Bolt Action

[FierceKitty]

Does anyone play this twice?

[barbarian]

Not even once.
And I have the rules.

Maybe some tweaking could do, mainly involving the capacity to split a squad to have one part (the LMG + servant+ officer) doing covering fire and the other part assaulting.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Played once, sold rules back to Amazon.

IanS

[FierceKitty]

I excused myself halfway through a game today.

[Techno]

You can get incontinence pants, if that becomes a regular problem.
Cheers - Phil

[Shedman]

Played it loads of times

I've used it for WW1, North-West Frontier, Sci-Fi and Wild West

Excellent games - the mechanisms work well for small unit actions with a bit of tweaking

There are a couple of issues such as disparity in number of units per side, melee and non-existent points system for creating your own units and weapons - but they can all be tweaked

The Sci-Fi sequel - Beyond the Gates on Antares-  changed to using a D10

Never used it for WW2

[Luddite]

How weird is that!  I just got back from playing a game of Bolt Action!  Haven't played in a few months.

Its a solid game, with some fun tensions.

[Steve J]

No interest to me at all. Seen it demoed at a few shows but hardly anyone seemed to be looking at the game. Given the amount of feedback on the Warlord Games site re: an updated version, it would seem that there are a lot of things to fix.

[Luddite]

Flame throwers are broken for sure.

Not much else strikes me as problematic.

[FierceKitty]

You can get incontinence pants, if that becomes a regular problem.
Cheers - Phil

I see it as excercising my right to express an opinion.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Well cats do have a very short attention span.

IanS

[FierceKitty]

You, sir, have a very short...nose.

[toxicpixie]

The basic mechanisms work nicely, and it actually feels pretty good in "sensible" play. But the scenario's in the book make it World War 40k in the worst possible way ("why yes, I've worked out you can't reach my objective in the turns remaining, and therefore am assured of at least a draw, so I shall charge my entire force at your objective in the hope one of them can touch it and get an auto win despite casualties or position").

But we've used it "sensibly" for WW2 and Spanish Civil and it's a cracking game once you drop a couple of scales and don't play like loons

[Ithoriel]

Played a handful of, largely unsatisfying, games. Seems like WW40K rather than WW2 to me but some people clearly enjoy it so more power to their collective elbows.

I prefer BKC personally but I know several who dislike it.

[Nosher]

I play it a fair bit solo and use 'sensible' forces.

I've seen games at the club where power gamers are using two Sherman Calliopes and he Germans using Nebelwerfers as direct fire weapons.....

Hence why I play solo

I did have to laugh when the Pegasus Bridge set came out and you couldn't fire from one end of the bridge to the other.

Horses for courses.