A Beginners Guide to Playing the Japanese | Bolt Action! 

BANZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've build an Australian army and I'm waiting for my friend to build a Japanese one so we can recreate the battle of Kokoda. I'll send him this video.

This is tempting me a bit to start Bolt Action

I also recommend the awesome low point cost combo of a regular Type 95 Ha-Go in the tank slot, and a Type 92 Tankette in your armored car slot. That's 2 armor 7 whips. Turn the turret around 180 on the Ha-Go, and you got twin MMGs, and the Type 92 has a MMG, and a HMG, plus the Recce special Rule. Low Point cost, highly effective!

love the bolt action content! would love to see the brit’s next!

While most people do the usual Banzai melee builds, you can for sure make them a shooting army. And even when you’re playing them that way, you can still fall back to charging in if need be. It’s not like you suddenly lose those abilities.

Been waiting on this one. My grandpa fought in the Pacific. Looking forward to getting a Japanese army to be an OpFor.

I find it very interesting being suggested this video after Mordian Glory uploaded something about GWs obsolescence of their own models.

Love the Grenadier squads they are a sort of cheap multi launcher if they have 2 or 3 Type 89 knee mortars. As you can split fire them since they are indirect weapons.

"Errmegerrrd! I mean, you must have issues considering all the horrible things Japan did in Asia! Wow mate, that says a lot about you!" - Guy MWM, probably.

The fact that they are a “Melee” army in a WW2 game is actually very sad when you think about the “Why”

Another Japanese player! Yay!

Thanks man. I just bought three infantry boxes so this very helpful.

You had me pricing starter sets last video let's see if I get through this one without pulling the card out.

I am able to pick up the starter set in my local store for ridiculous cheap price x) and Im so tempted! Its probably the only Wargame my gf wants to play haha

i mostly lost trying to charge my (one and only so far) enemy, who mostly plays germans. my army gets mown down very quickly when i try to close the gap, especially in the last few inches on reaction fire. granted we are both new players, so maybe japan is just harder to play properly (for beginners) or it might just be me. however i came around on support weapons when i realized how cheap my options are and i started just building a cheap rifle defensive line and dealing damage almost purely by bombardment and support weapons, which finally secured me some wins. my strategy is basicly bombarding the F out of him with cheap support units, forcing him to come to me, and when he gets in range i can banzai from out of cover (ideally). id be interested if or how much special theatre units are frowned upon though, since im using them to pad out my gunline (for example IJA MG section, which are not included in the base army book). my current list looks something like this: Second Lieutenant +1dude (vet) 5 Grenadiers with 1 light Mortar (reg) 12 Basic Infantry (reg) political Officer (inex) medic (vet) 2x12 militia (inex, green) maxed(11) MMG section (reg) med mortar +spotter (reg) 2x lunge mine (inex) 20mm AA (reg) or 70mm infantry gun (vet) T92 Tankette (reg) ho-ro (reg) in total i have something like 48 rifle dudes, 2 mortars, 1 howitzer, 1 MMG, 1 HMG+MMG and a 20mm (or another howitzer) + cookies edit: also i got the ho-ro and t92 tankette thanks to your older army list videos and i really like them, so thanks :3 i also love the 70mm infantry gun, its cheap even as veteran and a very tough call. its not super dangerous, but its an absolute workhorse if it lives long enough, very hard to kill with gunshield+vet. so my opponent always has to decide wether he wastes a big boy gunshot on it (like medium anti-tank or something like that) or tries to ignore it. absolute MVP unit, love it

I played my first game with them in a demo game with 500 pts from Island Assault, against a small US army. I forgot about this video, and played them like normal. With my sheer numbers, I manned to pull ahead before I had to leave. This gives me some things to think about.

Was just wondering about how to play the Japanese and what video do I see in my sub feed? Lucky me

Great Bootcamp here 😁 boys over toys is a golden Key

Greetings , do you recommend inex troops? How is the ideal mix of them. Tks!

While I do not play BA, I’ve heard that the IJ are quite tricky if not outright bad due their lack of tanks and big guns. So it is nice to hear some upsides and way to play the army. It might not be a force for me personally, but I do respect the play style.

Came to the comments to find Tikki... he must be hiding in the grass

The Japanese may have tried to take over my family's home nation, the Fillipines. But they have my favorite type of army building. Mass swarm infantry

Quite funny. I already purchased Japanese before watching this. Except for buying the Japan half of the island asualt set, everything else purchased was boxes of infantry, artillery, weapons teams. Massive unwieldy infantry units. I do have a combined arms unit, vets, paras if necessary, added a light tank and armored car. I prefer cheap armor where needed. Havent played them yet but in my head and on paper they will hopefully preform with the right strategy/tactics with mortors, arty etc and virtually no infantry upgrades except boosts like flags etc. PIN, PIN PIN. ASSAULT, ASSAULT, ASSAULT! Wish me luck 🤞

2:05 What’s the name of the music in the background here at this part? ngl it goes pretty hard

Are you ever gonna do a Japanese battle report?

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So Ork boyz basically.

LMGs are historically accurate in the squads even if they were crappy light machine guns. Note I saw no warnings on not being "that guy" by bringing squads of spearmen backed up by Ho-ros and heavy artillery. Biggest cheesedick army in bolt action. I have seen people simply walk away in tournaments rather than waste time playing these guys.

How dare you collect an army that have done atrocities in Asia during world war 2!! Maybe you're too into it?? 😂 But in seriousness, boys over toys tactics and japanese tanks is the turn off for me collecting this army. Their ships though, I'm afraid to start collecting models on that..