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Cheers for the thread, anon!
Gotta love free-hand!
>>98204761>even got the highlight grey on top of the base blackfreaking sweet.
Is it knight time? I played some Greathelm yesterday, a simple bar brawl to teach the other person the game.
>>98204895I've considered Greathelm, though I need another knight for two teams.
knighty night!
>>98204747>>98204761Kino my guy
A few months ago I've seen some new Napoleonic-era box of mixed irregulars(?) which people were gushing about as a great source for various skirmish games. Anyone know which box was that?
>>98205298Probably this one, Perry's skirmish in a box
Where do I find more maps at this scale? Large field, armies clashing, each block is a full complement of soldiers, etc. What scale would this be?
>>98205256Nice anon!>>98205298The Spanish guerillas.
>>98205540Right you are, anon! Thanks! I thought it was >>98205630 because I remembered the Spaniards, but I kept thinking it was a mixed-nationality box, turns out I remembered right.
I'm reading Les miserables now. How accurate is the description of the battle of Waterloo in the novel?
I once again come before you to ask if anyone knows of a skirmish game that I can use Early Imperial Romans in that isn't Saga or Pillage.A game that's 1:1, a game where one miniature represents one man, so no Hail Caesar or Infamy, Infamy.Surely someone has something? The only game that comes to mind for me is Clash of Spears' Rise of Eagles expansion. Surely the vaunted vaults of /hwg/ can find something...?
>>98205963OnePageRules: Age of FantasyUse the community historical army books
>>98206070I had a look at both Fantasy and Fantasy Skirmish, it's pretty dreadful stuff, but I appreciate your input anon, every game suggested must surely bring me closer to what I seek. Again, thank you.
>>98205963No luck with Nordic Weasel's games?
How do I into basing my 2mm Napoleonics? I think 2x2 is the ruleset for me (not 100% sure yet). I've got a shit tonne of square bases but idk how many strips per base. Is it just a matter of taste? If so i'd rather spread them as thin and get the most bang for my buck.One topic I do not care for is Military Organisational Structure so any talk of companies, brigade etc causes me to want to take a bite from a chocolate gun.
>>98206994Not as yet, but I don't think I've been through his entire catalogue. Many and varied though it may be, it seems to lean towards modern-to-future wargames with a dash of medieval. I did come across a copy of Five Leagues From the Borderlands 3rd edition which, according to some, allows for some custom character creation that might do what I'm looking for, but I'm not convinced as of yet.
>>98206994Oh snap I might have found something, it's not from Nordic Weasel Games, it's from Brethren Wargame. It's a Skirmish game, that apparently plays fast and casually but has some depth to its modifiers and positioning of units. The rulebook (https://www.wargamevault.com/en/product/491837/brethren-the-historical-rulebook?src=newest_recent) is 49 pages, lovely and light.There's a specific expansion that caters to the ancient world (https://www.wargamevault.com/en/product/491852/brethren-armies-of-the-ancients?src=newest_recent)And they have a free quickstart document (https://www.wargamevault.com/en/product/502871/brethren-the-quick-start-guide?src=newest_recent) that is free of charge.They have a video on their youtube channel that runs you through the game. It's just after midnight in my neck of the woods, so tomorrow I shall look into all this goodness and see what's up. But things are looking good!
>get the highest throne>it starts at Mohac Dammit, I wanted to do Varna. Guess that's more of a Hail Caesar game than a Pike and Shotte game. On the plus side, these lists are better than the one in the main book and the Rus infantry I thought I could run as Variags of Khand but was foiled by their wide stances will have a new home as Voynuks.
>>98205540>>98205639I just finished painting this box up yesterday and I have to say, Perry really is the gold standard for wargaming miniature companies. Their company truly is a passion project and you can really tell. That box is one of the highest quality wargaming purchases I have ever made, the amount of variety and customization in the box is insane and it's stuffed full of pamphlets filled with uniform guides, information, flags to use, etc.
>>98207061>Is it just a matter of taste? If so i'd rather spread them as thinIt's 2mm, just spread them like butter.>>98208360The only thing I worry about it is that buying Napoleonics means officially accepting I'm old
>>98208424I just turned 30 and went all in on Napoleonics. Unironically I'm hooking, no interest in anything else anymore
>>98208424>tfw 30 and already going greyLife's a bitch ain't it?
>>98208360>Their company truly is a passion project and you can really tell.Do I remember correctly that one of them got his hand mangled in an reenactment cannon incident, then went on to make a classic mini to relearn sculpting the moment it healed?I wouldn't be surprised if the company continued via spirit mediums when they die.
>>98208499Yeah it was a reenactment of the Battle of Crécy. He still sculpts and paints with his non dominant hand now
>>98208424I am thinking I aim for two strips per base for inf, 1 for skirmishers and then double strips for heavy cav
I was wondering about Ancient wargaming and randomly checked Hail Caesar (because Warlord slop is nowadays the starting point of retard-proof wargaming) and by the Gods it's so dry and lifeless, and devoid of character. What's the go-to Ancient ruleset nowadays that has some variety, depth and charm without being obtuse?
>>98209018British are all cleaned up, took me a moment to figure out how to clean the flash on such tiny models but I worked it out. Inf are primed and i'll probably get around to painting them either Friday or next week.>>98209409I'm a retard and I bounce off big budget systems
I can't find a 3mm battle map anywhere, does no one make 'em? Not even an MS Paint doodle.
>>98209916Just use inkarnate to slap a grass texture on a background and call it a day?
>>98209537Forgive my ignorance, but what am I looking at?
>>982101102mm Napoleonics. They'll look better painted and from table distance. Also my photowork is bad and scrubbed all the detail, of which there is a surprising amount. The shinier ones at the back are Sci-fi 2mm infantry I am going to use to bulk out my units and they are basically pawns with little rifles.
>>98209916For TTS? Get a grass texture and a few hills and scale down some trees, fields & buildings.
>>98210405Whoa, that looks sick
>>98210452My board will be phoned in. Need to scratch build some fields, roads and rivers. I can't be bothered with loose flocking treelines.
>>98207061>I dpn't care for OoBIsn't Lasalle just for you?>>98207136Never seen this one, great find.
>>98211050It didn't interest me
>>98211050>great find.It's looking real good from what I've seen thus far, I didn't have much time to look into it today and the day's almost over.It is VERY similar to MESBG, which I'm fine with, that's a great game. But it is heavily reliant on Morale Tests. This is perhaps my least favourite element. It encourages you to remove enemy models by making them fail Morale Tests, but this could be circumvented by spreading out your forces, keeping heroes separate from the chaff. Doing this leaves you without access to group activations and group charges etc however.It has definitely caught my attention, and it can be played as low as 250pts on a 3"x2" area. So it's checking a lot of boxes.
>>98211050LaSalle 2 is an elite game, but surely 2mm fags would be better off playing Blücher.
>2mmI am genuinely asking this in good faith, why even play with miniatures at this point? Why not just use colored rectangles?
>>98211727>miniatures They aren't playing with miniatures, they actually are playing with rectangles that are covered in braille
>>98211636I'm sad I can't name 1 (ONE) wargame making the target unit test for morale when charged. A charge is a shock attack: you're drilled and willing enough to stand it or your formation collapse and retreat before contact.
>>98211838NTA, doesn't Hail Caesar have something like that? If a unit falls back under missile attack or from melee, they can cause the ranks around them to break and cause the formation to collapse. I'm like, 70% sure that's a thing.
>>98211939You might be right but it's not what I'm talking of. I'm talking about you having to test for morale if an opponent declares a charge on your troops to see if they stand their ground before contact is even made. Sorry of I was unclear.
>>98208499does anyone know what the classic mini is/was?
>>98211983That's a rule in Pike and Shotte for certain units that make the enemy make a rout test if the unit charges them.
>>98216025Thanks, I'll give the rulebook a quick read then. Pretty sure it I remember it having a bad reputation but there's only one way to know.
>>98216003The Green Knight for WHFB Bretonnia, IIRC. A very well-received sculpt.
>>98211838... I want to say that I'm sure some of the REALLY old WRG rules I've seen the equally REALLY old boys at the club dust off every now and then do, but in the spirit of honesty I could be remembering wrong.
>>98216854Geez it tells a lot about me lads. I might be on my way out sooner than expected. Guess it's only Napoleonic for me from now on.
>>98216998You're not alone bro, I've been hearing the call of fife and drum myself lately, though it's been more the WSS or 7YW...Mutual age despair aside, one advantage of being a greybeard is you see a lot of cycles and pendulum swings. Complicated to simple to complicated to simple to... A "receive charge" test is something I can very easily imagine as being handwaved as a combat result outcome ("so i roll a 6 before mods and you've got a ... 1? Wow, guess your lads just aren't feeling it today, eh?"), as I'm sure a lot of the time I've seen it, it was only units below x% of starting strength or with a morale failure already that usually had to worry about it, or even do it, so why not skip a usually unnecessary part of the sequence?I've actually got a copy of 1688-1845 in the garage, I'll try to dig it out tomorrow, and I have a feeling that FoG does it too; of course that has a strong WRG pedigree too.
