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>New Trove Link
https://mega.nz/folder/19kUXC6T#U31scUNwyuVI8cHvX6GIgQ

>Rick Roll Trove
https://mega.nz/folder/78pF0CYI#Jc2IO8IQVwRDP1Chwr_iGA

>Advanced Squad Leader
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/d9x0dbxrpjg48/Advanced_Squad_Leader
>AK-47 Republic
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/6v39gcjode5ln/Insanely_Based_AK-47_Republic_Folder
>Battleground WWII
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/cb83cg7ays4l1/Battleground_WWII
>Battlegroup
https://mega.nz/#F!SolyxarJ!GUg6zWBStfznr6BvYedghQ
>Black Powder
http://www.mediafire.com/file/f8a58xjysyweaz8/Black+Powder+Rulebook.pdf
>Bolt Action
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/n7jmdnlv1n0ju/Bolt_Action
>By Fire And Sword
https://mega.co.nz/#!jxgCWTYD!FCp52DAqIUc-EM-TsRsWv7fB92nJ3kkzKsNcD_urI5Q
>Flames of War
https://mega.nz/folder/lc1SRajQ#QTDXthNFG-sDoYe08bhV9A
>Fleet Series
https://mega.nz/#F!i1N3xZxL!C6fQ3Z8o2U0gtk5kdXuVcQ
>GMT
https://mega.nz/#F!D1dHQZCJ!V9pYq0CUc4iCrNiOcBOBtg
>Hail Caesar
https://mega.nz/#F!XsVD0KgT!twB1NWiFE3aKXK_O1EZ4pA
>Impetus
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/28i9gevqws518/Impetus
>Modelling & painting guides
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/7b5027l7oaz05/Modelling_%26_Painting_Guides
>The Perfect Captain
http://perfectcaptain.50megs.com/captain.html
>Phoenix Command RPG
https://mega.co.nz/#F!b5tgXRwa!mzelRNrKPjiT8gP7VrS-Jw
>Saga
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/alj31go19tmpm/SAGA
>Schizoid content
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/v0fhor14frxsf/Billhooks
>Twilight 2000/2013 RPG
https://mega.co.nz/#F!C9sQhbwb!NVnD4jvUn5inOrPJIAkBhA
>Wargaming Compendium
http://www.mediafire.com/download/cghxf3475qy46aq/Wargaming+Compendium.pdf

>>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
>TQ
Priority order:
1. Minis I need for an upcoming game.
2. Minis I want to finish.
3. Minis I feel like working on.

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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

>>96760552
French 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.

>>96760552
The 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
>>96761597
Alright, qrd on the vendee?

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>>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

>>96761708
This will be the fate of anyone that opposes the Metric system (pbuh).

There anything for Ancient Greece battles?

>>96762170
Nigga what do you think

>>96762287
Last time I looked I ended up getting redirected to some weird skirmish game with undead skeletons

>>96762300
The 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

>>96762395
I mean isn't that included in historical wargames

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>>96762170

>>96761708
I've never heard of this before, are there any good books in English about this?

>>96762607
I'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).

>>96761708
Anyone 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

>>96761708
Cringe.

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/Napo

What are you even doing?

>>96763804
Maybe 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.

>>96764539
50-60 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

>>96764725
Maybe 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=Yt4QPNPn9uk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuQir9uvjAw

>>96763804
Do 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 wargamers
t.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
>metric
Anglish 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.

>>96765486
Sarah 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.

>>96764892
Thanks, I’ll check these out
>>96764964
yeah 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
>>96761708

thick religious peasants hate civilisation, tale as old as time

>>96762170
The 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.

>>96762170
There's also another old set in the Mega trove. Paean, for battles between the Greek city states.

>>96761708
based

Why did the usage of the late roman throwing darts stop?

>>96761708
>leftists crush right wing retards
A tale as old as time

>>96768065
Sucked against chainmail which more and more armies were adopting

>>96768143
Interesting, how many examples of this can you list??

>>96768143
>getting so mad you’re not getting (you)s you reply 3 times
heres one out of pity now go back to whatever dnd thread you crawled out of

>>96768246
NTA, but you actually got me to think about this. I can't think of a single example that isn't just the government genociding peasants and farmers

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Finished my rider now, supposed to be Conrad of Montferrat. Participated in the third crusade, showed considerable talent and leadership, quarreled with Richard and Philip, elected as the new king of Jerusalem and was promptly assassinated by the assassin cult on his way home from a dinner party.

>>96769009
Amazing paint job, very nice. It's always funny to see random 4chan anons who paint better than the "professional" in house painters at Warlord Games, Mantic, WGA, etc.

>>96769009
Too bad Vlad got him too.

I just learned that wind coming perpendicular to the sails results in higher speed than having the wind at your back. It feels like in so many naval wargames, wind at your backs is considered the best, are there any that have winds at your 90/270 degrees being the best for speed?

>>96769237
Not true at all, it depends on the rigging, as many different riggings perform best in different ideal wind conditions. Square rigging performs best when running and struggles greatly when hard tacking. It would be silly to base a game where the majority of ships are square rig or brigantines off of performance metrics you receive hoisting a fore and aft.
It would be interesting to give slightly different bonuses to, say, a schooner vs a man'o'war, but it would be too convoluted and rules bloated to try to portray all the intricate variants on sails plans in your ruleset if you ask me. Even in a slop rig the ideal point of sail is always 45° off the wind except when running, not perpendicular

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Baden kickstarter almost finished, 65 hours to go
I'm going to resist the temptation to print any Baden and will focus on printing a complete Austrian collection first
These guys look awesome though

>>96768065
Plumbata are kind of a weapon of last resort.

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I talked about it a while back, but my group is making progress on the North Africa campaign for Bolt Action plan.

We're going to use Axis & Allies: North Africa as the base of the campaign system, but rather than resolving attacks country by country, we'll be playing games of Bolt Action to resolve them, zooming in on the crucial engagement each time. Having an advantage in the strategic map will translate to a slight advantage in the tactical battles. Rather than more points or the like, it'll mostly be letting you shape the scenario, picking the deployment type or whatever. If we don't have an appropriate player, like the Italian player can't show up, other Axis players can fill the role, but if you do bring the right force, you get an advantage.

We're gonna start it with Operation Torch in November of 1942 and run for seven weeks. Should be fun. We'll start in November of real life, too.

>>96770848
kittay

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>>96770969
Kittay

We've also just confirmed we have all five countries here. Britain, Italy, Germany, the US, and France will all be represented by players

>>96770848
Very kino, nothing beats a map based narrative campaign. I love map campaigns. Any reason you're playing BA and not CoC??

>>96771242
Because the group plays BA.

>>96771257
>Why do you play BA?
>Because we play BA.
No shit. Why?

>>96771456
Iunno man, I didn't start the group and I'm not about to pester everyone into switching systems when we're already having fun.

>>96771456
>playing BA vs not playing anything

Give it a rest you autistic faggot

>>96771137
Why a cat and not a dog?

>>96771864
You have never noticed only cat "people" do that shit? If you have a cat it is guaranteed you'll post that ungrateful freeloader anywhere unappropriate and uncalled for. Call it toxoplasmosis parasite side effect or the natural low self esteem of parental love deprived patients ready to engulf themselves in a one way toxic relationship, it's all the same: they will act up like a woman and take pictures where the topic at hands is a pityful excuse to expose their filthy pussy.

I have a FB account for wargaming purpose and browsing the wargaming group you could find 50+ photos like the one above without even trying but 0 of dogs. The divide is real.