Bolt Action: WW2 from Alessio Cavatore and Rick Priestley

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**olympia**

Available August 2012

Written by veteran game designers Alessio Cavatore and Rick Priestley, Bolt Action provides all the rules needed to bring the great battles of World War II to your tabletop. Using miniature soldiers, tanks and terrain, you can fight battles in the shattered towns of occupied France, the barren deserts of North Africa, and even the sweltering jungles of the Pacific. Players get to decide which of the major or minor World War II powers they would like to represent, and then construct their armies from the lists provided. Army options are almost limitless, allowing you to build the kind of army that most appeals to your style of play, from heavily armored tank forces to lightly armed, but highly skilled. The choice is yours. Created as a joint project between Warlord Games, the premiere historical miniatures company, and Osprey Publishing, the leading independent military history publisher, Bolt Action is sure to be the most popular new wargame on the market.

Rules:

http://www.amazon.com/Bolt-Action-World-Wargames-Wargaming/dp/1780960867/ref=pd_rhf_se_p_t_3

German armies
http://www.amazon.com/Bolt-Action-Germany-Warlord-Games/dp/1780960883/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1

U.S. armies
http://www.amazon.com/Bolt-Action-Armies-United-States/dp/1780960875/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_2

**BrookM**

Yeehaw! Bit miffed that they're going for army books, but I'm pleased as punch about this.

**Snord**

That would be worth a closer look. I'm tempted to get the rule book with my next Osprey order.

**olympia**

BrookM wrote:Yeehaw! Bit miffed that they're going for army books, but I'm pleased as punch about this.

The good news is that the army books span the chrnology of the war.

**BrookM**

Where's the British army book though? Yank plastics have just been released, Brit plastics have been out for ages now.

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Oh I see, plastic Rangers boxed set is on its way: http://www.warlordgames.com/20985/pre-order-rangers-lead-the-way-us-rangers-boxed-set/

**MDizzle**

I love warlords range of minis I can't wait to see the rules if they are good I will be playing this game!

**Dez**

Oh man I wanted to paint one of those kits, too...

**Kilkrazy**

BrookM wrote:Where's the British army book though? Yank plastics have just been released, Brit plastics have been out for ages now.

Automatically Appended Next Post:
Oh I see, plastic Rangers boxed set is on its way: http://www.warlordgames.com/20985/pre-order-rangers-lead-the-way-us-rangers-boxed-set/

The British only played a minor role in WW2.

Obligatory Grognard moan about the cost.

Does anyone know what the preferred scale is? I don't have any investment in 15mm, 20mm, 1/72 or 28mm WW2 models yet.

**col. krazy kenny**

I already play a ww2 game.But i wonder how theese would look as some kind of I.G conversion?

**BrookM**

col. krazy kenny wrote:I already play a ww2 game.But i wonder how theese would look as some kind of I.G conversion?

Rubbish. The Bolt Action models are 28mm true scale or whatever les Grognards call it. They'll look woefully out of proportion next to regular GW minis.

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Kilkrazy wrote:The British only played a minor role in WW2.

Obligatory Grognard moan about the cost.

Does anyone know what the preferred scale is? I don't have any investment in 15mm, 20mm, 1/72 or 28mm WW2 models yet.

You sir are a traitor to the Empire!

Scale-wise this looks to be 28mm skirmish rules.

**Brother SRM**

BrookM wrote:
col. krazy kenny wrote:I already play a ww2 game.But i wonder how theese would look as some kind of I.G conversion?
Rubbish. The Bolt Action models are 28mm true scale or whatever les Grognards call it. They'll look woefully out of proportion next to regular GW minis.

I wouldn't say true scale, but definitely a somewhat less cartoonish scale. Just standard 28mm. I just wish people wouldn't jump on "Maybe it could be an IG counts as?" for every single human-sized kit that gets released anywhere. I really like the look of the Bolt Action plastics, and Cavatore and Priestley are some very good names to bank on. Color me interested.

**Kilkrazy**

Any 28mm model could be an IG stand-in as long as you use the same scale for all the different figures (officers, etc) which probably needs a fair amount of converting.

**BrookM**

I've seen people stick lasguns into the hands of Bolt Action models, its like giving a child a heavy machine gun.

**Grot 6**

I'd like to see a bunch of Ilsa She wolf and the SS chicks miniatures rules from Ospray.

Get to it, boys!

**BrookM**

I don't think Osprey will do Nazisploitation.

**kenshin620**

Yay, good news indeed.

BrookM wrote:I've seen people stick lasguns into the hands of Bolt Action models, its like giving a child a heavy machine gun.

Not to mention you got to cut the stocks and stuff

**BrookM**

I tried that with a spare Lucius pattern lasgun from Forge World, which already casts pretty delicate guns in comparison to the ham fisted stuff of GW, it was still too big.