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Reply To: Bolt Action Desert War Bootcamp

September 5, 2018 at 10:25 pm #1262972

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@limburger – the campaign … (if we do it – at the moment we’re looking at 90% and with each person that “sign up” it gets a little more likely) … will be a little more focused in scope than the FoW bootcamp desert campaign we ran in March 2017, to accommodate the more focused scale of Bolt Action (small units, each side gets only a platoon or so instead of a reinforced company / understrength battalion).

So instead of looking at the whole El Alamein campaign, (First Alamein, Alam Halfa Ridge, Second Alamein – campaign covered 3 months across a battlefield 40 miles across) this time I’m thinking of focusing more on a smaller division-sized ZOC covering just a couple of days (battle area maybe 4-5 miles across).

The focus I’m considering is Operation Crusader (Part 03 of the article series), November-December 1941, for several reasons.

1) Matches what I think we’re getting in the packs.

2) Infantry-based, for Bolt Action.

3) Provides historically-accurate (or near-accurate) opportunity to utilize the trench and urban boards I know they guys are building in the studio and the 4Ground terrain that will be used on some of the tables.

Also, trying to do a better job this time with leveraging the actual information IN the new Bolt Action books, i.e., scenario play, meshing that with the situation in the campaign, etc.