Showing posts with label Bolt Action. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bolt Action. Show all posts

Thursday, 23 October 2014

Top Secret

BA Battle Report


So, just yesterday I had the chance to play a game of Bolt Action with a buddy before physio. We decided to take some pictures and well... Here it is~

1000 point Army lists to come soon (hopefully)

Turn 1, various units come onto the board. Nazi's have issues bringing units onto the board (panzer, HQ, flak 38 and a heer squad do not make it on, American HQ and bazooka mounted jeeps fail to make it)
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Turn 2, Americas move up, failing to cause more than a single pin in damage. Germans reply with a sniper kill on a unit, everything comes on board
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Turn 3, american air support fails to materialize while german artillery lays out a ton of pins and annihilates the American HQ JEEP leaving the team with 4 pins. The greyhound moves up and drops the German sniper team with accurate MMG and light AT fire. The panzer fires at the greyhound but it recces away leaving a nearby infantry squad to get hosed with MMG Fire and loosing a man.The Germans advance while the Americans are forced to take cover (go down).
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Turn 4, the American air support materializes laying down a few pins and wiping out the German Waffen SS squad. The flak 38 opens up on the american infantry squad taking refuge amongst the dragons teeth but misses. The hellcat advances and opens up on the panzer and flak 38, ricocheting it's AT shot but managing to kill a crew member from the flak gun. The panzer misses it's shots.
The greyhound moves forward missing the panzer but managing to cause a pin and killing the adjutant in the the German LT. Squad. The German and American infantry advance.
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Turn 5, the panzer fires away to no avail while the grey hound rushes up putting pins on the german MMG and making another crew kill on the flak 38. Next the hellcat moves up setting fire to the panzer with its heavy AT and putting yet another pin onto the flak 38 with its HMG.  The greyhound then flees (recce) away from a German heer infantry assault. They take control of the objective but the greyhound remains alive.
The German MMG and FLAK opens fire on the besieged american infantry squad killing one. Once more they go down (failed rally check). The American engineers move forward causing 3 kills, including the SGT of the veteran heer squad claiming the objective.
Meanwhile the German Forward observer snipes a member of an American infantry squad.
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Turn 6, the objective is piggy backed to a rear squad while the unit fires on the advancing engineers killing 4 of the 5, leaving the flamethrower to avenge their deaths with FIRE! (Killing 2). Miraculously the heer stay on the board! (Moral roll of two ones!).
The hellcat managed to only stun the panzer and place a further pin on the flak 38. The greyhound crushes a unit of heer but the other escapes it's wrath. The jeep moves up depositing the bazooka team within reach of the panzer who promptly miss. The German artillery observer moves forward and kills the bazooka team like a boss.

Turn 7!
The second American air support finally comes in, wiping the panzer off the board and placing pins all about. The greyhound finishes off the Flak 38 and the artillery observer. And with that the game ends in.... A DRAW!
(The side that carries the objective market off their table edge wins the game. Otherwise the result is a draw.)
 
 
as Always, 
Comments and Criticisms welcome.
 
Bean out~

Wednesday, 8 October 2014

Come Fly With Me

I know I've been quiet for the last while, and things will probably remain that way for a while yet, but just to show a teensy bit of an update, here's my latest project:

A P-47 Thunderbolt for use with the optional warplane rules for Bolt Action








It's not quite complete yet as I still need to finish weathering it and then seal it, but it's 90% complete.I tried a new formula for laying down decals and I must say that it's worked perfectly: Gloss Varnish before the microset/sol decal solutions. It's wonderful when you can't see the silvery sheen of a decal on a model.

Until next time,
Keep trying new things.

Bean out~

Friday, 7 March 2014

Escalating engagements


Here's what I've been up to:
The Road to War - Bolt Action Escalation Series

Starting mid March, Imperial Hobbies (Richmond B.C., Canada) will be hosting an escalation league for the Bolt Action 28mm wargame. Starting at  500 points for the month of March, each month will feature an increase of 250 points to bring players up to the tournament standard (1000 points) in May. Each event date will feature one of the possible scenarios from the rulebook. Finally, on May 25th there will be a 1000 point Tournament featuring the scenarios used during each of the event Sundays.


500 point Forces

March 16th
Scenario 1 "Envelopment"

March 30th
Scenario 2 "Maximum Attrition"


750 points Forces

April 6th
Scenario 3 "Point Defense"

April 20th
Scenario 4 "Hold Until Relieved"


1000 Points Forces

May 11th
Scenario 5 "Demolition"

May 25th
TOURNAMENT


Tournament Rules:
  1. There is a $10 buy-in for tournament attendance. Payment will NOT be accepted after 12pm (noon), May 25th. No Late Entrants will be allowed.
  2.  Armies must be composed of no more than 1000 points and no more than 2 Reinforced Platoons, as described in the "Armies of" army books and the main rule book.
  3. Each list must be submitted no later than Friday May 23rd at 11:59pm.
  4. The Tournament will multi-round, swiss style with initial players matched up randomly and thereafter by ranking for each round.Matches will be scored by Win/Loss/Draw as well as Victory Points (as determined by the scenario) and Combat Points (each destroyed unit is counted for it's requisition points by the opponent). 
  5. There Will be Prizes for 1st and 2nd place as determined by ranking and points. 
  6. There will be Prizes for Best Sportsman and Best Painted as determined by the players. 
  7. Players must bring 2 identical Copies of their Army List to the tournament (one for themselves and one for their opponent). This must be the same List submitted to the Tournament Organizer.
  8. Each Table will feature a list of the terrain in use and what effect it has on the game (if any). The
  9. Terrain on each table may NOT be moved in between each match, nor during the match.
  10. After each match player must fill out the Match score sheet provided.

As you can see, Busy Busy Busy.
Until next time,
Bean out~

Tuesday, 3 December 2013

Die Waffenkammer PZ.III Ausf.M mit Shurtzen Review

Unboxing and Review

 So I've read a few reviews of Die Waffenkammer tanks and figured I could use one for my tiny German force. I had figured I'd need to order from them online but lo-and-behold my FLGS actually carries a few of their product! And better yet, they had the tank I was looking for (as, alas, they didn't have the Pz.III or Pz.Iv in amongst their Bolt Action stock). It seems serendipitous so I threw down and picked one up!

Tuesday, 26 November 2013

Time to get off the beaches

Unboxing

I went down to  check the mail the other day when I had one of those oh-so-lovely Postal Notices awaiting me. After a quick jaunt down to the post office I was given a wonderful package which I sped home to open:
What could it be???!!!

Tuesday, 20 August 2013

Unboxing the Sherman

Review

my Preciousssssss
 BAM!
Welcome to another unboxing for Warlord Games BOLT-Action products. This time I'm going with the tried and true method of a whole bunch of pictures to show whats up and see how everyone likes it. As always, comments and criticisms in the comments section below, so I can have some idea of how everyone prefers these reviews to be done (video or pictorials).
On to the review!

Tuesday, 6 August 2013

The New Contender: Bolt Action

Wargaming

I have found, what I believe, to be the holy-grail of miniature gaming systems. It's simple, fast, and most importantly, FUN to play. It is everything I love about wargaming in a hardbound tome of WWII awesomesauce. This game is the sweet sweet love-child of Warlord games and Osprey publishing, aka the company that employs most of the old crew from GW (Rick Priestly, Alessio Calvatore, Warwick Kinrade, Paul Sawyer, the Perry Twins, and more)  AND the company that has written more reference books for historical wargaming than any 5 others PUT TOGETHER.
Allow me to introduce my new gaming love:

Bolt action.
*Insert God rays*
The system itself is very intuitive and simple, revolving around 5 core mechanics:
  1. D6 system 
  2. The Order Dice System
  3. Veterancy System
  4. Pinning 
  5. Standard Weapons Array
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