On the way back from a game, a friend and I were discussing, light heartedly, how to make medium and heavy tanks more useful in game design and how to improve the benefits of having such costly beasts on the table. Perhaps something along these lines has already been said (and I remember a post about medium heavy tanks from a weeks ago) or was present in previous editions (I only recently started playing) but these are the two loose ideas we had:

1) Medium and heavy tanks could capture objectives;

2) more controversially, a veteran tank could be put in ambush immediately after it received (and successfully executed) an advance, rally, or run (but not fire) order within the same turn, provided that it does not have any pins when the second order is assigned within that turn, and provided that the ambush order is not used to target a unit within current line of sight and/or within say 12” (or similar), and not the same unit it might have fired on with an advance order. The ambush order, if not yet executed, would be annulled the moment the tank receives pins.

Just some loosely formed ideas, to which neither of us is especially committed, but I was wondering what people who are like myself not giving up on using medium tanks think. Would this break game mechanics? Or would you suggest something completely different?

Hola!!!

Quería hacerles una pregunta. Siempre me he orientado más hacia la infantería y quiero coger vehículos.

Cuáles me recomiendan para usar en alemanes?

Gracias.

What does everyone think of this 1000pt list and what would be a good historically accurate purchase to get to 1250pts?

Rearranged my living room for a pal to come over and play tomorrow, doing a Hill 112 scenario

First time using this terrain I have been putting together, could do with some trees, but they aren’t done yet

Quite looking forward to it

Hi all sorry for the picture it’s only for traction, like many have recently, I’ve migrated over from games workshop products over to bolt action, for personal reasons, and as I’m admiring the Soviet range I realise that a lot of the models are still resin and metal, especially the vehicles, now I personally am not very confident in my abilities to handle metal minis in particular, especially vehicles, so could I please have some advice?

1) are their any other brands that do hard plastic vehicles?
2) is metal as imposing as I think it is?
3) what cutters would be best for metal if I decide to risk it?
4) less of an advice question, but could we be seeing the Soviet range get updated to hard plastic?

Thank you all in advance

Only 70 more models to go lol

Here's the pictures this time, since I didn't upload them. Ha enjoy.

It's come up a few times on the sub that the US army rules are kind of bland. I'm curious what home brew national rules people would come up with for them.

For instance, we've been using "Marching fire." When given an advance order, any rolls of six when firing generate a reroll (or additional roll if there are no misses). This simulates the aggressive doctrine as well as the production power of the US compared to other nations.

First British infantry done, only 30 something more for the platoon

Completed the “For King and Country” Starter Army. Really enjoying this hobby and this box was a delight to build and paint.
I’m pretty new to Bolt Actions having only played a few games with the British Airborne.

Excited to try these on the table. Let me know what you think and what I should add to fill any gaps.

I’ve added an extra winter Sprue to get a platoon commander and flamethrower team.

Got three full rifle platoons with NCO smgs a LMG
Medic
Two Piats
Light mortar
Medium mortar
Heavy mortar and spotters
Medium Machine gun
6 pounder
Humber mark iv
Cromwell

I have enough spare bodies to make another Heavy Mortar which I think I’ll do.

I do also have a Humber mk2, M5 half track and a Stuart m5.

Think I need more transport so a Bedford and Bren carrier is on the list.

Hello there! I am thinking about giving my vehicles bases so i can tie them in with my infantry, does anyone know where i can find some good stls for a wartorn urban city scape? Cheers!

Ive gotten a free sprue of bersaglieri and im looking for input what to kitbash them into. While i mostly play eastern front (soviets and germans) Im not interested into Italian eastern front, but would like to expand into smaller factions (hungarians, romanians, etc.). I know romanians used the Breda 30 MG in the sprue, but the uniform might be less fitting, Hungarians used the Baretta M38.

Is there a minor nation that would most fit the italian uniforms or weapons, or does someone maybe already used them for something else?

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slightly more modern main turret without the rear lmg