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Get Tanking With Warlord’s Armoured Platoon Sets!
October 1, 2014 by dracs
If you're wanting to get started in the latest Bolt Action supplement Tank Wars, but lack the tanks you're in luck as Warlord have started releasing Armoured Platoon Boxed Sets to get you started.
So far, only the US and the Soviet Armoured Platoons have been released, but Warlord have promised that more are on the way.
The US Armoured Platoon Boxed Set brings with it three Shermans in hard plastic.
The Soviets also get three tanks, theirs being the T-34/85. However, their set also contains a sprue of eight infantry figures, which can be placed upon the tank models as riders.
I think these sets are a good move by Warlord as they provide you with a good bases to build and armoured force around. What do you think?
So clearly idea is that there will be more tanks seen in games of Bolt Action. So far BA has least seem to me as more infantry focused game so these took me by suprise.
They’re for the new Bolt Action Supplement Tank Battles
Nice tanks. You can never have too many…
Nice quick way to enlarge your army.
That’s almost a GW move…
Almost…
Almost Dave, except for the fact it’s a fairly decent priced bundle in comparison to buying them individually 🙂
Trying to resist buying one until I’ve painted the troops!
yup it’s actually cheaper to bye the box than get three tanks.
Three tanks for the price of a devilfish or rhino lol
Sorry but I see nothing wrong with releasing a tank focused supplement and miniatures for a WW2 game, their customer’s have probably asked for it and they were a major part in many campaigns. People could always use them to build tank graveyard terrain bits if they wanted to which I think would be really cool. The difference with GW is that they make the rules so good for their larger kits and nerf rules elsewhere that they practically become mandatory inclusions, whereas this seems more of an option for BA players instead of a ‘must have’.
This said I personally prefer 15mm or 10mm for such battles, as there’s only so much space you can utilise with 28mm models and the time/expense involved is often impractical.
Also it’s 3 tanks for £50, if it was a GW move it would be more like £70 because their plastic has to be imported from their forgeworlds on Mars 😉
P & P is a bummer ain’t it.
You know, I keep griping about how playing with armor realistically at 28mm is impractical, you’d need a table the size of a tennis court or a golf course (a Tiger’s optimum range equates to something like 60 feet, etc). But these tanks look so awesome that one of these days . . . I’m gonna have to reserve myself a tennis court or a big patch of close-cut grass somewhere . . . and actually do it!
I’m in! 😀
How much will it cost to hire Lego land for a day LOL @oriskany ??? just think of the cities you can capture / destroy.
(quiet golf announcer’s voice hushed into the microphone) . . .
“Tiger” Woods is gesturing to his caddy, here on Day Two of the Normandy Open. What club does he want for this difficult shot? Looks like he’s picking the reliable “88” club to chip towards that Sherman in the rough. He lines up on the ball, he has perfect form, and . . . FORRRRE!”
And he gets another massive hole in one.
They have just added the British Cromwell troop to the list:
http://store.warlordgames.com/products/british-tank-troop/
I had a caddy once named Juan. After a bad round, however, I shot a hole in Juan.
argghh . . .
I really don’t see the “optimum range” argument as viable. Even in 15mm most armor will be able to fire off the table edge. What bothers me is the move toward fielding more tanks/vehicles. I could see maybe 3 each side, but I’m afraid the move will be toward the “more is better” attitude and you’ll end up with games looking like FoW, ugh. Parking lot looking games with tanks lined up fender to fender, again, ugh. It is not for me, but if that’s how you want to play go right ahead. For me, maybe two vehicles a side, on a 6×8 table with plenty of room for maneuver and a slant to more realistic tactics. A tanks engine was every bit as much a weapon as the main gun. Plus, if you game in a setting like Normandy in the hedges, there is no way any tank/gun should be able to see further than a quarter of that 6×8. I’ve read many accounts of tank warfare in the hedges and there were many instances where 3 vehicles could not maintain visual contact. Just my two cents, after all it is a game enjoyed by many different people with many different gaming goals and many definitions of fun in gaming. No matter what you do, enjoy.
There’s something fishy with the pricing…
List price for the platoon box is slightly cheaper than buying three tanks separately — but if you add in the 10% deal for buying three tanks, the individual boxes are right now actually a bit cheaper. The platoon boxes are not included in the discount scheme even if you buy 3 of them…
That said, people were all huffed and puffed when we saw the first new of these plastic tanks arriving. Tanks would be dirt cheap now!
Well, not really IMHO. The plastic tanks retail for 18 quid while the old resin and metal kits are like 22 quid. Personally, I’m ready to pay a couple quid more for a kit that requires less assembly (I hate assembling models).
It seems we are paying a gaming tax. If you shop around a bit, you can easily find 1/35 kits for the same or lower prices — much larger, more detailed, better kits. Just not in a “gaming scale”.