A Beginners Guide to The British! | Bolt Action!

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[@TikitheHutt]

Bolt Action!!! Haha that's the same drum and fife music I'm using for my British KF 47 shorts. Grenadiers!

[@MordianGlory]

Drum and fife BAYBEE!

[@doncoyote68]

Bought a british starter set like a week ago. Good timing.

[@MordianGlory]

Nice! Was it the 8th army set or the British and Canadian one? :)

[@matthewholehouse2718]

I recently bought the Operation Sea Lion book and I love the variety of ad hoc units available for Great Britain. I think a home guard list is a fun idea, and of course no home guard list woukd be complete without the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard Platoon.

[@Mittens_Gaming]

They can't do hordes like Soviets, but Indians do get a free 10 man Regular Squad and have Insane Bravery so their horde is also hard to break. My main two forces are Sihks from 8th Army and DAK 90th Light 155 Infantry Brigade, love North Africa, enjoy both sides using looted vehicles.

[@Sirilere]

Early and mid war are the most fun. But like, that's just my opinion man! 😊

[@isaacchapman7628]

I'm a Brits player, and I really like the army. I enjoy dropping my arty observer to mass pin my opponent's bunched up dudes, then rolling in the Matilda CS and 25pdr to kill and pin further, and move up my reg infantry to clean up while my tank goes to kill something higher priority. I have severe difficulty rolling to wound so pinning has always been the name of the game for me. Brits have all the toys you could dream of if you want to make half your opponent's army refuse to move for a couple of turns. ...Enemy tank? Oh yeah, I think they had something like that but I kept my tank out of its line of sight and acted like it didn't exist and it was unable to do anything but fire its MMG on occasion. Tanks are useless when I kill and pin everything else my opponent brought to the table.

[@MijMike]

As a beginner to Bolt Action, I just bought the British Airborne Starter Army. I am a massive 40k fan, but I love alternate activation games and I saw bolt action being played at UKGE. When i did, I thought two things. Wow, this game looks fun. And wow, If i got those guys, I might be able to create my "British WW2 Imperial Guard Infantry Army" i've wanted since the 90's when i first saw Imperial Guard in a Games Workshop store. Fast forward to today, I'm sat waiting for my starter set to arrive in the post, and I'm excited to get it both reasons mentioned above. Enjoy following your channel Tim mate, it's nice to see stuff other than 40k in the wargaming world too. Cheers.

[@BlizzAz]

NGL, I wanna make an SAS force for North Africa complete with their pink jeeps

[@MordianGlory]

Do it! There are rules for the LRDG and the SAS :)

[@DeadendSatellite]

Pick up the western desert book if you want to do that. i has all of the rules for sas in the desert

[@simone2095]

Do the Italians!

[@simone2095]

Also First

[@MordianGlory]

Their time will come :) You should check out the Bolt Action Channel in the MG discord mate, we were talking about Italians in there this morning!

[@TheGreyWolf94]

Avanti Savoia!

[@tyrantlizardking]

Thats-a spicy meat-a ball. How's that?

[@MEATOGRE]

This was a great guide! I’ve been eyeing the starter sets for months, just bogged down on choosing who I want to jump in with. After a couple hours of watching your videos, you informed me well enough to make a half-educated decision, and I’m finally getting into it! Much appreciated brother, I’m beyond excited to have shifted from WH to historicals with Bolt Action.

[@danielplant3219]

Another great Warlord Wednesday. Can't wait for the post event video following your next event.

[@tafnac75]

Up the Ox and Bucks

[@Malino8835]

Thinking of running a mark 5 male tank alongside my operation sealion/gigant British army.

[@Clutterlicious]

Yeah, but Marbo killed Angron, so you never know 🤣. The Brits might out "Banzai!" the Japanese 🤣.

[@matthilton8959]

**HELP**. only played 4 games so learning lots still. Do British commandos have a rule that allows them to roll a dice to negate an exceptional hit?

[@scarfacejosh123]

Free units are such bullshit in the game. I honestly don't know if I like the order dice mechanic because of how lopsided initiative is when you have a large amount of order dice which comes a lot easier to some factions than others.

[@TheGreyWolf94]

Great video mate. Just started a late war British army myself (11th Armoured Division). Really enjoying painting and playing these compared to Warhammer and it's a great change. Furthermore, the fact you can pick up an entire army box set for £50-£60 compared to a patrol box set for £70-80 blows my mind and shows GWs greed really. Looking forward to the rest!

[@MordianGlory]

Totally agree, I haven't bought new in box from GW in years, but I nearly always do for Bolt Action :)

[@christiaanbronkhorst4614]

Really been wanting to build, paint and play some South Africans (my great-granddads fought in North Africa and Italy). Any tips?

[@MordianGlory]

For South Africans you probably want to look at the 8th Army or Commonwealth infantry models because they come with extra bits to represent the variety of troops from the Empire. Also I think South Africans also have unique rules in the Western Desert campaign book, here is a link to the Warlord Games website where they cover them: www.warlordgames.com/spotlight-commonwealth-infantry-brigades/

[@jonathanbirkeland1085]

Don’t forget the Gentleman’s War starter set featuring British Desert Rats vs German Afrika Korps! A great starter set for two that is basically perfectly balanced as has everything you need! Plus if you decide to buy a second copy later you’ll have enough markers and order dice for two full sized armies and everything in that set is useful in duplicate since the infantry kits are very versatile and the armoured cars can be built multiple ways!

[@MijMike]

How many points does this end up adding up to for each army? The set on its own?

[@TheGreatWolf44]

The Ghurkhas are the best close combat unit in the game, the M3 Stuart is the best tank for the points in the game, free artillery observer, multiple options for National special rules, the Brits are the probably the best faction in the game

[@jandoernte3312]

The main problem with Ghurkas is if it's a "friendly" game- your opponent wont want to play against you again. Ghurka rules are slightly overdone in my opinion.

[@TheGreatWolf44]

@@jandoernte3312 yeah I never run them

[@lordkommissarpetitt8022]

Gurkhas, need we say more?

[@raefmanley9316]

holy shit. I was literally just looking for a British Beginner Guide 1 hour after this came out

[@irked4975]

I love my 8th Army, huge variety. The starter set is a good buy. You might want to pick up a tank in addition.

[@ChrisS-fh7zt]

One thing the British have is their anti aircraft vehicles, they probably have the best selection over the US and USSR. They have the AA Cruiser tank and Skink. And with the Skink it can be down right frightful due to having 4 light autocannons and enclosed hull. Or a sort of better Wirblewind. Only down side is since it is an experimental vehicle it gets 2 pins instead of one so hitting it with a heavy howitzer you can pretty much pin it out if you roll enough pins for it 5 or 6 pins.

[@aaronator4d633]

Great video! Maybe you could do a sub guide to this video for people who want to get into commonwealth armies like India, Australia or Canada Me specifically I want to do either 8th army Indians or Burma army Indians any advice?

[@dgardner2233]

If Bolt Action weren't hyper expensive where I live, I'd 100% be playing it lol 40k is cheapter, but BA is ridiculously expensive. Strange times lol Thanks for the videos either way mate!

[@lukekrawiec3522]

In the uk its the exact opposite

[@AAhmou]

Not reallyw from where I live I can get a full army twice as cheap as it'd take me a 40k army.

[@lukekrawiec3522]

Well in the uk a bolt action army is about £300 at most with terrain and all whereas a 2k pts army for 40k cost me about £800 without even touching the paint and terrain (I play guard, so maybe a little skewed)

[@dgardner2233]

@@lukekrawiec3522 In Czech, 40k goes for lower than UK prices, but still expensive comparatively. BA though is almost double the price than in the UK. It is honestly ridiculous.

[@conniepatterson6811]

It,s so so good 😅💋

[@andrewmackemzie4565]

I never told you something. I get air-sickness..

[@parsifal9251]

Underrated comment.

[@6TypoS9]

Awesome just looking for more Bolt Action content about thls, and its just released!

[@SPD3DPrinting]

Watched this video again, very nice introduction to British forces. I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on other nations like Italy, France, USA, etc.

[@nomisekul4969]

well said once again Mordian! Thank you!

[@pmffmp]

Just got the British paratrooper starter set for $60. Switching to this from 40k is quite refreshing, that starter set would've been A squad for 40k.

[@grozwald]

Semi-Related Question: I'm currently kitbashing some Grot Tanks with the World War Toons kits. My first one is the Soviet KV-2, because that thing is perfect for Grots. Which should I go with next? The Char, the Sherman/Stuart, or the Panzer II?

[@theflyingdutchie2585]

PZ II

[@jandoernte3312]

A UK army is by more the most versatile. You get to pick ypur army trait- from 4 options!

[@Segmentum-Amateur]

Im thinking about market garden red devil's

[@MaXiMooSe1028]

I'm Canadian. Are there rules for Canadians?

[@6TypoS9]

oh nevermind it was here all along.

[@Maggers42]

Just jumped in with the Gentleman's War. Will be blindly blundering through but excited about messing about

[@Garf1eldFanat1c]

Thank you so much for doing the brits!