>What is /awg/?A thread to talk about minis and games which fall between the cracks, or peoples' homebrew wargames.The >>>/tg/hwg thread doesn't entertain fantasy (for good reason) and the other threads are locked to more specific games.This thread isn't tied to a game, a publisher, or a genre. Let's just talk about fun wargames. Any scale, any company, any miniatures.>Examples of games that qualify.A Song of Ice and Fire, Argatoria, Batman Miniature Game, Carnevale, Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings, Deadzone, Dragon Rampant, Dropfleet & Dropzone Commander, Freebooter's Fate, Frostgrave, Full Spectrum Dominance, Gaslands, HeroClix, Kings of War, Lords & Legends, Maelstrom's Edge, Malifaux, Marvel Crisis Protocol, Masters of the Universe: Battleground, Moonstone,Oathmark, OnePageRules, Open Combat, RelicBlade, Rumbleslam, SAGA, StarCraft, Stargrave, Sludge, Urban War, Void Admiral,Warcaster, Warmachine, Xenos Rampant, Xenotactics......and anything else that doesn't necessarily have a dedicated thread.>Examples of companies providing rules and/or miniatures for alternative wargames.Archon Studio, Atomic Mass Games, Black Site Studios, CMON, Goblin King Games, Lucid Eye, Mantic,North Star Military Figures, OnePageRules, Osprey, Para Bellum, Seb Games, Spellcrow, TTCombat,Victrix, Wargames Atlantic, Warlord Games......and many other publishers.>Places to get minis; Updates to the minis list are welcome.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D2DbNJ2mYAUxh5P9Pq9NZqS5tXHGn0i2JhZchEwbA2I/edithttps://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/373197.page>Novice Troves, meant to serve as a sampler of available systems. Check out the Share Thread for up-to-date troves.https://pastebin.com/MjtsC8AXhttps://mega.nz/#F!zSYW0I4a!vXh8-UPi_tWXpJES_-p4zgPrevious Thread:>>98115655>Thread QuestionName the green flags and red flags you look for whenever you see a new game
>Green flagsMiniatures agnostic>Red flagsHas an App of some sort
>>98133885mfw
Any eta on when the rest of the wga damned sets are coming out?I want some heavy infantry.>can’t find Canadian reseller of wga models that are stocking the damned.Is wga part of an international leaf raking cabal?
>>98133685>green flags >process posts, battle reports, conversions, kits with bits, $2-3/per model tops >red flags >kickstarter, influencer endorsement, teaser fomo hype train bullshit, companies with scumbag records and aspirations
For my eventual /awg/ heartbreaker, what did you all like best about Warmachine & Hordes? MkI preferred, but I'm open.
Wish I were less bad at painting. At least it went together okay enough.
>>98134143Just give the whole thing a wash, I'd go for color matching washes on this one but you could probably get away with brown for everything except the blue and yellow bits, black wash for those.
>>98134059I reckon by the end of Q2. Source: my ass. Saw the sprue of their upcoming gladiators and some models painted by influencers, the kit looks really nice. I hope that it will also be released by the end of the quarter.
>>98134059Canada probably gets fucked having to stock WGA shit via the UK instead of the USA so maybe it's just not worth it for resellers.
>>98134143remove the mold lines next time
>>98134059They said they will release the other sets over the cause of the coming weeks, but who knows in which order.I guess it would make sense to release the ones not included in the big army box first, but who knows.
>>98133685What models is that?
>>98133685>Green flags Non-dice resolution >Red flags Proprietary scaleProprietary dice
>>98132324>these new integrated bases from ReaperHaven't they been doing integrated bases for 30+ years?
>>98134684Yes, but a lot of the new ones are particularly wide. A lot of their recent models have that same particular cobblestone oval base.
How would I convert Trench Crusade figures to One Page Rules?
>>98134210>>98134404Thanks!I want the heavy infantry. Might replace the heads with anvilindustry altyn helms if they have them in stl form.>>98134296>American company shipping stuff from brit land to Canada>despite being geographically closer to CanadaThere’s gotta be some kind of weird business thing to why this is so.
>>98134982whats wrong with the default helmets in the heavy infantry set?
>>98134982It's a tariffs thing, WGA set up dual production in the UK specifically to be safe from tariffs against American exports which was great for people in Europe who get to buy shit with no price increase and minimal shipping but shit for people in non-USA NA
>>98134059>wgaWhy do people keep spelling /awg/ wrong?
>>98134059Specifically in their email announcing the army box release they said it will be releasing one box every Friday.
>>98134828You don't, that's how mini agnostic games work, use whatever minis you want.
>>98135020Isn't there free trade between Canada and UK due to Commonwealth and all that?
>>98135055Free trade in the sense of no tax/tariff etc, but it's not literally free to export or ship stuff, lol. I know we get memed by seppos as being socialists but 'kin ell mate.
>>98135061Out of all people, it only has been canadians complaining about having to pay import taxes for their damned miniatures. Meanwhile, Sarissa even lied and wrote a low €-value on my box, so it was free of any import tax.
>>98135038I want to say you cannot be this retarded, but this is 4chan, so yeah, you can definitely be.
>>98135075>Tariffs are a non-issue if you engage in tax evasion No shit, Sherlock.
>>98135075In fairness they're like the only English country that doesn't have their own big miniature companies, I'm certain there's hobbyists in Brazil whining about import tax on Malifaux but we're not on the Portugese websites to see it.
>>98134828I'm pretty sure someone has already made OPR profiles for trench crusade warbands. Check the fan armies in army forge.
>>98134619
>>98135003The problem is not enough altyn helmets.I should have worded things better.Sorry.Unless I looked at the sprues and missed that there are enough altyn helms for all the troops.Then I’m double sorry.
>>98135390>misread post and only noticed after postingI’m triple sorry.The default helms aren’t bad.I like them all. I just like the altyn the most from a preference perspective.
>>98135312Instructions unclear, am on FBI most wanted list now.
>>98135020Thanks for clearing that up.Not that I enjoy being a raked leaf but at least I know why this inconvenient taking is happening.
>>98135390There are probably helmets for all the sprues; WGA almost always give you enough heads of every mask/helmet type, and usually just don't give you enough of every single type of bare head to make an army of clones.
Has anyone here tried the WGA cannon fodder? Do they mix well with for example 40k or StarGrave bits?
Not really feeling these Quar tanks tbqh
>>98135412They scale fine with 40k Traitor Guard and the bitz are somewhat interchangable with a bit of putty or clever gluing. The plastic is softer and the sculpts are less detailed but at less than 60p a bloke from a discounted retailer, they are absolutely blinding value. I bought both them and the female box and they're very characterful minis. They also come with the plasma gun and a Blade Runner pistol, along with knives, backpacks, ammo pouches and spare mags and loose guns. Shitloads of heads too, both helmeted, visor-helmeted, capped, and bare-headed/bald+shockcollared. I'm holding off building all mine till the Damned army gets here so I can mix and match a shitload of parts like I'm ten and playing with Orks for the first time again.
>>98135419I like them more the goofier they look, Arnyarans who are mostly using up-armored gypsy caravans are the best
>>98134675>No diceWhat alternatives are out there apart from drawing cards instead?
>>98135408Figured it might be like that.Thanks!
>>98134675>propriety diceI had this like you wouldn’t believe.It is also a turn off for ttrpgs because lost dice can mean having to buy the whole pack.So /awg/ has anybody here applied decal recreations of proprietary dice symbols and applied them to blank dice?What kind of decal paper is best for dice or is a varnish necessary?Will the decals and varnish weigh the dice down to the point where they roll like weighted dice?
>>98135482I jusr printed the symbols for regular paper and glued them to old d6 dice I had rescued from old board games we were throwing away.
>>98135496That works too.I was only thinking about decals in hopes that it makes the dice look more fancy and “professional.”
>>98135412The Stargrave stuff is a bit more short and stocky so it might look a bit weird up close.
>>98135075>a low €-value on my box, so it was free of any import taxWe used to have that too, now we're being nickle and dimed for every single piece no matter how small.
>>98134059Speaking of, is there any info on what size boxes they'll be selling? Will the basic dudes be in 24 model sets (4 sprues of 6 dudes) like other infantry boxes they sell? What about the heavy infantry? Are Command tied to HW teams like with Grogs?
>>98135422>>98135522Thx. I mainly had in mind to put some Stargrave alien heads on the bodies, not necessarily mixing up body parts.
>>98134828just find a team that matches your team.HDF for good guys, havoc brothers for villains. Maybe wormhole/infected if youre the nasty demony ones. depends on your TC faction
>>98135573Herehttps://gamefound.com/en/projects/mwg--wargames-atlantic/the-damned/updates/69I’m not sure if it is valid info as everything gamefound was subject to change.Hopefully the original damned vehicle returns as a 3d printable model for the few who genuinely wanted it.
>>98135594There’s also alien cannon fodder stls on WGA’s mini factory store I saw.Maybe they are still up.
Why did Duncan create the most generic fantasy miniatures in wargaming history?
>>98135653I’m not sure but the pug is pretty cool.Is there such a thing as deliberately doing generic right by chance?Any examples in model form?
>>98135637>women get twice the shotguns plus snipers and machine guns
>>98135562here it's random, border agents arbitrarily decide that random packages will be charged an import duty, and others won'tOrder the same thing from the same seller month after month and3 out of 5 packages got import dutied for different amounts, it's fucking bullshit, you can never know when or how much.
>>98135675I didn’t see much difference in the arm sizes on sprues of the females so it should be okay.
>>98135673>the pug is pretty cool.It's fucking retarded, a pug isn't a threat to anything, using one as a warhound model is insultingly stupid.Guess he's going for that quirk chungus customer base.
>>98135653Generic is safe and appeals to the masses. His goal is to convert his (looks up) 390,000 subscribers into sales, so he has to do something people will buy based on Duncan's name, not on its own merits.
>>98135653because he wants the first wave to sell well. hes trying to create a skirmish game, you need people to be playing it in order to sell it. catch 22. sell generic up front gets it in peoples hands, then you can make the different warbands after. Said hes doing goblins next.
>>98135715It's still a completely different box you'll have to get for a gun or two. Eh, I'm just gonna use the grenade launchers as home built shotguns.
>>98135813I think they were designed to be able to count as both to be honest.>those railsDo you think the ooh rah set’s weapons are poking fun at the amount of rails American guns have?
>>98135717I think it is a cute and fun model to paint.I don’t know what is wrong with liking a cute model to paint.
>>98135852Dogfucker.
>>98135813>the grenade launchers as home built shotguns.Makes sense to me, aren't there flechette canister rounds for real grenade launchers?
>>98135889tryhardgb2 40kg
>>98135889Given this website it is okay to assume the worst.l as many times it was the worst case.You are assuming too much in this case.My fetishes are attractive adult aged women.And I would love some attractive female models to paint.Don’t have to be pinup tier.
>>98135907>My fetishes are attractive adult aged women.Disgusting. You should be in jail. I bet you've had consensual sex in missionary position
>>98135471Math.The Woods, 2nd edition at least, used Maths.
>>98135907the ladyboy doth protest too much
>>98135993I dint think people in Thailand can afford wargames.
Pugs are cool. Fuck the haters.
>>98136148Let's get you to bed.
>>98135419Looks like a pencil sharpener
>>98136172I know pugs are awesome, but most of us can keep it in our pants when discussing them, anon.
>>98135471Cards are definitely my favorite. They can do everything dice can do but dice baby do everything they do.Rock paper scissors mechanics like Moonstone are an option. Bidding mechanics like the Dune board game are another option. There are physical mechanics like Little Wars spring loaded cannons. There's nothing wrong with dice. But a game using a different resolution mechanism means the designers thought about game mechanics a bit which is a green flag.
>>98136223>awesomeinbred deformed mutants are disgusting
A corgi with a fairy knight would have been cooler.
>>98135482At this point I have a jar for of proprietary dice. As long as it's d6 based in might be schools to find someone alternative.
>>98135482>So /awg/ has anybody here applied decal recreations of proprietary dice symbols and applied them to blank dice?>What kind of decal paper is best for dice or is a varnish necessary?I flat-out use plain blank dice with either stickers, or with laser-cut stencils and dye markers. I also use them or my Battlefleet Gothic dice as convenient markers (the symbols on them are great for generic statuses like Pinned, Running, Charging, Jam, Broken, Unit has fired, et. al). There are a bunch of STLs for them and for Bolt Action/Erewhon/Antares dice if you poke around. Not rollable but great for consolidating your token boxes.>>98133685>>Thread Question>Name the green flags and red flags you look for whenever you see a new game>SupergreenDemo packages and printable versions of critical components up on the website for free. Developer posts battle reports and playtesting information on their own site and clearly plays other games as well.>GreenMinis-agnostic. Options for building your own forces or a ruleset that's effects-based and allows for easily dropping in your own force. Hobby or terrain sections on the website. Developer comments on why they chose IGYG/AA and similar controversial systems with clear design goals even if I disagree with them. Crowdfunding, if any, allows access to past campaigns' minis and has clear/defined goals>YellowCrowdfunding with unclear goals and large numbers of stretch goals. >RedProprietary components that are critical to play the game. Cards wear out quickly and are a bigger flag than dice. Release "roadmaps" for supplements, particularly when it's on launch and the majority are faction-specific. Multiple small kickstarters with FOMO elements and/or no clear path to retail.>InfraredOnline-only army builders/rules. Subscription formats. Apps. Patreon-locked content. Comments about "ecosystems" and deliberately avoiding common scales. New crowdfunding pushes when the previous one hasn't delivered yet
>>98135653Because none of the skirmish games with in production proprietary model lines are making miniatures with generic fantasy aesthetics.
>>98136737Besides Warcrow you mean
>>98136737you really had to narrow that category quite a bit to make it seem like generic fantasy isn't being provided for.
>>98134143Keep paintingKeep growing the toolboxHaving a small dremel hand drill is amazing. A little drill with sandpaper to buff out mold lines before you even start priming helps remove imperfections quickly.Blending is usually a factor of applying thin layers and washes. An airbrush setup seems is a big investment, but it also is like an auto-thinning and speeds everything up if you have a lot of models.Looks good, I love the helmet and gold on both the soldier and horse.
Good enough for now. Will probably eventually do something else with the bases.
>>98136148>Pugs are coolPugs are cute in an endearingly retarded manner, but they're not cool.
>>98137250Nice. Bones bones best bones.
>>98136790Even with>Skirmish games >In production >With proprietary minis>And generic fantasy theme I think there are a few, like Mantic's Vanguard, Warcrow, Relic blade and Frostgrave.
keep meaning to buy maschinen krieger minis, keep spreading time and money on maschinen krieger models
>>98135653Tßh non-GW skellies look like carved out of soap. Good on him.
>>98134143Remove mold lines and do a wash. The wash can improve a basic paintjob.
>>98135681Same in my country. Will my 100 dollar purchase be tax free? just 119 extra? 130? or 300 because the retards took an ebay sale as the market price and adjusted the price to that regardless if the invoice says otherwise.
>>98139255It's fucking criminal because it's arbitrary, it is literally no different than some gang member shaking you down for whatever is in your pockets on the street.
>>98139415Just for that I'm adding another $50 charge to your next order
>>98139255Worst part is. Seeing the tracking and watching it get stuck for over 6 months in customs and wondering if they are going to fuck me over with random taxes or by losing my package.
>>98139478Sick. I love empty hoods on ghosts. Nice more evocative then a skull imo.
>>98139448On top of that there's the whole shitshow of "prohibited material" when trying to import books or music, on paper there is a comittee to review the process but not in practice, so it's left to the again arbitrary, decisions of individual border agents wether to scrutinize any piece of material or ignore it, I was at least able to sign up to recieve a list of the decisions on what is admissible and what is prohibited every four months so I can use it as a list to find digital materials.Things that have been admitted over the years that stand out:>How to Beat Your Wife (muslim author)>(specific title unrecalled) a childrens picture book guide to anal sex meant for kidsThings that have been prohibited>When the Flagpoles Bloomed (a memoir from a German woman who lived through WW2 as a child)>A library of history books tackling WW2 from the perspectives of evidence and objectivity>novels by william pierce>
>>98139526It's another $100 on your next order for whining.
>>98139537Guess which country though!We're considered to be a large and fairly important first world nation that is a bastion of freedom and cultural expression.
>>98139558Sounds like your government sucks and you should violently overthrow it.
>>98139558Some kind of Europoor country.I still laugh when my third world country is less retarded than Euros.
>>98139597One-man army only works in the movies>>98139651Nope, not on the continent of Europe.
>>98135390>>98135408There actually are not enough of those for all 6 bodies.There is one with the visor closed, and one visor separate, to be glued onto another helmet. So with a set of 24 troopers, you can make 4 with closed helmets, and 4 with open visor.The head count on the heavy infantry is a bit different, compared to the other sprues, with more variety and less of the same repeats.You get:>3 demon face masks without helmet>3 demon face masks with helmet (visor doesn't fit i think)>4 "angry face" masks without helmet >1 "angry face" mask with helmet (can be used with the visor)>2 heads with plain helmet, no masks (visor can be added) one face has scars, the other does not>4 heads with gas masks and no helmet (its lower face half-masks, with the additional filter bit, but not the hood-type mask of the infantry sprues)>3 "stahlhelm" type helmets with same type of lower face gasmask (again, the visor might not work with those, due to the helmet shape)>1 head with the ballistic visor closedIts 21 heads for 6 bodies, but you can't make a full box wear 100% the same headgear, unlike with the other Infantry or Cavalry boxes, where this is possible (but also not for every type). But for example, the male infantry has less different helmets and heads to choose from, and the balaklava masks and the scarred face are just copy pasted onto the sprue with no variation, while there are zero repeats on the heavy sprue
>>98135412I believe the males are a bit taller/bigger than the females, but here is a picture with what i have on my desk right now:Left to right: Stargrave Female Merc - GW Blooded recast - female cannon fodder - female damned infantry - GW (new) cadian Sorry for the damned body being a bit lower, i did not notice it when i took the pic. They are all pretty much the same height, with the stargrave mini being like 2mm shorter. Its not an issue with the guns/arms tho.I think all of these work well together. However, the stargrave heads have a rather big and flat neck joint, where the WGA figures (both on this pic) have a more narrow neck opening. Especially the cannon fodder collar is too small for any stargrave (or GW) head, without cutting. Same is with GW heads and the Damned bodies. The heads have the right size, but the necks are too thick.Lastly my thoughts about the Cannon Fodder: I picked 4 sprues of the females with my Damned Pledge, because the female sprue came later than the male sprue(s), has better poses, and more weapon variety. However, the difference in sculpting between them and the damned sculpts is like day and night. You can see it on the picture a bit, but the details on the damned body are a lot better. I was really surprised how much i noticed that when i looked through those sprues.
>>98139934Damn, cannon fodder females are stacked. Every few months I feel an urge to buy a box and paint them as wearing gimp suits.
>>98140047Could be bigger.This reminds me I have some space bimbos to paint.
>>98139934>mfw female cannon fodder
>>98140047now thats a good idea..
>>98140047They're kinda baggy. Gimp overalls.
>>98139934Is there a noticeable difference in arm sizes for the male and female damned boxes?Hoping there isn’t for better weapon swapping because I think snipers were female sprue only.Also how do the anvilindustry heads look on the damned bodies? Looking to see if they’ll work proportionally by heroic scale standards.
>>98139255Kek. This. I got a "free" t-shirt from Exalted Funeral when I backed Old School Essentials but it at a slight defect at the left armpit. Send them a picture and they were happy to send a replacement despite my wife being able to mend it. Post office charged me 30€ for the free replacement. Now I'll get my shit from China and fuck that noise.
>>98140224My country made a deal with China. So now even that gets randomly taxed.It got so bad that imports from China are almost gone. I'm not sure if the CCP is happy with that deal.
>>98139651>Euro retardationI indulge in lockpocking as a hobby and they have a thing in US called Wood's metal alloy. It melts at a stupidly low point so you can cast with a lighter. There's no equivalent in EU and it's fucking hard to import because they don't give a shit. Germany has some kind of equivalent because autismo but it's like four times the price. Eurotards problem.Wondering what these Ukkies use for their miniatures recast though.
>>98140159I have no Anvil Industries physical items, so that i can't answer.>armsThey are smaller, but i dont think its very noticeable. But depending on your level of tism. it might bother you a great deal. If you have a printer, you can always just print some shoulder pads to bulk them out if needed.Male with sniper rifle (female arms)Female with male arm+shotgun and female left arm I tried that printed anvil head on both of them, looks ok on the male body, but comically oversized on the female, due to the smaller neck opening.
>>98140243Well that's grim. How's your waegaming scene pricewise?
>>98139526You live in an occupied nation, and are thus subject to the whims of the occupiers. Nothing will make sense until you realize that, and that humiliation is important to your continued servitude
>>98140307So you are from Donezk?
>>98139091>>98136823>>98134333Would there be a point to trying to remove the mold lines post-build and paint?>>98134177For the multicolor bits, if I wanted to color match should I got blue or yellow? Or just stick with black?
>>98140369>post buildyes>post paintnot really, unless you want to repaint parts or the whole thing.You could strip the paint off, clean the model and redo it if its bothering you >Or just stick with black?A light brown works usually better as an universal wash, especially with lots of horse, leather and cloth.
>>98140369blue wash for the blue, orange/yellow wash for the yellow, etc, this requires some brush control as there is no recesses to stop wash flowing, but wash blending at the edges of the color separation isn't a huge problem if you're not overwashing like you're dipping it.
Does anyone here have the five parsecs from home trove at all? I especially wanna get my hands on the tactics expansion rules. Im really liking what in reading from a scribd link i found
>>98140615I just can't get into FPFH, I've tried, but I just can't do it. Anyway, you might be better off asking in the share thread, there's typically someone there with an archive of the various troves.
>>98140303Basically just GW stuff in another words non existent.I've been trying to push people to play other things, even necromunda.But the gravitational pull of 40k is too much. While the few non gw games are all treated in this tournament esport mindset.Even bolt action ended being nothing but soviets because the time they had a slightly advantage over the rest regarding activations.
>>98140279Thank you for your service anon.I don’t think the differences will mean much.But I would like a source on some printable “guard sized” shoulderpads please.
>>98140889I discovered this set here some years ago, and have been using the shoulder pads ever since:https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-heretic-starter-set-179953See the guy in the back with the knife as an example. There is a slightly smaller version, as well as a version without the spike in that set too. You can find the files pretty much everywhere, where files are shared because they are that old. There is also these two sets:https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-raider-shoulder-armour-kit-bashing-set-pre-supported-750901https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-raider-armour-kit-bashing-set-pre-supported-750888But i have not yet tried them, but they offer a bit more variety, and less obvious spiky chaos look. But thats a matter of taste i guess.
The guys from maelstrom's edge didn't answer my email about customs charges for parcels sent to continental Europe. It's like some people are allergic to money. But from my experience it's unpleasant to do business with Anglos. Not as bad as dealing with jeets though.
>>98140972Ive been looking at their stuff for a while too, but there must be a reason why not a single store in europe seems to stocks them. Besides, custom charges are not their doing, so they cant really answer your question there.. the parcel might slip through, or not. And those charges depend on your order value, and your local laws.
>>98140987Fair enough. You've got manufacturers like Khurasan who flat out say they do not ship to EU. Victrix says that they take care of the customs, and I believe mantic does it too. Spiral arms is a very small studio, so I can cut them some slack.
>>98139934Has anyone measured the Damned next to old Chaos Space Marines (before the new range)? I'm sort of tempted to make some cultists, but I don't want them to mog my boys with their height.
So after getting into Frostgrave and enjoying the game I have come across something that I would call a complaint.Everywhere you hear about the game it's touted as being cheap to play, and while this holds true for a SINGLE basic player vs. player introductory match, it does not hold true if you wish to play the game again and in the fashion it is meant to be played, as a continuing campaign.For that you need 75-100 miniatures for the bestiary and 15-25 miniatures for your warband as well as at least a milk crate full of terrain.For anyone not in possession of both an FDM and SLA printer, this can easily get into the range of $1000 or more.Yes it's mini agnostic, but if you're stuck with retail minis as your option that will get expensive fast even with the cheapest sellers.The only way to keep the game cheap (without printers) is to use books and cereal boxes as terrain and have a handful of monsters that you proxy as anything you role on the encounter table, because to do otherwise means you need in the range of 5 each of skeletons, zombies, ghouls, wolves, rats, imps, etc.. and at least 3 each of wraiths, bears, vampire, werewolves, etc... and 1 each for a giant, troll, worm, yeti, etc...So again, I do enjoy it, I am going to continue with it, I just wish ANY article, video or forum discussing it had been open and honest about the scale of miniature investment and the reality of cost, because what it takes to start playing is a long fucking way off of what it takes to repeatedly play.Oh and all this is assuming you stick to only the core rule book, no supplements, if you go with all the supplements your mini collection could easily get up to 300-500 miniatures for the bestiary.Additional additional, a variety of terrain for repeat gaming is going to at the very least be 3 milk crates full, so full investment in the tabletop can easily get up to $2000-$3000 all things considered (again assuming no printing)
>>98141156I dont have any marines in my collection sadly, but you can certainly find plenty of pics of older chaos marines next to cadians or other guardsmen, and the damned are pretty much exactly their height.
>>98141204Foam terrain is a lot cheaper than whatever you're spending a grand on. Dense foam blocks, some kind of carving tool, gray craft paint, and some PVA glue goes a long long way when you're making ruined fantasy city terrain.
>>98141204mdf terrain is quite affordable, and i dont think you really need>and 1 each for a giant, troll, worm, yeti, etc...> 5 each of skeletons, zombies, ghouls, wolves, rats, imps, etc.. Can't you just use for example 5 generic undead, and re-use them for all encounters when undeads are needed? Or one generic big monster? Sure, less immersive, but also cheaper.
>>98141248>Can't you just use for example 5 generic undead, and re-use them for all encounters when undeads are needed?Okay, now you've rolled over the course of a few turns a pair of skeletons, a ghoul, a vampire, and a trio of zombies.You have 5 skeletons to represent them,how do you keep track of which ones aren't skeletons and what do you reach for to represent the 3 undead you don't have miniatures for?Instead let's be honest with ourselves and accept that no one likes having to pretend a miniature is something other than what it appears to be, we all want to be immersed in our tabletop and not keeping mental tabs that X model represents Y statline that it doesn't look like.>>98141231Yes the terrain can be crafted cheap, but that's a time/money trade off, you do ultimately still need quite a bit if you don't want every match to become samey. Much like with an FPS vidya, playing on the same map over and over again becomes a solved equation, so does using the same piece of terrain over and over again, certainly you don't want to use any given piece just once, but you need enough that you can have 3 or so matches before being forced to reuse any given piece.Yes, you can cut any number of corners, but no one here wants to push pennies around a table covered in styrofoam packing material, stacks of books and empty pop cans.This game really is best suited to someone who has both an SLA and FDM printer because that way you can get a fully bespoke set of minis and terrain while sticking to a few hundred dollars over a few years.And I have to point out that my complaint is about how EVERY place you find mention of the game ONLY mentions the absolute bare minimum to merely start the game, no consideration for informing what choosing to stick with the game can reasonably mean.
>>98141204If you're playing a campaign then it shouldn't be on just one person to provide all the terrain and monsters, each person involved should prepare some.
>>98141316>no one likes having to pretend a miniature is something other than what it appears to beI 100% agree, and thats why i wrote that its less immersive, but if money is tight, proxying miniatures for something else is always a valid option. >but that's a time/money trade offLike everything in our hobby, isn't it? Some people love to craft terrain tho, and for them it is super enjoyable to cut hundreds of foam bricks. Not me desu.>This game really is best suited to someone who has both an SLA and FDM printerLike literally every Wargame, if you plan on playing it for a long time, while also having lots of terrain for yourself.>And I have to point out that my complaint is about how EVERY place you find mention of the game ONLY mentions the absolute bare minimum to merely start the gameThere are several reasons for this. Anon here >>98141337 by saying that a campaign group should team up and share the burden of either crafting the terrain, or buying it and share the cost. So if someone who paid 1/10th of your estimated 1000 says its not super expensive to get into Frostgrave, he might think about his share of the cost, but not the full price.Or, what is just as likely: People do not really play full campaigns, and they just play 1-2 games, and post about how cool it was to spend just a few bucks on a box of wizards and soldiers, while the terrain was either absent from the table, or they played in a club with a big collection of terrain, which would be option 3: Playing somewhere, or with someone, with a huge collection of terrain and miniatures already.
>>98141204I felt the same way when I started to seriously look into frostgrave. A table's worth of ruined buildings and assorted winter terrain plus all the monsters is a pretty big project.I did the same sort of analysis when looking at silver bayonet and it also has a few scenarios that are pretty demanding in terms of terrain
>>98141337That is a way to dilute the cost, but it's also a huge hit to your game whenever a gaming group member can't show up one night, or worse, moves somewhere else or decides to invest their time into a different game.If you're already an established D&D DM with the accompanying monstrous manual of creature minis, this game is easy to pick up, likewise (and again) if you have both sorts of printer (or even just a resin printer and a joy in crafting terrain).Neither of those change that there is a sort of dishonesty by omission in every mention of picking up the game that I can find, the focus is exclusively on selling you on the first match, no acknowledgment of what deciding to stick with the game will entail.
>>98141383I didn't do a spreadsheet myself, but that's a good idea, so far I've got my list as a combination of what's in my head and the file system of collected STL's.I did go and make a pdf that is just all the supplements bestiaries combined, and while there are some entries that are duplicated between books, that pdf is something like just shy of 200 pages long.
>>98141387I really would not call it dishonesty, because if you are totally new to miniature wargaming, chances are you are looking to find people to play with, and chances are, they have miniatures and terrain already.Starting compeltely from zero, while playing exclusively with people also starting completely from zero while also not sharing the cost for the shared terrain and npc monsters is a very rare exception i think. I dont know all the Frostgrave Scenarios, but a set like pic related can be bought for 35€. I assume you need some sort of a graveyard and maybe 1-2 other sets too. Thats 35€ for 4 people, and it should offer enough mdf terrain for the vast majority of scenarios. Add some homemade box or foam stuff, and you should be good to go.
>>98141435Maybe this complaint is largely because I picked up Frostgrave as a game for me to solo play, I already have a number of games I play with other people in both fantasy and scifi, Battletech, Blood Bowl, Gaslands and Necromunda being the tops of the list.Of those you'll note that only Necromunda requires 28mm terrain and even for Gaslands terrain is very optional (and not 28mm), while for Battletech it's incredibly unnecessary and for Blood Bowl it's not even a thing.So I do acknowledge my particular use-case is the hardest hitting for this complaint, all the terrain and miniatures need to be collected by myself and basically nothing I already have works for it, that it scratches a niche I don't already have covered was a big draw.But still it'd be nice if every single searchable source from the dozen or more articles, at least a couple dozen videos and all the various forum discussions, didn't exclusively focus on your first match and sell that as the game.
>>98141435id call the other anon totally dishonest. the cost is always split between players, unless you're spear heading it which is your fault anyway. >>98141387 . it's also a huge hit to your game whenever a gaming group member can't show up one night, or worse, moves somewhere else or decides to invest their time into a different game.then you aren't playing anyway yes, the safest option is to have every single piece of terrain and monster. unless you're playing solo its useless. play at a club, play with others. its a straight lieI play frostgrave. Only played 40k before so practically none of my stuff worked. it is not that expensive to collect pieces. make your own shit as well or buy pre painted gw terrain, you board gaming fuck
>>98141468The solo-aspect changes things a bit, but maybe see it from this side: If you ever want to try another 28mm fantasy game, you will have a huge collection of stuff already, allowing you to get into that other game very easily. Besides, if you are the only player.. do you really need everything at once? Its not like you need to consider someone else. You can distribute the cost for whatever miniatures and terrain between the months and spend like $50 every other month on terrain and monsters and collect everything over time. There is no rush in your unique situation, and no risk of someone dropping out.
>>98141507>do you really need everything at once?Not everything, but enough that not every single roll on the encounter table results in "fuck, I don't have that"I'm at 60 miniatures for the bestiary and 15 for the warband and with that I can run only a slight variation on the base encounter table.
>>98141532Have you looked at those big Archon Studios "mix" sets? You can buy 50+ miniatures of various types in one set, and depending on what monsters you actually need, you should be able to cover most.
>>98141418>>98141383It would be an interesting project, to create some kind of a budget shopping list, based on the scenario requirements for those campaign focused games.
>>98141569I'm in the ideal category for this game that I listed in that I have both an FDM and SLA printer, so my full table of terrain and the 75 miniatures cost me around $40, my complaint is more objective when ti comes to cost and mostly about the lack of transparency about what the game actually requires as every recommendation and discussion is focused on just the first match.Subjectively the cost will be quite low and as I enjoy both painting and printing there will be no hardship, both my Blood Bowl and Battletech collections number of 200 figures each so I'm no stranger to collecting a large number of miniatures.I like the game, I am making the investment for it, it's just that there was no mention of the scale of that ever, anywhere.
>>98141605the problem with making a list of any kind is just how much work are you willing to do? anon clearly doesnt want to do any. are you willing to get your terrain printed? make it? does it have to come pre painted? How much do you care about quality for minis? fuckin wiz kids can get you a box full of primed minis for 25 bucks. or terrain as well. if youre only concern is cost
>>98141616i think the second you step out of the base game. the skirmish wargame, the cost always goes up. especially in a scenario npc game.I love Star Quest, but you do need a horde of minis to fight with. any coop vs ai game needs it
Sell me on it, faggots.
>>98141670IIRC, Nazi Vampires.
>>98141670Best wargame on the market (Pro)Lefty playground (Con)
>>98141666I disagree that a 1v1 skirmish is the base game, I hold firm that that is merely an introductory match, the core book is quite clear that ongoing campaign is the focus.It could very well be that the majority of youtube videos about it are focused on that because that's all they really did with it, dipped a toe into the game to get on the algorithm and then moved on, so far it does seem to be that everyone I found in search talking about the game (video or article) has a living that revolves around briefly sampling many games in a review capacity and then forever moving on. One guy was even doing it the back storage room of his gaming store (I hope) as the shelves around him were stuffed right full of dozens of games and he prefaced his talk by stating he was digging around in his stuff and found his collection (all of which was pristine books with no spine damage indicating they were frequently used) though he could have just been a hoarder too.
>>98141713The game is designed for people who already have minis. From the start, the idea was to use minis that you had already gotten for games like D&D, substituting gnolls for orcs or whatever you already had. The perfect customer for Frostgrave is a DM who already makes terrain and has miniatures for the encounters he runs in D&D.
>>98141670They got rid of the HECKING Nazis because they're bad and should not exist in anything at all ever!So basically, it fails as a WW2/WeirdW2 game due to a lack of Nazis.
>>98141760So... no Nazi Vampires?!
>>98141778No Nazis at all.
>>98141786I don't get it, I just checked and their website still shows the axis army complete with balkenkreuz emblazened walker tanks and the aforementioned vampires.
>>98141795Do you a single swastika, or the term Nazi? Exactly.
>>98141755If that were the case mcullough wouldn't have invested in selling it's own miniature range, optional or not.
>>98141804?? you're reaching. You can paint them how you want.And of course there are no swastika symbols, we're talking WW2 Germans, not hindus, the symbol you must be thinking of is the Hakenkreuz (or in English, Hooked Cross)
>>98141804>>98141819To illustrate, know the difference, it could save your life.
>>98141852lol both can get you gassed but one will prevent typhus from bugs but the other will give you ghonorrhea
>>98141795>>98141819>>98141852ntayrt Are you trying to say Hakenkreuz and nazis aren't an essential aspect of a weird war II game or genre?
>>98141865>ghonorrheaoops i meant cholera
>>98141869They are understandably a risque' aspect of advertising such a game but so long as you possess agency there is nothing stopping you from painting them with such and calling them by name.The business is still selling an obviously Natsoc faction for their game and prominently displaying a lesser but still clearly Natsoc symbol on those forces.
>>98141884>can't even type nazi You can't answer the question but that answered enough about you. Thanks.
>>98141884>>98141819>>98141852Lefty Wokie spotted. Kys.
>>98141204>For that you need 75-100 miniatures for the bestiary and 15-25 miniatures for your warband as well as at least a milk crate full of terrain.>easily get in range of $1000 or more>>98141605>create some kind of a budget shopping listI've priced out a basic set of stuff that covers 90% of the encounter tables at under $150. I also have a pdf somewhere with a minimal terrain set list, lemme dig it up.TLDR starter:>undeadhttps://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=7489https://badgergames.com/shop/frostgrave/frostgrave-frozen-city/miscellaneous/fg-fgv300-undead-encounters/10 skellies, one Small Construct, 7 Ghouls/Zombies. https://www.reapermini.com/search/animal%20companion/latest/07040Bear, leopard, wolf, Blood Crow for $10>Barbarians, wild dogs, potentially Gnolls or Rangiferhttps://mcdougalldesigns3d.com/products/dark-age-irish-sprue2 sprues is an entire warband and a pack for $15. The WGA skellie sprue is also quite cheap here if you want unarmored ones to go with the Mantic sethttps://www.ralparthaeurope.co.uk/shop/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&keyword=trollBob Olley trolls (among several other useful models) for about $5 each>wolvesNearly every minis store and several children's toy assortments have entire packs of them for $10-20. Barnyard animal toys are also a good source for boars, dogs, and Blood geese>ConstructsI used damaged miniatures to make statues for Mediums and a thrift store 54mm knight painted like a brass golem. Some cheap Familiar minis were enough for Smalls, along with the skeleton dogs from the Mantic set>DemonsMore cheap familiar minis for Imps, three-pack of devils and splurged a bit on a knockoff balrog>yetiToy gorilla>Ice ToadsUsed the wolverines from my Animal Companion packs>GiantOld D&D rubber prepaint that I got out of a secondhand bin for $2>Vampire, werewolf I used Reaper stuff, but they're remarkably easy to source
This isn't really the best thread for this I guess but there's no design thread up right now, do you guys think 1d20 or 3d6 is better for a skirmish wargame if a main mechanic is like, rolling multiple dice and keeping the highest or the lowest? For example on 3d6 you might end up rolling 5d6 and keeping 3 of them, or on d20 you might roll 3d20 and keep one.I actually don't really like the bell curve on 3d6 for this type of game, I feel like it works better for an RPG and I like the randomness of 1d20 more, but I really dislike how big the shift is from 1d20 to 2d20 keep highest in terms of how probable higher results are and so on whereas with 3d6 it's a lot smoother of a shift as you add dice. I am like so torn about this but I have to make a decision and just commit to it at this point, I can't keep going back and forth. Do you guys have any opinions?
>>98141670Unironically one of the best games going at the minute. Plenty of groundwork for narrative play, there's practically zero ability for alpha striking because of the random draw activation. Kits are cheap and plentiful. Made by a lot of old-guard GW staffers from when 40K was good.Downside, left leaning fags tend to flock to it to kill the heckin germans. Despite the whole "No Nazis" meme label that the game picked up, it's Nazis galore, you just don't see the actual name "Nazi Stormtroopers" on unit names.Lore is fun, a bit out there, but fun.Germans are the Space Marine faction but also have access to bioweapons and a Zombie KorpsNippon Empire is the Eldar or Dark Eldar faction (Fast, dangerous in melee, lots of fun special rules)Soviet Bloc are Imperial Guard with Sonic Blast Guns on tanks (iirc)Brits are a bit-tauish, cool mechs and hard to kill units that can resist pinning because they're AIAmericans are literally on a freedom crusade, they've got specialists but are glass cannonish
>>98141896>>98141910It's a good thing I wasn't eating or I might have choked to death laughing here.>naziNational Socialist doesn't abbreviate to this jewish slur in German or English, AFAIK only one word in existence contains "nazi" and that is ashkenazi, as an abbreviation it suits "national zionist" though, however that is awkwardly redundant.
>>98141941Hear me out>d10s More randomness than 2d6, less swing than d20s.
>>98142001Now you're overcorrecting too much, like all Lefty Loonies do when caught.
>>98142025Oh yes, I went out and bought my flag collection just to overcorrect in my responding to you, I did so in just a few minutes because it is absolutely very easy to find these flags on a store shelf.
>>98142001kek shine on you autistic socialist. Sorry I misgendered your /pol/.
>>98142035>my flag collection>myLolLmao, even
>>98142043By all means, reverse image search the original source of that.
>>98142001>abbreviateIt's not an abbreviation.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL7iME13xeU
>>98142013I like this more than I want to, lol
>>98142054Cope however you wish, it is a slur.Now it is one that lacks any kind of power behind it due to be so over-used that the typical reaction is either "so what?" or "yes" but anon >>98142040 has it right in that my particular response is different due to autistic levels of specificity.I don't want to get into the depths of the /pol/ argument here given that it's quite off-topic straying this far from talking about the konflikt 47 miniatures, but I will finish here by extending that "National Socialist" is itself only accurate in the WW2 German contemporary sense, that today there is no particular nation to hold loyalty toward, that now the correct term would be the increasingly popular FREN or Ethnic Socialist (in the context that a new nation needs be formed), but for the usage and understanding of the average normy, nazi and national socialist will suffice.
>>98142059What project are you working on?
>>98141670Nazi werewolves vs. Soviet werebears is pretty kino.
>>98142082Stop. I already have too many games.
>>98142074>Xhey are doubling downYou get 'em, Xister!
>>98142103Anon, it is those who do not hold to National Socialism who get "quarantined"
>>98141670I hate how the British robots look but love the lore of why they are a thingIs there British paratrooper/SAS rules? I have a bunch of WW2 stuff and would like to try getting into it again if I could.
>>98142074>If I keep tossing out buzzwords and spewing torrents of shit they're think I'm smart!
>>98141605>>98141204>>98141912 (cont)>Giant RatsReaper 8-pack for $8-ish. Crypt Rats can do double-duty as Wolves if you're feeling sporty>SpidersWGA, single spider sprue for about $7-10 depending on store>Wraiths, Wraith KnightsLiterally any mini painted in Army of the Dead/ghostly colors, or some cheapass GW Chainrasps from their many, many giveaways.>WormI use Reaper Giant Leeches. Currently out of stock, so look for purple worms or some other kind of cheap gribbly>White Gorilla...If you can't find these I'm sorry.>CultistsDepends on how much you want to spend. North Star is cheapest, followed by buying some capirote heads from Check Point and throwing them on whatever models you have left over. Reaper and Crooked dice have nicer metalshttps://www.checkpointminiatures.co.uk/shop/hd2836-pointed-hoods/>Null-MenSculpted over the eyes and mouth of some Mantic Ghouls>GnollsAny beastman, ork, or similar feral mutant model is fine. North Star's set is all right, WGA goblins/Orks do too>Terrain listI realized the version I have hasn't been updated for the last couple of scenario books. I'm updating that now, I'll put it up on gof or newvola tonight. In the meantime: Osprey has dungon tiles and printable papercraft terrain on their site for free https://www.ospreypublishing.com/us/discover/gaming-resources/frostgrave-stargrave/
>>98142098DO IT
>>98142074Since when has facts being a cope? You're the one who started this with saying it didn't make sense because it doesn't as an abbreviation when it was never an abbreviation.>it is a slur.Yes, and...? It was used as a slur back when the term was coined. The same way we said (and still say) "commie" as a derogatory term for a communist (and lefties in general). How is this news to you?
>>98142081I guess the best way to describe it is a Warzone heartbreaker, I adore the Mutant Chronicles setting but OG Warzone never really clicked for me because I prefer a kill team scale game more and I'm not a huge fan of d20 roll under. And then idk what Modiphius is doing with nu Warzone or whatever but I'm not really interested in it.
>>98142151WZ Eternal is Kill Team sized, but it still uses the D20 roll under system.
>>98142163I knew there would be something I wouldn't like about it
>>98141884>They are understandably a risque' aspect of advertisingKys, goy.
>>98142236>a nazi who understand optics is not a nazi!Lol.
>>98142253They understood optics just fine.
>>98142624That's why it's funny, they even got gucci to do their uniforms.The ones who don't understand are fakes and glowies like that boneface asshole in commiefornia.
>>98142632You stupid nigger. It was a /k/ommando joke about optics. We used to be fun and could talk about WW2 without /pol/ leaking on everything but both of your fuckwitted sides ruined most of the internet.
>>98142935a tard who frequents /k/ shouldn't be throwing stones like "fuckwitted" around so casually.
>>98141852Eh. Swastika was widely adopted as a term from the subcontinent and the symbol itself was extremely widespread until WW2.
>>98143296It was popularized by jews who wished to insult by association with jeets.
>>98143357It was used by Aviators because it kinda looks like a propeller.
>>98143357[citation needed]
>>98143381It's not a german or english word you absolute retard.
>>98143084>t. stone struck retard
>>98143405That's funny coming from a guy who hangs out with glowie feds.
>>98143522I mean, yeah, they play a lot of awgs because they don't have the budget for GW stuff.
>>98141670It's peak reddit.
>>98142082that's kinda hot
I got this box as a birthday gift, but I have no interest in warhammer. Are there some other games I can use with this model count or at most slightly more minis?
>>98143940Kings of War. But Empire of Dust seems to have some issues in 4th edition.
>>98143940>Fantasy mass battle rulesets.Check on Fantastic Battles, Fantasy Rules! TCE, Of Armies and Hordes, Warmaster Revolution (scale adjustment needed for this one), Oathmark, Dragon Rampant, Kings of War and Age of Fantasy: Regiments.
>>98141383It's a stupid amount of minis for sure. If you're in for the painting you might already be halfway there or be keen to paint all that. If you're in for the rules I recommend sourcing a $1 shoebox worth of common Magic the Gathering cards and punch out 1" circle of various creatures. Put them under acrylic circles and you're ready to playtest.
>>98140876Okay anon you have to name this retarded cuntry nao. It's too much.
>>98144147>>98143945Thanks, I've only played dragon rampant out of those games before and this would probably be enough minis for an army in that game. They could be individually based as well for skirmish games I suppose
>>98143940>Warlords of ErewhonWill only use about half the models, the mounted lord would need to be statted up on your own>OathmarkSkeleton archers kinda suck but even without them you'd have 1500-2000 points between a Revenant King on horse with 7 Revenant cavalry (~700 points), 38 Skeleton spearmen (~420), a couple Skeletal Champions (100), the three Chariots (450), and a Lich (50-400). The beasty could work as a Barrow Worm (another 300 points) but there's not really a provision for putting your commanders on one. Adding a ballista or two to the list would beef it up substantially and Nolzur's sells them for $5 each.
>>98143392"Aryan" isn't English nor German either.
>>98144205Individual base + moving tray and you're a TRVE KING.Dragon Rampant is cool but Fantastic Battles makes your best unit comes late to battle with diarrhea. Fantasy Rules put a great emphasis on command and control and Of Armies and Hordes allow you to loot dungeons mid-battle.
>>98134142From Mki? I barely remember it, it was a long ass time ago, but if I had to pick one thing, it's Skarre's Great Rack. It's so immature, but somehow that joke has stuck with me for two goddamn decades and it still works so well. I still tell people Skarre is knocking them down with her great rack despite the weapon now just being a lame-ass "Horns" in mkiv.
>>98134142the reasonable sizes and number of models for a 28mm wargame. WMH was basically the perfect "large skirmish" size. you can nitpick the game rules themselves, but it was always interesting and you could consistently jam a game in an hour without needing to resort to a time control to do it.WMHs arc is basically what "game gets killed by bloat" looks like. It stayed good, mostly, for a long time, well into Mk2. but it just kept getting more and mroe unwieldy. the number of models you needed kept growing, the size of the models kept getting bigger, and devs were seeing dollar signs so they just kept adding more and more shit until it was impossible for anybody to remember what all the models did. especially when there were a dozen variations of the almost-the-same model doing slightly different things.a lot of anons will blame Mk3 for killing WMH, but the truth is that's like pointing to an atomic explosion as the "problem" when the core had been sitting there at critical mass well before that.
>>98144231And? I never used that. But you're looking for Arischen.
>>98144660>And?If using "swastika" is just a jewish trick to associate nazis to jeets, why isn't the use of "aryan" (in the language of your choosing)? Both words come from sanskrit.>you're looking for ["aryan" but in german]wew
>>98144814>>98144660Looking down on "jeets" is a thing in england maybe, but was never even considered in the Germany of the 20s or 30s. So the whole claim must origin from some anglo neo nazis in the first place. Nobody in Nazi Germany thought negatively about indians, and very little people had ever even met anyone from India. Same with blacks. The whole "(historical) nazis had issues with coloured people" is bullshit made up by anglos to connect racists with nazis.
>>98144832Didn't Jesse Owens say he was better treated in Nazi Germany than in the US? Reminds me of the old 1943 training film for US troops deployed to Britain:https://youtu.be/SyYSBBE1DFw?t=1551
what the hell you fags are on about
>>98144896Hitler even gave him a handshake.
>>98144896I recall reading years ago that SS had jews, blacks and bunch of the so called undesirable.I know the SS could not be picky due to the army taking all the germans for them. But I still find it strange the supposed racist guy had a more diverse and accepting fighting force than the allied forces.
>>98144814Again, I never used that term mr.strawman.But on that topic Arian, Irmin and Armin ARE European words and the jeet use of aryan itself stems from ancient Europeans who conquered and ruled over them, that simply made the mistake of outbreeding into their population later.
>>98145016As I recall, you had to be a German citizen to join the Wehrmacht, so all non-Germans had to join the SS.
>>98144924>dinosaurs>zombies>krootox>crashed imperial ship>gas stationThe fuck is this game?
>>98145040It is still a strange situation and it really makes the entire racist nazis discourse sound like something it was made up later.
>>98145016Racism as we know it today, was simply defined differently back then. You can be sure that your average german citizen would not have allowed his daughter to marry a french colonial soldier in the 20s or 30s, when the french occupied parts of the german territory. But this opinion towards africans was pretty normal throughout the whole of europe back then. There are reports of mixed children being bullied in german schools too, and all 50 of them probably were not really the most popular kids among their mates, but even they were drafted eventually. But there simply was no political agenda against blacks (or indians), because there were so little of them. I think its obvious, with a black population like in the US, the NSDAP would have found a "solution" for them as well, but as it was, there was no need for that. Part of this is thanks to the allies who took away all the african colonies Germany had after WW1.>>98145040A bit more complicated than that, because of the german minorities in other (conquered) countries, but kinda true. In addition to that, Himmler wanted more influence, Wehrmacht could access the recruitment pool first (this changed in the late war btw), and there were lots of volunteers in rather uncoordinated units all over the occupied territories, so they made all of them into SS soldiers.
>>98145038>Again, I never used that termI never said you did, mr.retard, I'm asking you how swastika is a jewish conspiracy, but "aryan" isn't, when both derive from the same source?>Arian, Irmin and Armin ARE European wordsAnd none of them have anything to do with "aryan".
>>98144832>>98144896>>98144947>>98145016>>98145040Yes, it is understood that mistakes were made during the third reich. But mistakes are made to be learned from, next time we understand that it doesn't matter what your goals are or how you proceed toward hem, that if it ends in failure a century will be spent making absurd accusations of total racial genocide and seeking complete world domination, so to hell with being nice.
>>98145047iirc xenos rampant
>>98144226>>98144288Always good to have a bunch of different options. Thanks. An Egyptian skeleton army also makes for a great excuse to get maxminis Egyptian elf line of minis
>>98145060>And none of them have anything to do with "aryan".Yes they do, they are variations on the same deity name just like Wotan, Woden, Othinn, Odin and (more arguably) Hermes are.
>>98145063All I recall from that game was that mechanically there was little reason to have something else beside elite infantry.
What is going on with KoW? Are they re-releasing all their stuff for the new edition? I've seening lots of sales for Mantic minis, some even -50%, and i'm wondering if thats just to get rid of old boxes, or is Mantic struggling?
>>98145059>I think its obvious, with a black population like in the US, the NSDAP would have found a "solution" for them as well, but as it was, there was no need for thatTrue, they'd have their hands full mass murdering local neighbours before they'd ever need to worry about what they believed were lesser races who lived in far off Not Europe.The Nazis were explicitly racist towards America for having a high black population, but Germany didn't have a system of slave importation that made 10% of its population black.
>>98145109I am also a bit worried. They are my go to.
>>98145075It's not a competitive game. But you are correct, elite infantry wipe the floor with everything else in Xenos rampant.
>>98145109Good old tradition of every wargame company.Shoot themself. The question is are they going to shoot their feet like GW or the stomach like PP
>>98145375Its an issue I have with games in general. I love for example give a name to all my models and usually make up scenarios for each game. But when something mechanically sticks out it annoys me to no end since now I have to worry about players abusing it
>>98145109New edition of Kings of War launched a few months ago, so they're probably trying to clear old stock to push the new chinese dogmen army.
>>98145351I'm not worried per se, but seeing prices like pic related, it got me wondering. If they might be rip in a year, it could be a now or never situation for some decent miniatures. >>98145550Probably, it seems to be mostly old stuff being sold, but some of the new kits also.
>>98145648They also increased their support for homeprinting. Which might be good or bad, depending on your position.
I made a bunch of these for Frostgrave, it's just a XPS square with brick pattern cut into it and then some old grout over the outside to look like plaster, I think it'll work ok. I've never bothered too much about using the exact models, usually I just use what I have laying around thats close enough.
