakes states and provinces.

The organization is also in the process of revisiting lawsuits that were stayed pending the outcome of the Harvard and UNC cases. One of those, against Yale University, was dropped last week after the two parties reached an agreement that included promises of significant admissions policy changes from Yale; the other, against the University of Texas at Austin, is up in the air while the university and SFFA try to negotiate a settlement.

Along with the Harvard and UNC cases, SFFA filed affirmative action suits against the University of Texas at Austin in 2019 and Yale University in 2020. But judges put those lawsuits on hold once the Supreme Court took up the other cases, noting that future proceedings would depend on those outcomes.

But multiple sources, some on background, said it could be more difficult for SFFA to reach an agreement with UT than with Yale. For starters, the allegations are entirely different and rest on circumstances unique to the state and the institution.

Hawkins said that if SFFA is successful in getting UT to concede the way Yale did, it would further cement a more conservative interpretation of the Supreme Court decision, which she said is the ultimate goal of many of the more activist law firms pursuing these cases in the wake of the SFFA victory.

She added that any potential resistance from UT is likely to come from a stubborn insistence that its holistic policies to increase diversity are indeed legal alternatives and not mere proxies for race-based affirmative action, rather than an ideological commitment to diversity efforts.

The Supreme Court ruling has prompted legal challenges from the left as well, mostly focusing on legacy preferences at highly selective colleges such as Harvard, which in July received an OCR complaint over its practices from a coalition led by the progressive nonprofit Lawyers for Civil Rights.

Jacobson understands this shift; his EPP is preparing a full docket of legal challenges to race-conscious policies on everything from scholarships to summer programs, and even beyond higher education. He said that until colleges demonstrate an understanding of what he sees as the broad equal protection implications of the SFFA rulings, those challenges will keep coming.

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- my group planned to play-test a modified version of Bolt Action, one designed to take the game play up from skirmish level forces, to company and battalion level units (where single bases = squads each, team-served support weapons, and [more] individual tanks).

The functional change in going 'Blitz' was to devise an activation system that got away from Bolt Action's random dice pull mechanic, to one which allowed pre-planning, some generated reaction during a turn, still presenting fog-of-war, and while using the tried and true [I think elegant] Warlord Order dice. After a search for some suitable dice "caps" (some of us still remember capping figs from those games long ago), I designed this format for a platoon and HQ dice ordering system, to be done by both sides in a common turn phase, where players place capped orders down on the board next to their assigned units, as an example this shot showing some orders already activated for this Pz IV platoon, with one HQ order still to be used)

The German team in the game was tasked with probing forward, and if required, to force itself eastward in the direction of the road, while at the same time the Soviet reinforcements were arriving to add weight to the T-28 & T-35 positioned to block the way.

However, the Soviets didn't lose their will to fight on, and their platoons of T-26s and BTs continued to maneuver for good defensive ground covering the battlefield's flanks, and the narrow avenue in its center.

A further word on the HQ dice in the mod here, as they're a replacement for the Officer's group ordering ability in Bolt Action. These dice are included in a scenario at HQ command levels where they were organized, and/or where wanted by the scenario designer or by player agreement. If a game is more tactical, then platoon-level HQs are included (and their dice number allocated to each platoon unit's HQ element). If the game is to be larger, then the chain of command reflected can be for company and battalion HQs only (so the command dice scale for the game forces planned). The HQ dice also can/should reflect the force's elan and experience, so for example in this game the German tank HQs each had 2 order dice, while the Soviets had only one per platoon (and both Beasts none).

Dynaman, as you're thinking, once the game is designed to be played at the next tactical level of command, the basic game element can become the squad itself, so I've chosen to model these as single stand maneuver elements, which remain subordinate to each of their platoon formations.

Deciding to convert to use squads as being wholly-contained, single-stand elements required some mechanism to allow for strength loss, and so step reductions are assessed against these units, to allow them a limited ability to absorb some punishment before becoming combat ineffective.

Instead of moving to the modded artillery rules, let me illustrate the factoring for infantry squads and some of their company-level support weapons. From these factors, much else in the conversion here keys upon -

Using the 2nd edition areas template allows for frag effects onto multiple targets, and encourages players to keep spacing between their elements and vehicles, while the HQ order ranges (shown previously above) work to keep platoon elements from spreading too far afield.

This QRS is not a rules set, you'll need Warlord's Bolt Action, and possibly some of their supplements for a good grounding into that retail system. This is a 'living' QRS, so I'll likely be changing parts as I get deeper into its play-testing, but I think it's well enough along to provide it here for those curious in a different method of playing Bolt Action.

If you decide to give Blitz a go, and want to enable the placing of hidden orders with capped dice (the default mode for fog of war), I found my dice 'caps' on ebay they're vinyl rubber cap ends for chair legs.

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