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>Wargaming Compendium
http://www.mediafire.com/download/cghxf3475qy46aq/Wargaming+Compendium.pdf
>Saga
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/alj31go19tmpm/SAGA
>Black Powder
http://www.mediafire.com/download/o5x6blwoczojmfr/Black+Powder.pdf
>Bolt Action
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/n7jmdnlv1n0ju/Bolt_Action
>Hail Caesar
https://mega.nz/#F!s9xTTDpQ!CasEjRETeqZsJ5LOzYrJdg
>Warhammer Ancient battles 2.0
http://www.mediafire.com/download/uttov32riixm9b0/Warhammer+Ancient+Battles+2E.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/ta7aj1erh7sap1t/Warhammer+Ancient+Battles+-+Armies+of+Antiquity+v2.pdf
>Warmaster Ancients
http://www.mediafire.com/download/cifld8bl3uy2i5g/Warmaster+Ancients.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/3emyvka11bnna1b/Warmaster+Ancient+Armies.pdf
>Advanced Squad Leader
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/d9x0dbxrpjg48/Advanced_Squad_Leader
>Impetus
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/28i9gevqws518/Impetus
>Ronin
http://www.mediafire.com/download/m8xke04pc3hne2k/Ronin.pdf
>Battleground WWII
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/cb83cg7ays4l1/Battleground_WWII
>By Fire And Sword
https://mega.co.nz/#!jxgCWTYD!FCp52DAqIUc-EM-TsRsWv7fB92nJ3kkzKsNcD_urI5Q
>Modelling & painting guides
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/7b5027l7oaz05/Modelling_%26_Painting_Guides
>Twilight 2000/2013 RPG
https://mega.co.nz/#F!C9sQhbwb!NVnD4jvUn5inOrPJIAkBhA
>Phoenix Command RPG
https://mega.co.nz/#F!b5tgXRwa!mzelRNrKPjiT8gP7VrS-Jw
>Next War (GMT)
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/eupungrg93xgb/Next_War
>Battlegroup
https://mega.nz/#F!SolyxarJ!GUg6zWBStfznr6BvYedghQ

Desired scans :
Black Powder supplements
Rank and File supplements
Harpoon 3 & 4 supplements
Hail Caesar! Late Antiquity to Early Medieval Army List
Force on Force supplements
Hind Commander
At Close Quarters
War and Conquest
Germany Strikes!
Bolt Action: Empire in Flames

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20th of June in military history:

451 – Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' battles Attila the Hun. After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory.
1620 – The Battle of Höchst in the Thirty Years' War.
1631 – The Sack of Baltimore: The Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
1685 – Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater.
1862 – Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
1900 – Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
1940 – World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.
1941 – The United States Army Air Corps is deprecated to being the American training and logistics section of what is known until 1947 as the United States Army Air Forces.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot".
1944 – Continuation War: The Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive. The Finnish government refuses.
1963 – The so-called "red telephone" link is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1979 – ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime.

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It is 1,565 years since the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (or Fields), also called the Battle of Châlons or the Battle of Maurica. It was fought between a coalition led by the Roman general Flavius Aetius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I, against the Huns and their vassals commanded by their king Attila. It was one of the last major military operations of the Western Roman Empire, although Germanic federates composed the majority of the coalition army. The battle was strategically inconclusive: the Romans stopped the Huns' attempt to establish vassals in Roman Gaul, and installed Merovech as king of the Franks. However, the Huns successfully looted and pillaged much of Gaul and crippled the military capacity of the Romans and Visigoths.

In the years preceding 450, Roman control over Gaul and its other outlying provinces had grown weak. That year, Honoria, the sister of Emperor Valentinian III, offered her hand in marriage to Attila with the promise that she would deliver half the Western Roman Empire as her dowry. Long a thorn in her brother's side, Honoria had earlier been married to Senator Herculanus in an effort to minimize her scheming.

Accepting Honoria's offer, Attila demanded that Valentinian deliver her to him. This was promptly refused and Attila began preparing for war. His planning was also encouraged by the Vandal king Gaiseric who wished to wage war on the Visigoths. Marching across the Rhine in early 451, Attila was joined by the Gepids and Ostrogoths. Through the first parts of the campaign, Attila's men sacked town after town including Strasbourg, Metz, Cologne, Amiens, and Reims. As they approached Aurelianum (Orleans), the city's inhabitants closed the gates forcing Attila to lay siege. In northern Italy, Magister militum Flavius Aetius began mustering forces to resist Attila's advance.

>>47951875
Nothing

>>47951875
The part that kills you

>>47951882
Isn't the concept of *actual* nothingness terrifying?

From what I remember in Dragon's Dogma neither tend to work out so well

>>47951634
>Rogue Trader
King. Lesser mortals serve, I command.
>Engineer
I just want a quiet life and to support my family.

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>>47951634
Peasant. Grasping and struggling to get to the top of the pile are not the path to ataraxia. Movers and shakers are important to maintaining progres in the world but that's not the path I'd like to choose. I just want a soft bed, good food, and warm company.

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>>47870692
First for Nagash.

>>47870690

posted right before the new thread like an idiot. Suggestions?

>>47870690

Dust Devils
Dust Scrubs
Rusty fist of Emperor

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>>47948500

"Are you ready, Hoel?" Portland puts a hand on your shoulder. You see that even in the dim lighting, her Rig, like yours, had been painted completely black, with extra cosmetic protrusions attached to make it resemble Abyssal design. Even her clothes were different, with her normal sailor uniform replaced with a simple form fitting black bodysuit. Hell, she had even removed her trademark glasses and undid her ponytail, making her look like an almost completely different person.

Meanwhile, you were pretty much the same. Your Rig was painted black and slightly modified to change its outline, and you were also wearing a black bodysuit. You didn't look EXACTLY like an Abyssal, but these measures, combined with the darkness of the night, would be enough to fool the regular human eye.

"Yeah, of course I am, Sweet Pea!" You nod, though you could feel your hands trembling slightly.

"If you don't feel comfortable about shooting at human targets, I understand." Portland leans in closer so nobody else could hear her. "I'll cover for you if that's the case."

>Yeah, I'm not too keen on fighting humans.
>We were originally built to fight humans, so I'm not bothered.
>Other

Pic unrelated, but it's something Mudhen recently drew up!

>>47948509
>We were originally built to fight humans, so I'm not bothered.

Live, from /tg/, it's FRIDAY NIGHT
This week, Steam launches its quarterly wallet assault, WoWS tries to revamp equipment in 0.5.7, Arizona is spotted in supertester hands, and they actually did it the absolute madmen

And das lewd merc

>>47948509
>>We were originally built to fight humans, so I'm not bothered.

Cypher is simply unpopular, so it seems?

>>47947611
If you use your speed for attacks, you won't have speed left for defending against attacks.

If you focus all your edge and pools on speed, you won't have the might to take hits, resist physical effects like super-science poison and gravities, or even swimming in some futuristic ocean.

Have you ever heard of trade-off?

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>>47948204

This logic is flimsy and fallacious.

For one, a character who has Armor 2+ (e.g. elven chain in a fantasy setting) will want to spend Speed Effort to defend only against enemies with devastating attacks. Spending Effort can help mitigate damage, but it is effectively automatic damage to oneself. If an enemy would deal 4 base damage - 2 elven chain = 2 damage to you, then spending 2 Speed points with Speed Edge 1 is foolish.

For two, Might-using characters are no better off against "super-science poison and gravities," because their Might Edge is cancelled out by the fact that they have to spend from their Might pool if they want to have good accuracy and/or damage from their attacks. Considering that Might is the pool that is whittled down by the vast majority of opponents, and that a pool dropping down to 0 results in a debuff, it is imperative to conserve Might.

Investing in Speed is generally better all around (though Intellect is even better on its own). Even if you *do* intend on focusing on melee for whatever reason, the ideal way to go about it is to be a warrior with stealth flavor, take Extra Edge, Practiced in Armor (elven chain), Thrust, and Fleet of Foot, wield a heavy weapon, and then move across the battlefield with relative ease while making Speed-based attacks with Thrust (Might cost goes down to 0 and Speed cost has a -1 discount).

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>>47870086

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>Male
>Human
>Fighter

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>posting the same thread 3 days in a row

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>>47944684
When I GM, I usually have the players encounter a cutesy trap that will help them along the way with downtime stuff like healing, preparing potions, scrolls et cetera. The look on their faces when the NPC they thought was a girl joins them in the men section of the bathroom/hot baths is always a treat.

Doubly so when they still go for it even after they know the truth and insist on 'no homo though'

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I've been running Pathfinder for 2 years and I still don't really understand grappling

>>47944831
nobody does.

I almost never plan games more than a day or two before the session.

>>47944337
By your logic, a CR1 encounter is just as risky as a CR20 encounter. You're so easy to defeat in argument, god damn, stop embarrassing yourself, pumpkin.

>>47944376
Orbs are the best arcane focuses. Prove me wrong.

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>>47944480
It depends. I've had a house rule staves can be treated as a quarter staff, so they offer that utility. Wands can also be concealed. Orbs aren't particularly concealable, and don't make sense to use as an actual weapon.

0/10.

Even BESM is better than D&D.

And that system is broken trash.

>>47934822

>flat probably curves

lol wut?

Also, that's just 3.x

>>47869905
Remove Archaon

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Okay, guys, I need some help.
As you might remember, there'll be a campaign at the FLGS, with teams of heroes trying to fight their way out of the realm of Shysh.
For this reason, every participant makes up a number of custom heroes; either 6 regular heroes, 4 mounted/flying/ogre-sized heroes or 1 monster hero.
>cont.

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As a special rule, all heroes can use their Command Abilities, but only one Command Ability can be used per turn between them all.
In addition, all heroes gain the Command Ability 'Second Wind', which restores d3 wounds lost earlier in battle.
As you see, I plan on using Stormcast.

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>>47912391
>This thread brought to you by I Cato Sicarius edition.

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Bumpa-lumpa.

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This is the official Imperial First Contact protocol.

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>>47868203
There is no racism in degenesis

Racism exists in the game in the tribalism sense.

The world is butt-fucked so mankind has gone back to what it has done for optimum survival for tens of thousands of years: congregate with those most like themselves.

Inclusion and tolerance in the "everyone gets along and is treated equally regardless of color, culture, etc" is something that has only been widespread for maybe what? 60 years? 60 years out of the 80,000 that homo sapiens have been running around. It seems perfectly logical that when you have a complete breakdown of civilization and all of its trappings that we fall back on what worked before globalization, electricity, and mass communication/transit became things.

Does anyone have the Degenesis Rebirth PDFs? I've wanted to take a look at it but I can't really find anything about it.

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>>47907192
And also, following on this question or topic, what do you feel is the IDEAL number of miniatures AND units in a game?

For example, Warhammer 6th edition usually had around 80-120 minis per army, but around 8 units (talking about 1500-2000 points). Nowadays it has around the same number of minis, but MUCH less units, sometimes I see people with 4-5 units in 2000 points games.

And also, how do you like your minis organized in your games? I suppose it has a lot to do with the 'genre' of the game, if it's a skirmish game based around scenarios or a big battles game, but do you like having your minis organized in units or acting alone?

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Bumping with some images of skirmish wargames

When you're playing low unit count games you're often relying a lot on not getting fucked over by the dice and losing a unit you really needed 5 mins in.

It's like how bows were in the lotr skirmish games(the older rules anyway I haven't played in a long time). Fucking useless in the hands of most races but once every hundred games those goblin archers would accidentally kill Aragon on turn 2 and make the other player fling his models off the table.

The other problem is terrain, skirmish games tend to rely on the idea there will be things on the table to get in the way of LOS that you need to negotiate but the average player isn't going to just have mountains of stuff at the right height for it. You're often just going to be flinging down whatever trash you have to hand most of which will either be 5 times the size of the models or a 5th of the size. If you want good terrain you either spend ages building it or shell out for the stupidly expensive premade stuff on the market.

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>>47867388
Experiences not found.

What should my party of 6 lvl 8 doods fight while in a swamp?

>>47867388
>PRETTY FUCKING PRINCESS EDITION: WHAT WAS YOUR BEST EXPERIENCE WITH A NOBLE PC OR NPC?

Literally the most banned backstory ever because every motherfucker who does it just wants to sneak in benefits to their PC.

Fuck everyone who does this.