This has been sitting here unfinished for a while, and it seems time to put it up. To give some quick background, miniature gaming, a.k.a. miniature wargaming, is a hobby where people play games designed to recreate or simulate historical battles. These come in a variety of flavors, sizes, and degrees of complexity.
Bolt Action is a set of rules used to recreate World War Two conflict where one figure represents on man or vehicle. The rules are quite popular and well supported with a large range of 28mm scale figures for a variety of nations although, naturally, any historical figures in this or a similar scale can be used. The rules are quite playable, meaning that they do not get too bogged down in complex or unnecessary detail, yet, in my experience, the tactics that worked in the field of battle during the war also work on the tabletop so I like them, although I should probably mention that I've only played the game about half a dozen times.
A couple years ago at the Schenectady Wargamers Association monthly gameathon, a large multiplayer game of Bolt Action was played, intended to simulate what the Normandy landing was like. Here are some photos of the game.
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