Of Dice and Men

I blame the Scotts, not me personally (ok, I need to shoulder some of the blame here, not all of it, but definetly some), I am talking about Scott the other gamer, and Scott the supplier.
Here I was happily trundling along playing just Warmachine/Hordes (we will NOT mention the three armies possessed for that system) and they introduce me to Bolt Action.........
Now I have a reasonable sized Royal Marines force and am waiting on more Armour to support them.

We started off with a 1000 point game to help me learn the rules. Since we were at my place and I only have a 4'x4' table, that's what we used. My RM force against Scotts Hungarians.
I rapidly learned four things about the game,
1 - Assaulting people with Veteran Infantry is fun and effective.
2 - Assaulting tanks with Veteran Infantry is a great way to kill your own infantry.
3 - Hungarians are best shot in the back with a Medium Machine Gun.
4 - Mortar teams can't hit stationary targets but moving ones are easy.

Happy Scott unpacks his Hungarians and discovers I have single malt...

Foolishly we only took and bare handful of pictures of the match, most of which were more blur than image. But the general narrative went along the lines of both sides trading artillery, him from a howitzer, me from a Centaur tank, a mortar Team missing everything except a rapidly reversing Csaba Armoured car, and his lads getting shot in the back while running away with the objective by a turret mounted MMG

The Centaur, fresh from slaying fleeing Hungarians.

Our second game came in at 1250 points, more pictures were taken (Unfortunately, it would appear my photography had improved not a jot), more thought was given, mortar still couldn't hit a building on a 2+. This time Scott won, it was a much closer match with the final score being 3 control points to 2 in his favour, but with me having the much higher body count. It was also played on a full size 6' x 4' table, this allowed us to use our artillery at much greater range, and hilarious mis-effect.

Royal Marines with Suppressed Stens.

The Lads dealing with a Stableyard full of Hungarians.

And this is why we cant have nice things, the Hetzer decides to remove the Centaur,  while the Csaba mows down my Mortar Team.

Well Folks, thats it for this episode, at some point I will put up a few Warmachine/Hordes based posts in the near future, and since I have more Bolt Action planned in the next few weeks there will be more from there as well.

Until next time,

Scott.