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>>97575932
If you are primarily interested in just doing generic battles with smaller forces, Pikeman's lament is fine. It has a point system, has some unit variety, somewhat covers GNW.
For a better scalable two player experience Maurice can be fun, but it's ass to get started with as you need to print out cards for the action deck, and the national identity cards aren't available digitally or scanned anywhere.

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>>97576100
>billhooks
Oh great, I was looking for something just like this. Oh wait, I see it's labeled schizoid content. Guess I'll pass on that.

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>>97576097
I never knew about Norway's civil war period. You always learn something new.

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>>97577541
Just learned about it myself, so I made it the OP post after reading up on it. 110 years of civil war with 24 claimants to the kingship (with most dying in combat) and half a dozen times the country was split in peace deals that I've never heard about until I stumbled upon a random historical reenactors vid while looking up 13th century soldiers gear (the guy in the OP photo, and this vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBnMa8vHlPM).

Seems like a fun period for all scales, with battles of several thousands of men to small armed ambushes and skirmishes between neighbours.

What's the consensus on Spectre Operations?

As OP didn't change the thread question, I'll go for one to kick us off: What was the last /hwg/ you played?

I got in a learner game of ADLG the other day. First time handling the system, and it was a lot of fun. Fairly easy to crunch through, but handles big battlelines moving about very well. I can see why it's popular, although I do feel with more generic systems like it you lose some of the period flavour.

>>97577387
>>97576100
Fucks sake why is it STILL named that. If I make the next OP I'll change it, promise. I'll even do a "this day in military history" to sweeten the deal.

>>97578611
Spectre Ops ver.2 is amazing. Then there was a split up, the creator of v2 left the company and went on to make Asymmetric Warfare which a revised and expanded version of v2, and the company Spectre Miniatures went on to make Spectre Ops v3.

The majority of the Spectre fans play AW, or even v2 still. Spectre Ops version 3 is a "streamlined" version made to appeal to Warhammer players, and loses a lot of the granularity and realism that Asymmetric Warfare and Spectre Ops version 2 had. If you go on the Spectre Operations/Asymmetric Warfare Facebook group, pretty much all the post will be fans playing AW/v2 and the version 3 author is sperging out in the comments shilling his game

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>>97578825
>TQ
Last game I played was.... Asymmetric Warfare. 2022 Ukraine War. I played with my dad two weeks ago.

I'm about to start testing skirmish rulesets for the Napoleonic Wars, to use with the Perry Skirmish in a Box set.
I'm gonna test
>Sharp Practice
>Blood and Bayonets (still need the PDF)
>Musket and Tomahawks
I was considering a Song of Drum and Shakos as well, but it seem to be less men that is in the skirmish box

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>tq
Played Pillage today with the local club. Got trounced but had a great time.
Need to flock my Irish and finish the shields but after that I'm moving on to my Blood and Plunder stuff.
>>97579441
I'm not particularly interested in Napoleonics, but would love to do some stuff set in the 18th century.

>>97579408
Interesting. Think AW would better good for home-brewing sci-fi? I would like something less gamey and shit than Legion and whatever garbage GW puts out for smaller scale games focused on actual tactics.

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Didn't get to post this in the last thread but I saw someone call Junger repetitive. Here's the table of contents for Copse 125.

>>97582155
Yes it could work 100%

>>97579441
That's good looking Russian camo. What'd you do, just base coat, wash and dry brush the lighter camo color?

Can't decide which faction to pick for some WW2 wargaming.
I like the early Soviets (Spanish Civil War, Khalkhin Gol, Winter War), same with the Germans. US, UK I don't really dig the look of.
Japan perhaps? I barely know anything about them but their army has the interbellum vibe I enjoy.

>>97585837
Yes, that's exactly what I did. Nowadays they are using any Chinese multicam mass produced shit they can find, but early war 2022 was kino and they were still using the sexy ratnik EMR camo, which is what I tried to convey here

>>97586106
I am a bit of a German (Nazi) sympathizer myself and the German aesthetic is elite, but I do enjoy playing Soviets. Surprisingly they are very underplayed by WW2 wargamers, and they are easy to paint. I have seen more Jap players than Soviets players online and in IRL, which is kinda absurd to me

>>97586156
Soviets feel a bit boring to me personally because as a nerdy kid in Russia I used to be a military history buff (we had a really cool former partisan babushka in our school who organized field trips to the museums and historic sites, meetings with the veterans etc) and both the Soviets and the Germans were obvious my primary interests.
Nowadays I prefer transitional periods more. Hence the mentioning of the 30s conflicts.
It's a surprise to hear that Japan seems to be more prevalent. They tend to be overlooked. Especially their early ground operations in China, USSR.
Forgot to mention the French. Early war French are pretty cool too with their blue greatcoats and multicolored colonials.
I'll probably go for late 30s Japan. A good reason to get some books on them.

>>97586383
French are very under played. Japan is popular because of weebs

>>97586156
Do you live in the USA? The USA tends to completely overshadow the USSRs contributions in WW2 in school and any victories are passed off as due to lend-lease. Enemy at the gates did irreperable damage to the USSRs image because people think the movie is historical fact and thats how they fought the war. Most people in the USA also think Stalin was just as bad as Hitler while republicans especially in the south think that he was worse than Hitler and that we should have fought the communists in addition to the nazis.

So TLDR
>Soviets get little or no credit for any contributions in WW2 or they're passed off as beind due to lend-lease
>People see the Soviets as bad guys just as much as the nazis
>Republicans and Southerners see them as worse than the nazis
>Everyone thinks they fought every war through human waves and sheer numbers alone

So that makes them really unpopular because we never fought them in WW2 so unlike Germany where people buy them to play as the villians nobody is going to play them because you can't historically throw them against the USA. I'm sure they'd be more popular in a post WW2 setting when they became the #1 go to bad guys for media.

>>97568201
>Is bolt action 3rd ed a decent place get into historicals? I'm just looking for something that's fun, not geedubs and would allow me to tickle my history autism once in a while.
As a BA hater myself honestly it's probably not a bad place to start. It's got Rick Priestley's DNA, it's going to feel comfortable if you played 3rd or 4th ed 40k particularly, with some improvements such as the activation mechanics. You might find you have some 40k refugees in your area already playing it. I don't like the super compressed ground scale (arguable that it really has one at all, but that's an aside), but it does reduce the amount of terrain you'll need to make if you are starting completely fresh. Once established you can use the same models for other games at a similar engagement size.

If I was looking to start WWII I'd probably go something in 15mm as I want to play a wider variety of systems, but 28mm has a strong following for reinforced platoon level games.

>>97568264
>if the autism is heavily on crunchy reenactment you might be better off with Chain of Command or something
This fun vs. realism shit is a false dichotomy. A lot of historical writers want their games to elegantly reflect the aspects of the era and command scale that they think are important, and not just pile on crunch. Lardies included.

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>>97587017
You're surprised that a tv show in the 90s didn't have CGI, or that a pre-HBO Rome tv show didn't have an obnoxiously large budget? Are you too young to remember these times?

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>>97587017
If we do it on the table they get to do it on the screen.

That being said there is something magical about 1:1 in both mediums

The number of ai images I see when searching for historical battles and uniforms has become alarmingly high.

>>97587689
There are browser add-ons to filter out results from AI websites and even detect and remove AI images from search results. Sad that we’re at the point of needing to do that, but the tools to filter out the slop are there.

>>97576097
Anyone picked up Zero Hour from Gripping Beast yet? Seems like they havent shipped it to their US distributor yet and I kinda wanna take a look at the rules

>>97587235
>>97587235
>large budget
How much does it really cost to have a few extras stand there for this shot? Probably just the costs of the cheap felt costume and the ham sandwich provided for lunch

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>>97588675
>How much does it really cost to have a few extras stand there for this shot?
You're talking a 1000 men, maybe half of that to represent actual field strength after casualties and sickness, but that's still 500 men. You're also forgetting health and safety/insurance costs, travel, additional costs in staff to effectively organize them, increased time required to shoot with large groups of people and coordinate them effectively, and god knows what else.

A lot.

It would cost a lot more.

>>97588693
You sound like some gay ass corporate faggot trying to justify overspending. I could single handedly dress right dress 500 extras to stand at attention for 30 seconds to record this single wide angle clip of them. It's a 5 second clip of them literally just standing there

BoltAction noob anon here. Do I understand correctly that BA rules and the sheer amount of choice for the most faction allow me to play any way I like, eg Horde Germans, elite Guards USSR, arty heavy, tank heavy, mechanized whatever regardless of the faction.
Which means I basically pick whatever I like best visually?
Any exceptions to the rule? Like factions that are. truly unique?

>>97586844
all of this is correct though

>>97589428
Yes essentially. But you really shouldn't play an ahistorical list, people don't like it and it comes across as very 40k coded

>>97589658
My idea was to write down what models I like and try to look up a historical force that had those as a starting point.
WW2 is vast so I'm sure pretty much anything is possible.

>>97586844
>Republicans and Southerners see them as worse than the nazis
It's not 1983 any more grandpa, they're big fans of dictatorships where it's legal to batter your wife and gays

Agree about Enemy at the Gates etc but it doesn't help that Soviet records are largely non-existent/restricted so it's harder to theme forces

are there any historicals set in ww1? Are they even worth playing?

>>97591376
Yes, and yes. I played 1918 at Salute last year, and that was pretty fun, and my club does a few games of Through the Mud and Blood each year which I really enjoy. Wargames Atlantic are slowly pushing out more of their WW1 range as well.

>>97591363
This. What the previous Anon mentioned about the misconceptions, inaccuracies surrounding the participation of the USSR in the war also holds for local, Russian, public discourse too.
A lot of it can be attributed, of course, to the post-soviet collapse, where all kind of less than rigorous voices became loud just by virtue of differing from the mainstream historical research.
Another big problem however was the lack of access to the primary sources. Even during the Perestroika and later the classified remained calssified. Thankfully, during the 00s, espeically the last decade, many of those archives became open to the public due to the classified designation simply expiring. The new generation of historians seems to also be more open to sharing their work with the public through lectures, podcasts etc. Unfortunately I haven't yet seen any English-speaking researchers making use of this for obvious reasons, so I can't really share anything novel and fun. It's all in Russian sadly.

>>97591363
I know that sounds like a stretch but republicans especially in the south still carry the cold war mindset that communism is the ideology of mass murdering dictators that want to take over the world and le famines which I mean fair point but that doesn't mean the soviet union wasn't fighting a defensive war and that red army soldiers were fighting to take over europe like they seem to believe.

>>97591957
Europe and the USA also just don't respect Russians and considered them subhuman and non-white until like the 90s so I would say that also plays a part in the inaccuracies.

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>>97589278
>You sound like some gay ass corporate faggot trying to justify overspending.
Literally doing the opposite, but thanks for the live demonstration that you're a retard.

>I could single handedly dress right dress 500 extras to stand at attention for 30 seconds to record this single wide angle clip of them
Do it then. Post the video here. With a timestamp.

>>97592905
>the cold war mindset that communism is the ideology of mass murdering dictators that want to take over the world and le famines
Fuck off. Every time communism's been tried it resulted in thousands if not millions of dead, economic crashes ("le famines") and pinkos like you screeching "iT wAsNt ReAl cOmMuNiSm!!!". Go emigrate to DPRK or kill yourself unironically.
McCarthy was right.

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>no wip posting
>no battle reports
>no projects
/hwg/ has fallens, billions of Toms must die...

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>>97594167
I don't normally like posting WIPs, but I've been working on some Anglo-Saxons for dark age games. Got three Huscarls on the slate at the moment, I'm trying to base the colour schemes on those seen on the Bayeaux tapestry. The Victrix minis are very nice, but some details such as the hoods on almost every mini in maille, the leather edging on the maille, and the Gambeson bodies (ew) are a drawback.

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>>97576097
What table size are you supposed to use for this set? I like the tanks but I don't want to build a huge board.

>>97594380
Hmm, I'm not very fond of their dark ages minis. My buddy who's really into the dark ages called their dark age sets "brohalla" with lots of outdated research and reenactor faults. Are you the anon playing Ravenfeast? I would like to get into that one day with Ragnarok minis.

>>97594412
but where are the underground railways and gun turrets?

>>97594137
>retarded sperg can't even read the rest of my post
What part about "fair point" did you not read dipshit. Communism might be a shit ideology but that doesn't mean every conflict a communist nation fights in is an aggressive war of conquest or that every single individual soldier is then also a low IQ savage rapist, See Vietnam for example.

>>97594412
I assume standard flames of 6x4

How fucky is khaki to paint, anons?

decided to get back working on the 10mm AWI project I've been working on and off on for nearly 3 years lmao
I'm only going to focus on this until I'm done
Painted 2 British battalions this week and went over and varnished a shit load of stuff
aiming to get all the stuff painted so I can play the battles on the day it happened, only need to paint like 4 more units for the Boston campaign

>>97596069
Why aren't you sharing any photos, anon?
I'd like to see your work.

>>97596069
Are you the Tom that painted 10mm AWI years ago for the monthly competition?

>>97594565
Yeah, that's me. I agree with your mate, and try and do what I can to dodge the most egregious examples. Victrix's quality (and price) is the main reason I picked these up, and with some minor changes they work fairly well.

I recommend Ravenfeast though, it's a lot of fun, although I have a few homebrew rules I add to give it a little more depth.

>>97595352
I haven't had any issues with it other than having autistic fits that the shade may slightly deviate from IRL uniforms.

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>>97594167
I have an AAR for a Soviet-Afghan war Kriegsspiel I ran over the past 2 months, using the Hind & Seek rules as a basis.

There were 4 players on each side, mostly separated from each other and with communications friction imposed by mountains or being in combat.
There was total fog of war, with players only being given a small screenshot of their surroundings, and a written report each turn. They would then have to issue written orders, which were interpreted by the Umpire based on the quality of the forces involved, and knowledge of the conflict.
The Soviet company commander spent the whole game drinking in his command shack and almost completely neglected his forces with helicopter support, meanwhile the Mujahideen tried to go toe-to-toe with every soviet they met rather than hitting and running. It was one hell of a game, and ended up being very close.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q0xHWxUYEogUa8cyIFdBt9psExrnvGAksSQGEHB5YQY/edit?usp=sharing

As with other KS games run online play-by-post I ran the whole thing on TTS, then the assistant umpires loaded my module for the current turn, and made their screenshots and wrote reports for the various players. We almost had 1 umpire per player which made for some very cinematic novella reports for each turn.

BoltAction noob here. I'm trying to come up with a couple of beginner lists following the real army organization of the period (such as it is considering the abstractions of the rulebooks).
My question is how do I justify including tanks, artillery and everything except the humble infantryman in the list?
Could a platoon realistically have ended up with a single tank attached along with a single howitzer?
Perhaps you could recommend me something to read that has some information about how things worked irl on the ground level?
Thank you for your help so far, everyone!

>>97597840
Print out the "50 Shades of Field Grey" photo and hang it over your painting desk so you can suffer every time you think about how no matter how you paint a uniform, it's gonna be wrong in some context at some point in time. You'll either get over it or it'll drive you insane.

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Progress on French employed (though not all french) light to medium cavalry. Third from left is Burgundian and third from right is Genoese.

>>97599107
Awesome!

>>97599107
holy shit

>>97592905
>doesn't mean the soviet union wasn't fighting a defensive war and that red army soldiers were fighting to take over europe like they seem to believe.
The Soviets quite literally started their war on the offensive to gobble up eastern Europe and Finland. They temporarily were denied these efforts while the Germans were pushing their shit in, and resumed as soon the the Germans started collapsing.

>the cold war mindset that communism is the ideology of mass murdering dictators
Communists killed more innocents than the Nazis

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I've been playing one of the old Imperial Armour middlehammer campaigns in the club and the big apocalypse missions there have made me realize that if we join two 6x4 tables as we have done for that, and fill it with the Bolt Action terrain we have at the club, we could play Battlegroup at 28mm in a 8x6 table.

Has anyone here done this? Everyone online except the authors seems to play Battlegroup in 15mm.

>>97600309
Communism and Nazism are a walk in the park compared to the average Chinese natural disaster or civil war. Taiping rebellion...

>>97600988
Nah, there are lots of 20mm players, and a few 28mm. On the FB group, look up the user Paladin Sixx posts, he does some really nice 28mm BG games. You need to either cap points, (like 400-450 pts on a 6x4) or use a larger table (obviously).

Heya /hwg/, you might help me with a Trail of Cthulhu concept.

Basically I'm thinking about a sub crew (in a, well, submarine doing submarine shit) that ends up isolated and drifts off to,,, somewhere else. You might read it as a "no one riffed on The Temple, so I might as well" thing.

Now, what I am not sure is the period. The two options are pretty obviosuly 1) battle of the Atlantic 2) Cold War. Each have pros and cons, but what I'm not sure is which kind of sub is better for my purposes.

For starters: what about communications? Is it somehow feasible to say that a cold war sub could easily get no radio signal (as you might infer, in horror isolation of the group is a must)? For that matter, what about ww2 ones, even? I didn't start off reading actual books as I would like to choose the period first, and I can't even find what was the actual radio range of a u-boat.

>>97600309
They invaded the baltics/finland/somewhat poland to settle old grudges no denying that but the actual war against germany was a defensive war and if they actually intended to take over the entirety of europe why the fuck would they leave their border practically unprotected, purge their entire high command right before this supposed major military undertaking and not have a single defensive plan ready or attack back for 3 entire days when germany invaded if they were expecting a major war.

The soviet union also killed less people than the nazis even excluding wartime civilian casualties such as people killed from being executed or dying from disease/starvation and bombings (axis civilians were the smallest amount of casualties in WW2 and allied civilians were the highest) and including the holodomor the end result is 11 million killed in the holocaust by the nazis and 9.9 million killed during the great purge and holodomor combined by the soviets. If you include civilians actually killed by fascist powers in WW2 that number jumps another 44 million from soviet and chinese civilians alone not including another 1.8-2 million polish civilians and countless other european/asian countries invaded by germany and japan.

The only way communists have killed more is if you include self inflicted famines and include the death toll at their very highest estimates to add 55 million from maos great leap forward when most reliable sources point it at 30 million which would place it under the number killed by fascist nations.

Call me a tankie or whatever retarded cope you want but communists are evil but not worse than the nazis evil

>>97602989
The soviets were already planning for a German invasion.
>why the fuck would they leave their border practically unprotected
It wasn't and they were rapidly expanding their military. The soviets created something like 100-150 divisions in the year before Barbarossa. Also, Stalin's generals advised him that the main German thrust would be in the north, but he disagreed and ordered defensive planning to focus on Ukraine
>purge their entire high command right before this supposed major military undertaking
Purged for political reasons that were considered essential. Also, most of them were reinstated before the German invasion,
>not have a single defensive plan ready
They had extensive planning based on some incorrect assumptions.

None of what I'm saying is revisionist in any way. It's the commonly accepted modern historiography. Don't know where you got this. Maybe you had a really shitty 3rd grade history teacher.

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>>97602989
I agree xister, history books need to be updated to show the truth that at the beginning of Barbarossa, the red army had just finished melting down the last of their guns to make farming equipment after their diplomatic absorption of Poland. The world could be so much better had they been prepared. I made a write-up on this.

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Shield with heraldry of burgundy.

I kind of cheated by printing out a piece of paper of it, gluing it on, then painting over it by hand so it blends in. So not true freehand, but I don't think it stands out too much, especially after I put a top coat on it

>>97604981
Looks pretty bad my man. Just practice painting.

>>97605184
Looks fine to me assuming he goes over the various spots on the rest of the mini. Looks like it's probably 15mm so most of the lines won't be very noticeable.

>>97605289
That's a 28mm mini.

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Soon™

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Cheeky little render on an Austro-Hungarian grenadier for a commision I'm working on.

>>97605607
Nobody cares, go to reddit with that shit.

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>tfw Warlord has STILL not released epic scale roman legionaries wearing the lorica segmentata

>>97615760
Just 3d proont that shit instead if you don't want metals. Or shill WGA.

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>>97613260
>Nobody cares

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The squadron grows. I fucked up the wings on the green one beyond belief but they were scuffed and uneven straight out of the printer anyway. Good enough at a tabletop distance, it gets to be the suicide pilot.

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>>97617012
I play a lot of German IL-2 Flying Circus careers and the sight of the E. III still makes me seethe.

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New plastic revolutionary French by the Perry twins.

>>97615760
Just to add to >>97615766, don't underestimate little metal Romans, friend. My experience is with 6mm rather than 10, but seeing as they already come in a realistic metal base coat, a quick black wash and half the painting is already done; all you need then is fleshy blobs and the shield.

>>97617521
>>97617523
Fuck these sans-culottes slime balls!

>>97617523
These are cool but they are going to be a slog to paint nicely.
And you need lots.

>>97618697
Hard to paint shit is very fun. I like playing villains too, but for some reason left wing villains are way less appealing than right wing ones .

>>97618718
Yes, I too recognize the Mameluk sultanate as history's good guys.

>>97618806
The good guys are the Vendéan and the Choun Christian martyrs fighting for their homes and faith

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This seems like a bad sign:
https://theswordandtheflame.blogspot.com/
>For the faithful folks waiting patiently for the 45TH Anniversary Edition of The Sword And The Flame, rest assured it is COMING SOON! Please see the work in progress cover art. The cover is being manipulated with AI and not a drawing program at this point, which is a very fiddly process as you can clearly see. The cover needs a lot of work, but IT IS IN PROGRESS as is the last few aspects of the body of the rules.

>>97618927
Cringe and gay.

>>97619750
The current cover is already a sad example of the democratisation of graphic design and the bad taste of boomers, it can get worse but not in a meaningful way

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>>97620280
Unfortunately for redditor atheists, white Christians defending their homes and families from destruction by rapid leftist mobs are objectively morally superior. The men who died in the Vendée will spend eternity in the Kingdom of Heaven whereas the sans-culottes are rotting in hell

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>>97620489
This one?
I think the bottom is cluttered but otherwise it's alright.

>>97620663
I used to love the British Empire but the more I read into it the more I realize these lads were just unknowingly fighting for the interests of Jewish bankers. They were the original ZOGbots

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>>97620663
They murdered the original cover

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>>97621143
I have improved the new version.

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I love cover 'gifts', they let you have a crack at things you've either never done or its been ages. I'd half-forgotten how much variance sources seem to have regarding Soviet colours. Passable?

>>97620663
I'm pretty sure I played dozens of these from shareware CDs back in the 90s.

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>>97576097
YES HAHAHA YES!

I have finally finished my english and french forces after like a year and a half! (Minus some touch ups like shading and adding grass to a few models).

Feel relieved that its now done, really happy how it all turned out together. Except for the kind of shitty lighting here that makes the colors a bit more mute. Anyways, I have already played 2 games of lion rampant with them and plan to play some other systems too. Oathmark being one of them since I have 5x2 and 5x1 movement trays. Really like all the various colors and how the banners really pop out. Especially am happy about the especially colorful french foot knights. Has been a really fun time here posting my progress, thanks guys! Glad I got a project (mostly) done. Dont really have many miniature painters where I live, so a lot of people have been really interested in them when I bring them to the local gamenight.

>>97605304
yah, 28mm.
>>97605184
oh well, c'est la vie, looks fine enough from a distance. maybe a wash and some trimming will help.

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>>97623304
another angle

>>97622052
Looks like Soviets to me

>>97623304
>>97623309
Look very nice, I've complimented/critiqued your work many times over the last year and a half.
Would totally play a game of Nevermind the Billhooks against this army

Did we finally chase away that guy that kept spamming his poojeet bolt action/k47 army?

>>97623765
That guy actually posts minis/ games, grow up

>>97623304
Senpai, the issue is that the paper isn't sticking properly to the shield. Why not buy transfers instead? Good job painting everything, have fun with the games!

I'm gonna get weird with it. Ill buy some 1920s Cthulu/pulp cultists to go with my Beer Wars collection and will start throwing in some bizarre occult twist into all my scenarios

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>>97625206
Kinda based. I'm about to add some balloon air ships to my Napoleonic collection for some alt history shit. Some "soft" historical fantasy if you will

>>97625206
Hey, why not? Puts me in mind of an old letter to Dragon (I think; some paper magazine, certainly) years ago. Guy was playing in a Prohibition-era Gangbusters campaign, players were the 'Untouchables'. Finally tracking down some "Chinese anarchists" (they'd found weird items, masks and documents in some booze busts), they kick in the door to the warehouse only to be confronted by a ritual circle and a glowing rip in the air, with a giant eye staring through at them. Roll a SAN check, motherfuckers, we've actually been playing Call of Cthulhu all this time...
Obviously an extreme example (though probably the only way you'll ever actually surprise and shock players in a CoC game) and like all spices not something to use all the time, but a little 'what-if' variance can break up any feelings of ennui or stagnation, and if nothing else it's something different to paint.

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I'm looking for the rulebook PDF for Blood and Bayonets!!!! Anyone have it?

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A little battle today, after many months. Using Rebels and Patriots. Photo is meh but whatever, taken at the end of the battle
Americans deploy with 3 Large timid line infantry, 1 line infantry, and 2 mounted skirmishers
Brits deploy with 3 Good Shooter Light Infantry, and 1 free small militia unit
Objective is to control the hill

One British light infantry enters the farmhouse, one in the south forms into close order, while the middle unit remains in open order but suffers from low ammunition, effecting the score needed to hit. The militia stay behind the main line for now

A unit of American mounted skirmishers quickly moves up to the northern fence, another attempts to flank the south, while the rest of the other units slowly move up.

It does not take long for the British light infantry to open fire, causing a unit of skirmishers in the north to retreat, then eventually rout. The Americans push on and take the hill and fence line, coming under heavy fire. The casualties start to mount, but the sheer number of Americans is too much for the British, and the unit with low ammunition, which had scarcely caused any damage and lost half their troops, loses their nerve and runs. The militia unit is moved south and takes cover behind some rubble, but is ultimately ineffective.
With the British unable to dislodge the Americans from the hill, and with night approaching, they retreat.
The Americans have, despite the victory, suffered almost double the casualties of the Brits.

>>97596252
Not me
>>97596228
I will get the stuff out tomorrow and take a pic
I've been cracking on and painted another 3 battalions this week
Not worrying to much about painting the Americans at the moment, I've got most militia units done, just need to add flock to them and varnish

>>97623765
>spamming
No one here is going to buy this. He posted his army when it was relevant, and you had a pissy little hissy fit over it each time.

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I'm sorry I have to share this with people who might actually recognize the name, and you lot are the closest local equivalent to people. I was attending a local gaming con today, and found out through an extended conversation with an older gentleman in a USN vet hat that, not only was I speaking to George Nafziger (as in "the Nafziger Collection" George Nafziger), but he lives about 2 miles from my house and is interested in starting a new local historical gaming group since they basically don't exist anymore locally.

Holy shit. I cannot wait to experience the OOB autism.

Apologies. We return you now to your regularly scheduled /hwg/ thread

>>97633450
Huh, now that's wicked.

>>97633450
Just found his website. That's really cool. It's nice to know the internet isn't totally dead and relegated to corporate social media yet (although you met him IRL).
This is unrelated to tabletop but I met a guy on findagrave who's a genealogist who keeps some genealogy related books in print and sends them to people. It felt like the kind of person I would have found online in 2006, but this was just a few years ago.

>>97624542
>Why not buy transfers instead?
do they come in custom sizes? I would think that it would be hard to find exact for every model. ALso, idk if its worth it if its just one model. If I was doing 10 with the same sheild I might look into it. Also, I did it pretty successfully I think on another shield, but I was a bit sloppy on the cut and pasting on the burgundian one I do admit.

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Might be a long shot, but does anyone have any visual examples for vernacular architecture in 13th century Scandinavia? Looking for references for a terrain building project.

>>97631117
Bolt action isn't a historical and shouldn't be posted here anyway.

>>97630709
Mindless hordes of Americans carrying the day against the few elite British infantry is basically par for the course. They aren't actually people, you know.

>>97643180
Convenient that you're forgetting the weird war mecha in his army, you whiny little faggot.

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>>97642775
Look up Icelandic Turf Houses. Those are specifically Iceland but AFAIK most buildings were wooden buildings with turf roofs. I'm unsure if there's any homes that survive from the period, but that's around when a lot of stave churches were built.

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>>97644319
>>97642775
>Stålekleivloftet
>When the storehouse was dated by the Norwegian Center of Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU), it was revealed that it was probably built in 1184
Appears to be the oldest wooden building in Norway.

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Anons, if you had to wargame any significant military history or battle in the city (You) live in or surrounding area, what are you playing?

>>97645404
I live in Tennessee, the only action in my city was a small Confederate river fort (earthworks) that saw a Union iron clad coming up the river, then the Confederates immediately abandoned the fort

>>97645404
1814 Campaign of France

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>>97645404
>philadelphia
Well there's the crossing of the Delaware and battle of Germantown. I live a few blocks away from this park and there were apparently some skirmishes here but I haven't done any research into them. I was thinking about getting a metal detector and walking through. According to the plaque they were firing at each other from the embankments.

>>97645404
Lille, France
I have my pick anywhere from the Gauls to WW2. There are a dozen major battles called "Siege of Lille" across just the last few century.

>>97645404
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Dearborn

>>97646224
Native savages can pour into your settlement fighting 10 to 1 and massacre you and your family and modern libtards will still somehow try to portray them as the victims

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>>97646286
NOOOOOOO HOW DARE YOU RESETTLE THE INNOCENT NATIVES!!! THEY WERE PEACEFUL!!!!

>>97646286
>>97646365
Americans are honorary Jews that steal, lie and murder. I would do the same as the brave natives.

>>97645404

Living in NE Italy, I wouldn't even know where to start, honestly.

>>97642775
i was looking at this recently:
>https://norskfolkemuseum.no/en/numedal
most of the examples are younger buildings but the basic elements seem to be consistent over the years as shown in the posts above

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>>97594167

I've been making a Kriegsspiel around the English Civil War of my own, fair bit of effort going into it. Here's the campaign map being made from an amalgamation of the british county maps by Robert Morden and a fella called Johannes Janssonius. Made a couple pieces for the battle scale - painfully 'coded' on TTS to display text, planned out the key events of the Naseby Campaign to steer player interaction and have been doing research into the regiments & garrisons to be present (there's like 200 for both factions)

That's my current wargaming project

>>97646583
Old school Americans like this are good honest white Europeans. Only modern "Americans" can be described as such because half aren't even white and they are literally controlled by Jews.
That being said, I read that wikipedia article and it actually made me slightly more racist towards natives and think less of them
>Americans are fighting the British
>Small garrison of 50 men and 30 women and children need to abandon fort since it's cut off logistically
>They tell the local "friendly" natives they will pay them if they allow them safe passage
>indians say ok
>Americans destroy the surplus weapons in the fort on their way out the door so the British don't get them
>Indians start chimping out "I WANTED DEM GUNZ"
>600 indians massacre the 50 troops and women and children a mile from the fort
Noble savages indeed

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>>97646224
>>97646735
This makes me want to game the War of 1812

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>>97646583
>>97646735
This line of thinking is exactly why Europe is full of pakistanis and algerians. This anon thinks what dirt you were born on determines who your are instead of your blood. 19th century Americans were more European than the average urban "European" today. Just because a dog is born in a stable it doesn't mean he is a horse.
It's very odd to see someone complain about "Jews" and then cheering on white ethnically European women and children getting massacred by stone age brown people in the very same sentence

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>>97645404
A "What If" of the Battle of Turnham green where the Royalists actually make it to London proper.

>>97647220
Based royalist supporter

>>97645404
>Savannah, Ga.
We had the Battle of Savannah in 1778 where the British took the city and the bloody Siege of Savannah the following year when we tried to take it back.
In 1862 we had the Siege of Fort Pulaski and again the Battle of Savannah in 1864 when Sherman captured the city.
Unfortunately the American revolution and the Civil War don't interest me much

>>97645404
My choices (outside of modern police actions, of which there are a weirdly high number) are 7 Years' war or Coal Miner strikes and neither is even that close to where I am

We don't even have ACW stuff here somehow.

>>97647507
Where at? (No one cares about you enjoy to dox you, stop being weird)