Jul 29, 2026 · 48 min · 12 segments
Ben is back for Episode 97! This week we're looking back at the Bolt Action Welsh Nationals in Cardiff, discussing the event, standout armies, the evolving tournament meta and some of the biggest…
I had a lot of fun.
What about you, Ben?
Yeah, yeah, it was great.
And you see all the usual faces.
And what's nice is you see some more of the Welsh players that you don't get to meet often in other tournaments.
So it was lovely to meet and play a couple of the locals and not so local Welsh contingency.
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah.
There was 40 players in total, two days of gaming, five games.
There were, I think about half the players were new, completely fresh to a tournament, which was really nice to see.
Although on my tables, you wouldn't have guessed it because I played.
Four of the five people I'd played, I played before.
Yeah.
which is a bit of a shame when you go all that way but it's kind of the look of the draw isn't it a lot of the time
it is yeah it was to be fair it was similar for me my first game was was i guess a local player and just it was great fun uh mike fitzsimmons big shout out to you it was a really fun game and yeah great to play play someone he wasn't brand new to the game but it was his first tournament i believe i mean so he'd been playing for a couple of years but uh finally bit the bullet and got the panzer threes on the board and uh Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's nice to see that we're attracting new players to these tournaments.
Talking about it.
I mean, what did you think of the pack? It was 1136, I believe, because that's an important Welsh date.
Is that what it was? Did you not know this? No.
I just thought it was Josh being quirky.
Like,
yeah, let's just disrupt all the lists that are, you know, pre-built for, you know, 1100 or 1250.
I had a lot of fun.
What about you, Ben?
Yeah, yeah, it was great.
And you see all the usual faces.
And what's nice is you see some more of the Welsh players that you don't get to meet often in other tournaments.
So it was lovely to meet and play a couple of the locals and not so local Welsh contingency.
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah.
There was 40 players in total, two days of gaming, five games.
There were, I think about half the players were new, completely fresh to a tournament, which was really nice to see.
Although on my tables, you wouldn't have guessed it because I played.
Four of the five people I'd played, I played before.
Yeah.
which is a bit of a shame when you go all that way but it's kind of the look of the draw isn't it a lot of the time
it is yeah it was to be fair it was similar for me my first game was was i guess a local player and just it was great fun uh mike fitzsimmons big shout out to you it was a really fun game and yeah great to play play someone he wasn't brand new to the game but it was his first tournament i believe i mean so he'd been playing for a couple of years but uh finally bit the bullet and got the panzer threes on the board and uh Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's nice to see that we're attracting new players to these tournaments.
Talking about it.
I mean, what did you think of the pack? It was 1136, I believe, because that's an important Welsh date.
Is that what it was? Did you not know this? No.
I just thought it was Josh being quirky.
Like,
yeah, let's just disrupt all the lists that are, you know, pre-built for, you know, 1100 or 1250.
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