Warlord Announce BOLT ACTION… the Game!!!
October 5, 2011 by beerogre
It's official!!! All you 28mm WW2 fans can dust off your tin helmets and prepare to take Europe by storm!
Or at least you've got a great new reason to start sticking together your 28mm plastic troops from Warlord Games.
Check out the new joint press release by Warlord Games and Osprey Publishing:
Warlord Games and Osprey Publishing are teaming up to create Bolt Action: World War II Wargames Rules. Written by veteran game designers Alessio Cavatore and Rick Priestley, Bolt Action is a fast, fun 28mm wargame that rewards tactical play, but doesn't get bogged down with excessive tables and charts. The main rulebook is scheduled for a July 2012 release, followed by a series of books covering the armies of the major and minor powers of World War II.
John Stallard, Managing Director of Warlord Games, had this to say: “Osprey has been putting out fantastic books for wargamers for as long as I can remember, and having a chance to work with them on Bolt Action was too good an opportunity to miss. With their commitment to high production values, I know the book is going to be something special.
Richard Sullivan, from Osprey Publishing, added: ‘You would be hard pressed to find a wargaming company with more combined industry experience than Warlord Games. We are excited to work with these guys on a game that is supported by such a high quality, extensive, and continuously expanding miniatures line.
While Warlord Games has already produced the popular Black Power and Hail Caesar rules, and Osprey Publishing has worked with Slitherine on the Field of Glory series and with Ambush Alley Games on the Force On Force and Tomorrow’s War rules, this will be the first foray into World War II wargaming rules for both companies.
Bolt Action: World War II Wargames Rules will be released in a full-colour hardback edition in July 2012.
You can read the full press release HERE.
This is great news for the tabletop hobby and is hopefully a bold move that will bring the action and military history of WW2 to a new audience... those raised on the 28mm gaming experience.
The Bolt Action WW2 game rules are set to be released in July 2012, so we're expecting some fantastic plastic releases before then, in the same vein as the recent 28mm Japanese Infantry.
What do you think guys, are you a WW2 gamer?
Do you typically play WW2 games in a different scale to 28mm?
Would a game in 28mm (the scale of the Gods!) interest you if you currently play fantasy or sci-fi?
Whoo Hoo WWII in GODS SCALE!! ’bout time 😀
:O God wasn’t 28mm tall!!! His left foot was seen in the film “Life of Brian” and it was HUGE!!
If god was 28 mm tall it would make him a dwarf :s……. Andy, go away, nothing to see here… Move along please. 🙂
Rick and Alessio? 28mm WW2? This has the potential to be huge, and I want in!
WoW, that sounds great. We have an avid WW2 historic TT player community here in our local city and this newspost will just make them run wild. ^^Thanks for the info mates, you made my day a happy day!
It seems there has been a substantial run on new WWII games which have been developed in the last few years with Rules of Engagement (Great Escape Games), Rate of Fire, Warhammer Historical, World at War (Mongoose Publishing) among others, and now Warlord are producing their own set. I will be keeping a sharp eye on this one, that much is for sure. My hopes are that the game is quite streamlined and quick. Rules of Engagement is the best out there in my opinion at the moment, it has similarities to 40K but with a WWII spin (of course!).… Read more »
Looks great but I want to see a 28mm modern combat game! I want my Spetsnaz and T90s! Gimmeh! D:<
Osprey have that one too. Force on Force is the name. They published it for Ambush Alley games. Small unit skirmish stuff. Mostly designed for Iraq/ Ghan ops.
Well, another WWII rule set. I think the big thing will be the games scale. If it is skirmish it will be going up against Rapid Fire, Operation Squad, etc. However being from the pen of Alesio I suspect it will be pretty simple in operation so if he got it right it MIGHT be the 28mm ruleset to set the standard.
Even the owner of my FLGS isn’t sure where to jump with this scale. The Warlord minis are so nice but no one in my area knows what to play with them.
Here’s hoping this could be it.
Time to Dust off Wittmann and gather up some Panzer grenadiers. Bring it on Warlord! I will crush your house armies!
time to start buying those 1:48 and 1:56 tanks from the many (and reasonably priced) companies in preparation for what sounds like a great way to get those who want to get into WW2 games but dread painting 15mm minis.
where was that video for plastic soldier company 28mm Russians again?
Ooooooo! I’m as excited as a 15 year old girl at a Justin Bieber concert!!!! 🙂
Seriously though, can’t wait to see it. I’ve been painting their stuff up for years now, hopefully these are the rules I’ve been seeking.
I always thought it was a bit odd that there was no game for their models, but now finally there will be!
28mm WW2 and i can play Japanse ? AWESOME!!!!
Wow, about time – I would have guess it would be Black Powder for WW2 – but the scale of battle would not work – with that duo of writers what can go wrong ?
Son ‘bitch! 😀
im REALLY excited about this. been looking to get into 28mm WW2 for a while now. Hopefully this will overcome the disappointment of warpath
love the models and I don’t have any WWII models yet. My only thoughts are though, that there is so much happening in the gaming world that it is saturated with lots of ideas and new models. So in realistic terms, prices have to drop in order for gamers to get everything or you’ll find a lot of people with either few models of all systems or lots of models within one system. This may sound nice but with one floor. trying to find games will be hard as player bases will be spread. This is by no means a… Read more »
I seem to collect WWII rules sets. To my mind, the best out there at the moment are Rules of Engagement and Victory Decision. I love WWII gaming, I have a huge 15mm collection and my 28mm collection is coming along rather well too. While I see no need to yet another rule set to cloud the waters, if Warlord can bring 28mm to the mainstream like Battlefront did with Flames of War and 15mm, I’ll be insanely happy. Now, to the part that I get flamed for. I personally was a little put off when I found out that… Read more »
Hooya! But darn, an eight months waiting time… how will I cope?
Will this be THE one that might bring WW2 to the fore? Chances haven’t been better.
Wish list : Smooth and simple (already stated) alternative turn based sustem. Rules for defences and how to cope with them (barbed wire, cutter and bang. torpedoes), sentries, bombardments, small naval action (landing crafts) and low flying straffing and bomb runs… maybe in supplements.
Fears : Large quantity of very specific supplements.
“Fears : Large quantity of very specific supplements.”
I know what you mean. While I really do love the books from Battlefront for FOW, it can be quite a burden on your wallet buying them all. I would not mind it too much if they simply do generic-ish lists for each country and simply bundle then all into three books for Early, Mid and Late war periods. That still presents quite a little library in itself.
Even if they decide to have the 3 periods, aslong as they include all the country specific rules in those book and not individually release countries like a certain company …. *looks at GW* i wont have a problem.
Fill them with fluff, cool pics and rules and i’ll happily buy them.
Supplements can be done, as the game evolves but make them downloadable, eliminates cost for both Warlord and ourselves 🙂
I would like to see a game that captured the Irish Civil War. I think that would be really interesting, I’ve read many books about Fights and skirmish the Irish had.I personally would enjoy it. I don’t think this range would cover that.
I wouldn’t have thought that we need yet another det of WW2 rules.
This sounds awesome im in
Gonna get me a Pazergruppen, Woots
There’s a game called “Black Power”?!