This past weekend on October 1-2
gamers got together at the Michigan GT in Lansing, MI to play a ton of Bolt
Action. We held two events – the Bolt Action Back to the Front! singles tournament and the Bolt Action Best Job I Ever Had! Tank War
tournament.
Everything went great. Everyone had
fun, there were no blow-ups or rules arguments, everyone was pretty casual and
friendly. We had 20 guys for Back to the Front and 12 for Tank War. This is a
definite improvement from last year, where we had 16 guys for Back to the Front
(this was our first year for Tank War). Shout out to our Chicago contingent
that showed up and represented well.
The GT was run well by the organizers with registration being easy and tables having enough space to play. The 40k
announcements got old for most players but they’re looking at solutions for
next year. I am very proud of the main organizer folks – this event has gone
from just a 40k tournament to a mini-con that can definitely grow to be
something really special. I would advise all who can attend next year to make
time to do so.
Running the tournaments was relatively painless for Paul and
I. He did most of the heavy lifting for the BTTF tournament and I did most of
it for the Tank War tournament. We ended up having to do V1 as many players’
rulebooks had not yet arrived, so most people were pretty well versed in the
rules. I was very happy with that!
Germans were very popular over the weekend, with six out of
the ten Axis on Saturday playing Germans, and six out of six Axis on Sunday
playing Germans. Here are the final standings:
Bolt Action Back to
the Front! Tournament
|
Place
|
Name
|
Score
|
Award
|
Army Played
|
|
1
|
Geoffrey Wing
|
15.1846
|
Best Allied
|
British
|
|
2
|
Dexter Wallis
|
15.1737
|
Best Axis
|
German
|
|
3
|
Ed Kaiser
|
12.3972
|
Best Minor
|
Italian
|
|
4
|
Thomas Grambau
|
12.0588
|
Soviet
|
|
|
5
|
Aaron Cain
|
11.1953
|
German
|
|
|
6
|
Paul Stewart
|
11.1798
|
Best Paint
|
USMC
|
|
7
|
Edin Trisc
|
11.1601
|
German
|
|
|
8
|
Joe Harter
|
11.1151
|
Japanese
|
|
|
9
|
Luke Hess
|
11.0967
|
Italian
|
|
|
10
|
Jeremy Groat
|
11.0891
|
German
|
|
|
11
|
Jeff McCoy
|
11.0321
|
Hanoswag
|
German Ramke Brigade
|
|
12
|
Brandon Pung
|
8.1240
|
German
|
|
|
13
|
Seamus Hamrin
|
8.0498
|
No. 10 Inter-Allied Commando
|
|
|
14
|
Andrew Verticchio
|
7.1374
|
Best Sportsmanship
|
Australian Chindits
|
|
15
|
Taylor Dietz
|
7.1192
|
Soviet
|
|
|
16
|
Patrick Cotter
|
4.0655
|
Soviet
|
|
|
17
|
Will Kochis
|
3.0647
|
British Commandos
|
|
|
18
|
Josh Tousignant
|
3.0570
|
Soviet
|
|
|
19
|
Robert Taylor
|
3.0463
|
British
|
|
|
20
|
Marc Loosevelt
|
3.0369
|
Americans
|
Bolt Action Best Job I
Ever Had! Tank War Tournament
|
Place
|
Name
|
Score
|
Award
|
Army Played
|
|
1
|
Josh Tousignant
|
15.227100
|
Wardaddy (best overall)
|
Soviet
|
|
2
|
Thomas Grambau
|
12.094000
|
German Stug Battery
|
|
|
3
|
Geoff Wing
|
11.967300
|
American
|
|
|
4
|
Dexter Wallis
|
11.167000
|
Sportsmanship
|
German
|
|
5
|
Ed Kaiser
|
11.134300
|
British
|
|
|
6
|
Paul Bucholz
|
7.811700
|
Squeaky Clean (best paint)
|
German DAK
|
|
7
|
Luke Hess
|
7.211500
|
Hanoswag
|
American Stuart Battalion
|
|
8
|
Marc Loosevelt
|
7.201800
|
German
|
|
|
9
|
Bob Mills
|
7.107300
|
German
|
|
|
10
|
Brandon Pung
|
4.188300
|
German
|
|
|
11
|
Jeff McCoy
|
4.027900
|
|
American
|
Some of the notes we received on the feedback – try not to use an attacker / defender mission, use second edition next year, and people really liked the Kittyhawk Down mission. On day one we played Maximum Attrition, Kittyhawk Down, and Point Defense. On day two we played a few more casual missions – one where you have to hold five objective markers on the board, one where the defender holds the center point of the board with two units before the game starts and the winner holds the objective at the end of the game, and an attrition based mission with some special rules – dust storm, minefield, and all infantry had anti-tank grenades. These were all created by using the Tank War book.
Huge thanks to all of our amazing sponsors:
Erik Sims painting
I can’t really say much more about the events, I’m beat. We
had a lot of fun, tons of Bolt Action happened, including a kitty hawk crashing
into two buildings and blowing one up. I’ve uploaded a ton of images to Imgur –
check them out!
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