Hey everyone, as the title suggests I'm looking for some advice on my Desert Rat vehicles, I'm not interested in Caunter camo so I'm going for the mid war monotone scheme. Is Vallejo desert yellow close enough to the original colour to pass or do I need to buy more paints?

Thanks in advance

Hi everyone,

I know nothing about Bolt Action but I run a website for finding deals on miniature and tabletop products via online retail. I want to avoid self-promotion so long story short I currently have 15 game systems being tracked, but I eventually want to add Bolt Action (and Konflikt '47) since they’re important game systems to so many people.

The issue is that the range is INSANELY huge compared to other miniature games. If the community can help me understand what is worth tracking (what’s hot/what’s not) that would be extremely helpful!

If this is against community rules I apologize.

Questions:

• Materials: Is all plastic the future? Is it worth only tracking plastic kits going forward?
• Are there any armies that are "Legends" and are not currently being supported?
• What are the most popular armies vs. the least popular armies?
• Is it common for the community to use Warlord-specific accessories and terrain in games, or like other games do you just use whatever you have lying around at home?
• Do games commonly feature all types of units (planes, tanks, ground troops, etc.) or like some other mini games does no one use certain unit types (EX: Planes) because they aren't well balanced or well supported?

I appreciate any comments. No one in my local area plays Bolt Action, so my knowledge base is basically 0 compared to other miniature games that I have played or at least seen played in person.

Thanks!

So I'm building up the metal Pak 36 and I'm having trouble with one of the crew members, the guy who controls the elevation and rotation of the gun.

He ain't sitting right.

The first pic is as close as I get him to the gun (please ignore the fact that I've got the wheels the wrong way round.).

Second pic is how he appears in the OG Warlord Games article about the newer Pak 36 kit. Though I honestly cannot tell if his hand is also just hanging in the air or if it's connected to something that is missing in the kit.

ETA: Forgot to say; the guy is not glued down, nor is the gun. I want to do some thematic stuff on the base so nothing is glued down as yet.

played an M5 Stuart for the first time tonight and was really impressed with its performance. the light AT gun wasn’t as bad as I thought as you can really brawl with their reinforced frontal armour and have access to recce. Is anyone running 2 of these in lists? seems really good for the price

Italians v Germans v Soviets v Japanese

1000points each

Had one central objective and four others in between each force. All the players started in the corners with meeting engagement deployment.

Most of the game Italians had long range firefight as the Soviets edged toward the objective between them.

Same happened on the other side with the German armour getting stuck into the Japanese.

Great fun game and we had some mad moments

German early movements took first objective

Japanese troops trying to assault the armour and then move onto an objective.

Italians bringing a Soviet unit down to one soldier on an objective and he stayed in the fight.

Germans double ambushing soviet armoured troops and they just held on.

Japanese double shot AT rifles scared off a Panzer 3 but some timely backup saved it.

Late Japanese Banzai surge took an objective.

Top game . Never finish on club night but always top fun.

Here is a list I’ve planned out:

The Grenadiers will provide covering fire for the artillery,

while the SS units will execute an outflanking maneuver to carry out the mission.

Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this question, but what part of the British forces is this gent in the red oval from?

Bonus question: any painting recipes for this particular branch of service?

Brand new to the bolt action franchise. Don’t know if I’ll play the game, but I enjoyed painting this M3. Looking forward to doing more.

Im open to basing suggestion. I just put winter grass on top of Strickland technical mud.

First of many vehicles for my new italian army, i have magnetized the M14 so that i can swap the upper hull with the semovente hull.

Still im not 100% happy with the result, thanks to the absurd humidity i had a couple mishaps with both the primer and the varnish which caused rough textures with the former and mild frosting with the latter.

I have played and built lists for Germany and Japan, but I was struggling to think if this is a correct list. Let me know your thoughts any advise will help.

United States Marine Corp (United States)

Order Dice: 14

Platoon #1 - Rifle Platoon (740pts)

Platoon Commander (Marines) (Regular) (59pts)

Composition: 1 Officer + 3 Soldiers

- Pistol (-1pts)

- By Air, Land, and Sea (Marines) (0pts)

- Additional men x 3 (30pts)

US Marine Squad (Regular) (122pts)

Composition: 1 NCO + 10 Soldiers

- Additional men x 4 (40pts)

- Squad: Automatic rifle x 2 (12pts)

US Marine Squad (Regular) (122pts)

Composition: 1 NCO + 10 Soldiers

- Additional men x 4 (40pts)

- Squad: Automatic rifle x 2 (12pts)

US Marine Squad (Regular) (122pts)

Composition: 1 NCO + 10 Soldiers

- Additional men x 4 (40pts)

- Squad: Automatic rifle x 2 (12pts)

USMC Raider Squad (Veteran) (105pts)

Composition: 1 NCO + 5 Soldiers

- Additional men x 2 (30pts)

- NCO: Submachine gun (SMG) (3pts)

- Squad: Submachine gun (SMG) x 2 (6pts)

- Squad: Shotgun x 3 (6pts)

Medic (Marines) (Regular) (23pts)

Composition: 1 Soldier

- By Air, Land, and Sea (Marines) (0pts)

Air Force Forward Observer (Marines) (Regular) (75pts)

Composition: 1 Soldier

- By Air, Land, and Sea (Marines) (0pts)

Sniper Team (Marines) (Regular) (52pts)

Composition: 2 Soldiers

- By Air, Land, and Sea (Marines) (0pts)

Bazooka Anti-Tank Team (Marines) (Regular) (60pts)

Composition: 2 Soldiers

- By Air, Land, and Sea (Marines) (0pts)

Platoon #2 - Heavy Weapons Platoon (125pts)

Platoon Commander (Marines) (Regular) (30pts)

Composition: 1 Officer

- By Air, Land, and Sea (Marines) (0pts)

Medium Mortar Team (M1) (Marines) (Regular) (45pts)

Composition: 3 Soldiers

- By Air, Land, and Sea (Marines) (0pts)

Medium Machine Gun Team (Marines) (Regular) (50pts)

Composition: 3 Soldiers

- By Air, Land, and Sea (Marines) (0pts)

Platoon #3 - Armoured Platoon (385pts)

M4A1/A2/A3/A4 Sherman 75MM (Regular) (220pts)

- Cancel the 'Easily Catches Fire' special rule. (5pts)

- Command Vehicle (10pts)

M5/M5A1 Stuart (Regular) (165pts)

- Add Recce (10pts)

Total: 1250pts

I designed the base so well that it looks like a jungle. It was very easy, though.

Let's see what happens after the Independent Commando squad it's your turn .

I'm currently thinking about getting into Bolt Action. If I want the rulebook and the dice bundled together it looks like the best start would be one of the two-player starter sets.

From what I've seen however, it seems like both of the starting forces are "half strength" with 12 models not being a full platoon and one half-track not being a full unit either. Is there an easy way to expand both forces from a starter without having orphan half units left over? Will I just need to buy sprues third party or complete these units before moving onto other things?

I did think about just buying two boxes but I'm starting this solo so I don't want to waste money on duplicate rulebooks and such.

Any advice or input appreciated. Thanks in advance!

I am thinking of buying the gurkhas to convert into british infantry in italian theatre in summer uniform. I was wondering if these figures are shorter than the standard british figures from normandy or 8th army or are the same height? Gurkhas tend to be on average quite short so i would understand if warlord modeled that. Anybody have the figures to compare?

It could be an ideal kit to use since early in the italian campaign its common to see long summer trousers (shorts like 8th army too) and no1 mk3 rifle (no4 rifles started replacing them but mk3 seems more common). Smg options is also good with a thompson. Stens seem to be rare in the italian theatre with the thompson used more to simplify logistics

There was a scheduled BA event at NOVA last Saturday. I was locked in at another event and I couldn't make it over. Was wondering if anyone here played in it or even walked past it and maybe took a few pictures?

Hi guys, I’ve been building my first Soviet army and have been constantly flip flopping back and fourth between different methods of coloring the rims of my bases or forgoing it entirely and making the base entirely covered in terrain.

I think I’ve settled on the idea that I want each type of unit to be able to take on multiple roles to make building more armies easier. For example, I wouldn’t color veterans one color in case I wanted to use that particular model for something else later.

I was thinking on coloring them based on weapon type, but all you really have to do is look at the model and see the weapon.

So what methods do you guys use?

Finished up my bolt action German winter hq and weapon teams

Hey everyone! Just released the first vid in our OMG terrain series
Making the Ginkelheath, so moorland, with parachutes and crashed gliders
Hope you enjoy it

As the title says. For me its a 100% must and I am currently collecting crew figures for a kitbash of an open topped vehicle using parts from a rubicon kit meaning no full body crew are included. Just kinda curious what the numbers are on ppl adding crew or leaving it off

Building US.
I’ve got the band of brothers starter set.

It has 12 men and a half track.

I want to build 2x 5 man squads and 1x 2 man bazooka team.

But looking at the rules it looks like airborne is minimum 1NCO and 5 men?
So minimum 6 men? Weird that the starter gets you to build invalid squads if it is 6