Don’t Miss Out… The 15% off 3+ vehicles ‘Wheels of Steel’ offer comes to a close this coming Monday 29th Feb, so with the Easter break just around the corner, now is the prime opportunity you’ve been waiting for to grab your trucks and mobilise your armies! Nearly all the vehicles shown below are included…
Battle for Iwo Jima (19th February to 26th March 1945) During their ‘island hopping’ campaign, the US Marines were tasked to take the heavily fortified island of Iwo Jima, in the Volcano Islands, the first area that was universally considered Japanese home territory. This battle was to become arguably the most famous engagement in the…
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…
With all the hubbub around Empires In Flames its easy to forget our fantastic range of Osprey books and today we’re adding more! View in Store The Imperial Japanese Navy’s Special Landing Force units enjoyed a reputation out of proportion to their small size. Often wrongly termed “Imperial Marines”, they were in fact sailors led…
With our latest PDF Painting Guide for the Japanese is available to download ‘here’, super-fast painter Andrew Chesney shares his methods for getting your Japanese forces painted up and on the battlefield in double-quick time: Ches: When you’re getting started on a new force, one of the first stages is working out the colour scheme for…
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…
The SS-Ki, officially the Soko Sagyo, a fully tracked – flamethrower armed – engineering vehicle of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA). History By the 1930s the IJA had grasped the need for a dedicated engineering tank. In preparation for war against the Soviet Union they set about designing a vehicle which could destroy bunkers, clear…
Reinforce your invasion armies with the latest engineering marvel to roll out of the Imperial Japanese Army’s factories…. View in Store The Sōkō Sagyō Ki – also known as the SS-Ki – was a fully tracked engineering vehicle, designed and brought into use in the 1930s in preparation for the Japanese war against the Soviet…
We’re adding to our list of Bolt Action Downloadable Painting Guides today with a fantastic in depth guide for the Japanese: View in Store Each of our guides covers one of the main Bolt Action protagonists – and presents a detailed step-by-step guide to painting both standard infantrymen and tanks. Including tips on undercoating, base coats,…
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