Bolt Action Photos.

Was going to do a photo report on the various Bolt Action WW2 games I have been playing but the usual thing happened - as the game hotted up I forgot to take photos ! . Here we see 'A' playing a master stroke as we battle for the control of the radio station in the middle of the board .

The table from my side , the bomb craters are Warhammer 40K moon craters - the building by 4Ground excellent and prepainted but a swine to put together !

My American Airborne MMG opens fire !.

And the Light Howitzer as well !.

The German Fallschirmjager sensibly take cover .

German snipers and F.A.O. hid in the destroyed house.

German Fallschirmjager MMG hide in the edge of a wood - but have been fired upon and have received 2 pin markers which hampers their ability to carry out orders and hit successfully .

A German squad moves across a corn field to take cover by the hedge line .

But are spotted and strafed by American air power .

One of the problems with photographing WW2 is that the figures are so camouflaged that they disappear into the scenery . This squad has a 'Run' order on their dice .

I'm afraid the above photos are a bit mixed up and are from several different games . I am enjoying the 'Bolt Action' rules - simple to play and very handy for soloing as the unit dice are drawn randomly from the bag , I've been playing the scenarios from the rule book which last 6 moves (50%chance of a 7th move) have a definite objective and victory conditions and so give a quick satisfying game.

Bolt Action - First Units

Got my camera working again and these are my first unit of German Paratroopers . The figures are 28mm and by Warlord . I always find painting figures with camouflage difficult , it's more a question of giving the right impression than being to accurate and there is always the danger the colours blend in together to just give a khaki blob !. Painting the 18th Century is much easier !.

I thought the Americans would be easier - no camo ! , in fact I found them harder to do !. Getting the right shade of paint was hard - Vallejo don't do the exact shade and the painting guide I used suggested mixing colours - which I think I got wrong ! , far to dark - I re-coated them with base paint and tried again , I looked at various colour photos on Google Images and found them all different ! . The trouble with camouflage colours are that they react to light and no two photos match ! , in the end I picked a shade of Khaki that looked about right and went with that !.   

Bolt Action

I'm not a great fan of World War 2 , although some of the first games I ever played 40 odd years ago were WW2  using Airfix figures and kits with Don Featherstone's rules. I have dabbled in Flames of War - Early Desert and although I enjoyed painting the figures the rules are a bit heavy to relearn every time . So when I came across Bolt Action I was intrigued as they looked very simple - using D6 and 28mm figures . I got a copy cheap off Amazon and was impressed by the 'gameyness' of them - very simple but clever mechanisms and the way the squads are activated ideal for solo play . I have decided to build up 2 x 500pts forces to start with , I tend to shy away from the exotic in my gaming so I thought I would do something a bit different this time and have been painting up U.S Airborne 'Screaming Eagles' and German Fallschirmjager . When my camera batteries have recharged there will be photos of my efforts so far !.