Northern Lights

Northern Lights is a one day open Bolt Action competition, and although players can score points for the Scottish championship it is geared towards the newer player. We encourage newcomers to the game to take part, and even have a wee prize for the newcomer who does best called “Swimming with Sharks”. The competition conforms to the legislation laid down by the Bolt Action Scotland group, and is always run as a fund raiser for the local wargames club and the Royal British Legion branch (Oldmachad) which plays host to us. As our only real cost as a club is the rent, we usually pay half of what is raised in rent for the WARG club and the rest as a straight donation. This year we plan to pay a larger sum of the monies raised to the Legion as a donation because the roof needs fixed.
The competition itself is open to anyone, provided they pay £15.00 for entry (which includes food throughout the day) and they field (this year 1250) Bolt Action force drawn from the main rule book. (As only Armies of Germany is available as yet we feel it is fairer this way) The basic guideline being spend a third of your points on your rifle platoon, and the rest as you please.
As it is only the third V3 competition in Scotland so far we are looking forward to the learning curve for the new game. It will be interesting as we have allowed only 2 hours per game, so those with a huge bucket of order dice may find they are not completing their games.