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Great Video!

just getting into bolt action this was great

Koch Crossing

Recce platoon LVT!

Observer is a spotter for your mortar pits (maybe howitzers?) now too. I'll be running two (rifle and recce) regularly. They've come down 25% in price.

I'm wondering if the points might not be lowered for the observer. It will be interesting to see.

Looked,sounded like a blast. I love the army list format.

Thumbnail is with a track, i can only assume that the soviets case blue armored train was prominent haha

Ali here. Meeting Engagement. Key Positions. Double Envelopment. In that order.

Thank you for this One!

first game was against me - obliterated! First game at my first tournament. Quite an experience haha!

Sounds like more successful cavalry charges here than in the entire second world war. Ludicrous! If I want cavalry games I'll play ancients or horse & musket. Let's hope V3 corrects this, frankly, silly situation.

Two Friends started Playing BA... One Picked the GERMANS! And an other Friend picked the Finns! Thanks for this Video!

Can you start the game with your boyz already in the truck?

"how does that look for all of those minors that i know you love?" Chris Hansen has entered the chat

sharp practice

4:30 I can understand the reasoning behind partisans not having tank platoons because they are guerilla freedom fighters but that is not the case with all partisan forces. The Yugoslav Partisans, unlike French or Italian resistance fighters, were actually much more uniformed, structured and looked like a proper army. The Allies actually made an agreement with the leader of the Yugoslav Partisans, Josip Broz Tito, to form a tank brigade that was to be equipped with Allied Tanks. The unit would be named The 1st Yugoslav Tank Brigade, formed on 16th July 1944. The British supplied 56 Stuart tanks, 24 Mk.II armored cars and two M3A1 scout cars. All of these would build on top of captured Stug III, Panzer II, Hetzer, Hotchkiss and Autoblindas. Later they would be given around 30 M7 Priest and M8 Scott tanks from the Americans and with the arrival of the soviets further T-34 variants were supplied and the Yugoslavs formed a 2nd Tank Brigade. So I think it's fair to say Partisans can take a Tank Platoon. 😁

I hope they keep the Finnish special rules just as they are!

such a clear explanation of the problems involved with playing Italians!

13:13 I hope Warlord Games can go the Extra Mile and give Major and Minor Nations Rules, which can give the Players Favourite playstyle a little bonus, without being to strong.

I am waiting to see how V3 treats my Greeks! Thanks for your thoughts on how minor nation game play could be changed .

Partisans need more forward deployment, and saboteur stuff. Things that can help them vs armor. They done need to be able to kill the tanks, just delay or harass them.

I do hope that they take their time in building out themes for each of the minor nations; currently we get a lot of "copy-paste special rules, but with less options than a big nation" among the minor nations (with a few exceptions: Finland is very well done for theme and clear play style). On the whole, though, I think the new platoon structure helps minor nations a lot: they've always had (especially for the Allies) an anti-armor issue due to limited options with low firepower, but now we have the ability to take a LOT of the limited things we have, which is very good.

I hope minor nations don't just become generic versions of the major armies. I like what makes them minor. I love a challenge

Romanian and Bulgarian suffer from the difference between Theatre V Generic platoons more than any other nations plus the army books miss a lot of available equipment.

Italians are ace....Im building three armies for the Russian campaign, 1 for North Africa and 1 for the east African campaign...Its a pity the EA campaign is not really covered by BA

Bo, at what Point do I check morale when I use half the unit: 1) if have 8 men, and after i loose for 4 I have to test? 2) i have 8 man but lose each round 1 guy. When i lose 1 guy and go from 5 to 4 men, i don't have to test. Only when i lose half in 1 battleround? Didn't find it the rule this morning in my 2nd edition rulebook.

At least the Partisans should keep Fieldcraft and their bombs I hope.

As someone who regularly plays against my buddy's desert Italians, I'm hoping they get a buff.

Titos partisans could definitely take a tank platoon. They had their own tanks, even their own air forces.

I dont know about most minor nations. But Hungary should definitely be comparable to the main 5 nations. Even if all the do is copy / paste everything from Budapest and Case Blue books. Thought giving Hungary a better rule than "fanatic officers" is definitely a must.

Yeah I'm going to be completely honest here, the more I read about the massive dump they took on the Assault phase, the more I see them just trying to justify checking the tournament meta than any real history. With an attacker never receiving any benefits, why would anyone ever assault? And it doesn't match with history at all. Units stormed opposing positions all the time as it was literally the best way to take positions. And his reasoning that the assaulter getting no benefit matches the idea of charging an MMG emplacement when...defensive fire already accounted for this in V2. Notice how when he was even asked if he saw that many assaults in the V3 games he's seen, his answer was "It's a tool in the toolbox". That's a solid no. I brought this up on the Warlord community article before they decided to turn comments off. There are good changes in this edition, but this one is based on such bad justification that my group will be sticking to V2. He's right, though: if you're not having fun playing Bolt Action, it's being played wrong. That means V3 won't be on our tables.

Nice to hear from Mr. Vine. I'm optimistic about 3rd.

Thank you so much for this Video! So much Value and Trust REinstated! 35:00 Might be One of the Best Tabletops out there! AGENCY AND FREEDOM... and Fun!

I'm interested to see if flamethrowers ever hit the table after these changes - a few smgs does the same job now, at least against infantry, for cheaper.

how will basing your units effect their vulnerability? Example: two similar artillery pieces one on a large base the other on on no base, as a rookie i have been punished for large bases as my enemies could see the base but not the model, which is stupid.

I'm just in shock that pins still do nothing in combat. That's the point of doing suppressing fire and a unit taking such heavy amounts of shooting the target's way will be easier to jump them in combat. And especially as loading pins now won't do anything past a simple -1 to hit for shooting defensive fire is still likely to be a threat, makes pinning a side-issue more rather than front and centre..... Why oh why......

Hang on, did he say indirect firing tanks can use spotters?

Is Tiger fear gone? yes. YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

Glad to hear all of this - glad that we've seen the toning down of national rules in general, glad that we're seeing more risk with close combat, and overall quite pleased with what Marcus discussed here. Looking forward to seeing the full book in a few weeks!

9:20 Please Call 'Em! 9 9 9 - Horse Drawn Limber!

Last weekend had seen a flurry of information regarding V3 leak. National rules haven't changed for the big 5, or have been tweaked but nothing new about them.

Yeah, 100%. I wrote to Warlord about a year ago with my suggestion for a V.3 Bolt Action, one of my main thrusts was exactly the negative rule gives as much flavour as the positive ones. And if no negatives can be put in to rules then up the points to compensate. At a more granular level I felt that paying points for reducing your squad's abilities was needed. So for example, you can 'buy' Shirkers at -3pts per model, so why not have Battle Fatigue where you pay -1pt per model so that your Morale value is dropped by one point or something. Veteran troops are as likely to be suffering battle fatigue (thinking of Buck Compton losing it in Band of Brothers) and inexperienced troops as likely to have a naive excitement in rushing at the enemy and so may have +1pt per model to increase their morale by 1pt. Anyways, so many ways they could cut the proverbial cake, I feel they won't though and will merely tweak around the edges and play it safer than not. The seeming nerfing of the effect of pins on units is nuts to me, that was a key aspect of the game that I used religiously to promote the game, ah well.... hopefully it will all be alright on the night

Auto cannon armed tanks/a-c could be very powerful 🤔

Where i can see the lists and the results?

Hopefully Warlord will provide a chart that lists each nation’s national characteristics for easy reference. It would help those players who don’t have or play against all the different nations. A downloadable reference sheet would be nice to have.

There are some nice ideas here guys... it's a shame the book has already been printed.

On National Characteristics, the more powerful ones could cost points. I can't think of any other way of balancing them.