"How many BA Armies do you have?" Topic

Another question came to me which is how many Bolt Action Armies do you have out there.

For myself I have the following?

Japanese
German
Soviets
British
American
Italian

For myself the Japanese and Americans are my biggest with the Germans and Soviets following up.

My Italians are my smallest with only 2 squads and 2 armored vehicles.

I do plan on getting some French and build up on some of my excisting armies.

Now as of now I've not had a chance to play any BA games but that'll change this Saturday when I get to use my Japanese and US Maines in 2 small games and I plan on taking some pictures as well.

Canadian

Me and she have…Canadians, British Home Guard, Heer, Waffen SS, Falschirmjagers, US Airborne and Sikhs (hers), UK Airborne, Japanese (his).

British (1944-45 European Theater)
US (1944-45 European Theater)
German (Late War)
Russian (Mid-Late War) (Incomplete)

Japanese
US Marines
Early War French
Early War Germans
Mid/Late War Germans
Early War British

Pretty good sized Japanese, USMC, and Early French forces completed with supports, vehicles, etc.

Still working on expanding the Germans (early/mid/late). I have the vehicles, but need more infantry (in my opinion).

Need to really expand the Early War British.

Technically none because I don't play Bolt Action but if I did it would be

Mid/Late War Germans
Mid/Late War Canadians
Mid War Soviets

British BEF & 1944-45 NWE

Late war Germans
Russians
some US troops not an army's worth

None. Even though I do play BA with mates sometimes I'm not interested in starting my own WW2 skirmish forces.

Canadians
Maoris
DAK
Spanish Nationalists
Spanish Republicans

4 painted, 3 unpainted

I have Japanese. I hope to do Partisans later this year.

None although I have plenty of WWII historically based PL/COYS. However they do not convert well to BA as they would perform very poorly in the system. Which means all the armies in WWII got it wrong or………..

Just the one..late war US.

German
Soviets
British

All painted

None, I sell them not collect them.

BEF
Belgians
Dutch
French
Greeks
Heer
Fallschirmjager

Italian
Russian
Finnish
US

8. US Army, US Airborne, LW British, British Airborne, LW German Heer/Wehrmacht, LW Waffen SS, LW Fallschirmjager, Red Army.

Are you only counting 28mm? I play mine in 1/72,in which case I have 3,ew German,French and Poles.

Germans, assorted time periods and types of army. British, late war. American, late war, airborne and armor forces.

So far,just a squad of Partisans.

Built and painted:
US (1944-45 NWE)
German (Late War)
Still in package:
British (1944-45 NWE)
1 squad of Fallschirmjagers

:)))
I have 20 & 28mm collections to play WW2 skirmish actions with.
The 20mm forces – NW Europe, and Eastern Front – which were bought and painted way before Bolt Action ever came around, but since they were organized to standard TOEs, they work with BA too (that's the way us old gamers went about building our "armies"). ;)

4 squads DAK and 1 squad engineers DAK painted.
4 squads Italians painted.
4 squads 8th army painted.
2 squads Blackshirts (conversions, partially painted, WIP).
2-3 squads Askaris/Ethiopians painted (basic native troops).
2 squads Indians painted.1 squad engineers 8th army painted.
4 squads FFL.
4 squads Ramke.
4 squads of U.S.
Plus enough support equipment for 2 platoons each force (ATGs, MMGs, mortars, many officers and NCOs, specialist troops etc.)
About 200 tanks and armored cars and trucks and 1/2 tracks. (About 140 painted.)
Got rid of all my other theater troops. Concentrating on just N. Africa. Had maybe 150 Russians and 120 or so Germans.

US Army (1944-1945)
US Airborne (1944-1945)
Germany (1944-1945)
Waffen SS (1944-1945)

German
US Army
US Airborne
US Marines
Tanks, Lots of em

Charles M.

Added 2 more partisan squads.

I have a massive British mid/ late army. 50 some vehicles, a company of airborne, a company of commandos, and 2 companies of regular infantry.

I also have a platoon of German assault engineers, with three engineering halftracks, and 3 King Tigers and some other vehicles support.

My father has a bunch of German and US stuff, which i can also use when we game.

And I picked up some Germans w/PPSh smg's ,using them as Eastern Front partisans w/captured uniforms.

Five:
Polish (1939)
British (BEF – 1940)
German (1939-1941)
Soviet (1941)

Italian (1940-1941)
(next up will be UK for the desert 1940-1941)
(and DAK 1941)

17 all over 1000 points.

1940 BEF
1940 Belgian Chasseur Ardennais
1940 Heer
1940 French
1940 SS (Unpainted)
1940 Fallschrmjager
1944 British Paratroop
1944 British
1944 SS
Japanese Army
USMC
New Guinea Australians
Desert Australians
Desert Gurkhas
DAK (Unpainted)
Burma or Italian Campaign Gurkhas – unpainted as yet to decide
Winter Russian

I will be buying the new plastic Warlord US and will probably sell my Perry DAK and Desert Aussies for the new Warlord Plastic ones.

1940 French
French Resistant FFI/Jedburgh
French SAS
Gurkhas Burma
Super heroes (Redskull, Captain American Sgt Grey…)

My Club:
1940 werhmacht
Japanese Army
USMC
New Guinea Australians
Red Army WW2

Amicalement

US Late War Regulars

US Rangers

US Marines (unpainted)

US Airborne (unpainted)

British Late War Infantry (unpainted)

British Paras

British Desert Rats

Japanese Infantry (unpainted)

Soviet Regulars/Horde

French Regulars

German Heer

German Fallschirmjager

German DAK

Chinese Nationalists 1937 Shanghai – Empires in Flames: The Pacific and the Far East

Philippines Anti-Japanese – Partisans Proxy : Armies of France and the Allies

IJA Kwangtung 1937 – Empires in Flames: The Pacific and the Far East

USMC Guadalcanal – Armies of the United States

US Infantry
US Airborne
British Airborne
British
German (Heer/SS/FJ mix).
DAK
Soviet (starter from Battle of Berlin set)

Mid war and late war US Army
Early and Late War German Heer
Fallschrimjaeger
SS late war
Russians
Early War french
Partisans

Lots of russians, lots of Germans, Americans next.

SWMBO now also has DAK and 8th Army.

Brit Airborne, Commandos, and regular. Early/ Mid/ and Late Germans.

My father has US and Germans, mid-late war

Mid/Late War Heer
1944-45 US Army
1944 US Paratroopers

The Bolt Action gaming scene is rolling again around here now; so in addition to my old and large Canadian force, i've recently added Germans for a matched-pair.

And it looks like the North African theatre will be heating up with new releases in September from Warlord, so I've just begun ordering stuff to build Free French for North Africa.

Americans
Germans
Soviet Union
Italian
Japanese

Of all of them, the Italians can fight any of the others and stay historical. The Italians and Japanese had a few dust ups around the Italian consulate in Hong Kong, I think.

SWMBO has now also acquired winter US and Germans for 1944.

Am valiantly attempting to avoid any acquisitions for Seabees until the Free French are on the gaming table!

We also use BA for Vietnam.

Starting work on early war (Blitzkrieg Germans and BEF British) with two forces (not a lot of local gamers, but with two armies, I can invite someone to play). Somehow ended up with some US and Chindits boxes (clearance sale), plus the US Airborne from the starter box.

Germans in Normandy
Germans in Ardennes
Germans in Hungary
Winter Germans
Italians (not played yet)
Russians
French in the desert
French in Indochina
Japanese
US Paratroopers (not played yet)
British Paratroopers

DAK in progress
US Marines planned
Hungarians planned
Germans in Berlin planned

We're going to have a shot at Commonwealth intervention in NEI/Indonesia…that's got to be unusual! We also use Bolt Action for 1944-5 in 54mm and we have used it for SWMBO's Indian Mutiny collection with the normal unit being a 12 to 16 figure 'company' which has worked remarkably well.