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Offline sotek486

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Bolt Action Battle Report - Airborne Landing Outside Arnhem
« on: 11 January 2015, 06:17:01 PM »
Report and pictures up on my blog of a big Bolt Action game we played:  http://jayswargamingmadness.blogspot.com/2015/01/bolt-action-airborne-landing-around.html

Offline Tim Haslam

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Re: Bolt Action Battle Report - Airborne Landing Outside Arnhem
« Reply #1 on: 12 January 2015, 10:41:49 AM »
looks great.

I think BA plays quite well with multi player type games.
Can you give feed back on that subject, please.
For example did you have different sets of command dice?

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Offline gameclassy

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Re: Bolt Action Battle Report - Airborne Landing Outside Arnhem
« Reply #2 on: 12 January 2015, 02:42:49 PM »
Having played multiplayer BA games a lot, I can tell you it works best with different order dice for each player. There is no "I need the order this turn!".

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Re: Bolt Action Battle Report - Airborne Landing Outside Arnhem
« Reply #3 on: 12 January 2015, 03:51:00 PM »
Great table!


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Offline Tim Haslam

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Re: Bolt Action Battle Report - Airborne Landing Outside Arnhem
« Reply #4 on: 12 January 2015, 06:37:37 PM »
Our group is re-fighting the "Bridge at Remagen" on the 7th March, (70 years to the day)
We will probably have three players a side, and we had already decided to use six different sets of dice.

Offline Kane

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Re: Bolt Action Battle Report - Airborne Landing Outside Arnhem
« Reply #5 on: 12 January 2015, 06:57:16 PM »
Don't you just hate artillery misfires  :-[
Great looking table!
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Offline sotek486

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Re: Bolt Action Battle Report - Airborne Landing Outside Arnhem
« Reply #6 on: 12 January 2015, 10:35:02 PM »
I think BA plays quite well with multi player type games.  Can you give feed back on that subject, please.  For example did you have different sets of command dice?

Yes, of course.  I agree, multi-player games are great for BA (we sometimes pull two command dice at a time ... just keeping track of which got pulled first in case the actions end up interacting ... but most of the time this has worked well to speed things up).  Each player/platoon had it's own colour of dice to use --- this is best for larger games IMO.

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Don't you just hate artillery misfires

lol ... yes - but in this case they were not mine  lol lol

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Re: Bolt Action Battle Report - Airborne Landing Outside Arnhem
« Reply #7 on: 12 January 2015, 11:18:45 PM »
Cheers.
I only hope our refight at Remagen looks as good as your Market Garden!

Offline sotek486

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Re: Bolt Action Battle Report - Airborne Landing Outside Arnhem
« Reply #8 on: 13 January 2015, 03:15:48 AM »
Cheers.
I only hope our refight at Remagen looks as good as your Market Garden!

I'm sure it will --- looking forward to see pictures of the action :-)

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Re: Bolt Action Battle Report - Airborne Landing Outside Arnhem
« Reply #9 on: 13 January 2015, 02:34:10 PM »
Very impressive layout  8)

Offline Kane

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Re: Bolt Action Battle Report - Airborne Landing Outside Arnhem
« Reply #10 on: 13 January 2015, 06:23:45 PM »
lol ... yes - but in this case they were not mine  lol lol

I've been on the other end, misfiring and I must say, it's awful. Cost me the game and we actually managed to blow up the objective with it.  lol

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Re: Bolt Action Battle Report - Airborne Landing Outside Arnhem
« Reply #11 on: 14 January 2015, 02:53:21 PM »
Great looking game.  I need to start working with teddy bear fur terrain, makes for a very nice looking table.  The raised roadway in particular looks outstanding.
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Re: Bolt Action Battle Report - Airborne Landing Outside Arnhem
« Reply #12 on: 17 January 2015, 02:34:16 AM »
Really great looking game.
I missed the scale, is it 20mm or 25mm?
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