FULLY PAINTED Bolt Action US army

So looks like it finally happened:

after few years of gaming my US army is fully painted and ready to spread democracy among gaming tables, with fire, explosives and air raids!

I had little somthing to write about every unit in the force but now, looking at them presenting together I am just glad whole project is finished. 
Can't remember I've been taking army pics every before but really like that crawling mass, reminds me good old Sudden Strike RTS. If anyone's interested buildings are from Black Grom Studio. And if you want some close ups check the labels under post or on the panel (there's 200 letters space limit under posts).

Hope you like the family shots:

And some pics from the painting station. Finally got the reason to clean it up...

I wonder if such a mass is sellable at all...

Painted 1200 pts US army

There's been quite a lot about making terrain for Bolt Action battlefield recently, so it's time to turn the tide, back into stricte miniatures.

For recent "Road to Berlin" campaign each or participants had to prepare 2 army lists: 

1200 points from the same selector. I think the idea was to fit the army to specific scenario's conditions (attack/defence, capture markers or whatever).

So here are mine.

Quite a rare occasion to show fully painted battleforce actually...

The first one is anti-tank group:

Local players like heavy armour a lot, in fact it's nothing unusual to see 2 tanks on 1000 pts games. Therefore I became tank allergic...

Sure it's fun to use large squads but when confronted with German armour, my infantry melts like snowman in March...

So the remedy is solid anti-tank punch:

- 2 bazookas,

- Hellcat and Greyhound (light AT gun but still counts),

- AT atrillery,

- air support,

- flamethrower (in case shit gets really thick and REALLY close).

In my opinion it's solid and reliable force but during Berlin game had not much chances to show what was it worth because scenarios' specific conditions. Nevertheless these work just fine in local conflicts:

The other one is something way more funny: 

the core is almost the same but AT vehicles were replaced with nasty Jeep and Sherman Calliope: really like that model and it brings lots of randomness to the game. And sheer terror...

The other thing is mounting 2 infantry squads on transport vehicles - also really nasty thing especially if the scenario allows outflanking...

What next?

I'd like to deal with remaining infantry (paint them or sell) and one more tank. In the future I'd also like to add one more anti-tank gun (this time heavy) with a tow. We'll see.

Road do Berlin 2019 - PICS HEAVY!

Heyah,

Last weekend once again I had a pleasure to participate in Bolt Action event organised by Tricity gaming community: Road to Berlin.
It's just been ton of fun:
lots of gamers, all armies painted, 15 highly detailed battlefields, each with dedicated and demanding scenario. It ended just yeasterday but I already cannot wait the next one.

During the event I played 4 games (during which got my US ass kicked 3 times...) so there was not much time to take pics of other battles raging around. Therefore just like in last year's Road to Berlin report - here's what I've managed to gather between giving orders and getting shot.

Feast your eyes!

Aerial pics of the fields of battle:

My first game:

That goddamn Tiger...

Quick peek on other fields of battle:

And my second game - the mission was to prevent launching V1 rocket (which I fucked so the London was most probably demolished): 

The third game. Bridges suck!

And the last game: 

because of freezing weather both of my vehicles didn't appear on the table at all...

And some more pics after my gaming day was over:

Reichstag in it's full glory!

Thanks for watching and once again thanks a lot to organizers for whole weekend of fun!