Grab New Minor Nation Rules For Warlord Games’ Bolt Action
September 30, 2024 by brennon
Warlord Games followed up on the launch of the third edition of Bolt Action with a release of the Minor Nations rules for use in your World War II battles. These allow you to use your second-edition armies right now.
Minor Nations Rules // Bolt Action
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The PDFs (linked above) allow you to play as nations not covered in the main rulebook. They have all been reworked and redesigned for the new edition of the game. Much like the lists for the main nations covered in the rulebook, each of these will be replaced over time as part of the Armies Of... series.
Minor Nations List // Bolt Action
As you can see, the Minor Nations lists cover a variety of Allied and Axis countries that would have fought alongside the likes of the British and the Germans or independently. You could use these lists to craft a full Greek list for example to play a particular scenario.
Will you be downloading these lists for use in third edition Bolt Action?
"The PDFs allow you to play as nations not covered in the main rulebook..."
I quite like the look and abilities of the Finnish forces, it would definitely be a minor nation I would take for their ambush ability.
Pity they didn’t include the Chinese.
Not exactly a minor nation, is it? 😉
Plenty of other nations that aren’t either. The Australians, Canada, Indonesia, etc. come to mind
I suspect afew of them might get covered by the British book.
It is an odd collection, but then bolt action isn’t going to cover anything other than the big 4 in detail.
Well, Warlord consider them pretty damn minor, since they didn’t get their own book. Millions of killed doesn’t count.
It’s pretty obvious why they posted the ones they did, since it’s the nations from France and the Allies and Italy and the Axis books, but it’s still a pity.
Are there any WW 2 rules that do include the Chinese side of things ?
I mean … it’s easy to complain about a game whose primary focus will always be the big 4.
All the nations!
Sweet. Didn’t expect that
I have a handful of Hungarians on The Pile. One day they’ll get some paint on em.
They Dutch get to have KNIL, but they don’t get an entry for the marines.
At least it is something.
Will have to see when any of these “minor” nations get expanded.
Btw: all the info is in the app as well.
sweet, will grab them 🙂
again so many people on social media have been grousing about this pdf release. its being tiring reading about how people are constantly outraged or sad or whatever about this
That’s the BEST part of social media! And also why I don’t participate. It is sad, isn’t it?