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Bolt Action (2nd ed.)

Author: Alessio Cavatore & Rick Priestly

Published: 2012, Warlord Games & Osprey Publishing

Price: $40 hard back

Length: 227 pgs

Genre: World War 2

​Scale: Platoon skirmish

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Dave's
Score

62

"You can pick it up fairly fast."
Presentation: 8 of 10
Playability: 7 of 10
Mechanics: 5 of 10
Historical Flavor: 5 of 10
​Support: 8 of 10

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Miles'
Score

56

"This is a great gateway game...but I feel like I'm playing 40k in olive drab."
Presentation: 7 of 10
Playability: 6 of 10
Mechanics: 5 of 10
Historical Flavor: 4 of 10
​Support: 8 of 10

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Greg's Score

55

"Other than the undeniably stunning chrome in the book, it's hard to find anything in Bolt Action resembling the realities and challenges of WW2 infantry combat."
Presentation: 8 of 10
Playability: 7 of 10
Mechanics: 4 of 10
Historical Flavor: 2 of 10
​Support: 10 of 10

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Keith's Score

50

"A flavorless experience with no WW2 tactical decision making, driven by meta-gaming and gimmicky mechanics. But it does have value as a gateway game for enticing fantasy and sci-fi gamers into historical wargaming."
Presentation: 9 of 10
Playability: 7 of 10
Mechanics: 3 of 10
Historical Flavor: 1 of 10
​Support: 9 of 10

Club Consensus
56 = "Not Recommended"


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