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>Rick Roll Trove (MOST RECENT AND UPDATED TROVE)
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>New Trove Link
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>Advanced Squad Leader
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>AK-47 Republic
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>Battleground WWII
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>Battlegroup
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>Black Powder
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>Bolt Action
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>By Fire And Sword
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>Flames of War
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>Fleet Series
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>GMT
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>Modelling & painting guides
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>Phoenix Command RPG
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>Twilight 2000/2013 RPG
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>Wargaming Compendium
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This day in Military History:
17 CE – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over numerous German tribes west of the Elbe.
451 CE – Battle of Avarayr. Sassanians achieve a pyrrhic victory over Christian Armenians, and end up allowing them to continue practicing Christianity.
1573 CE – Battle of Haarlemmermeer. Spanish Navy under the Count of Bossu defeat the Dutch in a naval engagement.
1637 CE – Pequot War. A combined English and Mohican force attacks a village in Connecticut, killing approximately 500 Pequots.
1644 CE - Battle of Montijo. This chaotic battle of the Portuguese Restoration War ended inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
1736 CE – British and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French and Choctaw attack on the then-Chickasaw village of Ackia.
1865 CE – Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
1900 CE – Battle of Palonegro ends with a conservative victory over the liberal rebels in the early days of the Thousand Days' War.
1940 CE – World War II: Operation Dynamo. In northern France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France, and the battle to slow down the German offensive begins.
1940 CE – World War II: The Siege of Calais ends with the surrender of the British and French garrison.
1942 CE – World War II: The Battle of Gazala begins.
1971 CE – The Army of Pakistan slaughters at least 71 Hindus in Burunga, Bangladesh.
1972 CE – Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
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>>98108748
Archeologist, actually.
>>98108832
Looking good!
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Knight with a trumpet, heraldry of Richard the lionheart during the 3rd crusade.
>>98108864
Thanks
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>>98108877
Different view.
>>98108878
Oof
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>>98108878
>old
No bolt action plastic kit is older than 15 years, which is "recent" in scale modelling terms.
Also not all those kits are made by italeri. In fact, the oldest kits were done by warlord (in conjunction with PSC) and are manufactured by renedra. Italeri was commissioned to make more kits at a later stage.
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>>98108567
>TQ
I've been pretty consistantly drubbed recently, so I'm having to cast my mind back a bit, but I played a mirror match of SAGA, Irish against Irish. I managed to bait my opponent forward with a hail of sling stones, enabling me to get the first round of javelins thrown out. I got some good dice rolls and wiped a unit of warriors out pretty quickly, and then just kept the momentum going.
Thanks for making a new thread OP, always nice to see the "Today in History" being done as well.
>>98108832
Looks really nice anon, I particularly like the freehand on the shield.
>>98109085
I've heard some good stuff about Force on Force and Ambush Alley, particularly for 15mm. I quite like Skirmish Sagin, but it's almost RPG esque in that you roll up all your soldiers, which is a massive faff for larger games or when you just want to get models down on the table.
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>>98109065
Can't you resize most stls?
t. Clueless
Nice paint job!
>>98109309
Good Irish! What's next?
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>>98109780
Thanks!
You can shrink them (the ones I posted were originally 30mm), but realistically proportioned models can end up quite fragile once downscaled. The tacking on the horses I printed are a particularly annoying, they break if you look at them funny.
"Native" 15mm models usually have bigger hands, equipment etc to compensate.
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>Got some Warlord Japanese infantry to fight my US Muhreens.
>Only have a surface level understanding of how the Japanese armed forces operated in WWII
>Usually err on the side of historic composition rather than competitive edge.
Are the Osprey books in the OP a good enough starting place to work on a platoon? I've had mixed results with them in the past as sources of specific information like squad composition.
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>>98109309
I'm considering peter pig USMC minis since I would like to paint them with desert camo and use them mainly for insurgency games, and cold war gone hot as a second thought. The thing is the USA army, marines, rangers etc have a bazillion squad configurations. Any recomendatioms if I aim to use flames of war bases? 5 or 4 man medium bases and 3 to 1 man small bases.
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>>98111097
Additionally when did they stop using this uniform?
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>>98111248
Looks like a combination of PASGT with Alice rig which would have been used for quite a short period of time in the 80's, as the alice rig was phased out and replaced with the LBV-88 in the late 80's
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>>98112114
Based and correct.
You're gonna love painting up those tiny helis
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>>98112114
Ebin
>>98114373
I remember when you originally shared these, what happened to the time...
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>>98115764
I'm also in the market for this. A more operational game, particularly I'm interested in SEAD, and the cat and mouse game between AGM and SAM. Ideally I'd like quite a bit of hidden information, dummy SAM sites and hidden deployment conditions type of stuff.
The OP has a good amount of Aero stuff but not the game Missile Threat which was written by a /hwg/ regular. Go buy it if it seems up your alley.
Also read this: https://armchairdragoons.com/airboss-minis/
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>>98116046
it's really cool and straightforward, makes lots of sense. remember that movement is i go u go, shooting i go u go and melee is simultaneous and player with initiative chooses which brawl goes first, which comes handy by the way to solve any type of 2 on 1 , 3 on 1 combat that might arise in case that single guy is still alive
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WIP of some 15mm Germans, still have to varnish and finish the bases. I have a finished one in the background with the static grass applied but I'm started to think that static grass looks a bit bright (especially at 15mm)
I found an old Flames of War starter set in my attic from years ago, I prefer skirmish scale games so ive individually based them with a plan to use them for Bolt Action or Chain of Command.
>>98108895
Love the minatures! I've been eyeing up the Barons war, looks like a fun game. Have you played it much?
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>>98112114
>>98114373
6mm Cold War gone hot is a truly goated scale.
>>98111097
Most of the games recommended up thread make more sense for single basing as they're individual model removal (befitting of NATO in the Sandbox). Can't be much help with multibasing systems for that period unfortunately.
>>98110774
They're fairly decent. Might be worth looking at the platoon compositions in the Far East chain of command books, they are generally very well researched.
>>98110409
Do you mean a flat terrain map? and at what scale would be the key question. I know that for 6mm games a friend of mine has had a good time with just printing out interesting areas off of Google Maps at A1 paper.
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>playing chain of command
>my german schutzen have a meeting engagement with a french infantry platoon
>bring a bunch of half tracks and a panzer 3
>planning to rush up the board with lots of light armor
>suddenly a french renault tank shows up
>gets a lucky shot and kills my panzer
>shoots a glancing blow at the lead halftrack
>causes the driver to panic and drive forward 18" right into a stone wall
>french infantry keep tossing grenades inside
>tank keeps shooting them
>morale cracks as my flanks take losses trading with french infantry
>squad up front is totally slaughtered
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>>98121028
Common gaulic W
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WIP for my Heraclius of Jerusalem or any high ranking clergyman for the period around the third crusade. Couldn't find any heraldry at all so I ended up using the current Latin patriarchy's heraldry.
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>>98128804
A lot of historical minis are sculpted right off Osprey book illustrations. The fireforge knight kits can be built exactly like the pictures.
Naturally if the Osprey book was written in 1984 the research isn't going to be current
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>>98111896
>alice rig was phased out and replaced with the LBV-88 in the late 80's
That is incorrect. LBV-88 entered trials in 1986 and was adopted in 1988 but you wouldn't see it outside of the 7th ID, 82nd Airborne and SOF until after the Gulf War. 93/94 was when it finally eclipsed ALICE in general issue. Pic related is 82nd Airborne in the Gulf War, they were one of the first units to adopt LBV having been involved with the 1986 field trials. If you look over pictures of the 82nd Airborne during the war, you will notice ALICE is still dominant. Once adopted, the Army takes its sweet fucking time to actually issue equipment.
>Looks like a combination of PASGT with Alice rig which would have been used for quite a short period of time in the 80's
In general you could use this particular look from 1983 to 1987 for elite Army units (Airborne, RDF) 1985 to 1990 for regular Army and from 1988 up until 1999 for the National Guard. The biggest limitation is the M16. The Army adopted the A2 in 1986 and started phasing out the A1 in 1988. By 1990 the A2 was general issue but you would still see a few Army units (support/supply) still rocking the A1 through about 94/95. National Guard mostly phased out the A1 by 1999 but you would still see some guardsmen with the A1 even after 9/11. For the Marines you could pretty much only use these figures for 1984. The USMC had just adopted the PASGT helmet & M16A2 in 1983, they rapidly phased out the A1 and by 1985 you would really only see it with Marine reservists.
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>>98128908
Ye, Victrix is essentially the new Warlord. Just shitting out badly researched kits to get the Warhammer refugees. Warlord might as well rename themselves to Bolt Action + at this point.
>>98129398
Sadly yes. I believe Aventine Miniatures had the best and most up-to-date research, at least for the ancient periods.
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Which games are good for combined arms 6mm modern/cold war skirmishes? I want to play solo with low model counts and keep my infantry squads to single stands. Kinda similar to battletech.
Cold War Commander seemed alright but I want the option to use my jets and helis and apprently that game treats them as offboard supports.
Team Yankee and Northag is what google is suggesting.
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>>98130303
Surprised at heli's being off-table; I'm not an ultramoderns player myself but the games I've seen have had them buzzing around.
The two-winged master race, however, only ever seen them used as a token to mark the attack position and to calculate any AA firing lines, so you might have to hunt for that.
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How do I break free of historical color future proofing concerns?
I know Ak and Vallejo acrylics often follow the rlm, fs etc. color codes so there will be easy acrylic replacements but I’m not sure about metallic colors of where there is a standard.
Help me bros. Is there a “standard” like fs for metallic paints?
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>>98130303
Helicopters engage the enemy kilometers away for a moment and then pull back as soon as possible.
Team yankee is not a functional game.
Battlegroup northag, 7 days to the river rhine, a fist full of tows, chain of command has a fan made cold war mod, chain of command has an official cold war mode coming at some point.
I'm still looking for battlegroup centag or omnibus scans.
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>>98108567
Anyone know if there are any Napoleonic Wars/Pike and Shot/Linebattle skirmish games in 28mm?
If not I have a great idea for a game
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>>98133471
It was basically just ripping off the Pillage rules and name changing everything to fit a Napoleonic Wars theme
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I'm looking to paint some germans for late war west front and I am actually quite befuddled as to what colors to use. Picrel shows them in very clear green uniforms. But every paintscheme guide I found online points to feldgrau (with acknowledgement that later into the war it would be more braun-ish than grau proper)?
Also would grenadiers wear camo-patterned uniforms or only these tent-ponchos?
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>>98133595
Chain of command fan made cold war mod.
Force on force.
Battlegroup fan made cold war mod.
Those support low model counts the fan made ones are very well done.
Northag will get an oficial port to the lower model count of battlegroup at some point in the future.
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>>98133797
Also ak47 republic from peeter pig.
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>>98133772
Cool shield anon
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>>98133803
Thanks anon, checking them out now
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>>98133803
heh
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>>98133705
They were wearing field grey but the actual colour varies so much due to fading and different factories using different dyes etc The image attached shows the variety of Field Grey.
I believe late war they had a mixture of ponchos and hooded camo jackets along with standard field grey stuff underneath.
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>>98133705
First thing you need to understand is that "grenadiers" in the wehrmacht sense was a general term for every soldier in the infantry during late war. And every german soldier had the zeltbahn-poncho, because it was literally their tent, and also rain-protection.
If camo cloth was issued, a whole unit would get it, not individual soldiers. If the unit you want to portrait was newly built, or refitted in france 44, then chances were they had lots of camo gear. If its troops from one of the various security divisions chilling in france ever since 1940, they most likely had less camo gear.
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>>98135404
I don't think any of the combatants use this kit except the Russians in the initial suicide train to Kyev. Wargaming the later stages of the war is going to be insane, Ukrainian machine gun ground drones, arial drones for both sides, Russian convict suicide meat, Russian cavalry suicide troops, Russian suicide golf cart troops, Russian motorcycle suicide troops and Russian circus vehicles in general. The fucking Russian suicide electric bike troops.
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>>98109780
I've got a few projects on the go. On the painting desk are some 15mm German vignettes on 40mm rounds to use as JOPs for Chain of Command, and I'm currently basing up some of Warlord's Epic Celts on 40x80 bases to use for Midgard.
>>98128908
There's dozens of us, dozens! Victrix's stuff is really nice, but random inaccuracies that are pretty basic on most kits, particularly the dark ages line, is a shame.
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>>98128908
Who is the target market? People that are interested but not too much? They're otherwise good sculpts, no reason not to make them more accurate as well and capture people that will now be spending their money elsewhere. With all the time and money it takes to get a plastic kit into production there's no good reason not to find somebody to sign off on the preliminary sketches.
Imagine if somebody fumbled something you were interested in and some wet tissue of a man replied with incredibly limp, "why bother" apologism. You put about as much effort into going in to bat for Victrix as they did with their research.
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>>98130303
You could check out Hind & Seek. Helicopters are on table, although designed for asymmetrical warfare in Afghanistan.
Fixed wing support is more abstract - calling in strikes and maybe getting what you need, maybe not.
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>>98134039
Isn’t it alright to count on Vallejo and Ak to mimic the tamiya metallic colors?
How close to Ak 3rd gen gunmetal to the tamiya gunmetal?
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>>98135583
It’s a skirmish game because there are 10-20 guys per side. But the map represents KMs of frontline.
Each round roll a 1d6
1 - Someone survives
2-5 - Remove a module from a drone attack (stack them negative modifiers)
6 - Remove 2 models because someone died of hyperthermia, got caught out in the open going to the toilet or the drone hit two people.
Just straight dice rolls for attacking as a group. Same rules.
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>>98136496
>People that are interested but not too much?
Exactly. The average Wargamer, who is interested in history, but not deep enough, so he never reads anything more advanced than osprey books or watches some history channel or follows some YouTubers.
It might suck for you if you are super deeply invested in a certain period of history, but the majority of people buying these miniatures is not, and therefore victrix can get away with some inaccuracies.
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Redpill be on 6mm
>considering Baccus 6mm Rome vs Carthage Hail Caesar army pack
>are there enough figures there to field two good looking forces on the tabletop
>any better manufacturers?
>better game systems?
Currently have 28mm ancients, but the scale makes no sense for the mass battles of the day. I want giant fucking battles with tons of guys crashing into each other.
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The old guard is dying but a whole generation of Millennial is coming of age and the recession is burning your average Zoomer's fantasy budget. Let's be smart and make a "starter pack" serie together /hwg/.
>Name 1 ruleset, free or free on the high seas is a must.
>Name 1 plastic box, enough for two players and below $50.
Once we have enough we'll make a pastebin or a pdf guide.
I'll start.
Ravenfeast: http://www.ravenfeast.com/
Plastic Vikings: SAGA Viking Starter Warband (cheaper but no archers) or Victrix Viking Warband (pricier but with archers).
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>>98137972
>get away
I mean, I'm the one complaining but I don't think they're malicious. They're just ignorant boomers like their customer base. Probably using the same Osprey's they bought back in the 80's for their research. There's honestly no excuse in this day and age to still use Osprey's though. If you're a company then contact an expert for help, more often than not they're also wargamers.
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>>98138480
>No excuse for Osprey.
Ease of access. You know it's a thing, you know where to buy it. The next publisher I can think of with such a comprehensive collection would be Helion & Company but I don't know if they fare better or worse.
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>>98139259
>The next publisher I can think of with such a comprehensive collection would be Helion & Company
I've never heard of them, so there is that.
I know it sucks, if you are deeply into a specific thing, and nobody else seems to care, but thats just inevitable once you reach a certain degree of knowledge.
But you still have to accept that most other people, even in the same sphere of interest or hobby, do not invest as much time or effort.
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>>98108878
>men horse and truck, by the Lord were struck
very appropriate pictures to have posted next to one another. The march to ascalon and jaffa and the retreats in the desert russia.
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>>98124241
Chain of Command 2e using the Blitzkrieg 1940 Theater Book
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>>98140039
My buddy tells me everything essentially when it comes to the dark ages kits. A lot of outdated reconstructions, reenactment shit used, sometimes even brohalla larp stuff is used, fictional haircuts and beards, wrong armor and weapons, almost everything leather related is wrong etc
The Carolingians are essentially pure fantasy, the Anglo-Saxons are really odd and the Rus use fictional reenactment stuff not used historically. Their latest Irish kit has fictional History Channel haircuts.
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>>98139431
The struggle is definitely real for autists. They have a specific kind of interest they can devote hours of research for months if not for life. Then they meet someone that says they also have an interest in it so they bright up for a minute or two before realizing it's only surface level knowledge and nothing the same.
Anyway. If you're into the business of making minis I can understand you're already fighting with spreadsheets and projections and supply issues and being behind on your email, etc. So going the easy way and looking at Osprey for your next sculpt instead of tracking the most up to date specialist on this specific era, only for said specialist to be treated with disdain by old farts that refuse new informations, plus being heavily challenged by other specialists that have a saying on his last book... It just makes sense as a business. If anything the blame is on Osprey for not living up to its reputation.
>>98140063
Cheers. I was wondering if it was 1e or Big CoC (lul).
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>>98138185
I'm a zoomer and here's what I did with money from yardwork a few years ago:
>1 Perry Sudan British
>1 Perry Afghans
>1 Wargames Atlantic Afghans
Although in hindsight I'd probably advise 2 Perry Afghans.
This gives about enough for TSATF, more if you use half-size units. It's more than $50 but it is what I did
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>>98137975
Their Early Imperials are damned good (no pics, sadly; had to sell them a while back), and while I didn't get the equivalent of the army pack on their site, they looked ace when ranked up together. I'd imagine their Republicans are much the same.
Other manufacturers off the top of my head; Heroics and Ros had a good reputation, Irregular Miniatures were... cheap.
Rules-wise, I only dabbled in DBA and DBM, the other set at the club was WRG 6th so I can't comment on more modern sets.
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I've been going through one of those hobby interest droughts - I get them every 2 years or so. You know the ones, you pick up a box of a new game, look at the models for a little while and then it's suddenly on eBay because you can't either find the time or motivation (or motivation to find the time) to do anything with it. You plan a list for the game, and then realise how much you've got to do to get to a basic start point, or you want to buy the starter box of something and there's too much in there that doesn't excite you, or the faction/style you want to play is total dogshit and not worth embarking on.
I want something interesting, historical, engaging and new that's going to capture my interest. Doesn't even have to be a wargame, just hobby related.
Please help me /hwg/
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>>98141050
You see Anon, and i dont mean this as an offense: Most people in this hobby just want to paint some nice looking minis, and roll some dice, while pretending its a battle between saxons and irish or something.
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>>98109065
...and done! Decided to make them Brandenburgers
>>98135404
God Ratnik kit looks so sexy.
>>98137975
Baccus minis are really nice, just be aware they are a classic 3 blokes in a (large) shed operation and getting your minis delivered can take a while
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>>98140927
What sort of stuff have you done previously? I don't want to recommend, say, Napoleonics if that's all you've done for the last few years.
>>98140039
Copied from a previous thread about Pic Related;
>There's a decent amount unfortunately. Leather edging on maille did not exist during this period, thick padded gambesons likewise didn't exist. Any maille with a maille hood built in would have had a ventail, and the weirdly large hoods on some of the armoured minis don't make a lot of sense. The maille they wear is also quite baggy: historically maille was almost always form fitting to provide the lightest weight for the maximum amount of protection. Scale armour had also completely vanished from Western Europe by this point in time. I'm not going to get on to exact models of helmet and belt buckles and stuff, but they're not perfect, which is a shame as it's all fairly obvious stuff. I imagine Victrix did it to add visual interest, as otherwise it's just lots of bodies in tunics or maille, but we are doing historicals.
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The new Perry Spaniards vs French Peninsular War box is £35, and gives you roughly 30 each of each side, so works well for games such as Chosen Men and can be expanded for use in Sharp Practice.
The larger two player Flames of War starter sets such as Fortress Europe can be picked up for under £50, and provide two easy beginner forces for Chain of Command in 15mm once you individual base the infantry and with a bit of thought to make some extra support options from the spare infantry, such as Machine guns and sniper teams.
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>>98141050
No that's not a reasonable answer. A one stop shop like Osprey will always top that infinite quest of yours for 90% of humanity, up to 100% when money is involved.
Looking who's the expert in a field is already up to unending debate. I was at an archeologist gathering the other day and one of the guest was arguing a collar from prehistoric time was in fact a stellar map. The public loved his presentation and was sold on his theory but you could tell his colleagues were seething and having none of it.
So has much as I appreciate your answer on a theory level, on practice it feels like your weaseling your way out because it's answering without answering.
No useless fighting, just my 2 pieces of cents (worth nothing nowaday aye aye).
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Do you remember if the Afghan box has enough non firearm options to make an all melee force? If yes we might pair that box with Tribal wargame and call it a day.
>>98141989
>Perry's Skirmish in a Box + Chosen Men.
Thanks anon. Do you need any other box to expand into Sharp Practice or is it more of a rulesweight consideration?
>FoW Fortress Yurop + CoC
Double thanks! I was thinking of Victrix's 12mm pack for WWII skirmishes but haven't checked the price yet. Might be pricier as Victrix tends to be.
>>98140927
Ancient and Medieval Wargaming by Neil Thomas is a funny read on the context with some really light but hackable rules at the end. There's no definitely no motivation or energy needed with that one. It's a good start for baby stepping into the wargaming world and a good finish line when you reach the end of your simulationist journey and understand it's all fun and games on topic we'll never be truly sure of. The only downside is a lack of Quick Reference Sheet.
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Sweet. Tribal is only differentiating between short and long weapons so if the swords/knives thing is a real split it's a go. If it's just you struggling to find the right description then maybe there's enough shields per sprue to use that as a differentiation instead.
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I'm all in for imagiNations being part and parcel of /hwg/ but a game of heroic deeds with trolls and dragons in the background is where I draw the line myself.
This battle is one of the biggest in medieval Europe. What scale do you plan to use? If you want to go large you can check into Swords of God or Sword & Spear.
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I'm doing the figures at 18mm, 80x40mm basing for infantry and a bit deeper for cavalry.
I'm putting on the game for a few friends with varying experience in wargaming so the reputation system and emphasis on heroic deeds sounded like something to get them more invested into the game.
I'll check out those games you recommended though, I've played a lot of napoleonics but only really tried Lion Rampant when it comes to medieval stuff
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Can anyone provide me with the Bolt Action 3rd edition rulebook and army books? I've been asking in the share thread for a couple of days and the post, sadly, is passed over. I have the third edition rulebook already, but digital is definitely my preference.
Many thanks anons.
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Have my english and french early 1400s done, but not sure what my next project should be? Its a bit of an investment to get into a wholly new period, so maybe I should focus on expanding what I have for late 100 years war? then again Variety is the spice of life...
So I could expand my late 100 years war, a few more heavy cavalry to bluk up the french perhaps, or maybe I could try for the English civil war or 30 years war? decisions, decisions...
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>>98152994
the more and more I play this system, the more and more i dislike it. Truly the vanilla paste of historical wargaming.
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>>98156541
Oh for sure. It’s a good intro and nice way to get yourself painting minis.
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Sell me on it.
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Let me know what you think, anon. Been curious about it for a while.
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I miss the anon immediately posting the same eternal picture of Midgard's author with his gay buttsex lover when someone mentioned the game. This thread is a parody of itself. A walking corpse.
If anyone is looking for me I'll be painting some minis, thinning my paints with my tears.
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Basado
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>>98150034
I've played a con game in the medieval period using Midgard and it worked pretty well. It's obviously more "heroic" than some other systems, but for getting minis on the table and a quick teach it works a treat desu. I'm currently basing up some gauls using 80x40 bases to do some Roman games.
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Chain of Command
>>98153151
Looks great anon! I'd lean towards variety personally, but you could always throw in some different units from the same period like Irish kern, peasant mobs or early pike to mix it up a bit.
>>98161451
What a Tanker! is a lot of fun, but may edge slightly out of the lightweight catagory.
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I've painted a lot of the WGA Irish and have a box of the Victrix on order, so I'll do a proper comparison when they're all finished,
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If you're doing one of those armies in a non-element-based game, you're probably going to need a LOT of them. Variation is good. Besides, half-naked bearded nutter with a sword or spear covers an awful lot of European history - especially at tabletop distance (local fashion idiosyncracies aside).
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