Bolt Action: World War II Wargames -Compendium - Third Edition

The 2nd edition offers the same fantastic World War II gameplay with its exciting order dice system and mixed armies of infantry, tanks and artillery. Key New Features Officers activate other units! Used cleverly, this creates a huge tactical shift as you can order multiple units to fire or advance in concert. Welcome to the Third Edition of Bolt Action, the world’s greatest World War II wargame! Inside this rulebook you’ll find all the rules you need to play fantastic, fast-paced games with your collection of Bolt Action miniatures. Add a whole new dimension to your games of Bolt Action with the Compendium! Collecting a series of articles from our passionate community in one volume, the Bolt Action Compendium is packed with background, scenarios, and new units and special rules for some of the Second World War’s most fascinating campaigns. From the Chindits in Burma to partisan forces all across Europe, and much more besides, the Compendium is an essential part of any Bolt Action bookshelf. No matter what kind of games you like to play, you’ll find something to enhance your experience in this book! Inside you’ll find: The Polish Army in Exile – Field the exiled Polish Carpathian Independent Brigade in North Africa Heroes Fight Like Greeks – Recreate the exploits of the Greek mountain partisans Operation Rösselsprung – Re-fight the assault on Tito’s hideout by the 500th SS Parachute Battalion The Brazilian Expeditionary Force – Take the Força Expedicionária Brasileira into action at the Battle of Monte Castello The Japanese SNLF in Combat – Play through the early battles of the Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces Operations Longcloth & Thursday – Battle through the epic campaigns of the Chindits, deep in the jungles of Burma The Polish People’s Army in Soviet Service – Field Polish communist forces alongside the Red Army The Battles of Tomaszów Lubelski – Replay the largest armoured engagement of the German invasion of Poland Spectres of the Forest – Use the legendary Bielski Brothers to lead your Eastern Front partisans against the occupying Germans The Spanish Blue Division at Krasny Bor – Add Spanish Wehrmacht volunteers to the savage battles on the Eastern Front Resistance! – Partisans in France – Find inspiration for a whole host of partisan forces, and bring one of the most famous Maquis operations to the tabletop Red Star–White Star – Continue the war after the fall of Germany in a ‘what-if’ situation where Soviet and American forces clash