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I just bought Lost Battles. Has anyone played it?
I'm interested in starting to wargame Roman, but I'm having difficulty deciding between Imperial and Republican. Obviously I like the iconic Hollywood look of Imperial Rome, but I see grogs on here always mentioning Republic Rome is better to wargame. I guess the big deciding factor will be enemy variety. What are the major enemy differences between early Imperial and Republican? I'm half tempted to just buy Imperial Romans and use them for all periods like Hollywood does
>>94381951I chose early Republican (so, pre-Marian reforms) for my ancients, and I recommend you to do the same.>Best diversity of opponents: you got "barbarian" enemies (Celts, Iberians, Illyrians, Spanish), and "imperial" enemies (Carthaginians, Macedonians, Epirotes, Seleucids, Numidian) while Early Imperial armies only have Parthians and Germans.>More interesting period: it's an era of expansion and great power competition, with top dog generals like Hannibal, Scipio, Pyrrhus, Antiochus III or Phillip V.>Greater diversity of miniatures: the legions were levies from the different socii, so you can have etruscan, latins, oscans... for your legionaries.>Many armies can be easily expanded into other armies. Celts, Iberians, Samnites or Hellenistic Greeks will work for many of the conflicts of the period. So you can start with a Roman and a Carthaginian army, and later buy pikemen to turn your Carthaginian army into an Epirote army, or italian warriors for a Samnite army. A Carthaginian army with lots of Iberians can be turned into a Spanish army for Sertorius or the siege of Numantia. And an Hellenistic Successor army opens the gate to Alexander's campaigns and the Diadochi.Plus ELEFANTSMy ranking of roman eras for wargaming is Early Republic > Late Empire > Late Republic >>>> Early Empire
>>94382051Early Imperial were constantly shitting on Jews, so that automatically makes then better in my opinion
>>94382051I agree about your choice of period, but it's a pain to find good minis for most factions. Gauls are universally terrible for instance.
>>94382258Do you know that if you don't like the Warlord Celts (fair enough) Victrix, Gripping Beast, Crusader, Foundry, Aventine, Relic... makes them too, right? Celts (Gauls, Britons, Galatians, whatever) are basically the most produced ancients range after Early Imperial Romans.
>>94382258There are lots of good Gauls
>>94381916>Have you ever played a campaign?I am close to finishing all the units for my 1775 Canada Campaign, finally made a map out of little hexes. A year behind schedule, but I am almost there
>>94382308Sure but I'd rather play historical games, not fucking Asterix.>>94382360That's even dumber.
>>94382380Have you considered that you might be mentally retarded?
>>94382380Sorry but that's simply how Gauls looked. Asterix did a pretty good job at nailing the Gallic aesthetic. If you don't like how Gauls looked, well then play another army
So, did they really wear red or is that pure Hollywood?
>>94382477According to those >>94382405 >>94382425 geniuses historical sources, they were sometimes green.I just don't get why napoleobro and others can have so much kino will ancient is stuck in the 19th century.
>>94382517*while
>>94382517>Idk why two thousand years old armies uniforms are harder to depict than 200 year old uniforms that still exist in museums and collections and detailed manuals and fine art Truly a mystery
>>94382696Don't you see the difference between definitely wrong depictions and (so far) plausible approximations? Do you even like history?
>>943827943/10, you tried
>>94382517>>94382794mf half an hour ago you were saying>I'm half tempted to just buy Imperial Romans and use them for all periods like Hollywood doesand now you're pretending that you care about green tunics lmao
>>94382809I fucking wish I was trolling. I just hope the Perry bros will make ancient someday.
>>94382889Not him, I will never do something like that. And republicans are sexier anyway.
Speaking of Romans, I love the aesthetic of late Romans and how they inspired Peter Jackson Rohan, but I don't know who they're supposed to fight? I don't know anything about this period of history
Maybe I should ask awg but since it's a supplement to a historical game I figure you guys would know better, I've found a pdf of Billhooks deluxe online but can't find the Fantasia supplement anywhere, can anybody point me in the right direction?
>>94382051what about byzantine eras?>Thread Question:Have you ever played a campaign?I mean, if you're running like a small merc band attempting to survive (ala battle bros), what counts as a campaign?
>>94383718https://www.mediafire.com/folder/v0fhor14frxsf/BillhooksI've posted it here and /awg/. Still waiting for someone to get me a copy of Nevermind the Matchlocks. I don't have a Wargames Illustrated subscription anymore so I can't get it
>>94383817I saw your post on the archive, thanks dude
>>94383825You're welcome. I really love the game so try to share it to get others to play it as well. I wonder how many of the 65 dudes that I shared it with actually ended up playing a game? I hope lots. No one ever uploads PDFs I am looking for, so I like to be the guy that actually shares
>>94383707Late Rome has a lot of opponents - if we're just talking from the end of the third century, you have the Alemanni, Franks and Burgundians in Germany; the Sassanids in the East; the Huns, Alans, Ostrogoths and Visigoths fighting all across the West and East; the Vandals who went all the way from central Europe to North Africa and then back again; and then in Britain you had the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and the Gaels. That's just the most notable ones, but you can find tons the deeper you dig, and that's not to mention the romans fighting themselves as they were pretty vicious in the third and fourth centuries. There were internal revolts both incited by romans and by their subject peoples like the jews, the goths, the burgundians and so forth, and usurpation attempts (sometimes successful) by various pretenders. In short, if there was a tribe or nation of people around in Europe and the Middle East at the time, they probably fought the Roman Empire at some point.
>>94381943I'm the same - bought it, but never played.The articles on each battle are interesting to read, especially how little we actually know about them
So for most wargame campaigns the players have their forces and fight each other with them in a series of battles without any sort of overworld map for maneuvering, essentially just playing through scenarios in order.I'm I retarded if I think that sounds dumb? The same platoons or companies or whatever meeting each other repeatedly sounds a bit silly. I feel it would make more sense if it was from one perspective.
>>94385697Not really? It depends on what kind of campaign system you run. I had campaigns with and without maps, both are interesting. But usually the army composition, terrain or victory conditions changes from game to game, and some sort of strategic advantage carries on from game to game. For example, when I ran my Punic Wars campaign, I had a node map with the western mediterranean, the players manouvred armies in it and tried to atract cities to their side by either invasion or diplomacy (abstracted as a dice roll).
>>94382051The fact they could use elephants was the deciding factor on the Republic for me
>>94382477They wore whatever cheap dyes were available, sometimes red but also blue, green, black and white. They were less uniform than often depicted
92 replies last thread. Just let it die.
>>94382380Go and neck yourself if all you can say is 'not good, not good, not good'. Why the fuck are you here even? Go and talk to the wall you massive waste of breath. I'd tell you to talk to your father, but he should be spared.
>>94388485I'm asking if anyone knows about good and accurate ancient minis and people give me lazy answers (and one guy was just a troll) you dumb mega nigger. I took time to review a bunch, and some heavy gauls are actually decent equipment wise, but they pretty much all wave their weapons and shields around like retards. I'm extremely circumspect of the few carthaginians I saw but I just don't know enough them. All greeks look to be the same, whether you go for peloponesian, medics or italian wars. For massed battle I did look for 10mm since that what I have terrain for and found nothing of value. Also you are a dumb mega nigger but that you already knew.
>>94389200>and people give me lazy answers Go ask on reddit you faggot.
>>94389200You don't belong here, you're autistic, Trump won, post physique
IVE ABANDONED MY GENERAL
>>94389460based
So is the Bolt Action 3E rulebook floating around online somewhere yet? The club I joined wants me to play with them on more casual game nights, and I want to read the rulebook before paying 50 dollars for it.
>had jobs to do in the nearest (2.5 hour drive) shitty regional centre>newsagent has wss and wi>a few local lads buy themIt's an arduous drive but nice to know cunts in a shithole like Burnie are interested
I am looking forward to playing my Chinese in BA 3rd edition in late 2026.
>>94391537It's massively shit, ask them for a copy of they want to play it they should pay the cost.
>>94391537Here, anon I'll spoonfeed you a bit.https://gofile.io/d/UDHdEGEnjoy the dolphin porn, you sicko.
>>94389398I would if reddit was not even dumber than this place and they probably still are coping for the american elections anyway.>>94389460>Trump wonYeah and that sucks cause 2nd ACW would have given so good hwg... I'm working on a scenario for IDF/Hamas, with human shields and reporter gunning, but I have a hard time finding decent minis for that too.>>You don't belong hereAh well, I'll let you retards enjoy Warhammer 40k WW2 edition, no wonder this thread is on life support.
>>94395257If you can stand 1/72 there are plastics for IDF and insurgents, as well as metal camera crews (e.g. elhiem)
>>94394736Danke. It's like I'm really there, sodomizing one of the ocean's most beautiful creatures.>>94393980Eh I've heard as much, but also the opposite. I'd like to make my own determination. We play lots of systems, as I said.
>>94395257play 6mm or put a bullet in your head
>>94395257>I'm working on a scenario for IDF/Hamas, with human shields and reporter gunning, but I have a hard time finding decent minis for that too.Edgy bro. Why don't you close the door on the way to /pol/?
>go to bed>wake up>check /hwg/>still no new posts
>>94400121boomers are dying and posting my wip chinese nationalist army will result in me having hot coals thrown at me by other anons
>>94401177>wip chinese nationalist armyI rike the Nationarists, prease post them anon. Those other sarty anons who throw hot coars, I will have their heads chopped!
>>94401229thanks anon. here ya go, my wip chinese nationalistsits mostly comprised of copplestones chinese range mixed with the odd eureka miniatures here and there(mainly the unpictured weapon teams)i clipped off all of the helmets for the copplestone minis too and replaced them with 3d printed finnish caps to make them look a bit more how i wanted them too since i love the caps the chinese soldiers wore back thenthe out of frame black primed dudes are unfiddled copplestone chinese who will represent my free levi squad acting as police officershope you rike
>>94401430Nice. Why do you prime the miniature before basing it? you still got to paint the base, don't you?
>>94395599Those minis are cool but the scale is kinda cancer.
>>94401447thanksi primed my minis before placing them on the bases as copplestone and eureka minis all seem to come with quite big metal bases at their feet(part of the moulding process i think) and it makes them look slightly taller than i liked. so i clipped them off and stuck them to their plastic bases after primingas for painting the bases. idk i used krautcover ruins with some greenstuff world bricks thrown in to give the bases a ruined city look. part of me thinks it might be over the top but the second sino japanese are looked very dirty
>>94401430Aw yeah man I love copplestone castings Chinamen. Those are awesome anon! I've got a bunch myself, I'm using the fur hat guys + some furry hat Chinamen from pulp figures to make winter Japs in Manchuria in 32.
>>94401603thanks!the big sword dudes from copplestone are some of the best models ive come across lol, i love them. i have some pulp figures too, they fit in nicely with copplestones range dont they. i cant seem to track down their chinese riflemen tho ;(got any pics?
>>94401652Go to crucible crush. They're related to pulp figures and has a bunch of their older lines still for sale. Here's some of my Japs.
working on something similar but using mine as Manchurians/banditsis there some good rules for using smaller numbers of minis? like only one or two squads on each side, so I can use them to fight each other
>>94401652Here's some of my Chinese bandits too. I haven't worked on any of these guys in a long time. I've got warlord and nationalist troops too as well as a US Navy gunboat shore party and some Shanghai municipal police, had plans for commies and a bunch of others but they haven't come to fruition yet. Maybe some day.
>>94401685hey look at those. they look fantastic :D never seen that tank before, the camo looks great on it!>crucible crushchecked it out, and yeah they have the riflemen ive been searching around for a good while now. might need to pick a handful and find somewhere for themcheers!>>94401726skunk spotted>>94401730ohhh i think ive commented on/praised your stuff before. you've done a good with them, i think it was you that partially inspired me to go with making my own chinese force of that era :D
>>94401726I use fistful of lead and beyond the empire for my back of beyond china project. Neither are the most rivet counter historically accurate, but both worked very nicely and I've personally enjoyed them. I'm currently using beyond the empire for my Rif War project. There is of course the boomer gold standard of Setting the East Ablaze, and while I have the rules, I've never played them so I can't speak to how good or bad they are very well. They look fun, however, for whatever it's worth.
>>94401781Thanks anon, I'm glad I could inspire someone with my autism lol. Keep up the good work yourself, I'm always happy to see more chinamen and more back of beyond out in the hobby world. My china stuff has been packed up for over a year now unfortunately. Moved from having a lot of space to having no space. Kinda why I'm trying my hand at 10mm at the moment.
>>94401789thanks>>94401818ye your stuff is real nice, my bandits were painted last year and never got round to properly finishing them, but started on the regulars a couple months ago, 28mm always seems to bog me down and I suppose 10mm is my main scale at the moment
>>94401818i fink ill do some painting then tomorrow, i shouldnt really be at the mercy of a company like Warlord games anyways when it comes to motivation lol>My china stuff has been packed up for over a year now unfortunately. Moved from having a lot of space to having no space.I get ya. I was working on a Japanese force then things happened during covid for me>I'm trying my hand at 10mm at the moment.What ya working on?off to bed now. late here. ill read tomorrow should the thread still be uplaters all
>>94401901Keep it up anon, you'll get them done when you get them done! >>94401910>What ya working on?The Rif War, I haven't painted anything in a bit but I'm trying to make time to get back at it.
Sell me a WW2 ruleset that plays well with 6mm miniatures at batallion-brigade level and doesn’t make the field look like a parking lot.
>>94404818Go do your own homework.
>>94400121The past 6 years the jannies that committed suicide post election made sure that this community, and tg at large, banned people who called out the faggotry of tourists, child molesters and the mentally ill encroaching on tabletop gaming. The board is dying except for the 40k threads who are religiously defending their turf. Battletech fell as the diversity crowd from Reddit ook over with sexualising and gendering everything. There are no more threads that talk about people having fun, like old Story Time threads did. HWG is just another drop in the bucket, where anything remotely calling out woke propaganda was punished by band and comment removal. Even Santa moved on 2 years ago, as the crowd was no longer worthy of caring for.Move to a forum and enjoy not having faceless people pushing their agendas. And let this thread die.
How do you guys deal with having to paint your dudes' buttcheeks? Granted, if you have tunics and such you will probably not have that problem, but dudes with pants?I personally have developed a three-stroke method that goes by a rhythm of "no-ho-mo". Three strokes, no homo, and I am done with it. It's becoming increasingly exhausting the longer I am painting though.
>>94405264kill yourself
Is there a known source for PDF data cars / TOEs for Spearhead? The mediafire trove just has the rules.
>>94406991I got what you need.
>>94407015Thank you very much, anon!
For flames of war does anyone know the answer to any of the following questions?1. The top armor of tanks seems extremely off to me. Usually heavy tanks have a top armor of 2, mediums and light tanks 1 and armored cars/open topped vehicles have 0. But infantrys AT grenades in assaults are AT 2 meaning they cannot damage heavy tanks at all and can only bail other tanks if they roll a 1 for their save? Is this supposed to be how it works after going through all the effort of starting an assault?2. Artillery guns seem to be worthless at killing anything except infantry in the open because if I range in on infantry in bulletproof cover to try and flush them out I'm adding +2 to hit because theyre gone to ground and concealed and then I have to get past their saves and then I have to pass a firepower check and I've yet to see an artillery gun that can be taken in a size above 4 so can they even get the re-rolls to hit? They also have low AT values like 2-4 so only the most expensive artillery can actually penetrate a tanks top armor and only on a roll of 1.3. For aircraft their bombs obviously hit the top armor of things but do their AT cannons? Most have AT 6-9 so the tanks would be practically unable to save against most of these attacks but if you are supposed to hit their front or side armor using the guns then they can't hurt heavier tanks like the Tiger I, KV-1, IS2, Tiger II or Pershing at all. So I'm wondering if aircraft are just very lethal and you need to bring AA.4. Why do AT guns seem to have such short ranges? most have 24-28" ranges while lots of tanks go beyond that and so the unit thats practically or sometimes is stationary can be attacked while not being able to fire back? The rules for this game are very poorly written and I don't mean as in bad but as in they do not know how to fucking organize or explain indepth what they mean in this rulebook.
>>94381951Imperial Romans are like Agincourt, done to death for 40 years because a lot of secondary sources are written in English, buuut... we all subconsciously did other things for long enough now that the old is fresh again. I am cycling back to Romans vs Parthians as we speak.
>>94382051>while Early Imperial armies only have Parthians and Germans?This was the time of Octavian, Caesar Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Nero, Trajan, Hadrian,and Antoninus.Varus was defeated by Arminius.The invasion of Britain and the revolt of the Iceni.The Jewish revolt of Massada and the sack of Jerusalem.The eruption of Vesuvius.The Dacian wars.What a great time in Roman history!
>>94408597>For parkinglot of warThe point where I stopped reading.
>>94411289Wow so fucking thoughtful faggot. Don't even bother responding then.
>>944085971. Units without specialist training or equipment are not expected to assault tanks. Unsupported infantry should, all things being equal, be defeated by armour. Heavy tanks are nearly impregnable. You'll be relying on things like PIATs/Panzerfausts/Bazookas, or extra things like AT grenade Command Cards.2. The roll to hit with artillery is not affected by concealed/GtG, so you will be hitting on the normal score (normally 3+/4+) once ranged in. Yes, AT values are low, as only a direct hit or fairly near miss would seriously impair a tank. Most shrapnel will cause light damage (vision blocks, antennae, etc) at most.3. Cannons attack the armour direction that they are facing; you would normally want to set up an attack run to face side armour. Yes, they struggle against heavy tanks (for these, you generally want Rockets) but cannon are excellent for taking out light vehicles like SP guns.4. Most guns have the same range whether mounted in a vehicle or towed. Medium guns (6pdr, 5cm PaK) do tend to be around 28" range, and heavier guns (88s, 17pdrs) substantially outrange them. But yes, positioning units to fire from outside their effective return-fire range is definitely a tactic.Finally, I agree that the rules aren't well laid out, although in their defence I've generally found the pictures in the rulebook to be pretty helpful with examples.
I am often interested in learning more about the composition of various medieval armies in terms of both organization/ structure and things like coats of arms of officers and knights (so slightly more specific than "period at a glance"). But I can't seem to figure out where to look for this kind of info beyond some of the more famous battles, web searches don't seem to return much and it can be difficult to tell if I'm just dumb or there is scant info about a particular subject (which seems entirely possible a lot of the time). Publications like Ospreys are pretty accessible and interesting to read but sometimes it feels like they only incidentally offer information that might be of use to someone interested in getting a real feel for the force being covered as a whole (names, numbers, heraldry).I was hoping maybe someone could share their general approach for learning about pre-modern armies, as it just feels like I am missing something.
>>94411762I see so I was wrong about some rules. but now I'm questioning the balance of this game because all of my german tanks outrange all of my friends allied AT guns by a sizable amount like 12-16" and they have more anti tank on average than theirs while their guns are not much cheaper than my own AT guns that have the better range and AT. And volksturmm seem really OP because theyre cheaper than my friends conscript soviets who have a 4+ save and no AT while every volksturmm unit gets a panzerfaust and has a 3+ save. and if tank hunter aircraft can't hit the top armor can his aircraft and artillery just not harm my tigers at all? I know some aircraft have bombs and rockets with higher ATs but the ones with AT cannons can't even scratch the paint on my actual heavy tanks.Is the berlin german book just powercreeped because it was the latest one to be released?
>>94413395The Berlin book is pretty strong, and KTs are - validly - pretty tough. The quality of their training and morale is generally poor, especially by the very end of the war, but they've still got a lot of armour between them and the enemy.Things you can do against Berlin Germans: against Volks, hit them with any artillery, and then manoeuvre somewhere else as they remain pinned and unable to move closer to any visible enemy. Against heavy tanks: smoke them so they can't contribute. Manoeuvre and flank them. Or just ignore them. Even this late in the war, they're expensive, they're slow and can't be everywhere. You ARE playing with objectives, and not just straight "kill them all", right? Also, focus on the in-formation units; if Tigers are taken as an additional support unit, you don't have to kill them in order to break the enemy's morale.
>new EU regulations are once again causing Bongs not to sell minis and hobby stuff to usI'm so fucking sick and tired of that Franco-German abomination.
>>94413689Bongs left on their own though
>>94382258I don't know about you but I've had good amount fun with the Victrix Gauls, I also got some of their Persian models to add more Spolas and Linothorax models which they def lack in their Gallic line.
>>94412405Primary sources, you idiot. Everything was documented, it was a fucking logistics monster.
>>94413715Beautiful work, anon. Could I see more of those interesting conversions with the Persians? I enjoy more restrained poses than the Victrix kit, especially because I think that it's bullshit that the Celts are usually regarded as wild barbarians with no regards to their own safety, and we know that they fought in pretty close order, at least in the late La Tene period. I'd also love a kit that's not 100% retainers (like the Solduroi/Armored kit), but that it has a bit more organic armor than the regular Victrix kit (which has 50% naked from the waist up and 50% wearing just a shirt).I like the Aventine armored Celts mainly because they're standing in good order and it shows that they're disciplined.
>>94413511Oh no we are indeed playing with objectives and I am playing as the berlin germans but I was talking about Tiger 1s not Tiger 2s since they have the same side armor and top armor and they're the main part of my lists.I only take 1-3 king tigers in bigger games if I feel like it and they are actually more of a burden like you said but being able to take a training company Tiger I for 9 points a tank feels cheap even if they are hit on 3+ just because they can shoot any allied tank or AT gun before it gets into range and have more armor than basically anything except an IS2 and as I said aircraft and artillery seem to have no effect and my opponents soviet soldiers are more expensive than volksturmm and have no AT and the morale doesn't really seem to make up for the lack of anti-tank, the worse survivability and way higher cost.Its wierd that germany can field larger armies than any of the allied powers too. But are berlin soviets and bulge american more a match for this book because compared to my opponents bagration and d-day books seem like the game has gotten very power creeped.
What system to people recommend for 60s-70s jet combat? CY6 Jet Age seems popular, but what do people like about it so much?
>>94415418CY6 Jet Age uses hexes and I think pre-plotting and is somewhat complex and old school.Might be better off with something like Missile Threat or AirWar C:21, or even Harpoon for larger scale conflicts where you don't care so much about the intricacies of 1 on 1 dogfights
>>94415418>>94417096I too am interested in getting into an air combat game. Any recommendations for WWII dog fights? I've always wanted to play some USN vs IJN carrier battles.
>>94413911Heres the backside of them, I was attempting to copy some designs I saw from a Celtic Warfare book along with some more natural leather patterns I saw in Divide Et Impera.
>>94381916>used to play flames of war V2 and loved it>check the state of V4What the FUCK went wrong?
>>94419660Shot self in foot as GW revived with 8e. Many such cases.
/AWG/ here with questions about drone, UAV, etc. combat in skirmish-to-platoon scale. Is there anything for that specifically?
War of the Roses anons, what books should I start with getting into the conflict? I've become very smitten with Richard III and would like to wargame the conflict. Also, fuck Tudors.
>>94419660v2 wasn't good, it was just a treadhead jackoff time but without even attempt at managing meta year to yearif you think it's better than v4 you didn't understand v2.v3 was much better than both, and all are better than any bolt action release
>>94420237I like BA's activation system, but that's about it.
>>94382370very based, what scale?>>94385697absolutely not most wargame campaigns, if any at all>>94408753most aesthetic legions too but not as much tactical interest>>9440012115 minute post to remain anon now
>>94419660Well the game is poorly balanced because lots of units are completely overcosted for what they offer most notably anything with good morale and a bad to hit rating but stuff that has a 4+ to hit and crap morale tend to be dirt cheap and criminally undercosted. This used to be ok because morale used to matter a lot more but they made it super fucking forgiving in V4 so having bad morale is not that big of a tradeoff for a better to hit rating. Some other issues plague it though.1. Lots of historical rules were taken out of books and put into command cards which are rules only found on the cards and act like 40k stratagems2. Gradual powercreep as late war books were released see bulge Books or Berlin books compared to the D-Day and Bagration books3. Nerfs to every allied army especially soviets and buffs to germany during the switch from V3 to V4 so lots of allied equipment is now statiscally worse than it was in previous editions and german stuff is now stronger4. AT guns and infantry were taken out back and shot making the game even more tank focused than it already wasAnd most importantly was gutting early war and pacific and pushing late war aside and focusing purely on mid war but very slowly releasing books over time so most lists and units were unplayable for months sometimes years. This is the big one because imagine if 40k didnt released indexes when they released 10th edition and any army that didnt have a book couldnt play the game until their book came out, thats what they did.
>>94420237V4 is much much better ruleswise than V3. Only upside of V3 is the historical lists but gameplay wise all the changes were for the better.V3 was plagued by always attack, always defend, always always attack etc.Mission stances and how you choose a scenario to play are huge upsides and provide a really nice feel to them.Balance wise the game isn't the best, sadly older books have been powercrept and BF intends on keeping late war Russians unplayable, but besides that it's still pretty good. Especially if you set your mind on playing more historically with less soup options and not most cost effective choices.
>>94419999There is a Ukraine 2022 game with drones and UAVs. Any game covering Ukraine should have done drone ruleshttps://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/400260/ukraine-2022-tabletop-wargame>>94418056You could look at Lacquered Coffins, Bag the Hun, or Wings of Glory: WW2 for something simpler
>>94419112These look good, anon, and I think that's a wonderful idea. I think the only issue might be different shoes and the lack of a metal belt that's so characteristic of the Celts, but at the end of the day, it's good to have some organic armor in there. Thanks for sharing.
>>94424260Most of these guys are going to be in blobs of infantry and sculpting greenstuff bits and changing shoes for these models would be more hassle than I would be willing to do, I could maybe paint the belts a metal color, will try that and see how it looks
>>94423861>Ukraine 2022 gameNeat. Thanks anon.
>>94423861>those chitsHey, I remember that shit!
>>94413986Not the other anon but play a lot of flames. The Bulge and Berlin books for the allies will have a much better time against the very late war German books, Soviets can turn into a bit of a powerhouse in the Berlin Book.
>>94422399>implying infantry are bad in late war lol, lmao even. That’s not remotely true, they struggle a bit in mid war but are extremely strong in late war especially Soviets and Germans armed with Fausts…
>>94427995For late-war yeah that kind of slipped my mind since I play more mid-war but some infantry are still absolutely worthless to take but thats more just general point cost issues. But in mid-war they are near worthless since most armies barring americans lack like any meaningful infantry AT in numbers to kill even a light tank so they're nothing more than roadblocks and light tanks pack like 3-4 mg shots a piece at like 1 to 2 points per tank so they're outputting the same firepower of 2-3 infantry teams without being vulnerable to MG fire, artillery, and are unable to be pinned and theyre as cheap as infantry.
>>94420191The War of the Roses by Dan Jones is the best book for a complete coverage if the WOTR and all it's characters. The War of the Roses: Medieval Art by Graham Turner is an amazing book for wargamers, full of Artwork by Graham Turner depicting historically accurate WOTR events and battles, armor and weapons, etc.
>>94424943That shit has now been introduced into the entire Ukrainian education system - all high school students in year 11 and 12 will play it.An anon wrote a neat article about the whole thing here:https://hobbygamesrecce.blogspot.com/2024/08/ukraine-2022-prepares-students-for-war.html
Looking at getting started on some Napoleonics, and I can probably get a couple of mates interested too. The only system I'm aware of though is Pike and Shotte. I'm assuming there's other, better ones. What would you recommend?
>>94430369Pike and Shotte is not a Napoleonic wargame but it’s based off Warlods Black Powder and it’s practically the same game. They aren’t the best systems though. If you want easy and fast play, play Valor and Fortitude or Blucher, if you want a bit more complex and simulationist play GDA2 or Shako 2, if you want skirmish play Sharpe Practice
>>94430925> but it’s based off Warlords Black Powder which is Warlords Napoleonic game
>>94430369Try Blucher as a first step into it. Don't overthink the basing, just put small dudes on 20x40mm bases and have a blast.
>>94430930>>94430369Pike and Shotte is a tweaked Black Powder, making it an appropriate Renaissance era game, not Napoleonic. Play Valour and Fortitude
Not the best pic, but just finished a squad of Regulares and the their platoon commander for my Riff project.What are you working on?
>>94430369>Blucher is the most accessible and historical >the new Revolution game if you like chrome >V&F if you want to pay a fair price for the boomer experience
I have painted the pants of about 600 15mm dudes throughout the week.After every 10 or so dudes I rinsed the brush, yet it soaked up the paint completely.I didn't use any pressure, yet the bristles started splitting after the first 200 or so. Cleaned it with brush cleaner several times.Now it looks like some old lady's brushwood broom.Am I that retarded or is the brush just that shit? It's one from some set of 6 I got for like 15 bucks.
Does anyone have the new Bolt Action rulebook yet?
>>94434851Yes, it was posted in the share thread the day is released
>>94434179>It's one from some set of 6 I got for like 15 bucks.Probably a cheap brush, they don't last too long. Try to not get paint past the half-way point on the bristles, and rinse more regularly: after every 2-3 figures would be better. Paint drying on the bristles, even if you rinse it off a bit later, causes stress and the bristles to splay outward, and paint up into the ferrule will wreck the brush fairly quickly.
>>94434860Any chance I could get a Link? Please.
>>94431659More Afghans. (They're perry bros instead of wargames this time, I like the better detail but the plastic is harder to work with.)Choosing 28mm TSATF for my first historical might have been a mistake but we're over 1/3rd of the way there not counting terrain.
>>94435621The sword and the flame?
>>94435827I read the Major General's wargaming page when I was too young for it to be healthy and since then colonials have been boiling in the back of my mind. It was either them or the Great War (Which will be next if I ever finish here)I thought about doing the Men who would be kings but it just did not sit right with me for reasons I am unable to articulate. Current plan is to start with two units of Pathan jezails, two units swordsmen, and then two british units and maybe an artillery piece for one or both sides. Then some terrain.Go read the Maiwand Day blog if you have not already by the by. It's a masterwork.
>>94435882>I read the Major General's wargaming page when I was too young for it to be healthy and since then colonials have been boiling in the back of my mind.Are you me? The Major Generals wargaming page is what first introduced me to wargaming a long long time ago, I've never played TSATF but I've known about it from them! I'd really like to look into it myself some day. Good luck to you anon, that sounds to be an excellent project.
Why are people so down on the new edition of bolt action? My local group seems largely happy with it and I will be trying it out this weekend.
Work continues on the Prussians, 2 foot regiments painted so far.
>>94438044>Why are people so down on the new edition of bolt action?Because it's not really a very historical historical war game. It's an exceptionally generic wargame with a thin veneer of WWII on top of it. The platoon system is generic and not based in historical fact, the units are generic and not held to historical ORBATs or To&Es (you don't even need to have historical squad sizes or squad armaments) the points system is reminiscent of Warhammer 40k, there's no effort for historical tactics or operations, there's no real differences between factions. This is all done to facilitate tournament play, the cancer of wargames.
>>94438521>BA tournament playuh no, it's just pure warlord laziness. BA is a terrible tournament game. People lump it in to things they don't understand... you clearly don't understand what tournaments are and are not, but BA has none of the characteristics of a meta-enabling. It's just a big fat nothingburger content wise, as are most warlord systems.You can bitch about FOW being a tournament game and that's more accurate, because they actually patch things, have season packs, all the attributes required to be even remotely serious in that genre... It also meets the very low bar of being more historical than BA, somehow. Because BA has literally nothing going for it in either department.
>>94438686>you clearly don't understand what tournaments are and are notYou are correct, because I avoid tournament games like the plague. My only experience comes from having played a fair amount of BA 2e, alongside other WWII games, and finding it terrible compared to others when I show up with a list that I've tried to make as historically accurate as possible within the confines of the rules and my opponent had what can only be described as a meta cheese list based solely on abusing mechanics instead of any historical accuracy.
>>94438749ok well newsflash you are likely to get trashed in a variety of games by such people, regardless of the historicity of the game. You are just that kind of player. So scenarioes are good, but the truth is the more historical games tend to be more breakable and less playtested.
>>94438772That's fair.
What's the difference between the Waffen SS Panzergrenadiers and the norma Panzergrenadiers miniatures Battlefront sells? They seem to be the same miniatures with a different paintjob.
Just finished watching Generation Kill and now I wanna run some Iraq War games... any 28mm manufacturers apart from Eureka? I'd be interested in running something like a Recon Team against insurgents/soldiers, with maybe some extra support.
>>94440430My guess would be the amount of infantry stands and special weapon sprues are slightly different to fit the specific squad types unit sizes. Same thing applies to all armies having a box of riflemen for mid war and late war.The models are almost certainly the same sprues its just how many of X sprue they give.
>shapeways doesn't exist anymorewhat the fuck, there was a ton of ultra-obscure stuff there (comprehensive catalog of the swedish navy 1850-1900) that's gone forever now
>>94440900Empress.
>>94381916Is Bolt Action the only Korean War wargame?
>>94434851>https://gofile.io/d/UDHdEG
>>94442544Nice looking models, anon, better than the Eureka ones. Thank you!
>>94440430I think the SS are the bendy plastic while the regular panzergrens are the normal type
>>94450611I looked it up and the only difference I can see is that the SS kit comes with 2 less panzershreck teams in the box, likely because SS units are more capped at how many they can bring than regular panzergrenadiers I assume.Battlefront loves to reuse sprues wherever possible to save on money and logistics. It's the same sprues as the normal panzergrenadiers.
I just like pictures of guys marching to places
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What WWI Game could you recommend me?
>>94452226Mass battle or skirmish
>>94452234Mass battle
>>94452255Square bashing for smaller mass battle, Great War spearhead for larger mass battle
>>94452261Thanks you
>>94452174>>94452179>>94452186>>94452189>>94452194>>94452200>>94452207Beautiful work, anon. I love your scenery and you seem to have a huge collection of minis across different periods.
Nearly finished the 2nd Prussian infantry division, then I'm on to the cavalry
Noob here.How long should it take to paint 15mm minis? I feel like I still haven't found a proper workflow.I have been doing trousers because I figured they're easiest because there's no guns and faces and straps and such, but I just spent a good 2h to what amounts to some 60ish dudes. I feel like half the time I was cleaning the brush, but that's one whole minute for two legs, front and back.Is it a skill issue or does it just take that long? At that pace it will take like half a year until everything is done.
>>9445384210-15 minutes of brushtime, but it could be less. It really shouldn't be more
>>94381916Is there a historical skirmish wargame like Mordheim? Even an unnoficial fan-made one.
>>94454398Yes
>>94454438How's it called? Mordheim is practically the only thing my group plays and I'm dying to see my 28mm hoplites in action.
>>94454398>>94454438>>94454456I was interested in looking for something like this as well. So far, the only thing I've found is Outremer: Faith and Blood, but the system has a few problems. I think something could be easily homebrewed from Mordheim directly (tweaking it considerably), but it would end up being something that's not really historical, but more arcadey or gamey...
>>94454898I think that, for what's intended, "gamey" is just what I'm looking for.I'll check out Outremer.
>>94440430Ignore all the other retardsSS Pgrens all have SS smocks, Wehrmacht pgrens have the M43 uniform and some zeltbahn guys Also the SS guys are soft plastic so are garbage
Wow my ancient links and pasta are still activeSome of them must be nearly 10 years oldNo on-this-day spiel but those were always hard to writeIt's been a very long time since I was on /tg/, once was known as kiwianon in these partsStarted these threads for a couple of years but things changed and life moved onJust thought I'd see if /hwg/ was still going and yep it isWargaming, wargaming never changes
Does anyone have a copy of What a Cowboy by TFL that they wouldn't mind sharing? I've had a poke around in the usual places but no luck.
>all non-European companies are about to cease sales to the EU due to new regulationsI fucking hate the EU.
>>94458672Nice to see you again kiwi-anon, been a while. Thanks for posting my image, lost it ages ago when my computer died.
>>94459592Are EU companies still shipping stuff overseas, though? I'm in South America, so it's the worst of all worlds for me when it comes to buying stuff and even more when it comes to shipping, but I'm used to it.>buy some metal minis from the UK>30 days later I get a notification from customs saying the package is in their possession>forced to pay 50% extra in fucking taxes so we can keep fueling the corruption machine>finally get the minis 1 week later>some of them are bent due to poor handling by the disgruntled monkeys working at customs/the post>at least I can afford minis, unlike 90% of my countrymen
>>94459840>EU companiesDo they even exist? I can think of less than five European historical miniature makers and only one is located in the EU. This new regulation requires all companies wishing to sell to the EU to have a legal representative IN the EU which costs a lot of money.
>>94459592>ukies can send my plastic models for cheap in euro while getting bombed by Putler>bongs completely pull out due to some EU regulations that have been prepared and announced ages ago???
>>94460152The Ukies won't be able to sell to the EU either. It's not just Bongs, these rules apply for the entire world. No exceptions for small companies either, you MUST have a legal representative located in the EU. The Americans are stopping sales too, Khurasan announced they will stop selling to us Europoors two days ago.
>>94459859Mirliton is the one I was concerned about, but it's true that there are not that many. That's a shitty regulation
>>94458672Its been far to long kiwi-anon, good to see your still with us and not up in that glorious game room in the sky.
>>94460210it's all a cunning plan to restore modelmaking supremacy to continental europe by banning extra-union plastic tanks and toy soldiers.using the advanced EU tech sector and the emerging technology of additive manufacturing we will soon see a greater diversity than ever in historical miniatures, printed right in your home.
>>94461968>restoreEurope is the sick man of the world, our industries have been dying for decades and even Germany is fucked. We will never see miniature companies in Europe either due to how extreme VAT/sales tax is. Shame if we're reduced to 3D printing, wouldn't shock me if the EU create some bullshit tax on the plastic/resin used for "environmental concerns" while ignoring single use packaging and products. I wish a nuclear holocaust upon Germany, France and Belgium.
>>94459131https://mega.nz/folder/gRZ0SZwa#k7aczOwz4JHxs8wUwrojBQ
>>94463011Thank you anon!
Got a kit of Perry Afghans last week. I used exactly the same recipe and technique I was using on the Wargames Atlantic Afghans and it came out 10x better. Is it the sculpting doing the heavy lifting or is there something in the plastic? Was it luck?I really hope it was not luck.
>>94465669Better figures, which definitely helps. Nice paint job.
Spanish Foreign Legion and Regulares advancing.
>>94413715beautiful
How many anons are actually in this thread?
>>94467282It's only you and me. ASL?
>>94468606f/16
I'm just gonna say it. Chain of Command is extremely overrated.
>>94468950You ever had a threesome?
>>94469008Not him but I got close once and screwed it up bad by saying something stupid. It haunts me to this day. I still ended up sleeping with both women separately but I never had them both at once
Anyone know where i can find a PDF copy of this game? Or if anyone has a scan of it?
>>94469125>by saying something stupidLike what?>Are you archeologists? Cause I have a large bone to examine.
>>94469280We were all drunk in my bed together and I told one of the girls that I loved her, which pissed off the other girl enough that she got off the bed and started crying because she had feelings for me too
>>94468606Mate, Advanced Squad Leader is pretty punchy for a first date.
>>94469280By saying something stupid like "I love you", anon.
>>94469142I only have this one, I'm not sure what (if anything) was changed in the second edition.https://mega.nz/file/lB5Q0LpB#l0yCaxk7gntrE-kuVZvegCVOUBxv6g8CSx2LQ9fKSqE
>>94469982Bless you man, Dont worry about the 2E thing, i just for the life of me could not find this anywhere
Who does better plastic Afghans, WGA or Perry?
>>94470909Perry easily
>>94470909as the guy who posted the earlier Afghans I can say that Perry for variety and quality, but WA for volume (4 more miniatures for like 7/8ths the cost)
Bit of a dumb question; can I use Advanced Squad Leader scenarios with regular Squad Leader?
>>94469982>https://mega.nz/file/lB5Q0LpB#l0yCaxk7gntrE-kuVZvegCVOUBxv6g8CSx2LQ9fKSqECheers
>>94468983Not wrong
Never Mind the Matchlocks. All I've found so far:https://mega.nz/file/UNBHnI7I#dcZWAGrXtmofloDXYge71ZPcjkgWD7-Jaj2aKOONJVY
>>94474410You're gonna make me cum..
Getting a 3d printer soon and want to use it as an opportunity to get into Bolt Action. Can anyone recommend sculptors/studios with good WW2 models that are similar in style/scale to bolt action models? I found some good 1:100 panzer and tiger tanks on thingiverse that I could scale up, but didn't see much that I liked in the way of infantry.
>>94477843I recommend deez nuts
All the Riffians I've finished so far.
And all the Spaniards I've finished so far. Rif project slowly grinding along.
Does anyone other than Warlord do French tanks in plastic?
>>94478568Also, how shit are French in 3rd BA? I wanna play a mostly motorcycle division for /fun/
>>94478568>>94478876I only know of the Warlord ones. Also French are very fun. I know think any army is particularly shit in BA unless your opponent is a 40k refugee playing a WAACfag list
Is there any kind of information on the overall ratio of uniform colors/fabric in the CSA?Like, how common was the butternut uniform, how many dudes wore all grey or all brown, was there mix & match (since they would try to get their clothes from back home, if possible) and so on? I assume it was also dependent on the region and time, but a general ballpark would already be enough for me.
>>94469982I'm impressed - not found that one in some years of looking (and ended up buying a physical copy).Don't suppose you have a PDF of Charge as well, do you?
>>94479838Nice, what makes them fun?
>>94483562I'm a francophile
Rifanon still around? Pic related is a MG carried on a packhorse.
>>94477940Rifanon, see above.
>>94484281>>94484322I am still around, and that is awesome anon! I'm amused that you remembered my asking about horses carrying MGs, I appreciate it a lot! I've got one at this point but I still need to base and prime it.
>>94382477Those romans looks incredible good.Are there other model with this quality from vintrix?
>>94482550Consider purchasing this book to begin with. I would also buy Don Troiani's other work as well, he's an expert on uniforms for various American conflicts. But the Confederates were a lot more uniform than imagined. Once they sorted out their initial problems with production and distribution of uniforms and equipment, the Confederate soldier was well equipped. The commutation system for clothes made at home was a stop-gap meassure in the first year, then the CSA started producing and importing uniforms. England supplied wast amounts of uniforms, often a light blueish gray. But you should decide what theater and battle your minis are for, then check resources available.
>>94486036Thanks, looks promising.>But you should decide what theater and battle your minis are for, then check resources available.Yeah, that's what I was afraid of.
>>94482655Charge! or how to play Wargames (Young and Lawford 1970....that one? I've never seen a scan, will post if I ever find one.
>>94459592Where are you getting this from? I'm out of the loop.
>>94441731Save everything anon. You see something nice, you save it for later.
>>94462030All those highly educated third world immigrants are surely to turn the tide of decay, anon.
>>94381916Sometimes WGA really just makes me scratch my head. Ive been working on my WW1 project and I decided to take a look at WGA 3d print files for WW1 Americans. Why tf did WGA decide that their Americans be modeled using German Gewehr 98's? Sure the American m1903 was based on the Gewehr, but there are enough differences for your average autist like me to be able to tell them apart. AND THEY HAVE A MODEL OF THE 1917 ENFIELD WHICH WAS THE ACTUAL STANDARD RIFLE OF THE US ARMY DURING THE WAR. Their Sgt Stubby set has an American soldier with a 1917 Enfield slung over his shoulder, so its not like they didnt wanna take the time to model a new weapon, because they already had the model ready to go. I was so happy that I could save money on this project by 3d printing the minis, but no, WGA has to go and fuck it up.rant over
>>94489915A comparison of the rifles in question for anyone confused
>>94489915their 3d print stuff is hastily thrown together
>>94489915>>94489939LIKE THAT IS SO CLEARLY A SIETENGEWEHR 98 BAYONET AND NOT A M1905, YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE THE CURVED CROSSGUARD
>>94485655Pretty much all of their stuff except for some of their early Napoleonic minis are of terrific quality. Their latest medieval releases cement them as being the best in historical plastics imo
>>94489915>>94489996'tism
>>94489915>>94489939>>94489996THEY HAVE THE MODEL, LIKE ITS RIGHT THERE. JUST RIG IT TO SOME ACTION POSE ARMS AND CALL IT A DAY>>94490109I know its tism but its such a glaringly obvious detail to anyone familiar with the period, so im gonna be mad about it
>>94490147It's an honest mistake someone made and if you contact WGA they will fix it, but instead you decided to sperg out on 4chan
>>94490159Someone pointed it out to them in the comments of the listing on MMF, yet it has not been fixed. Strange...its just such an odd mistake to make that it confounds me
>>94490193A random comment on an offshoot website isn't an honest attempt at making contact. Shoot them an email like an adult and I guarantee you will get a response. WGA is really good at addressing concerns
>>94490249Fair enough, I suppose if I'm going to talk the talk, I should walk the walk as well
>>94489996It's not curved.
>>94491222I mean you can see that it is curved plain as day, but even if you wanna dispute its curvature, look at the details on the grip. Its clearly got the plate on the bottom like the sietengewehr
Moving into a bigger place. Gonna turn one of the bigger rooms into a wargaming/hobby room. Plan on hanging framed /hwg/ related artwork on the walls, any suggestions? I know for sure I want Scotland Forever but I’ve got wall space for a lot more
For the campaign players, do you guys use maps to track campaign progress? I'm looking for a map of 1648-ish Sinai and it's difficult to find something thematic and usable.
>>94492397I really like Giuseppe Rava artwork. https://www.g-rava.it/>>94492431You can: I like point-to point type maps, territory types work OK too (like a RISK-style map, etc.). You can always draw your own, they don't need to be amazing. I also like using board game maps where appropriate, sometimes they can be modded for the purpose.
>>94486606That's the one. I just wondered, since you delivered one legendary unicorn this week, whether you might have seen another.Thanks again for sharing the Grant book
>>94492397Thus one
Do you play WW2 games with 15mm or 20mm scale miniatures? What do you prefer?I got Battlegroup and I'm enjoying the game a lot, but I'm finding 15mm infantry (I got two FoW starter sets for cheap to try BG Kursk) too small to play given how the scope of the rules gives equipment stats for each man. Also given Battlefront mismanages its stock finding certain FoW blisters in Spain is a pain in the ass. I've been giving serious thought to restart my collection using 20mm, Xan Miniatures excellent winter Soviets and Waffen-SS would work great for Spring Awakening.
>>9449349315mm is great. Small enough for big scale battles and detailed enough for enjoyable painting. 20mm IMO is tad too small for skirmishes and tad too big for big scale battles. Dirty cheap tho.
>>94492397I wish I knew the name of pic related.
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>>94493493>Do you play WW2 games with 15mm or 20mm scale miniatures? What do you prefer?1:32 models
>>94492397I don't have it in better quality, but: The battle of Hohenfriedberg by Carl Roechling.
I've been making further progress on my WW1/white Russians. The basic infantry has been printed and is being painted up and I am currently working on a Maxim team for some heavier support. As this project is almost done I am thinking about what to model next. On the one hand I can pretty easily convert the basic ww1 Russians into Bolsheviks with some minor modifications, A hatswap (replace cockades for stars, model a Budanovka) and the removal of shoulderboards would turn my existing minis into pretty convincing Reds, although it does feel kind of ''cheap'' to just modify my existing sculpts. If I go full Russian Civil war I would also want to model some of the Baltic countries' forces at some point.I could also however stick to WW1 and sculpt Austro-Hungarians to oppose my Ivans. This would be more work however, as I would have to start almost from nothing again. >>94490147I understand the tism. For weeks I have been obsessing over the waterjacket of the maxim machine gun I am modelling to make sure it is the right model for the First World War.
>>94493603Poor horses.
>>94495384Had to find one with better resolution. I saw the original at the Metropolitan, it's a massive painting and mesmerizing.
Does 4chan reduce image quality?
>>94419999Nice quads. Don't have an answer for that but I am curious if anyone knows of a good metal miniature manufacturer that has a modern drone operator like that. I could find a scifi one most likely but modern is another story.
Battle has begun! Spanish Legionaries in among some rocks have been assaulted by a large group of Riffians, to their rear a squad of Cazadores falls back away from the charging moors. The fight has so far been inconclusive.
>>94489915WGA really aggravates me sometimes for this very reason. They do some model that addresses a gap in the overall market, and then fuck it up with some ridiculous anachronism or ahistorical detail.
>>94469982Thanks for this!
>>94381916I cannot believe Battlefront stopped the majority of their metal infantry in 15mm and switched to that useless fucking soft plastic, metal flames of war infantry figures were mostly fucking great
>>94500189they varied.. some good, some bad.. at the end of the day they never had motivation to make really nice sets sculpt wise and so the sculpt quality was only ever ok. But yes especially on smaller models the tightness of metal detail is irreplaceable.They are unlikely to go back though. Sometimes you can see them backfilling but in general it makes more sense for them to have a much smaller array of hard plastic. You can also see them abandoning soft plastic mostly, as basically every company does after trying the siocast scam.
What size table do you need to play a good game that doesn't feel cramped? 6' x 4' seems incredibly small, like a basketball court sized battlefield
>>94500373Siocast is just so shit, the thing is I really like the variety in flames of war (versions before 4 even more so) and if they do ditch soft plastic like you say they are going to cut the range even more, I hope not but I reckon they will
>>94500872they are going to keep narrowing SKUs... IDK how anyone would expect otherwise.The real question is even if someone started making new metals for infantry, what would they cost? the "big companies" already charge almost metal prices for plastics and keep most of the margin.So you would expect new metals of that size would cost similar to AB ww2. Would you pay that?The only companies I can think of that make somewhat new full metal lines are Forged in Battle and Tundraworks. Their prices are at the upper end.
>>94500988>slipping tundraworks in Nice try you Canuck gook lmao
>>94500988Well FiB raised their prices from 11 pounds to the current 15 over a period of 10 years. All manufacturers of metals minis and even plastics have been forced to raise prices due to material costs. I work in a workshop and the cost of carbon steel, stainless and aluminum has gone through the roof lately, it's the same for the metals used for minis.
>>94493493>2mm>same size flockstarts to look pretty silly, I wouldnt even add flock at that zoolander scale
>>94493493I play BG in 15mm, because I have stuff from FOW days. 20mm is a nice scale too, I started with 1/72 for WWII back in the day. You can definitely distinguish the infantry better , though in 15mm BG we have each team/squad equipped with one weapon only for ease of play, e.g. a team is Rifles with an LMG, SMG-armed, an LMG tam, etc. we don;t bother saying the squad NCO has an SMG, it just gets abstracted into the overall effect.If you're in Spain, you have Xan Miniatures (https://www.xanminiatures.com/es/) which have some really nice 20mm metals. Plastic 1/72 kits are pretty widespread across the world, so are the infantry although some are better than others. If I was to start WWII again, from scratch, I'd probably go 20mm.>>94500789It depends on the scale you are playing, and how much stuff you have on the table.
Midgard: https://mega.nz/file/5M4hHbhb#ElwXgclJMXGxiCIj-h_8k3GFDqWE-JxodS8NHgDSMkI
>>94477935>>94477940>>94496264Looking great anon, always enjoy seeing your work. What system are you using?>>9449349315mm. The FoW stuff is such a cheap way of getting minis to the table for skirmish games, and I think the ground scale matches up a bit better than with 20mm (or god forbid, 28mm)>>94493964Your sculpting just keeps improving anon, keep it up.
What colour should I paint barrels and other metal elements of Mauser rifles owned by Boers or Mexican Revolutionaries (Mexican Masuer)? I don't think they were already parkerized black (like in WWII) at that point as it was a brand new process, but I cannot find conclusive information for the life of me - possibly on account of the question being so patently obvious for everyone else.BTW, 900 second time to post? Shit's wild.
>>94504323Black
>>94469008Twice. It's overrated but it's still sex so you're not having a bad time. The first one is my favorite because the girl I was seeing was really into Star Wars, and we talked about that shit endlessly. Then she brought in her friend and we met and fucked and we all had a great time. As we lay basking in the afterglow, the new girl mentions she likes Star Trek. So we get into a debate over who was the best captain, one of us on either side of the Star Wars girl, so she got the stereo Trekkie argument experience. After nerding out for ten minutes she demanded we change the subject to something she liked and we just kept talking ST.
>>94506572Did she argue for Kirk?
any suggestions for grid-based systems? Why aren't they more popular?
>>94506572>woman that unironically like sci FiI bet you all look putrid
>>94503856Thanks anon, I'm happy to hear that. We're using Beyond the Empire as our rules, this was our first game with the system and while I've played it before solo my buddy hadn't so it was more of an introductory game to come to grips with the rules than anything heavily historical. We both thoroughly enjoyed the system, found that the command friction and order system worked well with the messy colonial conflict it was ment to represent, with lots of faffing about, units hesitating or losing courage and occasionally sacing up and doing amazing things. In the end he won as the Spanish, though just barely and it was a very close fight. The highlights of the battle include my mortar team refusing to move for most of the battle, then finally moving, destroying his FT17 with a lucky direct hit, and running out of ammo and fucking off the next round, and also his squad of Cazadores shooting at one of my squads of riffi riflemen, I tested to react and return fire and passed, we both shoot at each other simultaneously, both end up landing hits on each other and both have to test for courage, both fail and both end up pinned down by each other. Over all a great time and a rule set I would recommend. While we still have a lot to learn I'm going to start prepping for our next battle, which will be a historically focused scenario.
>>94507218System depends on your preferred time period, but To The Strongest covers ancients up to medieval. Both Rommel and Eisenhower from Sam Mustafa cover WW2.As for popularity, I think that most people's idea of of a "miniature wargame" involves tape measures, so they make up reasons to not use a grid. Things like grids being too restrictive, ahistorical, or unaesthetic
>>94507762Rommel is pretty nice. Never heard of To The Strongest, though. Medieval warfare on a square grid? Could be either interesting or annoying to play. Added to the wishlist, thanks anon.
>>94507218Many of the Peter Pig / Rules for the Common Man use grids. Square Bashing for WW1, Poor Bloody Infantry for WW2 and the 1st edition of Men of Company B for VietnamPhil Sabin's Lost Battles covers grid-based ancients
>>94507218Bob Cordery's The Portable Wargame is a bit of a grid-game toolkit, based on Joseph Morschauser's book from the 1960s. The more specific books like Portable Napoleonic Wargame tend to be more usable
>>94507908Hey Anon, I ran a TTS game at Historicon this year and we had a blast with over 2k 28mm minis refighting Strasbourg 357AD. TTS' strength is in playing big battles since the grid system removes the need for measuring and playing cards are used for activating units but we used a D10 for hits as people just like rolling dice. It's autistic in a healthy way with loads of different lists to cover multiple nations/factions over multiple time periods. I guess there is a competitive scene but my friend group isn't interested, we just like refighting historical engagements to the best of our abilities. It's basing agnostic too which is a big plus in my opinion. Pic related, we hosted 3 games. I highly recommend you give it a shot sometime to see if it's up your alley.
>>94508140Thanks for all those names. Will have to look them up.>>94508165Oh, I've heard of that! I just stumbled across the YouTube channel. Didn't manage to convince me it was worthwhile, though. Videos aren't the best way to teach rules. Do you have any experience with them?>>94511407Duly noted. You know, with the cards instead of dice and the square grid, it was a pretty hard sell. But the rules are fantastic. I'll definitely give it a try. Just out of curiosity, could you not also replace the activation with a d10? The only really card-specific bit seem to be the Stratagems.Appreciate the picture :)
>>94514672You need cards for activation because you need to know what the last unit activation number was. But you can get round mdf tokens of playing cards to draw from a bag which are less obtrusive. You can use d10s for combat with no issues though.
>>94382477Yes but not always. In antiquity the four main colours were Red, White, Yellow, and Black. Black was an ominous colour (death) so was normally not used as the primary colour. Red and white (and undyed grey-white) were seemingly the most common, and were the martial colours in the ancient world. Blue and green shields became more used towards late antiquity, so its possible that blue and green tunics also became more used, and may have been used earlier too. The Romans associated blue with the celts, it was considered a mourning or "barbarian" colour, so its less likely to have been used in republican Roman times. However blue does make late antique armies more visually distinctive, so go for it if you'd like. The notitia dignitiatium has blue, yellow, and green shields, so possibly tunics too. I would say that we have absolutely *no* evidence for any tunics which werent red, white, or off-white, all of the surviving wall paintings show legionnaires wearing red or white. I would say that in the ancient world, colours are on a spectrum of vibrancy depending on the price, and red is also on a spectrum of colours, cheaper reds look more brown or washed-out (lighter) , while more expensive reds look more vibrant scarlet/crimson. TL;DR. Yes they wore reds, but also whites sometimes. >>94381916Has lindybeige released his 4 year late hannibal comic yet?
>>94381916Anyone can recommend any decent historical wargaming 3d files creators? Especially for 6-15mm stuff? There isn't a whole lot I can find on myminifactory or cults.
>>94515832henry turner has pretty much saturated the market for that kind of smallscale shovelware.. and fair enough, his stuff is still better than warlord's "big company" shovelware. It's just such a low bar.I don't foresee there being much more in that department for small scales because doing something a bit higher quality in 3d isn't worth it anymore
>>94515865You say showelware but his shit is better than most of what is out there. Almost all the 15mm metals I have seen are just mediocre due to being metal cast hand sculpts. There is one Dutch or Belgian guy that stands out, I forgot the name, but his offering is still very limited.
>>94515906>Almost all the 15mm metals I have seen are just mediocre due to being metal cast hand sculptsPeter Pig and his creepy "sex doll" faces that are just three holes poked into a blob.
>>94515906the very same post says it's better than a lot of stuff out there because its a very low bar hmmm
These are hand-sculpted 15mm minis and they shit all over digital sculpts.
>>94432479Polish scythemen are such a cool aesthetic
>>94516569maybe the next TW kickstarter they will make it across the threshold, no luck last time for them
>>94516591TW kickstarter?
