Thanks for the kind words. I really love the Victrix stuff too. These were a bit older, but the newer Late Roman stuff looks absolutely beautiful.

Thanks, Leon. I enjoyed 2nd ed. a lot because we had a good group that was into playing it. We had a lot of laughs and drinks and "any thing but a 1"s. I don't understand wanting to get into a hobby, especially a game, where you don't like the source material, and in this case historical material cemented in time, and expecting change because of your own proclivities. I'm not going to take up football and get everyone to only walk or use their hands because I can't run more than 50 meters without coughing up my lungs which are like two burnt raisins on the end of a string and kicking takes too much effort. There are plenty of options out there. Choose one you're comfortable with. End of.

@@jvcpaints totally agree

It seems like 2nd ed. only came out a few years ago. I know how you feel. The same thing happened to me when I bought Warhammer Fantasy 6th ed., got a free ticket to the Games Day and then about 4 weeks later 7th ed. came out. A day late and a dollar short, as the old timers used to say.

Thanks for checking it out.

I quite enjoyed 1st ed. too, but only played it a handful of times before 2nd. ed. came out. It was a really easy game to pick up and learn which, along with it being World War 2, really got me hook, line and sinker. I'm probably going to wait a while before I buy into 3rd. The whole change over of the Army books is not something I'm up for as I have like 40 armies or so. I'm all about painting and having fun with my buddies. I doubt they'll be in any rush to pick it up either. Thanks for watching! I hope you can check out some of my Army Showcase videos.

I watched most of your battle report against the Khoronite CareBear's Chaos Dwarfs and was trying to pick up the rules by osmosis, but fallback disordered threw me for a loop. Bolt Action is definitely not for hippies. Hippy biker types, maybe. Tie-dye barefoot types, nah.

@@jvcpaints they were originally going to have a chart like in hail Caesar but I think Rick priestly threatened a suit 👻👻👻👻

Thanks very much. Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks, Phil. I had wanted to get it out earlier in the month for the big 80th anniversary of D-Day, but I got kidney stones and was unable to do much. Glad you liked it.

It was the only game we played here due to the logistics of everyone being so far apart, limited time and simplicity of rules. But, alas, the hobby butterfly effect is here too. The club has diversified in to Saga, 40K and a little bit of old hammer. But taking cases of minis on 4 hour train rides instead of one case, keeps me in historicals. Thanks for watching and keep up with your Dwarfs!

Prone minis for snipers are OK, otherwise may as well put him in a Starfleet Red Shirt because he is casualty number one. I think if they had a rule where you determined where the missed mortar shots go, they'd be deadly but they'd have to introduce a misfire rule to counter balance it I figure. It would be more realistic though. I just re watched Platoon last night and shit was s'ploding everywhere! Early war is way more balanced than the late war stuff for sure, but some of the special rules are stronger than others. But like you said, it's a great beer and pretzel game and I just happen to be a beer and pretzel guy. lol. In fact, I go to tourneys to drink beer, buy a million raffle tickets and win everything and hopefully win best painted. That's why I loved WFB 7th ed. so much because I cruised the length and breadth of Alberta in my shitty '92 dodge caravan wracking up painting awards and hanging out in small town dive bars. lol. Them were the days, bud. I'll keep it weird as possible.

Thank you, Joachim. It was fun to go through and find some of the older projects I had done. Some good memories there. Thanks again for checking out the video.

Thanks, Lucian. Do you think you'll be checking out 3rd ed. or are you going to keep up with the MEBS game?

@@jvcpaints i am even contemplating switching to board games solo play, like tainted grail, descent.

@@smoothbrush4722 Is that because it's difficult to find people to play against? I know that feeling!! As long as you keep painting and keep that skill up.

Thanks, Cal. Trying to keep the calories down, ya know, eh. lol

Cheers and thanks, Dan. I realized how much gaming I haven't been doing when a lot of the game photos were from 2018 an 2019. I've got another army on the cusp of being finished and hopefully the next video will be out next week. Fingers and eyes crossed.

Cheers, Justin. I always love showing off additions to my WW2 collection.

Sean, thank you for the kind words as always, mate. I appreciate them. Yes, there are people out there who have literally no sense of the past. I grew up around WW2 veterans, some of whom fought for the axis. Men in their 50s with missing limbs, eyepatches, scars everywhere were very common. At block parties, Canadian veterans had nothing against German ones and vice versa; they just drank a lot and laughed and smoked. They had survived the war and were happy to be there. The generation now....they are too high on their own shit. They really think they are something. It's sad, but it is reality.

It would be a huge game to be sure. I think a prepared position with engineers in the mix would be good for the Jerrys. As for the Soviets, early war 1941 tank platoons of KV-2s, T-34s and a whole mess of dudes, like 100 or more, would be fun. You could also add 1 random artillery barrage covering the entire board at one point too.

Thanks very much. I'm interested to see what the starter box will have too. The Soviets are in need of a make over. Maybe an Eastern Front theme this time?

Yeah that would be great set ! New russians would be sweet

Hmmmm. What dastardly Sardinian would ever field such a force? There were also officer-less Italian paratroopers with like 5 tanks too. lol. I have a lot of good memories from the pub days and from when we'd play here or at your place. If only we could play more often.

@@jvcpaints man! The pub days are memorable! We had such a laugh. Officerless Italians ahahah I forgot about that.

@@giovanniallari9177 Can't forget Mario's girlfriend either. haha

All good points. I think the ranges were set the way they were to make it familiar to people who graduated from the cash blackhole that is $40K ( ...and Warlord isn't as cheap as it was either. When I started out, one guy was about ￥150~200, now about ￥600 plus shipping. Anyhoo...) I had seen online and had heard about those 2 five man shirker squads lead by a inexperienced 2nd LT with the vet Puma and Panther lists and just thought that shit was lame AF. I don't tend to play THAT cheesy, but I still would bring the cheese when I had to i.e.spacing my weapons team guys out to the millimeter to minimize potential HE damage. One thing that I forgot to mention in the video that I liked about Bolt Action 2nd ed. was that early war and late war are two totally different gaming experiences. Early war is more balanced whereas late war is just a slug fest of crazy shit. At the end of the day though, I think a lot of the experience is who you are playing against. I wish we could do a tournament here in Japan again but almost everyone has either left the country or are on to other games. Space is a huge issue too. Trying to get a place to play has always been a massive obstacle. There are community centres but trying to explain what we're doing to some clueless Japanese senior in charge of room reservations is the 13th labour of Hercules. Actually, at the last tournament in 2017, we had some old lady catch wind of what we were doing and was convinced we were in cahoots with the North Koreans. It's always uphill, buddy. And raining. lol.

@@jvcpaints After some years of late-war hijinks, the core members of the group shifted to playing early and mid-war battles, and it did feel like a totally different game (that we mostly all prefered). I had a Wetmacht army, and If I remember correctly it went like: 2nd Lieutenant Veteran & 1 Man Medic & 1 Orderly X3 10 man Infantry section Regulat (with LMG). MMG Team Veteran AT Rifle Team Veteran Light Artillery Team Regular Kubelwagen with MMG Regular Sdkfz 222 Armoured Car Veteran A fair list and it performed well.

@@Off_Grid_Grognard That's a solid list. I usually have 8 man squads with NCO with an SMG and one LMG. I always take the MMG bike. I love the lt.howitzer too for 50 points. I would definitely take the AT rifle over the sniper. I got stuck in the trap of taking the medium mortar to deal with snipers, but it never works...or almost never works. I have a video on here of Rommel's 7th Army Anti-tank platoon from May 1940 and it is probably the cheesiest early war Army you can make. I made it on purpose kind of as a joke. 16 dice, 1000 points and just terrible. lol. You should check it out when you've got some time. Also has a drunk chaplain. haha

@@jvcpaints I'll be on the lookout for that video. Now as I recall, My Early-War German list didn't have the kubelwagen with MMG, it was in my Mid-War list occupying the AC slot accompanied by a regular Panzer IV (that tiger-fear was a cheesy rule, not sure if it made it to 3rd edition lol). Everything's become more expensive as inflation is running rampant. I'm cutting back a bunch on my hobby and focusing on buying used on the secondary market. Shipping is rough too, I totally agree. I've been repurchasing old AD&D 1st edition scourcebooks and modules (that were water damaged nearly 30 years ago), and the shipping costs are brutal to Canada (even from the US) and then "Customs" drops a hammer too. Some say "3D Print goes brrrrrrrrrrr.....". Lol About finding a place to play. I think the goal of getting approval of a gamingspace-gatekeeper is to be as vague as possible with them, and pretending to be bad at speaking Japanese likely helps. I'd tell them I'm playing Axis and Allies 3.0, Stratego Plus or WW2 Monopoly. And remodeling weapons team members spacing to save teams is to be expected. Warlord damn well knew what they were doing with that one, and shouldnhave known better (the decision had A GW flavour to it). Their entire miniature range features team members posed as to be so close they are automatically in the kill template. I went so far as to take my teams off the group basses (of which I spent good money buying from Sarrisa Precision and dressing up with premium hobby materials) and on to individual bases. I even put the weapons on thier own bases.

@@Off_Grid_Grognard I saw that you found it. Nice input as to a possible scenario. I'm hoping to do a Spam vs. Cheese game one of these days with my buddy here. That German list against a Soviet horde army.

Thank you very much for checking out the video. Real life is what happens when you're making other plans. I'm hoping to tackle some bigger painting projects after I retire. All I can do is hope that my eyes will cooperate.

Cheers, man. I get to play maybe twice a year and it is usually a big social event with food and drinks and laughter and nostalgia and more drinks. For me, painting is the biggest and best part of the hobby. If I lose, that's OK. Just doing something real with friends is the true point.

Thanks for the feedback, Justin. And the view, of course. #7 is kind of similar to the Chaplain rule in a way. But all of those house rules seems spot on. I imagine the D2 pins MMG will make it into 3rd ed. I agree about the sniper taking out whole teams was ridiculous, but my snipers were notorious for 1s and 2s. As for lousy tanks being rockstars, I didn't bring up the 5 MMG Stuart only because I've never played against one. Bit of a flashback to the Soviet 4 MMG jeep spam in the Seelowe (?) selector that was pretty broken. I have heaps of armor but rarely use in because of the points. I'd love to drop the Jagdtiger on the table, but at like 600 and something points...Hopefully a lot of this will be addressed in 3rd ed.

Cheers, Mark. I don't think I will ever stop painting. I have 1000s of figures and I'm starting to seriously think about what I am going to do with them all. Thanks for watching.

lol. I noticed the bubbles pronunciation later. As for the chocolate, remember when there were those German cigarellos at the military antique store on O'Connor and we were debating if we should buy them to see they would get us blasted? Ah, la jeunesse. Hope you still paint sometimes.

Thanks for watching. Good eye, mate. I noticed that too when I rewatched it, but by the time I had it ready to go it was too late. We're usually half in the bag by the time we actually start rolling dice as we spend hours talking, drinking and eating because we rarely get to play. I plead guilty for reasons of beer-fueled enthusiasm. lol

Glad you found it helpful. I found the Warlord one to be a lot easier to deal with for assembly and painting and a lot more sturdy in regard to the barrels of weapons and the like.

Thank you for the positive feedback! It really made my morning a lot better than usual. I'm glad you liked the figures. Thanks again!!

@@jvcpaints your freehand on the shields is outstanding! I really need to get to work on mine!

Thanks, man.

Cheers, Cal. Trying to get a lot of stuff done before it gets too hot here.

Thank you very much!

Thanks, Lucian.

Thank you, Leon.

Cheers, Sean.

Thank you very much, Justin.

Thank you, Phil. The rocks are for luck. I hope they work.

Thank you very much, Dom.

Cheers, Josh.

Thanks, Ginzio. I'm trying to get through a lot of things before it gets too hot to do anything.

The hope is the latent psychic energy from 2500 years ago locked in the rocks will give my guys better rolls. lol.

Thank you very much, Mark.

Thanks buddy.

Cheers, Cristoph!

Thanks for checking it out! I was really happy to get the kit...even though it took me forever to get it all done and tarted up. I only wish I had more time to make the laser cut scenery...and space too!