Warhammer 40K Alternatives by Victoria Miniatures

If you are on the lookout for some alternatives to Games Workshop Warhammer 40k miniatures, Check out Victoria Miniatures. They offer some fantastic vehicles which we'll focus on here, but they also have a nice line of figures. Here's the Matilda Fury Assault Tank!

For those who play Bolt Action or other World War Two games, this is a nice hybrid of historic and futuristic! Most of the Victoria products are are sculpted by Victoria Lamb, the owner, and cast in fine resin. Jake Schneider does the designing and sculpting of hardware, weapons and the vehicles. All of the kits are 28mm Heroic scale so will blend well with any Warhammer 40K armies.

The Matilda Fury kit includes 4 turret cannon options: Gatling Cannon, Plasma Cannon, Laser Cannon and the Bombard. Also 2 hull gun options included: Laser Cannon and Heavy Bolter.

The Matilda Boss Battle Tank has the distinct early war style riveted turret and armour plates.

The Boss kit includes 4 turret cannon options: Tank Slayer Cannon, Battle Cannon, Nuclear Fire Cannon and Twin Auto Cannon. Also 2 hull gun options included: Laser Cannon and Heavy Bolter.

The Matilda tanks have insets to accept magnets 1/4 inch diameter x 1/32 inch thick. Two can be used for the turret mount and four can be used for each of the removable sponson side panels.

There is a Matilda tank swappable sponson Panel set available separately.

It includes left and right interchangeable sponsons with Plasma Cannon, Heavy Flamer, Heavy Bolter and Fusion Cannon options. An extra Turret Cannon set is also available separately.

If these two beasts weren't enough for you, the Kangaroo APC is now available!

It's a highly detailed alternative transport option for you troops. So check out Victoria Miniatures regiments of the Galaxies Finest figures!!

Have A Great Battle!
The Old Crow

Armoured Fury! Bolt Action Tank War Starter Set Pre-Order from Warlord Games

Available from Warlord Games to pre-order is Armoured Fury, a special starter set containing everything you need to play Bolt Action Tank War! Please note this is a pre-order product and is due to be released end of October 2014. Any other products ordered at the the same time will be held until it is ready to go!

Armoured Fury allows you to dive into action as either an American Sherman tank commander or become a Panzer commander of lethal Panther tanks. Filled with loads of awesome plastic tanks this boxed set is not only a great way to get started with Bolt Action Tank War but is superb value too!

You get 3 plastic 1:56 scale M4 Sherman medium tanks and 2 plastic 1:56 scale Panther Ausf. A medium tanks. The Panthers runs 32.00 USD individually and an armored platoon of 3 Shermans would cost another 80.00 USD. The Armoured Fury box set costs only 128.00 which saves you 16.00 right off the bat.

Then in addition to the five tank models, you also receive:
Bolt Action mini-rule book
Tank War supplement
Scenario booklet
10 six-sided dice
5 Bolt Action Orders Dice
Quick reference sheet
60 card Pin Markers and 2 Rulers (need cutting out)

The scenario booklet eases you into the game with four scenarios each escalating in scale until you’re ready to add more to your fledgling armored formations. So whether you’re a die-hard Bolt Action player or new to the game completely this will get you up to speed quickly.

Bolt Action Tank War allows you to play the award-winning Bolt Action game with armored formations as opposed to the more usual infantry-heavy forces. So, now your tanks can stalk the Normandy bocage, swarm across the open Russian steppes, duel with the enemy in the desert or ambush your foes in the steamy jungles of the Pacific!

Tank War is already proving to be an extremely popular way to play Bolt Action and Armoured Fury is the ideal way to join the action!

Have a Great Battle!
The Old Crow