Warlord's WW2 Bolt Action. Plastic T34/85 Tank

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**kenshin620**

Also Fallschirmjagers have army deals now up

http://www.warlordgames.com/27309/new-bolt-action-fallschirmjager-army-deals/

**BrookM**

If it wasn't for my plans to do a small Ranger force and already having more Germans than you can throw a grenade at I'd be all over that.

**Brother-Captain Scotti**

The book arrived on Friday and I have got to say it is the nicest book for any wargame I own, it is quite evident how much love and care went into each drawing and the mini's in it look great. I like it better than the 6th ed. rulebook for 40k and that cost £20 more!

Also the warlord exclusive para mini is ace! Well worth the direct order!

**Newabortion**

I forgot about the mini! Cant wait to get mine, i wish mail from across the pond had tracking, im dieing over here.

**AAN**

Brother-Captain Scotti wrote:
The book arrived on Friday and I have got to say it is the nicest book for any wargame I own, it is quite evident how much love and care went into each drawing and the mini's in it look great. I like it better than the 6th ed. rulebook for 40k and that cost £20 more!

While I like the Osprey painting a lot, the layout and miniature presentation is not so much to my liking.
IMO Many of the minis are not painted to a standard that they deserve and the worst part are the semi realistic photoshopped scenic pics.
Examples (Page 66, 101, 111(!), 112, 143(!))

But I have read many positive layout feedback's as yours, so I might be in a minority!

**BrookM**

Well, not to be rude, but at least they didn't include minis from John Stallard's own collection.. I'm more bothered by the typos littering the book, which seem to be more and more as I read the book in detail.

**discok3**

Got book...play Rules of Engagement for my WW2 skirmish kicks but am looking forward to playing this especially with regards drawing the dice out for who goes next.I also play Muskets and Tomahawks and love the random card system which always makes for a great narrative game and makes each player think on their feet as you never quite know whether your plan will be scuppered or helped re. order of draw.Anyway I get the impression that you can die pretty quickly in this game esp. your support teams like mortars and hmg's so am guessing it has a little of the WW2 aka 40K about it..Now don't shoot me down in flames here as I play and like 40K for different reasons and have no axe to grind with this game..on the contrary I am looking forward to getting my first game played within the next week,
I will say that it is also exciting that I may get to use more vehicles,etc although that will obviously hurt my pocket somewhat so overall extremely excited at the whole game as it seems to offer something different to RoE albeit a more expensive version...if you want grenade rules and support team survivablility it's RoE but if you want and can afford FOW 28mm I reckon BA is the way forward....I hope to one day play on a 12'x6' with friends and relive Arnhem/Carentan/Orne Bridge and many other scenarios...good luck to Warlord

**Deathshead420**

@discok3- You have a very strange way of typing. It almost felt like I was reading a telegraph.

**discok3**

Full sentences take time...prefer lots dots...type as I think...which is random at times...hope it still gets point across!
Think of it as WW2 orders deciphered from morse

**MrMoustaffa**

Can't wait to start playing this game. It looks like a ton of fun, easy to pick up, and set up for good games and tons of customization of your army.

Hope to get my first game in next week, as my FLGS will be having a friendly tournament for 500pts. I'll be rocking, you guessed it, the Germans

**BrookM**

Decided to pre-order the starter along with a pack of .30 cal MMG teams so I can run a few games at the FLGS when the time is right.

**kenshin620**

Osprey announced the future supplements recently

Nothing until 2013

BOLT 2 Bolt Action: Armies of the United States (Jan 2013)
BOLT 3 Bolt Action: Armies of Great Britain (Mar 2013)
BOLT 4 Bolt Action: Armies of the Soviet Union (May 2013)
BOLT 5 Bolt Action: Armies of Imperial Japan (Jul 2013)
BOLT 6 Bolt Action: Armies of France and the Allies (Sep 2013)
BOLT 7 Bolt Action: Armies of Italy and the Axis (Nov 2013)

**BrookM**

Here's hoping for late war Dutch.

**kenshin620**

BrookM wrote:
Here's hoping for late war Dutch.

They'll probably get attached to the "overall" books I'd assume

**BrookM**

Yeah, not clamouring for a whole book dedicated to it, but while late war involvement was minimal, we did have armed forces fighting on the side of the Allies. It would be nice to see that happen. I mean, Flames of War is finally doing Dutch articles that aren't centered around those traitors!

**Azazelx**

I wonder what they're going to do with the Commonwealth nations? In with Great Britain or lumped in with France?

**kenshin620**

scipio.au wrote:
I wonder what they're going to do with the Commonwealth nations? In with Great Britain or lumped in with France?

Probably with Britain's book I guess? Mostly the sameish equipment.

**psychadelicmime**

Once the marines get an army deal, I'm making a Merril's Marauders force and possibly a Finnish army using the rules for Germans.

**AAN**

kenshin620 wrote:
scipio.au wrote:
I wonder what they're going to do with the Commonwealth nations? In with Great Britain or lumped in with France?

Probably with Britain's book I guess? Mostly the sameish equipment.

IIRC there is a small section in the British book how to handle Commonwealth troops.

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BrookM wrote:
Yeah, not clamouring for a whole book dedicated to it, but while late war involvement was minimal, we did have armed forces fighting on the side of the Allies. It would be nice to see that happen. I mean, Flames of War is finally doing Dutch articles that aren't centered around those traitors!

Well considering the very generic approach of BA, why not make your own list?
As soon as the 4 big nation are covered more or less all tanks and weapons will be done, so pick the units stats you like or see fitting and use them as a stand in for you Dutch forces...

This is not 40K after all.

**BrookM**

AAN wrote:
Well considering the very generic approach of BA, why not make your own list?
As soon as the 4 big nation are covered more or less all tanks and weapons will be done, so pick the units stats you like or see fitting and use them as a stand in for you Dutch forces...

This is not 40K after all.

True enough, I guess this means hunting for research books first.

**AAN**

BrookM wrote:

True enough, I guess this means hunting for research books first.

LOL, exactly what I do!

**BrookM**

And the exclusive mini for the future US Army source book has been unveiled: Lewis "Chesty" Puller. I would've loved Audie Murphy myself.

**wana10**

I thought the temp cover amazon had for the American book was a lot better than the actual cover Warlord went with. Oh well. Reviews and pics of the Germany book are floating about. Looks like Australia already has the book but it'll be another few weeks before it makes its way to the rest of the world.
Generic list with almost everything ww2 German as well as more restrictive lists for different areas of fighting.
Can't wait to flip through it myself.

**Azazelx**

Hm.. I'm thinking of buying a couple of FoW platoon blisters to use in BA as we were discussing earlier. I'll also play in 28mm (I've been buying up some Germans, Brits and Americans) but I'd also like to use a bunch of my 15mm armour.

Here's the tricky part - advice on which FoW figures to buy - there's a lot of ...variable quality in the FoW range, and if I'm going to play skirmish I'll paint them like their big cousins. So any advice on which Germans have the nicest sculpts, and also which Brits? I'd ideally like to get figures I can use as SS versus Paras (Arnhem theme) but I also just want to buy a blister of each and not a whole company box - and with the rounded bases (not the really old oval or irregular ones). I could use the new plastics, but I'd prefer metals - since the plastics would probably fly all over the table if I sneezed, while the metals ones have (a little) more heft.

**Eumerin**

AAN wrote:
Well considering the very generic approach of BA, why not make your own list?
As soon as the 4 big nation are covered more or less all tanks and weapons will be done, so pick the units stats you like or see fitting and use them as a stand in for you Dutch forces...

This is not 40K after all.

Yes and no.

During the early period, most of the nations used either French or Czech equipment, with a smattering of home-built stuff. The Poles, for instance, had their own tank designs. The Czech stuff should be statted out when the German book is released next month (since the Germans captured and used pretty much all of it), but the French stuff won't be officially statted out until much later. And then you've got the minor Axis powers. The Finns are easy enough (German and captured Soviet equipment). But the Italians pretty much used just their own stuff. The Hungarians also made a lot of their own equipment, including armored vehicles. And while the Romanians used a lot of purchased and captured equipment, they also ended up doing some very creative things combining tanks and guns in ways that the original designers had never envisioned (i.e. TACAM R-2 and TACAM T-60).

Late war allies, however, can all be built using more restrictive versions of the British (Commonwealth and most Free Allied Forces), US (Free French), and Soviet (Poles and Czechs who fought in the East) lists.

**BrookM**

For those interested in the Armies of Germany book, but not that pigdog Skorzeny, you can get the book at the Book Depository for 15% off: http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Armies-Germany-Games-Warlord/9781780960883

The other army books (United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union) are also on pre-order, again with 15% off, though as with the German army book linked above, no special mini is included with the order.

**BrookM**

Bolt Action errata has been released: http://www.warlordgames.com/28025/bolt-action-errata/

Plastic Russian infantry are now up for pre-order: http://www.warlordgames.com/28023/pre-order-plastic-bolt-action-soviet-infantry/

The Red Horde is almost upon us! Stalin’s Soviet soldiers are now immortalised in hard plastic with this, our latest plastic Bolt Action set. You can place a pre-order for these superb miniatures now…

These are the men who fought ferociously to defend Mother Russia from the German invasion of 1941 through to the fall of Berlin in 1945. Simple peasant soldiers, they were taught to obey orders and do as they were told. Their life was hard and their battles probably unequalled in history for scale and suffering.

The Russian divisions grew from a disorganised mass to a fully capable and experienced force of modern infantry in just a few short years, a deadly weapon tempered in the cauldron of battle against the German invaders.

“Quantity has a quality of its own” said Joseph Stalin, alluding to the huge numbers of men he could put into the field. Well-equipped with simple, solid weaponry the Soviet soldier was a terror in attack and the very devil in defence as the legendary sieges of Leningrad and Stalingrad hold in stark testimony.

Soviet Infantry contains:
Enough plastic components to make 40 Soviet Union infantry miniatures. Includes a host of options to allow for different weapon configurations and command models.

Weapons included:

Mosin-Nagant rifle (scoped, with bayonet and without), PTRD Anti-tank rifle, submachine guns (PPS-43 , PPSh-41 and PPD-40), Mosin-Nagant carbine, DT-28 light machine gun, Tokarev semi-automatic rifle (and bayonet version), pistols and captured Panzerfaust!
Round plastic bases (25mm diameter).
Background leaflet.

As you can see there is a stack of variety available with bodies wearing a mix of Summer and quilted uniforms. The sheer variety of equipment and weaponry in this set is bewildering – you can even have your soldiers fighting close quarters wielding entrenching tools!

The new plastics are just the star of what will be a comprehensive Soviet range – we already have the likes of the Iosef Stalin 2 heavy tank on the way (and loads more vehicles!) as well as many metal sets such as Forward Observer teams and Scouts. The Red Army are often the poor relation compared to German, British and US ranges but not here at Warlord Games!

It would be rude of us not to include the Soviet anti-tank rifle wouldn’t it? You’ll also be able to arm this prone pose with the DP-28 light machine gun, sniper rifle or one of the other weapons on this Soviet Weapons sprue.

What kind of company would we be if we didn’t include Molotov Cocktails? Is there anything that screams ‘Soviet!’ more?

We also have a discount three box deal and a buy five get the sixth box free deal so you can start assembling your Red Army as quickly as possible – comrade Stalin would be proud!

Assemble your men, fix bayonets, look to your front and don’t let the Commissar see you lag behind…

**Herzlos**

Well that's all my Christmas money gone

**BrookM**

Tell me about it, forty minis for £28.00! A regular box of 25 minis the other armies have costs £22.50, talk about a steal.

**Herzlos**

Its worse; they've got a bundle deal on 3 boxes, saving $15 (I can only see the US site from here). That'll land you 120 28mm infantry figures for about £75?

I know I don't need that many, but it's tempting none the less!