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Dano updates his previous "Impressions"article with some second impressions after a month of getting games in.

http://www.boltaction.net/2012/09/bolt-action-three-second-impressions-by.html?

Great article. Matches up with my post-playing experience as well.

The only house rule we're possibly considering is to have pins stay after close combat and to have them subtract dice rolled during close combat. So if you get a pin on the way in, you'll total up your wounding dice and just remove one. And if you win, you get to keep that pin marker.

I like the close combat pinning house rule. We are looking at extending the ranges to about 2x the printed value.


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I like the close combat pinning house rule. We are looking at extending the ranges to about 2x the printed value.

I don't know a lot about the game but when he mentions the sparsity of models on the table in relation to it's size, was it not like that on most engagements where there were task forces sent out? Just seems realistic to me, maybe a ton more terrain though!

The 20th century is when we start seeing the "empty battlefield" where you don't necessarily see anything until the flare of guns and movement starts bringing it to view. All those big white allied stars painted on the tanks wasn't to proudly display their allegiance, but to prevent friendly fire instances as you'd often only get a bit of a glance at a target before you started opening up.

I can understand where the WWPD guys are coming from though. In Flames of War (the primary focus of their site) you absolutely fill the table with models and have tanks lined up bumper to bumper. Not very historical, but I guess it sells more models that way.

 frozenwastes wrote:
The 20th century is when we start seeing the "empty battlefield" where you don't necessarily see anything until the flare of guns and movement starts bringing it to view. All those big white allied stars painted on the tanks wasn't to proudly display their allegiance, but to prevent friendly fire instances as you'd often only get a bit of a glance at a target before you started opening up.

I can understand where the WWPD guys are coming from though. In Flames of War (the primary focus of their site) you absolutely fill the table with models and have tanks lined up bumper to bumper. Not very historical, but I guess it sells more models that way.

Yeah the parking lot look in some games always make me lol. Also 20th century is when you can realistically use a 1:1 man ratio as platoons are viable gaming formations in their own right, where as other periods you have to use ratios like 20:1 for Napoleonics to get the proper feel of the periods. (or go bankrupt!)