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>Rick Roll Trove (MOST RECENT AND UPDATED TROVE)
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>Advanced Squad Leader
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>By Fire And Sword
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>GMT
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>Hail Caesar
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>Impetus
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>Modelling & painting guides
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>The Perfect Captain
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>Phoenix Command RPG
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>Saga
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>Schizoid content
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>Wargaming Compendium
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I fucking love immaculate drip

How come my Billhooks folder I compiled and made for you guys is titled as "Schizo content?" I made that folder so you guys wouldn't have to pay for the games and I thought it would be appreciated

>>97451229
Some idiot decided to deface the /hwg/ OP because of some /awg/ drama about two idiots arguing over Oathmark and Billhooks.

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Does anyone have any recommendations for The English Civil War? Systems and scales, I'm looking to start with some smaller size battles and work my way up, but unsure what the offerings are for 28mm and 15mm, and how they compare.

>>97451138
>TQ
It's a tossup between ACW Zouaves, Bronze Age Trojans and Dazzle Camo WW1 British ships.

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>>97451304
Shame, cause I like both Oathmark and billhooks (Though for some reason there dont seem to be any great battle reports of billhooks, I saw like 1 that was passably informative. There is one guy on youtube with pretty good production value who made a whole series on oathmark and that really got me into that one).

On the topic of medieval-ish systems however, I just played my first game of Lion Rampent yesterday with my dad, and although I had a good time (A lot just cause it was with my dad) there are some things about the system that are just not quite my cup of tea. Suprisingly enough, I was completely fine with the activation system which was my first negative instinct against. Between leader reroll and the fact that the WORST activations are still on 7+ on 2d6 (so more than half the time), I found it pretty tactical and exciting who to choose next. What I didn't quite love was the combat resolution how units interact space wise. cant put my finger on it, but it feels kind of... floaty? idk

>>97452368
Completely unrelated, but the pic you posted made me think if there are any good wargames out there that are focused on sieges.

Speaking of Billhooks, does anyone know if Nevermind the Matchlocks works for Napoleonic Wars, or is it too exclusive to the ECW?

>Considering getting two armies to try and introduce new people to try a new game
>The things I want to buy and kitbash and possibly homebrew aren't appealing sales pitches.
Americans wouldn't even know what Yugoslavia was.

>>97453534
Well if you're being as vague to them as you are to us, it's no wonder there is no interest

>>97453534
Which Yugoslavia do you want to wargame?
I will judge your taste based on your answer.

>>97454082
September 1944 (the) Italian Social Republic vs (the) National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia

>>97454188
>WW2

>>97454207
Yugoslavia wouldn't exist without the world wars

>>97454226
>>97454207
You are a little rat of a country, Serbia. They go around destabilizing funding terrorists in their neighbors attempting to collapse counties so they can gain land, then when they get hit they go crying to Russia because their entire existence is being a cheap copy of an empire in collapse.
Despite starting conflict in Europe, the Entente rewards you with your long-lost neighbors' autonomy, despite allegedly the Entente standing for "self determinism" All of those liberation wars should have never happened because Croatia, Montenegro and all the others I can't name because you are all so poor and disgusting.
You should feel honored people even remember your accomplishments after the World War you caused.

>>97454188
I respect it. I'd probably also respect the 90s one too come to think of it, but it doesn't speak to me as much.

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Drip doesn't get better than the 17th century. I wish we had more options for hard plastic than Warlord Games. Hopefully one of the two unannounced Renaissance kits WGA is making is pikemen.

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>>97451138
Only for the uniform
They can't fight
These cowards chickened in front of two teams of sled dogs

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>>97455494
I think you're right when it comes to commanders, but for common soldiers the 18th and 19th have it beat in my opinion.

I also have a personal fondness for what some people I know refer to as "Trench Drip" but I don't think most people appreciate is as much. I like how much it's simultaneously a regression and an advancement and an offshoot of how things had been.

Reading It Was the War of the Trenchs/This Goddamn War makes me want to wargame the Army of Salonica/Salonika

Any wargames that cater to that theatre explicitly?

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>>97455652
WWI is sadly overshadowed.

>>97457741
It's a hard war to romanticize

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>>97458167
As if any is.

>>97458167
>Roll to see if your tank breaks down every turn
Its hard to have fun too unless you embrace everything being scuffed.

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>>97458167
WW1 was the spiritual death of Europe

>>97458167
Why? I don't understand these memes about the Vietnam war and World War 1 being these pointless events that shouldn't have happened.
Especially in Vietnam, where there is no ambiguity to be found, North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam, like how Germany invaded Poland. You'll rarely hear somebody decry America as an evil invader against Germany in WW2, and if you do you can safely dismiss them as retarded or a NAZI, but for some reason public consensus for Vietnam is "abloo bloo bloo the poor Vietnamese, got raped by the evil Americans".
I hate humanity.

>>97458768
You obviously do hate humanity if you can't understand why WW1 was a pointless bloodbath. Killed millions of people, crippled European culture, created the USSR and made WW2 inevitable. The only good thing that came out of it was the dissolution of two major Empires but Britain and France fucked that up by betraying the Arabs which helped cause a century of instability.

>>97458813
...so what nations should be able to fund terrorists in their neighbors to kill moderates for the explicit goal of causing chaos that hurts the populace of their neighbors? That's your solution? War bad, so you have to let me destroy your state?

>>97458880
>>97458813
...or is it that Serbia was assisting real liberation movements against the AustroHungarian tyranny? In that case, what should Austria-Hungary be able to abuse and subjugate another group of people because war is bad?

>>97458880
What the hell are you talking about? I'm talking about WW1 like the post you replied to.

>>97458247
Actually that was the French Revolution.

>>97458220
War is inherently romantic, and always has been, you pathetic bugman. Wars like WW1 and the war in Ukraine are repulsive because they remove the human element from war. The reason for this isn't simply "modernism," because WW2 is more modern than WW1 and there is a lot of romanticism about WW2.

>>97458923
Yes, WWI was a conflict between Serbia and Austria-Hungary that grew into a world war. Thanks to Russia and France siding with Serbia and Germany siding with Austria-Hungary. Austria-Hungary claimed they needed to compromise the national integrity of Serbia because of the terrorists Austria-Hungary claimed Serbia was funding. Was Austria-Hungary wrong to do this. It can hardly be pointless. If Serbia was innocent or justified, then Austria-Hungary had launched an aggressive invasion for the sake of their own power, and stopping their power-hungry ways would be the morally right thing to do. If Serbia was guilty and unjustified, then the war wasn't pointless because stopping Serbia would be the morally right thing to do.

do we glorify violence? if we do, is it wrong to?

>>97458963
>they remove the human element from war.
what in the hell are you on about?

>>97459179
Yes. No.

>>97459179
Violence is always bad in the ideal world. We don't live in an ideal world. Violence can be good, as often as it is bad, actually.

>>97458167
Biggles disagrees.

>>97457741
I’ve never had much interest in WWI but Junger’s memoir of it is imo the greatest war story ever written down.

>>97458167
Not any more than any other, but people learning about generally do so alongside anti-war media. All Quiet on the Western Front was required reading when I was in school. Storm of Steel sure as hell wasn't.

>>97459307
Its rather repetitive though
>I was at X, I saw someone get bayonetted and their shit mixed with their blood, dinner was sausage and brown bread
Repeat 50 times

>>97459405
yeah I agree. That and “my position got shelled and it was loud.” Though the repetitiveness does keep the story honest, and one of the reasons I like the book so much is that its a very objective accounting of war at the time. The story does an excellent job at drawing out the setting for someone who knows little to nothing about trench warfare. Like what a support trench is, a rough outline of the trench network, impact fuses on artillery, what an officer’s retinue was like, what “leading from the front” looked like in WWI. Also details about the wildflowers that grow in the upturned dirt from artillery impacts, what life in occupied areas looked like, and insights from Junger of what he was thinking at some given time (fatalism, superstition, etc.) were nice touches.

>>97459474
I like the part where he and a British officer were shouting towards each other in their respective trenches, they agreed to have a ceasefire in their sections of the trench except for certain hours of the day. Then to keep things respectful, they both drew their pistols are fired a few rounds at each other before ending the conversation

>>97459562
It’s hard for me to pick my favorite part. His injury accounts in the book are quite incredible. Man was a titan, fought back to the front line with a busted lung, got shot i think 15 times throughout the war “not counting grazes or minor ricochets” before finally not being able to continue fighting. And the part about how he was able to tell when a shell was bearing towards him from the sound alone, it really gave insight into what separates a veteran from a regular in war.

>>97452368

Pikeman's Lament is pretty solid, but I tihnk smaller scale would be a better representation of the period

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>TQ
Literally nothing in history compared to the drip and pure grandeur of the napoleonic era

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How much /hwg/ reading do you anons do on average for your projects and hobbies?
How many /hwg/ books have you read in the last year?

>>97459692
>smaller scale than 12 man units would be a better representation of the period
>of the pike and shote period
wut

>>97460902
I think he means playing in 15 or 10mm as opposed to 28mm

>>97460546
I can't read

>>97460971
Oh that makes sense.

>>97458220
WW2 at this point has basically for all intents and purposes become somewhat of a fictional setting to most people.

It's actually amazing how detached most people are from reality and history when it comes to WW2. People talk about WW2 stories out of their asses and practically make shit up which is how you get stories like german stick grenades being made to blow up american soldiers hands when they try to throw them back despite the grenade design being used in WW1 or stuff like enemy at the gates also can't forget the endless amount of fantasy/sci-fi stuff like wolfenstein or other hundreds of pieces of media that don't add laser beams and aliens but still flanderize or outright rewrite history for entertainment.

>>97461939
>WW2 at this point has basically for all intents and purposes become somewhat of a fictional setting to most people.
> hundreds of pieces of media that flanderize or outright rewrite history for entertainment.
This isn't specific to WWII.
Everything influenced by popular culture suffers from this decay.

In history, we see this with antiquity (Troy, 300, Netflix's Cleopatra...) or Medieval Japan, for example (Samurai, Katana, Ninja...).
This stems from the fact that this popular culture is dominated by greedy Americans who cater to Americans. And this nation is the most foolish in the history of humankind.

>>97461939
>>97462074
I think fiction based loosely off history is almost as old as intentionally written fiction. Fiction as propaganda definitely is.

>>97459205
he means ukrainians and russians arent human

>>97451138
fagott thread closed

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>>97458963
>The good book says that he who lives by the sword shall perish by the sword
>The Judge smiled
>What right man would have it any other way? It makes no difference what men think of war. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practicioner.

>>97461939
>WW2 at this point has basically for all intents and purposes become somewhat of a fictional setting to most people.
Cool it with the anti-semitic remarks, anon.

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>>97462074
>popular culture is dominated by greedy Americans

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>>97467847
Stop trying to push that shitpost thread.

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>>97467894
The great /hwg/ Schism of 2026.

As OP I am however of the opinion that this is the one true /hwg/! Dont fall for the anti-thread's lies!

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>>97460546
I have plenty of literature on the Seleucid empire but I abandoned that project. Several books on ACW uniforms and the general war, abandoned project. Read some some on the late Roman empire, project is on hold. My ongoing crusade project? Haven't read a single book.

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This is about Military action relative to their expected performance.
Finland did less damage to the allies than Italy or Japan, however Finland is a recently independent, poor frozen backwater, Italy was considered a great power for 69 years before the invasion of France, in a position to deal a crippling blow to the Allies in Egypt.
While Romania would be S tier if I was considering their oil sales powering the western Axis war machine

I ordered a Warlord Games Black Powder mystery box in December in a moment of personal indulgence. If the site is to be believed it should arrive in the next few weeks.
What's the worst possible combination they could give me? It's around $280 worth of stuff from what I remember.

I like Colonials but also don't mind Napoleonics ACW or 7YW/Sun King stuff.

>>97468263
I don't understand why I am being used in the OP of the troll thread, by the way. I noticed my shirtless reflection while I was taking the pic of my armored cars and thought I'd pose as a lighthearted joke. Some schizo saved it and used it as the troll OP pic.

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This sounds like fun. I wouldn't know where to begin collecting Caveman miniatures that aren't obviously fantastical if I were interested, though.

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Oh damn this is a surprise
He's directly competing with Perry now and I much prefer his sculpts although I am biased as I own $800 AUD worth of his STLs

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>>97472000
>Japanese low tier
eh, you don't take over 1/5th of the earth by being low tier.
Pre 1942 the Japanese were pretty unstoppable. Even on the defensive against massively overwhelming numbers in the Pacifc against the Allies they performed way above what any other faction would have in that position. I don't think even the Finns would have been that tenacious.
Don't believe the memes of a random half-starved Japanese guy with a lunge mine. They had entire island networks of fortifications that would take weeks to clear, and superbly designed hidden kills zones that took huge tolls on Allied soldiers.
They even conducted counter-landings in some places, Allies would land, be stuck on the beaches unable to advance inland, then the Japanese would land ON THE SAME BEACH and sow absolute chaos among the landing forces...

I'd put Japanese in the A tier at least. Only place they were utter trash was Khalkhin Gol (very recently formed units with an inexperienced commander), and if you count the militia used on Okinawa, which was only a small percentage of the forces there.

Iran should be near the bottom, they were crap, worse than the Italians.

Italians actually did somewhat decently in the early desert wars and in East Africa. They were the last axis units fighting in north Africa - held out longer than the Germans... Definitely shit in Greece though.

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>>97474919
I wouldn't say he's competing, rather he's filling out missing spots. We'll see how price competitive the minis are compared to Perry. Lovely see good plastic minis tho.

>>97475074
>Japan Pre 1942
The one month of jumping the underfunded pacific colonies while they were distracted with a war on the other side of the world and taking advantage of American decision making that would prevent them from ever reaching S tier.
Or are you referring to beating up a set of nations that was still in civil war, just under cease fire when they were invaded?
>Iran
Again it's about expectations. Iran was a dirt poor open desert, being isolated by two world powers. Italy was a great power surrounded by allies.
Iran capitulating in six days is exactly what I expect it to do, so it goes in C tier for performing as expected.

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>>97475198
Japan was in combat from 1937.
1937 - 1942 is a lot longer than 1 month anon.
For a relatively small Island nation only recently industrialized - taking over 1/5th of the world is pretty far above expectation.

>>97475242
You may not be litterate. Japan was only in combat against Pacific colonies (of France, Britain, Neherlands, and the United States) for one month before 1942.
From 1937 to December 1941 Japan was at war with the many Chinas (and of course, the brief conflict against the USSR), and that's what your asking for accolades for?
>Small Island nation having a big Empire is impressive.
Japan was ~150,000 square miles, not inculding over seas territories square miles and had a population of 69 million, again not including over seas territories in 1935.
The United Kingdom was ~95,000 square miles, not including overseas territories other than North Ireland, with a population of 45 million, again counting only Great Britain and North Ireland.
A "small" island nation having a large empire is not impressive.

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>>97466838
Every single thread

>>97474262
Well, now you know better at least. I hope

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Is the Victory at Sea pdf in the mediafire folder the current edition? Anyone have the current edition one?

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Finished this knight.

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Heraldry of Riboul, French.

>>97474547
Reaper, Copplestone and North Star have some 28mm.
Splintered Light has the Bear Clan in 15mm.

>>97475738
>tying yourself in knots to make invading underdefended colonies more impressive than invading mainland China
>comparing an island that modernized that century to the island that wrote the book on modernized imperialism
I wish there were flags on all boards sometimes.

>>97481392
Well, that would out you as Japanese, or just pathetically simping for them. I'm glad you agree the European colonies were underdefended.
Invading the Chinas (s for plural) isn't impressive. They were at civil war for 25 years leading up to their invasion by Japan. Japan was already a more industrialized nation than the United China that existed before World War 1. Japan invaded an already underdeveloped set of nations that were rocked by Civil War after, and what did Japan have to show after 9 years (nearly a decade) of war with the Chinas? The Republic of China never capitulated. Do you want Japan to be rewarded for their failure?
I compared Japan to the United Kingdom because you called Japan small, Japan isn't small, it's quite big actually.

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First test print for an Austro-Hungarian WW1 commission I'm working on. Going to be making more Jagdkommand trench raiding types.

>>97481540
Looks good anon!

>>97481244
neat. I always found that particular design template interesting. The non quadratic lines seem less common in heraldric stuff compared to the symetical crosses and squares you more often see.
Also like the weathering, Im always scared that my weathering will look too much like the model itself was painted in a fucked up way rather than it trying to illustrate intentional wear.

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Like I said before, I played Lion rampent since enough of my models were done to play a game of that. But I am also interested in Hail Ceaser. Here are the two prospective command squads for the English and French.

The perry mounted knight set I used included Orle, so I used that to designate the commanders, though I painted the french commander's Orle to be more of a torse, since Orles I believe to be a more distinctly english thing. Anyways, the contrasting gold and blue looks really nice imo.

Was also thinking of trying out oathmark rules since I have a lot of 5 by x movement trays and I like the idea of general warhammer fantasy-esque rules. (I know there is also the medieval expansion for warhammer ancients, but one step at a time. Damn I wish there was a good battle report out there for it).

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Played some 2022 battle of Mauripol Russia-Ukraine war today with my dad. The Russian squad was caught in an ambush, BMP was disabled so the squad dismounted. Ukrainians threw a frag and slimed half the squad before they could even get off the X. The second half of the squad decided to abandon their bleeding out team and made a run for cover, but then got gunned down while trying to break for cover. Only two Russians escaped the ambush, but they quickly got purser by Ukrainian troops and mopped up.
Meanwhile a second squad of Russian reinforcements came onto the board from another corner to help relieve their comrades caught under heavy fire, but this squad was met with fierce resistance and were never able to link up with the survivors before they were mopped up.
With the ambushed BMP squad now taken care of, all the Ukrainian forces moved on the second Russian squad and wiped them off the table.

>>97482722
I was just wondering about this because I saw some Ukrainian minis. Does it feel weird to play a conflict that's still happening? I guess your opponent being your dad reduces the chance of the opponent sperging out over politics or something.
Do you use this war's less conventional aspects like long-range artillery or drones?
Someone should make an Israel-Palestine game, the skub would be off the charts.

>>97482813
Im not bothered or offended by playing modern wars at all. People are too sensitive these days. I have thought about gaming Israel/Hamas in Gaza to be honest, and using gravel to make rubble piles on the map. I decided not too because I dislike both sides and didn't want to invest time into painted them.
Russia-Ukraine is very fun and interesting if you limit it to early war, 2022, before it devolved into static warfare with teams of 1-2 dudes getting stoned to death. 2022 was epic and hadassoce air assualts, urban warfare, air support, armored vehicles and tanks, etc. so it was still epic. Wargaming late 2024-2026 Ukraine would be ass.

>>97482874
>droned to death*

Sorry about spelling errors, I am phone posting

>>97482886
>be british
>get sconed to death

>>97482722
The minis look nice, man. Good job.

>>97452368
15mm
For King and Parliament by Simon Miller
De Bellis Renationis
Stuart Asquiths Wargaming the 17th century

>>97458247
The death of the 19th century

>>97459692
Pikeman's Lament is Rough dude
Pikemen in bands of 12 are an afterthought
No Pikeman went skirmishing with his pike lol

>>97460546
Just one or two reference books. I'm ok with Osprey. I'm ok with documentaries. The goal for me isn't some hyper accurate representation but to capture the feel.

>>97482722
What rules did you use?

>>97483150
>Flashback to some extreme overindulgence on family holidays in Cornwall.
>>97484260
Unit sizes are all representational in rules anyway; not really that much different to my 4-figure elements in FoG/DBx. If it's going to be that much of a stretch, drop down to 15/6mm and have unit bases for individual figures. Certainly looked the business for some old (and sadly long-lost) Baccus Imperial Romans I had back in the day to provide an occasional epic sweep for WAB and (god help me) WRG.

>>97485532
It's explicitly a skirmish game.

>>97485429
Asymmetric Warfare

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>>97482325
Thanks anon. The heraldry belonged to one French Hugues Riboul, but a lot of early heraldry is very simple or rather complicated.
I find weathering to be a bit tricky before getting it right.

>>97485532
What is cornwall like? It always seemed like a memetic deadzone to me where no one can recall what it even consists of.

Does anyone have the V3 bolt action Japan pdf ?

>>97490233
nta but Cornwall's lovely for holidays. Interesting and varied terrain, great walking paths, some nice beaches dotted around and good surfing on the northern side.
Roads are terrible though, not helped by the Chelsea tractor crowd who seem to be under the impression they're driving a nuclear materials transport lorry

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Nice game of Napoleonics yesterday. Focusing on the central section of Liebertwolkwitz.

Unfortunately I was playing the Russian I corps so was stuck slowly trudging through the woods on the extreme left

>>97490233
We usually went to this little campsite (Trevella) outside Newquay as a base - went back a couple of years ago; it's a LOT busier now. Very scenic, plenty of walking or cycling (though some of the hills there... ouch), usual tourist stuff if you want it (for a price, natch). Feels slower paced, even for a holiday. Roads can be a curse, of course, but a nice place to recharge if you get the right place.
Cream teas, pasties and cider goes without saying, of course.

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Man, Zengi is a character.
>the son of a captured crusader princess in crusader myth(Ida of Austria, whom died in 1101 but he was born in 1087 so I'm not sure how that got started or why)
>a brute that terrified his men, "The Atabeg was violent, powerful, awe-inspiring and liable to attack suddenly"
>was helped by Saladdin's dad
>first to capture a crusader state
>got drunk, shit-talked his slave, and got shanked

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I LOVE MODERN WARFARE

>>97492754
And I love the T34 - especially with the 76mm turret. Something about it is so aesthetically pleasing, especially from the side. With the slopes and angles, it puts me in mind of a sports car, in a way; even stood still, it looks like it should be speeding across the steppe. Was great seeing one at Bovington.

>>97492754
>ww2
>modern

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Current progress on my French commander. Freehand Fluer-de-lis looks Ok-ish I think.

Thinking if I should also make the lilies gold, or keep them yellow. Given that hes the commander and all.

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>>97494247
WW2 is modern you chode lmao

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>>97494318
>WW2 is modern

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>>97494356
Anything after the French revolution is modern, kiddo

>>97494381
Anything war related before 1960 is not modern, modern war is far different.

Than what's ultramoderns?

>>97494390
That's ultramodern, dipshit

>>97494381
Then you are equalizing Waterloo with Da Nang

>>97494442
>NOOOO EVERY SINGLE WAR IN A HISTORICALLY ERA HAS TO BE IDENTICAL

>>97494442
Same shit, really.

Anyone have Firelock's "Blood & Steel" rulebook? Didn't find it on your archives

>>97494442
The Renaissance is the early modern period. Waterloo would be the middle modern period. Da Nang would be either late high modern period or early post-modern.

>>97495228
autism like this both digust and amazes me.

>>97495228
anon, this isn't even a wargaming thing
Have you never heard of someone referring to the early modern era or high medieval era when discussing history?

>>97495454
whoops, meant for >>97495267

>>97491004
Also looking

>>97491004
>>97496868
Please, buy and upload It==;

>>97498153
Seriously? Do it yourself.

>>97453534
Tell them about Serbia taking down an F117 with an coldwar era Russian missile. Idiot murricans bombing Serbia to protect mudslime scum in Kosovo.

>>97498295
>Serbian itt
ew

>>97498295
Anyone got that "I carry a photo of F-117 everywhere, if I get lost in the wild I look at it and a Serbian will immediately appear and say they shot one down, to find civilization I just walk in the opposite direction" screencap? It's really more useful than it seemed at the time.

>>97498334
I'm not even Serbian, that does not take anything away from America meddling with a conflict they have nothing to do with. All of the 90's Yugoslavia wars (newsflash for murricans it was not just one war) take a muslim dick bro bc that was who USA was defending then.
>>97498404
I would like to see that also! And Ik it was luck/Intel that brought that plane down, it's just cool they did it.

>>97458223
The scuff is exactly why I personally enjoy WW1 stuff.

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>>97474547
Oh shit, I need to grab that! Thanks for letting me know this exists. These guys are Copplestone models, I love them but they might be too unrealistic for your tastes.

You wouldn't happen to have a PDF of the book?

>>97498701
>with a conflict they have nothing to do with.
I was talking about military interventions with my mother and used the Serbian bombing campaign as an example. She actually said something along the lines of 'You should have seen the dead children on the news! We had to do something!'
The older generations have a pretty delusional level of trust in news media. Seems like we never learned our lesson about the dangers of caring about Balkanoids killing each other.

>>97498280
I don't want to spend any money.
You could simply buy the book and spend one to two hours scanning it and making it available to everyone.
Please do it.
I would be very grateful.

>>97475738
>calling into question someone else's literacy in a bizarre ESL post riddled with basic spelling and grammar errors

>>97498895
They could have been based like the French (wierd thing to say) who had croissants or something in their airplanes so the Dutch had an excuse of no airsupport to let Srebrenica happen.
For real tho, besides my dislike of muhammeds fanclub, shit went down hard in the 90's Balkans, idk when or if the world needs to say 'and now it is enough' and step in or let a conflict like that just rage out on its own. There's always a war going somewhere and most of them get little or no attention in the World Press so why fuck with the Balkans
>Serbian bombing campaigns
The got the Yugo factories in Novi Sad, Wich is nowhere near Kosovo, seeing the crap Ford, Gm an US Stellantis are building these days it was probably long term strategic planning.

Are there any ancients wargames with alternating activation?

>>97498997
Why should I care about the pretend gratitude of subhumans who are not capable of it? Go suck off a dead dog.

>>97499210
It's really not nice to say something like that

>>97499050
Bolt Action

>>97499462
Does that apply to the other warlord games like hail caesar?

>>97499455
Yes, that was the intention.

>>97498701
>that does not take anything away from America meddling with a conflict they have nothing to do with.
The reason Yugoslavia exists at all is because of America. It hardly seems like we have nothing to do with you

>>97499586
>The reason Yugoslavia exists at all is because of America
How does someone go through life with such ignorance?

>>97499652
Austria-Hungary would have caved in Serbia's skull if it weren't for foreign intervention.

>>97499660
>Austria-Hungary should have caved in Serbia's skull if it weren't for foreign intervention.
FTFY.

>>97492754
It's hard playing anything other than modern warfare honestly. The progress of technology and military tactics culminated in WW2 before the Nuke ended the age of large scale war. Everything pre-ww2 feels like banging rocks into each other.

>>97499672
95% of the causalities from WWII came before the Nuke.

>>97452368
10mm
Liber Militum Tercios
15mm
Liber Militum Tercios
28mm
Liber Militum Tercios
Just ensure to grab the 'Kingdoms' supplement.

Be carefully if you actually try to buy Osprey books (lol). There's apparently an ospreypress.com scam site trying to sell discounted books. I totally didn't almost fall for this myself.

>>97451304
Be fair, it was specifically about the fantasy supplement for Billhooks, which pretty much everyone agrees is utter dogshit. The main game is okay.

>>97494381
Anything after 1498 is modern newfag.

>>97499877
Piss off, the first crusade marked the beginning of modern warfare.

>>97500104
It's actually a little before the Third Crusade, with the siege of Jerusalem and the use of multiple rocket launchers.
I saw it in the documentary 'Kingdom of Heaven':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugpgtzj6EU8

>>97500459
Actually, when unga first lifted stick to hit bunga, that was the start of the modern age.

>>97500520
Bro, England is not the center of world history

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>>97498295
>>97498404
>>97498701

>>97498889
I do not. Nice cavemen, though.

>>97498153
Yes someone do it

>>97474547
I just got the book today and read through it. I'm planning to use a mix of 1/72-scale IMEX Sioux and Wampanoag figures for Cro-Magnons. The setting will be long after the Neanderthals, around the time of the invention of stronger hunting bows and the Lascaux Cave Paintings, 18,000 to 20,000 years ago. While I like the hunting simulator aspect, I'm more drawn to endemic clan-level warfare.

>>97451138
I'm gonna ask this because I'm genuinely unsure what the hell is wrong with /tg/ anymore. With the exception of the osprey books, and asl, why is most of the stuff here so awful? By this I mean for tank battles, ww2 and modern, most serious wargamers I've played with use stuff like Tractics, Battalions in Crisis, Ghq's microarmor, The Courageous hours (sgr), Tankcharts, Dunn-Kempf or similar, they use oldschool Napoleonics that've been refined and researched for decades and tested. Why are the rules sets offered here such shit? Flames of war? for fucks sake....Bolt action? Seriously? I'm freaking speechless. Are there any decent systems on any of the resources? I mean really are the pickings that slim that well researched systems don't exist here? By that I mean systems that know the difference between a hvap, an apc, or a heat round, systems that actually model how a certain round type fired from a certain platform can or cannot actually do damage to a specific enemy unit. A historical game needs to differentiate different itterations, a 1943 sherman with its medium velocity 75mm gun is a very different beast from a 1944 july m4a1 mounting the 76mm high velocity ap gun, vs the firefly mounting the brit 17 pounder. The historical content matters, the differences seen made huge impacts in the war. I'm not gonna lie, I digitized, pdfed and uploaded Dunn-Kempf and Batallions in crisis to /tg/ years ago (yeah Imma oldfag sue me) but I'm seriously disappointed in the state of /tg/ today. The fuck, guys? am disappoint!

>>97502834
Wargamers just want to have fun

>>97502834
>a 1943 sherman with its medium velocity 75mm gun is a very different beast from a 1944 july m4a1 mounting the 76mm high velocity ap gun, vs the firefly mounting the brit 17 pounder
erm actually flames of war models all of these differently retard so its clearly the greatest WW2 ruleset made

For an actual answer this general kind of died alongside /tg/ basically becoming nothing more than a dumping ground for fetish AI generated art and fantasty writing prompts

>>97500459
The actual agreed upon first modern war is WW1 because armies used modern firearms with modern bullet designs in the form of bolt action rifles, semi-automatic pistols and fully automatic machineguns, artillery technology is basically the exact same today but just mounted on different cannons or vehicles and with modern radios+spotting and its the first war where tanks and airplanes were used in combat, not to mention widespread use of things like chemical weapons including flamethrowers and gas.

>>97502834
Because a long time ago, I looked up from yet another "Quick Reference Sheet" (A3 size, covered in size 6 font) and realised that after spending minutes going through 300 tables of range, angle, attacker's quality, defender's quality, weather, obscuring terrain, equipment bonuses/penalties and whether or not the moon was in the 8th house of Saturn, I was STILL needing the equivalent of a "4+ to hit" that DBx/Rapid Fire outright said up-front.
And life (game night) frankly, is too short.

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I read about Enver Pashas mad attempt to unite the Turkic peoples, whats the best way to model this? I think I could use the WGA Russians with heads from the WGA Afghans to represent Turkic troops trained by Russians then the Afghans themselves as Basmachi rebels. Are the WGA boxes any good?

>>97502834
>Are there any decent systems on any of the resources? I mean really are the pickings that slim that well researched systems don't exist here?
I've had a long, fucking shift. I can't be bothered listing the four or more ways you're being a complete faggot but you could have had a good look in these folders and see for yourself before having this stupid geriatric tantrum

>>97451138
Probably some 16th century iltalian mercenaries.

>>97460546
I usually start with a general overview and then move to more specific literature. When dealing with larger projects, like Russians in the 1813 campaign, this usually means roughly half a dozen books. The research aspect is a major part of the hobby for me.

>>97503346
Sorry for being naive of the period you're looking at. Is it plastic options exclusively you're wanting? I was thinking about a small Gallipoli collection and saw The Woodbine Design Company on Gripping Beast have a WW1 range with Ottomans, with separate metal heads available that might be the right flavour to season your force. An option called Enver Pasha helemts, fezzes etc.

>>97503346
I have the French box, I like it. The material and parts fit are great, and there's tons of bits. I've heard some more serious grogs have historical complaints, but if they look ok to you they should be fine. I actually have spare afghan sprues if you're in the states and you want to swap.

>>97504530
Thanks Anon but UK here.

>>97504437
No preference for material, just seeing what the options are. Many of the rebel units had exiled Turkish officers so i'll have a look at Gripping Beast, thanks. Cooplestone Castings does WW1 Ottomans in metal if you want to do Gallipoli.

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my French and English command squads.

Called into a mate's place in the big smoke last weekend, had a practice game of Impetus, Assyrians vs
Egyptians. Seemed ok, a few clunky things, language for instance, it is an Italian system originally after all. Maybe a few things my mate was still figuring out too. Found it adequate and enjoyable but it didn't really excite me greatly. Any good bronze age systems out there or is it one of these niche eras with few options?

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What are you going to be working on the coming weekend? I'll be continuing with sculpting Austro-Hungarians during WW1.

>>97509210
My Barons War project as always.

Anyone got a pdf for Armies of Germany and Russia 3rd edition?

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i have a problem i cant stop

>>97509689
>i have a problem
Yes you do. Finish your fucking bases.

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>>97509210
6mm Brits for Peninsular War

>>97498280
Have you bought the book?
We are still waiting for the PDF to be made available
Please hurry

>>97510736

Can you describe the painting method?

>>97509210
NWF bases.

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Any coloring tips for Afrika Korps, specifically with vallejo paints? From what I read it seems like they issued a more greenish uniform early on, then moved to a brown one, like the greatcoat in this image. All other colorations are the uniforms fading or soldiers substituting the tropical uniforms with continental gear? Some of the color pictures I've seen are all over the place with the colors, so I should probably just stop worrying about it and paint them all with multicolor uniforms ranging everything I've seen.

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>>97481244
Im stealing your pattern and using it for my own. Ive been needing some more black and white to keep my knights adequately flamboyant in color diversity, and I feel the zigzag is easier to see from afar compared to a lot of more intricate patterns.

>>97511240
It was issued as an olive green, darker than you'd think, then faded to a lighter version or was sun-bleached to a beige/yellow-green colour, or even further: for instance some caps show up as very bleached, almost an off-white colour.

For Vallejo, 924 Russian Unifom is a basic uniform colour. 763 Canvas is a bleached/faded uniform colour. 881 Yellow Green is useful for small scales, e.g. 15mm as a brighter, more saturated version. Add a yellow like 914 Green Ochure for a yellow version, or to add to green to desaturate them. Something like 819 Iraqi Sand acts as a universal highlight colour.

If you can rather go with AK 3rd Gen Afrika Korps paint set: this has six colours, three greens and three yellows: The greens give a new uniform, the yellows give the Luftwaffe yellow uniforms, or the yellows can be added to the base green for highlights to bleach it out.

>>97494390
no real war happened after WWII
everything that came after was thirdie/jew bullshit

>>97510774
Sure thing!

So to start off I prime with a matte brown spraypaint. I find black is too dark and I don't like priming white/grey because of missed bits.

Then I do a zenithal of white using an airbrush but you can also drybrush this part.

From here I just do Vallejo Sanguine Red on the red parts, Pro Acryl Golden Yellow on yellow, a skin tone on the face, and a dark grey like Citadel Dawnstone on the legs.

After this I do an oil wash of Burnt Umber. If you don't like using oil paints/washes you could probably just do a really thin glaze of a brown paint and put it all over.

Finally I do some highlights on the skin and the red to bring up up a bit more, but you could skip this part if you are trying to knock out a whole bunch in a short period of time.

It may seem somewhat laborious but painting is one of my main hobbies so I don't mind it.

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>>97511735
Have a shitty crop summary for your good deed today.

>>97511735
>>97511955

Thank you,
Verry Helpful

I would love to see how a based battalion would look.

>>97511457
Thanks, my confusion mainly comes from things like pic related. Looks exactly like the overcoat and I'm not seeing the green. I did some more reading and everything I've found says the overcoat was in fact a darker color and that the uniforms were in fact olive. I don't know when this Osprey was published, but I know there's been issues with colors being incorrect in the past. There was some special 8th Army camo scheme they used on their vehicles and for years museum pieces and books were adding a color that wasn't there in reality.

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>>97512862
Forgot pic

>>97511955
Thank you anon! That was very kind of you to do that.

>>97512184
You're welcome, I hope that helps you with your endeavors.
That will be the next part for me. I'm working on getting some bases printed out for Blucher. Should hopefully have something in the next couple weeks.

Wish I could restart everything in 6mm but my 10mm pile of shame is too big

>>97499771
Agreed. Tercios is a really nice ruleset.

My wargaming club re-enacted the 1st Battle of Newbury with the ruleset late last year. About 2000 figures at 28mm on the table. Historically the battle was a stalemate/Parliamentarian strategic victory but the Royalist center collapsed in our game.

Was good fun

>>97510736
God's own scale.
>>97511305
Well it's not my pattern, anon. It's the heraldry of a real historical figure.

JAPAN PDF PLEASE

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Played a pseudo-mini campaign of Ravenfeast a few days ago, with Viking raiders looking to kidnap a Saxon Priest. While the Vikings successfully managed to grab the holy man and whisk him off to their boats over three games, their leader was hacked down crossing a small ford with a spear to the back from several fyrdmen before he could escape. It's a nice, fast system, and means you can hammer out a little set of narrative missions over the course of an evening.

Does anyone here play ADLG? It seems to be fairly popular in my area, so thinking of picking up a 100 years war English force for medievals, or going for British/Germanic tribes for Ancients.

>>97453528
I don't think it'd work for something as late as Napoleonics unfortunately. Have you had a look at Sharp Practice?

>>97509210
I've got some more terrain to finish for the Dark Ages, and have to paint up some farm animals to use as loot counters for various skirmishy things.

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>>97512862
>>97512869
The old Ospreys were often quite poor for colouring...annoyingly, all the DAK website I had saved with original uniform details are now dead. I'm not sure about the greatcoats, but the other uniforms start green (for Heer) and fade, while the Luftwaffe start yellow and fade, etc.

>>97520356
I have a book called Afrika Korps in Colour that is allegedly made up of original color photographs. Some of them look very dark brown like the osprey and some look very obviously olive. All EM Heer too. May be a 'what colour is Feldgrau?" type of situation.

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Got this Austro-Hungarian sentry about ready for a test print over the weekend.

On an unrelated note: how do you guys go about making trees for your wargames? I need to make some more terrain and was looking to begin with basics like woods and whatnot.

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Anyone know an STL or whatever hookup for some of Warlord's boxset exclusive terrains? Doesn't have to be 1:1, but I'm not wanting to pay a shitton just for one or two pieces of terrain.

>>97525663
Telegram for free STL

>>97523148
Then go with that: I think we obsess a lot more over uniform colours than they ever did in the war. Obviously, there was a "standard" starting point, but there were loads of variation of those colours.

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I've noticed a lot of WWII Soviet painting tutorials on YouTube where the painter just left stuff like the backpack and bread bag off the models.

Did Soviet infantry take those things off before assaults or is it just an example of gamers being lazy?

>>97530061
You got both backpack AND breadbag? Fucking bourgeois degenerate.

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At Saturday’s battle of Eylau, the three divisions of Davout’s corps tried to roll over the Russian left flank and break their army position. The French started out with a numerical advantage, but the Russians had advantages in cavalry and artillery and received reinforcements partway through the game.
The French pushed forward and seized and held the center village. After a small setback, the Duke of Scruggs managed to force his way onto the main Russian ridge. But on the other side of the battlefield General Solarviski used his cavalry to break a French column, overrun a grand battery, and flank a French division, breaking its attack and forcing its infantry into squares.With an imminent Russian counterattack expected on the main ridge, the game was called as a Russian victory.
The action was affected by the bad weather. A rule designed to recreate occasional snow flurries limited movement, charging, and firing. Unfortunately, the rule got out of hand and hampered a lot of shooting and movement. It will be tweaked.

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Anyone scan in v3 bolt action armies of imperial japan yet, or is everyone grandstanding again

Sell me a Division-Corps level WW1 game.

>97533425
Ah, it was bait all along.

>>97533555
https://store.steampowered.com/app/866400/On_The_Western_Front/

>>97530166
Great looking game. Are the models 10mm or 15mm?

>>97534912
Mainly 15 with a few AB 18s

>>97533555
>>97533953

Let me clarify: a tabletop game with miniatures or counters.

>>97509730
I normally do when I diorama stuff But I play huge large scale war gaming battles and I keep the bases color coordinated to the army's so i can easily tell them apart and it much less messy I do use non permanent glue so i can pull them off and reposition them for what ever battle scale I am doing. I do agree that basing them dose look much better and i do have some army's i have based.

>>97535281
sounds cool

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Has Grant's "Scenarios for Wargames" ever been shared?

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>>97499496
>>97499462

warlords fantasy game is literally the bolt action ruleset but slightly modified for sword and sorcery combat

>>97535281

Bolt Action

I just got a chance to take a look at the battlefront miniatures great war book and holy fuck you can tell they did no playtesting or review. British line infantry are hit on 4+ but they cost the same as the German line infantry hit on 3+. Their Nam game was the same way where armies were wildly unbalanced.

They really have no quality control or balancing when it comes to their specialist games do they, makes me wonder why they bother.

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>>97542513
They have fuck-all for the core game either. Phil, the (now-ex) lead designer confirmed recently on FB that portee guns were over-costed to discourage people from taking it, given the discontinuation of the BF model.

>>97542513
>They really have no quality control
The same can be said for the miniatures that go with the game. Their WW1 stuff is all over the place in terms of sculpting quality and availability.

>>97542277
>Bolt Action
>Division-Corps level
Umm

>>97542707
If hes the ex-lead I can see how soviets used to be so laughably overcosted and how the berlin germany book evergot approved. Is there any more examples of this kind of bullshit?

>>97542712
Doesnt suprise me Battlefront is addicted to opening up dozens of miniature lines for super niche shit when they cant ever fucking stock flames of war or team yankee first.

>>97499050
Isnt that like, half of them?

HERE is some people talking about different ancient rulesets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3F7EOgtDbM

>>97541409
Oh I like those non combatants! Hope you can buy them separately, nice veriety, would work well as camp followers.

Like the set overall, though I do think it could use a group of ranged units to fill out the niche.

>>97474547
Does the .pdf leaked yet?

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Finished another knight.

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>>97545784
Sweet! I am just about done with my english and french forces. Really happy to almost have this project completed after like a year.

>>97546503
Also happy that this box top like exactly fits the amount of models I have!

>>97459474
>>97459405
It's not a story. It's written that way because it's his diary of events and personal thoughts as it happened.

>>97481242
>>97481244
Nice job, man.

>>97545944
>>97545784
Cool, do you name them?

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>>97451138
I don't know who maintains the Ospreys, but I finally found a source for some per-medieval Japanese armies; it's limited and not a full english translation, but enough to give good cursory looks for what little information that can be found in the western sphere
https://dokumen.pub/qdownload/history-of-japanese-armor-first-volume-from-yayoi-period-to-muromachi-period-1-4499229545-9784499229548.html

>>97547756
>yaoi period to the mochimochi period
what a funny people.

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>>97451138
A long time ago I made a post assmad about WGA Digital's WW1 Americans because they were using German rifles. Well recently, WGA released a new version with actual American M1917 rifles! The only problem? The sculptor obviously did next to zero research because not only is the uniform wrong now, but he modeled the rifles with the bolt up for some reason? WGA Digital continues to piss me off

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>>97548328
Because im assmad and autistic

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>>97548356
part 2 because im still ass mad and autistic

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>>97548381
Their old WW1 Americans didnt have most of these problems either, the puttees go over the boots so they seem to be high topped, theres no weird rivets on the helmet, the pants look right, and so does the cartridge belt. They just desided to give them Gewehr 98's for no reason

>>97548328
>>97548356
>>97548381
>>97548397
What do we care since the Americans didn't participate in WWI?

>>97548328
>WGA is dogshit Temu shovel-ware
WOW
I fucking hate almost all their historical products since they're incredibly badly researched. The only good stuff comes when outsiders get their stuff made by WGA.

I was thinking of getting warlords imperial romans when I saw that they were dwarves. How noticeable would it be on the table when facing other 28mm? Would it look decent or just comical?

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>>97550047
Comical, they're 25mm.

>>97546636
Real events can be stories. A lot of true stories still omit the “boring” parts. I appreciate that Junger didn’t.

>>97549806
Obvious b8 but im still gonna use it to soapbox. If you are going to produce historical miniatures, you should at the very least be familiar with the arms and accoutrements of the figure youre attempting to sculpt. I dont care if its a miniature for an obscure anarcho-capitalist faction in the Djibouti butt sex war, that miniature should be accurate to what its trying to portray

>>97530166
>French losing to Russians in 1807
>French losing to anyone in 1807
Fake and gay

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>>97548328
Anon, are you just now learning that WGA churns out endless slop with zero effort or research?

>>97550830
JESUS FUCK WHAT THE HELL IS EVEN THAT?

No but I think ive known, this is just the first time theyve done a kit I actually know a fair bit about (US arms and equipment in the great war period) so its also the first time ive seen just how bad it really is

>>97550792
>Eylau was the first serious check to the Grande Armée, and the myth of Napoleon's invincibility was badly shaken.[

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Got excited for these at first because it looked like they were plastic. But no, had to be overpriced warlord resin. Stupid cunts, they could've made an amazing plastic kit, wasted opportunity

>>97551494
Why tf does Warlord still use this god awful in house painter? They are a huge company now, there is no excuse for that quality

Playing Chain of Command Sunday, V2 rules but with the v1 Early War army lists. I'm taking the British North Africa platoon and a Matilda II against an Italian platoon and an Autoblinda. Will report back.

>>97550305
>the Djibouti butt sex war,
What's the best ruleset to play the the Djibouti butt sex war?

>>97552051
RaHoWa with the anal circumference rules ported from FATAL.

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>>97552051
Only one real option springs to mind.

>>97552959
Why is it always Scandinavians?

>>97552980
They're just really invested in the Djibouti Butt Sex War, please understand.

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>>97552959
>I wonder what’s going on in the Scandinavian games world?
>GifRel

>>97550830

I was really ticked off that they did plastic French Maquis but with only 4 different bodies, none of them crouching or prone like you'd expect of civilian insurgents.

>>97551494

I'd be all over plastic naval infantry.

I feel like they really need to narrow their focus. Their upcoming 28mm Pyrrhic range looks pretty shitty too. I'm not sure who will buy this stuff. Grogs like metals and the under-45 Warhammer refugee crowd expects plastic. And 28mm is pretty bad for ranked battles.

They should focus on Bolt Action and then 12ish mm ranges for ranked up games.

I've been thinking a lot about what 28mm army to fight my Napoleonic French. I really wanted to do Austria, they are the #1 opponent to the French throughout the entire period.
The problem is that I use mainly Perry Miniatures and their Austrian plastic infantry are all marching pose only, and I really prefer dynamic poses (attacking, firing, skirmishing, etc.) for Sharp Practice.
Other than the French, the only other army that has a lot of dynamically posed plastic is the perfidious bongs, and I REALLY didn't want to play the British. French vs British is incredibly cliche and overdone, despite the fact that the British fought the French the LEAST out of all the allies in the Napoleonic Wars, mainly due to wargaming industry being primarily made by self obsessed British boomers.

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>>97554929
The British are the biggest cornballs when it comes to their history. In the UK, Americans get made fun of for the way they portray themselves as the sole victors of WWI and WWII, but the English portray themselves that way for every war in their entire history. What's funny is that all the best British fighters and heroic moments in the Napoleonic Wars, ie. the Highlanders, the Scots Grey, were not even Englishmen. Even the 95th Rifles (whose prestige in the minds of the British public is based off the fictional television series Sharpe and not actual history) were commanded by Scottish officers and their most famous riflemen were Irish. Ironically the Kings German Legion light battalions, literal foreigners, had a more impressive than the 95th Rifles as a rifleman unit.

>>97554929
The new Spanish are in pretty good poses too. They have a marching box and a fighting box

I bought a bunch of 1920s era buildings originally to play modern era stuff, and the friend I bought them from threw in some 1920s pulp style gangsters and cops minis. Any good games for playing this setting?

>>97555409
And Guerilla too

>>97555230
Its even funnier because in burgerland, the whole "back to back world war champs" thing is like 99.999% a meme (at least among sane people), but the British fully and wholeheartedly believe that they are the main characters of military history.

I fully believe its because their only major military success since WW2 where they werent acting as the US's little brother was Argentina, so they cope by acting like they're the sole reason we're not all speaking french rn

>>97554929
Just collect revolutionary French and Vendéens.

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>>97555230
This. Even Waterloo, the only significant battle that the British took part in besides the naval action at Trafalgar: who won the day? La Haye Saint - defended doggedly by the Kings German Legion. Hougoumont - defended by Nassau regiment, Hanoverians, Scots, Germans. French advance - checked by Gordon Highlanders. Only significant British cavalry charge - The Scots Greys. Who finally sent the French to rout - Prussians.
The Englishmen present at Waterloo are only known for sheepishly forming squares to avoid French cavalry, and laying on their bellies on the reverse side of a hill to hide from French artillery.

>yet again /hwg/ is just francoboos whining about the British

>>97555946
It continues into the 20th century too lmao, every after action report of battles in WW1 reads like "One Englishman killed by ricochet, BEF in retreat. Entire male population of France wiped out in 15 seconds, French sector holds firm"

>>97556024
"In other news, 10 bajillion Australians and Canadians killed, London celebrates"

>>97555946
>Englishmen present at Waterloo are only known for sheepishly forming squares to avoid French cavalry, and laying on their bellies on the reverse side of a hill to hide from French artillery.
As an Englishman, I hate that you aren't making this up

>>97555409
>>97555664
The Spanish are great, but: no plastic cavalry, and I prefer wester/centeal Europeans architecture instead of peninsula

>Brain: Be normal
>Heart: Make Chain of Command rules for Konflikt 47 units

>>97556357
Thinking out loud: The mechs would be the easy part, just add different movement and close combat rules to tanks. Compared to tanks their downside would be that they often don't have a Leader, so they can only activate with 1s.

The various power armor infantry would be difficult, but I'd probably grab the Armor mechanic from vehicles and give them a chance to shrug off hits. Zombies would be immune to Shock and always count as being in light cover. Monsters like werewolves would take a bit more effort.

>>97525982
Any specific recommendations? The Mini/Terrain one I found has a Stalingrad set, but no fountain or flagbearer.

>>97556283
OK, your post is just bait against the brits and you'll always find a trivial objection to any proposal

>>97558762
What? Genuinely don't know what you're getting at here when I'm talking about Spain and said nothing about the British

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Nice game of Bolt Action today at the club, Waffen-SS (me) vs Soviets. Got absolutely smoked but had fun regardless. I like the BA rules a lot (then again I love 3rd ed 40K). I just wish that the army lists were less open, more like Battlegroup.

Two friends from the club have expressed interest into playing ancients. Now we're looking to get into Swordpoint, and the Pyrrhic Wars. I'm running a demo game next friday with my 28mm ancients I've been slowly collecting since COVID.

I FUCKING LOVE ANCIENTS AND HELLENISTIC WARFARE, I'VE WAITED A DECADE FOR THIS I'M SO HYPED MAN

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Played some Chain of Command today. North Africa 1940. It was the defense scenario, with the defense zone being the little Tunisian village.

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>>97562653
The attackers were these Italians. One of their big platoons of two squadra, plus 10 support points: A P13/40 tank, a flamethrower team, and an anti-tank rifle.

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>>97562657
The defenders were this mixed force from the 8th Army, a rifle platoon reinforced by a Matilda II tank.

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>>97562662
Unfortunately, the game itself was something of a foregone conclusion. I was able to activate the Final Countdown on the third or so phase of the game, which left only 9 phases for my opponent to cross most of the board, outfight my troops in the village, and capture the objective. The random movement and semi-random nature of activations made this unlikely to the point of impossible, so I kind of felt like I won on a few lucky dice rolls plus shoddy scenario design.

I like how Chain of Command handles vehicles and shooting, but the scenarios in the 2E core book are not very well written and the random movement just seems absolutely nonsensical. I was expecting something that felt better to play than Bolt Action, and instead it felt different, but not really better.

>>97458768
>North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam, like how Germany invaded Poland
A war of national reunification is not morally equivalent to a war of conquest.

>>97562927
>Insert ACW joke here

>>97458768
Perceptions of Vietnam have been shaped by a few major factors. I've talked about this with my mom, who was politically active at the time, and a crucial thing for her was that Americans didn't see any reason to be involved in Vietnam. The majority of people couldn't care less about Vietnam one way or the other, most hadn't even heard of it outside the context of the war, and saw no reason to spend lives on protecting the South Vietnamese from the North Vietnamese.

Another important factor was conscription: Unlike WW1 and 2, where America's propaganda machine had people thinking the draft was definitely the right call, by Vietnam, people had soured heavily on it, especially as classism became a big issue, with the upper middle class and above effectively being able to avoid conscription entirely. This got tied up with the civil rights movement - talk about the black man being drafted to kill the yellow man for the sake of the white man hit home with a lot of people. Dissatisfaction with the draft actually was crucial to getting the 26th amendment passed. It lowered the voting age to 18 because that way if you were eligible to be drafted you at least theoretically had a say in the political process.

One thing that people don't talk about much these days is the frequency of Fragging. A lot of officers in the Vietnam war were deliberately murdered by their own soldiers, most often via tossing a live grenade into their toilet stall (hence the name). It was really easy to get pissed off enough at the lieutenant that you decided you'd anonymously bump him off, and there were even infantry journals that posted bounties on specific officers' heads. This was a big reason the US converted to an all-volunteer army after Vietnam and hasn't tried drafting again.

A modern lens on it is that the US' heavy use of chemical weapons and firebombing essentially annihilated the entire ecosystem of vietnamese jungle, which hits hard with the environmentalists.

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>>97562927
>A war of national reunification is not morally equivalent to a war of conquest.

Does anyone have the Blood and Bayonets rulebook? The napoleonic version of blood and plunder

Rick Roll Chad, I summon thee from the depths!

>>97563663
>Blood and Bayonets
Please, buy and upload It

>>97562927
I'm sure the civilians the North murdered or exiled were glad their invaders spoke their language.

>>97556283
Actual peninsular architecture is pretty aesthetic but most people go for this vague California mission look that doesn't work at all for iconic battles like Corunna

>>97564506
>invaders spoke their language
The American oppressive forces did not speak Vietnamese.

>>97564084
Not quite bright enough to read, but it's getting there.

>>97555230
>their most famous riflemen were Irish
I was in Drogheda recently and there was a nice little museum about how the Irish won Waterloo. Also there's another section about how Cromwell is a nigger.

>>97564084
I wouldn't mind, I'm a charitable person, but last time I bought some rules and posted them here they got labeled "schizo content" and still deface the OP to this day. After that I decided to stop buying for you guys

>>97565331
>Also there's another section about how Cromwell is a nigger.
I find it funny how it's hard to tell if the museum is Irish or British from that sentence alone.

>>97565727
Drogheda is a little bit north of Dublin. We got the younger tour guide and he let me wear some of the New Model Army armor they had as the older tour guide looked on disapprovingly.