Genuinely one of my favourite Bolt Action battle reports I’ve ever watched. The close up shots were great; really making it feel like you were involved in the game. The models and tables look amazing too. Really inspiring to replicate the scenery. I’ll definitely be copying the carpet tile roads. Love the smoke for the preliminary bombardment and the exploded tanks.
Thank you Scott, very kind words it’s appreciated. I hope to have another battle video done within the next couple of weeks and again it will be Normandy, Brits v German. Glad you like the carpet idea, it appears a lot of other gamers do as well. It’s simple, cheap, flexible and works well, just experiment with the dry brushing for the effect you like best.
Thank you and this was my first go at a Batrep and I am learning as I go and on with a lot of new stuff that should be in videos by next year all being well.
Love the style of editing. Having never played these games before I can't really get around a 1.5 hour video but this sort of gives me an idea of the mechanics and how the matches play out. Looking forward to the next installment, hopefully a Japanese match down the line. Cheers
Great BA BR vid! Earned a subscribe from me! The pace was great! Would like to have more top-down/overhead shots to help keep up with that speed. The star of the show, though, has to be your terrain. I mean, wow!! You did an incredible job from end to end! the materials sourced are genius, and the scale you maintain is perfect throughout the entire table, pure work of art. From buildings large and small, to trees, to hedgerows, it all fit the scale and each other perfectly. The balance between adding in lots of small detail, and maintaining 'playability' was struck precisely. Bravo! Job well done! cant wait to see more, and i really hope you do your own terrain vids, too. There's plennty of room for your terrain vids, and we'd all love to see them. Cheers, and happy gaming!
Wow Peter thank you very much indeed 👍 I’ve been a gamer/modeller for over 40 years and was inspired back in the 80’s by Peter Gilder, Ian weekly and Barry Edwards. To that end I have always tried to make my terrain look pleasing to the eye and playable. I like scratch building stuff as it’s part of the ‘old’ hobby instilled in me I guess. I’m not sure I’d be good at doing a terrain building video but I’m definitely going to do more BA reports as I really like the game mechanics (if not the points system 😂) and may do a bit more in the intro’s to explain how I make certain features. Thanks again for the kind words 👍
This was a great battle report video! Very inspiring! The terrain is fantastic. I really like the effect of those roads made from carpet. That was a new technique to me.
Thank you very much Wendy it’s appreciated 👍 Hoping to have the 3rd Bat rep out in July and again it will be Normandy based. As for the carpets I put a ‘how to guide’ on the Bolt Action Facebook Terrain makers group 👍
Really enjoyed the Battle Report - very well done. I am hoping to produce my first BR over the Easter Holidays - working on a ‘Firefight - skirmish’ scenario between Panzer Grenadiers and British Airborne. Keep up the good work
Wow fantastic looking table, scenery and models. Really enjoyed your first video and I will subscribe so keep up this fantastic work. Very surprised to here you mention me so thank you and I will give you a shout out in my next. 😁👍
Awesome BatRap! You can slow down the talk, it’s good to be snappy, but sometimes you can relax it a little bit. You’re scenery is really nice, great job on that!
Thanks Se4Dr4gon its appreciated and I’ve learnt doing these videos and commentary is harder than it looks, which doesn’t help as I tend to talk quick anyway 😂
What a great looking table and models. I enjoyed that and have already subscribed. Roads look nice too 😉 Thanks for the shout out and wish you all the best for the channel
Wow what a fantastic looking table . Amazing looking terrain and I love your figures. I see Crusader, Artizan and a couple of warlords thrown in. Beautiful figures they are. They look fantastic on the table. Enjoyed your first report and eagerly look forward to many more. Subscribed. You obviously did well and hit the mark with so many followers already. I also dislike point based games so I liked what you did with the forces.
Cheers Tyson I’m glad there is somebody else who dislikes the BA points system for anything else other than tournaments etc. I used to play Rapid Fire 25 or so years ago and have always loved the army lists/order of battle we used to use for the games and think this works well with BA, which has a much more fun game mechanic than RF did or has etc. Planning another soon, US infantry NW Europe etc.
To get a ‘7’ you have got roll a 6 then followed by another 6 for it to count. I get what you mean i.e why not roll 2xd6 if its just one shot, but it’s something most of us just do. Probably a suspense thing 😂
Hi Daz. Like your battle reports, but your buildings are probably up there with the best home builds I’ve seen. How do you make the texture on the walls and the tiles on the roof? Thanks again Daz. I look forward to your next report.
Thank you Tezz it’s appreciated 👍 The walls are textured with PVA then sprinkling fine sand over the clear wall areas not the raised brick details etc. The roofs are strips of cardboard around 2cm wide with cuts every 8mm or so but only halfway across so that the strips can be layered on top of each other creating the roof slate look. I’m going to try and do a quick terrain video on roads and bocage but will look to add a quick edit on roofs and texturing walls 👍
Cheers Papa Donut if you’re on Facebook I did a ‘how to’ guide on the roads in Bolt Action Terrain makers group. The roads are basically industrial/office style carpet tiles cut up and painted.
Thank you but not sure I’d be any good at a tutorial as I’m a bit all over the shop when making stuff but I might try and give a quick run down on how I make them in the next video or two.
Stunning, beautifull models and terrain, thanks for creating amazing content, may i ask where the british infantry are from, look like some lovely sculpts.
Cheers Moody 👍 The British are Crusader Miniatures late war Brits. There are one or two plastic warlord in and amongst but this force is mainly Crusader who are based in the UK but I think North Star sell them on their behalf etc 👍
Cheers Benjamin 👍 I cover all my building with a ‘wash’ of polyfilla (spakle in the US) which is basically watered down so it runs everywhere and sets hard preventing PVA from warping it etc. I then cover them with PVA (again very slightly watered) and then add very fine builders sand. Once dry I spray paint and then drybrush up to a lighter shade until I’m happy with it.
Thanks Kasper its appreciated and the hay bails/stacks are made from the inside of a cardboard egg box. Cut out, glued on to a metal washer then covered in brown paint and PVA and then add the cut down straw, which is off cuts from a door mat.
Some great terrain ideas there. Not sure how the list building was arrived at some explanation of that would've been handy - too many tanks in the British army? A few other anomalies like the Stummel firing at the squad in the building - it's D3 pins. I'm sure you're aware of these though.
Cheers Baz 👍 I made quite a few mistakes looking back because I was concentrating so much on the videoing 😂 I will do things differently next time and go through the lists and scenario a bit more and have to admit for the first go I just chucked some models in for good measure, hence the Churchills. I’m an old Rapid Fire gamer and do like the unit structure as opposed to the points system 🤔 In the future I do aim to replicate some historic battles from Normandy as its my favourite period of WW2 and a place we love to visit. Glad you like the terrain and thanks for the feedback 👍
@@dazvanderyoung1911 BA does have a structure, and the point system is there for balance otherwise you get crazy GW like OP shenanigans. I play mostly late war Europe and one scenario was the Glider Assault - available as a freebie on the WLG website. It was good fun and would make a nice opportunity for recording.
Excellent video, one thing we do, for Normandy, is to mark on a map, the deployment of the Germans,, it makes it more realistic, the first thing the advancing army realises is when it comes under attack, obviously a recce unit, can use that rule.
Thanks again Colin and yes I’m looking at ways to simulate a real ambush or advancing straight down the barrel of an 88 without knowing it. We used to draw maps for dispositions years ago playing Rapid Fire in 20mm but its just something we kind of stopped doing. Your right though its how a wargame should be played. Quite like the idea of counters or markers on the table as well but some would be ‘blanks’ until reached or declared if that makes sense.
My mates layout 10ft x 8ft in his double garage is time based so when one game ends ,we move the terrain up ,it gives the feel of moving through country ,since the landing we have moved board 3 times , first a village ,then open country and now a river crossing ,I appreciate that not everyone has that space, I don't ,but it makes it interesting
You miss a lot of hits in your hurry to move through turns, especially with the Germans I noticed. Also, against regular non-Germans, always take out the NCOs for the reduction in leadership. The game is about pins and morale. Also why the heck did you keep moving the PZ4 forward? Panzers should have needed 3s if they were point blank. I wonder if you are intentionally running the Germans less efficiently as you are the British.
You’re right Redcorsair I made a lot of mistakes as this was my very first BA video report. I’ve done another two since this one and think I’m improving slowly with each one. It’s a lot harder than it looks as I’m trying to keep the videos around 30 minutes as any longer and I get bored let alone anybody else 😂 As for the German Pz IV advancing? The devil made me do it 😜
I only skimmed through the video after I saw that the British were incredibly overpowered. I mean just at first guess I’m betting the british had an extra 500 points than the Germans. Can’t have that many tanks in the platoon. No idea how it was a draw in the end. Should of been pretty one sided.
Army point totals and victory points are of course the mainstay of the game and for competition play, set in stone. However I feel BA players need to let their imaginations go a bit and look more at historical scenarios and ‘up scaling’ their forces to fight bigger battles. What I mean by that is as follows, sections become companies, companies become battalions and so on and so on. A tank squadron would equate to 3 to 4 tanks and an infantry battalion (British as an example) would be 4 x 10 men companies, a HQ section, PIAT team Mortar platoon and a machine gun platoon. Using this basic formula you can recreate bigger Brigade size actions an beyond. A good example of this system is used by Rapid Fire order of battle books all of which stem in principle from the scales used by Peter Gilder back in the 80’s. If you look at Normandy as an example, the Germans very rarely had equality of numbers and were often heavily outnumbered yet pulled off defensive miracles time and time again. British attacks often went in with Battalions supported by a squadron of tanks, not to mention entire artillery regiments, which caused more casualties per side than small arms or tank fire combined.
BA often gives the Attackers a 25-50% points advantage. This is because as we see here, the attackers are moving and missing shots (needing a lot of “7s” to hit). They’re also often in the open driving towards the enemy positions. Defenders get to stay put more often and should in theory be in hard cover much of that time.
Absolutely stunning scenery and table!! Great battle report and look forward to seeing more. Keep up the great work!
Thank you very much 👍 Hoping to do another video in a couple of weeks time.
Genuinely one of my favourite Bolt Action battle reports I’ve ever watched. The close up shots were great; really making it feel like you were involved in the game. The models and tables look amazing too. Really inspiring to replicate the scenery. I’ll definitely be copying the carpet tile roads. Love the smoke for the preliminary bombardment and the exploded tanks.
Thank you Scott, very kind words it’s appreciated. I hope to have another battle video done within the next couple of weeks and again it will be Normandy, Brits v German. Glad you like the carpet idea, it appears a lot of other gamers do as well. It’s simple, cheap, flexible and works well, just experiment with the dry brushing for the effect you like best.
Best Bolt Action batrep I've seen on here. Beautiful models and terrain, and very neat editing.
Wow thank you Jens very much appreciated 👍
Really like your battle report style. Great table and great painted models. Great job and look forward to the next.
Cheers Nick glad you liked it 👍
At the start of the video I will say this.Nice game table dude.Lots of attention to detail and a huge commitment to a good battle
Thank you and this was my first go at a Batrep and I am learning as I go and on with a lot of new stuff that should be in videos by next year all being well.
This was a fun video to watch . I hope you'll make more . Excellent job !
Thanks enak413 👍 I’ve just done another one American v Germans and am aiming for July for my third.
Superb terrain/ table and miniatures! Great batrep and overall great job for your first one! Keep them coming!
Thanks Kyle V planning another one soon
Great table! Loved the battle report. Just started playing Bolt Action so look forward to seeing more of these
Thank you very much 👍 Hoping to do another in a couple of weeks.
Love the style of editing. Having never played these games before I can't really get around a 1.5 hour video but this sort of gives me an idea of the mechanics and how the matches play out. Looking forward to the next installment, hopefully a Japanese match down the line. Cheers
Cheers Raptorsified, not got any Pacific stuff but planning another NW Europe one soon but this time with US infantry if that helps.
Great BA BR vid! Earned a subscribe from me! The pace was great! Would like to have more top-down/overhead shots to help keep up with that speed. The star of the show, though, has to be your terrain. I mean, wow!! You did an incredible job from end to end! the materials sourced are genius, and the scale you maintain is perfect throughout the entire table, pure work of art. From buildings large and small, to trees, to hedgerows, it all fit the scale and each other perfectly. The balance between adding in lots of small detail, and maintaining 'playability' was struck precisely. Bravo! Job well done! cant wait to see more, and i really hope you do your own terrain vids, too. There's plennty of room for your terrain vids, and we'd all love to see them. Cheers, and happy gaming!
Wow Peter thank you very much indeed 👍 I’ve been a gamer/modeller for over 40 years and was inspired back in the 80’s by Peter Gilder, Ian weekly and Barry Edwards. To that end I have always tried to make my terrain look pleasing to the eye and playable. I like scratch building stuff as it’s part of the ‘old’ hobby instilled in me I guess. I’m not sure I’d be good at doing a terrain building video but I’m definitely going to do more BA reports as I really like the game mechanics (if not the points system 😂) and may do a bit more in the intro’s to explain how I make certain features. Thanks again for the kind words 👍
Great video! Awesome board an miniatures. Keep 'em coming ;)
Thanks Fredrik, just added a new game 👍
This was a great battle report video! Very inspiring! The terrain is fantastic. I really like the effect of those roads made from carpet. That was a new technique to me.
Thank you very much Wendy it’s appreciated 👍 Hoping to have the 3rd Bat rep out in July and again it will be Normandy based. As for the carpets I put a ‘how to guide’ on the Bolt Action Facebook Terrain makers group 👍
As someone returning to tabletop wargaming, this I must say was exceptionally well filmed and narrated. Very much appreciated. Well done.
Thank you its appreciated and just finished another one and about to upload.
Really enjoyed the Battle Report - very well done. I am hoping to produce my first BR over the Easter Holidays - working on a ‘Firefight - skirmish’ scenario between Panzer Grenadiers and British Airborne. Keep up the good work
Thank you and good luck with your video this weekend 👍
Great job, nice terrain and table. Enjoyed the battle report. All the best with your channel mate👍🏻
Thank you 👍
Great stuff! We have subbed and looking forward to seeing many more from you. keep up the great work. Regards, Dan and Rex
Wow cheers guys, thank you 👍 3rd bat rep will be July hopefully
Wow fantastic looking table, scenery and models. Really enjoyed your first video and I will subscribe so keep up this fantastic work. Very surprised to here you mention me so thank you and I will give you a shout out in my next. 😁👍
Thank you its appreciated and I really enjoyed your videos and I now know how hard it is to do one 👍
Amazing terrain! Looking forward to the next one
Cheers Skinko hopefully doing another in the next week or so
Super - I really enjoed this! Thank you and well done!
Chris - UK
Thanks again Chris and hoping to do another before Xmas 🙏🏻
Awesome BatRap!
You can slow down the talk, it’s good to be snappy, but sometimes you can relax it a little bit.
You’re scenery is really nice, great job on that!
Thanks Se4Dr4gon its appreciated and I’ve learnt doing these videos and commentary is harder than it looks, which doesn’t help as I tend to talk quick anyway 😂
@@dazvanderyoung1911 I realised this was and “old” BatRap after I commented…
Hope to see more from you in the future!
Loved this start to finish. Great stuff
Nice one thank you Johny 👍
What a great looking table and models. I enjoyed that and have already subscribed. Roads look nice too 😉
Thanks for the shout out and wish you all the best for the channel
Thank you very much 👍 Really enjoy watching your videos and I now know how hard it is 😅
@@dazvanderyoung1911 nah, we make it look hard 🤔😂
Wow what a fantastic looking table . Amazing looking terrain and I love your figures. I see Crusader, Artizan and a couple of warlords thrown in. Beautiful figures they are. They look fantastic on the table. Enjoyed your first report and eagerly look forward to many more. Subscribed. You obviously did well and hit the mark with so many followers already. I also dislike point based games so I liked what you did with the forces.
Cheers Tyson I’m glad there is somebody else who dislikes the BA points system for anything else other than tournaments etc. I used to play Rapid Fire 25 or so years ago and have always loved the army lists/order of battle we used to use for the games and think this works well with BA, which has a much more fun game mechanic than RF did or has etc. Planning another soon, US infantry NW Europe etc.
Great models,great table and a fantastic video
Cheers Phil appreciated 👍
Excellent work sir. Very engaging, great terrain and excellent models.
Thank you David.
Your enthusiastic YES when the British score a hit made me smile. Great job
Glad you liked the video and yes I am slightly biased towards the Brits 😂😂
Well done sir!
Subscribed!!
Cheers Steve
Again and again,, unbelievble good video for me and everybody in the hobby . Top 😊😊😊❤
Harry thank you for the very kind words, looking to do another early May time 👍
Nice game. Loved the terrain. Don’t worry about rule mistakes. We all do it 😃
Thanks Techsaint, going to try and not make as many mistakes next time
This was a great battle report video! Very inspiring!
Thanks again Wendy 👍
Great table and figs, thanks for the report.
Thanks Richard 👍
A great battle report and awesomely painted models and terrain 👍
Cheers Paul glad you liked it, next one early October all being well
I'll be watching it 👍
Great detail . Good luck with your channel.
Cheers Paul 👍
To get a ‘7’ you have got roll a 6 then followed by another 6 for it to count. I get what you mean i.e why not roll 2xd6 if its just one shot, but it’s something most of us just do. Probably a suspense thing 😂
excellent table and report
Cheers John 👍
Hi Daz. Like your battle reports, but your buildings are probably up there with the best home builds I’ve seen. How do you make the texture on the walls and the tiles on the roof? Thanks again Daz. I look forward to your next report.
Thank you Tezz it’s appreciated 👍 The walls are textured with PVA then sprinkling fine sand over the clear wall areas not the raised brick details etc. The roofs are strips of cardboard around 2cm wide with cuts every 8mm or so but only halfway across so that the strips can be layered on top of each other creating the roof slate look. I’m going to try and do a quick terrain video on roads and bocage but will look to add a quick edit on roofs and texturing walls 👍
Fabulous terrain mate.
Thank you 👍
Very atmospheric looking table, great stuff! Just started out, i was wondering how you made the roads and the ground? Looks really good.
Cheers Papa Donut if you’re on Facebook I did a ‘how to’ guide on the roads in Bolt Action Terrain makers group. The roads are basically industrial/office style carpet tiles cut up and painted.
Excellent table. Great scale!
Cheers Bill its appreciated 👍
First ever YT Bolt Action video, so trial and error but not sure why its low quality when I shot in 1080p. Anyone any ideas?
Might be settings on YT or your end would be my guess on that I would look at both and go from there. You shot in 1080P but it was set up for 720P
Beautiful game great work
Though a tutorial on how to make those buildings would be awesome
Thank you but not sure I’d be any good at a tutorial as I’m a bit all over the shop when making stuff but I might try and give a quick run down on how I make them in the next video or two.
Stunning, beautifull models and terrain, thanks for creating amazing content, may i ask where the british infantry are from, look like some lovely sculpts.
Cheers Moody 👍 The British are Crusader Miniatures late war Brits. There are one or two plastic warlord in and amongst but this force is mainly Crusader who are based in the UK but I think North Star sell them on their behalf etc 👍
Lovely report!
Cheers it’s appreciated 👍🏻👍🏻
That's a fantastic looking table.
Cheers Robert 👍
Great Report! By the way, what did you use on the walls of the house?
Cheers Benjamin 👍 I cover all my building with a ‘wash’ of polyfilla (spakle in the US) which is basically watered down so it runs everywhere and sets hard preventing PVA from warping it etc. I then cover them with PVA (again very slightly watered) and then add very fine builders sand. Once dry I spray paint and then drybrush up to a lighter shade until I’m happy with it.
Brilliant!
Thanks again Jens 👍
Fantastic looking battlefield
Cheers FUBAR it’s appreciated 👍
Great job
Thank you its appreciated
Good content
Thank you glad you liked it 👍🏻
looking great, how did you make the haystakes?
Thanks Kasper its appreciated and the hay bails/stacks are made from the inside of a cardboard egg box. Cut out, glued on to a metal washer then covered in brown paint and PVA and then add the cut down straw, which is off cuts from a door mat.
Great table. You only need another player and it's going to be perfect.
Cheers Piwek84PL its appreciated and the wife does help out 😜
Some great terrain ideas there. Not sure how the list building was arrived at some explanation of that would've been handy - too many tanks in the British army? A few other anomalies like the Stummel firing at the squad in the building - it's D3 pins. I'm sure you're aware of these though.
Cheers Baz 👍 I made quite a few mistakes looking back because I was concentrating so much on the videoing 😂 I will do things differently next time and go through the lists and scenario a bit more and have to admit for the first go I just chucked some models in for good measure, hence the Churchills. I’m an old Rapid Fire gamer and do like the unit structure as opposed to the points system 🤔 In the future I do aim to replicate some historic battles from Normandy as its my favourite period of WW2 and a place we love to visit. Glad you like the terrain and thanks for the feedback 👍
@@dazvanderyoung1911 BA does have a structure, and the point system is there for balance otherwise you get crazy GW like OP shenanigans. I play mostly late war Europe and one scenario was the Glider Assault - available as a freebie on the WLG website. It was good fun and would make a nice opportunity for recording.
Enjoyable game. Table looks great.
Cheers Norman 👍
Enjoying game 👍
Glad you liked it John, thanks
16:50 there was two rifle hits with two 6's.
Yes this was my first Bat Rep and I made a lot of mistakes as I quickly discovered videoing is not as easy at it looks 😂
Excellent video, one thing we do, for Normandy, is to mark on a map, the deployment of the Germans,, it makes it more realistic, the first thing the advancing army realises is when it comes under attack, obviously a recce unit, can use that rule.
Thanks again Colin and yes I’m looking at ways to simulate a real ambush or advancing straight down the barrel of an 88 without knowing it. We used to draw maps for dispositions years ago playing Rapid Fire in 20mm but its just something we kind of stopped doing. Your right though its how a wargame should be played. Quite like the idea of counters or markers on the table as well but some would be ‘blanks’ until reached or declared if that makes sense.
My mates layout 10ft x 8ft in his double garage is time based so when one game ends ,we move the terrain up ,it gives the feel of moving through country ,since the landing we have moved board 3 times , first a village ,then open country and now a river crossing ,I appreciate that not everyone has that space, I don't ,but it makes it interesting
Sounds awesome, wish my garage was bigger for something like that or at least to be able to keep a board set up.
You miss a lot of hits in your hurry to move through turns, especially with the Germans I noticed. Also, against regular non-Germans, always take out the NCOs for the reduction in leadership. The game is about pins and morale. Also why the heck did you keep moving the PZ4 forward? Panzers should have needed 3s if they were point blank. I wonder if you are intentionally running the Germans less efficiently as you are the British.
You’re right Redcorsair I made a lot of mistakes as this was my very first BA video report. I’ve done another two since this one and think I’m improving slowly with each one. It’s a lot harder than it looks as I’m trying to keep the videos around 30 minutes as any longer and I get bored let alone anybody else 😂 As for the German Pz IV advancing? The devil made me do it 😜
I only skimmed through the video after I saw that the British were incredibly overpowered. I mean just at first guess I’m betting the british had an extra 500 points than the Germans. Can’t have that many tanks in the platoon. No idea how it was a draw in the end. Should of been pretty one sided.
Army point totals and victory points are of course the mainstay of the game and for competition play, set in stone. However I feel BA players need to let their imaginations go a bit and look more at historical scenarios and ‘up scaling’ their forces to fight bigger battles. What I mean by that is as follows, sections become companies, companies become battalions and so on and so on. A tank squadron would equate to 3 to 4 tanks and an infantry battalion (British as an example) would be 4 x 10 men companies, a HQ section, PIAT team Mortar platoon and a machine gun platoon. Using this basic formula you can recreate bigger Brigade size actions an beyond. A good example of this system is used by Rapid Fire order of battle books all of which stem in principle from the scales used by Peter Gilder back in the 80’s. If you look at Normandy as an example, the Germans very rarely had equality of numbers and were often heavily outnumbered yet pulled off defensive miracles time and time again. British attacks often went in with Battalions supported by a squadron of tanks, not to mention entire artillery regiments, which caused more casualties per side than small arms or tank fire combined.
BA often gives the Attackers a 25-50% points advantage. This is because as we see here, the attackers are moving and missing shots (needing a lot of “7s” to hit). They’re also often in the open driving towards the enemy positions. Defenders get to stay put more often and should in theory be in hard cover much of that time.