The Battle for Carenille Farm This battle report presents a turn-by-turn, blow-by-blow account of an actual game between the Germans and the Americans. It gives a good overview of how to play Bolt Action as well as a few tactical tips! The players are Andrew Chesney – Bolt Action veteran – and Graham Davey –…
Following on from last week’s account of how he assembled the forces and battlefield, Richard Caldwell relates how his re-enactment of the Battle of Rorke’s Drift played out: Extra Rules Since there were so many Zulus involved, (about 4000) it is easy for the Zulu players to overrun the Brits by sheer weight of numbers. To…
4 Players. 500 points each. 1 objective – annihilation… So for the first time we would be getting our armies out for a game. We had taken a few weeks to carefully plan and build our forces to take on all comers and only the dice gods would sort the men from the boys. The…
On the evening of the 5th December 2013, a number of the warehouse team retired to Warlord Games co-founder John Stallard’s Games Room for an evening of Black Powder gaming on the edge of Zululand, to put the new ‘Zulu’ supplement to the test. Richard Dando reports… Prelude to Battle Before first light on a…
Check out this great battle report with Bolt Action writer Alessio Cavatore versus YouTuber Pezzapoo and his mate Matt.
A little while ago Warlord Games’ own Alessio Cavatore and Andrew Chesney spent a few days down South with the chaps from Beasts of War talking all things Bolt Action. While they were there they were invited to run through a demonstration game of Bolt Action using the Assault on Normandy box set to showcase…
We were recently sent photos of a massive game based on the Battle of Borodino and just had to share them with you. Read on… Marking the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino, 20 wargamers from Southern Australia and New South Wales met to do battle in grand style. With a figure ratio of…
By David Sullivan We had another game of Black Powder this weekend at The Panzer Depot in Kirkland, WA. We played the ‘Battle of San Miguel’ scenario from the rules book, substituting Napoleonic troops for the Isabelinos and Carlists. Bob “Fox of the Steppe” Mackler commanded his Russians, Mike Lombardy and Bill “The Meat Grinder”…
By David Sullivan This was to be my inaugural game of Black Powder and was fought out at The Panzer Depot store in Kirkland, Washington. We played a version of the “Fighting retreat at El Perez” scenario from the rulebook which we modified for the American Civil War. The town of El Perez was instead…
Those fine chaps at the Worcester Wargames Club have sent us a few pics of their recent game of Black Powder. Feast your eyes on these! We’ll let our own John Stallard tell the tale… “After thirty years fighting together, the Worcester Wargames Club assembled once again (on the second saturday of the month at…
Graham Davey
Andy Hobday
Paul Sawyer