It’s time to unleash the full force of your armies as Alessio Cavatore brings us some exciting new optional rules for massive games of Bolt Action: The rules of Bolt Action have been designed for platoon-level engagements involving a few reinforced platoons, and played on a 6’ x 4’ table. They play best with twenty…
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…
The 6th of June marks the anniversary of the D-Day Landings in Normandy – perhaps the most pivotal moment in World War II, when the Allied forces commenced operations to push the German army back out of France, culminating in the fall of the Third Reich. This historic day is rich with inspiration for Bolt…
Alessio Cavatore has been busy working on an update to make tank pinning a little more realistic – you can check out the results in our free PDF download. There are also various other clarifications as well as rules for the Luftfaust rocket launcher and Krumlauf assault rifle from the Last Levy boxed set (allowing…
Following the collapse of the Akkadian Empire about 2100BC there was a period of disorder during which the country was ruled or at least dominated by the Gutians. No-one knows exactly who the Gutians of this period were (the same name was later used to described other peoples who lived in the Zagros Mountains much…
We have new Polish and Greek translations of our Bolt Action Rules Summary, available as a free PDF download. Thanks to Maciej Król for the Polish translation and Nikolaos Lekkas, Andreas Tsoukalas, Dimitrios Papanikolaou, Ioanna Mpalaroutsou and Nikolaos Krithis of the “Hoplon” Club of Patras (Hellas) for the Greek version! Download now! Download now!
Pike & Shotte author Steve Morgan gives some pointers on how to start collecting and painting an English Civil Wars army: Steve: Many gamers steer clear of wargaming the English Civil War simply because they don’t know where to start. In other periods there are clear directives for regiment sizes, uniforms, banners and formations which naturally…
With the new reprint of the Peninsular Campaign Black Powder supplement we took the opportunity to make some minor text corrections. For those with the original version there are the small number of changes and corrections other than taking care of the occasional typo. Download Errata as PDF You can get your hands on the…
Bolt Action games designer, Alessio Cavatore introduces an updated pack for our Bolt Action Tournament, which includes two key differences from the previous version… Download Pack It’s a Template The first difference is that the document is not a pdf, but a Word (.doc) file. This is an important difference, as it allows you to…
As the characters and the (mis)adventures portrayed in the Dad’s Army TV series are not all that serious, neither are these rules – we don’t recommend these for use in tournaments! Fielding the Dad’s Army Home Guard Platoon We suggest you incorporate these models into the Home Guard Section on page 23 of the Armies of Great Britain book. Captain Mainwaring…
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