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    Evening all,

    For those of you who know their Bolt Action, which army has the most plastic miniatures as I'd prefer to not have to use too many resin/metal models?

    Also is there an army best suited for beginners?

    Thanks.
    Last edited by RGilbert26; 10-26-2015 at 05:16 PM.
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    Played a bunch of it a couple years back. Fun game and a neat way to play, however their abysmal customer "service" was the nail in their coffin for me, but that's neither here nor there.

    Yes they make a few kits for getting inot it easily. Pretty affordable, warning tho, they only had 5 poses or so (could have changed since I played!). I got REALLY good with a hobby knife and gluing. Made some shotgun wielders and some kneeling guys to spice it up.

    I don't think it matters what army you go with as its such a cut and paste system (not an insult at all, its a great system as I said) that all the armies are fairly balanced in a normal fun game. You can min max the crap out of it if you are one of THOSE but you don't need to for an enjoyable game.

    The rulebooks are a nice size and well laid out.

    Model count is aboot half of what you would need in 40k. Tanks can gobble up points, not a fan of their resin/metal combos but they get the job done. I believe you can also play exclusively with tanks if you get an additional ruleset.

    All in all, if yer a Brit you will be fine, if you ain't good luck on getting the model, personally I would try to buy thru an FLGS so you don't gotta deal with them directly.

    My biased opinion, hopefully you have better luck than I.

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    Oh I have a shop near me that sell Bolt Action boxes, I'll be buying from them.
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    Good man.

    If u wanna keep model count low go with Germany, you can gobble up points on awesome tanks

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    Is this legal?

    Veteran Infantry Squad
    - add 5 more men
    - add 2 machine guns
    - add 8 assault rifles

    Or should it be "add 6 assault rifles" because the two guys helping the gunners are essentially part of the machine gun?
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    You have a ten man squad.
    Two guys get MGs.
    Two guys become loaders.
    So you can only use 6 assault rifles.

    I mean, most likely you could buy the loaders ARs, but they will never use them

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    Okay thanks, means my two infantry squads both get a forth panzerfaust :P
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