An All Plastic Churchill Rumbles Into Warlord’s Bolt Action
August 15, 2016 by brennon
Warlord Games have now put together a big plastic kit allowing you to try out seven different variants of the Churchill on the tabletop in Bolt Action. Which of them are you going to make?
The Churchill was, as you might imagine, named after the famous Winston Churchill who was actually involved in the development of the tank as a weapon during World War I. With that in mind it seems fitting that one of the best British tanks bears his name.
Heavily armoured, it was a stalwart addition to the British army. The crews loved them even though by the standards of other tanks the Churchill was under-armed.
As mentioned above the tank comes with seven different variants available for it within the box although of course you can only make one. Effectively all you need to do is switch the turrets round however and you have a new tank.
The Churchill is a very good looking tank as well as being a beast on the tabletop. I like the long design although maybe that would count against it when it was trying to avoid enemy fire. It does look like a behemoth though.
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You can also pick up a Churchill Troop if you like to have three different Churchills on the go at once.
I can see John and Justin picking up a few of these to use as they build up a British force.
What do you think?
"The crews loved them even though by the standards of other tanks the Churchill was under-armed..."
This looks to be a nice looking kit for either gaming with or just for modelling.
Never in the field of 28mm wargaming endeavour has so much plastic been provided by so few to so many. Therefore let us brace ourselves that, if Beasts of War lasts for a thousand years, men (and women) will still say, ‘This was their finest hour’
I’m glad to see the new plastic tank kits from Warlord coming with variant build options. The one criticism I had of their Sherman kit was its lack of variants. I’ll need to do some research to see if I can add any of these to my Desert Rats North Africa army.
Churchill might not be among my favorite WWII era tanks but this model looks really good.
Love it!
a great choice of turrets in the set.
sploosh! a whole troop of em?!! 😀
I really want to make one of these into a flail whenever I get the chance. I’m a massive fan of these 3 tank boxes from Warlord and Italeri.
I hope there will be an unboxing, along with some history. Was the Churchill actually a good tank? I love the looks of the Cromwell, but apparently that wasn’t great. I’ve never really liked the look of the Churchill (the kit looks great though), so it would be ironic if it really was a good tank!
Well from what I understood (anyone who knows more than me are free to correct me if I am wrong) Churchill was build for armor and thus didn’t have very powerful cannon. Also it suffered from same flaw that all other WWII era british tanks had, too small hatch that made escaping burning tank impossible. It’s big reason why british tank crews loved american made tanks like Sherman.
Churchill was excellent in the Desert since it can go up exremely steep slopes and can cross wide obstacles easily. So Churchills with Flamethrowers could cross Anti Tank Ditches and lead an assault with their heavy armour. Churchills were also very often fitted with “Funnies” like deployable Bridges or deploy a covering to the ground that helped tanks with a higher ground pressure than the Churchill cross ground they would otherwise get bogged in. Churchill wasn’t meant to go head to head with other Tanks, Sherman and Cromwell could do that it was meant to support Infantry and was often… Read more »
Okay, I stand corrected. Then again I know very little about british WWII era tanks as my favorites from that era are german and russian tanks.
Thanks @elessar2590 – I had seen the Churchill in various engineering roles, but assumed that this was making use of an otherwise useless tank. It hadn’t occured to me that it may have been intended for these roles.
@angelicdespot look up the british 79th armoured division. They were full of what we would now call engineering tanks. Mine clearers, bridge layers, fascine carriers, demolition guns, all sorts of good stuff.
@koraski mkiv Churchills were in tunisia in 1943 (my wifes great uncle was killed in one in april of that year), some were fitted with surplus 75mm guns ( not the turret) from knocked out shermans, giving the Churchill NA. Both versions look to be buildable from the box, but I’ll have to wait until I get my hands on one to be sure.
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