/hwg/ - Historical Wargames General

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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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9th June in military history:

721 – Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
747 – Abbasid Revolution: Abu Muslim Khorasani, Arab military leader, begins an open revolt against Umayyad rule, which is carried out under the sign of the Black Standard.
1667 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins. It lasts for five days and results in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.
1762 – British forces begin the Siege of Havana and capture the city during the Seven Years' War.
1772 – The British schooner Gaspee is burned off the coast of Rhode Island.
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Arklow and Battle of Saintfield.
1815 – End of the Congress of Vienna: The new European political situation is set.
1862 – American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
1885 – Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France.
1923 – Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
1944 – World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
1965 – Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the war.
1967 – Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria.

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It is 153 years since the Battle of Brandy Station, the largest predominantly cavalry engagement of the American Civil War, as well as the largest ever to take place on American soil. It was fought around Brandy Station, Virginia, at the beginning of the Gettysburg Campaign by the Union cavalry under Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton against Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's Confederate cavalry.

The victorious Confederate Army of Northern Virginia had streamed into Culpeper County after its victory at Fredericksburg. Under the leadership of General Robert E. Lee, the troops seemed invincible and massed around Culpeper preparing to carry the war north into Pennsylvania. These half-starved men had defeated armies twice their size, but the constant enemies of hunger and poor equipment were showing their effects. Lee was determined to strike north to capture horses, equipment, and food for his men.

By June 5, two infantry corps under CSA Generals Longstreet and Ewell were camped in and around Culpeper. Six miles north of town, holding the line of the Rappahannock River, General J.E.B. Stuart bivouacked his cavalry troopers, screening the Confederate Army against surprise by the enemy.

Most of the Southern cavalry was camped near Brandy Station. Stuart, the "dashing cavalier", requested a full field review of his troops by General Lee. His request granted, on June 8 nearly 9,000 mounted troopers passed Lee's reviewing stand, first at a walk, then in full gallop as sabers glistened in the sun and 22 batteries of horse artillery roared in simulated battle.

A dense fog hung over the Rappahannock that morning. Unknown to the Confederates, 10,000 Union horsemen had massed their forces on the other side. Misinterpreting the screening action of Stuart's cavalry, Union General Pleasanton thought he was attacking a rebel raiding party of unknown strength.

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>>47677928
Pleasanton's attack plan called for a two-prong thrust at the enemy. One half of his men would cross the river at Beverly's Ford, two miles below Brandy Station, and the other half would cross at Kelly's Ford, four miles downstream. Caught in these pincers, the Southern cavalry would be surprised, outnumbered, and beaten.

Early in the morning, Stuart heard ragged gunfire from the river. Soon his troopers reached his Fleetwood Heights headquarters with the news that Union cavalrymen had forced a crossing at Beverly's Ford and charged up the narrow road toward St. James Church and Gee House Hill. The 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry unsuccessfully charged the guns at St. James, suffering the greatest casualties of any regiment in the battle. Several Confederates later described the 6th's charge as the most "brilliant and glorious" cavalry charge of the war. (In many Civil War battles, cavalrymen typically dismounted once they reached an engagement and fought essentially as infantry. But in this battle, the surprise and chaos led to a mostly mounted fight.)

Just as Stuart heard that the enemy had been checked at St. James, he received the startling news that Union troops were riding in on his rear. The vanguard, then visible, was approaching Fleetwood from the Stevensburg Road, having crossed at Kelly's Ford and reached Stevensburg via La Grange. One lone artillery piece was left atop Fleetwood Hill, and only a token force to guard Stuart's headquarters. As this single gun fired the few shells available, the Union horsemen halted their advance. Racing against time, Confederate cavalry rushed back from the St. James battle line to meet this new threat.

Stuart's headquarters was overrun, and the rear lines at St. James were threatened. Help arrived as cavalry rode in from Little Fork Church and saved the day for Stuart. After 12 hours of battle, Union troops retreated to the north side of the river.

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>>47677950
Union casualties were 907; Confederate losses 523. Some 20,500 men were engaged in this, the largest predominantly cavalry battle to take place during the war. Among the casualties was Robert E. Lee's son, Rooney, who was seriously wounded in the thigh. He was sent to a nearby estate, where he was captured on June 26.

Stuart argued that the battle was a Confederate victory since he held the field at the end of the day and had repelled Pleasonton's attack. The Southern press was generally negative about the outcome. The Richmond Enquirer wrote that "Gen. Stuart has suffered no little in public estimation by the late enterprises of the enemy." It described Stuart's command as "puffed up cavalry," that suffered the "consequences of negligence and bad management."

Subordinate officers criticized Pleasonton for not aggressively defeating Stuart at Brandy Station. Maj. Gen. Hooker had ordered Pleasonton to "disperse and destroy" the Confederate cavalry near Culpeper, but Pleasonton claimed that he had only been ordered to make a "reconnaissance in force toward Culpeper," thus rationalizing his actions.

For the first time in the Civil War, Union cavalry matched the Confederate horsemen in skill and determination. Stuart's humiliation as the victim of two surprise attacks foreshadowed other embarrassments ahead for him in the Gettysburg campaign.

The ACW makes for great wargaming, and its biggest cavalry battle gives gamers the chance to try something special. It's a fairly even fight, and being entirely on horseback makes it pretty unique.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/cuk2fqu8oxo3d6r/Osprey+-+CAM+201+-+Brandy+Station+1863.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/mn7xvug6w9y6c0z/Osprey+-+CBT+012+-+Confederate+Cavalryman+vs+Union+Cavalryman+1861-5%282%29.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/8areha9rf4rhro6/Osprey+-+WAR+013+-+Union+Cavalryman+1861-65.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/c1m51hgyaebvadg/Osprey+-+WAR+054+-+Confederate+Cavalryman+1861-65.pdf

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and done!

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>>47679620

>>47679620
That box.. how does it stick to the tank?

>>47679659
Its love for the Motherland.

>>47679659
>That box.. how does it stick to the tank?
thanks! it's fixed!

>>47679721
At least you didn`t say plastic glue-

>>47679620
I would say the crewman and maybe the box could do with a few more highlights but the tonk itself is phenomenal.

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>>47679966
thx. then I'll give the crewman and box a quick drybrush. close up of the small brother

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>>47680121
>drybrush
highlight them bro. drybrush only looks good on very textured surfaces like sand bases.

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>>47680256
ok! will do

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>>47680256
better?

>>47680779
Very nice.

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>>47680779

>>47679620
What is that turret on the background? T-70?

>>47680779
What does the text say? My Russian is non-existant except for kot and bliny

>>47682622
Za Rodinu -For Motherland

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>>47682367
It's the Mickey Mouse T-34/76 turret.
I plan to use it to make one of the t-34/85 into a 76.

(Picture kinda unrelated. my Pershing)

>>47682787
What's your Pershing's name? I can only make out "The -"

It looks especially nice.

>>47680779
>>47680417
>>47680121

Shit! How much love have you put into those??! Wow. Better than my (unfinished) cromwell.

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>>47684507
Thank you. It's "The Bomb"

>>47684595
Hmm dunno if this is sarcastic?

>>47684712
No really, I like the work. Not shitting on you.

I'm sitting here thinking "how am I supposed to go from 'basing and highlighting' my cromwell, to THAT?" I might as well not bother. I'm out of my league.

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>>47684793
oh ok. Thank you. It's a lot of practice and some studying. That's really all there is to it.

So get that Cromwell out and start painting!

>>47679966
Why is everyone here perfectionists? It makes me never wanna share my stuff.

>>47688330
Jesus H Christ he was being constructive, he even called it phenomenal FFS. Do you want to improve or do you just want people to suck you off no matter how much you need advice? Just start a blog then you hypersensitive vagina.

Yes I'm mad.

Was Stuart over-rated?

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>>47688668
I've noticed he's often blamed for the defeat at Gettysburg because he was off riding about and not actually supporting Lee, and these days he's probably more famous for that, than for his more successful actions. To quote his Wiki article:

>Arguably Stuart's most famous campaign, Gettysburg, was marred when he was surprised by a Union cavalry attack at the Battle of Brandy Station and by his separation from Lee's army for an extended period, leaving Lee unaware of Union troop movements and contributing to the Confederate defeat at the Battle of Gettysburg. Stuart received significant criticism from the Southern press as well as the postbellum proponents of the Lost Cause movement, but historians have failed to agree on whether Stuart's exploit was entirely the fault of his judgment or simply a result of bad luck and Lee's less-than-explicit orders.

The fact he was KIA the following year denied him the chance to defend himself from those criticisms in future years. On the other hand he got a tank named after him, which puts him in pretty illustrious company.

>>47688438
fuck up

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Did anyone else see this?
>tanks
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160603-the-strange-tanks-that-helped-win-d-day

When allied forces landed on the Normandy beaches on D-Day, they did so alongside a fleet of bizarre tanks with very special roles – brought into life by an eccentric British commander.

>>47689926
yeah we all know about that already thats old fucking news

>>47689959
jolly fucker today aren't we?

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>>47689926
What's your favorite one of Hobart's Funnies, /hwg/?
I have a soft spot for the Crab, but the AVRE and that giant spigot mortar just push my buttons.
It was the Funnies that "broke" Squad Leader in the end. When they created the original game they were going to include the Crab, but in a playtest someone tried to use it against infantry and they just couldn't work out how to properly simulate that, so they didn't include them in the finished game. However with the second expansion, Crescendo of Doom, simplicity had gone out the window and they added all the British armour including the various Funnies, and now players could merrily assault infantry with flail tanks - although by this point the game had become an unwieldy mess. But hey, who doesn't want to unleash a Crocodile on some unfortunates, or drop that 40lb spigot bomb on a bunker!

>>47690210
ASL saved us all

>>47690210
Is it bad that I recognize that those Tommies in the background are made by Valiant?

Also, Sherman Crab, WWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRR of doom.

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>>47688330
I appreciated the critic. as long as it is constructive and not "THIN YOU PAINTS!" (except when the person in question really has to thin it's paints.)

>>47690499
...or "looks shit" as we've observed it in the last thread. Constructive criticism is fine.

>>47690599
well. it kinda looked like shit.

>>47690888
And instead of saying how it could be better, you (or anyone else, I don't care) said it's shit. Well thanks, Cpt. Obvious.

>>47690888
Even then, just saying that it looks shit gets us nowhere. Instead say, "it looks shit because of x,y,z. Have you considered doing a,b,c?" fag.

>>47690599
As the one who received the "looks shit" Im unsure if I should bother posting any more WIP and just wait until im completely finished

>>47690888
Fuck you it's WIP everything shown was unfinished

>>47690888
Cunt

>>47690937
Meh, there's always a cunt lurking, but you best ignore him. A WIP is supposed to look unfinished. Most of the time when I look at my stuffs in progress, they look utter shit.

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>>47690937
>As the one who received the "looks shit" Im unsure if I should bother posting any more WIP and just wait until im completely finished
but then it would be to late to change things on constructive criticism! Don't let yourself get discouraged by some arseholes on the internet!

>>47691002
Yeah I guess so. WIP 3mm stuff is never gonna look that good

>>47690499
Looking good anon. Although, nearly as bad as "THIN YOUR PAINTS', just some moldlines through the middle of most of the helmets. But other then that, keep it up.

>>47690937
Post anyway bro, among the looks shit will be normal non fuckwits who genuinely offer good advice. I encourage you to post and disregard dickheads.

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>>47691115
thanks, but those are no moldlines.

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Not quite /hwg/ releted, but i think this is best place to ask this.
Do anyone have some information about how painted was brtish mk.I tanks at Somme? Green? That wierd khaki/ tan color? Some kind of camo?

>>47691491
Why wouldn't this be a /hwg/ related questions?

Khaki-tan that you mentioned as far as I'm concerned.

>>47682787
>>47684712
Are these warlord or rubicon tanks? Or an entire different brand?

I assume you used an airbrush to paint them. May i ask what brand/model you have?

>>47684876
In case these are your minis, the german with the camo jacket in front of the dice really needs some wash on said jacket.

>>47688330
>Why is everyone here perfectionists?

Whats wrong with a bit of friendly critic? If i post something i would be glad if others gave me some advise.

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>>47691491
>Not quite /hwg/ releted,
Tank camouflage is definitely /hwg/ related

>Some kind of camo?
"a kind of jolly landscape in green against a pink sunset sky"
"a bold pattern of brown, broken by broad black lines. "
afterwards, it was noted that
"the highly coloured camouflage painting was abandoned, and all tanks were henceforth of a neutral brown colour and provided with camouflage nets. "

Here's the relevant Osprey:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/24pi29m46t08edl/Osprey+-+VAN+100+-+British+Mark+I+Tank+1916.pdf

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>>47691532
a mix of both. The M26, M24 and M4 in the back are Warlord, the M4 105mm is Rubicon. (The STuH42 in the back is Warlord as well).

I'm using an airbrush, yes. I'm using an Iwata/neo and an Airtex XP-723.

>>47690210
Churchill AVRE.

A friend of mine managed to fit his head in the dustbin launcher when we went to Bovington the first time.

Sold me on it immediately.
Well that and ol' Close Combat II.

>>47691578
Ah, its you. I remember that Flamingo tank.

Are you satisfied with your Airbrush?

>>47691578
One advice: put some gloss varnish under the decal, and once the decal is on, apply matte varnish. It'll make the shiny edge disappear.

>>47691538
yes he does. It's a mini that wasn't painted by me.

>>47691545
Oh great! This is exactly what i was looking for! Many thanks!
>>47691499
>Why wouldn't this be a /hwg/ related
questions?
Because i need it for model kit that i don't think i'll use in any kind of wargame.

>>47691603
yes I am. I prefer the Airtex over the Iwata. it's a 0,2mm needle and I feel like I'm having more control with it.
>>47691604
Thanks! I've never heard of that. I tried micro sol setting solution after I had finished that flamingo but still isn't optimal. Do you wait until the gloss varnish has dried or do you use the gloss varnish as a setting solution?

>>47691707
I haven't used half my historical figures for wargames. Feel free to ask any history related question, we talk about history in general too, not just about historical wargames.

>>47691604
>>47691733

I use vallejo satin varnish (with brush) under the decal and then put vallejo "decal fix" on top of it for the same effect.

I wait for the satin varnish to dry so the surface is nice and smooth.

>>47691733
Wait till it dries, and apply the decal on top of that.

>>47691545

I've always wondered what that chicken-coop frame on top was for. I've always assumed it was to ward off artillery shells but honestly that's just a guess.

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>>47691859
>I've always assumed it was to ward off artillery shells but honestly that's just a guess.
It's a cover for grenades, anon. They bounce off the "chicken shed" frame.

Heroics & Ros's webstore is still closed for maintenance, I just wanted to window shop micro armour ;_;

>>47691198
Ahhh, nevermind then. Good job. I wouldnt've checked and shaved them off by accident obviously.

>>47691780
>>47691800
thank you!

Do you guys know 28mm WW2 germans in "casual" or "relaxed" poses?

Most minis i found so far are either aiming/firing or advancing/running.

>>47688330
Nothing is perfect. Everything can be improved.

>>47693723

wargamesfoundry has some pretty relaxed sentry miniatures.

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>>47694191
>Nothing is perfect. Everything can be improved.
not true. some things in this world are pure perfection.

pic related

>>47694267
I don't know what that is.

>>47694267
>>>/a/

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>>47694308
sorry wrong board.

>>47694345
Anime out

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>>47694389

>>47692143
I will be closed till July 1st. The guy running the shop had a surgery on 28th of May and closed the shop while he recuperates.

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First WOTR light cavalryman painted. My painting skills are pretty rudimentary but I'm happy with how it's come out.

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Anyone have Plan Gold or any of the other Avalanche Press wargames? Are they any good/worth getting?

>>47694345
>Anne of Green Gables
the girl knows her classics

>>47696173
Put the model down and remove the backlight.

It looks fine but the photo isn't good.

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>>47696651
Neat

Here's a Greek archer from Aventine miniatures.

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Do any of you play online through roll20, map tools or similar?
What is it like compared to the table?
How do i find someone to play with?

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>>47696651
hell yeah cavalry! but please upload a pic with better light!

>>47697468
I tested Chevauchee using Roll20. Miniatures on a table is significantly more fun, but you can't beat the versatility of being able to draw a whole game table.

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>>47697475
>>47696830
Better picture!

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>>47697523
great!

Anyone seen the new 30YW game on steam?

>>47697482
Drawing maps on paper and scanning them to play online is a things I've done many times for rpgs
Now that I brings this up, any one knows books on designing battlefields?

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>>47697523
Some of the Perry HYW French infantry under the command of my singular painted WOTR Light Cavalryman.

>>47696661
Overall both that and the WWII series are great series of games. The Strategic level of fleet moving and searching for each other is fantastic. however the game slips a little bit at the tactical level. there is some gamey abuse that can happen if you really know what you are doing-slower ships being able to escape from faster ones is one example....

>>47698924
No? What's it called?

>>47701556
It's literally called 'Thirty Years' War'

>>47696672
I think it's included as an explicity Canadian reference. Not sure of the specific regiment but I'm guessing it's meant to be Dieppe.

>>47701655
Interesting. I'm usually more interested in the sort of God's eye perspective in an empire building game, rather than a simulation of a single war, but I'm very interested in the period. Pike and Shot has been one of my favorite recent games.

The problem with representing the logistical side of the conflict is that if its at all realistic, you'd have to recruit your armies for each campaign, and over half of them would die of disease while you march around denying advances.

>>47691545
what's with the wheels on the back?

>>47697482
>Chevauchee
God, what a piece of shit that game was.

>>47694862
Anyone know what color beret the Royal Artillery wore during WW2? I have a couple crewmen for my 17 pdr SP Achilles tank destroyers that I need to paint.

>>47703487
Khaki if part of the HAC or in an infantry unit; black if serving as part of an armoured unit.

>>47703323
Its not that bad. Sure Its too random for my own taste, but i would still give it 6/10.

>>47703323
Why didn't you like it?

>>47702054
As a moonrune reader, I can confirm it's Dieppe and they are Canadians.

>>47701423
Ahhh, that's unfortunate that the tactical situation isn't perfect, though I suppose no game truly can be perfect.
I know Plan Gold and a bunch of the other books feature scenario books that they say describe a lot of the history and background behind each of the scenarios present, can you attest to how in-detail it goes? While I'm sure they feature a lot of historical information in their more traditional WWI/WWII games I'm curious as to how much detail they put into fleshing out the alternate historical scenarios and detailing them to the player.

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>>47694345
After a bit of research I have concluded those young ladies are from the King's Own Calgary Regiment

>>47677874
Just bought a box of ECW highlanders from warlord games, any recommendations for books for references?

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>>47706426
Look up a blog called Project Auldearn 1645, and check out this Osprey:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/u43iih1cfqoj22s/Osprey+-+MAA+331+-+Scots+Armies+Of+The+English+Civil+Wars.pdf

who else /WaitingImPatientlyForOrderInTransit/ here?

>>47706709
Me!

Baccus sent out some ww2 chaps yesterday

Me, I ordered a late Roman Army and a Goth Army from baccus 2 weeks ago. Would have been awwsome to have them for the weekend...

Anyone got experience with their delivery times in europe?

Cause honestly, Im not Waiting "patiently"
>>47706709

>>47706830

>>47706782 Here, I ordered those ww2 chaps three weeks ago. Peter seems to be getting so many orders so it takes some time. Shipping time in Europe is very fast though, I remember last time they dispatched it on thursday and I got it on Saturday

>>47706855
Ok thx.
Now I'm gonna hug my Email until the delivery message arrives. Didnt know that he sends those

>>47706782
>>47706830
Painting my own Baccus Napoleonics whilst waiting for Perry Native Americans I have no use for and impulse bought because I watched "The Last of the Mohicans".

Depending on what you ordered it can take a couple of weeks for Peter to get your stuff cast, but I'm sure you won't wait too long.

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How do the Victrix and Warlord Greek hoplites compare quality wise? Do they mix well at all?

>>47706709
Yeah, the final part of an order I made in December last year. It's from Element Games and this is the fifht and final part of the damn thing. It just contains some basing material so nothing that important and it's my own fault that I ordered things that were not in stock.

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>>47707063

Both are nice, the Warlord ones are probably more delicate/fiddly and true scale, they were sculpted by Steve May for his Immortal Miniature range which was later bought by WG so they don't compare to other WG ranges.
Possible better researched too since Steve know his stuff.

>>47704887
They do a pretty good job of it, using the actual battle plans that the military had at the time for the different Plans. The amount of 'historical' detail in fleshing out the hypothetical scenario can vary from book to book. Some of them are pretty good, others seem to be lacking a bit.

still they are pretty fun reads regardless if you are into hypothetical or not.

>>47707319
Those are some really nice looking hoplites, anon. Are they yours?

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>>47707454

Nope.

>>47708062
is that guy at the back from the Isle of Man?

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>>47708079
The triskelion gets around a lot, it was very popular in Bronze Age Sicily

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Any recommendations for an ACW naval ruleset? Full range of gamey to simulationist is acceptable.

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>>47708301
Well I can't saw I've actually tried them, but we have these two titles called Anaconda and River Wars in the ACW folder, which will at least give you something to look at.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/z7bx7viccy972i1/Anaconda.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/7tjcc8jxvxtn34f/Anaconda+-+Capital+Navies.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/jbrbfgb8db818st/River+Wars.pdf

>>47708402
That water is amazing. Plastic sheet or something like an epoxy or varnish?

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>>47708856
From the guy's blog:

>I purchased two yards of a dark brown broadcloth from Walmart and two yards of clear plastic vinyl (mid-range thickness). Setup is a snap – lay down the brown cloth, overlay it with the vinyl, and instant river!

>>47708887
post his blog

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>>47709124
https://scottmingus.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/finished-my-1600-acw-naval-project/

>>47708402
Much appreciated anon! I'll give them both a look. I had gone through the folder before, and nothing that was blatantly ACW had jumped out at me.

Also that's an awesome way of doing a river. Too shiny for an ocean mat, but it looks amazing for that.

>>47710252
I've been thinking of starting some Sengoku Jidai Japanese stuff in 1/72 scale.

Any recommended rulesets for that?
Personally, I'd been thinking about homebrewing a variant of GW's LotR rules.

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>>47710443
No need to homebrew, it already exists.

>>47709140

That's amazing.

>>47690210

Bobbin just because how hilariously absurd it is

Fascine as a close second because the idea of driving around with a load of wood to fill a trench would be humorous to watch.

>>47694345

Well, I guess we know the real reason Dieppe was a failure

>>47711839
Indeed. They wore too much clothes.

Hey guys, I have a wargaming question for you:

How many rank and file wargames tend to focus on an element as a whole versus the individual models in them? Like, "big block versus big block with little blocks in them"

To compare two fantasy wargames (sorry, it's all I really know, and I imagine most of you know em too) WHFB tracks each model in a unit, and you have to count possible attacks and wounds each unit can put out based on the models within it, and as you take damage your combat ability drops down due to having fewer models, and you purchase each model individually.

Then in Kings of War you track the entire thing as a single element, not worrying about individual models and deaths - eventually the unit takes enough to damage it declare it out of action, and it's dead. There's no actual loss of combat ability until it's dead (or it possibly 'wavers', rendering it more or less useless for a turn). Here, you purchase a unit in a few different pre-set 'sizes' (troop, regiment, horde...) which determine its offensive (number of attacks) and defensive (how much damage it can take until destroyed) ability.

I'm wondering how common each one is in battles of the size these games have. Obviously man-sized and whatnot will be more likely to track each person, but...larger-scale rank and rifle?

>>47713504
Mostly it's unit based when warfare was more about formations. But there are some differences and variations - like in Rank&File you buy your unit as bases, each base has 4 "wounds", if they gather enough damage, you remove the base. So...basically it's like WHFB but with bigger base sizes. On the other hand, systems like Lasalle has a similar method where a unit gathers "wounds", and their morale generally degrades.

And of course there's Warhammer Historical which is really like WHFB for obvious reasons. Historical wargames tend to be in the middle I'd say - bigger bases, less bases per unit, but it's still base-based (what a stupid phrase). But still, I consider most of these as unit-based systems.

>>47703227

Some early tanks had them as it was thought that they aided steering. In practice it was found that steering by tracks alone was effective enough, and so the traiking wheels weren't fitted to later models.

>>47713504
It depends.
To constrain myself just to Napoleonics/Horse and Musket rules, which I'm familiar with, it's largely based upon the scale of the game.

At full army scale (Blucher, Grande Armee, V&B) 1 base will likely constitute an entire unit and will be removed all at once, typically their combat ability will diminish as the unit takes more damage, rather than a full attacks until the unit is destroyed.

in the "part of an army" level (Lasalle, Black Powder, Age of Eagles) you usually have multiple men on a single base, multiple of which will make up each unit. Sometimes bases will be lost as the unit takes casualties, sometimes the unit will keep all bases until enough "disruptions" (or other effect dependent on game) have been taken.

In the smaller scale "Skirmish" games (Muskets and Tomahawks, Sharpe Practice.) figures are generally removed on a 1 to 1 basis

>>47689069
Stuart was an excellent cavalry commander for the majority of his Civil War career.
Basically, so far as I understand, his exploits around Gettysburg are his only big screw up in a career of excellent service.

Of course, his one fuck up might have caused a major Confederate loss, so...life sucks.

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>>47707319
>>47708062

damn, those are a lot neater than mine, I also got bored with choosing colour variations

>>47707063
>Do they mix well at all?

Pic related, L-R: Foundry(?), Wargames Factory, Victrix, Warlord/Immortal

They wouldn't really rank up well in the same unit, but I've seen several armies which use both victrix and warlord in their own units

I personally find the Warlord/Immortals to be much better sculpted, Victrix's hoplites were their earliest sets and IMO not great-looking, also Victrix hoplites come with 8 heads per sprue for 8 bodies, so no extra heads for variation.

Warlord/Immortal comes with I think 4 helmets on the main sprue (Corinthian/Illyrian helmets, each of which can have separate crests attached, suitable for Peloponnesian war or earlier) and also a different command/accessory sprue for each set (Spartan, Classical, Ancient) with another 8 or so heads/crests.

I bought the spartan set because I mistakenly thought that the classical and ancient ones were the same, due to the fact that Warlord's website doesn't sell the Classical sprue separately, or show pictures of the sprue, but it turns out that:

- Spartans come with generic heads on main sprue+command sprues with 8 Spartan heads with long hair, beards, and shaved mustaches (evidently the stereotypical spartan look) wearing Pilos helmet variants
- Ancient comes with generic+command sprues with a couple of more old-fashioned helmets, and a wider variety of crests for the generic heads (since Corinthian/Illyrian are already "older" helmets that aren't really appropriate after the 5th century or so) as well as a musician

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>>47715181
cont.

- Classical set has command sprue with helmets that are more appropriate for Xenophon to Alexander the Great eras, Phrygian, Boeotian, Pilos (without spartan hairstyle), iirc a few Thracian-ish helmets, as well as some "bald" heads that can have helmets or Petasos hats stuck on them (oddly, the spartan set comes with the spare Petasos/Boeotian helmets, but no bald heads to put them on).

Each set also comes a set of 40 or so decals (not as nice as the LBMS on this guy's >>47708062 but adequate and free) whereas I don't think the Victrix ones come with decals. You also get 40 in the Spartan or Classical sets and 42 in the Ancient set, I think Victrix is 36.

I'm not an anti-Victrix shill, I actually intend to buy large swathes of their Carthaginians, Macedonians, Romans, and even their Peltast set, I just think their Hoplites are rather subpar. I would buy them heavily marked down, or if I was making an all-Hoplite force and got sick of painting the Warlord/Immortal ones. You can also find the latter for $25 at several retailers, so there's that

Pic related are some of mine, I have about 20/40 done since I got them at Christmas

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>>47707319
>Both are nice, the Warlord ones are probably more delicate/fiddly and true scale

Also this, although I think they're better sculpted, they're definitely harder to paint due to being so small, so that's something to consider as well. I haven't broken any of them during or after construction but I've been very careful with them. I could see the spears being easily bent though if one isn't careful

more triskelions

>>47715181
>>47715267
>>47715340
Thanks for the overview, that is a hell of a size difference.

Looks almost like one went with 28mm to the eyes and the other 28mm to the top of the head.

>>47715181
The victrix guy looks so disdainful of the Warlord guy just because he's a manlet.

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what was your first game?
What was the first match like?

>>47717224

None because nobody around me plays and there are no shops that carry any

>>47713504
I play mostly ancient/medieval era games. A lot of those use smaller models on stands. There are some that use larger scale models based individually, but I haven't tried many of those.

>>47718039
;_; I feel you. The nearest shop with miniatures is 34 km away, and nearest shop where you can play in is 112 km ;_;

Does anyone gave a copy of the GMT Blood and Roses player aid they could send me?

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>>47716108
>Average Greek height 5'8"
A manlet disgusted by an even tinier manlet?

>>47717224
Historical, or overall?

My first wargame was BrikWars. We had lots of fun with it. My first historical wargame was Operation World War 2, that was fun too.

>>47706527
All that tartan. My dick is unbelievably hard right now.

>>47717224
Probably warhammer 40k at my friends house, ca. ~1999. Orks vs Space marines. we played on a 48" X 48" table and it was awesome.

First historical game was probably one we invented, an ancients game with cavalry, trebuchets, infantry, etc. Based on Age of Empires 2. This was about 2000/20001.
I've been writing game systems ever since!

>>47720276
>First historical game was probably one we invented, an ancients game with cavalry, trebuchets, infantry, etc. Based on Age of Empires 2.
My first historical game was a homemade Napoleonics ruleset devised by me and my friend. Horribly imbalanced, and involving literally fistfulls of dice and calculations whenever literally anything happened because we thought we were so smart for knowing soooo much about history that every modifier we could think of had to be included.

It was completely trash, but we had fun.

>>47720366
fuck yes, napoleonics was some of the first serious rulesets I wrote, around 2008. Got the "research a period and write a ruleset then playtest the shit out of it" bug. Over the years I weaned myself of 40k, then off WHFB (which was gloriously tactical for a few years there... ) to the point where now I exclusively play historical rulesets I've written. Me and my buddy used to get together once a week, and roll a dice as to which game to play, of the best 4 or 5 games I had made over the years. Good times.

>>47720421
>around 2008.
Literally when we wrote that, what a coincidence. But we were 14/15 years old and we fell for the "british infantry can ever lose to other infantry" and "french cuirassiers can't lose to anything ever" memes.

when are you posting your rules?

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>>47720454
I've posted many of my rulesets here.... I think I was about 22 in 2008, so sliiiightly more mature and able to do a bit of research into what the units were actually like. My early napoleonic rulesets were still pretty rubbish, although my Ancients ruleset from about the same time is passable.

Ikonki is my most recent one, for Russo-Japanese land wars, I did a playtest post by post around new years here on /hwg/.

Most of my work recently is on Ostfront, our WW2 system which is getting on 5 years old. Getting things ship shape for version 17. Coming along nicely with some photos and even full map campaign rules and example turns.

Other complete games I've written include: Thirty Years War, NZwars, Dogfight!, Banzaii! (WW2 skirmish / rules lite RPG), T-90 (modern combat with Helis, TOWs, tanks etc).
Also the emu war 3 page rules, Crawler Siege (if anyone remembers that from /tg/ of olde), and a few others I've probably forgotten.

I was heavily influenced by don Featherstone's wargame books back in the day, helping me aim for simple but effective rules, rather than too much complexity.

>>47717224
Heralds of Ruin Kill Team (40k)
My inquisitorial band vs. a buddy with Tau.

I won, eventually. One of my plasmaguns exploded, which was hilarious.

The terrain was made from cut up instaramen bowls.

Who /hype/ here for Trooping the Colour

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Operation Totalize 1944: The Allied Drive South from Caen (Osprey Campaign 294)

In Operation Totalize, Lieutenant-General Guy Simonds' II Canadian Corps launched an attack from its positions along the Bourguébus Ridge south of Caen, striking south-southeast astride the main Caen-Falaise road toward the high ground that dominated the town of Falaise and the key west-east lateral road that ran through this town. Using sophisticated operational art the initial break-in achieved rapid success; indeed, more tactical success than any previous Allied break-in attack in Normandy. However, despite this rapid initial success, Totalize did not subsequently secure a decisive operational-level victory. Indeed, Simonds' forces subsequently struggled swiftly to complete the second break-in battle, and to transit into rapid exploitation operations. Had Simond's force been successful the German army may not have been able to extract themselves from the Falaise pocket and would have been surrounded and defeated - possibly bringing about the early end of the war in Europe.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/2c9cc1189r2cvwz/Osprey+-+CAM+294+-+Operation+Totalize+1944.pdf

>>47722340

Danke!

Hi!
Got into 20 mm Wild West, ordered some miniatures, which I plan to mix with IMEX and Strelets stuff. I'm thinking about scratchbuilding some buildings with interiors.

Does anyone have any good sources/sorucebooks/floor plans? I saw whats in WH:LOTW, but not much else.

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>>47722772
Well I have an old map of Tombstone

>>47722772
http://www.hotzmats.com/mat_1-wild_west.html

>>47677874
Anon, what about the historical roleplay? Especially the near / medium / Far East

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>>47723327
There are a couple of RPGs dotted through the games folders. GURPS could see you right, or at least their sourcebooks make for great reading.

Maybe some of you could be interested too

http://jayswargamingmadness.blogspot.hu/2016/06/bolt-action-modern-version-20-rules.html

Modern variant for Bolt Action. For me, it's good as no way I could convince my club for another rulesystem like Force on Force or Skirmish Sangin, but they are familiar with the Bolt Action rules.

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While it's obviously not /hwg/ I thought I'd mention this seeing as I've just added it to the folders. It was written by the creator of Songs of Blades and Heroes and will definitely have some appeal here I'm sure.

Of Gods and Mortals - Mythological Wargame Rules (Osprey Wargames 5)

Two armies prepare for war. Thor, surrounded by crackling lightning, leads the assault of a horde of Viking berserkers. Preparing to receive this charge stands a wall of grim-faced, determined Spartan hoplites, commanded by Ares himself… Of Gods and Mortals is a skirmish wargame that gives players the opportunity to command the greatest heroes, warriors and monsters of legend - and the gods and goddesses that ruled over them. Whether you want to lead the forces of Greek, Egyptian, Celtic or Norse mythology to battle, or build your own pantheon, Of Gods and Mortals presents everything you need. Each player takes control of a god, a handful of legendary characters and a number of mortal troops, forming a warband that must work in harmony to succeed. Although the gods are incredibly powerful, they are only as strong as the faith of the mortals who follow them - if their worshippers are cut down, gods become weaker, and if a deity is vanquished in combat, its followers may flee the field of battle. Success lies in employing a strategy that uses all your troops, from the mightiest to the most humble, as effectively as possible.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/cy2fa54yehka4be/Of+Gods+And+Mortals.pdf

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>>47724210
aw yissssssss
tabletop SMITE

>>47720549
Crawler Siege is great.

Hey folks, can anyone help me with a force organization chart for BAOR Paratrooper platoons? I can't find it for the life of me, only for the infantry.

>>47724351
SMITE can go straight to hell for robbing meaninful development from Tribes:Ascend.

And honestly, it'd be more like Age of Mythology anyway in terms of vidya.

>>47717224

First historical game: original axis and allies when I was 5 or 6 in the early 90s

First tabletop game: Gorkamorka in 97

I've been a history nerd and war film fan all my life but only took the plunge into historical miniatures last year when Age of Shitmar happened

The fact that there are so many quality plastic kits nowadays helped too, as did recognizing former GW types (Perry bros, Jervis Johnson, Rick Priestley etc.) who had jumped ship before me

Anyone ever buy anything from http://paperterrain.mybisi.com/?

I want to have my own terrain for a variety of games (SAGA C&C, TANKS, Black Ops, and a few others) and their stuff looks pretty good.

Ideally I'm thinking about picking up some card buildings and some game mats, probably from deepcut or similar, since ideally I want the terrain to be easy to transport.

Also I just don't have the time or inclination to build and paint my own stuff, it's time consuming enough getting my minis done.

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I need something like FM's from late 1880s to early 1900s, with valley fire and shit like that. British of course. Can someone give me that?

>>47729036
Head over to the papercraft thread on 7chan's /tg/, there are some nice pdf's there.

>>47725465
Those trees look really effective.

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Cogner

I've been brushing up on my French recently.

Anyone have Dave Brown's Guns at Gettysburg (ACW variant of General de Brigade)? I'm a big Civil War guy and I've heard good things about it

What colors were ww2 era european houses/village buildings?

>>47734235
That sort of depends on the country and the type of settlement; what specifically did you have in mind anon?

>>47734235
Based on the photos, shades of grey.

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>>47726421
As it happens the Parachute Regiment was never a part of the BAOR (except for a brief period immediately after WW2). 5 Airborne Brigade was to be used as a theatre reserve, deployed from the UK to wherever they would be needed in Europe. I think with a few exceptions for specialized units, their platoon composition would be the same as infantry, so you could just go with that. But anyway have a read through this link, it might be helpful.
http://www.eliteukforces.info/parachute-regiment/

>>47729494
Take a look at these
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Great%20Britain.%20War%20Office

>>47737655
Much appreciated. Got a box of Matchbox Nato Paras in February, bit the bullet and ordered the Call to Arms box for extra poses today. It's gonna be a nice army.

>>47734235
Europe isn't very homogeneous in terms of houses. You get different sorts of houses in southern Italy than you do in Northern France or Poland.
Where did you have in mind?

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>>47737666
>Matchbox Nato Paras
I know those guys! Also of course they could be used for the Falklands or Northern Ireland. There are a couple of old Ospreys relating to the British Army in the 80s you could look at; I've also just uploaded the very first Elite, which covered them (no platoon details, but some great art).

http://www.mediafire.com/download/p8o552qcof0pzyf/Osprey+-+ELI+001+-+British+Airborne+Forces+1940-1984.pdf

>>47737723
>>47736235
Mostly france and maybe like poland and western russia

>>47737724
Thank you, much appreciated.

Could be used for those easily, only problem is, no IRA or Argentinians in 1:72.

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>>47737771
>only problem is, no IRA or Argentinians in 1:72.
Dang, that's a good point. For what it's worth, Caesar do some nice modern militia/terrorist dudes (and dudettes) in 1:72.

>>47737766
Perhaps period colour photos could be worth checking out? Certainly there are heaps of France 1944 in colour. I don't know so much about Poland. I think overall brick seems to have been the thing - in beige, grey or orange mostly.

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>>47737817
>Perhaps period colour photos could be worth checking out?
Although I admit, in many cases, there isn't actually much left of the buildings in question

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>>47737655
Seems like this is what i needed. Thanks.

>>47737766
Well for normandy buildings, as can be seen in the great image >>47737823 most buildings will be a mix of timber (especially in more rural areas, not so much that image) and local stones (a lot of flint and such, a lot of granite in regions directly surrounding the Normandy beachheads) and of course bricks.

>>47737823
Thanks this helps a lot. I mostly needed help with roof colors

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>>47737924
If Normandy 1944 is your thing, Life just released a bunch of rare colour photos last week for the D-Day anniversary; look up a guy called Frank Scherschel.

http://surfingbird.ru/surf/f6h00111E

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I like this one

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>>47738773
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>>47738799
í:^I

>>47738821
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>>47738862
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>>47738868
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Beses for my goth and late roman commanders

>>47738941
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>>47738937
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>>47738984
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>>47739004
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>>47739125
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Why does /tg/ seem to think wargaming is only mini wargaming?

I'm too poor for minis so I just have Crusader Rex (block game) and Heroes of Normandie (chits)

>>47739186
We have literally tonnes of Hex and Chit games in our OP.

>>47739186
miniatures are more fun

>>47729934

Cheers, thats some neat looking stuff.

>>47739186
Because the hobby of painting miniatures is fun, and I'd venture that a large portion of people come from geedubs background.

I had a cool Avalon Hill hex game when I was a kid. Basically inherited it; got it from my grand parents and it belonged to one of my uncles. Unfortunately my mom threw it out at some point. Even though she hordes every other shitty board game no one will ever play again.

>>47739642
>>47739186
Basically what this guy says, but I started on FoW and kept true to historicals ever since. Painting minis, and playing with said minis is more satisfying then moving chits around.

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>>47739229
Says you

>>47739784
ASLanon please.

Speaking of is that guy still trying to make ASL with minis?

>>47737825
Any more stuff like your pic related?

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>>47740786
http://www.shipbucket.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=1941&start=200
And that how it's suppose to be, and that never happened.

>>47740877
Could be a start for a campaign if you want to play the Spectacular Adventures of the Magnificent 7th Airlanding.

>>47740877
Thanks, even if it is in square letters...

>>47740996
I'd watch that.

>>47740877
Hooo boy, truck squad. 9 trucks, 9 men. Sounds like the liquor acquiring compartment of the battalion.

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>>47739788
that wasnt me..if i was going to post ASL counters I would post this......

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Anybody own any minden miniatures?

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>>47734235
Get google earth and turn on the Panoramio photo layer and/or use google street view.

Modern buildings are more homogenous, especially in urban areas, but if you stick to more rural areas, you should get at least somewhat of an idea of what things looked like 70+ years ago.

Found some WWII Germans minis for infantry, what's a great place to get tanks from? Scale is 1/48th

>>47743749
What minis do you use?

For 1/48 there is Tamiya which has a huge selection of german tanks and vehicles and Italeri which has a few trucks and a Puma armored car. (The Tamiya 1/48 Puma is actually the reboxed Italeri kit)

If you dont care to much about the scale you can also use 1/56 tanks from rubicon, warlord or any other wargaming company with ww2 tanks in their product line.

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>>47722772

Frontier Montana:
http://www.morphotoarchive.org/

Frontier Alaska during Klondike rush:
http://content.lib.washington.edu/heggweb/

This dead guy has some pretty cool weathered wood 19th C buildings: http://captainrichardsminiaturecivilwar.blogspot.com/2012/07/construction-starts-on-new-building.html
Bit more of a how to in the comments

I don't think this direct link will work but try googling "Wagons Ho! The streets of Resurrection" Normally you'd need a login, but if you arrive via google, you should be able to see the content.
http://www.guildwargamers.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=102&t=25681

Anyone got a good UK source of decals?

Numbers for vehicles in particular. I've long meant to add them to things I have in a variety of armies and sizes (6mm, 10mm and 15mm mostly) but have never really gotten around to it. Figured I should maybe try and change that.

>>47743885
Country, period?

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>>47744563
Many, anything.
I've got a ton of armies in microarmour and larger that could do with them, everything from early WW2 Germans to Ultramodern Russians. So pretty much just anyone doing a wide range would be fine.

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>>47747823
LOVE THEM!

>>47747823
Fucking sweet. What size/scale are those guys?

Looking for TooFatLardies Rules

Been trying to track down .pdfs for:
If The Lord Spares Us
Triumph of the Will

Would really appreciate the help.

Cheers

>>47749596
6mm Microarmour. From GHQ

Why does the middle east have mud huts. Like I get that it barely rains but when it does wouldnt that just melt every building?

>>47742659
I've got a few of their civilians for my American Revolution collection. Ripped the idea off the silver whistle blog. Very nice figures though i can't vouch for the rank and file stuff

>>47749751
They have some kind of lime wash coating on the outer face, and usually some kind of roof. I've built mudbrick and rammed earth buildings, and they're study as fuck. As long as the rain isn't constantly hitting the side of the building, you're fine. In Semi Arid or Arid environments there's no issue as rain is very rare.

They're been building things in that climate for thousands of years, they know what they're doing and what works.

Can someone recommend me a good hex and chit wargame in either the historical/ancient or fantasy variety? Preferably something i could PnP? Thanks

>>47750592
I live on in England, which is rainy as fuck, and my house has mud walls. Well cob, so straw and horsehair and shit as well. And except for the fireplace. And the extensions, and the bits where fucktards used a cement render to patch and it up in the past. Turns out a meter of crap is a pretty good insulator, in summer and winter.

Older building in the Himalayan foothills were the same basic design (cob and thatch). These days tin roofs are cheaper in the long term though. Down on the Industrial Valley plain peasants made their buildings out of bamboo wattle and daub, I guess because insulation is less of a problem.

Really though, mud buildings are easy to build and and cheap as fuck for agricultural peasants.

>>47749683
If it looks ridiculously good for 6mm (any other scale), it's GHQ

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>>47749751
>>47750592
>>47751393
In the US great plains there are basically no trees and few usable rocks so the settlers built sod houses and many people live like that till at least into the early 1900. That area is stormy as hell.

>>47752846
What are the giant sticks?

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>>47753072
Altitude rods for aircraft, anon. You can see a couple clipped to them in the pic.

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As much I hate link-and-length tracks, these were not that painful. Maybe because the Challenger I has much bigger tracks than the previous ones I've tried to assemble (Hetzer and SdKfz 251). Still, the kit was half-assembled when I got it, and the running gear was...badly assembled, so it's not perfect. Thankfully I have another unassembled that I can do better, but in case I need more Challengers, I'll get the Trumpeter model with the rubber tracks.

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>>47749674
1/2

>>47749674
>>47754115
Oh wait, thought I had Triumph of the Will but I was mistaken. No 2/2 sorry.

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>>47754115
>>47754127
Thanks anyway anon! Added to the folders.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/wefcgbcge31scgu/If+The+Lord+Spares+Us+%28TFL%29.pdf

>>47751175
there are literally thousands...if not tens of thousands of games that fit those paramaters. your going to have to narrow it down for us

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>>47755105
Okay, do you know any with army building in addition to scenarios, ancient historical or fantasy themed, which has dice rolling and is not card based? Ideally something I could print and play?
Thanks

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>>47751713
We had a severe thunderstorm blow through last week just north of us with 60 mph wind and golf-ball sized hail.

Sod houses were a thing up until even the 1930s and 40s in more rural parts of the plains.

>>47753417
Try the Testors non toxic cement (one in the blue tube) it stays workable longer than the cements with more volatile solvents so you have enough time to assemble and place 7 or 8 links at a time.

Should I post some more WIPs? I just got abused last time i bothered so I'm unsure if anyone gives a shit

>>47756289
I use Revell modelglue, but it's hard for me to get an acceptable result for my standards. Thanks for the recommendation tho.

>>47756323
Please do.

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>>47756010
Well you posted the old SPI Helm's Deep there and did mention fantasy, so maybe you might like War of the Ring? (Oh and do you actually have a pdf of Helm's Deep? Because we got that too). It does meet your criteria.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/3lryi5vfjj3zyfd/War+of+the+Ring+1977.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/download/fd7d6wgawjv7488/Helm%27s+Deep.rar

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>>47756323
This thread is usually very positive towards wip/paintings from my own experience and looking at the reactions to others.

However, you are still on 4 chan, there always a chance of getting grief from anything you post, just don't let it bother you.

Tldr; post them.

Sort of related, the first of my M&T Native Americans

>>47756392
Wow thats cool, i just found the map on google. Thanks for the links ill check them out

>>47756984
The mouth looks a bit weird, but the armband is looking nice. What did you use for the base? Some kind of basing pumice?

Overall it looks good tho, well done.

>>47757056
Yeah, the mouth was a brushwork mistake, not sure if I'm going to try and recover it and risk making it worse somehow, 28mm isn't my usual scale so hopefully his future squad mates will only look better.

The base is fast drying polyfilla.

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Bump

Hey, I've been thinking about making a little ww2 15mm army or two, but I'm completely clueless on what's good online shops. I'd preferably like somewhere that doesn't charge out the ass for shipping to the US.

I've been looking around but it's a mess of bad website design and Europe stores.

>>47760752
>it's a mess of bad website design and Europe stores.

Welcome to historical wargaming.

>>47760752
Battlefront (makers of Flames of War) have a wide range of 15mm WW2 stuff.

>>47760752
There's also Plastic Soldier Company, as long as you want (mostly) mainline equipment (and not all of it is perfectly historically accurate, though you can generally work out something close enough)

>>47760953
>>47761031
I think anon wanted a stockist, not manufacturers.

>>47761120
Yep. I was eying both Battlefront and PSC, but I'm just not sure what stores are legit and which to avoid.

>>47762663
Try FRP games - I don't play 15mm but i know they have PSC and possibly BF

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>>47756323

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>>47765450

Can anyone recommend a good 15mm WW2 skirmish game? Barring that, anyone ever played Bolt Action in 15mm?

>>47765478
>>47765450
Still shit. Stop posting

>>47766169
No, fuck you, it's looking good. What the fuck is wrong with you.

>>47765545
Well Flames of War is in 15mm, and certainly a good starting point for WW2 gaming.

>>47765450
>>47765478

Coming along very nicely. I am becoming quite envious of this project.

>>47766998
>>47766208
Ahh thanks. Its my first real project so Im learning as I go.

>>47767031
I genuinely wish I had the time and energy to mount such a project myself, because I really like the idea. Do keep us posted. How far away is your first game with it?

>>47766169
fuck off retard

>>47767118
If im motivated probably a few weeks. Mostly I just have to pump out more forests and grainfields and make some roads. I still gotta sort out what im going to do for counters and the like. I think a month or two is probably more likely though.

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Got poked to ask here:
Command And Conquer Generals Tabletop
Is there such a thing as a Tabletop based on the Command and Conquer franchise? Or does anybody knows of a good ruleset to support it? I am thinking of cold war commander, but getting the rules is kinda complicated atm.
I already read the ruleset from GHQ (MicroWar?) But feel its too table driven. Was thinking of Horizon Wars without the Mechs as well, only read those, too. Tried Hind Commander but thats too focused on Helicopter battles, and since only USA have "real" choppers (I dont count the Helix) in the franchise it would be pretty boring.

Ideas, opinions?

>>47767870
team yankee

>>47767870
nah, not really, at least none as would work off the shelf. the cold war wargames are too stone cold contemporary of those days to bother with supertech madness that is the hallmark of C&C. your best bet would be Team Yankee plus TONS of homebrew stuff, about an entire game's worth

>>47767870
What scale were you interested in for this? I would think 6mm would be good, in which case Cold War Commander might be the go; or perhaps 15mm might suit, then Team Yankee would be worth a read.

>>47765478
>>47765450
>not hex terrain

uh why???????

>>47769051
That is a good point. Perhaps anon could change his approach with the next batch and aim for hex terrain. Learning process/progress and all that.

>>47769051
I imagine the rules are grid based?

>>47769189
>>47769051
Its just that I simply don't like hex terrain because it looks unnatural to me.

>>47769284
>>47769291
>>47769300
Holy mother of Odin!

>>47769300
>>47769291
>>47769284
so much wow.

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>>47769326
>>47769337

Sword Beach in 6mm, at the 2014 Hamburger Tactica. Even the Perrys were taking photographs.

https://swordbeach1944.wordpress.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtOkumqtfmc

>>47769345
I love 6mm. It's like the "correct" scale.
>inb4 10mm chaps storm the barricades.
>inb5 I find myself at the end of an unhappy musket from the 1/72s

>>47769465
3mm better

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>>47769487

>>47769465
Depends on what you're trying to recreate.

For those huge engagements, it's indeed excellent.

However, I'd rather not try to model something like small, close quarters skirmishes in so tiny a scale.

>>47769525

this guy does well

>>47765450
>>47765478

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New thread: >>47771646