NEW AND IMPROVED?

DON’T PANIC! Bolt Action is back - nipped, tucked, and streamlined, but still very much the same great game! After twelve years since the launch of Bolt Action and a solid eight years since the Second Edition, Warlord Games has crafted their incredibly popular 28mm Second World War game into its third iteration. And here is the great news: it is still Bolt Action.

Chris King

In fact, for all the woeful handwringing from its more vocal fanbase, and for all of Warlord’s clever weekly teasers, releasing snippets and tidbits with artfully contrived subtle hints to provoke debate and hype, Bolt Action Third Edition is not hugely different. But there are still some significant changes. Although this is not the place to detail them all exhaustively (as others will already have certainly done), they can broadly be categorised into three areas: players’ forces; shooting and close quarters; and scenarios. With a weather eye clearly open to the popular tournament scene, the system of force selection has undergone a major overhaul: gone is the basic ‘reinforced platoon selector’ with discretionary access to an ‘armoured platoon’; instead, players now have a rifle platoon as their ‘core’, and every…

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