Another good video Bo, for me the big initial thing for V3 at events are tanks, you don’t even have to pay the truck tax and more…. They are dominating the game in the 4 V3 tournaments I have been to, the only solution so far is either very dense terrain, stranger missions or take one yourself (or probably all 3.) With 4 events then my experience is limited but more real world than most players. Wales got the lack of armour very wrong at WOW, not a mistake we will make again. As you say it’s being able to take a gun line with armoured support which wasn’t really a V2 thing. WOW 2024 was an excellent event and a very step learning curve :) we will be back for 2025

Hello Bo. Would you please do a video on how to magnetize a panzerfaust to a miniature. I’m sure there would be a lot of bolt action players interested in knowing how to do that. Thanks.

I'm participating on saturday too, we'll se if I have the pleasure of meeting some partisans. See you there Bo!

Beautiful ARMY! I am building my Partisans Soon! Got the Perry Minis American Civil War Cav...and Kitbashed them. Used those Horses in my Last Game with my Germans! And I have a box of Wargame Atlantic to build! My Buddy with his French Army has a General to Rescue. A cool 2vs2 Is coming up. French Army and Partisans vs AXIS!

What do you think of the 20 man Partizan SMG blob?

Hi Bo, Thx for the video. However, I do remember the game slightly differently. The main objective was contested & you won on kill points & got the secondary. You didn't claim both objectives. Plus, my Auto Cannon was useless because I had no tow (thanks Jan 😂) & my allowable 6" move left me with no view of anything for the whole game so it didn't matter if I blocked it off...because it was a useless dice on this table. As for my Cavalry on your back line, I didn't need to kill too many more of your units to have drawn the game. I think it would have been a lot closer result if my Satan had killed your scouts & then not immediately run out of fuel. I was also massively handicapped by having to take 4 turns to bring my Air Observer attack in, along with not being able to use my light mortars due to the total & utter lack of sight lines on 'Mount Stupid'. Don't forget, I had to attack because you won the crucial roll off & chose to defend, so I was always going to be feeding units into the grinder sadly. Now, I'm not saying you didn't deserve your victory, you absolutely, 100% did!!! But I had two massive handicaps; zero line of sight until you got within a few inches of the ridge line & having to attack. That said, I thoroughly enjoyed playing you & felt it was a good learning opportunity and, as I said above, you thoroughly deserved the win. Good video, but not totally accurate IMHO so I hope you don't mind me exercising my right of reply 🙂.

Thanks Bo.... This is my List... yeah, the SMF was a typo, but as a Twisted Sister fan, it may become a regular! The ht truck is in case missions came up where I had to exit the table... you can get a lot of points if it's filled with 2 man teams.... it's also a large model, so usually positioned to block lines of fire/access. At the moment, the LMG Teams are not available (waiting for the Armies of books...), but yeah, their lack of 'fixed' is worth loosing a shot or two. Have a Juggernaught tournament coming up at the end of the month, may tweak this list a little (maybe add the push squad as you suggest), will let you know how it goes.

One thing to counter the tank spam is allow anti-tank weapons to be taken as part of rifle squads. This was more common at the end of the war with many rifle squads having a PIAT or a Bazooka. Would mean that rather than a 2 man team there’s 6-7 men with anti-tank firepower. Making tanks more vulnerable without infantry support (sorta like the real world).

To play DAK: you just take units taht fit with the DAK or are there any special rules for teh DAK? I am assuming that at the moment the other previuous campaign books are non useable right?

The air observer doesn't seem terrible this version (especially American), and that 65-point tokarev truck costs less. 24 shots vs. that air strike is pretty brutal for defensive purposes. 12 shots with good range and mobility is decent, too. That panzerbuchse on a fast recce car might have some play. If you are able to zip in close for a side or rear shot, it would be hitting like a super heavy gun! Either option might not be the most reliable, but the times they work as intended will be a lot of fun.

You need to play in more Tournies to cement your spot in your national team especially with V3 changing the Meta. Also an Aussie won the Danish nationals in V2 fund Aaron for your all star team

The Romanian list is a real kick in the face. They lost their mountain troops (with field craft), the pioneer sqd with FTs, they lost their access to the 251 HT (thus no armoured transport) and their armour lost reduced to either slow R35 with low velocity ATG or the open topped TACAM with 7+ armour- that’s it. Previously Romanian was a competitive army, now it’s just going to gather dust for years until the minor power books come out… 😢

Light mortars do a good job on spotters and FOOs, which then blinds the opponent’s indirect wpns. Light mortars and ATRs rock in v 3.

Hah, best of luck going thru all the sollicitstions!

I like the idea and uses two of my favourite tactical elements. I've been tinkering with this with my French as a mutual friend of ours found out ;)

Smoke! Awesome thoughts. And light mortars not being 'fixed' weapons, means you're own army remains dynamic and less susceptible to these kind of tactics being used against you. All of which will work well to support GURKHAS. Go Bo!

Germans are never easy to play …

What about calling it Blue Ice? (Aeroplane style)

Ie christian happy to see you again even onyoutube see you, pat the french from fow!

Had reasonable success in a 1000 tournament with germans - 22 OD, 5 (reg) lm & 1 mm (for the spotter), won my first tournament game ever with it.... followed by a draw and a loss, so happy as my first V3 games too..... very very good for pinning out inex and reg vehicles especially with 4 atr too..... Currently planning a 1000pt british army with 8 lm, so I can use smoke next time!

Call it METEOR SWARM!

I’ve already been running Japanese this way. Now I just got 12” more range.

Wow that is barren. I see why you keep saying you needed more cover. Besides that one nice clump of trees this has to be less than half of what I am used to playing with.

Thanks for the video, Bo! I have terrible luck with mortars, but I Haven tried to spam light mortars. Maybe I'll give it a go sometime.

Great video Bo. I am coming up with a similar list, but using more med mortars and a company commander. Can light mortars use smoke in v3? T-60 seems ok in killing infantry how have they been with the new autocannon rules?

Great to see that you found something interesting! I wasnt really arround in v2 when big erratas dropped, so didnt really notice this. But how likely is it that WG will change up units like these (or how many of them you can take) in the erratas?

LM spam chasing a six. Isn’t this a little bit like MRL spam that some players complain about?

Loved the video but that loud thumping is really annoying. So next time please try not to hit table or perhaps use different microphone.

I printed 9 German light mortars for this same tactic.

Then why have any units with a range more than 16". Cluttered is not a nice table. A nice table has enough terrain to maneuver with caution, but to also use the full extent of your range.

are the tables 48 x 48 ?

Go Poles! Is there a video or anything on his list he was running? I also play Poland so I'm curious.

was coversave on 6´s a thing only for wow?

Spamming gunlines was always going to be a problem when you removed most hit modifiers. Range, small teams and cover reduced number of potential hits.

The lack of scenery is the only problem. And I have seen it almost in every table in Instagram or YT reports

Overall excellent analysis, thank you

Bo, would your Danish opponents agree on who was passive? I watched the games as TO and saw success for clever use of flanking and assaults with armoured vehicles

Gun lines- Spain had zero! Germany gun line didn’t work on day two Johnny forge three arty observers only got two wins Overall results for MLRS didn’t work Infiltrators were popular but mixed results Air strikes are a thing We are still seeing a lot of new lists which is wonderful, there is no meta

Missions overall worked but there are about four we are changing.

On the tables, we use more terrain block than any other tournament but as a lot of that is from hills 2D images do not show. Also some tables are deliberately designed to be more open to force different types of games on the players. I would argue we have the worlds best tourney tables which I accept is a big claim.

Spain ran light tanks and took zero HE or indirect fire! They were very mobile and not the gun lines predicted. Spain always do things differently and win! Great guys and players

Finland The unreliable discount is huge, far too high, we have fed back to warlord this issue

Took me 10 minutes after seeing the V3 previews to work out gun lines would dominate the game. Warlord had extensive play testing so it can't have been a surprise.

I am looking forward to discussing the CQ results with you in real life cause the stats you write does not really sound bad enough not to do it. Especially with the meta starting out to be loads of light mortars in Denmark. But I know you probably did not go into a fight you expected to lose.

Thank you for this great analysis. I am intrigued as to how you used your army, as i sent a list review with the same idea a few weeks ago. Would love to see the games, thank you for sharing!

No matter where you look, the rules for tournaments are being adapted or in some cases completely changed. Distances, template sizes, restrictions on units, restrictions on order dice, point costs for units, etc.. This already existed in V2, but not to this extent. This just shows that V3 is not well thought out. The chaos is now even greater, as the army books are published with a huge time lag. We can only hope that V3 will not survive for long and will be replaced by V4 as soon as possible.

Great analysis Bo. 1. Gunlines - 100% agree with this. This weekend I experienced possibly the most unfun game of BA I've ever played against Chris from the Welsh team with his Soviet Gunline. Killpoint mission on a table with a huge ridge to hide mortars behind and AT guns on the ridge and as soon as he went 2 dice up the game was over with no reason for him to do anything but Ambush. Chris played it perfectly. Equally against Torben he faced my double MRL and had no where to hide and I could just gun down anything trying to push up with lots of Autocannon fire - equally as unenjoyable for him. 2. CQ - From play testing Lancers can still do it but again its so risky you need to have softened up their targets and use them as mop up units. Another encouragement for a gunline to do the heavy lifting and use cavalry to clear up. 3. Tank choices from V2 to V3 have largely not changed. I predict we'll see more AC tanks due to the improved template placement but the vehicles themselves will continue to be the lighter armoured points efficient options.

Nah v3 is not a good game which such shame after how good v2 was. Disapointed.

I’m a new player and would appreciate it if you could provide an explanation of what a gun line is in terms of units?

Thank you for the vídeo and for our game. Well, regarding our lists, the V3 inducts all of us to spam units. It's on the rules and not on us. The tables and missions were excellent, although sometimes real challenged the players with unknown situations. For me, it was most of the time too much terrain, so all the pre-tournament alarms were only...scary. Regarding our games, it's always a pleasure to play against you, my old friendnemy. I am only one victory ahead, thats right. But this time, I got you:) I agree with you, that we are in the first steps of the V3 and have still much to learn...and test! For Germany, it was the best tournament ever. Thomas fought really good with finns and Martins Germans worked very well. We won against everyone but Spain. They clearly defeated all of us in the final, and they already got 5 tournament points difference before the final match. But for us, WoW was pretty successfull. It doesnt matter, if somebody desagrees with your opinnion, everybody should be thankful to you for your huge contribution with your channel, tournaments and participations to expand Bolt Action. Cheers, Manuel