Bolt Action: Western Desert Boot Camp Live Blog – Saturday

Welcome to Day One of the Bolt Action Western Desert where we’re going to be having fun with Warlord Games, building up awesome armies and taking them to the tabletop to show off a good old-fashioned clash between the British and the Germans.

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We have some great goodies to give away over the weekend. Each day you’ll be able to snap up an El Alamein Starter Set + A Panzer III & M3 Stuart.

All you have to do is comment on the Live Blog AND on the individual posts to be in with a chance of winning.

Make sure to get involved and find out more about both hobbying AND gaming during the Western Desert campaign in WWII.

A lot of the Boot Campers are playing Bolt Action for the first time, so Warlord’s Charlie takes some of the new gamers through the basics of this WWII wargame.

This is the first of a few videos we will be recording with Oriskany, talking to him about the stranger than fiction characters who fought during World War II.

The first of these is Rommel who left a very peculiar message for his troops.

With people starting to get into their games we’re beginning to get some tactical chatter from Charlie about how people should approach using their forces.

For you at home, and of course the chaps here at the Boot Camp, we talk about some of the ways you can use these troops and larger guns on the tabletop.

We’ve heard about how the British 8th Army can be played, now Charlie takes us through some of the Bolt Action tactics for the German Afrika Korps.

If you missed it earlier today here is the full Stream Archive for the Bolt Action battle we played out today between two of the Boot Campers with John and Charlie watching over them to keep a handle on the rules.

As we said, this was a great opportunity to try out some cool rules AND see our trench table in action.