The first Bolt Action supplement, Battleground Europe: D-Day to Germany was released on Nov. 20, 2014. Since then, 18 more supplement books have been published to further enhance our beloved game. January 2020 sees the release of the twentieth Bolt Action supplement – Campaign: D-Day: British & Canadian Sectors. To celebrate this milestone, I looked… Read More The Bolt Action Book Ranking – Part I
The South Pacific is often overlooked in Bolt Action (and in WII history in general). Hopefully the latest book, Campaign: Mariana and Palau Islands can drive more interest in this theater. Let’s take a quick look at the highlights with another Chicago Dice Hot Take! Hot 60mm T-20 Shoulder Mortar Team – At first glance,… Read More Campaign: Mariana & Palau Islands
It was a strange set of circumstances that the nation of Hungary found itself faced with in 1940. Pushed by the Nazis to go on the offensive, Regent Horthy and the Hungarians were faced with a choice, attack and become an active aggressor in the war, or resist and undoubtedly have their country overwhelmed by… Read More The Hungarian 10th
Campaign: Stalingrad has been unleashed! We got our hands on a digital copy (physical books are not shipping to the US just yet) and we simply couldn’t wait to dive in. Hot Storm Group – One of the new Soviet Infantry units, the Storm Group will join the hallowed ranks of S-Tier infantry (Gurkhas, US… Read More Campaign: Stalingrad
With the cancellation of Adepticon 2020, I decided it was time to get work done on my Bugeater 2020 army. The Bugeater GT is a two-day Bolt Action event, June 6th and 7th, in Omaha, Nebraska run by another Bolt Action player, Josh Dunn (top guy and great event organizer). Last year it had over… Read More Road to Bugeater 2020 – Anti-Partisan Patrol 1943
I created this scenario for Combat Patrol at Adepticon 2019. After great player feedback, I made a few tweaks and updated the mission for Adepticon 2020 and I want to share the scenario with the community. Although this was created for a combat patrol sized game (450pts, 8 Order Dice limit, played on a 4×4… Read More Contact – A Bolt Action Scenario
Dragon Fall 2019 is over, Operation Phoenix has ended. Dice have been returned to their storage box and miniatures have been retired to the shelf above the hobby station. Thus, it’s time to get my thoughts of the event down on paper, well, the electronic version of paper. Firstly, what is Dragon Fall. It’s annual… Read More Operation Phoenix 2019 – Paul’s Recap
October 25th through the 27th saw the arrival of Dragon Fall 2019. At this event, Chicago Dice’s own Andrew and Dexter were running the inaugural Operation Phoenix, a spiritual successor to old favorite Bolt Action tournament, Operation Sting. I was one of the 14 players participating this year, fielding a U.S. Airborne army based on… Read More Operation Phoenix 2019 – Ben’s Recap
When coming up with our 2019 theme for Adepticon Bolt Action Doubles, we decided to run a horde of Inexperienced American soldiers supported by equally Inexperienced armor. There was an overall theme of North Africa as a sort of event-within-an-event, and we chose to represent those first American units getting involved in the war, when… Read More Smoke Markers
Once again this year I participated in (and Andrew ran!) the Bolt Action Combat Patrol event at Adepticon. This event is always a good time, with small but fast-paced games. Game One – Partisans vs Germans My first game was a matchup against some DAK run by Al. We were playing a scenario where the… Read More Adepticon 2019 – Bolt Action Combat Patrol Recap
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