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After (Bolt) Action Report: Andrew & The Soviets

May 23 2015 @ 15:29 23 Comments

It's time to get stuck into the way the Soviets are playing this afternoon.

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gideon7v20

Andrew’s Soviet army is infantry heavy and so his opponents will need to pour a lot of fire into then to stop them.

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sercoffee

Soviet make stronk tank, yes.

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oriskany

I always like to see people playing Soviets, especially if the game doesn’t treat them as a faceless “red mass.”

Za Rodinu! 🙂

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bureaucrat

soviets can get a lot of activation dice…a hell of a lot.

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umgrimmy

Many dice means many possible pins to annoy your opponent with. He has no tank?

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blipvertus

You can absolutely use an elite army for the Soviets. Actually, any army but I think you need a balance of average troops with some vets for the tough jobs.

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mc1gamer

I’d love to see more Tanks for the Soviets

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blackspiral

Better Red than Dead?

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tibour

Soviet list are fun. Once you get away from the basics even more so. I run a tank war list with most infantry as tank riders with SMGs, Scouts in Bren carriers and various SUs in support depending on time period. We try to be somewhat historical in our list/time periods.

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lee337

Is he bringing a Sherman next?

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aermord

Interesting army.

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maledrakh

Does BA have rules for the “anti-retreat machine gun squads” the Soviets employed to keep their own troops from fleeing?

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bodders303

He looks pretty confident

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spamelot

Did he manage to scrounge up some men for his command unit?

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fox40

Soviets need more tanks

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tachycardia

Cheeky flamethrower.

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comoran

Cute!

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stkelly82

I wish we had seen Anto battle Andrew after hearing how they both trounced their initial oppoenents.

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ghent99

How about soviets and japanese.

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szuhayeva

I love this battle 🙂

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kommissarboris

i didn’t use the flame throwing T34 of doom, just maxiums.

To be honest the T34 died straight away, buit still won by using it a a bus for the tank riders to get the objective and run back off the table.

Had some help from the US airforce that game too 😉

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heregrim

Soviets just dont seem to be my thing, despite the mass of men

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docmonocle

I’d be tempted to play Soviets if I started Bolt Action, but I would want to (try to) keep my collection small. So perhaps they’re not the best for that.