Alessio Cavatore Talks Bolt Action Tank Battles!
June 10, 2014 by brennon
If you prefer your Bolt Action with loads of tanks then you might be interested in the upcoming Tank Battles Supplements from Warlord Games. Alessio Cavatore is going into some more detail about it in the video above...
Alessio also showed off some bits and pieces from within the book and explained how the new book is going to help you collect a lot of awesome looking plastic tanks. Yep, plastic! I think this is going to be quiet the hit!
I love the idea that tanks get better during the game and unlock skills for their kills. Tank campaigns on the horizon anyone? You'll have to wait until September but that's not that far away when you think about it!
See what you think of the video and comment below!
Tanks for that 🙂
I presume this is aimed at 28mm tanks?….I dont think I shall be getting involved in this for 2 reasons
a) I couldn’t afford this afford to do this in 28mm
b) If I could afford it where would I find table big enough
Awesome gotta love big armoured battles!
Time to buy the worlds stock of Churchil and Sherman tanks… oh and some AEC and Daimlers…. Maybe even some M10s….
damn to much for me to think about 😀
17pdr SP M10 – Come on, you know you want to!
Yes, yes I do 🙂
One of the guy’s at my local store mentioned this to me. He was thinking about running a North Africa campaign using theses rules, but using 15mm models, rather than 28mm. I’ll be interested in seeing if we can do it as 15mm scale, cos then I might need to have a look at getting some more Plastic Soldier Company models
Any excuse to get tanked up is a good excuse.
Sounds great fun but BLOOMING expensive if your doing it in 28mm.
I’m kind of glad now that I’ve started building my Bolt Action army in 1/72
A tank platoon is only 4 or 5 tanks…if you then add a command tank ?
Then its about 6 tanks at the most………….
Its not that hard to find people with that number of 28mm tanks in their collections is it ?
Well 6 Shermans is going to be about 108 quid
I still think table size is going to be an issue
It may not be hard to find people with 5 to 6 tanks but 5 to 6 all the same could be a bit harder. Maybe in the short term it maybe an idea to team up to field a company. I think it will be probably be a game for a club, where you can push a lot of tables together, that or change scale. I’d like to read the rules first. If it looks like it will be fun then I won’t have a problem parting with my cash for a Panther company. Panther company where did not… Read more »
I worry about scale ranges in 1/600 and 1/300 compared to the table top but for for 1/48 taking the average engagement range for tanks on the western front in 1944 it transfers to your model tanks should be firing at each other at approx 53 feet apart
I heard that. 🙁
I really am inlove with the 1:48 Tamiya Tanks. They fit so much better sizewise compared to the somewhat smallish tanks Warlord makes.
I agree, I did a size comparison a while ago when i first got into 28mm wwii stuff. Not sure if I can link to other forums but there’s a photo i did with a metal paratrooper from warlord for scale:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/243268-Warlord%20Games%20Sherman%20vs%20Tamiya%201%252F48%20Sherman.html?m=2
I can see the commercial demand for this, but personally I don’t think it’s a good idea.
15mm barely works for tank battles on a typical 6×4 table, 28mm is just ridiculous…
All I heard was “hi, I’m Alessio. Tanks, tanks, tanks, tanks, more tanks….also tanks”
Looking forward to this
I couldn’t tell if he was talking about tanks gaining experience during the game or during a campaign. I certainly hope that he was saying it was during the campaign and not individual games…
Also, if you’re looking for historically accurate engagement ranges in a tabletop game in bigger scale than 1/300, you better either have a warehouse or be fine with fudging the distances. A lot.
with 1/600 the engagement range on the tabletop is 51 inches, so approx 102 for 1/300 maybe its time to take the bull by the horns and say that tanks have unlimted range no matter the scale
I’d like to make a formal apology to my missus regarding the obscene amounts of money that I will be throwing at Warlord this September.
Being a Bolt Action fan I will definitely be buying this book. I am very curious to see how they approach the scale / distance issue.
To be honest I don’t think they will, they will just ignore it and fudge something like they did in BA
Will not go the Tank battle route personally, but am anyway interested to see the new range of 28mm tanks. I do want a few for my BA game anyway.
The books look gorgeous, and some of the miniature photography makes my green with envy.
If only I owned my own golf course to play this on, because you’d need that much space to do it “realistically.” (granted, that’s not really the point . . . :D)
Tiger on the 13th fairway!
FOOOOOOOOOOORE!
Time to double down. Take it 1/48 scale and get us wargamers out of basements and flgs and into parks. Just going to need a pickup truck to transport “minis” and terrain…
Right, @invisiblecalm ? I was only half-kidding about using these outdoors. The grass would naturally be out of scale (hence the golf course, I was thinking of the green). Let’s build some 1/48 armies and head down to the park, then roust all the kids playing in the sandbox with their Tonka trucks and the like.
“All right, kids! Here’s some money, go buy some ice cream. The big kids are gonna play with their toys now. . .” 🙂
You know, not to take it too far, but now I’m thinking of scale ship battles. We have some leagues out here in the Pacific NW which do naval engagements between WWII fleets with working cannons, etc.
I can just see scale tanks smoldering out in some corn field or something.
I already have a plan how to use this book, especially the Tank Aces part. 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAAnUqhKWZI
That looks computer generated… but pretty damn good.
Ok guys, who will be the first with a pink M3?
The tanks and part of the environment are CG for the most part. If you can look past the blatant schoolgirl fetish fanservice it is quite a nice series.
And the girls do wise up evetually and repaint their tanks in more sensible colour schemes.
I would have two of each tank, one rookie paint job and one veteran. They also refit some guns, so I might even need a third model for some of them. 🙂
Love tanks, who doesn’t, but I’ll be skipping this one, sorry Warlord. In my opinion anything larger than 1/285-300 for large scale armor actions is just not workable without a huge suspension of reality(I absolutely hate the ‘vehicle parks’ look of games like FOW). Suspend reality, suspend immersion. Immersion is not just a term for video games now. I’ll Stick with the infantry, and perhaps a vehicle or two for support. If I want large armor clashes I’ll go GHQ, again.
Ah, I cant wait for this book to come out! It will be panthers or tigers for me I think.
Heretic!
Oh no, wait…wrong game…
More piats are needed soonish, I think…
I was also glad to hear about Andy Chambers and the Eastern Front.
Yay!
Sounds like it could be fun, will go well with the British Motor (Bn) Platoon that I have collected for BA.
Do you reckon Warlord will change/make some of their current range over to plastic? As I would really like to have a plastic M5A1 Stuart to covert to a Jalopy version :).
Panzergrenadiers and Armoured Fist box sets could come in very handy with a lot of extra anti-tank weapons.