The chosen side!

Recently I have made reference to my new geek strand of Bolt Action but I am yet to show my hand as it were!

I picked the Americans, due to the lovely miniatures and the fact I was watching Band of Brothers!

During this shopping spree I had decided I didn’t want to buy a starter army. I couldn’t justify the money without playing first!

After shopping round and looking at the infantry boxes I decided on the US Marine Corp.  Plus I ordered a Medium Machine Gun (MMG) and a medium mortar.

I had already splashed some cash on an Airfix M4A3 Sherman tank from Hobbycraft whilst shopping for our new arrival!

In the end my reinforced platoon consists of:

1 x 1st Lieutenant

1 x Forward Observer Officer

1 x Sniper Team

1 x   Bazooka Team

3 x 8 man squads. Each with a NCO with sub machine gun and at least 7 rifles (one squad contains a shot gun).

1 x Medium Machine Gun.

1 x Medium Mortar

1 x M4A3 Sherman Tank.

All have been completed over the last 6 weeks.

All four of us nation’s have been bitten by the BA bug! So much so we are all off to the Warlord Games Games Day next month!

This visit was supposed to be a shopping day, but alas we have broken and ordered more units early.

I’m very excited as my box of US infantry and squad of US Airborne have been dispatched today!

Fingers crossed for a delivery tomorrow!

J

USMC production line

I’m just coming to the end of a weeks leave where I’ve been quite productive in terms of Bolt Action.

The picture above shows the last five Marines completely painted and washed.

The bases have been one of the jobs I have completed this week.

Here’s another of my jobs…

More posts to follow.

J

Deeper down the rabbit hole………….

So a while back I posted a blog about a meet up with Mr A and Mr D and introduced them to Munchkin. Well that night we, amongst other things, discused our projects. Mr D with his train set, my various wood working projects, and Mr A mentioned he was planning a SpaceHulk layout.

SpaceHulk, a corridor based miniatures game based in the Games Workshop 40k era set in a large crashed spaceship or as the title suggest a spacehulk. We had all dabbled in the GW world, I’d mainly based myself fantasy era while Mr A and D were 40k players. During the night and preceding week we were disscussing various plans and ideas for the bespoke hulk, then Mr A sent this link out….

Beasts of War – Bolt Action Demo Game Part 1

We were hooked immediately!

For me the hook was not just the beautiful models, the rule set, random turn placement (these grabbed me and gave me a good shake!). It was the scope and adaptability of the game options, if we wanted a game based on tight corridors and house rules, we could. If we wanted an epic battle we could. Plus the scenarios for each battle coukd have vaarious abjectives and story lines.

Since this initial video we have a decided on nations, each had a rule book and nation book, and are well on the way to finishing painting our c1000point platoon!

Its been a busy few months, with lots of planning and painting, and even a first game (more on that soon!!).

Heres to the next blog…….

Oh, the nation choices are…….

Mr A – The British and Commonwealth (only fair as Mr A is a real life veteran)
Mr D – The Germans
Moi – The USA
New addition Mr S (from previous blogs) who may choose the Russians!

A New game……….

A new project!

Heres a quick image of my next project! Very excited about this!