There are loads of new bundles and expansions for you to get for Bolt Action Tank War! Now you can design your own Tank Ace and storm into a Tank…

The tension builds as the armies manoeuvre for position in this background to the upcoming Konflikt ’47 Operation PIG-STICK scenario… Official Scenario from Clockwork Goblin by Ben Moorhouse and Perry…

The Australian and Japanese forces fight it out on the deadly Kokoda Track in this scenario! View in Store Forces! This scenario is designed to be played with unequal forces….

The Germans have pushed further north. People of Peterborough, this is a call to arms! – Let’s take a look at just one of the action-packed scenario’s to be found…

US Warlorder Jon Russell brings some good old US ingenuity to the table with the Eagle Squadron for Bolt Action and the invasion of Britain campaign! Answering the Bugle Call…

There can only be 2 outcomes after this battle. Churchill lives, or Churchill dies. This scenario is about patrolling his residence in the country or attempting to infiltrate it. This…

The Germans refuse to let their last foothold in Britain fall and they now prepare to conduct phase two (utilising their new secret weapon, the monstrous Gigant aircraft!). Let us take…

The Germans have pushed further into the Midlands and now threaten Nottingham! – Let’s take a look at just one of the action packed scenario’s to be found in the…

Now that Campaign Sea Lion has been shipped ready for this weekend’s release in your local stockists, we wanted to show you guys some of the awesome new rules from…

Warlorder apprentice JoshB has dived right into Bolt Action & brings forth a different style of scenario he’s been playing for you guys to try out! Introduction Many engagements during…

Here’s a quick snippet of what sort of scenarios to expect from the upcoming Campaign: Sea Lion book! Introduction The Royal Tank Regiments traced their pedigree back to the original…

The Test of Honour community is going from strength to strength, with over 2,500 people now on the Facebook Group and new translations on their way! As well as sharing pictures…

Warlorder apprentice JoshB has dived into Bolt Action and has to share with you a new scenario he has been play testing! Introduction Josh: Tanks in general are valuable assets…

Packed with reverent nods to our favourite wartime films and TV programmes, this action packed, full colour, 124 page, ‘What If?’ Bolt Action Campaign book brings the war to the shores…

Our new To Kill a King Pike & Shotte supplement is massive, so massive that it has 15 battles that span all of the English Civil Wars, each includes the forces…

Writer of Bolt Action, Alessio, show us all what it takes to create your own Bolt Action scenario! Alessio: This article is a set of guidelines about writing scenarios for…

Alessio Cavatore has been listening hard to the Bolt Action community, the Bolt Action Second Edition FAQ is now ready to download. You can check the PDF out for FREE…

While most of us have only just recovered from our first few samurai skirmishes, Graham Davey is treating us with some extra optional rules to try out in Test of…

Try this awesome scenario that Martin MacKay sent in to us! Even the hardiest of soldiers don’t dare to cross Hell’s Highway: Son Bridge! Historical Context September 17, 1944: Operation…

View in Store Despite a spirited defence from the opening hours of the Normandy invasion in June 1944, Hitler’s forces in northern France were comprehensively defeated and forced to retreat…

As the Allied advance continued eastwards towards Germany throughout September 1944, the impetus began to die off. Stretched further and further from the Channel ports and the origins of their…

Joesph A. McCullough brings 70 pages of new magic, new soldiers, new treasure and more in the latest instalment of Frostgrave, Forgotten Pacts: View in Store In this supplement for…

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…

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…

Tim Greene, who, as a keen historical gamer and prolific rules writer, has penned a fantastic army list for the Pike & Shotte rules allowing you to field Japanese Samurai…

Fighting Retreat – The Battle of Boulogne, May 22nd, 1940 The skies were still a little darkened as the small convoy, led by the 1500 tonne destroyer HMS Whitshed, crawled…

Take to the skies with the ‘Buzzer’ Hunter Killer Drone or Stalk your human prey with the T-72 Mobile Gun Platform – AKA “Spiderdog”! View Combo set in Store These…

Writen by David Horobin If the IMTel can be described as one thing, inquisitive would certainly be a leading contender. With the landing on Xilos successful, the opportunity to learn…

Preparation for the online Gates of Antares campaign is moving into overdrive as we prepare for imminent arrival of the first narrative supplement book – The Battle for Xilos –…

D-Day to Berlin – Battleground Europe supplement to Bolt Action takes you feet first into action with 15 challenge packed scenarios! Here Scenario 2 from pages 20-22 gets you mounted…

The Mission The mission, in the opening minutes of the Normandy landings 6th June 1944, was to capture the Bénouville Bridge and the nearby Ranville Bridge in order to prevent…

Bolt Action writer Alessio Cavatore brings us the rules for staging beach landings in your games – perfect for Pacific themed battles as well as, of course the D-Day landings. In…

Alessio Cavatore writer of the Bolt Action rules now brings you a fun set of scenario rules to get your inspiration flowing! Operation Biting – The Bruneval Raid 1942 Night…

Before we get into this article we would just like to point out this is a fun, optional set of rules which we’ve created in order to add a little…

Alessio Cavatore has been hard at work for us creating exciting new rules for fighting your Bolt Action games during night time operations or any other time where you experience…

STRIKING FROM THE SEA: NO.47 (RM) COMMANDO AT PORT-EN-BESSIN This excellent article was written by Mark Barber. It represents a great example of how to go about fielding a Bolt…

If you fancy a tough game this weekend then try out this Bolt Action scenario as you take on the mighty defences of your enemy and storm the beach head! Mel…

Joe Clarke has a passion for the war of 1861-1865 and has dug up some interesting background to play a slightly different scenario with your Black Powder American Civil War…

A little fun this week provided by Roger Gerrish – what might have happened if ‘Blood and Guts’ had continued his wrecking-ball advance East, and into the Soviets? A Bolt…

We’ve barricaded all doors and windows at Warlord HQ in preparation for the outbreak… we’ve improvised weapons from whatever we can find (there’s talk that the Mail Order team have weaponised…

TALLY-HO! Guns blazing the LRDG speed into action in this special scenario from Bolt Action rules writer Alessio Cavatore, representing a fast, mobile and well-armed force that manages to catch…

Welcome to the desert, Legionnaire! Here, you will dine on scorpions, sleep in the dust and dream of precious water… Bryan here from the WWPD blog. I am an avid…

Following the game’s launch just a few short weeks ago, we’ve been inundated with photos, battle reports, army lists, and excited questions from Antares players across the globe… One of…

This Saturday sees the launch of our much-anticipated new Sci-fi game, Beyond the Gates of Antares! As part of a set of exclusive bonus items – if you pre-order the…

Stephen Jones, Author of Black Powder’s Rebellion supplement, introduces the second scenario found in the book covering the American War of Independence! The British campaign against New York began with the overwhelming…

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…

Burma, the end of February 1944, men of the 5307 Composite Unit (better known as ‘Merrill’s Marauders) embarked on an incredibly arduous march of about 1200 Km through the Himalayas…

Following up on the recently released ‘The Eagle Has Landed‘ sets, Mark Barber has come up with a fantastic set of special rules for the Fallschirmjäger Oberst Kurt Steiner View in…

Terminator Genisys The Miniatures Game Official War Against The Machines Scenario By Samuel Nolton TEST OF METAL As the war against Skynet waged on year after year, the Machines implemented…

John Connor has assigned a vitally important mission to Captain Montero’s strike team. The small Resistance team is to attack and destroy the radar installation covering the airspace over the…

Courtesy of Osprey Publishing Whether you’re new to Bolt Action or a truly experienced Bolt Action warrior there are loads more things to discover within our Web collection – for…

Published historical author, Chris Brown continues his series of articles to cover both the history of Operation Market Garden, this time looking at how he creates a particular unit – the…

To mark the 75th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Britain, we couldn’t help but offer a fun, free scenario… so – without further ado, we present our…

With the highly detailed building and furniture ranges from 4Ground arriving here at Warlord, we asked the guys that made them how they used the terrain in their Bolt Action battles….

Bolt Action writer Alessio Cavatore has kindly provided us with the rules for fielding ‘Mad Jack’ Churchill – the exclusive miniature that comes with the new Germany Strikes! theatre book (when bought direct…

With the recent release of our Senegalese Tirailleurs box set, we thought we’d shed a little more light upon some of the French Colonial troops which fought during the Second…

13th of June 1944. The Britsh have broken inland and are moving towards Caen. Armoured and mechanized elements of the 4th County of London Yeomanry (4CLY) and of the 1st…

With the impending release of our second Theatre Book, ‘Ostfront’ – we cornered our resident Italian rulessmith, Alessio Cavatore and forced asked him very kindly to create some rules to…

With our first Theatre Book, Battleground Europe, now in many of your hands, we thought we’d wring out our resident Italian gamesmaster, Alessio Cavatore, for all of his creative juices…

Rick Priestley has been hard at work (amazing what the threat of his rum ration being cancelled will do) playtesting Beyond the Gates of Antares, ably assisted by everyone on the…

The Demo Gamers is an Australian Bolt Action-based blog full of great content. This article in particular caught our eye as something a little bit different…   We enjoy playing…

12 Days of Christmas – Day 6 Today’s surprise is an extract from the forthcoming Bolt Action Theatre Book – Ostfront: Barbarossa to Berlin.   ‘For us there was no land…

On 19th November 2014, I had the privilege of sneaking-into one of the playtesting sessions for Beyond the Gates of Antares. I joined gamescribe Rick Priestley, and his loyal playtesting…

With the recent release of ‘Tank War’ – there are a whole slew of new aspects for Bolt Action players to explore – but we couldn’t resist sneaking-in a little something…

Before we get into this article I would just like to point out this is a fun, optional rule allowing you to use the free miniature you get when you…

With further games under our collective belts and the slew of recently released units, we felt it time to release a fresh update for Bolt Action to address some rules…

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…

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…

In Mega-City One’s past history, recovered dinosaur DNA was used to create clones for the Dinosaur National Park. When the Atomic War ravaged the city, the dinosaurs were able 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…

These historical characters, presented with a somewhat ‘Hollywood’ style, are here to add flavour to your armies. They may be included in future official publications, but in the meantime they…

Our Bolt Action Additional Rules PDF has been updated with rules for the newly released Armadillo Improvised Armoured Vehicle. Click the button below to download the free PDF: Download PDF

On the 7 August 1942 the United States Marine Corps landed on the strategic south pacific island of Guadalcanal and stopped the construction of a vital Japanese airfield. If operational…

The small forces and campaign rules in the Judge Dredd miniatures game are readily adaptable to Rogue Trooper and the battlefields of Nu-Earth, and I am sure many of you…

Jim Graham and Neil Smith, writers of the new Zulu! book for Black Powder, present historical background and scenario ideas for use with your Black Powder Zulu forces: So you…

The Law is fallible and Judges are not always around to protect the citizens of Mega-City One. For a few, this is an injustice and so they take up the…

This week we have a heavyweight (literally) mission for Judge Dredd players which sees the not inconsiderable bulk of the Fatties rolling into action… Whenever a major disaster strikes Mega-City…

Many forces clash in Mega-City One and beyond, each fighting for their values, greed, or because they are just plain mean. However, firefights are rarely simple affairs and there always…

‘Chelmsford’s terrible revenge.’ The Anglo-Zulu War (January-July 1879) has become defined by the battles of Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift, both covered admirably by research, publications and even movies. What is less…

Over the next few weeks and months (and years!), we will be posting articles for the Judge Dredd miniatures game, introducing new rules, new scenarios for you to try out, and…

In this comprehensive article, The Last Argument of Kings author Pete Brown examines the Battle of Quebec and suggests ways to make the battle more interesting to refight as a wargame,…

By Paul D Stevenson Black Powder has many innovative concepts and is a great game, especially for multiple players. However, one of the problems folks find with Black Powder American…