Friday, 20 March 2015

Bolt Action World of Tanks Edition

I've come up with a new alternative way to play Bolt Action.  Those of you who like historical accuracy will probably not like this.  On the other had those of you who like World of Tanks will probably love this.

What you will need.
  • all the tanks, tank destroyers and self propelled artillery your gaming group possess
  • your gaming group preferably an even number
  • the bolt action rules
  • enough bolt action dice for both teams
  • a bag
  • some paper
  • two sets of coloured dice, eg a red team and a white team.
  • the usual dice tape measures etc   

 Firstly set up the gaming table.  A big one preferably.  Plenty on hedges, trees farm houses etc.

Next everyone places all of their death machines on a table.  Someone writes all of the vehicles down on slips of paper, folds them up and puts them in a bag and gives it a good mix.  There should be one slip for each vehicle.

Now pick teams, and assign a colour to each, eg red and white.  These should be even of equal numbers.

Now each team dices off.  The winning team get first pick from the tank bag.  The teams alternate between each other until each player has a tank, i.e. team 1 picks a tank, then team 2, then team 1 again and so on.

Once every one has a vehicle deploy them on the board, the team that went second in the tank selection gets to choose table sides.

Now put all the coloured dice in the bag.  These determine which team gets to activate a unit.  From here on out treat it like a normal game of Bolt Action, with the objective of wiping out the enemy team.

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