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Soviet fleet for VaS!

feedback welcome

The Rulebook contains a ‘get you by list’ …this is rather  basic

The main Japanese list is in ‘armies of Japan’  whilest its a v1 book its still the current one.

Each campaign book is  a bit different. The early ones  throw scenarios at you to pick and choose. Some campaign books present more balanced fights, while others tend to be a bit more historical  you get what you get and good luck!.

Some later ones go for more a linked series feel, giving a very nice feel of events of the time. The very best on…[Read more]

You’re thinking of massive damage, which is a successful ‘roll to damage’ that beats the damage value by 3 or more – the two rolls are on the damage results chart, not the roll to damage. Failing the roll to damage means no massive damage, no 2 rolls on the damage results chart.

Is there a general statement on how campaign books are to be used anywhere?

I got my 1st one for my Soviets (The Road to Berlin) and it just seems to jump right in without much introduction.

Or maybe I’m over thinking it?

Looks like some more Hungarian units incoming in the next Campaign book (Case Blue).  Good, good.

Since the penetration was 11, and the armor was 8, wouldn’t there have been 2 rolls to damage?

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Fair points.

I haven’t tried any selectors outside of the generic Reinforced Platoon. At this point, we are just building up collections and fielding what we have built/painted

I wouldn’t worry about that. It is just stuff like late war tanks or specialised troops should not be in early war lists. It wouldn’t make any sense to have the end war high tech stuff  steamrolling over 1941 opponents.  You can always avoid even these few restrictions if you go down the generic reinforced platoon rule that can include pretty m…[Read more]

Lack of horses is intentional – from the introductory ‘fluff’ for the 8th SS entry, “Having lost most of their horses in the battles on the Hungarian plain, they fought on foot in the rubble with great courage – any surviving horses providing much needed nutrition for the besieged defenders of Budapest.”

Hmm….I didn’t expect that.

So just Rulebook + Armies of + campaign book of my choice. And even then, somethings are locked in/out of army selectors.

@Jermaine

Bolt Action is written as Rulebook + ‘armies of … ‘  plus one campaign book/ series.

Each campaign book /seriers (like Italy or DDay) are written as if the others dont exist*…. this means there may be some perculair interactions if you do use them together.  However having said that most (but not all) units will have comments a…[Read more]

The new units in the Budapest book can be used in the Theatre Selectors in the Italy and Axis book, but some can only be used in later war ones.

It’s a good book, gives you some nice options.

3 new theatre selectors too:

Carpathian Mountains Border Guards Reinforced Platoon
Assault Artillery Battery Armoured Platoon
Hungarian Armoured Field…[Read more]

Hmm….scenarios and rules are restricted to games using the book, but what about units? ( I have my 1st campaign book on order. )