From The Beaches To Berlin! New Bolt Action Sourcebook
September 9, 2014 by brennon
Warlord Games have put up the pre-order for one of their new Battleground sourcebooks. The first of these is Battleground Europe for Bolt Action which charts the full conflict with a series of linked games and information taking you from the beaches of Normandy all the way to the heart of Germany...
This sounds like a great way to kick off an awesome campaign of some sort where you take an army of yours off the beaches and into the heartland of Europe. Or, you play the German army holding off the Allies at Normandy before trying to hold each of their different strongholds across France and more. All very exciting.
As well as that, as with most Warlord releases, you can get your hands on the War Photographer exclusive miniature that might make a great addition to a diorama or maybe as an objective on the tabletop. Get him out of there before the bombs start coming down!
What do you think?
Aaaand my Warlord Games wishlist grows ever longer :o)
at least you get yours painted WG 😉
ha! Fancy running into you here 😉
I get *some* of it painted. There’s a lot grey resin waiting for paint.
You could use him with your artillery officer.
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Hmmm………read this straight after the Space Hulk announcement and oddly find this quite bit more interesting. Genuinely interested to see how they chart out the war and if there are special lists or force add ons. What about some paras at Arnhem or Pegasus bridge. Wold live to see how they handle this book
Meh
Pre-ordered as a soon as I got the Warlord newsletter, been looking forward to this one, hopefully will be able get a few more clubmates enticed in with it
That war photographer is absolutely beautiful!
And yet another book to add to the collection.
I like the fact that Warlord is giving minis if you order from them.
I used to think one of the best things about Bolt Action is that you buy one book and that’s it.
This is especially important point when promoting the game to newbies.
It’s starting to look like this is turning into another morass of distributed special rules: “Then you need that book for special rule XYZ and that book for the assault scuba diver rules and…”
These are just scenario books. The main rulebook still has valid basic army lists… hell the Army books only just have “historical” army lists, as in, no Panthers for your German army when you’re playing an invasion of Poland army list.
Thing is, their army books don’t really provide that much difference from what’s in the main book. I bought the German one more for painting reference/uniform guide and was disappointed by it in both game terms and as a painting guide. I’ll continue to play and have fun with the basic book.
Really!? I don’t think there can be any surprise when companies follow the GW business model. Unfortunately companies don’t seem to be innovative enough to come up with something new and different. I’ve been doing WW2, Nappy, and Samurai campaigns for 30 years almost. What I have works so I won’t be going to a new system. As for using the books as painting guides you can do a lot better, and cheaper, with a Google search. U-Toob has some amazing painting tutorials, and again, cheap.