WW2 20mm Bolt Action Game

Had a very entertaining 20mm game using the Bolt Action rules at the club last night.  I was on the British side with John and Steve against Andy, Simon and Mick (the Krauts).  The scenario was that an important Allied General had crash-landed in no-mans land and both sides were racing to secure the crash site.
It was one of those nights when the dice gods had decided that I was but a pawn to play with and torture at their leisure. The number of low dice I rolled,  especially 1's was quite amazing.  My team blamed me for losing faith with the dice early on, and because of this said I was the architect of my own bad luck !  Well bollocks to them is what I say, because my bad die rolling spread to them as well ! LOL
Just to get a flavour of what happened, my Air Liaison called in an Air-strike on a juicy target, but because I rolled a 1 it was a rookie pilot who swung by misidentified the target and then went and shot up my team-mates Steve's troops instead !  I then called in an Artillery barrage, but because I rolled a 1 it fell short on top of the observer !!  Fortunately he survived, so I called another in, but again I rolled a one so it landed off table, and so it went on ! LOL  Good fun game though :)
Here's some photos (none of the vehicles or figs are mine).
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Bolt Action at the Harrogate Club

Joined in another game of WW2 20mm using the Bolt Action rules last Thursday.  Like at X-Mas I had a Panther.  -After being quite badly pinned I pulled back round behind a hill, cleared the pins and then moving forward, taking out a Sherman 75 that was sat near the objective. 
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Quite an enjoyable game however I am slightly frustrated by inaccuracies in the vehicle listings.  I have therefore resolved to come up with my own listings, and have made a start on German listing.  In my next game in a few weeks time I hope to trial some house rules we have been talking about.  I'm currently thinking of introducing: (for AT fire on vehicles):
+1 for each second and subsequent shot at Target.
+1 if target hit in previous turn.
+1 If firer has Optics bonus and firing at long range.
-1 Long range shot with High Velocity (HV) round or AT Gun HEAT round.
-1 Target moving at 45% to 90% across front of firer up to 9" movement.
-2 Target moving at 45 – 90 across front of firer over 9" movement.


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Picture Of The Week - No 12 - Panther

Took this picture at a large all day game of 20mm WW2 using the Bolt Action rules just after X-mas.  I had a late entry into the game (I didn't make it until the afternoon), and brought on some reinforcing tanks, one of which was a nice Panther. Here it is engaging a Churchill in the distance, whilst intimidating a Dingo that had ventured too far forward.  Used the camera in my Samsung Galaxy IIIS to take it, and then edit it.
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First Bolt Action Game

Last Thursday at the Huntingdon & District Wargames Society I had my first game using the 'Bolt Action' rules published by Warlord Games.  I don't have to time to give them much of a review, other than to say I was pleasantly surprised how well they ran.  If I had a choice I'd prefer to use 'Rules Of Engagement', but that said, for a 28mm club game lasting a couple of hours they were just the ticket, and I'm likely to be buying my own copy shortly.  I was on the clean living god fearing Germans side, defending the nice French bocage countryside from the corrupt and drunken Brits and Americans :)   Here's a couple of photos of the tasteful terrain (most of which is the clubs) and Mike Evans nicely painted figs and vehicles.
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By way of interest, I took all the photos on my Galaxy SIII smartphone without using any flash assistance.

Wargaming

With the time I have had available I've been painting up some more 15mm sci-fi vehicles. When they are a bit more 'polished' in a couple of days time, I'll post some photos.
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I've been lucky enough to get a couple of WW2 games in at the Harrogate and Huntington clubs using the Rules of Engagement rule-set. Certainly it's the best set of WW2 rules for platoon sized actions that I have played for a long time. Here's two photos from one of the games.
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Flames Of War - At The Harrogate Wargames Club

Was up in Harrogate last night (visiting the out-laws), so used the opportunity to drop by the Harrogate Wargames Club and meet up with some old friends of mine. I joined in a Flames Of War Game. This is a set of WW2 rules that has been around for a few years now. Although I've seen the game played several times at my local club, (the Huntingdon & District Wargames Society) I had yet to actually have a game myself, so I was looking forward to how see how it played out. I must confess I was totally amazed how well the game played out, and how slick the whole system was. I’ll post some photos tomorrow, but in the meantime here’s a staged photo of some of my WW2 20mm German armour :) .
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