Warlord Game’s global campaign will begin in a little less than a month. So how does one participate? Let’s take a look
Operation Critical Hit is a global campaign for Warlord Games’ three World War 2 game systems: Bolt Action, Blood Red Skies and Victory at Sea. To participate, players will need a force for one of these three games and an opponent. Warlord has multiple starter sets perfect for two players just starting out in any of these games. Here is a quick rundown of them:
Band of Brothers
Owing it’s name and focus to the excellent book and HBO miniseries of the same name, this starter box features forces from the North Western European theater of combat. US Airborne and German Grenadiers duke it out amidst smoldering ruins.
A Gentleman’s War
This starter features two famous armies from earlier in the war, the British 8th Army and the German Afrika Korps. Both factions in this box get an armored car, a staple in my Bolt Action armies, as well as a couple squads of soldiers.
Island Assault!
Some of the hardest fighting in the war was in the Pacific theater between the forces of Imperial Japan and the US Marine Corps. This box comes with loads of infantry, an American halftrack, a Japanese tank and a bunker.
Blood Red Skies – The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway in the Pacific Theater was dominated by aircraft, and this starter set gets you in the thick of the action. It contains a squadron of American Wildcats and another of Japanese Zeros.
Victory at Sea – Battle for the Pacific
Though Midway was dominated by aircraft, there was plenty of ship to ship fighting in the Pacific. This boxed set gives you starting fleets for the US and Japanese navies.
Combined Arms
Can’t decide which game you want to play? Then Combined Arms is the box for you! It is designed as both a stand-alone board game that can be played in an evening and a campaign system for these three game systems that players can use when not participating in a global campaign.
Operation Critical Hit will take place across four hex-based theater maps. Warlord has previewed the map for the Mediterranean theater and it is shown below. According to Warlord, hexes will rotate in and out of “active” action each week to denote which areas are being contests. The week’s results will determine control of those hexes. Players can log the results of their game either through a website Warlord is setting up for the purpose, or at a participating, local game store.
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