Nick and I finally got round to doing some lockdown wargaming last night - and in honour of VE Day decided to give Bolt Action a try on Tabletop Simulator.
It's a credit to the TTS system that Nick hadn't played Bolt Action before, but since TTS is "just" a table top simulator I could walk him through the rules just as though we were playing over a physical tabletop. We used Zoom for the audio so I could guide him through the "find a server" process, and we stayed with Zoom through the game.
This was very much a learning by doing game, and was only my 2nd BA game, and we are using the first draft of my BA house rules - Bolt Action Reality Check (BARC). I could even use TTS's PDF feature to put the rules in there for him. We got through couple of turns pretty well - just the armour facing off, and we'll continue with the infantry fight hopefully later in the week.
It must be said that this particular table (Normandy Farm) looks absolutely stunning and kudos to whoever did it. The pics of the figures moving through the long grass look almost realistic (real world, not wargames table), and there's no argument about line of sight when you can zoom into eye-level with a figure! We're also playing on a 3" grid (my standard for BARC) which removes any measurement which may slow things down a bit more in TTS.
Anyhow, here are some pics form the game so far - reinforced Pl on either side. I've shrunk the figures ( from a TTS BA "pack") down from ~ 30-40mm to 20mm.
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| Brits advancing through long grass to the hedgeline |
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| Long shot of the table from the German side |
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| Brits reach the wall. Dice nicely for scale. Great "sculpts" too |
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| Nice shot showing the way the ground clutter hides most of the troops |
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| Germans emerge from the lane - not Brits just visible top left - got LOS then! |
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