Bolt Action V3 Battle 3

    Recently I was in Athens. The few days I stayed there I had the opportunity to see some old friends, buy some products for the hobby and play a game of Bolt Action V3 at my friend Kostas' house. Kostas has a huge collection of BA miniatures!

   We were four players: Savvas, Dimitris, Panos (Kostas' son) and me, with an army of 500pts each. Two of us played the Germans and the other two the British and the Americans. The battlefield was somewhere in Normandy. We had an objective of 5 victory points in the middle of the table. Besides, each destroyed enemy unit was an additional victory point.  

A Panzer III

The battlefield

The German grenadiers 500pts

German vehicles and infantry 500pts

The British Airborne 500pts

The American Rangers 500pts

The Allies' corner of the table

The Germans' corner

The Allies advance

The statue in the middle was the objective

   After the first three turns, there were many casualties on both sides and a lot of pin markers (the little red explosions) around the battlefield.

The tanks duel

Matilda had a lucky shot

   When Panzer was destroyed, it was easy for the allied armies to move forward, take places around the statue and deny the five points of the objective to the Germans. 

   Finally, it was a victory for the Allies since they had more than two victory points from the Germans. It was a nice game and we had great fun!

   After the battle all the "warriors" enjoyed a delicious meal that Kostas' wife, Maria, prepared!

   That's it for today! Stay tuned for more! 

Bolt Action V3 Battle 2

    We still try to learn the rules, so we decided to play again the same battle with more or less the same forces, DAK versus the 8th Army.  

   On the left you can see the 8th Army and on the right the DAK force, 750 points each. 

   This time we added a road on the table apart from the palm trees and the rocks. 

   I managed to finish the rocks. I used a brown wash and Vallejo Iraqi Sand to highlight them.

   All infantry units of the 8th Army consisted of only riflemen. No SMGs or LMGs.

   Just two guns, two mortars, two MMGs, two AT guns and a Matilda (not painted!).

   The DAK force had less infantry units, no guns but an armoured car and a Panzer III. 

   Unfortunately for the DAK force, the armoured car SdKfz 222 was destroyed.

   After a couple of hours we stopped. It was fun. Soon we will learn the rules and we will be able to finish a full, six-round game!

   That's it for today! Stay tuned for more!

Bolt Action V3 Battle

    Recently we played the first Bolt Action Version 3 battle. We played a DAK versus 8th Army game in odrer to learn the new rules. Though we didn't manage to finish the battle because of lack of time, we really enjoyed the game!

   Each side had 1000pts. Three platoons and fifteen order dice for the British. Three platoons also for the Germans, but only eight order dice.

   The three British platoons: rifle, heavy weapons and artillery. The three German platoons: rifle, heavy weapons and armoured.   

The battlefield

The 8th Army force

A light mortar, an MMG, an AT gun team and the platoon commander

The British guns and their platoon commander in the middle

The rifle platoon commander, a FO and an MMG

A medium mortar and an AT gun 

Three rifle units of ten men each, all riflemen.

The DAK company commander

A DAK unit of ten men

Another DAK unit of ten men

The DAK force advances

The artillery platoon commander checks the enemy positions

The armoured platoon. A Panzer III and a Sd.Kfz 222

The artillery officer with the brave mascot of the British force!

   As I said we had fun and for sure we will play again!

   That's it for today! Stay tuned for more!