If you're ever in the Louisville, KY  USA area, we have a pretty good sized group of Bolt Action players, and we're actually growing as more people get fed up with a certain other company's constant price hikes and rule changes and book purchases.

Bolt Action is fast, fun, and just a laugh to play.  More than once we've invented stories of soldiers on the field and their adventures.  ..  of misadventures.. depending on how the dice roll.

As an example.. Private Jenkins of the British noticed that for some odd reason.. the Artillery strike called in SEEMED to be ever so slightly off target.... and instead of landing on the enemy..  landing directly onto his squad..  Poor Private Jenkins was the only survivor.. and is currently in therapy.  The soldier that called in the arty strike was last seen cackling something about his mother and a chicken sandwich, running off the field howling like a madman.

(The british arty scattered 9 inches directly backwards, landing on the Arty officer and his assistant, the flamethrower team, and an entire squad of British Infantry.)

Only private jenkins was left standing.. and he failed 3 seperate rally checks the remainder of the game... stood in place, frozen.

"You're going to be surrounded Sir." - Unknown Private.

"Where paratroopers son. Were meant to be surrounded." - From Band of Brothers by Captain Winters, 2nd Battalion, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, Easy Company:

IMO, this is the best starter set for the Germans, as you get 3 special weapons as well a transport & a "tank".  I added an additional infantry box, so that I 30 Later FJ war with assault rifles & MG42  as well as  30  early war FJ with rifles & SMG. I got an MG34 & AT rifle from a friend who plays DAK to complete the look for my early war FJ.

Jager....Meister??? Kome to Soviets Komrade, we heff stronk tenk!!!

Most of this set + my Italians makes for one of my favourite platoons, X Reggimento Arditi (Primosole Bridge)

Strictly, you can't use them for early war if you paint them in camouflage printed bonesacks.

New to BA , you have been essential and very helpful! Thank you, sincerely!

Can you talk about SS Cavalry and also the stug escort riders? Just wondering if these would be any good

So here is a question. My son, new starter like me has made a tactical decision based on the two games we have played, which is to include two to three half tracks. I was not sure at first but reading the rules, they say you can field a transport for each squad/team. He kind of went this way when I used my little battle taxi Bren Carrier to transport troops into the best option for the PIAT. He found it impossible to hit as the carrier was driving along a lane behind a wall. Now I was as lucky as he was unlucky but the Carrier had two Bren Guns which quickly got within half range pumping eight shots into a squad trying to move up on me. My orders dice came out first and I killed troops and pinned them with the Bren and MMG from my Churchill. So what do you think, good idea or bad one. Both he and I can't see how a truck will survive hits from a gun or multiple LMG hits.

Could you suggest the best German kits to go with a Greece/ Crete scenario that  I am  currently  working on  From Mick.D.

To those who have bought the models: How close are the vehicles to being Taurox and Leman Russ stand-in-able? Is the size way off?

Is It worth to field a Medic in Bolt Action?

The Fallschirmjager are a fantastic set and probably the most competitive.... But they have one massive weakness.... I don't like the helmets 😁

Even in late war Fjs with assault rifles were fairly rare. Rifles and SMGs should be the mainstay of most squads throughout the war. Showing up to a friendly pick up game with all assault rifle squads is a good way to get labeled as "that guy" and some eye rolls. Maybe not as bad as the guy who shows up with several Ho-Ros and inex bamboo fighters but still pretty cheesy.

How to start an argument between gun-bunnies: call the FG42 an assault rifle and watch them (okay, *Us*, I am an old broken airsofter after all...) hum and ha over the definition...

The Panzerschreck is really an odd thing to be missing from the plastic german infantry, the Bazooka is in almost every American box, I think there's a PIAT in one of the British boxes too, despite the limit on them being one per platoon.

Really the more you think about it, these 100 quid sets aren't "army" starters, they're more "collection" starters that happen to be mostly legal armies in the game...