If they are off table as reserves but included in a German force?

1. If I have an officer unit and 1 or 2 Japanese units in a transport, can the officer issue a Banzai order to these units? Page 147 Dismounting from transports says :Although a unit can use a run action to dismount it is not allowed to use this move to make an assault.

The Armies of Imperial Japan book…[Read more]

Also are Japanese LMG’s really 20pts?

Ian

Thanks for taking the time to reply. That makes sense.

regards

Ian

If he can can he still do so if the vehicle has advanced? or if the vehicle has run?

Page 147 does say officers/HQ units aboard transports work as normal so I’m guessing its OK…..but call it in after…[Read more]

Ian

Welcome to Bolt Action. It is really an amazing game.

Here’s my small piece of advice if you want to take it

As a new start I would advise building up one squad at a time. You need a minimum of   1 command group (min 1 officer) and 2 rifle squads (min 5 men each unit). Obviously this is a bare minimum and it would be difficult to p…[Read more]

Got to be the bargain of the year, 24 shots (YES’ 24 SHOTS!!!) with a +1 penetration all for 135 pts. And the good news is that under this crazy new force selection system you can field 4 of these ultimate killing machines. They soon make short work of any infantry or soft skins daft enough to poke a…[Read more]

I’m not arguing about the definition of an LMG, MMG, GPMG or automatic rifle or what ever they are classed as. The BA rules are clear as to what is an LMG (basically the squad automatic weapon), what is an MMG and what is classed as an Automatic Rifle.    That’s OK, I get that, the rules are fun and not extensive.

The point I’m trying t…[Read more]

No. Must be on the same floor

However the advantage of  being able t…[Read more]

The tam o’shanter bonnet was also wore by many other Scottish regiments but this was rarely worn in combat. Each Scottish regiment, highland…[Read more]

Paying the extra +5 points for only one man instead of a 2-man team seemed a bit counterintuitive, but I see the advantages now.

The LMG option is too expensive. 55pts +10pts for an LMG firing at a -1 to hit? Doesn’t make sense

Which army list is he using that allows 5 Bamboo Spear fighter squads??

Also how does the Lone Sniper LMG work? I know it’s -1 to hit due to not having a loader but does he get the other sniper benefits of ignoring negative to hit modifiers.

If he gets more than one hit, are…[Read more]

It would be great to get together but difficult at the moment as you say.

It looks like you have a fairly big membership?

We are all off out tonight for our Christmas meal. So I will tell everyone we’ve been chatting.

Catch you later

Ian

That sounds like a great idea. Do you run wargames weekend right through the summer or only on specific dates?

We are a small club (Max 10 people) based in Guernsey. We fight mainly historical battles we have just finished a BA game for the German invasion of Guernsey……….but in our version the Brits decided to fight it out…[Read more]

Looks like a cracking game. It also looks like you have a busy wee club up there.

If you guys ever fancy a weekend in the sun you are more than welcome to join us for a wargames weekend.

From the opposite end of the British Isles

I have 3 spare Sherman models that I will probably never get around to building (Birthday extras) tell me what you need and I can send it to you.

The figure scale is 1:56. If this is translated and used as the ground scale, a standard 6’x4′ table would measure 110m x 75 m, maximum rifle range would be 38m and a man could run 18m per move!!!

To make movement and firing ranges more realistic it is conventional in most wargames rules to have the ground scale different from…[Read more]

Looking at it again, I think in built up areas with lots of streets, buildings etc. will reduce it to around 1200m x 800m. That seems to work with terrain, movement and ranges. Where the land is more open it feels better to open the scale up a bit to around 1500m x 1000m

I will let you know how it works out once we get around that…[Read more]

First of all welcome to Bolt Action. It’s a really good set of WWII platoon level rules, so I do hope you enjoy playing. Also D-Day/Normandy is a great period with all the different troops types and strange vehicles scurrying about the table.

I hope your table works out well and you get a lot of enjoyment from it . I also like the…[Read more]

Thanks for that. 1.5km by 1.0km “feels” about right for the 6′ by 4′ table. I was just wondering if BA had an official ground scale as there is nothing I can find in the rule book about it.

Ian

I know this is a difficult subject. We are fighting a campaign off Ordnance Survey Maps and I want to relate table size to ground scale (i.e. is a 6′ x4′ table the equivalent of 1km x 1.5 km land scale?)

Thanks all.

It is crazy to think that the flamethrower could hit the tank 6 times!! Makes it Uber powerful against tanks…….and they were not!!

The “No of hits roll” is for an…[Read more]