So, what is the Bolt Action Compendium? Well, at its core, it’s a collection of scenarios, unit profiles, special rules, and historical background designed to enhance your games of Bolt Action, and add new dimensions to your games. Whether you want to re-fight the campaigns of the Chindits in the sweltering heat of the Burmese jungle, strike against the occupying German forces in Greece, France, or Poland, or follow the Japanese SNLF through the Pacific, this book has something for you.
Drawn from our awesome and passionate community, the Bolt Action Compendium is a collection of articles – some of which have previously been featured on this very site, and some that have never seen the light of day – from guest authors, giving you inspiration and guidance for fielding truly unique forces and recreating some of the somewhat lesser-known engagements of the Second World War. We’ve taken these articles and given them a Third Edition makeover, updating the rules to match the latest iteration of Bolt Action, and paired them with awesome new scenario maps and photography.
Designed to add even more options to your Bolt Action toolbox, and fully integrated with Third Edition, the Compendium is an essential addition to your bookshelf, allowing you to add even more depth to your gaming experience. Take as much from it as you like, change things up, add or subtract parts, and bring a whole new level of fun to Bolt Action! Designed as a resource for campaign and historically themed gaming, while we don’t expect to see many of these units getting involved in ‘competitive’ gaming, even the most veteran Tournament Organisers can find inspiration to challenge their players within the pages of the Bolt Action Compendium.
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
