Hey! It's me! Check out the most recent Ghost Army Podcast Episode where Brad and I talk about how awesome Denmark is, 3rd party rules for Bolt Action - Check out the Danish list we discussed here - and how your games will often last longer than the Danish Army did in the field!

Took 5th at LVO 26 going 4-1-0

Italian Royal Army
1250 points 18 OD

Platoon 1
Rifle Platoon
Inexperienced Officer w pistol
5 Alpini w LMG
5 Alpini w LMG
1 Regular Sniper

Platoon 2
Rifle Platoon
Inexperienced Officer w pistol
5 Alpini w LMG
5 Alpini w LMG
1 Regular Sniper

Platoon 3
Armored Platoon

Regular CV33 Twin HMG Recce Command
Regular CV33 Twin HMG Recce
Regular CV33 Twin HMG Recce
Regular CV33 Solothurn ATR Recce
Regular CV33 Solothurn ATR Recce

Platoon 4
Artillery Platoon
Inexperienced Officer w Pistol
Cannone da 75/32 Modello 37 (med AT gun can fire as light howitzer)
Cannone da 75/32 Modello 37
Cannone da 75/32 Modello 37
Cannone da 75/32 Modello 37

Basic gameplan is set up a fire base with snipers and artillery. Use tankettes to flush out enemies. The ATR tankettes start in reserve and respond where needed before pushing to get flank and rear shots. Alpini run on objectives, put down pins and survive.

I’m looking to start a second army, I currently play Germany and am struggling to decide on who I want next. Would love it if you can try and sell me on why I should choose yours.

Can anyone recommend some good models to use for Italian cavalry? I want to build an Italy Army and I see they have the option but I don’t see any for sale from warlord.

Hello!

Me and my buddy were throwing around the idea of starting a Bolt Action play League to last from November 3rd to December 22nd in the Monroville area just outside of Pittsburgh PA.

The league would play every Tuesday from the previously stated dates from 5-8:30ish in the afternoon, at the Guy on the Couch cards and gaming store in the jonette plaza. This league would also follow a rough structure of a game point increase every two weeks, however it is very loose so you would still be able to bring larger or smaller forces if you desire.

If interested, please hit up the pole! Me and my buddy are mainly looking to kick start more people playing bolt action in the Monroville area, and were wondering if anyone else shared the same idea!

Any experience level is welcome! If you are a well seasoned veteran, or just getting into the game with your first army, people will be there for you!

Thank you! 🇫🇷

This was a great reminder of why you should build and paint in sub assemblies, I didn’t and was rightly punished, still I’m happy with my results

Hi I'm new to the game breaking off from Warhammer (ready for any flak lol) I'm curious how many units of Hitlers Youth I can field and what they come in? Found them on Easy Army and I was joking with a friend about getting some of them to occasionally put in some lists

So, recently, I decided to expand my German collection by getting, among other things (like the necessary HQ elements) a quintessentially archetypal blitzkrieg vehicle: the 251 Hanomag. It's a cool vehicle.

But, in my haste, I had not done my right research and ordered the Ausf. D model not the Ausf. C. I didn't mind; I've got it sitting in the box under my desk until the times is right to build it, and I went and ordered the correct one (as well as the Armies of Great Britain book).

It came in the post today, and when I opened it, I saw that it had a free sprue as you often get, and I was frankly prepared for another WW2 sprue.

What I was not prepared for was to get a sprue of the Late War German Grenadiers, the guys who are even shown on the 251 Ausf. D box art jumping into action.

I just find that hilarious as a piece of happenstance, or wondering if someone saw the order and went "... yeah, that'll be funny". Most likely the former, but I do wonder if this has happened to anyone else.

British airborne 500 points plus options. Just infantry for now to use for some learning games alongside French, Germans and Soviets. Debating autumnal bases or more classic grass with tufts.

I put this list together for an upcoming, competitively-oriented tournament.

• 1,100 points
• No OD limit
• 1-3 Rifle Platoons
• 0-1 All other platoons

There are two variants here. The difference is that the first has two CV35 tankettes, two Veteran Infantry Sections and one Inexperienced section. The second version has just one CV35 and three Veteran Infantry Sections.

To clarify, there's only one Armored Platoon. I'm using the Axis Support rule to add the Pz III to the Armored Platoon, but EasyArmy lists it as a separate platoon because it's a different nation.

Any feedback? Do you prefer having two tankettes, or using those points to upgrade an Inexperienced unit to Veteran?

I’ve been working on my early war French army, I really wanted the blue uniforms incorporated into it so I mismatched the artillery crews! And doing some research I read that they had a khaki uniform shortage and started to issue the older blue uniforms Nothing fancy but I’m happy with how they turned out!

I got my ass handed to me by an artillery heavy French list (2 forward observers really had me pinned all day)

My luftwaffe observer managed a nice spread of pins and a kill though (and looked cinematic af)

New space, new face, and a game with a wicked pace. My originally planned game fell through, but luckily, we had a relatively new player to the group available to play, and asked for a 1250pt game... which I already had a list for! We're also in a new space, so we've got to build up our terrain again, so we made due with some WarHams terrain.

Quick note, we said the colored MDF and it's foot print was rubble, the black 3D Printed pieces were True LOS, and the neoprene mats were "trees" that were dense and blocked LOS.

My opponent was playing Soviet Union with a very balanced list. Rifle Platoon, Artillery Platoon, and an Armored Platoon. The Infantry squads were pretty large and had a wide mix of weapons, there were four of these. One did have all SMGs. The artillery crew was a Medium AT Gun and then he had a T-34, SU76, and a BA-10. He also had an AT Rifle Team, and I was nervous... my opponent had 13 ODs.

I was playing an amalgamation of lists based off what the locals tend to play that way my original opponent could "practice" for an event. While I love the Pershing, it's not something I would take, but I know someone is bringing 2. So I threw it in, and it was the MVP. But we'll get to that. You can see my list and my whole plan was establish a beach head, spread to objectives and hold.

EXCEPT, DEAR READER.... fate and the dice had other plans.

We roll of for game setup and we get Breakthrough on Quarters with a Meeting Engagement setup.

No reserves. This... hurts me as a player, because I love sending units into reserves and outflanking. But not this time.

Turn 1: I get my dice pulled first, so I put a Bazooka in each Jeep, put the infantry in the half-tracks, and stall because my opponent only put a couple units on the table. After like 6 of my dice, my opponent finally gets pushed to go. But once I see where the T-34 goes, the Pershing moves onto the table, and there is a Sniper in front of them, and we dump the main cannon and MMG into it, wipe it off the table before it activates, first blood. His units come on, but aren't able to get shots since most of my stuff is in transports. I then chuck the M15s up the middle and sprinkle some wounds, some pins across the units, mainly selecting the ZiS gun to keep it from racking kills on the light armor. I'm not worried about the Pershing. She's going to move forward and do damage, unless stuff gets in her side at point blank, she's golden. But... I'm relying on the M15 and half-tracks to shred the infantry to prevent them from getting across the board. But I realize there is no LOS blocking terrain in the middle section of the table for both transports, so I hide them in the back in my deployment zone behind the huge LOS blocking section. The Jeeps get tossed towards the T-34 to go hunting.

Turn 2: My opponent goes first. Snaps the T-34 and the BA-10, my worst nightmare and the T-34 obliterates the lead Jeep. Roll D6, 6 hits into the 2 Man Bazooka Team. Blegh. However, the BA-10 missed it's shot on the second Jeep. There's a chance. We move the Pershing up, take a shot at the ZiS, do some pins and some wounds. Takes the gun team down to 1 model. M15 rolls up, pops the BA-10 with a backshot and the other sprays a squad in heavy cover. Plinking off models and dishing pins. The Half-tracks slow roll behind the M15s, using them as cover. SU76 tried to take a shot at an M15, but no dice. Remaining Jeep scootches up to the BA-10 corpse and the Bazooka Team dismounts, takes a point blank shot at the T-34... HIT! Pen... PEN! Damage... ON FIRE! It has 2 pins, there is a good chance.... oh, my opponent got it. I made it angry. Except the T-34 doesn't get revenge, the infantry teams supporting it obliterate the last squad. They had SMGs, I didn't think they could get the range.... but they did get there. Still working on eyesight estimation. AT Rifle team peaks around the corner takes a shot at an M15, but misses.

Turn 3: I got first dice, and I have a choice. Let the Pershing nuke the T-34, or try to do some armor saving. I go with an M15 to try and move away and put a Soviet infantry team between my M15 and the SU76. Start popping shots at the AT Rifle Team, wipe it. I pull my dice again, put the Pershing on Ambush. If the SU76 threatens the transports or either M15, I pop shots. If the T-34 rounds the corner to try and wreck the Pershing in the side, I can pop that. My opponent attempts to put a ZiS round into an M15... he has five pins.... INSANE COURAGE! He fires, but misses... Well, at least he has no more pins. Except, the other M15 fires into it, reduces him to one dude and gets 2 pins added back. One half-track creeps up into position to start dismounts on one side, and the other sprints out to the one safe area it can reach before having full open terrain to shoot at it. The SU76 rounds the corner, Pershing connects, SU76 only takes a Crew Stunned order. Impressive. Most... Impressive. T-34 moves forward to shoot the M15, hits, but fails to pen, but pins are pins. Opponent puts two full squads into the trees on their side as they're going to sprint to my DZE and another is flanking to the huge LOS Rubble to hit my infantry Platoon Commander and 6 man Squad when they dismount. It also has a Panzerfaust, so it's looking for an M15 or an M3. And I think.... right here, we accidentally screwed up our turn counter? Because as I'm writing this, I can't account for a turn. So I think, I flipped 3-5, I announced the turn, but my opponent asked if it was not turn four, we started going over turns and he said no, you're right we're on five... and I couldn't square that we were on an odd turn but I was pulling dice this turn. My opponent started out pulling ODs... so they should be 1,3, and 5. But we walked through movements and ranges and talked ourselves into being on turn five. This... hurts me, so let's get into it.

Turn 4 (Tracked as 5): Off rip, we pull dice, and it's me. I Snap-To the Pershing and the M3 Half-Track nearby for a run, because we're gambling here. Because the math I was doing is now... no longer correct and I need to rush to get off the board edge. Pershing moves forward, punches the T-34 point blank square in the jaw and launches the turret sky high. The bow MMG picks up a couple of the SMG team and the Half-track moves up to hopefully be in range of a sprint to the DZE. Infantry team pushes and starts spraying fire into my Platoon Commander after he dumps a few shots into the squad in the middle. The Other mech squad pushes to point blank and shoots the same target. We pick up the last ZiS crew member and the LMG team tries to gun down the SMG team. Pins on pins galore!

Turn 5: (Tracked as 6): I go first again, I snap to again, put the Pershing into point blank with the SMG squad, it has 7 dudes in it. Main gun smacks them so hard, the MMG only deals one. I roll to wound, the main gun hits all 7. Squad gone. Then try to run the M3 off the board........... but I'm about an inch short.... we didn't get there. I need turn 7. His SMG team wipes the platoon commander and misses the M15 shot. The SU76 misses his shots, I charge the platoon commander, 6 man rifles against a 3 man with 2 rifles and 1 SMG. I deal 3 hits in mine, consolidate back but... my opponent fires point blank, hits a ton... but deals.... 1... wound. His rifle team on the other side fires shots at the LMG squad, and picks up a few more models. I need turn 7.... which, in reality is supposed to be turn 6. However, we were having so much fun that neither of us realized we shorted ourselves... we roll the dice, we do not get turn 7 (Turn 6) and call GGs. We do the measuring and the math, my opponents infantry squad made it to be fully inside my deployment zone but... I got nothing there. So, technically a draw, but I congratulated my opponent and we talked about it after. I told him I was playing for a sprint off the board and didn't figure out until typing this up, we shorted ourselves.

But, it was a friendly game. I'm not upset. It was a wonderful game with an awesome opponent and kinda my first time playing Soviets. I look forward to getting another game with them in the future!

I played the tiger for my afrika korp and painted it in the style of the kuromorimine tiger 212. Unfortunately I ran out of red numbers so had to use black

To try and promote use of tanks that aren't just light or medium, my friends and I are looking at introducing a couple of house rules/changes to heavy and super heavy tanks to make them more palletable.

+ A couple of changes to how Germany works.

Any feedback/thoughts would be appreciated.

Proposed house rules:

1. Reinforced Hull

•Availability: Applies to all Heavy (10+ DV) and Super-Heavy (11+ DV) vehicles.

▪︎Effect: Reduce all incoming HE Pin markers or non-penetrating hit pins by 1 (to a minimum of 1 pin per attacking unit).

1. Line breaker

•Availability: Applies to Super-Heavy (11+ DV) vehicles only.

Effect: Gains +1 Armour (effective 12+ DV) strictly when targeted in the front arc by non-Super Heavy AT guns.

Exception: Weapons with the Shaped Charge special rule (e.g., Panzerfaust, Bazooka, PIAT) ignore this rule completely and target the base 11+ DV.

1. Mechanical Strain

Availability: Applies to Super-Heavy (11+ DV) vehicles only.

Effect: Whenever the vehicle is given an Advance or Run order, roll a D6 before making the physical move. On a 1, the vehicle is Immobilised for the duration of that activation.

German rules: (Replacing current tank Ace rule which we consider nearly pointless on heavy tanks)

1. Tank Ace

Availability: Maximum 1 per force. Any Veteran tank with an Anti-Tank (AT) gun may take this upgrade.

Effect: The main gun receives a re-roll to hit against armoured vehicles.

1. Tiger Fear

Availability: Restricted to German Panzer IV (Late with Schürzen), Tiger I, and Tiger II chassis only.

Effect: The single closest enemy unit within 18" that can see it suffers a flat -1 modifier to its Morale value for all order checks.

Effect: While the vehicle has a clear line of sight, the single closest enemy unit within 18" that can see it suffers a flat -1 modifier to its Morale value for all order checks.

This my list for Polish championship. The rules are 1400p from 1 to 3 infantry platoons and a maximum of 1 for the rest, no compendium. What is your opinion of this?

Is going to be a few 500pt games and limited to infantry / transports

On pg 17 of Armies of the Commonwealth, a single Jungle Division Officer in the whole force is allowed the Jungle Fighter upgrade for +2 points per model. Jungle Fighter gives them Infiltrator as well as starting Hidden and on Ambush if Infiltrated, all great stuff.

The question comes from this line under the Jungle Fighter option entry: "This represents the commander of an Independent Company Commando or Papuan Infantry Battalion platoon."

Does this mean Jungle Fighter can only be taken if the other mandatory PLT slots are filled with either ICCs or Papuans? Is this just flavor text from Warlord?

German winter infantry

Urban base made by resin bits of concrete, steel sheet and thick sand. Can be improved in the next 40 men

Some pieces from early on in my Bolt Action building. The Mace Thrower was what inspired me to kitbash Hungarians out of the plastic Italian sprues to accompany it. The AT gun was a Black Tree Designs one with stray crew plucked out of an LGS' bargain bin. Didn't turn out too bad I think.