Ian David Wilson

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  • Ian David Wilson replied to the topic Buildings in the forum Bolt Action 1 month ago

    Large calibre FTW. The small amend mentioned above works well for howitzers and artillery barrages in particular. That said, I am still not entirely sure what to do with a barrage hit on a building.

    One of the big reasons why rubble was an issue was that it often ended up in the streets, which kind of clogged things up for vehicles and movement…[Read more]

  • Ian David Wilson started the topic Buildings in the forum Bolt Action 1 month ago

    Even the rules seem to discourage their use, i.e., impassable terrain. They seem very GW and V3 seems to have gone even further to encourage ruins in place of buildings given the HE rules. Given the buildings in the store, this seems hard to understand.

    Do people use them?

    My son and I have gone with use HE pen for scoring an internal detonation…[Read more]

  • 45 years of club wargaming across pretty much all genres. A few years of game mechanics design (computer aided wargaming). I picked up Bolt Action in version 2 after seeing it at a convention where they pointed to failing eyesight for their move away from 15s. Stopped playing Bolt Action 2 after becoming frustrated with a few of the rules, but…[Read more]

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