Bryan preferred the title "How to multi-launcher someone's face off" which may be more appropriate because we are after-all talking about often one of the most feared weapon systems in the game of Bolt Action. Anyone who has listened to the Bolt Action Alliance podcasts may have heard the guys refer to me as, 'Rocket Man' due to the fact that I own 11 such weapons over 3 Bolt Action armies, and have just finished converting another for my brother's US army. Regardless of the love I have for them everyone would agree that the multi-launcher can be an incredible valuable tool on the Bolt Action battlefield.
While primarily used by the Soviets and the Germans, many of the participants in World War II dabbled with rocket-propelled ordnance. From the British Land Mattresses and US Calliope launcher to the Japanese Type 4 20mm rocket and the experimental Hungarian Buzogányvető, there were plenty of rocket programs during the conflict and many of them are available for us in your games of Bolt Action. Easily the most iconic rocket artillery that you will see on the tabletop is the German 15cm Nebelwerfer 41 being the first mass produced rocket artillery for the Germans with over 6000 pieces made.
Most of these rocket weaponry fall under the Multi-launcher special rule. The Multi-launcher in Bolt Action is a valuable asset. It fires as a heavy mortar, which means a 18-72" range and 2D6 HE on a hit. You also have a chance to hit any other units within 6" of your target. You roll a separate to hit roll on the target and each potential secondary target in the 6" bubble. The downside to the Multi-launcher is that it can only fire indirect like a mortar and it never ranges in, meaning it always requires a 6 to hit, even if it hit the previous turn and the target hasn't moved since.
This makes the Multi-launcher very hit or miss (literally?) and hard to rely on. The benefit is that you can threaten multiple enemy units with one shot. This can be a massive psychological weapon when used correctly. The mere fact that if your opponent bunches his units up, you'll get to roll multiple chances to hit something which often makes them spread out. This can ruin their game plans, making things like officers and medics, who must be within 6" of friendly units to benefit, a lot less effective. You can enhance this area of threat considerable if you target large units that are spread out, as the 6" radius is measure from the unit as a whole, not a specific point. This is doubly so if you target a unit in a building, where the unit's footprint is suddenly the building's footprint!
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Bryan preferred the title "How to multi-launcher someone's face off" which may be more appropriate because we are after-all talking about often one of the most feared weapon systems in the game of Bolt Action. Anyone who has listened to the Bolt Action Alliance podcasts may have heard the guys refer to me as, 'Rocket Man' due to the fact that I own 11 such weapons over 3 Bolt Action armies, and have just finished converting another for my brother's US army. Regardless of the love I have for them everyone would agree that the multi-launcher can be an incredible valuable tool on the Bolt Action battlefield.
Most of these rocket weaponry fall under the Multi-launcher special rule. The Multi-launcher in Bolt Action is a valuable asset. It fires as a heavy mortar, which means a 18-72" range and 2D6 HE on a hit. You also have a chance to hit any other units within 6" of your target. You roll a separate to hit roll on the target and each potential secondary target in the 6" bubble. The downside to the Multi-launcher is that it can only fire indirect like a mortar and it never ranges in, meaning it always requires a 6 to hit, even if it hit the previous turn and the target hasn't moved since.
By: Old Man Morin
As World World War 2 ground on and Germany's relentless advance ground to half, the German military started mass producing weapons of last resort that if mass produced could stop Allied forces in their tracks and once again turn the tide of the war. Weapons such as the larger panzerfausts, the MP 3008 (the German copy of the British Sten gun), and the first assault rifles (and their cheap knock offs) started being issued to civilians and front line units alike. One of these last ditch weapons followed in the philosophy of the panzerfaust. The cheap and easy to make panzerfaust gave lowly infantry a much needed anti-tank bite against allied armour. Hoping to give inexperienced troops a similar advantage against enemy forces (especially in urban environments) the Germans developed the einstossflammenwerfer.
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Gather 'round boys and girls, as I divulge my ideas on how to get the most out of those beautiful big girls (queue the Queen! - J), the Heavy and Super-heavy armoured vehicle. Heavy and Super-heavy tanks are quite rare in the standard (read non-Tank Wars) 1000 point game of Bolt Action because they usually take up 300+ points. Such a whooping chunk of points can often leave you short on other useful tools and make your list less flexible, but there are things to consider to help you get the most out of these large investment units.
Many of you have come over from other gaming systems where there is a fantasy or magic component. And when we started with those games we always took the fire mage, or whatever, just because we wanted to inflict direct damage on our opponents with balls of fire or calling down lightning. Boom! Pow! Your guys are dead! But as time went on and you finessed your game, you found value in the other magic types…. Increasing your speed, slowing your enemy, reducing their effectiveness etc. and you began to play the game a bit smarter. Your force became less of a blunt instrument and tactics came to the fore.
