No mention of mid war lol. My army is over 2k points as SS vets with a panther. Just got the panzer grenadiers and a Panther A with another box of Grenadiers so I can add on late war stuff down the road. I just love the Stalingrad/Kursk era of the war. Had my first game on Sunday and well, my opponent let me use his FJs because I just built my stuff up and we like painted stuff. Was fun and interesting to actually play after spending the entire weekend watching your vids and reading the rule book! Thanks for doing these
Another great video for people new to Bolt Action, and even something for people who have been playing a little longer. Nice tutorial on transports used as a spearhead. In my last tournament I used my sdfkz 7 as my transport, didn't have armour but does have tracks. Crewed this with 2x 6 man Elite heer troops nco with mg, 1 x 1 lmg, 4 rifles. The sdfkz can carry 12 troops. These were a flanking unit matched with a m/c combination. I used the m/c to come on first and tempt the unit that was ambush to fire, if it does I recce away. If it doesn't then I shoot with the mmg, 4 shots will normally put a pin on the unit. Surprising how many units fail their ld test. Next dice on comes transport over 12" away. Then De-buss infantry when I get the dice, and fire. 3 rifles + 4 from the lmg at half range will put another pin or two on.
Excellent example of how to use a transport ken. I also should have covered after being disembarked some tactics on using your vehicle as a moving piece of cover. Can come in handy
Hey there from Ireland. Bought the starter set before Christmas & bought the expansions suggested in the getting started pamphlet (Sherman for us & panzer IV for Germans to get me going). Stumbled across your site while searching for bolt action channels amongst a few others! Have to say,enjoyed your channel the best out of all of them,very straight forward,informative & most of all enjoyable while assembling my kits! Keep up the great work! Great terrain by the way& love the Guinness t-shirt!👌👌
Hey there,slow I'm afraid,undercoated all the infantry,assembled the tanks,but then bolt action 2 dropped,bought the starter set with the airborne & an American half track & a box of grenadiers so all in all I think I'll have a decent size battle when they are painted up! Loving your bolt action 2 posts by the way!
Keep plugging away Nallsy! are you at least getting some games in with the accurced unpainted models? lol cool you got the new set, yes it does sound like you have a nice size force now
Another quality video! Loved how you showed us assualting from the transport and how to use a flamethrower. Great stuff! Looking forward to seeing your French in the next batrep.
Hey man, love your videos. You are really good at doing these and they are very inspirational. Have you thought of doing some more tutorial type bolt action videos? Your piece on the half track and the small SMG and flame squads was very insightful and you're good at it. Love all your full game battle reports too! please keep them up! Adrian.
thanks Duo! that is really nice to hear. I have thought about several things but never seem to get it done, your guys comments are inspiring me to get off my butt
your a newer player so heres a simple super effective list that I would think you will have much success with. vet 2nd LT with one guy, give them SMG, 10 regulars with LMG, 10 reg with LMG, 10 commandos with 6 SMG, 3 ton truck with MMG upgrade, free artillary observer, Lt artillary piece with a spotter, cromwell tank. Its pretty tight list 3 full strength squads so reroll a failed check until they take a casualty, commandos can go in the truck with the LT. drive up to whomever, pile out and wreck face, up and at em is a great army rule but blood curling charge isnt bad either. the howitzer with spotter can hit fixed positions or fire over the barrel as a light anti tank gun if needed and the cromwell is an awesome all around general purpose tank that is well rounded.800 points even
I have some of the list and time to get the stuff i do not have. Thank you so much for your advice and taking the time to respond. You and Allen Nebraska put on a good show. Thanks again from the ybridge city zanesville ohio.
Thanks prince. Yes it's coming along. Next project is making some nice forest/woods pieces. Between finishing my army up. It's a great hobby isn't it!?
A lot of great information in this video! I was going to ask you about your thoughts regarding the Germans in the D-Day Firefight set, so thanks for doing this video. I am hoping to build a 500 point German force with the D-Day Firefight set as a starting point. This way I can use the two armies to introduce some of my friends to the game and hopefully get some local interest. I have working on assembling my American infantry squads this week and am making good progress. I enjoy the modeling and terrain making part of the hobby and find it very rewarding. I am anxious to actually play a game at some point! I really enjoy your tactics and army composition discussions and find them very helpful. It will be interesting to see what changes the second edition has in store. I am a bit nervous about choosing units using the existing rules, knowing there will be some key changes coming. It does sound like they will be giving the medium machine guns a little more power. That works for me, as I want to include a 30 cal in my American force and that would make it a more viable choice. Really enjoy your videos, Sean. Thanks for posting!!
You make a good point about the versatility of the models and how it makes Bolt Action affordable. For example, you can build thirty US infantry. They could be Inexperienced, Regular, or Veteran for any given game. You can change the squad size from game to game. Some of the squads could be rangers for some games. In the same way, when you purchase the Sherman kit, it can represent a vast array of Sherman variations. This allows you to use your models differently from game to game, which can especially be important to a new player with limited funds, models, or play style established. Pretty cool!
I put a stalingrad selector 1000pt Soviet army together for $39 using two Wargames Factory Soviet boxes that were on sale for $13 per box and two packs of Soviet ATR teams from BlackTreeDesigns for another $13 as they were on sale at the time. Not an expensive game to get into until you bring a mess of vehicles.
Welcome to Bolt Action! I have not had a chance to collect or play any K47 yet but I am sure I will like it just the same. I know playing 40K with bolt action order dice makes it fun so K47 will be great
So flamethrower vehicles are the most powerful units in the game haha... A little while ago I was looking through the Armies of Germany book. I noticed a really cool vehicle for earlier war blitzkrieg listed. The SDKFZ 8 armored cab. I got really excited because a flak 88 on a half-track is just amazing. Then I got really confused and then really disappointed. In the vehicle description it says that the vehicle was deployed extensively in france, yet the Battle of France army selector omitted the vehicle, while the Poland selector is the only one to have the vehicle listed as an option. But the most frustrating part of the whole ordeal; is that Warlord doesn't even make a model for the unit. No manufactures make one in 1/56scale either. What are your thoughts about this?
That is a bit of some of the frustration of the original German army book. There's some high hopes that some of these type of things are fixed with the new German army book. They have several neat items that aren't really playable for one reason or another. Some items should probably be in the armor car slot and not the tank slot to get them on the table more. As far as flamethrower vehicles yes they are crazy brutal. That's why they are not allowed in any tournaments.
Understandable to outlaw them in tournaments, but I'd love to see them played in a casual game for fun. And I couldn't agree more about the limited options for tanks and armored carrier units.
+WahooWarrior Come to the UK, then you can use your Flamer Tank. Normally there's a comp. to take either a vehicle or an infantry one. If a vehicle its reduced to 12" range, if it's a small one like a universal carrier the range is further reduced to 9". Some tournaments are putting in a house rule you have to roll to hit, Ignoring cover modifiers but including long range, or you just need a 3+ to hit.
+Ken Baldock I'd love a trip to the uk do a game club crawl for a week lol just hang out and play. The flamethrower vehicle I could live with in bolt action. If limited and modified accordingly. I don't care if its powerful. Should be a short range and no move and fire though.
+WahooWarrior If you can't move and fire though, whats the point of bringing a vehicle? I thought the purpose of bringing vehicles is so you can move and fire. Though, I suppose it doesn't matter right now, as the rules are going to be reworked. We will have to wait and see.
+princeofmoskova I have been using up and at em. It is pretty powerful even for non commandos. I also have been playing my British in a very close combat oriented list
Hi! As a brand new player to Bolt Action your videos have been an inspiration to get my head into the game and really delve into WW2. I was wondering if you would be willing to help me create a balanced Late War Grenadiers Army List to hand over to my friends to play vs my 1000pt americans and to play with myself once in a while. I have 30 Wargames Factory Infantry (2 already dedicated to a sniper team, and 1 Lieutenant) The others can be assembled as needed with access to rifles, LMG's, and panzerfausts, I also have the Band of Brothers German grenadiers and half track with plans to purchase a Stuh-42. Any tips you can offer will go a long way, cheers from Canada.
Scott you have a pretty decent start to a German Army. Ifor 100 points you will need that Stuh-42 but here is what I would run for it for your buddy. gives you a decent mix of stuff with hitting power. I am iffy on the half track with the light AT gun but its nice in that it can fire now in second edition without troops in it and can haul some men. Second LT veteran +1 man (remember German LT gets 2 snap too) 10 man Reg Grenadier (full strength) LMG. 2 Panzerfaust 10 man Reg Grenadier (full strength) LMG. 2 Panzerfaust 8 man Veteran Grenadier 2 Panzerfaust NCO SMG, 4 assault rifles 2 Panzerfaust (these guys go inside the halftrack) 6 man Veteran Grenadier 2 LMG 2 panzerfaust Vet Sniper Team Stuh 42 reg 251/10 halftrack regular 999 points 8 order Dice this is a pretty straight forward list to run, disadvantage is low order dice, advantage lots of shooting, good in close with some units, Stuh to kill infantry and lots of secondary ant armor in panzerfausts a light AT gun and the Stuh in a pinch.
Thank you for the list! It looks like it has everything that I was hoping to include, I'll give it a try. I particularly like the Stuh and the Veteran assault rifle squad.
That Football Life thats awesome! welcome to bolt action. is that the 1000 point set you are startibg with or an infantry section. let me see if bill can chime in on this he has that army. were suppised to play it soon
that is a sweet new plastic kit. 30 infantry. similar to what I'm doing with airborne at the moment. a Medium mortar is a must have. 50 points 60 with spotter (at regular) more for vet just too versatile not to have. a MMG team is pretty sweet and iconic as well. both good choices. I know many people run a StuG as a support for fallschimjager. I personally would take some transports however and not a tank. put panzerfausts in the infantry and either add a panzershreck or one of my favorites a panzerbusch41 for anti tank duty.
And how many units do you think used the flame thrower? How many pioneer units do you think existed? You need to check your facts otherwise just play War Hammer.
@@damuses1452 Show me an order of Battle with flame throwers. You really can't really with Bolt Action being a max of a Platoon and such players use points to create unhistorical units that are a far cry from historical reality. You don't have a single combat engineer working alone they belong to a unit of combat engineers.
@@charlesrowan1978 it is a game dude relax. You are on here adding nothing, but negativity. If you don’t like it then don’t play, but don’t go around raining on everyone else’s parade.
Your not using a Buffalo for regular troop transport are you? The Buffalo Is a LVT a amphibious landing craft used in all historical references to amphibious operations. Another example of why Bolt Action is a joke of a game.
No mention of mid war lol. My army is over 2k points as SS vets with a panther. Just got the panzer grenadiers and a Panther A with another box of Grenadiers so I can add on late war stuff down the road. I just love the Stalingrad/Kursk era of the war. Had my first game on Sunday and well, my opponent let me use his FJs because I just built my stuff up and we like painted stuff. Was fun and interesting to actually play after spending the entire weekend watching your vids and reading the rule book! Thanks for doing these
Great demonstration of a mechanized unit play. Nice job on the video too.
Another great video for people new to Bolt Action, and even something for people who have been playing a little longer. Nice tutorial on transports used as a spearhead. In my last tournament I used my sdfkz 7 as my transport, didn't have armour but does have tracks. Crewed this with 2x 6 man Elite heer troops nco with mg, 1 x 1 lmg, 4 rifles. The sdfkz can carry 12 troops. These were a flanking unit matched with a m/c combination. I used the m/c to come on first and tempt the unit that was ambush to fire, if it does I recce away. If it doesn't then I shoot with the mmg, 4 shots will normally put a pin on the unit. Surprising how many units fail their ld test. Next dice on comes transport over 12" away. Then De-buss infantry when I get the dice, and fire. 3 rifles + 4 from the lmg at half range will put another pin or two on.
Excellent example of how to use a transport ken. I also should have covered after being disembarked some tactics on using your vehicle as a moving piece of cover. Can come in handy
Hey there from Ireland. Bought the starter set before Christmas & bought the expansions suggested in the getting started pamphlet (Sherman for us & panzer IV for Germans to get me going). Stumbled across your site while searching for bolt action channels amongst a few others! Have to say,enjoyed your channel the best out of all of them,very straight forward,informative & most of all enjoyable while assembling my kits! Keep up the great work! Great terrain by the way& love the Guinness t-shirt!👌👌
Wonderful Nallsy, thank you much for the comments! Much appreciated!
how is the progress on the army going?
Hey there,slow I'm afraid,undercoated all the infantry,assembled the tanks,but then bolt action 2 dropped,bought the starter set with the airborne & an American half track & a box of grenadiers so all in all I think I'll have a decent size battle when they are painted up! Loving your bolt action 2 posts by the way!
Keep plugging away Nallsy! are you at least getting some games in with the accurced unpainted models? lol cool you got the new set, yes it does sound like you have a nice size force now
Thanks for the insight into you game
your welcome Jeremy, glad to have you here
Another quality video! Loved how you showed us assualting from the transport and how to use a flamethrower. Great stuff! Looking forward to seeing your French in the next batrep.
These videos are your best by far. If you can, more helpful hints and tactics type videos in the future would be great!
Hey man, love your videos. You are really good at doing these and they
are very inspirational. Have you thought of doing some more tutorial
type bolt action videos? Your piece on the half track and the small SMG
and flame squads was very insightful and you're good at it. Love all
your full game battle reports too! please keep them up! Adrian.
thanks Duo! that is really nice to hear. I have thought about several things but never seem to get it done, your guys comments are inspiring me to get off my butt
You are very kind to share your experience. I have to build an 800 pt army for next month event. I have British. Any ideas!
sweet jumping i to an event, 800 points, let me think on it and write back tomorrow, very exciting
your a newer player so heres a simple super effective list that I would think you will have much success with. vet 2nd LT with one guy, give them SMG, 10 regulars with LMG, 10 reg with LMG, 10 commandos with 6 SMG, 3 ton truck with MMG upgrade, free artillary observer, Lt artillary piece with a spotter, cromwell tank. Its pretty tight list 3 full strength squads so reroll a failed check until they take a casualty, commandos can go in the truck with the LT. drive up to whomever, pile out and wreck face, up and at em is a great army rule but blood curling charge isnt bad either. the howitzer with spotter can hit fixed positions or fire over the barrel as a light anti tank gun if needed and the cromwell is an awesome all around general purpose tank that is well rounded.800 points even
I have some of the list and time to get the stuff i do not have. Thank you so much for your advice and taking the time to respond. You and Allen Nebraska put on a good show. Thanks again from the ybridge city zanesville ohio.
Sweet board! Started BA around Christmas time, loving it!
Thanks prince. Yes it's coming along. Next project is making some nice forest/woods pieces. Between finishing my army up. It's a great hobby isn't it!?
A lot of great information in this video! I was going to ask you about your thoughts regarding the Germans in the D-Day Firefight set, so thanks for doing this video. I am hoping to build a 500 point German force with the D-Day Firefight set as a starting point. This way I can use the two armies to introduce some of my friends to the game and hopefully get some local interest.
I have working on assembling my American infantry squads this week and am making good progress. I enjoy the modeling and terrain making part of the hobby and find it very rewarding. I am anxious to actually play a game at some point!
I really enjoy your tactics and army composition discussions and find them very helpful. It will be interesting to see what changes the second edition has in store. I am a bit nervous about choosing units using the existing rules, knowing there will be some key changes coming. It does sound like they will be giving the medium machine guns a little more power. That works for me, as I want to include a 30 cal in my American force and that would make it a more viable choice.
Really enjoy your videos, Sean. Thanks for posting!!
You make a good point about the versatility of the models and how it makes Bolt Action affordable. For example, you can build thirty US infantry. They could be Inexperienced, Regular, or Veteran for any given game. You can change the squad size from game to game. Some of the squads could be rangers for some games. In the same way, when you purchase the Sherman kit, it can represent a vast array of Sherman variations. This allows you to use your models differently from game to game, which can especially be important to a new player with limited funds, models, or play style established. Pretty cool!
Exactly Dan! You said it perfectly.
I've watched about 10 of your 'batreps' now - and I haven't seen you win a game yet ! 😄😄😄
As long as you’ve enjoyed it that’s what matters
Smashing some dice down with your mates!!
Thanks for doing these 😀
I put a stalingrad selector 1000pt Soviet army together for $39 using two Wargames Factory Soviet boxes that were on sale for $13 per box and two packs of Soviet ATR teams from BlackTreeDesigns for another $13 as they were on sale at the time. Not an expensive game to get into until you bring a mess of vehicles.
Brian you are a stud, way to save!
thanks for this
I'm liking the videos. Just getting into Bolt Action, also bought the german Konflikt '47 starter box. WHat do you think of Konflikt '47?
Welcome to Bolt Action! I have not had a chance to collect or play any K47 yet but I am sure I will like it just the same. I know playing 40K with bolt action order dice makes it fun so K47 will be great
WahooWarrior I have an extra copy of the K '47 rules, the small version, if you want it, PM me your address!
elnutty.. I will PM, very cool thank you kindly, interested in branching into K47
I am sort of Dense... how do I PM on here lol. shoot me an email to seanvilmont@yahoo.com and I'll email you my address
So flamethrower vehicles are the most powerful units in the game haha...
A little while ago I was looking through the Armies of Germany book. I noticed a really cool vehicle for earlier war blitzkrieg listed. The SDKFZ 8 armored cab. I got really excited because a flak 88 on a half-track is just amazing. Then I got really confused and then really disappointed. In the vehicle description it says that the vehicle was deployed extensively in france, yet the Battle of France army selector omitted the vehicle, while the Poland selector is the only one to have the vehicle listed as an option. But the most frustrating part of the whole ordeal; is that Warlord doesn't even make a model for the unit. No manufactures make one in 1/56scale either. What are your thoughts about this?
That is a bit of some of the frustration of the original German army book. There's some high hopes that some of these type of things are fixed with the new German army book. They have several neat items that aren't really playable for one reason or another. Some items should probably be in the armor car slot and not the tank slot to get them on the table more. As far as flamethrower vehicles yes they are crazy brutal. That's why they are not allowed in any tournaments.
Understandable to outlaw them in tournaments, but I'd love to see them played in a casual game for fun.
And I couldn't agree more about the limited options for tanks and armored carrier units.
+WahooWarrior Come to the UK, then you can use your Flamer Tank. Normally there's a comp. to take either a vehicle or an infantry one. If a vehicle its reduced to 12" range, if it's a small one like a universal carrier the range is further reduced to 9". Some tournaments are putting in a house rule you have to roll to hit, Ignoring cover modifiers but including long range, or you just need a 3+ to hit.
+Ken Baldock I'd love a trip to the uk do a game club crawl for a week lol just hang out and play. The flamethrower vehicle I could live with in bolt action. If limited and modified accordingly. I don't care if its powerful. Should be a short range and no move and fire though.
+WahooWarrior If you can't move and fire though, whats the point of bringing a vehicle? I thought the purpose of bringing vehicles is so you can move and fire. Though, I suppose it doesn't matter right now, as the rules are going to be reworked. We will have to wait and see.
I may have missed it, but what is your preference for the British National Characteristic?
+princeofmoskova I have been using up and at em. It is pretty powerful even for non commandos. I also have been playing my British in a very close combat oriented list
Hi! As a brand new player to Bolt Action your videos have been an inspiration to get my head into the game and really delve into WW2. I was wondering if you would be willing to help me create a balanced Late War Grenadiers Army List to hand over to my friends to play vs my 1000pt americans and to play with myself once in a while. I have 30 Wargames Factory Infantry (2 already dedicated to a sniper team, and 1 Lieutenant) The others can be assembled as needed with access to rifles, LMG's, and panzerfausts, I also have the Band of Brothers German grenadiers and half track with plans to purchase a Stuh-42. Any tips you can offer will go a long way, cheers from Canada.
Sure thing Scott, give me a little bit of looking at easy army see what I can come up with, thanks for watching and commenting
Awesome, thank you very much!
I should edit: the I don't have the stuh yet, but I figure it looks like a pretty gnarly tank.
Scott you have a pretty decent start to a German Army. Ifor 100 points you will need that Stuh-42 but here is what I would run for it for your buddy. gives you a decent mix of stuff with hitting power. I am iffy on the half track with the light AT gun but its nice in that it can fire now in second edition without troops in it and can haul some men.
Second LT veteran +1 man (remember German LT gets 2 snap too)
10 man Reg Grenadier (full strength) LMG. 2 Panzerfaust
10 man Reg Grenadier (full strength) LMG. 2 Panzerfaust
8 man Veteran Grenadier 2 Panzerfaust NCO SMG, 4 assault rifles 2 Panzerfaust (these guys go inside the halftrack)
6 man Veteran Grenadier 2 LMG 2 panzerfaust
Vet Sniper Team
Stuh 42 reg
251/10 halftrack regular
999 points 8 order Dice
this is a pretty straight forward list to run, disadvantage is low order dice, advantage lots of shooting, good in close with some units, Stuh to kill infantry and lots of secondary ant armor in panzerfausts a light AT gun and the Stuh in a pinch.
1000 points
Thank you for the list! It looks like it has everything that I was hoping to include, I'll give it a try. I particularly like the Stuh and the Veteran assault rifle squad.
Want to start my first bolt action army, buying the fallschirmjäger kit, what else should I buy with it?
That Football Life thats awesome! welcome to bolt action. is that the 1000 point set you are startibg with or an infantry section. let me see if bill can chime in on this he has that army. were suppised to play it soon
An infantry section, but I also can want to buy something like a mmg or mortor with it and at least one vehicle to start
that is a sweet new plastic kit. 30 infantry. similar to what I'm doing with airborne at the moment. a Medium mortar is a must have. 50 points 60 with spotter (at regular) more for vet just too versatile not to have. a MMG team is pretty sweet and iconic as well. both good choices. I know many people run a StuG as a support for fallschimjager. I personally would take some transports however and not a tank. put panzerfausts in the infantry and either add a panzershreck or one of my favorites a panzerbusch41 for anti tank duty.
BUT being a newer player you really cannot go wrong with a Panzer IV its the value buy. great tank and has tiger fear
and it just looks cool as all hell
informative
And how many units do you think used the flame thrower? How many pioneer units do you think existed? You need to check your facts otherwise just play War Hammer.
I have no idea
Huh? World War II Germany fielded over 70,000 infantry flammenwerfer. They were uncommon yes but not rare.
@@damuses1452 Show me an order of Battle with flame throwers. You really can't really with Bolt Action being a max of a Platoon and such players use points to create unhistorical units that are a far cry from historical reality. You don't have a single combat engineer working alone they belong to a unit of combat engineers.
@@charlesrowan1978 it is a game dude relax. You are on here adding nothing, but negativity. If you don’t like it then don’t play, but don’t go around raining on everyone else’s parade.
Your not using a Buffalo for regular troop transport are you? The Buffalo Is a LVT a amphibious landing craft used in all historical references to amphibious operations. Another example of why Bolt Action is a joke of a game.
True it was an amphibious vehicle but once troops were ashore it was used as a general transport. Was used quite a bit in italian islands