A whole new front of the war has been opened with the new and highly agile US Firefly Jump Infantry, the gargantuan Kodiak Walker and the ‘packing-a-punch’ Heavy Bazooka team! Firefly Jump Infantry! View in Store Using revolutionary jump-packs, Firefly infantry are drawn from the Paratroopers and specialise in rapid advances to take ground, waiting for…
A what if situation arose and we see the Soviets fighting the Germans in their homeland and the city Stalingrad, with the U.S and IJA in the mix too! The battle report was done by our German friend Uwe Schmitz; and here he gives a basic rundown of events that developed on the battlefield! Uwe:…
A little message… Happy new year everyone! Today I’m going to be looking at a pair of fearsome vehicles from the late war period, the German Panther Ausf A, and the American M-26 Pershing. For those interested, there is some footage on Youtube filmed outside Cologne cathedral in March 1945 between a 3rd Armoured division…
With the latest Bolt Action Campaign book Battle Of The Bulge about to arrive it’s time to take another look at some of the actions that defined this decisive battle: St Vith The Ardennes, 17 – 21 December 1944, US units expecting a quiet Christmas before pushing forward in to Germany find themselves confronting what…
Charles Pecquet takes us through how he constructed and converted an US M16 AA Halftrack and a British Bofors into a US M15 AA Halftrack. Charles: The M15, officially the M15 Combination Gun Motor Carriage, was a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun based on an M3 halftrack chassis and used by the US Army in Africa, Italy,…
Charles Pecquet reveals how his M15 conversion holds up against other military might!. Charles Pecquet: I was able to put the M15 I converted to the test in a Bolt Action tournament hosted by our local club, the Baton Rouge Society of Miniature Gaming which is located at our local hobby shop, Little Wars. It…
Mighty fast and packing a deadly punch the M18 Hellcat blasts its way onto your battlefields this week for World War II and beyond… View in Store The fastest tracked armoured fighting vehicle of World War II with a top speed up to 60 mph (92kph), the M18 Hellcat was an American tank armed with…
Driving in towards your battlefield at top speed comes the new plastic Hellcat with two starter sets to choose from: Option 1: Anti-Tank Hellcat Section A standard tank destroyer platoon in 1944 would have consisted of 4 M18s with support from 2 M20 utility vehicles (for reconnaissance) split in to two Anti Tank Sections. This set comes…
Fight your way across the deserts of North Africa, through the jungles of the Pacific, across Manchuria and the Russian steppe, and into Europe with this well armed light tank: View in Store As American tank designers began to recognise the outdated and obsolete nature of the M2 light tank, they realised they needed…
Stalking forward and into combat for both the US and British forces in 1947 comes the Coyote/Guardian Light Walker View in Store November 1946 – February 1947 With Europe suffering the worst winter in memory, military activity slows to a crawl. Air operations struggle to have any impact and the Germans take advantage of the…
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