Bringing Fast Reconnaissance To Bolt Action Armour!

October 12, 2014 by stvitusdancern

Warlord Games, is continuing their drive for the upcoming Tank Wars supplement to Bolt Action. This time around they bring us an alternative Panzer II the Ausf. L Luchs (Lynx). This model was the final configuration of the Panzer II during WWII, 800 were ordered and only approximately 100 were actually built by the end of the war. It had a top speed of 60 kph and a range of 290 km.

This model is made out of resin and metal parts and is made to order. I think everyone can agree for the most part Germany had the best armour especially in the early years of the war. The detail is really nice and I can see playing a few of these and harassing the enemies' flanks and rear. with quick hit and run tactics.

With the upcoming Tank Week here on the Beasts of War, this just gets us that much more excited to hear and feel the rumble of these great steel beasts rumbling across the battlefield.

Will you take the fast track?

6

Leave a Reply

newest oldest most voted

Member

2731xp

solar

I bought a few Tamiya 1/48 scale tanks for Bolt Action but now I think I’m going to have to switch over to 1/56 due to all of these fantastic releases :/

ooooh but on a historical note I would say that Germany almost certainly didn’t have the best armour early in the war 🙂

10037xp

mecha82

They might not had best armour early on but they surely knew how to use them. And they did get results with those even against heavier allied tanks.

Tank model itself is really nice and detailed.

Yeah definitely, their armour was nothing special but their tactics were outstanding. The Germans were incredibly lucky really during the blitzkrieg, they massively over extended their lines to the coast and basically banked on the incompetence of the French and British leadership.

I know hindsight is always gonna make things clearer, but the Germans were very, very lucky that things turned out the way they planned at the start.
The French at one point right at the start even kicked the Germans back into Germany but they were badly let down by their leadership.

8957xp

cpauls1

The Germans had T34’s and KV series tanks at the beginning of Barbarossa, but they were not deployed en masse and the Germans rarely encountered them in the early stages of the invasion. The T-34 outclassed all German tanks at that time. Even the French had a few heavies that the Germans had trouble with, like the Char, but again they were doled out in penny packets, and therefore were more easily dealt with.