Warlord Games - A Gentleman's War Starter Set unboxing and review

Wi Project Manager James 'unboxes' and reviews the latest Warlord Games Bolt Action A Gentleman's War Starter Set.
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[@markhume3503]

A good set nice vehicles and figures. Only real gripe and perhaps a bit dishonest of Warlord, is that with the parts in the box you can't build the configurations shown in the booklet and on the video. For example, the booklet shows 7 DAK figures in prone position, but you only get 4 prone figures. Same with the Brits the booklet shows 18 standing figures but only 16 standing figures in the box. Not much of an issue for experienced gamers but if you are brand new it could be confusing.

[@porgstew3657]

So whats up with that prone soldier on the left at 6:00? He just re-imagining his childhood? Running around in the fields with a finger gun 🤣🤣

[@giuseppe196424]

great set, hope they'll release the vehicules separately

[@user-um1xo9ed1x]

By the way, me and the lad have just acquired the starter kits for Brits & Jerries' in late war, Brit & Canadian and German Grenadiers and they come with a decent bunch of heavy weapons selections. Not so cheap in Oz but still a decent buy.

[@basicminiaturepainting]

Now this starter set I may buy

[@craigerycocoa9669]

I’m interested in picking up this set but would want to possibly use the figures/parts for Warhammer 40k, would anybody know if the sizes are similar to Cadians? I’d like to build a whole army using the Bolt Action figures and pieces

[@wesspears9238]

Good plug didn't realize I was yet to sub

[@MrTheswayzeexpress]

Great video! Any ideas what paints are best for the afrikakorps and eight army?

[@Notashortmidget]

Flames of war does a desert rats- Afrika Korps paint set, and sonic sled hammer is a UA-camr I use to paint them. He has tutorials for eight army and Afrika Korps, and then Afrika Korps vehicles. The paints that come in the set are what he uses, and it is great.

[@J0hnnieP]

What company were those vehicles purchased from? I want at LEAST two of my dioramas.

[@notanimefan]

warlordgames

[@jamesripley6712]

Who made the armored cars for Warlord , Italeri or Plastic Soldier Company ?

[@markhume3503]

Looking at them on the sprues they the Humber has Warlord Games the Skz 222 nothing but made in Italy on the bag so I'm guessing Italieri.

[@SaxonChronicles]

what painting!

[@user-um1xo9ed1x]

Have to say that the paint jobs are very good but I do not like that weathering patterns. Nobody seems to realise that the one thing soldiers do when they are not fighting and shooting their weapons is they are cleaning them. Rifles are cleaned daily and after every time they are fired because fouling means stoppages. The same for the vehicles. They are washed and serviced during down times and the massive scrapes of bare metal just would not be there. I have a book on the British army and on the back cover there is a colour photo of a crew preparing the pull through on the 6pdr gun of a Mk III Crusader tank. There is none of the weathering on this vehicle that modelers like to paint in and this was a vehicle fighting in Tunisia. That means it went from Egypt, through Libya and into Tunisia and was kept in top shape by its crew and I imagine REME. I get that dust build up and dirt caked onto the underside of the vehicles happened. But it was regularly cleaned off.

[@Dyeguy5]

Not an unboxing

[@olympiangamers7007]

Frustrating to see the “gentleman’s war”/“war without hate” narrative come from Warlord again, when it comes to North Africa both sides committed various atrocities and were far from gentlemanly

[@matthewpalmer7184]

I mean, what do you expect, they gotta play to their clientèle of mostly aging boomers and Gen Xers who grew up on the "Myth of the Good Wehrmacht" and "Waffen-SS were just soldiers."

[@rastamann2009]

Compared to the Eastern front or the Pacific? Please...

[@gottagainzlmao8940]

Well it was the most ’gentlemanly’ theatre of the war with plenty of stories from veterans about sharing shell craters with the enemy(ducking from artillery) and being let go by enemy patrols. Some sections of the front even had agreements between opposing commanders about fighting times and prisoner exchanges.
No theatre was ever clean, but north africa was at least cleaner than the rest.

[@Havermeyer7908]

@Olympian Gamers
In the nicest way possible, I think this one flew over your head and you missed the satire.
Warlord games is perfectly aware of the nature of the North African war. They call it that because it so plainly wasn’t. I’m sure you know that they put out another WW2 game called “Cruel Seas” which is not a very jingoistic name. It’s taken from the title of a book about someone’s experience in the Atlantic war which are not particularly rosey.

[@porgstew3657]

@@matthewpalmer7184 who said that? I believe that not all germans are bad but that goes way over the line of crazy wrong.