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Re: Bolt Action and walkers/mecha

Post by Primarch » Mon Dec 16, 2013 5:10 am

There is a pdf on the Warlord site that covers units not found in the basic army book. They don't get any special rules (not many units do to be honest), but they can be veteran units, something which the US forces in BA don't have many of. Bolt Action generally doesn't award special rules to specific units except for Paras, Commandos and the like. It's not like 40K where every unit does it's own thing.
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Re: Bolt Action and walkers/mecha

Post by job » Mon Dec 16, 2013 8:58 am

I like the idea of having mecha. Personally I own a 15mm Gearkriege model to go with my FoW Americans.

As for rules, I'm sure there's something cooked up by some enthusiasts somewhere. There is for mixing FoW and Gearkrige.

Or the rules proposed by Spevna look good. Afterall you are talking about another classification. A mecha wouldn't fit very well with either wheeled or tracked rules.
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Re: Bolt Action and walkers/mecha

Post by Spevna » Mon Dec 16, 2013 9:39 am

Lovejoy wrote:I think they get a veteran rule that most US forces can't access, others may be more certain.

Not read the American entries in the rule book, but this PDF from Warlord has lots of stuff not in the book, including U.S vets.

http://www.warlordgames.com/downloads/p ... -units.pdf
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Re: Bolt Action and walkers/mecha

Post by Spevna » Fri Oct 10, 2014 12:32 pm

Bit of threadomancy, but I found a bloke on the Warlord Forums had knocked these mecha rules up.

Worth a read I reckon.

http://www.weirdww2.co.uk/mechs.html
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Re: Bolt Action and walkers/mecha

Post by Spevna » Fri Jul 08, 2016 12:53 pm

Excuse the blatant threadomancy, but Konflict 47 is up for preorder

http://store.warlordgames.com/collections/konflikt-47
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Re: Bolt Action and walkers/mecha

Post by Primarch » Fri Jul 08, 2016 4:10 pm

These have been around for a while.
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Re: Bolt Action and walkers/mecha

Post by Konrad » Wed Jul 13, 2016 12:57 am

There we go! Got to have robots and death rays before I can get into it!
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Re: Bolt Action and walkers/mecha

Post by me_in_japan » Wed Jul 13, 2016 11:28 am

same for me.

BA - not interested. at all.

BA with big robots - hey! that looks pretty cool! What's the site again?....*goes off to look at shinies*
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Re: Bolt Action and walkers/mecha

Post by Spevna » Wed Jul 13, 2016 12:05 pm

me_in_japan wrote:same for me.

BA - not interested. at all.

BA with big robots - hey! that looks pretty cool! What's the site again?....*goes off to look at shinies*

You could do a Hydra army!
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Re: Bolt Action and walkers/mecha

Post by Konrad » Wed Jul 13, 2016 11:49 pm

Spevna wrote:
me_in_japan wrote:same for me.

BA - not interested. at all.

BA with big robots - hey! that looks pretty cool! What's the site again?....*goes off to look at shinies*

You could do a Hydra army!
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