Adventures on the Wargames Table

The new second edition of Bolt Action sees the addition of templates for things like HE, so Colin has produced a superb set of templates and tokens (available here ) to aid smooth game play. Here's my (slightly customised) set :o) Here are the 'turret jammed' and 'vehicle immobilised' tokens. These are the 'snap to action', 'air strike' and 'hidden' tokens. The snap to action token allows you to clearly note which units are being commanded by putting the newly drawn order dice in the token. No danger of muddling them up with units that have already been given a dice. Here is the blast marker template. Note the double 1" token in the centre, just like it's shown in the diagrams for HE in the book. The set also includes dice holders for continuing fire weapons such as mortars - helps to avoid the dice being picked up during play. All that for the very reasonable sum of just £7.50, so why not grab yourself a set?

I like to be able to decorate my tables with a few extra little scenic items to help give the impression that the buildings are 'lived in'. Here are a few I completed very recently. Boxes and a crate of tomatoes. They're a mix of resin (Ainsty and Grand Manner), plastic (Tamiya 1:48) and metal (Foundry) figures. Lettuces and apples... fancy a fruit salad, Sir? The paint scheme was simple block colours, a bit of wash then some highlights. The oil drums were just VMC Russian Green. I may base these as a little vignette. Think I might get some more too! They'd make a great little objective marker. Oil drums and fuel cans... perhaps not ideal cover? A couple of my buildings have proper gardens so I thought a wheelbarrow for the gardener might be a good idea. Clearly the owner of this one enjoys a glass or two whilst trimming the hedges!! I've based it to match the paths on the buildings with gardens. Nice little figure I thought. That Tommy has his ey...

At last I've finally got my grubby paws on a copy of the new rulebook!! So I thought I'd publish a few of my thoughts on the latest incarnation of what has become pretty much my favourite game. There's a superb video from Chris Harris on YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjTgxG-RgDk (well worth subscribing too!!) There's also a demo game from Beasts of War here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aJGzJDiKMg not the most exciting viewing ;o) but quite instructive. Warlord have some articles too:- http://www.warlordgames.com/bolt-action-2nd-edition-the-tweaks/ http://www.warlordgames.com/bolt-action-2nd-edition-the-tweaks-part-2-he/ http://www.warlordgames.com/bolt-action-2nd-edition-the-tweaks-part-3-officers/ The production quality of this hardback book is exactly what you'd expect from Warlord & Osprey. Sumptuous colour photos, superb artwork and top-notch graphic design; it's a pleasure simply to browse through it. In no ...