Warlord Games - Bolt Action: Combined Arms unboxing

Editor Dan and Project Manager James unbox Warlord Games' latest release; Bolt Action: Combined Arms.
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[@mfarl2001]

Got a game of the board game version of the rules. I thought it was overly simplistic after reading the rules. BUT no was a real head scratcher each turn when you watch the objective bonuses and cards interact with the units. So no your not going to do a simulation of a campaign with an exact TOE. But wanna have a fun strategy game then this will do it. Working on getting a campaign going at our local store.

[@nickjones2470]

Given that hexes are used,it would be fun to 'hexes up' much larger,more detailed maps and use those.

[@theepicgamer5808]

1:37 are the 1990 Mighty Empires pieces included as well?

[@Hedgehobbit]

I've seen a few reviews for this game but none explain how you integrate this with Bolt Action. There are infantry and tank tokens in the game but do these represent infantry-heavy Bolt Action armies and tank-heavy Bolt Action armies? Or does the difference not even matter?

[@joakimandersson7769]

I mean, it's basically a 3D map, when used like that. Reasonably people who are into that level of historical campaign play are also interested in the actual force organization of such armies, meaning that infantry battalions and armored divisions did move about more or less independantly. So, your infantry marker denotes what you and your friends agree on is an infantry division, the armored marker denotes an armored division, and so on and so forth. You then use this to set up your battles, in a way you agree upon. To me it's rather akin to playing Diplomacy, but instead of just automatically resolving what happens when I move three divisions into your territory, your play a game of Bolt Action with the forces actually present. Kinda cool, but also very in depth and time consuming of course.

[@Hedgehobbit]

@@joakimandersson7769 I'm still not sure what you mean. The "armies" in Bolt Action are so small, you'll barely get a platoon of vehicles. You won't be fielding anything like a whole battalion.

[@joakimandersson7769]

@@Hedgehobbit They are representative. No wargame has anywhere close to the real number of "soldiers" on the table, but most historic wargamers I hear, usually consider for instance 1 model to represent 100 or even 1000 troops.

[@hobbitomm]

@@joakimandersson7769 well, my 2mm napoleonics are at 1 model is 1.3 soldiers. :)

[@joshelguapo5563]

@@Hedgehobbit w/ 6mm miniatures I think you'd be able to get up to a batalion, but that's besides the point, I think the greater idea is that the game of bolt action will decide the game ie, a 1000 point game between a german and british or japanese and american. The tanks can mean you use an armored platoon or a motorized infantry platoon and the infantry can be just a regular infantry platoon. Of course you can use the rules out of the book to customize but ultimately if you're playing an operation overlord game, there are rules in the american armies book for what options you have.

[@bobbobbinson1841]

I wish I could have learned how to play just a tiny bit from this video. I've no clue if this is good or not. I guess this is just an unboxing tho....

[@horuslupercal9936]

I'm not much interested in a WWII game of this type, however if they created something similar for Rennaisance Italy then I'd be all over it.

[@eddiepennington345]

Sounds like you have to use all of the Warlord systems. So it's not for me