Warlord Games Put Together Three Tank War Starter Sets
September 4, 2017 by brennon
If tanks are your thing, and especially World War II tanks then you'll want to check out the new Tank War Starter Sets from Warlord Games for their Bolt Action spin-off game.
They have broken down the sets so far into British, German and US forces. The British one is shown above and gives you all of the rules for Tank War as well as plenty of gubbins and accessories to make playing the game painless. I especially like the little unit cards!
Tank-wise inside you're going to get...
- 2x Plastic Sherman V medium tanks
- 1x Plastic Sherman Vc Firefly medium tank
- 3x Plastic Churchill heavy tanks
Going up against them you're going to have the Germans as the Axis forces of choice presently.
As you might imagine this set comes with some monstrous tanks to have to deal with.
- 3x Plastic Tiger I Ausf E heavy tanks
- 3x Plastic Panther Ausf A medium tanks
Do you want to end up facing off against that? The look of the German tanks has always been one menace and purpose and it's nice to have a collection like this. Last but not least we have the US who might have to ally with the British if they want to take down the Germans!
Here your tanks of choice roll out as...
- 3x Plastic M4 Sherman medium tanks
- 3x Plastic M18 Hellcat tank destroyers
...which is a nice mix and the US did have some of the best looking tanks from the period I think you'll agree. Now the real question is which one of these sets do we buy for John and Justin to play around with on the tabletop?
Which set would you pick?
"I especially like the little unit cards!"
Tanks galore! Very nice starter sets.
I’d love to get one of these sets and a bunch of reference photographs to base the tanks on. WW2 vehicles really lend themselves to personalisation; stowage, netting, crew etc. Six tanks/tank destroyers present a fantastic canvas to work with.
Unfortunately my miniature backlog and current lack of free time will most likely prevent me undertaking this dream project :'(
Three Tigers and three Panthers. It’s enough to scare you into doing early/mid war 😉
If only this were 15mm scale I could use my collection and abandon the now defunct (no real support online, sporadic release of new tanks) Tanks by GF9 and move to these rules instead.
tankcommander,
Tank War works fine with 15mm scale models. So why not use the rules?
I thought it might be a stand alone game but I see that it requires the Bolt Action rules as well.
nice sets (FIGHT).
They also did a soviet set. Three IS 2 and 3 T34/85
I see Warlord is doing the £95 = $150 instead of $123 thing just like Mantic and GW.
NOPE
Not even in September 2016.
A two player set for the price maybe but not a single faction starter.
A two player set for that price maybe but not a single faction starter.