Roll Out the King Tiger Platoon In Bolt Action From Warlord games
August 21, 2017 by thisisazrael
Warlord Games has opened up Bolt Action pre-orders for the September release of the three tank box set, the King Tiger Platoon.
The box comes with three Tiger II tanks which can be equipped with either the Henschel turret or rarer Porsche turret.
Each tank can also choose to have a closed hatch or their own commander.
The box of course also comes with painting instructions, colour water slide decals and a set of blast & damage markers.
The introduction of this developed version of the Tiger I tank to the war in 1944 caused serious problems for the allies but ultimately it's arrival came too late to have a significant impact on the war as a whole.
The King Tiger's ability to knock out Allied tanks head on at ranges exceeding 2.5 kilometres with it's 8.8cm gun caused the Allies problems on both the Western and Eastern fronts.
On the tabletop the King Tiger is a super heavy tank with an absurdly high armour rating of 11, so opponents will need the bare minimum of a medium anti-tank gun to harm it whilst shooting at the front.
Will you be picking up a platoon of these heavy hitters?
"...knock out Allied tanks head on at ranges exceeding 2.5 kilometres with it's 8.8cm gun..."
Nice.
Very nice. I do wonder how many King Tigers could be used in Bolt Action German army while still be able to have some infantry squads.
How many points for a 70 ton tank with no ammo , no fuel and blocking a major intersection ? lol .Nice looking kit . You get both turret styles and the gun manlet for each turret ( they were different ) You also get the snorkal cover for the rear deck of the Porche version ( IRC about a dozen or so had it ) You going to have to remove a large square of Zimm from turret side if you want to use those Knight decals though .
Beautiful and deadly …
What’s not to like? 🙂
Also the ranges of the 8.8 will leave the ability to just sit back and shoot up the table if it has a clear line of site of course, but putting it on top of a hill at the back with an armoured value of 11 should not be overlooked, getting it hull down might be an issue given its size. .I know it weighed a little bit too, so actually giving some bridges and ground some issues might sound a little excessive but in truth a small bridge would give it issues. Perhaps a game where this monster has… Read more »
It’s on my list.
3?? I feel dirty fielding one! 😀
Drool.. 😎
I wish Warlord Games would knock it off with the moulded-on zimmerit.
The problem with leaving it out is that the majority if not all the porche king tigers were built with it applied, and most of the henschel ones did too, only a few at the end of the war didn’t have it, once they realised they were the only ones that were using magnetic mines….
Practically speaking any optional zimmerit would be either too bulky to look right or too flimsy to hold together. I guess etched brass could work but I think that would defeat the purpose of a plastic kit, and bump the price up quite a bit…
Love that it comes with zimmerit. Gives it that nice rugged look.