Source Books & Tank Battles For Bolt Action On The Horizon
June 30, 2014 by brennon
Warlord Games have some great Bolt Action books on the horizon for different theatres of war and of course those big tanks battles we talked about a few weeks ago....
The first book in September is Tank War that allows you to run an entire army full of armour against another entire army made of armour! This will be adding in more tanks for you to choose from in your normal games too and there will be scenarios for you to play out too.
The second book is touted for October and will feature a whole host of scenarios taking you from the beaches of Normandy all the way to the gates of Berlin itself. D-Day to Germany could prove a brilliant way to get a bunch of friends together and spend a weekend I reckon. Get a whole bunch of boards done and power through this campaign!
Last but not least next year also heralds another sourcebook that takes you to The Eastern Front and has you fighting the battles between Russia and Germany. You could undertake some of the deadly urban warfare that took place in the ruins of Stalingrad.
All of these sound grand and I think they are going to be good additions to the Bolt Action line-up bringing people into more lengthy campaigns. I love having objectives and things to actually do on the battlefield with Bolt Action rather than ending up in yet another meat grinder.
Will you be keeping an eye on this?
Yes I will. Looking forward to see how Tank Wars plays.
Certainly looking forward to these. Although Tank battles might need a somewhat larger than normal table.
Of course the cover of ‘Tank War’ just had to have a Tiger on it 🙂
I’ll start saving now. I’ll be having all these I reckon 🙂
Sadly I might have to go 15 or 20mm on this for the cost and size of table, but still I can’t wait.
Shiny syndrome!! 🙂
Now need to get my USMC finished so I can start US airborne for D-Day book and then some Eastern Front germans, and then and then and then…..
Really looking forward to Tank War. FOW feels too counterintuitive to me, Blitzkrieg Commander is ok(ish), and I’m slowly getting to grips with Plastic Soldier Company’s Battlegroup, but Bolt Action feels more fun at the minute
I downloaded BKCII a couple of weeks ago and really like the look of them. What only rates them as Ok(ish). I haven’t played them so am a bit curious.
I found from reading them that they have the feel of the old 1990’s rules that Bruce Rea Taylor used to do like Firefly and Challenger. I liked those. Still rose coloured glasses from 25 years ago and all that.
I have played BKC quite a bit…The 2nd edition is an improvement on the first but still in my opinion needs some house rules to deal with suppression removal and the number of orders per turn a group can have
Fun game though
Bolt Action sure does have the simplicity and funciton of an Alessio game but I am wondering what a Tank game will be about. I agree with people about the size required but is this really just going to be FoW on steroids? Anyway I’ll be interested to see what Italeri are going to come up with for the Warlord. They could really come up with a lot of very nice plastic vehicle kits. In which case I reserve the right to delete all above concerns. How many Shermans were in an armoured company again?
The cheeky answer is zero as the British didn’t use tank companies 🙂
Ah, but why did you assume I meant British? 😛
Because you called them Shermans not M4’s 🙂
Bugger. I thought you were going to say it was because I called it an armoured company, not an armored company. (note: even my spell checker says armored is incorrect)
I
didnt even notice the spelling…Though a British Squadron should have 20 tanks in it ( 4 Troops of 4, with a HQ troop of four tanks also)
Yes. That could be a snag in the plan. The other half would never come near the gaming room with all those tanks peering out from the shelves. It would be like Homer Simpson picking up Maggie from the day care centre