All Army Rules REVEALED! What You NEED to get 3rd Edition Ready! | Bolt Action 3rd Edition

[@TikitheHutt]

"Drive the Chi-Ha closer Yoshi, I want to hit them with my Katana, BANZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIII"

[@dyslexy9714]

I can't believe this edition is coming out on my birthday. I am so excited.

[@devonswindells8004]

@@dyslexy9714 it’s dropping a week after mine!! Best birthday present frrr

[@cjanquart]

Well happy birthday in advance! May you never FUBAR or SNAFU.

[@TheKenthor]

Thanks Mordian. You and your brother are doing great work on these 3rd edition vids.

[@persepolis4836]

I wish we had information on minors. I want to get into Bolt Action for 3rd and am torn between Italy and Japan. The thing holding me back from Italy is the terrible "Avanti Savoia!" negative special rule.

[@Tigerheart01]

Oh man I love your Bolt Action intro. Clearly inspired by Band of Brothers.

[@andystocker3754]

All the army specialt rules are looking better and more even now .

[@Arachnomen]

Haha, I love the "Death before dishonest".

[@razertoaster4]

I’m a simple man, I see Mordian Glory, I hit like

[@jesserudolph276]

@@razertoaster4 most accurate comment on KZbin.

[@scottusher3712]

As a player of Germans I'm well happy as machine guns are back. Busy building units that I never used to take (Light Mortar I now have 2) as they have a place in Version 3.

[@samuelkatz1124]

As a Japanese player I'm interested to see how we'll adapt to 3rd edition. Melee is no longer as one sided and that's a blow to Japan. I could see a shift more to the many weapons a Japanese infantry squad can bring. A Japanese grenadier squad can bring up to 3 light mortars. It would be an expensive strategy but with how HE works it could be viable.

[@ethanwesthoff7444]

Not me making a list with 12 Light Mortars and 4 Ke-Nu Tanks while watching this.

[@menent]

as a japanese player its a pitty how now this army is . They nerf the fanatic rule, they change the combats and now de defender have alot more chance. i spect tanks will be cheaper because they are a shit for the points cost. and now all the artillery howitzers are more expensive . So all thinks are bad for japs.. I spect in future qhen they release the book they make a changes because now in v3 they look obsolete

[@jsizzlesaurusrex]

Except grenadiers aren’t in the book. We have to wait for the armies of book to light mortar spam 😭

[@ODST6262]

Any spotter or artillery observer can call in any indirect fire weapon on the table. Can they call in more than one weapon, can they call in fire on more than one target. The V3 like V2 doesn't really address batteries of the same weapons located together all being directed to fire at one target. Off table artillery barrage does.

[@pech2130]

IJA have (or had) access to HMGs as well ( even dual mounted ones!)

[@BeemerDuc]

people are sleeping on this dual hmg squad :). after being sad about all changes V3 did to my japanese I think these HMG squads and knee mortar infantry squads combo is gonna be fun :😀. also adding extra crew to fanatic artillery is something people sleep on too it seems with the japanese

[@cjanquart]

@@BeemerDuc I remember the knee mortars in Up Front; they were kinda trash but not as bad as a Piat.

[@jsizzlesaurusrex]

@@BeemerDuc grenadiers aren’t in this book apparently, so we don’t have access to light mortars in infantry squads. Hopefully they change it in the armies of book 😭

[@BeemerDuc]

@@jsizzlesaurusrex hmmm not sure what you mean? I’m looking at the rule book now and I see they’re cheaper as well. 20 instead of 25.

[@BeemerDuc]

@@cjanquart yeah rolling 6s can suck. But I usually bring 3 per squad. 36 inch range and can spilt fire. Also now they are cheaper. Ignore cover saves. They work well for me. I rarely use them for armor led vehicles so piats are a different comparison.

[@MandaloretheSavage]

Man I am excited for the new edition!!!🎉

[@GrimTimTim]

They massacred my boys. I used to ride in with tank riders 12 strong riding into battle atop T-26s. Laughing all the while picturing how 12 men can pile on a T-26, and it's gone. I am crying tears!

[@vexxbane6172]

Thank you for the Video. I have started watching your channel as I get excited about V3! I hope you will do army faction breakdown videos covering units, strats, list styles etc. As a newer player I could use it. I play soviets and the new rules really dont do much for me as I tend not to use inexperienced units. Massed batteries seems ok, but how much are observers now and it doesnt seem to beat the 2 shots the brits get. Thoughts?

[@MordianGlory]

Once I have played a few games I will be releasing some faction deep dives!

[@TheIronRyan]

Do you reckon you'll make a 'what to buy next ' series for the two army starter sets ? Once 3rd edition gets into full swing?

[@MordianGlory]

Already done! Check it out here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKOypZ-Cd7NpjJI

[@TheIronRyan]

@@MordianGlory cheers boss.

[@Valkanna.Nublet]

I can't wait to see what they've done with the French. I like that they've got rid of negative army traits, that's already a small buff to France. I wonder what they'll replace the free artillery with.

[@ArvernesMiniatures]

@@Valkanna.Nublet They said they would get rid of negative traits? I admit, knowing the free units were gone I was very worried for the early French.

[@harryadams3407]

Only problem with your videos is that I want to buy more bolt action things and I have no more room. Hope you're at the open day on the 21st

[@LorrusGrymn]

I am about to start Bolt Action. I chose British. I do not know a whole lot about the game, but from what I gather, the Brits were often running squads with rifles only because of that extra dice. Such a rule discourages you from taking other weapons to the section, and especially Bren, as LMG was an essential section-level weapon and, from what I know, a well liked one to boot. Instead, we have some mythical mad minute nonsense for which soldiers did not even have ammo to perform. I would like to see the reaction of the infantry section that heard that they are taking their Bren from them, but they can keep the ammunition and mad minuting with it instead...

[@Zcrazyivan]

I'm disappointed in the changes. The US and Germans clearly got all the love as they sound really tasty. The Japanese got some fair changes and the Soviets seemed to lose out by losing their free Conscripts and "gaining" a boost to ONLY Inexperienced troops... But the British seem like they got shafted! Sure the Artillery Observers get a second shot, IF they survive long enough to see the first land, but the list to pick from is average at best. With the changes to melee taking away the advantage from attacking units, having three of the five choices all melee focused seems just bad. I get that in certain circumstances they may work well but when the other Nationalities have blanket rules that effect the whole army for the whole game it just seems very unbalanced

[@bfaproductions7121]

I have used quite a few observers as the USSR, and sometimes the air observer as the US, and the observer if you're smart tends to stay around a while

[@zectric4145]

@@Zcrazyivan the british rule is entirely unchanged from 2nd?

[@jsizzlesaurusrex]

Observers can now draw los from any spotter on the field.

[@kdhlkjhdlk]

Guess I'm left waiting for my codex.

[@Djorin]

So there are no Italian armies in the core book? I'm asking because I'm about to start bolt action with the release of 3rd Ed (just like I started with 3rd Ed in 40k) but the guy currently playing it has the bersaglieri. So if he doesn't have an army list I'll have no opponent 😢😢😢

[@alanlatour624]

@@Djorin. Warlord said that they will be putting out free PDFs for the rest of the smaller factions on the 3rd Ed release date.

[@samuelkatz1124]

Unfortunately Italy is still listed as a minor axis power so their full rules will come out with the Hungarian and Finnish ones. There will be placeholder rules for all the non major powers until their books come out so don't worry too much I think it's a bit silly since between the start of 2nd and start of 3rd Italy has received a lot of love in terms of books, platoons and models.

[@ochaco81]

Thanks for the heads up Mordian! Hope they let you put out the rules for the Late War Free French, would like to know what they got since I know they will lose their access to free French Resistance fighters.

[@rich_john]

The +1 to hit for anti tank guns against vehicles, is that for anti tank artillery guns.....or tank guns too?....seem to have heard somewhere its just artillery AT guns.

[@ODST6262]

Anti-tank guns including those in vehicles. There is a question on the 25 pdr howitzer, which can use AT ammunition but is still a howitzer. Howitzers do not get the +1 to hit.

[@ArchaiKM]

Do they list the vehicles with Gyro-stabalized like they had previously? I know they did that to specifically exclude the flamethrower tanks.

[@Djrhehsauwh]

Can you make an army list tutorial on building a 3rd edition army list for some factions?

[@rodento3220]

Awe yeah Bolt Action fix for the day! and its a good one!!!! Does that mean that my brandonbergers dont get to give them a -1 for coming on (That is a morale modifier?)

[@SoB413]

Hey MG! You missen that soviets can still take 3 Times the number of AT teams than all other armies, which is HUGE❤

[@r3dcoat397]

Bolt Action V3 coming at you like a wet fart.

[@jameszombiecore]

Bit dissapointed with my Us Army, lost the only good thing we have moving and shooting, and still been pretty expensive compared to other armies like the germans, really hope the shermans be better now.

[@jsizzlesaurusrex]

Armor got better, but pretty much needs to be run as vets, which will hook Sherman’s right up.

[@johnclarke9498]

Very entreating video, nicely told, even if i only watch your channel occasionally 👍👍

[@DeadendSatellite]

Disappointed that the armies rules are mostly staying the same In particularly the British. I hope the Italians lose their silly morale rule.

[@TheKenthor]

I heard in an interview with Marcus Vine that negative army rules were going away in 3rd, so I think the Italians might get a buff.

[@vincnetjones3037]

Yeah... The Italian bonuses were a bit crap.

[@larstolminus9416]

IJA players selling their army now that bamboo spearman spam is finally gone

[@justdenis1224]

And I'll laugh at them all the way through V3 , but not at the honorable ones that didn't spam .Those are the real ones .

[@jsizzlesaurusrex]

The real issue going into 3rd for IJA is the fact that grenadiers aren’t in the book. So we get nerfed into the ground, and don’t get the benefit of the one buff that really would have helped(light mortars are 36” range now)

[@alexanderpippington9277]

me me want french rules

[@cjanquart]

Well, at least I don't have to buy more Americans, oh wait, need the winter troops now. I'm flush with three Shermans, three half-tracks and a Wolverine (and a Persing somewhere). Need a couple mortars and a some HMGs and why not, some MMGs. Not sure about the U.S. losing the fire/maneuver rule, will take a bit to bend my head around it. Also not sure about losing modifiers for range, cover and small teams but the new pinning looks good (wondering if assaulting a pinned unit in hand to hand is a benefit or just swingy like it is now).

[@dariostabletopminatures]

17:51 Right AFTER you have eaten the OVERWATCH to the face ^^ ....Maybe the bloodcurdling charge! 18:40 A Heavy Tank with a Medium AT? Go for the Cromwell for 200. Will do the SAME! 27:00 LIGHT MORTARS!!! 36" Pen +1

[@maliceharding4668]

I have had nothing but good experiences with Churchills I rather have my NA75 over a Cromwell any day

[@dariostabletopminatures]

@@maliceharding4668 gonna check that out mate!

[@autoflashEDF]

Waiting for Side Army like smaller faction!

[@tomseppanen2316]

Is there rules for minor factions? I'm kinda interested on starting a italy army

[@ArchaiKM]

They will have a PDF on launch on the Warlord site, as far as I understand

[@tiny_worlds]

I don't like rules that make me not want to take "fluffy" units. The US rifle one is a good example. I should WANT to take BARs and SMGs, not units of a dozen basic men with rifles.

[@ev17dan]

@tiny_worlds you still can, run a vet unit with smgs bars and 3 rifles to march across the table, have a squad of 12 on your back line "giving covering fire"

[@tiny_worlds]

@@ev17dan nothing historically accurate about that. Also, still no incentive to take the BARs even on vets.

[@ev17dan]

@tiny_worlds bolt action has nothing to do with historic or accuracy, and yes you get more shots with BARs, but hay you do you man

[@tiny_worlds]

@@ev17dan its a historical game. It has everything to do with history. Otherwise why bother making LMGs or MMGs worth taking if historical accuracy doesn't matter?

[@ev17dan]

@tiny_worlds not sure if you are aware, but you can stack a bunch of mmg/lmgs in a heavy weapons squad, plus smgs seem better now that you need to hit on 4s at long range and 2s ar short, and BARs still look good as they have longer range than rifles, im still keeping my 3 smg 3 BAR 3 rifle squads for my USMC

[@dariostabletopminatures]

With Timestamps! Mighty like a Tiger!

[@crzapyb1937]

All army rules revealed... mama mia where's the Italians!?

[@paintedtabletop]

the not one step back rule seems rather harsh. lose a model and only get to reroll the order test. no ignore modifiers? no auto pass.

[@radekkanikowski8817]

we got usa/german/zsrr/japan are there any changes in other factions like italy or polish?

[@BattleDragon88]

To be honest I still feel completely disappointed by my japanese army. I bought over 150 infantry models, army and navy. And without banzai still feel they are useless. Now I don't want to finish it. Kind of don't trust light mortars. Never have luck with them. I loved tankettes but now with half shots rule they feel underwhelming. US rules are still solid but my japanese I don't see point of taking them to battle.

[@liamboyd9682]

We’ll see how things shake out, but with the terrible access to SMGs and the changes to assault and Banzai I’m concerned about Japanese infantry’s effectiveness when they used to be the reason to play. And I play almost exclusively vets so it’s not like I was spear spamming

[@BattleDragon88]

@@liamboyd9682 same here. I usually deployed rifles blobs of regular army and snlf vets. Not single bamboo spam. And even guys in my local group agree I'm kind of screwed. Game become much more shooty and this reroll of charge against assault rifles hitting on flat 4 it's kind of useless.

[@BeemerDuc]

I'll buy if you're selling.

[@BattleDragon88]

@@BeemerDuc they will wait for better times

[@jsizzlesaurusrex]

I think if warlord is smart, the IJA will get access to more keywords on infantry now, which can diversify them from just melee. The other big buff I think could hook them up is access to infiltrators outside of night scenarios.

[@Chaz16]

Is there no Italian faction?

[@minidingbat265]

Do Italians, French etc get their own special rules?

[@dusty228]

Italians coming too yeah?

[@tommasovulpiani3120]

where are the italians?

[@baronpapa87]

Any info about the hungarian national rules? Ps.: Where are those feet pics...i mean krieg pics?!

[@Nick_the_Salamander]

What does a BAR count as?

[@komabot5285]

"Automatic", i guess.

[@leesthoughthub8719]

In the 2nd edition rulebook, the rule specifically references BARs in addition to rifles and carbines. Not the case in V3 from what I've heard so they won't count for the rule.

[@pgofsf]

But I play the French. What about my new rules 😢

[@ArchaiKM]

Odd the Brits lost their rule about Preliminary Bombardment

[@joerobinson9185]

U.S. troops would "loose" or "break" their BAR's. Most regular and veteran U.S. squads would have 7-9 BAR's.

[@dariostabletopminatures]

19:21 I though the Russian Army Rules are utter TRASH! Today I gave a new RECRUIT his 2nd Bolt Action Game at 750p. I was playing the Germans, he got the Russians. MAn did they Pass Critical Morale Checks. At least 4 times at crucial Points! I am astonished! Brep coming! For Mother Russia!

[@panzerfaust6797]

For me, the national rules add so much to the game but in v2 they were trash for the axis. The idea that in v3 the brits get a list to pick from while the others nations get crumbs ! National rules should be updated on the regular but that will never happen. Likewise, given the many years between 2nd and 3rd and this is that they’ve come up with is pathetic.

[@AnthonyPaoliMasakiSays]

"Each major faction" Damn, I thought we were gonna learn something new. Oh well, watch time and engagement for the algorithm gods! o7

[@Damnedlegion40k]

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[@panenka7656]

Alg comm

[@SonoVAo]

Really hoping that they add a secondary rule to the British. Even just the ability to take 2 national characteristics.

[@kastork82]

US and Brits basically made the same boring +1 shot per 3 rifles. Why copy paste the Brit rule instead of giving the US something distinct? The other choices in UK are bad (situational / melee focused), Vengeance also forces you to close up on enemies. I love the changes to the core mechanics, but the national rules are just ugh. Such a shame.

[@TrapDullahan]

Oh lovely usa stolen british rule sad

[@ArchaiKM]

That is what they always do

[@wifi_soldier5076]

Soviet rules suck..... I play late war shock army, so I miss out of half of my rules from the start. If I don't take an artillery observe I only get 1 rule....

[@Norlamon]

ugh...way too much bolt action...

[@todesbauer1343]

@@Norlamon booo

[@MatthewIneson]

Would you rather see space marines hide behind L shaped buildings

[@TroyTempest777]

@Norlamon booo

[@MordianGlory]

Don't Worry! There is a little hype around Bolt Action now, but I have A LOT 40K and Guard Content in the pipeline

[@Norlamon]

@@MordianGlory There's never enough action in the trenches for the guardsmen!