A&A with Bolt Action Models

Interesting. Looking forward to the AAR

If I may ask, how did work out? I have heard good comments about Bolt Action but my budget says a new size is not in the cards. I have plenty of AAM to make it happen otherwise if it is playable.

I offered a game time to my friend but did not hear back. I work all Friday and Sunday and will squeez a regular BA game in with Dogtank on Sat morn.
This means that I have not tried the BA figures with A&A rules yet and wont be able to try until next week at the earliest.
I expect that it will work fine on the larger AAAF maps. The only limitation that I can foresee is that A&A armies might exceed my BA collection in terms of numbers. A small 100 point game to start will tell me.
After I play this game next week, I promise to post an AAR

Regarding playing BA rules with A&A figures- I know it can be done easily. Audacity GMed a large game at Maize-con II. I have played a few other times and the rules and figures fit very well together.

So, if you want to play Bolt Action rules but don't have thousands of dollars to buy, assembly, and paint BA figures you can use A&A figures with no problems.

My A&A collection is well in the thousands perhaps 4000 figures all nations.
My BA collection is well in the hundreds perhaps 250 figures, Canada and Germany only.

I will report back if I A&A rules work with BA figures.

My friend and I had a chance to play AAM using Bolt Action figures.

It went very well and the game was fun

He was Italy and I was Canada for 100 points each.
We used 4 X AAAF maps from the Angles 20 set. Worked great, we played using the forest hexes on the original maps but any map configuration could be made with tiles or even 3D terrain.

If you have a BA collection it can easily be used with AAM rules on the large hex maps.

OK. We played across the short distance of the 4 X AAAF maps which was only 8 hexes. The maps have two large tracts of forest which blocked LOS from many positions and caused us to meet in close combat for many battles. The objectives were dead centre and at the outside edge of each forest in the centre.

Italians used: Semovente 75mm, 2 X Carro M/40, small tankette, and autoblinda AC plus infantry; hero, 2 X Alpine, Breda Modella, 2 X Fucille inf, MG, light Brixa mortar and 47mm ATG

Canadians used: Sherman, Stuart (Honey), 6 pdr ATG, hero, Inspiring Lieu, EE NCO, MG, 3" mortar, spotter, Sten gun, Can inf, 

Italians had a numerical advantage for both armour and infantry but no commander which helped the Canucks gain initiative.

The Italians armour avoided the 6 pdr untill the final round when it damaged and disrupted a Carro M/40 but it was not enough. The Sherman and the Semovente 75 exchanged fire and eventually destroyed each other. The Autoblinda danced around but was destroyed before it could do much damage. The little tankette was destroyed but not before it shot up the NCO. It was like a little annoying wasp or bee.
The Canadian hero was destroyed by defensive fire from the light Brixa motar while trying to close assault the tankette. He rolled 3 dice: 2 X sixes and 1 X five for the kill
The Italian hero was destroyed by the 3" mortar on the final turn to clear him off an objective.
The Honey screwed up and forgot who went first on turn 5 and drove out in front of the M/40's and was destroyed without inflicting any damage 
There was very few units left at the end of turn 7:  Italian-  2 X Carro M/40 (one  Des & Dam), 2 X Fucille;   Canada- Ins Lieu, Can inf, 3" mortar, spotter, 6 pdr
The game ended in a tie with one objective each and one contested.

The Italian BA figures look remarkable like the pics on the AAM cards which made it very easy to identify them. The Canadians were close and not a problem for identification.

It is almost necessary to use the same pose for a specific unit eg: the Italian Alpine troops were the same pose and Fucille Infantry too. This makes ID easy and avoids any confusion. 

This is a limiting factor for this game. A collector needs several units of the same pose (as for AAM) to work. It just means that I need more BA figures   

I need more BA figures.

Where's my wallet??