Demo Game: Bolt Action 2nd Edition

[@worempie]

My Best moment of Bolt Action is convincing my wife I need more models

[@c.michaelfisher1123]

The best of the bet is when you convince she needs her own =)

[@hellcat64]

Just show her the price comparison of 40k to bolt action.

[@befunk9]

Roll doubles too many times and Switzerland stops being neutral, and declares war against you.

[@derkzijp7007]

My best moment is realizing this game exists, can't wait to get my hands on it.

[@Hambone571]

Derk Zijp Whats nice is, after you but pay the initial rules, you can get what troops and vehicles you want, as much as you want, and use what you want. I really over bought, I admit, I have and painted way to much, but my friends and I adjusted some rules for bigger table games.

[@Debriefgames]

I think my best Bolt Action moment came from my first time playing. I don't actually own the game but the people at my local gaming club were kind enough to lend me one of their armies for the day at the club and play the game, and what a blast. My favorite moment from that game came about from me being outnumbered completely. I was US and my enemy was Germany, and from the beginning of the game he had the turn advantage, removing my armour from the battlefield leaving me with nothing but infantry and mortars on the battlefield versus his armoured force backed up with some more Jerry firepower. He held the initiative for most of the game, taking my units out left and right, and finally, huzzah! the dice swung in my favour and green after green order dice were brought from the bag, the initiative was mine. Pushing and outflanking my opponent, brewing up his tank in a flurry of bazooka fire, without him being able to defend himself was exhilarating as a first time player. Goodbye to the you go, I go turn order I was used to. This is what the chaos of WWII should feel like. I suppose my best moment of Bolt Action came not from what happened in the match (unfortunately, everything balanced out and the might of the Jerry firepower shredded up the last of my men, and, by the way, when you feel excited to even LOSE a game, that's how you know that this game is for you) but from how the game made me feel. I have watched Band of Brothers, I have watched Saving Private Ryan, but through the kindness of my local club members and through the phenomenal game that Warlord have presented us, I was finally IN the action. I felt it, I could imagine the bullets and shells whizzing past, ripping holes through buildings, followed by the guts and glory of the American infantry charging towards the German defensive line. I was in a miniature band of brothers that day. This game has changed my whole perspective on wargaming, and I cannot wait to finally get my hands on my own army and rulebook. Also, Kris, if you're reading this, thank you so much for allowing me to borrow your army that day, I owe this all to you.

[@jinxxathomez]

Are the reaction tests from k47 in ba 2.0?

[@chrisfletcher345]

If you haven't wiped out half of your army in a friendly fire artillery barrage, then you're not playing enough.

[@tomdudley5314]

Agree, they needed a points drop, perhaps 10pts each to make them worth it.

[@jamesdelahaye4454]

God damn that guy on the left was super salty the whole game after he drove his tank into destruction.

[@OnTableTop]

Lol.

[@drunkenbattalion]

He did just lose ~300pts to a 10 point upgrade in one turn, to be fair

[@ratelmike8825]

I do think Justine needs to tone it back a bit. Being a gloating wise ass gets to come back and bite you in the aforementioned rear end

[@chrisking1334]

Favourite Bolt Action moment? - easily it's my poor, beleaguered PIAT team running their way forward for three turns before one-shotting a Panther. Genius. Great vid - thanks!

[@Skringly]

My most epic moment of BA must have been when my Officer charge into an enemy soviet rifle squad alone, killed two of them, survived all the return hits and promptly ran the rest down after the combat result. A single young lieutenant bagged a full 10 man squad single-handedly!

[@Sanosuke30001]

LT. Lutz moves from band of brothers. Nice

[@vengeanceforcatalonia8935]

Harlem Hellfighters style.... noice.

[@kamikazebadger2686]

My favourite BA moment was when my 1Lt did a Victoria Cross run across open ground to claim the the objective in the Top Secret mission. He survived two units of 10 German troops and a mmg firing at him without a scratch. Next round the arty smoke barrage hit right on target and he was safe to run off the field.

[@owencook9729]

2nd edition seems to add in quite a few things to make the game that slight bit better, really liking it so far, also the models are still incredible.

[@ruzzyshuya4832]

"The commander's said 'today, I wish to be a sniper', the observer's said 'good idea', the MG team has said 'we don't like that guy'". "Meanwhile the sniper team's saying 'did you see what we did to that guy's helmet?'" The banter during war games is why I love war gaming :D

[@nehrigen]

I have been waiting for a batrep with the new edition for a while. Well done guys.

[@copeious3045]

I not sure if this completed, but I haven't been able to play bolt action, but over the passed month I have watched a number of these videos. They peeked my interest and now I building my army. I would say my best moment so far was watching one of the D-Day scenarios play out and when the Americans were attempting to land 5 Boats and none landed!

[@OnTableTop]

Glad you've enjoyed the Bolt Action content :D

[@TheEccentricMan]

Thanks for the video, a good move to show the changes. The changes look to work well without changing the game dynamics. Best game moment for me was in fact my friends in a game against me. I was about to take an objective to win the game with my sniper team when his artillery obs who needed double 6 to hit promptly did so, rolled 6 to wound followed by 6 for exceptional damage to take out the sniper. My one remaining man failed his morale test and fled! Game to my opponent, but was really exciting.

[@AndrutPL]

My most epic moment was when my Staghound menaged to win me the game that I saw as lost cause. My 1st Polish Armoured was pushed back by Fallshirmjager supported by some heavy equipment - Tiger, StuH and Puma. For worse, my own artillery observer shelled my center, pinning most of the infantry down. With half units gone to ground, my armour desperately tried to stop German advance. With Cromwell playing "cat & mouse" with Puma on the right and Stuart desperately defending left flank from waves of Fallshirmjagers (and respectively dying of Panzerfaust fire), my brave Staghound menaged to overmanouvre enemy forces and in two last turns he took out StuH and Tiger. I menaged to unpin my infantry and take objective, which was the bridge somewhere in Holland. Funny thing is, my Stag keeps collecting heavy tanks from that time, with IS-2 on his account too. Remember fellow British Army players - take your Staghound with you, when everyone fails, he will save the day.

[@philboshobbybunker4677]

Great video guys! Love the changes we might actually see some rally orders in our games. My best moment was the first time I played at my house. We spent an age placing terrain setting up a small village and ruined church to fight over and once the armies where setup it just looked so epic I was hooked right there! Great game. Roll on 2nd edition!

[@Nperez1986]

Dont touch my tank!...the only thing I'll remember from this lol

[@sebastianhoyos1961]

came to back to watch just for this moment

[@Daegren1]

The match was fun to watch, but my favorite moment would have be Justin taking both transports with his forward observer. It was a extremely smart move and you could tell John was completely taken off guard, "There are words to spring to my mind Justin, but known of which I can say on camera."

[@ProjectMEW]

Cannot wait for second edition! The most epic moment I've had is when my opponent needed a 6 to hit a target with a Brumbar tank. He rolled a six, but wait! We forgot the target was a small team, so he actually needed to roll a 6 by 6. Without skipping a beat, he picks up the die and without breaking eye contact, rolls another 6. It was glorious.

[@hobbyspotnz2833]

Geez that got salty when that first tank got destroyed.....DONT TOUCH MY TANK !!! Man lol

[@Sacrilege83]

^I think that's more sad than dealing with someone who is half salty.

[@mistyfair5798]

I have never played Bolt Action and this wargame was a great advert. It seems very playable and good fun. The presentation from John and Justin was just how wargames amongst friends should be played, that is, having fun and making your friend suffer!!! Really enjoyed the post game analysis. Just one real criticism: the FO walking out into the open and claiming victory points on the armoured transports, really did not get the logic of that rule. Experienced Bolt Action games may be able to advise.

[@robertmitchell3030]

Awesome battle report! I'm new to the Bolt Action scene, but this game looks like my kind of miniatures combat game. They had me with Konflikt 47 and now they've hooked me with Bolt Action 2.0!

[@gilbertthompson4183]

My best Bolt Action moment, or rather series of moments, was when my free British artillery observer dropped his strike on my own lines... 7 games in a row. It went from being hugely frustrating to almost becoming some bizarre tradition.

[@SaturmornCarvilli]

My most epic moment in Bolt Action was during my first game where my Sherman assaulted 4 units guarding an objective. I caused 3 of the units to break. Some would say those units just ran away unable to hold their position with a Sherman charging them. I like to think I crushed a few of them under the tracks. Because of that, I named my M4 the "Kill Press."

[@droppod101]

Would be great to see close ups of both these armies!

[@crossbones8956]

11:30 "Don't touch my tank"

[@MrRavoss]

My favorite Bolt Action moment was my bazooka team, after making three run moves and with 3 pins, advanced behind a tiger and took it out point blank. We were playing in a city table with really hard LOS but I was constantly under sniper fire. He was taken out on the next dice, but my challenger will never again leave a tank without infantry support.

[@Brian-yc4mi]

I'd love to give this game a shot! Enjoyed watching the demo.

[@matthewlatham4570]

My only bolt action moments are enjoying your reports and videos as I have never had an opponent, a starter set and persuasive language could change that! Thank you for the videos, even if they leave me window shopping

[@LoOnyCal]

really like the fact that they changed the assault rifle rule. and brought it down to 18 inches.

[@angelgarcia4848]

Great explanation of rules. Entertaining game as well. Saving my money to finally get my own setup.

[@ShawnEnge]

I've never played but have loved the games I've watched. not a big enough community but if it grows I'd love to get into it!

[@neilevans5676]

How can the been carriers be classed as unmanned after they had fired at the flame thrower team, surely someone has to be in them to fire the been.

[@j.c.drescher4444]

Unfortunately I did not have any cinematic moments yet, but with that starter box, I would be off to a great start and I would definitely post the most epic moments as replies under this post!

[@836dmar]

I think I prefer the quick patrol stage of Chain of Command as a way of starting the game. The line up and start rolling feels awkward and kind of forced. I suppose you could add that sort of start to BA.

[@SGusky]

Most cinematic moment for me in a game was , on the last turn my French Med Arty piece was manhandled into a position ( observer was killed in previous turn) to get sights on the remaining German infantry and rolled a 6 and then 11 for number of hits and evaporated that squad and won the game for me ( it's shown in my battle of Stonne video on my channel)

[@theoutlander1411]

You won't be able to do that now with templates, they will only be able to kill on a 4+ units underneath it, which means good luck being able to kill anything with artillery.

[@SGusky]

+John W agreed but the squad was about six guys Tylee packed on the roof of the building

[@521wallace]

My favorite Bolt Action moment was when my Sniper team took out my opponents sniper and machine gun teams in the same game. Turned the tide of the game in my favor and was epic to boot.

[@TheCRTMatt]

my favorite bolt action moment was being wiped out by the Japanese not knowing about the banzai rules. game on!

[@baldguygames]

That whole business with armed transports (unmanned or otherwise) running/breaking from a 1 soldier charge is just plain silly. I'll never incorporate that rule in my games.

[@theforgedlarp]

Same. That was very odd. I came to the comments just to see if someone said anything.

[@matijarasovic4627]

Dumbest rule I've seen in any tabletop game, what is it supposed to represent

[@daveclark7924]

Sadly haven't been able to get Bolt Action in any form so I have no great game stories to tell. But I would think that it would be a good idea to put the forward observers into the transports when the original mounted troops de-bus, that way you would have got the extra bren dice and couldn't be made to run by the enemies danger close. Great game.

[@gulliverthegullible6667]

I would have liked to have had a closer look at the minis. The game mechanics seem to be interesting.

[@matthewfridirici3025]

Can't wait for the new book to get to the FLGS, I really like the changes you've shown in the demo, especially the new officer rules. Very neat stuff.

[@mitchcowan1446]

My favourite moment in BA was an air strike that came in at the perfect time to wipe out or out enough pins to really neutralize an SS opponent. I was on the ropes and it turned the game around with a win for my US airborne

[@Jebjeb]

Best bolt action moment was a 3 turn battle between a Semovente and a cromwell, semovente just started to get the upper hand and a 6 pounder that could see only a 1/4 of the vehicle rolled the 6&6 to hit, a 5 to pen and blew the ammo rack sky high! i was gutted but it was awesome

[@DeimosPC]

"DO NOT TOUCH MY TANK" Wow, fuck me. Someones salty about losing one of their tanks lmao

[@philiplawrence9188]

Deimos He's also very "generous" with his measurements. That first unit to debuss must have moved nearly 9" with some of those models!!

[@bccooper2418]

This play test has helped me a lot with the new rules in 2nd edition. I was wondering if you guys would mind posting your full play list for each side and the total points used? I am still learning to play and I would love to play that German Army as it is in this playtest. I like using infantry more and getting those extra dice.

[@kastork82]

One of my early games, being out of targets and a bit on the ropes, I shot a bazooka at a two-man sniper team, the shooter of which was peeking from behind a corner. 7+, hit, 6 on damage, 6 again to choose. The shooter went SPLAT! in a fountain of gore and the spotter failed his test, considering this being WAY too much for him and bolted :P

[@graemecollin]

Was that Artillery Observer called Mulligan, perchance? Would've been nice to see each of the army lists ...

[@AK47_ASH]

Will you be doing anymore battle reports like this?????

[@TabletopGorillas]

Managed to win a game of Bolt Action without firing a single shot. That was mission 5 from the rulebook where you have to grab the objective from the middle of the table and bring it out. Can't wait for 2nd Edition!

[@mylesm7179]

In a tank war game. A troop of German panthers were very confidently assaulting and had destroyed 4 of my shermans. But it was the crafty tactics of the hellcat crew screaming up the flanks and demonstrating expert technical gunnery skills, clipped the claws of the kitties by knocking them all out and leaving the German generals jaw on the floor.

[@TheRendar]

Had huge jungle battle with my Japanese fighting marines defending a defensive position . Japanese were able to push the marines out and capture the hill . Just to be wiped out by a marine flame thrower team . Brutal game but a ton of fun! Can't wait for 2nd edition !!!

[@Blipvertus]

My group has been going through the scenarios of Battleground Europe in order and the most epic game was Scenario 3, Omaha beach. The allies took a pounding while in the water and at the shore line but once on the beach just rolled up to those pillboxes and just let loose with the flame thrower engineer teams.

[@burntorangeandblue]

So did John wince at the gamey-ness of an FO walking into the open against two mg mounted transports and poofing them away... or is he used to it by now? Looked visibly upset about it.

[@OnTableTop]

Camera's don't pick up the tears so well.

[@Vorpal_Wit]

I think we all winced. If that rule is going to be in effect for transports, they shouldn't give up VPs for getting spooked away. IMO.

[@zirrian]

For that reason we usually ignore this rule. Never thought it makes too much sense.

[@zirrian]

William Bodin Our gaming group never does anything like that, thankfully.

[@aethelrickthedark7012]

Just starting into this hobby...but did that one German fella really just walk out into two trucks, that were shooting at him on their turn...shout "FEAR ME ENGLANDERS!" and remove them from the table...what kind of crazy ass rule is that.

[@MrAmac97]

my best bolt action moment was seeing those beautiful miniatures

[@Vorpal_Wit]

13:50 That face! Lol! I feel for ya, brother.

[@connorhudston6895]

Best Bolt Action vid YET! You need to, you have to, I BEG you to make more Bolt Action Vids! Pleaseeeeeee

[@ostrowulf]

I have never played Bolt Action, but am looking to get into it. There are a couple of oddities that bother me from the demo. One, it seemed that you could not fire your mortars at people they could not see. That is pretty well the point of mortars, they are for all intents and purposes light artillery. The other thing, a guy poping out and making APCs disappear is bizarre to me. I may be biased, as I spent most of my working life in a mechanized battalion, where the APC was a large part of the sections firepower, which means it not just fires, it produces most of the fire power (LAV III). I understand tactics have changed over the years, but even just making it pull back would make more sense than it just disappearing because a spotter with a rifle comes out, when they each have a Bren gun. The fact that you changed HE to to template but not flame is odd, but not a deal breaker by any means. However, the template weapons, like mortars, even when they miss should have a chance to hit something. If I am aiming at an MG nest, and over fire a bit, it is entirely possible that I am going to smack some one behind them. Most other things are details that I understand are hard to put into games (eg don't stand in front of a firing tank, as you will now have a concussion), however machine guns tend to annoy me in games. I feel like taking a bunch of game designers (to include video game designers) and teaching them classes in the theory of machine gun fire. Machine guns are a template style weapon, as they hit a beating zone (bullets are not lasers, they are fired at a bit of an upward angle, and then the arc due to gravity starts bringing them down, like when you want to hit some one with a baseball, you have to aim a little high at distance, and the ball hits at a downward angle). That, and when set up on a tripod, as the ones in machine gun teams are set up in, work as indirect fire too, which was used quite a bit in both world wars. They tend to have adjusting dials, so as some one calls in your shots (like artty) you adjust the dials and match the bubbles (like a wood working level) and fire again. The part about the assault rifles I like. It is the same as This is Not a Test, and it works well in that. It also makes sense, not because balistaclly the bullet can not go as far (depending on rifle it may or may not), but bolt action rifles are more accurate, especially back then, so making up for the improved accuracy by increased total range, and by proxy increased "short range" over assault rifles is a good way to handle that.

[@johnmumford9731]

He forgot to buy the spotter for them it costs an extra 10 points - why it is optional instead of compulsory is a mystery to a lot of us

[@ostrowulf]

+John Mumford (Truscott Trotter) Okay, that I can deal with. Not everyone (especially at this time) has comms with the mortar and/or knows how to call it in. In fairness, a lot of times at Pl level a mortar will fire with no spotter, just firing at targets they see or at suspect areas, which would include shooting at things you can not see, but pretty innacurstely (also illumination rounds, but that is a whole different kettle of fish), so they do get used without actual spotters in a similar fassion to a direct fire weapon at times. Cheers, that is one less thing bothering me.

[@zirrian]

Now if officers could act as spotters, that'd be nice.

[@ostrowulf]

I agree.

[@Hazdrubal_Wargaming]

Most memorable Bolt Action moment. My Veteran Flamethrower team gets charged by an enemy squad of 8 SMG armed vetrans and Wins, with no losses to me being a nice bonus.

[@robertlambert3774]

Best Moment, Game was at the end, as it stood, all even looking for a draw. Last die, Med mortar, ranging on a 6, rolled a 6 took out a HQ squad, won

[@CesarIsaacPerez]

Really interested in getting the Band of Brothers Starter set and the Konflikt 47 Starter sets for Americans and Germans. I think I could mix those into nice armies for both games.

[@lawnorprime]

My friend and I picked up the Tank Fury set each and swapped tanks around a while back. I've gone Allied and he's gone Germans. I have number of shots and he had high armour. While we have fun playing (Always more fun than i remember when we haven't played for a while) I can't help but think it feels a little too weighted in favour oh high armour. The germans can put out tanks that most allied tanks need straight 6s to chip the paint on, and infantry laregly seems to be pointless if theres tanks on the table. Its a very fun game, and I loved it when my 6 shermans had a dice spike early in a game meaning he was down a tank before he could shoot so with my 6 models vs his 3 I was always going before him and taking down or pinning his tanks before they could do anything. Likewise I hate it when I end up in situations where I need dice spikes to achieve anything.

[@thislostendevour]

Bolt Action is something I've wanted to play for a while, so second edition is a nice surprise.

[@angelsainz3021]

Looks cool. Nice to see some of the changes from Antares making it to Bolt Action

[@barafosteelfounder]

So I played with some experimental rules last year. Hidden units were denoted with tokens (pieces of paper with the unit's name flipped down) and I was facing off against an American player with my Germans. First turn, the Yankee dog gets the first dice. He advances along a road. Before him are two tokens, on either side of the ride on my side of table, both behind hard cover. One was my Puma, the other a veteran infantry unit. The Puma happens to be my only significant anti-tank threat against his Sherman/Greyhound combination. A detail. He advances along the road with his Sherman, selects the Puma as his target and opens up. A damn bold move I think, coming so far forward with minimal cover. I think to myself that such folly will be responded with in time. However, what proceeds this damn-your-eyes, cavalier foray into my sector can only be described as the most incredible, and dare I say genius series of 6's rolled that I have ever seen. My opponent, a damn fine chap it must be said, ruefully smiles as he rattles off one 6 after another, penetrating my armor and incinerating the poor, hapless Germans who reside within! The game would go onto be a rather close one, ultimately being a narrow American victory, but it was certainly a game to remember!

[@brains4845]

My best moment in Bolt Action was in the middle of a 1250 point game, my Cromwell held the entire middle crossroad by himself. He got hit a ridiculous amount of times with only one doing any damage, breaking the tracks. I won the game by the skin of my teeth thanks to my wonderful Cromwell. Both me and my opponent agreed that he was man of the match.

[@hazed1009]

just couple of things I noticed but I'm unsure I'm right, during about turn 2 or 3 you run an artillery piece accross the brown ground, which I assume is rough? I thought artillery couldn't cross rough ground unless towed.? and the other thing was after firing the flamethrower aren't you supposed to do the test to see if its run out of fuel? ive been using that rule but still not positive ive got it right

[@frozeniguana9448]

Probably the best game I ever played was against a player running Germans ( late war) vs. my early war French. Coincidentally, it was not only my second game ever, but his as well. In the .first of a convention, surrounded by bloodthirsty plastic death Lords, we had a blast, and he thoroughly condemned the armor thickness of the Char B-1 and the savagery of Senegalese, while I learned of the stinging bard of assault rifles, and near invincibility of veteran SS.

[@GVGames1986]

What would be cool in the future is a Space Invaders style glass table (old people will know what I mean). But holograms. A mix of tabletop and technology. Of course not replacing this, just a fun new technology. I put this out a few years ago, but thought I might mention again.

[@SlotraceDK]

at 15:29 - is that a template on his tablet? If yes, where can we find it?

[@MColl81]

K47 and BAv2 has me excited to play again after basically a 12+ month hiatus. Excited about the changes I've seen here (at least 18 changes observed). However, a bit disappointed MMGs didn't go to 6 dice like the BAA Season rules. We'll probably keep that one as a house rule. We'll see.

[@mannyuk99]

looking good as always. John went a bit too 'Fury' with that first Sherman

[@RaeveSpam]

Waiting for second edition to drop before I jump into Bolt Action. Therefore my best moment with Bolt Action was watching The Beast of War Demo game! Can't wait to get my own army!

[@notmenotme614]

1:25:44 In reality thats incorrect. Artillery and HMG sometimes would be prepared and ranged-in onto features. Usually by firing a few ranging rounds and keeping the elevation and windage.

[@stacyyoung2316]

As I said on BoW, I love the flavorful troops and while not always epic for me, it's fun to watch my bamboo spear fighters dive head first into a unit of Gurkha or the like. Not to mention the joys of taking out armor with some kamikaze lunge mines.

[@JTMC93]

Bolt Action went to Templates and 40K dropped templates... Odd to see that occur. Though shows the difference of needs for the games.

[@richardmacpherson7647]

I asked that question at the games day in the seminar with Alessio, Paul Sawyer and John Stallard and they laughed and said basically "Meh, why not" 🤣

[@MrGeorge175]

Best moment was rolling a six for an artillery barrage, then six for range catching 5 enemy units. However it did not stop there, I then rolled a six for the first unit which brought down the heavy howitzer and then three sixes for 18 hits. My opponent had chosen to go down and only took nine hits but his mmg team was gone. I then rolled another six again for the next unit which suffered only 4 hits after going down. I only pinned the next three units but at this point his charge across Pegasus Bridge had all but faltered. I know I will probably never roll that again so it was lucky that I was at my local club at the time with a few others who were watching.

[@bigeye6606]

Best BA moment? When the preliminary bombardment took out my tank, my HQ, my sniper team and my medic. lost the game of course but those roles were just insane.

[@ratrod67]

Do you have videos on the making of your terrain, buildings...etc or perhaps links where you get your items?

[@graydrifter3377]

I haven’t got the chance to play yet, especially with the Coronavirus. But I have started assembling my Afrika Korps starter army and am looking forward to playing soon.

[@littlejimmy5020]

Loving the look of this, my best bolt action game was two weeks ago.. My first foray into bolt action. Played US infantry against a German team, managed to get a draw so not a bad start.

[@littlejimmy5020]

Although shooting myself with my own aircraft wasn't so good

[@KjetilKverndokken]

I have not yet had any awesome Bolt Action moments, but I want to - but need more minis so I can start demoing it.

[@SlotraceDK]

11:35 ha ha........Don't touch my tank!

[@ClassicColt45LC]

cant wait for 2nd edition. i play the usmc and love using LVTs, for fluff mostly but now that they can stay and fight which makes them much more worth the points. still dont like the run away if close to an enemy thing but thats easily changed as a house rule

[@alistairscott678]

Longstop hill scenario - british regulars take the fire of two german mmgs and a grenadier squad, unpin with the help of the nearby officer, charge the grenadiers, win the close combat, consolidate to cover, charge the first mmg, win the combat, consolidate behind the second mmg, get charged by a reinforcing grenadier squad, win that combat and next turn take the last mmg squad in the rear! V.C. Awarded to the corporal leading the squad.

[@hellcat64]

Liking the rules. Mortars seem to only act as forcing opponents to move. Also would have loved to see a armor save system. My test is gona be 4+ start. Light cover +1 or heavy cover +2. Lmgs -1 , morter -1 / -2 direct. Sniper -3 (due to deadly accuracy). Tanks and emplacements would follow above rules based off both players agreement at start.

[@hellcat64]

Edit, could make it so mortars treat cover as 1 less for armor save

[@thepharos]

allowing multiple tanks and templates makes bolt action worth a second look. good job warlord.

[@waltermelnyk6207]

I'm liking the report and the changes I've seen, but I'd argue the dense terrain rule would prevent the Puma from seeing the Firefly at 17 minutes (at least it warranted a closer look)

[@nashpainting]

My best was probably in my first ever game of BA with my brother (sibling rivalry bonus). With my first shot my MMG took out his hidden sniper. Oh the look on his face was priceless. :)

[@Chauc3r]

John missed an opportunity to drive his firefly thru 2 german infantry platoons making them take a motivation check or run off. i like the v2 changes overall. The only thing that I'd like to see have a minor change to the rule of when your own troops provide soft cover to units behind them. What I mean is this. If your own troops can provide soft cover for troops behind them, then the shots that miss the far platoon, should be rolled again to see if they hit the platoon providing the soft cover. It would only make sense that if i'm having to shoot through a unit at another, then they should be in jeopardy also.

[@e-4airman124]

very good show! Changes look good!

[@nrnicebreaker]

Looks interesting, sadly I didn't have a game of bolt action yet, but I'm really keen on starting to play this!

[@warpheadz]

The changes look really good so far.

[@ReaperFCrew]

Best Bolt Action moment was then I was play German vs US with a friend. I Had a big US infantry force, but they where all inexperience except my sniper team (veterans). My friend had a very strong German veteran infantry force. I expected to be crushed but my sniper team took out his officer, all squad based LMG teams and some NCO's. My sniper team won the day for me :D

[@davidthigpen2366]

mortar team shoot at a spot on the field not at troops. so once a team shoots , no matter what units move in to that crater, spot the mortar should still get the advantage on the roll of the dice

[@TheLastPhoen1x]

58:00 "Its observer, my coordinates is 007 145, request artillery barrage on position..." "Barrage at given coordinates inbound" "Wait, what? I have not given you their position ye... BOOM BOOM BOOM"

[@kenc9236]

Awesome video. Love the table. What is the best gaming system for this style of gaming?

[@Howitzer933]

They highly overestimate the power of a machine gun firing ground to air at an aircraft, should definitely be 6's to hit

[@yourdemise727]

Never played bolt action but want to really bad. Would love to make some cool moments/memories with this game soon :)

[@nighthawkdutchchameleon9815]

Qeustion. Why does puma get 1d6 on tankshooting qnd sherman 2d6?