Looking at a brief history of the conflict often forgotten as Empires erupt in flames across the Pacific A brief history of the Pacific theatre in World War II In late 1941 the war between Japan and China, began in 1937, was drawing to a bloody stalemate. The Japanese invaded French Indo-China to further surround…
If you are looking for a challenging scenario then recreating the fighting during the Battle for Iwo Jima has to be the pinnicle, we suggest using the Bunker Assault scenario (reproduced below for your convenience), with the US forces, taken from the 1944-1945 Iwo Jima selector of the Armies of the US book, as the…
Warlord Games studio painter Andrés Amián presents his expert guide to painting US Marine Corps camo: I tend to think that for wargames figures it is better to paint a camouflage approximation rather than an exact copy of the pattern. Why? Well, I believe that it would require a lot of time and effort to paint the…
Maciej Krol, Warlords own Polish Sales Manager, & friend Jan Gradon recently laid out their battlefield and got stuck in Maciej; We played the Point Defence scenario (Bolt Action rule book page 112), I used my US Marines with my Sherman ‘Fury’ against Jan and his Japanese as a defender. I chose to take Air…
Released alongside the Bolt Action campaign book Empires in Flames the Pacific and Far East we present two fantastic 1500pt armies – perfect to expand your Island hopping counteroffensive in the Pacific! The first army is designed around a Japanese reinforced Special Naval Landing Force, some of the best of all Japan’s fighting men. Deployed…
Andy Singleton of Volley Fire Painting Services has been polishing his camera lens and wetting his palette as he delves into the background of two Pacific mainstays of the Japanese and US armies: Andy: With the recent release of Empires in Flames I thought I’d revisit my Marine and Japanese forces, and see what they need…
Alongside the Bolt Action supplement Empire in Flames the Pacific and Far East we introduced two fantastic 1500pt armies – perfect to start your Island hopping offensive in the Pacific! The first is designed around a typical Pacific US Marines reinforced platoon that would have been sent in to mop up the resistance on islands ‘skipped’…
The Sherman was the workhorse of the Allied forces throughout the Second World War. If you’d like to know a little more about it, please take a look at this previous article – and perhaps this one. When the Marines landed in the Pacific, they quickly realised that the Japanese armour which they came up-against…
With the ‘Empires in Flames’ Theatre Book for Bolt Action now out, it’s time to mount up and head back to the beaches of the Pacific! Rich D of our Warlord Web team is looking at this ideal transport for his US Marines… RichD: Around the Warlord premises, I’m quite regularly referred to as ‘The Buffalo…
With the recent release of Empire in Flames Warlorder Rich.D’s been adding to his Bolt Action US Marines with some fantastic conversions; RichD: I’ve been collecting US Marines for around 18 months now – having started during the release of our (rather fantastic!) US Marine Plastics back in January 2014. You may have followed the initial stages…
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