Warlord Games | Jim welch | Activity https://www.warlordgames.com/community-members/zuludr/activity/ Activity feed for Jim welch. Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:08:50 +0100 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 ce14556539c4dc829602ec1ccaac7b90 Jim welch replied to the topic Lack of smoke - game design or mistake? in the forum Bolt Action https://www.warlordgames.com/community/topic/lack-of-smoke-game-design-or-deliberate/#post-191776 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:55:57 +0100 Hi again you said you introduced your own simple rules what are they?

I’m looking at some ideas at this moment but my many problems are the range of a hand thrown grenade and what effect they would have. In any assault none as you can see in or out of smoke to haze a range that would stop any enemy closing fire would have to be so long it would m…[Read more]

]]> 0 74c79ebed27dc3853e5503410c3bf48d Jim welch replied to the topic Lack of smoke - game design or mistake? in the forum Bolt Action https://www.warlordgames.com/community/topic/lack-of-smoke-game-design-or-deliberate/#post-191775 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:23:19 +0100 hi if you keep the ranging in rules with mt simple rules above you can Dee the rounds getting closure. Even with a few over compensation of distance. As the miss distance max decreases each round.

i have just read about the tank generated smoke this seems to be a defensive mechanism so i wile fry letting tanks with this ability drop a 2”” smo…[Read more]

]]> 0 674408062b849741ed74ea5fd9c74143 Jim welch replied to the topic Lack of smoke - game design or mistake? in the forum Bolt Action https://www.warlordgames.com/community/topic/lack-of-smoke-game-design-or-deliberate/#post-191774 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:36:47 +0100 I agree Smoke rules are not Good. I use the rules below. The main reason is to use the British Airborne as in Historical realistic ways( British Airborne in op Market Garden had a 2” Mortars in every Section the crew men also carried personal weapons this was because they only had 6 Smoke rounds) so I use them being able to fire as either.

1. S…[Read more]

]]> 0 8428a5dfa089fc1a6f72764da942fe61 Jim welch started the topic Light Mortars in the forum Bolt Action https://www.warlordgames.com/community/topic/light-mortars/ Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:15:27 +0000 Hi, I have been doing A lot of reading on the light mortar and spoken to some ex Paras and  come to the following conclusion. 1. 95% of the time they were fired directly. 2. 50% of the time they were used to fire Smoke. 3. Going into Battle only 8 Rounds where carried

To reflect this I will be using the following changes. I have changed the…[Read more]

]]> 0 fb0417b1272a9fb8991e30083d718f50 Jim welch started the topic Inexperienced offices in the forum Bolt Action https://www.warlordgames.com/community/topic/inexperienced-offices/ Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:08:18 +0000 Hi, it seems to me players use inexperienced office as a cheap way of getting the office bonus’s. I have played a few games with a few rule changes which seem to make sense to me.

1. They only add a plus one to morale.

2. They do get the 2 snap toos however one must be used by himself.

 

I have also played with adding a Veteran Nco to him in w…[Read more]

]]> 0 07f4872d643436abef325dea6816865e Jim welch became a registered member https://www.warlordgames.com/activity/p/26314/ Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:55:21 +0000 0