Reply To: Help needed to build my first Bolt Action Army

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Larger scale WW2 games tend to be at 15mm or 20 mm instead of 28mm.

Might I suggest looking at Battlegroup:Overlord instead of Bolt-action ?
It does allow for bigger games although you still need one heck of a table to field your entire collection.

The plastic infantry kits in the Afrika Korps and 8th army sets have so many options that you don’t need the HQ variants of their faction. I suspect the same is true for the American and generic German army sets as well.

However I do know the feeling of not having a ‘complete’ army when buying into a system. Especially if there are no local retailers.
Warlord do have more than a few 1000 point army lists that are as close to perfect for when you want a new army that is playable without having to worry about missing out on ‘vital’ parts. In fact with their D-Day starter set you would have had the basics of both an American and German army.