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>>96757245>What helps you choose and focus on the ongoing project? How do you decide what to work on?Honestly only just really learning to focus. There is a lot of solo time and there are a lot of parasocial temptations, lots of new stuff coming down the pipeline to distract you - you would go crazy trying to do it all.Even with my goals set fairly modestly: make a few good sized, neatly painted skirmish matchups for the dark ages and 19th century to set alongside my little pool of agnostic sci fi and fantasy minis - temptation abounds.Someone older than me told me in his time, people didn't really butterfly around between genres and periods. Maybe you did American Civil War and American War of Independence. Or just Ancients, or just Napoleonics or WW2 and were "that guy." People collected amazing armies this way and could put on some great battles, slowly and patiently. I like too many different things to fully commit to just one, but I am mindful that given a platoon every other month is my output... I don't need to chase everything.On the total reverse... someone introduced me to the idea of the "two or three box army" and it allows for you to set a oainting target you can reach while getting matchups with a little asymmetry for play. My late roman army is mostly heavy infantry and light cavalry, my goths the reverse. It's nice to skew things a bit even when the opposing sides are similar.
>>96757245>TQPriority order:1. Minis I need for an upcoming game.2. Minis I want to finish.3. Minis I feel like working on.
To the anon that brought the War in the Vendée to my attention last thread, thank you so much, I'm obsessed now. That's all I've been reading about these last few days. It's crazy I've never even heard of it, my wife who is French has never heard of it either, it's not even taught in French schools. It's interesting to see conflicts in world history that have very clear black and white good vs evil sides.
What are the most low IQ normie historical wargame eras? I think the winners have to be >WW2>Vikings Runner up>Early Imperial Rome
>>96760552French schools go for a massive jump from Louis XVI to WW1. The whole Napolonic era is barely mentioned and there's a couple pages worth of "the democratic experiments" that led from the 1st Republic to the 5th.There's another couple pages to say life was easier and more meritocratic from the 60s to 80s but no deep dive on Indochina or Algeria either. It's shit.If you're wife stayed a bit more before joining you she'll be aware though since a Vendean business tycoon and far right political figure built a massive theme park there to celebrate French History. Same guy publicly said every Vendean grows up feeling ashame as kids that their ancestors didn't side with the Revolution but he himself was making sure they won't have to feel this way anymore. If memory serves his theme park financed a movie maybe a couple years ago about this war, but this time the script showed Vendeans being in the right and Revolutionnaries being absolute mongrels.
>>96760552The Vendéens got the last laugh, because they sufferer in life but fought like lions, and now they will spend eternity sitting besides the Lord God in Paradise ~ meanwhile the Republican French, from the 1790s to present day will burn in hellfire
>>96760552>>96761525>>96761597Alright, qrd on the vendee?
>>96761616>French revolution happens >leftist proto-commies take control of the government >La Terreur happens and they behead thousands of people who disagree with them >even leftists that helped the revolution succeed start to get beheaded by turbo leftists for not being left enough >Atheist leftist government starts cracking down on the Church, priests who don't swear loyalty to the state over God are killed and replaced with state approved priests >the church owns 10% of land in France and is the only real source of charity and public services in France, provide free education, medicine, etc. to rural French communities >I'm the Vendee province, it's very rural and poor farming communities, very very devout Catholics who are very close to local priests>Vendee aristocrats are very poor compared to other French nobles, they are well loved by Vendee peasants and serve them well >revolutionary state spontaneously confiscates all church property, schools, hospitals, etc. disappear>Revolutionary state starts beheading priests who don't swear loyalty to state in Vendee- strike 1>revolutionary state demands 300k conscripts to fight in Belgium for the Republican state, selectively choosing young men who are pro-church - strike 2>revolutionary state spontaneously murders their beloved King Louis- strike 3 >Vendee men take up arms, led by young rural noble blooded chads to defend their faith, family, way of life (pic related) >absolutely mop the floor with revolutionary army, over and over and over >one mistep, get surrounded in fog and lose a decisive battle fighting against 3 to 1 odds >revolutionary state moves in and genocides 40% of the Vendée region indiscriminately, man woman and child fini
>>96761708This will be the fate of anyone that opposes the Metric system (pbuh).
There anything for Ancient Greece battles?
>>96762170Nigga what do you think
>>96762287Last time I looked I ended up getting redirected to some weird skirmish game with undead skeletons
>>96762300The anons in this thread are talking about wargaming obscure french counter revolutionary insurrections, and you ask if there is anything for generic ancient Greece battles
>>96762395I mean isn't that included in historical wargames
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>>96761708I've never heard of this before, are there any good books in English about this?
>>96762607I've been researching very hard and unfortunately most of the books are in French. I settled on these two, but as I ordered yesterday I have yet to read them: I bought "Louis XVI; or the End of the World" by Bernard Faÿ (1968) and "War in the Vendée, 1792-1796: The History of uprising in western France during the French Revolution, led by royalist and Catholic forces" by Charles-Théodore Beauvais de Préau (1817).
>>96761708Anyone know why dudes in this period always wore those paints that split their cock and balls in half? I've seen it in tons of paintings and illustrations, and even movies like The Patriot has them wearing pants that ride up their balls. Why did they wear those? Seems very uncomfortable.
The Digby Smith book, save this somewhere. Posted inn the last thread just before it was closed.https://gofile.io/d/7NA2zS
>>96761708Cringe.
I wanna make a gameboard for my lgs for bolt action. I bought the board already but I dont know how to start with designing it. I was thinking about copying a company of heroes map, but also was thinking about finding a picture of a ww2 battleground. but with the latter option getting the topography right would be a pain. then theres also the problem with scale, and I’ve never done anything like this before. not sure really where to start, I got the poster board, scrap foam and cardboard, and a passing knowledge of paper mache. Any ideas?
>>96760691>not ACW/NapoWhat are you even doing?
>>96763804Maybe give more information? How big should the board be? What do you want to do? Desert? Normandy? Village in Prussia? Ruins of Stalingrad? Summer? Winter? etc.
>>9676453950-60 inches each side, its square. was thinking summer in belgium or some part of france. grass, flowers. cottages, maybe a small town with a few buildings and roads. something like that. I dont have an actual place in mind thats half the problem
>>96764725Maybe look around youtube for inspiration first? I'm sure there are some great looking WW2 gaming boards out there.This is in german, but he is building some massive normandy style board right now, and did build other ww2 themed tables in the past:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt4QPNPn9ukhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuQir9uvjAw
>>96763804Do you want a "generic" board that can be used for "meeting engagements" and other pick-up battles? If so, you probably want something that showcases a range of terrain types; a few buildings at one end, a wood at the other, and some fields and hedges etc.If you want to do a specific scenario, you can have a LOT more fun, with e.g. V-weapon sites, submarine pens, a command post, etc.
>>96761525>a Vendean business tycoon and far right political figure built a massive theme park there to celebrate French History. Same guy publicly said every Vendean grows up feeling ashame as kids that their ancestors didn't side with the Revolution but he himself was making sure they won't have to feel this way anymore.Et bin, je m'attendais vraiment pas à ce que Philippe de Villiers et son Puy du dingue soient évoqués sur ce fil!Et sinon, comment il va sur le plan familial?
>>96760691>I pick my eras based on obscurity to feel superior to random wargamerst.nogames
With the second edition of Dragon Rampant about to come out, is there any reason left to buy Lion Rampant? Will it just be the same thing but without any dragons?
>>96761992>metricAnglish scheme to destabilize the cultures and states of mainland Europe. Napoleon knew this. He was going to destroy the metric system once and for all but was deposed before he could.
>>96765486Sarah is bossing me harder than ever. It sucks. I can already tell you 2027 is going to be really intense anon. Today will decide a lot but the next few weeks could be make or break for us.
>>96764892Thanks, I’ll check these out>>96764964yeah I was trying to do something more generic. this is my first try at doing this type of thing so I want to do a little of everything. maybe have a woodland on one side, a farmhouse on one corner, a little urban area in the center that would be good for defending, an open field area with maybe a couple craters. hell maybe even a river if I can figure out how to use the epoxy stuff
>>96761616>>96761708thick religious peasants hate civilisation, tale as old as time
>>96762170The Mega trove has Hoplomachia in the "Perfect Captain" folder. Ancients folder has Macedonian-Punic Wars set from Crusader. I have "Hoplite Warfare", it's mentioned in the screenshot the fella posted, and it's follow-up "Hellenistic Warfare" . Bought them in the 80's and I doubt they've aged well.I'm a total luddite when it comes to computers but will give scanning them a go, if you're interested that is ; mind they're 40 year old.
>>96762170There's also another old set in the Mega trove. Paean, for battles between the Greek city states.
>>96761708based
Why did the usage of the late roman throwing darts stop?
>>96761708>leftists crush right wing retardsA tale as old as time
>>96768065Sucked against chainmail which more and more armies were adopting
>>96768143Interesting, how many examples of this can you list??
>>96768143>getting so mad you’re not getting (you)s you reply 3 timesheres one out of pity now go back to whatever dnd thread you crawled out of