Let’s Play: Bolt Action 2nd Edition Demo Game
August 22, 2016 by Justin
Warlord Games are in the studio to show off Bolt Action Second Edition and we thought we'd get stuck into a Demo Game to show it off. Who will win; cast your votes now!
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John will be playing as the British army and Justin is opposing him with the Germans. Who do you think will win, and will you be diving into the Second Edition ruleset?
Let Battle Commence!
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A lot of the changes that have been made we had already house ruled them in my local play group. Great job.
Completely agree. We also had some house rules, that went in the direction of 2nd edition. But again, we had the chance to talk to Alessio on the bootcamp and got a good idea from him, were the weakspots of the system are and how to fix them.
First?
better luck next time 😉
Shouldn’t have started to watch the video before remembering to post 😀
I might have to get into BA as it’s the only way I am going to get a game if anything at the minute
Sweet….looking forward to this on my big Tv tonight, see what its like Vs the weird war one 1st edition one..
Sorry, screams earlier edition of 40K with the roll more than 6 on a d6 mechanic. And Justin starts off with lucky anti-tank shot in another game. Bullets do go through bushes IRL.
Nice intro into what BoltAction 2 will be like and can see the haters and naysayers comparing it to WH40k because of the template use; but I see this change as a good one and not to be compared with other games.
Cry Havoc! and let slip the Beasts of War.
Sadly haven’t got Bolt Action yet so no moments to report on so I’ll just spoonerise a Shakespear quote.
My best bolt action moment was during my second game against the Germans, the first action of the first round was the Puma that opened fire against my sherman firefly. After rolling three 6 in a row my sherman explodes!! The Puma is a great armoured car, but the player was very very lucky 🙂
I’ve a limited experience with Bolt Action but had a great intro game a couple of months ago, my British were thoroughly thrashed by Germans though, the dice gods were against me that day. Couldn’t hit a barn door……nothing changes.
Justin can look serious? :O First I could not recognise you @dignity on the photoshoped picture. 😛
I really enjoyed watchng that game! The rule tweaks make sense. Well done guys!
The vid certainly shows the superiority of Chain of Command, you wouldn’t get Shermans charging down an AT unit that wouldn’t even be visible that’s for sure.
I’m pretty sure that’s something only a newbie like me would have done in Bolt Action.
It was never going to end well and TBH it shows.
Keeping those tanks back would have delayed showing the new rule changes.
We have a pretty active bolt action scene in San Diego, so we have a lot of tournaments. A few tournaments back, I was playing as my Soviets, I have NO air defense and I went up against two American Armies (in two different games) each with double airstrikes. 4 airstrikes were called and 4 airstrikes screwed up and destroyed 4 of their own tanks/units. Clearly the spirit of the Workers protected the Red Army that day.
Well….a second Edition is reason enough to get into the game at last 🙂
The standout moments for me were using heavy artillery to wipe out ridiculous amounts of infantry, I do think the new rules with templates are more sensible but I’ll no longer be able to cackle as 5 men take 15 hits!
Hi guys,
With regard to the question on what I think of the rule changes, and if there are any additions. I like the changes, esspecially for the officers and co-drivers firing vehicle weapons.
Personally we never play with the rule that empty transport are removed when somebody says boo. That is in my view a bit of a strange rule, and I fully understand John’s look when it happens in the video. We have a co-driver gunning people down, but one german runs up to them and they are out of the game, that is just odd.
I thought the rule for empty transports was very strange also at first. After giving it some thought I can see that this is a good way to keep the transports to their intended job. The transports could be abused somewhat as mobile armoured MG nests otherwise, something that regular infantry would struggle to deal with in numbers. The mobile MG nest is more of an armoured car role, with force organisation rules keeping the number in check. Having said that, I have no experience playing the game, yet 🙂
Like what they have done with 2.0.. also like what was done with K’47.
I haven’t gotten into Bolt Action yet and am eager to explore with the new edition. If I win the Starter box, that would be a great moment to springboard into the hobby!
ok this looks good. I like the look of the Tank platoon John was using as there was not to many infantry to paint up.
Can only put 5 men into a carrier, so two carriers, ten guys, an observer and a commander, the rest is allllllll armour! 😀
keep in this way, the game is one of my favourites !
Better than watching movie..! I was really enjoying this video again gents, do MORE 🙂
@chez
Always great to see you as umpire!
@johnlyons
Clearly you can now justify the acquisition of yet more Sherman Vs!!!
@diginty
Very proud of you, Sir! You’ve led the Fallschirmjäger Regiment 6 to their first broadcasted victory!!!
Let me know if you -in the light of BA2 and Konflikt ’47- want additional units for them painted up 😎
Looking forward to your next gaming video chaps, well done all!
Do I really need justification? It’s like someone asking me “How many sugars do you take in you tea?” Keep adding until that cup is syrup!