The lad is keen to try out Bolt Action with his late war Germans, so I have given in and bought a copy of the second edition rules. I have played several games with the original rules and, although I liked the order system and some other aspects, it never felt like a realistic historical representation of skirmish warfare in WW2. In fact, it was very gamey and could have been anything, which is possibly a result of it being designed to be fairly vanilla and therefore easy to pick up for a beginner. I'm hoping that the second edition will have a bit more flavour to it but, at the very least, we should get some fun out of it before moving up to Chain of Command?
My complaint about it has always been that it is a well thought out game that you play with your WWII soldiers rather than a WWII game.
ReplyDeleteI suspect it will be practically the same, otherwise those who bought 1st edition won't buy it.
ReplyDeleteI think, from what I've read, that they've just ironed out some of the glitches and done a tidy up, but I'll have to wait for the book to arrive to check it out.
ReplyDeleteSometimes we need to make sacrifices for the family
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