Andy; With the recent release of Age of Caesar, as well as my Operation Sand Dune force over on my Vollyfire painting blog, very nearly completed, I’ve been revisiting my Early Imperial Roman collection. Granted these cover models of a later period than that in the new book, however my plan was always to finish…
Another missive from Hail Caesar author, Rick Priestley – this time Rick gives us an insight into the combat system… Rick: This time round I’m going to talk about the Hail Caesar combat system in a bit more detail. Quite a bit more detail. In fact I’d recommend pouring yourself a tot of something and…
“The Polish Soldier Fights for the Freedom of other nations, but dies only for Poland.” (general Stanislaw Maczek) The Escape In the evening of the June 17th 1940 newly appointed Prime Minister of France, Philippe Petain delivered a radio speech in which he declared that he had asked the German Command for a truce. The…
We’ve managed to lure world-renowned games designer Rick into the Warlord offices with the promise of a ‘nice cup of tea’ – he’s such a cheap date! Let’s hear what Rick has to say on basing your troops… It will surely surprise no one to hear that Hail Caesar has been designed with 28mm models…
With a brand new German translation of the Hail Caesar rulebook just out, and the hugely detailed supplement Age of Caesar hitting the stores this weekend, we decided to revisit these designer’s notes from the author of said tome, Rick Priestley… Rick: This time round I thought I’d talk a little bit more about the…
The October Wargamers took the opportunity to write up month one of their Antares Initiative experience separately giving us four individual takes on the The Drone Integration scenario as well as their faction choices and why. Take it away chaps… Mark Croft Reasons for Ghar Firstly the Battle Suits look cool, I love the way that…
The first month in Antarian space has been a challenging one for the villainous scum of The Noise Sector. Cast adrift from the main star cluster in unfamiliar territory we find our four games Asher, Mick, Mitch and Dan. With time-locked supply drops the frenzied crew has devoured any morsels of information they can land…
A firm favourite here in the Warlord office, Kelly’s Heroes the movie has fired the imagination for generations. Oddball Heroes is a natural fit with the Bolt Action rules and the sets just ooze character! Tucked in each box set you’ll find an 8 page booklet giving you a taster of the colourful heroes and…
Andy Singleton of VolleyFire Painting fame has been running a fantastic series called Operation Sand Dune via the blog ‘The Brit, the Yank, and the Hobby‘. It was whilst working on a Tiger I and Churchill’s for his forces that a Bolt Action scenario popped into his head and it just had to be shared!…
We made officers more dynamic – as they activate, they can activate other units nearby, which allows the player to have a ‘big activation’ during the game. Alessio Cavatore brings some insight into some of the key changes everyone is eager to find out more about in Bolt Action Second Edition! Bolt Action Second…
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