Bolt Action Boot Camp: Friday
It's time to get our armies built and prepare for battle tomorrow with the first day of our Bolt Action Boot Camp Coverage where we're building the armies, meeting all the attendees and getting ready for a fantastic weekend ahead.
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i think i found this a bit too early!
Today on the BOW:BABC, nothings happening! 😛
Seriously I can’t wait to see the updates 🙂
SWEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!!!!!!!!
You guys should just stick a webcam in the corner live streaming everything! Those that couldn’t make it can just watch everyone have fun with it then 😉
Hmm – maybe we’ll do that one of these days!
Are you sure that’s wise, I mean what happens at BoW boot camp stays at BoW boot camp.
If only on the martian invasion, i would be a happy camper.
Make it Backstager access only and you might pick up some more subs with that tag line. =)
Oh nice. That’s this evenings entertainment sorted whilst in the workshop 🙂
Feeling very jealous right now
Tell Kelvin to check his flight times….
so near and yet so far, I’m so annoyed I couldn’t make it to this… Looks absolutely amazing, I’m really keen to see how the Japanese do – they would have been my army of choice.
OMG, is this already? LOL; I was waiting for this!
looks like a great weekend
Interesting game, but not exactly my kind of game – have a great weekend!
Would love to have gone! My partner was going to send me to the infinity boot camp but I am filming at Glastonbur festival 🙁 never been so bad mad at being a camera man!!!!!!!
Have fun guys and glue like you have never glued before.
Have a fantastic time, will be following the Bolt Action Cadets, camp it out and pass out each evening! Then pass out Sunday as Bolt Action Band of Brothers!
Have a great weekend!
Have a great time everyone.
A great start to the weekend, they certainly seem to have a lot of models to get through, I hope you all have a great time.
Sooo jealous.
Enjoy the weekend end guys
Been wanting to try BA but for now i just seem to like it ….
I’m almost weeping!
Looks like another winner of a weekend is just beginning!
I gotta say, I am super envious. Bolt Action is one of those games where I own some minis but have never actually played and a boot camp would have been the ideal way to finally give the game a try. Alas, other commitments and all that..
I so wish I was there this weekend. It’s my birthday and it would have been the perfect gift.
Fun weekend for everyone! Maybe I’ll be able to get to one one day!
Just in time 😛
Starting painting my American force today.
Armoured rifle platoon. Thinking 9th armoured division.
So jealous. What an awesome weekend they look to be having.
How about BOW take boot camps on tour! Free beer down under lads. Set up looks awesome, enjoy the crack!
Good luck with the bootcamp!
This looks so sweet. Put all the tables together and play one massive game ; )
great weekend everyone, i wish i could attend myself
At last it started. Looking forward tonsee the tables and some gameplay.
… and my constant checking for updates begins =)
Have a great weekend all.
Good luck on building an army in a day. It took me all week to scrape mold lines, builld and prime my British Army starter box.
Really looking forward to the rest of the weekends updates.
Looks awesome I’m on route with my Japanese Army glad I won’t be the only one shouting banzai! in the fields of france
Looks like too much fun.
I wish there were live blog events every weekend. I love consuming these posts! Never enough of them
I am so excited. I am looking to buy this game for a while now. Thinking on going usa. Waited till this weekend to make a discision. Hope to see some good games.
Looking forward to this weekends viewing 🙂
I’m interested to see how the Japanese fare against some of the more well-established forces.
i was quite happy with the japanese, gonna stick with them 4-1-1 over the weekend
Looking forward to all the shooty bang bang fun
Man what a tool I was not to book that bootcamp,I’d be in ireland right now! 😛 anyway I hope you’ll have a brilliant weekend.
Enjoy!
Sitting watch the live blog while putting together the finishing touches to my 1000pt US Army
looking great
Generally speaking which is the most popular army in the game?
Have a good weekend you lucky lot! wish i was there for sure 😀
Have a great time everybody!
Very jealous right now…re-enactors, Alessio, plastic figures, booze.
Instead I’m overseeing my daughter’s GCSC preparation.
Well..maybe there will be another Bolt Action Boot Camp..
I am so excited to see what the weekend brings, I just wish I could have been there, that’s me trying to calmly hide my jealousy!!!!!!
I love me some bolt action…
Watching these to get me ready for the tournament I am running tomorrow here in Louisiana 🙂
This weekend is very popular it seems…
The site turned really slow 😛
terminator mini’s look sweeeeeeede 😀
So sad I couldn’t make it, instead I have a view with the leaning tower of pisa in it.. if only it was a holiday…
Cant wait for Day 2!
ONE DAY I AM GOING TO GET TO A BOOT CAMP. LOOKS LIKE FUN.
These weekends are a great idea, looks like great fun.
Looks fun, my mate is there, kind of wish I had gone as well now 🙁
I really would like to attend one of these boot camps, they seem like a blast!
Looks like the start of a fun weekend -enjoy!
I really wish all of you a great time. I was going to be there but alas other events took over and I had to cancel 🙁
Warren do u pick weekends that involve railway strikes or the threat of?
Minty we missed you, you’re Soviet horde would have gone down a storm
No one doing any push ups, it is a boot camp, you know.
Oh well off to the pub it is then.
Bring out the STUGS !!!!!!!!
Good luck to all and remember to cover your arcs of fire. Pin, pin and pin again!
wish i could be there
Have a good weekend lucky wargamers !
Wish i could be there…….have a great time guys!
Looks awesome kinda rooting for the Soviet player’s
clap clap clap
that’s a lot of hobby getting done in one evening!
I wish we had something like this in the states. Have a good time guys.
This is looking like a lot of fun so far, can’t wait to see how the rest of the weekend goes.
I have a couple of questions for the BOW guys at the Boot Camp
1. What is the points cost of the starter armies?
2. This might be for John I’m about to start to prime my US Army I was going to do them in a grey primer but just gotten US army green. what colour would he suggest to prime them in?
I can certainly answer numero uno – the size of armies comes to around 700pts
Looking forward to it.. tables are lovely so it must be a lovely weekend 🙂
I almost forgot Friday will be bootcamp day 🙂
have a good bankholiday weekend gaming and enjoy the bar and food
I like the inclusion of re-enactor makes more interesting
Looks like it’s shaping up to be a great weekend again, I’ll get to one eventually!
Really looking forward to watching this weekend.
Bolt Action! is awesome! I hope it continues to grow and gain in popularity!
Enjoy the bootcamp, I’m sure it will be a great weekend.
Looks great, would love to join you one day for a boot camp…
Enjoy the weekend guys 🙂
Wow, this got busy quickly! Really looking forward to this one.
If you get time please try and film a battle report. It was your demo game that got me into Bolt Action in the first place.
I managed to join right before the Germans… (I guess becuse most else is covered). now for the wait… wish I could be there 🙂 have fun guys!
I absolutely love bolt action, its just a nice easy game to get into and one you never have to wait for the opponents whole turn to be over.
Going to be following with interest.
Inspired me to make start some terrain for Bolt Action today!
Bolt Action is cool
Another great weekend ahead!
Lots of tanks – now there is a surprise 🙂
Cool videos and really nice pictures. You guys are looking good.
Ok… will definitely have to make lots of progress on my gaming table for BA this weekend… very inspiring blogs
Really jealous
Another bootcamp looking awesome again, hope to get to one at some point.
I hope you all enjoy the event.
a nit pick about the Para’s at Pegasus Bridge, they were glider-borne troops of the Ox and Buck light infantry (as an ex member if the RGJ the regiment that the Ox and Buck were amalgamated into) our (the RGJ) battle honours include Pegasus Bridge, and we take joy in reminding that paras of that fact.
im so envious on the guys that get hold of on one of the tickets for this boot camp! i wish all you guys a good time 😉
May not be there but I’m joining in painting my Germans and Americans… Methinks Panther and Panzer IVs will be getting some love on the morrow!
I hope this gives me a better understanding of the game. Granted I am most likely going to play the Germans for the simple fact that I have so many GW Steel Legion models and they have cool tanks.
Hope you guys have an awesome weekend! Just sorry I couldn’t make it. May the dice ever be nice….
I wish I had the funds to have been there this weekend. Looks great. Enjoy guys and kick some ass!!
can’t wait for Saturday and all the updates…. wish I could get to a bootcamp…
Looks like a great event, good to get more insights from Alessio as well.
Your FOW FTW videos inspired me to get into FOW and now this has inspired me to get involved in Bolt Action. Bought my first Bolt Action box at Salute and going to head down to my FLGS to get in my first game tomorrow. Keep up the good work!
To whomever came up with the idea of having various people come into the camp with examples of period dress, that was a brilliant idea.
Looks awesome, sad not to be there!
So been looking forward to this. I stuck here in the states but playing along so to speak!
I’m building a US Infantry group but painting them and playing them as the 325th G.I.R (glider infantry regiment).
Oh cruel distance and lack of money, how dare you prevent me *shakes fist*
looks like a great weekend of gaming is going to go on, really hope the martian invasion happens and we get to see some of it!
Wish I could be there! 😀
Wish I could be there! I hope everyone has an awesome time. 🙂
Looks great. Hope everyone has an amazing time. Very jealous!
Have fun folks, I look forward to seeing more.
Really sorry I was unable to make this boot camp.
Just watched entry with Andrew. Assembly line construction is fine, but not necessary. I say you just build what you like and just buy more if needed.
Looks like a blast. Wish I could be there.
Dammit, looks like a lot of fun!
I will get to one of these maby not this year but I will
Have a(sobb) great weekend
must not get jealous 😛 have a great time guys, good to see some of the familiar faces from the first bootcamp
This whole thing looks like a lot of fun
It’s really interesting to see all this.
I’m just getting into Bolt Action, I already bought the rulebook and now I’m thinking about what armies I’ll do (I’m planning on making two small armies to start demoing the game), probably I’ll go The Pacific with Japanese against Americans so I’ll have the TV series to support me. Hope this works… Any advice will be very helpfull! 🙂
Looks great fun!
well it looks well organised and great fun looking forward to saturday gaming and watching all the tactics pan out good luck to all and roll those sixes when you need them from Victoria and Chris G
The first video watched, and I’m excited already! Wish I could have been there…
Great start, waiting impatiently for the rest
awesome
Very good guys! Have fun!
Doing some catching up tonight because of work and it’s gonna be the same on saturday and sunday, that makes a lot of vids and pictures to see in one sitting but, all the guys seem to already have fun!
Wish I could be there it looks ,so much fun.
Interesting to see and learn all the details about the various uniforms
ANZAC BISCUITS!!!!!!
Have fun fellows
Bolt Action is such a great game. The dice pulling mechanic just makes the game so tense and awesome. I hope they expand out more into the Pacific theater a bit more, but that is just what I like.
Have a great weekend.
NICE
fnaaar this would be such a fun weekend! very interested in bolt action…keep them games rolling!
Seriously jealous. Anybody going to start a BoW American campus soon?
I like playing the Japanese army, I don’t win much but there always a lot of fun to play. Looks like you guys are having a great time at the boot camp. ENJOY.
I wish I could be there, I love Bolt Action! Can’t wait to see more of the armies and more importantly, the play tables. BoW seems to always have the most amazing tables.
This to me would be the perfect weekend. Quite envious of all you guys. Bolt Action Boot Camp 2??????
i am looking forward to this bolt action boot camp 8P. just start collecting bolt action cant wait to get some tips and a change to win a starter set
Looks like a really awesome event. Maybe one day, a boot amp can be done for warmachine and hordes.
On another note, I really enjoy the battle reports you guys make, shame you don’t make more.
The thing that you us do that make them better than most, is handicam. Seeing the battle from the models view, make every game that much more fun.
Thank you and keep up the awesome.
Looking forward to the weekend updates.
Hoooo I wish that beast of war was in Canada so i could be there !!! Or do i have to move over there ? 😉
Have fun guy’s
One of my favorite games. Could always use more minis.
Looks like a tonne of fun. My son will have to be patient with me this weekend, as I’ll be constantly checking the site.
Ack-Ack Attack!
I always think Bolt action would look better at 15mm, but people do seem wedded to their big toys.
Looks like a good time. Definitely want to get some bolt action models in the near future
Have fun this week!!
Me myself will cry and listen to All by My self….. and think about all I am missing…. 🙁
I get to play pathfinder, and theres a car boot sale today, so I guess that makes up for it?
*drinks to console self*
There just no clubs in my city that make this type of thing possible. Quite annoying.
Just found this blog, looks great!
Yay for boot camps!
So jealous right now, half a world away and covered in baby vomit 🙁
Thankyou so much for the live blog!
Bolt Action looks like a really fun game! Can’t wait to let the Soviet Army march 😉
Curious if the Japanese infantry are better than British or American Airborne in Bolt Action?
Since the game is showing armies fighting each other that never historically have done, then I am just curious to see how the games play out this weekend. Glad Beast of War are going all out in doing these weekend events. I think they are just great for the hobby.
looks like this has been a lot of fun so far.
Looking good guys
Looking forward to folling this weekend 🙂
A great way to get your army finished.
Good morning! How’s the heads this morning? Hopefully not too rough. Enjoy yourselves.
Bootvamps looking better every time I hope one day to get across an join in on one myself!
Love the photo of all those Soviet tanks lined up and ready to rumble…
I have to say you found a fantastic way to make very nice tables with a limited amount of resources. Beast of war for scenery is unbeatable !
We will also have our Bolt action days tomorrow at the club, time to paint some germans!
I’m envious of the folks who can make it to Boot Camps. The Beasts of War guys put on a good show from what I can tell. Will enjoy the posts and videos throughout the weekend.
Great weekend!
Bolt action is the best ruleset out there right now for miniature gaming, I have been wanting to get into it for so long
I wonder if john’s stole everyone’s tanks yet
Hope I can get to a boot camp soon
Awesome terrain as promised, have a nice weekend! it’s a shame to live so far away from you that can’t be possible for me to go to one of these boot camps.
Looks great guys. Been looking forward to this weekend. Just started Bolt Action myself with Umgrimm. Hope to see some nice armies and aspecially gamingboards 😀
Have a wonderfull weekend and enjoy it.
succes in the game is having a fun time:)
I’m really looking forward to seeing this coverage as I’m very interested in getting into bolt action
The live feed looks fantastic great job guys I had a game with my Japanese last night at my gaming club. Still needs some work but it was great fun. Will look forward to following the feed 🙂
Have a good weekend folks!
Lucky bugger’s, hope everyone has a great time
Love the live feed, it have made this weekend a little more interesting 😉
So want to get the american airbourne now. love band of brothers.
played a 1000 point game today to kick off memorial Day weekend here in the states. Now time to catch up on the vlog on the boot camp weekend while working the overnight shift!
The tablets are awesome, have fun guys
Have a great weekend all you guys
looks great wish i was there
sweeeet
awsome
wish i had a ticket
I am so envious! My hands itches for the urge to assemble a panther!
Every army sounds pretty awesome, must’ve been hard to choose.
Would loved to have been there.
Enjoy yourselves every one.
So wishing i could be there.
Hope you all have a great time.
I’m so jealous
Really like the discussions on the uniform 🙂 John and Lewis looking very cool!
sorry im not there
Bloody work. I ask for the weekend off they say so I don’t book a ticket. The weekend comes round. Now they say you can take it off. Bugger. At least I have the sweet live blog. Tar BOW
It’s nice to see cosplayers among the serious wargamers 🙂
I hope you keep organizing these kind of events, it looks awesome fun, I’d love to participate in one in the future.
Sigh. Would haved loved to be able to go to this!
Coincidently ‘Saving Pvt Ryan’ was on telly yesterday as well..inevitably I felt inspired and ordered s box of Rangers from Amazon. Scheduled for delivery tomorrow 🙂
At least I can have my very own BA boot camp now!!
Still feeling slightly jealous tho..
This game looks nice 🙂
Gutted I missed this, looks awesome
As always, a pleasure to be there from my own man cave, looking good BOW.
Have a great weekend all, I’m dead jealous. The react meant uniform run downs a fab by the way, ace idea.
Have fun guys, looks like a blast.
The day looks absolutely smashing!
The terrain is looking awesome.
Looks great wish I could have been there.
Bolt action!! yes!!
Love these weekend bootcamps someday I will have to attend one. keep it up guys
Damn you beasts of war and your boot camps. If I wasn’t across the other side of the world I could have gone. Just by you having a boot camp makes me sad I missed out.
bolt action or mow the lawn….. curse that fine weather
Looks like everyone is having a blast
lots of soviets building but anyway whip out the beers! =3
It is great to be able to see the coverage of the weekend Looks as though you should all have a great weekend.
I’d like to play the germans
Looking forward to all the posts
I wish I could be there, have a good one guys and girls
HAPPY..er.. FRIDAY!!!!
Must be tough to glue that many models and figures so quickly.
28MM WWII at it’s FINEST!
well this is off to a cracking start
Me and my 6yr old some love play war-games and I’m so glad you guys are doing this. Always wanted to learn how to play Bolt Action. It looks like a lot of fun. Someday I’ll get enough to buy some and play it.
Thank you for sharing the videos and pictures. Looks like people are having a great time.
Looks like a blast. Hope everyone has as much fun as it looks like they are having
John’s the ultimate Tanker lol
You guys have the best Terrain and table layouts.
Very very nice Promotion.
awesome! looks like great fun
Looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun!
So glad you guys are doing these bootcamp weekends! I love getting this sort of POV on a game.
All looks like great fun and just found out one of my old gaming pals plays Bolt Action. Win.
Ive just got back from working away and have a whole 2 days to watch and read!!!!
beer in and ready for action!
Loving the coverage
Firefight!
Looks like a great weekend of fun. Some nice armies taking shape. I am really curious to see how the Japanese hold up in this environment.
So wish I was there!!! Looks like a ton of fun!!!
So wanted to get in on this one – keep up the pace, its inspirational guys!
Looks like a great event.
Looking great
Great games!
God I want to be there!! Maybe next time 🙂
Must have been a fun day!
Ooo damm right this weekend is bootcamp, this morning had a hangover and miss everything had to have fun now and tomorrow.
Busy working away on my Germans, I love this game!
Would liked to have been able to be there, but life like`
Damn hit the wrong key………….as i was going to say.
Life like`s to throw a spanner in the work`s. As i have just started to collect a German force “Blitzkrieg”, the Bolt Action weekender would of been a good starter for me. So you never know maybe one day i`ll get to one………………
I really wish I’d bought tickets for this. Seems like a great time to be had. Need to see more of this game :D.
I’m just getting started in Bolt Action myself.
I’m so jealous of you guys.
You few
You lucky few
You band of brothers.
bit worried, all this enthusiasm makes me wonder about getting into this game, and I’ve got so much stuff to paint already!!
If only I wasn’t busy painting my Warzone stuff, this coverage would totally have persuaded me to get on with my 5th DCLI!
Can’t wait for the Martians to arrive.
It is weekends like this I wish I lived closer
Looks like a great day
I really need to start my Army for this.
Great game! Winning D-Day Firefight would be a great way to get my friends into the game!
So jealous, I’d love to get into bolt action
Have a great weekend folks and enjoy the Ulster Fries
Sadly I do not have the time for this stuff but it looks so much fun!
Looks like everyone has a great time:)
Bolt Action looks pretty great. I wonder if there’s much of a following in the states. Seems affordable enough to dip your toes in without having to take a loan out, at least 🙂
Now to win the lottery
Came for the chance to win D-day set, stayed for terrain.
Looks like a great start for a great weekend!
looking awesome just trying to catch up now 🙂
Having been busy for most of the weekend, I’m trying to catch up.
The “Why did you pick this army?” vids were cool, as it has given me some ideas for future armies, and my own US Airborne.
This is really cool. I’ve never been into historical minis but this might have to be a first try!
Awesome looking tables. Would love to get some videos of the game the attendees are playiing out.
I wish i could go there
I wanna win a starter set
Lucky guys, unfortunately paint class this weekend for me… But I did well http://trainmypaint.wordpress.com/
Looks like great fun!
Jealous, but I hope everyone has a blast! Can’t wait to see how the armies do, especially the lone Japanese player.
Another fantastic kick off day for another fantastic boot camp! I will make it to one some day!!!
looks good. not treid any of the historical wargames yet. something for the future maybe.
id love to do the Infinity Boot Camp.
amazing ! bolster me to paint my germans !
Food looked good too.
really want to try it…. trying to convince my friends to try it out is proving to be a challenge….
Wish I could have been there!
Looks great fun. And no tanks are not warm in the winter!
Looks superb
Looks like the beginnings of a great weekend!
Excellent!
Unlike my troops this weekend my hangover wouldn’t die!
Man, I really wish BoW had a presence in the US, I’d go to one of these things in a flash. Hey Warren, want to expand?
Wish I was there!
Wish I was there… but my little lady (14 months old) needs her daddy near… and I love her so bad!!
Commmmmmeeeeennnnnnnttttt!!!!!!!!
Late to the party, but i’m looking forward to coming back to this bootcamp to get my fix over the next few weeks. Good stuf BOW!
Loving the boot camps! Any thought on doing one across the pond?
If I ever get to the other side of the pond I have got to attend one of these
No one took a Polish army? I want to see horseys charging down the field.
What are the chances of getting Beasts of War to move to Australia for a boot camp?
You can stop running these boot camps now please. Each one you run gets me interested in starting a new game. Bloody buggers.
WWii with food beer and laughs, damn I wish I put in for this BootCamp, looks fun and hope you don’t have a FUBAR!
Great job, enjoy your drink!
Was a excellent weekend.
Wish I could have been there, game looks like so much fun.
Finally finished going through Friday, while here at work on Monday. Now on to Saturday and the first games…
Amazing tables!
I hope one day a make it to a bootcamp. It Looks like a lot of fun
great coverage
Love theses vlogs ! Keeps you involved in the event even if you can make it . Keep up the great work ! Hope you do a warzone and aliens vs predator boot camp !!
Not fair ! but one day i will be there to !
I hope I win the starter set!! 😀
How were the starter sets chosen?
20 inf, 1 medium tank and 2 teams seems to be the norm. Were there limits?
Genuinely interested generally but it helps that we’re getting into running escalation leagues at my club but haven’t been able to figure out a good/easy way to start off bolt action (despite loving the game).
Super awesome way to start a weekend!
Great weekend coverage !!