House Rule: Transport Weapons The cost of a transport includes the cost of a driver and the crew for a single weapon. The weapon crew does not affect the vehicle’s transport capacity. A transport with no passengers can fire the main weapon system. Additional weapons require the appropriate number of passengers on board to operate.
Read more "House Rule: Transport Weapons"A unit failing to activate on a Rally test may remove one pin marker unless the unit fubars their failed Rally order.
Read more "House Rule: Failed Rally Test"Adam has prepared most of his initial Panzer Division forces. It’s um… a lot of stuff. Has motivated me to get painting the Russian vehicles!
Read more "10,000 points of enemy!"Capturing Objectives In order to capture an objective you must occupy any single building within the objective area definition. There can be no enemy forces inside any other building. At the end of the turn if these conditions are met the objective is considered captured. Holding Objectives You are not required to garrison captured objectives […]
Read more "House Rule: Objectives, Victory Points, Victory"I really liked the faux fur way of making terrain that is easy to store. However I wanted a flexible system that could allow for different map configurations. I decided to make “tiles” that can be laid out in a variety of configurations. The terrain tiles are 30″ x 30″. I chose 30″ because that […]
Read more "Terrain tile system"Played my first game of Bolt Action using the Russian rules. Also created a new terrain layout. Was a really fun game and my mate Rob Bauman wrote an awesome AAR, linked as a PDF below. We called the game at 1:30am, a minor Russian victory. Video of the battlefield a couple of turns in. […]
Read more "Somewhere along the Dnieper River in 1944…"Artillery Battery Observer Artillery can optionally operate as a “battery” if they include a Spotter and Command Truck. The spotter costs 10 points (as all spotters do) and the Command Truck uses the same cost structure as trucks. The command truck must be the same experience level as the highest experience level gun in the […]
Read more "House Rule: Artillery Batterys"First attempt at hilly terrain. Still in the workshop stages. Will address the uniformity of tree heights and colours (too similar). There is enough height to completely block line of sight across the hill. Trees can be reconfigured to adjust placement. First set of pics shows a fuel dump, second set of pics shows a […]
Read more "Hill 252.2"I’ve designed and am building out a modular system of terrain tiles. I’ll post more about that in the future, but here are a few pics of the first configuration. The Kursk battle will be three times this size!
Read more "Terrain on the table"I assembled and weathered the 4Ground house and snapped a couple of pics.
Read more "Soviet Assault Engineers in a destroyed 4Ground house"
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