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My question is this what are the long term products/goals of Bolt Action? Could we count on getting factions in the future such as Finish, Free French, Polish, etc? Will they do a weird war 2 (ww2 with scifi/fantasy elements)? Do they plan on expanding outside of WW 2, to the Korea war, Vietnam, Falklands, Cold war, Modern day, etc.?

Factions? You mean nations?


They have already posted there 'codex' release schedule;

German Army
US Army
British Army
Russian Army
Japanese Army

Then they are doing a minor nations book one for Axis and one for Allies.

They should also get a decent errata and clarification piece out as the Warlord forum seems to contain alot of discussion on things.

Worth looking over the Bolt Action threads on the Warlord forum to get an idea of the game. I did and although I was gonna get it, I have kinda decided against it after reading the threads there and the constant WWPD outpourings... Its not really my kind of game. I prefer something a little more historical and I guess restrictive in that way. Like all things, peoples tastes differ...

BA should do well in encouraging 40k players to try their version of WW2 though. Should bring some new blood in. Thats always a good thing.

Not for me either.

Honestly, this stuff looks to me like another epic engagement for that parking lot...

Big P wrote:
Factions? You mean nations?


They have already posted there 'codex' release schedule;

German Army
US Army
British Army
Russian Army
Japanese Army

Then they are doing a minor nations book one for Axis and one for Allies.

They should also get a decent errata and clarification piece out as the Warlord forum seems to contain alot of discussion on things.

Worth looking over the Bolt Action threads on the Warlord forum to get an idea of the game. I did and although I was gonna get it, I have kinda decided against it after reading the threads there and the constant WWPD outpourings... Its not really my kind of game. I prefer something a little more historical and I guess restrictive in that way. Like all things, peoples tastes differ...

BA should do well in encouraging 40k players to try their version of WW2 though. Should bring some new blood in. Thats always a good thing.

Would they be doing a rule book for US Marines? Also have they said anything about doing post world war 2, or pre war?

USMC are in the American book.


I dont think they are doing anything other than WW2.

As its published by Osprey I doubt that want to cross over into the territory of their other published game - Force-on-Force - that is a post-war ruleset.

Osprey have also recently released 'A World Aflame' covering the interwar, so again, I doubt you will see anything for pre-WW2.