Get The Bolt Action Brits To The Front With New Section Box
June 14, 2014 by brennon
Warlord Games have got another release for their Bolt Action range. The new plastic British Carrier Section has been put together and helps get your brave boys to the front as well as bringing a bit of extra firepower to bear on the enemy...
As you can see it's a rather awesome looking set featuring three of the 'universal' carriers and a selection of men to escort them along into battle. These carriers were given awesome vickers machine guns and could also carry forward some mortars. As well as that that were capable of towing up big anti-tank guns.
Do you think you'll add these to your British force?
Spike Milligan had a few interesting episodes in carriers – this from his war memoirs:
Sir – A quick and easy method of ironing with no risk of burning was described by Spike Milligan in his war memoirs: place the garment on the ground between a couple of planks and drive a Bren gun carrier over it.
So far I’ve avoided adding any carriers to my British force because.. I’ve never been fond of the way they look. However they were so integral to the mobility of an infantry battalion (particularly the AT and Mortar platoons) that I kind of feel obliged to get some. This seems like a pretty good deal if I ever cave in!
Why is there a star on the side? Wasn’t that an American symbol? Or was it universal, like invasion stripes on Allied aircraft?
All of it looks great… but I really don’t need another gaming addiction!
They used the star on everything, jeeps armoured cars uni carriers etc
http://blu.stb.s-msn.com/i/8C/82171AE6F54048C52AC6B61C8BD1A5.jpg.
i think all allied units used the white star as American pilots were famous for being trigger happy
Damnit. I wish I’d known about these before I shelled out for those 2 resin Bren carriers. Oh well.
Bren gun carriers always remind of an old guy who worked with me called Doug. Doug was Desert Rat who saw action in North Africa and then up through Italy. He was the only survivor when the carrier he was driving was hit by a shell, apart from being hospitalised it left him with no sense of smell. Whenever you said something like can you smell that Doug. (which as young men we would at every opportunity ask him) He’d always reply “No I was blown up in the war by a German tank, never been able to smell a… Read more »
This is one of those units you can never have too many of, at least from a historical perspective. “Universal” carrier, an apt name.