/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!XsVD0KgT!twB1NWiFE3aKXK_O1EZ4pA
>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
>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
>Fleet Series
https://mega.nz/#F!i1N3xZxL!C6fQ3Z8o2U0gtk5kdXuVcQ

Desired scans :
Black Powder - Rebellion
Rank and File supplements
Harpoon 3 & 4 supplements
Force on Force supplements
Hind Commander
At Close Quarters
War and Conquest

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28th November in military history:

936 – Shi Jingtang is enthroned as the first emperor of the Later Jin by Emperor Taizong of Liao, following a revolt against Emperor Fei of Later Tang.
1443 – Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja in central Albania and raise the Albanian flag.
1470 – Champa–Đại Việt War: Emperor Lê Thánh Tông of Đại Việt formally launches his attack against Champa.
1627 – The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy has its greatest and last victory in the Battle of Oliwa.
1666 – At least 3,000 men of the Royal Scots Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter rebels in the Battle of Rullion Green.
1862 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General James G. Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.
1885 – Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.
1899 – The Second Boer War: a British column is engaged by Boer forces at the Battle of Modder River; although the Boers withdraw, the British suffer heavy casualties.
1920 – Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush: The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen.
1943 – World War II: Tehran Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran, to discuss war strategy.
1965 – Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippine President-elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
1971 – Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the PLO.
1980 – Iran–Iraq War: Operation Morvarid: The bulk of the Iraqi Navy is destroyed by the Iranian Navy in the Persian Gulf. (Commemorated in Iran as Navy Day.)

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It is 117 years since the Battle of Modder River (known in Afrikaans as Slag van die Twee Riviere), an engagement in the Second Boer War of 1899-1902. A British column under Lord Methuen, which was attempting to relieve the besieged town of Kimberley, forced Boers under General Piet Cronje to retreat to Magersfontein; but suffered heavy casualties themselves. It was a rough introduction for British forces to the new style of warfare on the veldt.

When the war broke out the previous month, one of the Boers' early targets was the diamond-mining centre of Kimberley, which stood not far from where the borders of the Boer Republics and the British-controlled Cape Colony met. Although their forces surrounded the town, they did not press home any immediate assault, nor did they attempt to invade Cape Colony.

Meanwhile, British reinforcements were on their way to South Africa. Their commander, General Sir Redvers Buller detached the 1st Division under Lieutenant General Lord Methuen to relieve the Siege of Kimberley. This decision was made partly for reasons of prestige, as the capture of Kimberley would be a major propaganda victory for the British. Methuen's force advanced north along the Western Cape Railway.

The Boers had been reinforced by a contingent from the Transvaal under General Koos de la Rey, who proposed a radical new plan of defence. He pointed out that the Boers had previously been easily driven from the kopjes (hills) which they had occupied. The kopjes had been obvious aiming marks for the numerically superior British artillery. Also, the trajectory of rifle fire from Boers on the top of the kopjes was steeply plunging. It therefore had a chance of hitting its target only in the last six feet or so of its flight. Once British infantry had reached the foot of the kopje, they were concealed by boulders and scrub, and could then easily drive the Boers off the summit with the bayonet.

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>>50426870
De la Rey proposed to make use of the flat trajectory of the Mauser rifle with which the Boers were armed, together with the flat veld. He called on his men to dig trenches in the banks of the Modder River, from which their rifles could sweep the veld for a great distance, and won them over. General Piet Cronje, who arrived later with the main Boer force, acquiesced in this novel plan.

The area contained two prominent hotels and the village of Rosmead, which was used as a resort by prominent businessmen from Kimberley. The Boer trenches were on the south side of the Modder and the smaller Riet River which joined it at Modder River Station. The Boers had six field guns and one Maxim "pom-pom" (small rapid-firing gun) from the Orange Free State's Staatsartillerie. They deployed these not as a concentrated battery, but as widely separated individual gun detachments north of the Modder and to the east. They had dug several emplacements for each gun, allowing their guns to switch position to avoid counter-battery fire.

Methuen's force consisted of two infantry brigades (the Guards Brigade under Major-General Sir Henry Edward Colville and the 9th Brigade under Major-General Reginald Pole-Carew), two mounted regiments, three batteries of field artillery and four guns of the Naval Brigade. Further reinforcements were arriving up the railway.

The British cavalry (the 9th Lancers and a unit recruited in Cape Town, Rimington's Guides), made some attempts to scout the ground ahead of the army, but failed entirely to detect De la Rey's trenches and other preparations. (For example, the Boers had whitewashed stones on the veld or had placed biscuit tins as range markers). At 4:30 am on 28 November, Methuen's force roused itself, deployed into line and began advancing towards the Modder, with no plans other than to cross the river before having breakfast on the far side.

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>>50426886
As the British troops came within 1,200 yards (1,100 m) of the river, Methuen remarked to Colville, "They're not here." Colville replied, "They're sitting uncommonly tight if they are". At this point the Boers opened fire. Most of the British troops were forced to throw themselves flat. Some tried to advance in short rushes, but could find no cover on the veld. Few British troops got closer than 1,000 yards (910 m) to the Boers. The Guards tried to outflank the Boer left, but were unable to ford the Riet River. The British guns pounded the buildings near Modder River Station and the line of poplar trees which marked the north bank of the Modder, and entirely missed the enemy trenches on the south bank. Meanwhile, the Boer guns maintained a galling fire, and kept in action by repeatedly moving their positions.

The battle became a day-long stalemate. Most of the British infantry lay prone on the veld, tortured by heat and thirst, but safe from enemy fire unless they moved. Many stoically smoked pipes or even slept. Methuen galloped about the field trying to renew the advance, and was himself wounded. At midday, some of Pole-Carew's 9th Brigade found the open Boer right flank at Rosmead Ford downstream. British infantry infiltrated across the ford and about 1:00 pm drove the Boers out. The attack was disjointed, and suffered casualties when a British field artillery battery which had just arrived on the field shelled them by mistake. By nightfall, De la Rey had driven them back into a small insecure bridgehead. Nevertheless, the Boers feared that they were now vulnerable to being outflanked, and withdrew during the night.

The British lost between 450 and 480 and were forced to pause for ten days. On the Boer side, there were about 80 casualties, including Adriaan, the eldest son of de la Rey, mortally wounded by a shell.

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>>50426899
The Second Boer War has a lot of potential for wargaming, with high mobility and dramatic changes in general strategy. A Boer player has few troops but intense lethality, while the British player has the numbers but lacks the co-ordination to use them fully. Featherstone (ever the Victorian wars buff) wrote a chapter on the subject - pdf related - which contains a specific scenario of Modder River.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/kv5k4jjzdsk1708/Wargaming+in+History+-+The+Second+Anglo-Boer+War.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ejf7r4i6ff1afcw/Osprey+-+MAA+201+-+The+British+Army+on+Campaign+1816-1902+%284%29+1882-1902.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/file/tcq6417a997qkj8/Osprey+-+MAA+212+-+Queen+Victoria%27s+Enemies+%281%29+Southern+Africa.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/file/8z815c281erodgx/Osprey+-+MAA+303+-+Boer+Wars+%282%29+1898-1902.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/file/pqb5k477epg76s1/Osprey+-+MAA+442+-+Queen+Victoria%27s+Highlanders.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/file/dnhnpzp92zmke8o/Osprey+-+WAR+086+-+Boer+Commando+1876-1902.pdf

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It is 36 years since Operation Morvarid (Persian for "Pearl"), an operation launched by the Iranian Navy and Air Force against the Iraqi Air Defence sites on 28 November 1980 in response to Iraq positioning radar and monitoring equipment on the Al-Bakr and Khor-al-Amaya oil rigs to counter Iranian air operations. The operation resulted in a victory for Iran, which managed to destroy both oil rigs as well as much of the Iraqi Navy and inflicted significant damage to Iraqi ports and airfields.

On 28 November 1980, Iranian F-4 Phantoms and F-5 Tiger IIs attacked Iraqi airfields around Basra. They managed to destroy one Iraqi MiG-21 Fishbed on the ground. During the night of the 29th, six ships of the Iranian Navy's Task Force 421 deployed marines on the Iraqi oil terminals at Mina al Bakr and Khor-al-Amaya. The marines, supported by Army Aviation's AH-1J Cobras, Bell 214s and CH-47C Chinooks, gunned down most Iraqi defenders during a short firefight, then deployed a large number of bombs and mines. They were then evacuated by helicopter and left the Iraqi oil installations and early warning bases in flames.

At the same time, two Iranian Kaman class missile boats (Paykan and Joshan) blocked the ports of Al Faw and Umm Qasr, blocking 60 foreign ships and shelling both facilities. In response the Iraqi Navy deployed P-6 torpedo boats and Osa II class fast-attack craft for a counter-attack. The boats engaged the two Iranian missile boats which managed to sink two Osas with Harpoon missiles. The remaining three Osa class missile boats continued to attack the missile boat Paykan. The crew of the "Paykan" called IRIAF for help which sent two F-4s (each armed with six AGM-65 Maverick missiles). By the time they arrived, however, the Paykan had been sunk after being hit by two Iraqi P-15 Termit missiles. In response, the F-4s targeted the remaining Iraqi ships and sunk three Osa IIs and four P-6s.

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>>50426936
Soon another four Iranian F-4s arrived from Shiraz Air Base, bombed the port of Al Faw, and, together with F-5s, destroyed the surrounding Iraqi SAM sites. One Iranian F-4 was hit by an Iraqi SA-7 surface-to-air missile but managed to return to base.

Now Iranian F-14 Tomcat formations joined the battle and, together with several F-4s, covered the withdrawal of Task Force 421 and bombed the Iraqi oil rigs, destroying an Iraqi Aérospatiale Super Frelon helicopter. After this, they attacked the Mina al Bakr terminal. The Iraqis scrambled seven MiG-23 Floggers to defend the terminal. Iranian F-4s then engaged the Iraqi MiG-23MSs and downed three. One Iranian F-4 was downed during the battle. Four Iraqi MiG-23BNs attacked the Joshan, which managed to shoot two down with SA-7 missiles. Shortly after, an Iranian F-14 downed one of the two surviving MiGs, forcing the last one to flee.

The destruction of Iraqi SAM sites and radar and monitoring equipment made it possible for the IRIAF to attack via southern Iraq again. The Iranian missile boat Joshan which took part in this operation was later sunk during Operation Praying Mantis by U.S. Navy warships.

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This month's community project is a food/drink-related mini or unit.

If I were an aspiring armchair general, what wargame would I want to look at? Get an ASL Starter Kit?

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Finnish Soldier vs Soviet Soldier: Winter War 1939-1940 (Osprey Combat 21 )

The Winter War was supposed to be a quick and easy conflict; instead it proved to be a bitter war that destroyed the international reputation of the Soviet Red Army. The diminutive Finnish force was desperately outnumbered by almost half a million Russian troops, but rather than sweeping across their neighbours the Soviet troops stumbled blindly, constantly wrong-footed and then bloodied by their seemingly insignificant foe. Drawing on a wide range of sources this study looks at three key battles, drawing a stark contrast between the poorly prepared Russian troops and the Finns, who made excellent use of terrain and innovative guerrilla tactics as they defended their homeland. Detailed maps and specially commissioned artwork highlight key moments in the Winter War, a David-and-Goliath conflict that saw the Soviet Union suffer horrendous losses as they tried to recover from each disastrous defeat.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/2us087eo1kcyj6u/Osprey+-+CBT+021+-+Finnish+Soldier+vs+Russian+Soldier+1939-40.pdf

>>50427031
That would be an excellent start if you wanted to get into hex-and-counter, yes. I always suggest the formula of "pick a period, pick a scale, pick a ruleset".

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Recent 4 part video playthrough I did for "Pattons Best"
https://youtu.be/9RIOrAzFMJE
https://youtu.be/Y3QDI-o74Y4
https://youtu.be/UuHaj02cu90
https://youtu.be/Bgoa0LHNjis

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BMP

>>50426830
Hey thanks for taking the time to write up a historical summary every thread. It would be easy to just post the link library but you go above and beyond picking out a conflict and doing a write up about it

>>50427031
Gonna need some more detail...what's your most interesting time period/conflict? Are you interested in a skirimish with 30 or so guys per side or do you want to command a tank division?

Tell us what your ideal thing would be and someone here can probably reccomaned a game for it.

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http://krigetkommer.weebly.com/red-cavalry

Very cool blog about a guy converting a bunch of soviet cavalry in 28mm for use with Chain of Command. he invents his own cavalry rules and playtests them, and makes some really great minis (and nicely painted too) some battle reports and lessons learned, as well as the conversion process. Very cool!

Stumbled across it researching cossack uniforms and equipment in WW2 - just got a box of 1/72 Revell cossacks and I was wondering if the cloaks are a bit much... None of the photos I can find of cossacks in ww2 feature cloaks

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Zama 202 BC: Scipio Crushes Hannibal in North Africa (Osprey Campaign 299)

The battle of Zama, fought across North Africa around 202 BC, was the final large-scale clash of arms between the world's two greatest western powers of the time - Carthage and Rome. The engagement ended the Second Punic War, waged from 218 until 201 BC. The armies were led by two of the most famous commanders of all time - the legendary Carthaginian general Hannibal, renowned for crossing the Alps with his army into Italy, and the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio, who along with his father was among the defeated at the battle of Cannae in 216 BC.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/80bitxeynaxd8ls/Osprey+-+CAM+299+-+Zama+202+BC.pdf

>>50428564
They're fun to do, nice to know it's appreciated

Ugh, fucking lulu. "Hey here's a black friday 33% off deal!" *orders some wargaming shit* "Hey here's a cyber monday 40% off deal!"

don't do that shit, at least wait for christmas you fuckers.

I finally caved and bought a box of Italian airborne and a M13/40 for Bolt Action. Can't decide if I should paint them as Folgore in North Africa or Nembo in Italy. Any suggestions?

>>50430775
paint two of them as mario and luigi

see how long it takes people to notice

>>50426923
>>50426899
>>50426886
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtKKJSfYraU

>>50430844
Mario and Luigi are proud Italian-Americans.

>>50428614
Honestly anything from Napoleon to WWII would do it for me. As for scale, I think Operational level would be great, so yeah a tank division would be just right.

Any advice on finding good far east miniature lines? Feudal Japan, China, etc?

>>50431005
turn your italians into post-liberation italians who fought on the allies side then.

>>50426830
anybody knows if something is wrong with warforge/dreamforge miniatures as they are on mega-sale right now:
31 models (28mm) for 6.50 instead of 26.25$
http://dreamforge-games.com/products/wgf-w2003-wwii-russian-infantry-28mm

also have Wehrmacht and GIs.

Furthermore anyone from euroland to share shipping costs with. (This is from USA, gave me ~24$ shipping for two boxes)

>>50431604
I bought some. their poses are a bit static. And a few look like they are off balance and falling down-ish

But I suspect they are trying to get rid of backstock. because I believe (not 100% sure) that Warlord bought the rights to their WW2 lines in an effort to cut out competitors.

>>50431604
>>50432172
What is Black Friday.

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>>50431189
Hex & counter is pretty well suited to that, you find a lot of operational-level games there. The Strategy & Tactics folder would probably be a good start; browse the titles to see if any stand out for you. There's good stuff in the Avalon Hill/SPI folders too, and although 1980s/WW3 is later than you mentioned, GDW's Third World War is a great game at this scale.

Miniatures-wise you want to buy a whole bunch of 6mm and find a good ruleset!

>>50431250
Need to narrow down the period and scale there a bit, anon.

>>50430236
How would they otherwise trick you into buying more of their stuff?

>>50432223
Thanksgiving.
((((Clever shop owner)))) from USA made it a huge shopping event with large discounts and special offers etc. Thanks to Amazon and other International Companies it slowly spreads over to Europe as well.

And the Monday after Black Friday is called "Cyber Monday" with special offers from Online Stores. (which had the same black friday offers like the brick&mortar stores as well).

Basically a whole weekend of large discounts.

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Shapeways has a promo right now, for anyone interested.

>SMALLBIZMONDAY for 25% off everything, plus free shipping

If I had any cash I could spend on myself right now, I'd be buying more ships.

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So I have 1 box of each late medieval Perry miniatures set. I have a lot of medieval dudesmen now and I am still shopping around for a system to play with them. Can anybody recommend me anything?

>>50434569
Lords & Servants

>>50434569
Deus Vult

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>>50434480
Is the price based on the volume of plastic or set by the designer? A lot of the 6mm stuff is more expensive than GHQ for lower quality

What's the secret Santa email address? Taken me a week to finally make my mind up.

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>>50435239

>>50435251
Thank you.

>>50435128
It's based on volume and quality of material. The biggest draw of shapeways is finding things that other people don't make, particularly in the scale you're looking at. Quality of sculpts also varies wildly by designer, so there's that too.

>>50434655
Is Deus Vult good for the War of the Roses era?

>>50435372
There is an army list for free download on their website, maybe you can see if you like it from that

http://www.fireforge-games.com/downloads/download/3-deus-vult-armi-lists/24-war-of-the-roses

>>50435394
Thanks buddy, too bad they don't have any official preview's up on their site.

>>50434569
Chevauchee!

>>50435733
Allready own and play it but I own about 140 miniatures now and I'd like a system where I can field larger amounts of models

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>>50436034
Impetus!

i accidentally ordered cougar 6x6 MRAPs rather than ILAV ones and they are huuuuge. Unsure if I should still use them

>>50431604
Those aren't really Dreamforge, they're Wargames Factory. Not great miniatures IIRC, but servicable if you paint them, and for that price, if you don't have to deal with international shipping then it's a steal.

>>50436034
To The Strongest!. Yes, the ! is part of the title, I know, it's dumb.

Really want him to come out with a C18 Horse & Musket version of it, or a fantasy one. It looks really good with nice big 28mm units, but scales down handily to whatever you have, because grid.

>>50432223
First you have to talk about Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a day the United States celebrates in order to remember the Native americans sharing with them, and teaching them about the 3 sisters (Beans, corn and squash or something).
To celebrate this they each eat 2 Turkeys, 4 Yams, a pound of sweet potatoes 3 pounds of mashed potato and 1 and a half Pecan Pies. After this, unable to move, the American male starts watching American football on his 46" TV. Tom Brady's butt looks great on this 46" TV but he cannot shake the feeling that it would look even better on Steve from down the road's 48" TV. This feeling grows throughout the 8 hours it takes to watch an NFL game, and after all his wife keeps telling him how much difference 2" makes. He voices the idea of getting a 48" TV, which his wife agrees with; after all Steve from down the road's wife is always trying to prove how much better and wealthier and happier they are, which they aren't. At least they wouldn't be if they had a 48" TV.

So the next day when their bodies are finally metabolising the 12,500 calories they ate the previous day they are filled with energy and wake at 3am in order to go shopping. At the shop there are about 50 people after each 48" television so some savvy marketing director somewhere halved the price and give it to whomever survives the melee in their shop.

Being successful the American family sits at home thinking about how glum Steve from down the road will be when they find out that they too have a 48" TV. This feeling will dissipate when they next see Steve from down the road and his wife and discover that on black friday they in fact bought a 50" TV and Tom Brady's ass does in fact look incredible on it.

Thinking this was a great idea for selling wargames models, various companies (Europeans who just don't get how important the 3 sisters were to watching TV) slapped about 15% off of shit resin tank sculpts that no one buys as well as free shipping and called it a day.

>>50436622
cyber monday is basically the same, but for people sitting at a computer in an office on monday morning

>>50436622
>>50436710
it was a sarcastic question you mongs

>>50436782
Hush. No sarcasm, only capitalism.

wait, what's that sound... in the distance, it sounds like... T-34 engines?

>>50436782
sarcasm is for losers

>>50434569
Lions rampant.

>>50436782
>>50437188
It was a gameshow reference in actuality.

>>50435276
>>50435239

Just in case you already sent a mail: I didn't get anything. Pls resend.

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>>50436240
>>50436186
Could you guys tell me a bit about the system?

>>50437599
It's men doing fights.
Hot diggety

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>>50437599
Impetus in summary:
It's one of those wargames that covers a wide era of history in a way that lets you match up whatever you want, more or less. There's points costs and a focus on tight rules but it manages to do this without becoming too dry or lacking in historical 'flavour' appropriate to each army. The rules are concise and well supported with supplements, including one specifically for fighting a not-War of the Roses campaign. It's not because it's not a a set of purely historical refights, but a system for generating your own.

System-wise the rules are pretty simple, with a few stats and using D6s for rolls. The turn system alternates between the players but with the twist of each side having to nominate the commander they're trying to activate and seeing if they get to first, so that armies with better commanders have a possible advantage in initiative. The game treats units as a whole, there's no individual casualty removal and units suffer from disruption and loss of fighting capability as they take damage. You probably won't be destroying units outright with just shooting in the game. It's designed to play fast, a good battle taking somewhere between an hour and 2 hours depending on the size. Base sizes don't matter too much as long as you're using the same kind of frontage for units on each side.

Overall, it's definitely one of the better examples of game design out there; not overly cluttered, well organised and with a clear intent behind the system and the aspects of warfare it focuses on, and despite covering a wide timescale, doesn't feel too generic in how things operate, and does so without ladling on special rules for everything. There's also a free version called Basic Impetus that compresses the rules right down, cuts out a lot of depth (especially in army construction), but is also good in it's own way. Either way, it's in the OP download folders: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/28i9gevqws518/Impetus

Just played my first naval game with the WW2 rules that get talked about here.


Both sides approaching, the North Carolina and it DD escorts make a 90 degree turn to open up the full battery of the North carolina while the Scharnhorst and Bulcher tried to close the distance. NC get the ranged shot, and rapid fires into the Scharnhorst. Get 7 hits with the 16 inch guns.

The Scharnhorst is dead in the water, Bulcher and DD tried to lay smoke, DD is promptly sunk by the North Carolina. Germans leave the battle, and the Scharnhorst is sunk as it is a inmobile burning wreck.

Bad day for the German fleet.

>>50438583

Is that all in just one turn? That does not seem right really, I don't think the main guns of the NC have the Rapid Fire rule, and once you have ranged in you cannot shoot again in the same turn since that would be a second attack activation?

>>50438779
No, not in one turn. That was me summing up about 5 turns of combat.

Rapid fire = the firing for full effect once it ranged, might of used wrong term.

Round 1 - both sides steam to each other. Out of range.
Round 2 - in range, US fleet makes a 90 degrees to Port. Both sides trying to range in.
Round 3 - Still ranging in, Germans closings
Round 4 - USS North Carolina gets range. can fire for full effect.
Round 5 - Scharnhorst gets Rekted by lucky rolls.
Round 6 - German DDs try to make smoke screen, DD hit and sunk.
Round 7 - German fleet flees, US fleet does not give chase.

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>>50438126
I especially like it for covering Sengoku Japan post-Tanegashima, unlike a lot of similar wargames which usually stop at covering Japan right before they get firearms.

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>>50438881
Yeah, Rapid Fire is a rule that most all guns below 6" have that allows them to fire at full ROF without ranging in, and also do so in the indirect activations phase. That's where >>50438779 the confusion is coming from.

>>50438881
Aw yeah son

North Carolina class may not have been as relentless a rape train as the Iowa class was, but it was still not a ship type to fuck with.

Here's the slight problem in having just battleships and a few destroyers: once that BB is gone, their side is in serious trouble.
Also, expensive single ships can be quite vulnerable to those lucky hits to important stuff.

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>>50439004
If you ever get the opportunity, go visit The Showboat. I've been twice, and I'd like to go again.

>>50438954
okay thanks, I was reporting in and not looking at the rules - my mistake and apologies.

>>50439004
Yep, I have been to the North Carolina a few times. Great ship.

>>50439010
That is true in general, but I wanted to just test the rules so I had a small manageable fight. Felt bad for the DD that was impacted by two 16 inch shells.

>>50439004
Americans seemed to have had knack for building pretty good boats.
>when japs&brits&krauts ran around with nonsensical turret arrangements for their bbs yanks went straight for 2 pairs of superfiring turrets
>actually figured out how to build pretty decent heavy cruisers within the treaty limitations

Auch for the DD :)

For testing the rules it is indeed easier to just go with a big ship to get a feeling for the rules mechanics.

>>50438583
Just because you spelled it wrong both times, I'd guess it's the Blucher, not the Bulcher. That being said I don't know anything about battleships, just 19th Century Prussian military figures.

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>>50439285
Yeah, he meant Blucher terrified horses.

She was an Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser.

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>>50438126
>>50437599
>>50437263
Anybody got any experience for DBM? Will it suit me?

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>>50439242
Dumb joke incoming

>>50439285
>>50439341
Yes, meant the Blucher, who in real life was lost to a Norwegian fort at the Battle of Drobak Sound.

>>50439099

I'd do the matchup again if I were you, and this time try different tactics on the Scharnhorst

- Scharnhorst has a 20cm range advantage, so start the fight using that together with the 'Stroke of luck" order to increase your chances to range in. Then once ranged in use the "Fatal hit" order to increase the puny damage of those 11" guns.
- Once NC closes the range, change tactics and charge him head on using 'flank speed' and either 'evasive action' or 'breakout' (preferable) to mitigate damage while trying to get into torpedo range with the DD's and the BB while Scharnhorst tanks the damage and kills the escorting DD's.

That should give him a fighting chance, although it will still be an uphill battle trying to defeat 16" guns with a 11" gunned BB :)

>>50439561
Will be the first to say the Scharnhorst was REALLY unlucky. Getting hit by Six plus sixteen inch shells in one volley is going to be a bad day no matter the ship.

The Original German plan was to close in, and hae the Blucher and DD engage the American DDs, while the Scharnhorst fought the NC, then once the DD was gone, have the Blucher join in and have the DDs go in for torpedo runs.

Might have to try your tactics again sometime. Also might try teaching one of my buddies to play it so we can run a game.

>>50428564
I agree, I really enjoyed this one and am going to look up more about this conflict. Don't know much about this conflict

>>50439495
And Scharnhorst was amusingly lost in a surface action not that dissimilar to this one, except the battle was against the 14'' gunned HMS Duke of York, and the Scharnhorst lasted a lot longer, being finished off by torpedoes from the Duke of York's escorting DDs after taking a mauling from the British battleship's guns.

>>50439676
"Getting hit by Six plus sixteen inch shells in one volley is going to be a bad day no matter the ship."

Doesn't NC have a total broadside of RoF 6 in the game (Rof 4 front, Rof 2 Rear)? How can he be hit 6+ times in one volley?

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Some 1:72 Mujahideen for Force on Force because I don't have anything to contribute to the boat related talk.

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Model Collect is going to start producing 1/72 infantry

>>50440088
If it wasn't clear, I was posting from memory, the entire volley hit. You are correct, it is 6, so 6(+) would be more correct.

You are speaking to the same person who used "Rapid fire" incorrectly. I am sorry I am not exact enough for you.

>>50440649
What material are they using? Resin?

>>50440702

No problem at all, I'm sorry if I'm being too exact, just trying to figure out if its really an outlier or if something was played the wrong way. :) Your report and notes are very much appreciated by the designer.

>>50431555

they were all reequipped in British uniforms

>>50439398
Impetus has a flow and interaction somewhat similar to DBM, but you will be rolling 5-10 dice instead of a single die (which I enjoy). There is quite a bit more depth to unit variation than DBM (even with Basic Impetus).

I think it's great for folks familiar with DBM or DBA. You can stick a couple of DBM bases together (or just use them as is) to have an Impetus unit.

I usually play on a small (70x120 cm table) with 60mm wide bases and it gives a good game on that with Basic or 400 points.

Unless you hate rolling a bunch of dice, you should like it. Check out Basic Impetus, it's free and you'll see for yourself if it is to your taste.

>>50440821
No problem - in that case, as a note, the Scharnhorst was still afloat at the end of the session, just that it was dead in the water, on fire, and the rest of the German fleet was fleeing, so it was adjudicated as it was going to be sunk, I did not spend the time putting the final rounds in as it was a test game.

As said, it was a very lucky volley with all 16 inch guns hitting home.

Also, I will also reserve the right to admit I did something wrong, as I am learning the rules still. I might run the same one again and keep a log for the designer.

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Decided on the list I'm taking for this weekend's Blucher Tournament.

200 points of Austrians;
2 Grenadiers
2 Veteran Infantry
4 Conscript Infantry/Grenz
4 Landwehr
2 Cuirassiers
1 Hussar
2 Other Cavalry
2 Insurrection Hussars
3 Massed Foot Artillery

I'm not sure if it will be good, but it's certainly got almost everything the Austrian army list has access to.

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>>50440935
Thanks for the info buddy

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>>50440206
Damn nice man! Impressive considering 1/72
Who are they going to be up against? 70s Soviets? please say 70s soviets

>>50440649
I hope they do some modern Ukrainian and pro Russian forces - would be an interesting conflict to fight

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Update on my syria/iraq terrain.

How do I break into historical war gaming? Every store in the area (Central KY) is Warhammer and War Machine. With a small minority of Flames of War. I'm not opposed to chit and hex but would prefer miniature war gaming. Esp 28mm for infantry games.

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>>50442812

TLDR : collect your own figs and learn the rules, meet people and play demo games with friends.


Find some buddies and see if they'd be interested, make some friends at hobby stores, and introduce them to whatever system you're interested in, recently got a few buddies of mine into Bolt Action since they like history.

Also introducing people from a local store into a few different historical system.

Honestly, just start collecting, get a collection going, most people I get in are just from, giving them a display- demo type game with all my figures, kinda capture their imagination.

You cant underestimate what a nice board and fully painted armies can do.

>>50442812

I see these amazing historical games being played at cons. Is historical war gaming something you only do at cons unless you live in a large well populated urban area? Board gaming, card games and sci-fi and fantasy war gaming rules supreme.

>>50442812

Oi, how deep into KY are you? Cincinnati BattleTech is branching out into Bolt Action, which seems to be right about where your point of interest is.

>>50442812
Check facebook for clubs in your area. Maybe join groups for historical games that interest you and ask if someone is from around your area.

>>50442753
its shit

>>50442753
Pretty good for small scale.

>>50442855
Well most historical stuff tends to be club or individual friend group focused due to the great many rulesets available rather than LGS based.

>>50442875

Lexington

>>50442753
Buildings look a little lumpy to me but it seems perfectly serviceable.

>>50442855
>>50442812

Go to a local hobby store and ask the owner if he knows historical players from around the area. Even if they are not regularly in the store to game, the owner might know the guys that always pick up historical minis or order them through him. He might pass them your contact info if they visit his store the next time.

Or maybe create a post on craigslist or a similar page?

>>50440768
Hard plastic/styrene I think

>>50431604
I don't know but I just bought 3 boxes of the Russian infantry. Thanks for the heads up.

>>50442753
Looks pretty good, how did you achieve that sandy ground look and make the buildings?

>>50443422
Sandy ground was just warlords basing sand, very simple. The buildings are lego bricks covered with polyfiller, the hill and craters are similarly made too.

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>Notthekindofbumpyouwanttohear

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Made some pretty good progress on Westfront over the past few days, finished off the infantry and cover / trenches / fortification rules. Provides rules for shallow and deep trenches, pillboxes and dugouts.
Also implemented a nice suppression / morale system, whereby units can become wavering, and broken. I read a lot about how units were forced back in retreat rather than completely wiped out a lot of the time, so felt it was important to represent that. The suppression system is similar to Ikonki where suppression is part of the damage inflicted on infantry and so doesn't require any extra rolls, and means you can force peoples heads down with artillery and machine gun fire.

Also ordered a bunch of WW1 germans (all 1/72): 2 boxes of Hät German artillery (7.7cm feldkanone and MG08s), 1 box of Caesar WW1 german army (with mid war stahlhelm and covered in grenades) and a box of Strelets German infantry with gasmasks - 48 of them. These late war and gas mask guys will be perfect for assault infantry, as they tended to get the new equipment first, so its perfectly fine for them to have Stahlhelm while the regulars are still in pickelhaube (of which I have 2 boxes of airfix minis) - it will represent a roughly 1916 army.

Looking forward to painting the gas mask guys, such a typically WW1 look and spooky as fuck
Strelets make gas mask infantry for most of the factions involved, which is pretty cool. Although they're strelets and small details aren't their forte - things tend to be accentuated and slightly cartoonish.

>>50445853
>I read a lot about how units were forced back in retreat rather than completely wiped out a lot of the time

Well, no shit, Sherlock.

Also: WW1 game? Seriously? [/sarcasm]

>>50442855
>Is historical war gaming something you only do at cons unless you live in a large well populated urban area?

m8 I live in a city whose metro area is 5 million people, and I can't find people for ancients wargaming

Bongladesh is the land of milk and honey, however, where people complain about having to drive 30 minutes to get to a gaming event

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Operation Market-Garden 1944 (2): The British Airborne Missions (Osprey Campaign 301)

With Germany being pushed back across Europe the Allied forces looked to press their advantage with Operation Market-Garden, a massive airborne assault that, if successful, could have shortened the war in the west considerably. The ground advance consisted of an armoured thrust by the British XXX Corps, while the US 82nd and 101st US Airborne Divisions secured the bridges at Eindhoven and Nijmegen and the British 1st Airborne Division and Polish 1st Airborne Brigade were tasked with seizing the final bridge at Arnhem to secure the route. What they did not realise was that the 9. SS and 10. SS-Panzer Divisions were nearby, ready to reinforce the local garrison and fend off the Allied assault.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/5xvmnxnlhdmml41/Osprey+-+%D0%A1AM+301+-+Operation+Market+Garden+1944+%282%29+British+Airborne+Missions.pdf

>>50445853
Good stuff anon. Any idea what pistols those lads have stuffed in their belts? They look like flares of a kind, and that broomhandle grip is odd.

>>50443422
>>50442932
No, its shit.

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>>50446290

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>>50432618
>ywn play a stunningly autistic hwg with a bunch of stony-faced old British men wearing tweed jackets

>>50434569
>>50437599
>>50439398

Just read through several rulesets to get a feel for them, try to play test games before deciding on one, maybe blutac your dudes to their bases for the test games so you aren't committed to one basing system.

I still haven't settled on an ancients system, which is part of why I'm using magnetized individual basing for my dudes. That way I can rearrange them on 4/6-man bases, depending on the system I use, or even do individual casualty removal in WAB/WAC, if need be.

>>50446209
>drive 30 minutes
That's a long way mate, especially because it probably involves motorways. That's like 20 miles!

>>50446764
As a Canadian, driving in the UK is rather strange. From the distances posted, it seems like everything is very close together. Once you are trapped in the bocage on a single lane road, those distances become much longer.

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>>50446505
>stunningly autistic
Oh you bet, anon. That's the RMA Sandhurst wargame of Sealion 1940, played in 1974. Some of those stony-faced men are Germans, including Adolf Galland (third from left in the back group).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion_(wargame)

>>50446764
>20 miles is a "long way"
>*100* miles from where I am doesn't even get me out of my *state*
>my state isn't even one of the particularly big ones

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>>50443691
Cheers anon

>>50442630
>Who are they going to be up against? 70s Soviets?
Whoever is there. Soviets, US forces, Brits, Germans, I have too much modern stuff.

>>50445853
Strelets has a dedicated assault infantry kit. Also, get the Revell kit if you can, it's not too easy to find and they are nice figures, even if you don't need them at the moment.

>>50446247
>Any idea what pistols those lads have stuffed in their belts
one of the far looks like a flare gun, far left seems to have an M1879 Reichsrevolver.
Middle two look like something smaller. not too sure - some kind of revolver.

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>>50447504
>Strelets has a dedicated assault infantry kit.
I did see that and was looking for it, but the site I was buying from didn't have that specific kit, and it doesn't have as many gas masks (only 4 iirc) Will be cool to have like 10 full bases of guys with gasmasks.

>>50447551
I see - if you want but can't find it, I have the Brits in gasmask I got as part of a bigger pack and probably won't need (I don't like the sculpts that much), so in case I dig them out of the back of my shelf, you can take them for the price of postage.

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>>50447590
oh nice, I was very close to including that on my order, but decided against it. All those gasmask kits were available which is cool. I'll grab those brits from you if thats all good, will definitely come in handy. I know what you mean about the sculpts - I have some strelets cavalry and they're just not great.

flick me an email:
[email protected]

>>50447639
Email sent.

I have their cavalry too, and quite frankly, they are a lot better. I'm replacing the heads with plain helmets from the Valiant WW2 Tommies set and they fit perfectly plus they look much better.

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>>50447685
Interesting, I was thinking about replacing some of the heads myself - I have a bunch of Soviet regular cavalry, but I was going to use the ones with helmets as Chinese cavalry. Only issue is they mostly have mustaches - which I can't see really working for the Chinese. I was going to give them some of the Caesar Chinese army heads with the soft caps. Good to know they might fit.

How did you do the swap? just cut off the heads off with a modeling knife and glue the new one in?

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>>50447722
Yes, but pinned it as well to be sure.

>>50445853
Do you have any idea when a download will be available? I'm pretty interested in this.

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>>50449025
At a rough guess: should be ready, balanced and playable by the start of next year.
I'm about 1/3 of the way through writing the rules out (although I have all the ideas written out - just a matter of wording them nicely)
Then its a matter of playtesting.
I have all the army lists done, and I will include an aside for early war Russians (who effectively sucked all around - almost no recon, reinforcements took forever to arrive, if at all, artillery often withdrew before the infantry was finished fighting, etc.)

Just been putting together some blast templates so I can include printable smoke/crater markers - they're double sided so the first turn your artillery hits a point you place the smoke (and inflict damage on anything underneath) and then the next turn you flip the marker over and it becomes a permanent crater on the battlefield. The smoke provides cover, and that way you can use creeping artillery barrages just like they were used in real life.

>>50447060
That would have been fun to watch, as that would have been a true simulation type game.

>>50450266
Eh, you say that, but a lot of professional wargaming leans more towards matrix games than Matrix Games - experienced refs, rather than spreadsheets and number-crunching.

>>50447066
I worked in central Montana for 6 months in a town of 800 people that was the biggest settlement for about a 100 mile radius. Southwest corner of the state is closer to Texas than it is to the northwest corner.

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A while ago i ordered a single blister from offensive miniatures. I never ordered from them, but the minis looked nice and i wanted to see and try them.
I was not disappointed.

Pic related is what i got, in comparison to one of Warlord Games Winter Grenadiers straight ouf of the blister too. (far right, with the red line).

There is next to no flash on the offensive minis (note the small amount right next to the cardboard back of the blister) and the sculpts look very good with lots of detail. Only a very small mold line runs across the sides of the minis.

The only "bad" thing about them is that the blister came without the typical blister foam. The minis have been inside a little zip bag instead.

Overall a very pleasant surprise.

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>>50451822
Ive never heard of the company but those look pretty nice

>>50451822
They are excellent looking miniatures, much better than Warlord's IMHO.

>>50451901
They are thinner and their weapons are a bit more realistic in their size.

I was also impressed that nothing was bent. Note that flamethrower guy in the top row? The barrel was perfectly straight right out the blister. With my recently purchased Warlord minis i always had bent barrels and panzerfausts.

>>50447066
You know what they say, europeans think 100 miles is a long way, americans think 100 years is a long time.

>>50446505
Does it count if I will one day be a stony-faced old British man wearing a tweed jacket?

>>50451978
>tfw americans talk about buildings from 18th century like they're old
>they don't even register as anything special around here

To make matters worse I don't even live in a country that actually has a lot of old architecture lying around.

Any good totoral videos for "Command: Modern Air / Naval Operations"

LAV-75

Any good stores in Melbourne lads? preferably not too much hassle to get to from the CBD in public transport.

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>>50452185
Bump

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Pikes.

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Bumping on through

>>50452067
So in the US, a building is potentially eligible for the National Register of Historic Places if it is at just at least 50 years old. Not long ago I had the pleasure of doing a historic eligibility evaluation on this thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southdale_Center

(it's not eligible, too many renovations. But other buildings of the same era have the potential to be listed for preservation).

This has been posted in a few different groups, pretty silly.

https://www.funker530.com/pirate-cannon/

>>50457944
Although on the other hand, it doesn't hurt to remember that there are huge swathes of the US that were basically wilderness inhabited only by hunter-gatherer Native Americans as recently as 1875 or so.

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Big bump

Quick question. Have any Americans signed up for the /hwg/ secret santa project? I'm looking to sign up, but I don't want to completely screw over some poor Aussie or somebody into having to forgo their house payment to cover shipping costs.

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>>50457944
>Absolutely_Disgusting.jpg
Southern Idaho is probably the worst I've seen in terms of Crimes Against Architecture

>>50459190
I want to but I'm out of town for work until the end of the month so it's not really feasible for me to sign up.

>>50458004
It's crazy to think about that first contact with Europeans was only the 1920s and 30s in parts of Canada and Greenland

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Banzaaaaaiiiii!!

Some of our Japanese forces for Ostfront. Finally got around to taking some photos of them

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Have you ever achieved any remarkable encirclements in an operational level game?

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>>50460209
Nice! I particularly like the command stand to the left of the type 97

>>50460221
Does HOI3 count?

encircled 10 Russian divisions in Romania as Hungary.

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>>50460247
dang what book is that? looks like its full of nice photos

Are there any hex&counter wargames that cover the Russian Civil War, Polish-Soviet War, or that era/region in general?

>>50461112
that game was always too complicated for my stupid little mind

>>50461439
The only thing I can think of is an Ageod video game

>>50461439
Look in the Strategy & Tactics folder, there's a title specifically covering the Russo-Polish War.

>>50461176
It looks like it's from the old Time-Life WW2 series. That was fuckin superb, it covered every aspect of the war.

>>50459190
There is a guy from Canada who has signed up.

Could I mix 1/100 tanks with 1/72 infantry? I'm trying to find an A7V in 1/72 with no luck, so 15mm seems my best bet

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>> 50463823
It's not like someone will slap you in face for doing it, but it looks at least weird

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>>50463823
>I'm trying to find an A7V in 1/72 with no luck
Emhar

>>50463876
Out of stock everywhere i looked. (i wanted to suggest him the same but couldn't find a shop)

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>>50463823
Have you considered papercraft? Paper Panzer do one in 1/72. Try asking the lads over at /po/ too.

>>50463823
not reall, it would look rather odd. The only way I could see it done is on some massive map game at divisional level where its just a token.

>>50454702
Damn that's a pretty table.

Looks like Osprey have preorders up for Chosen Men and Pikeman's Lament (basically Lion Rampant but Napoleonic and Pike and Shot respectively).

https://ospreypublishing.com/chosen-men

https://ospreypublishing.com/the-pikeman-s-lament

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>>50457700
>that poor sod at 0:16

Fuck me those feels. Poor man

>>50463823
1/100 will be a bit small.

This site seems to have 1 of the Emhar A7Vs:
http://www.orleanshobbies.com/catalog/2977738/172-a7v-wwi-german-tank

There's a bunch of listings on ebay too:
http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_nkw=a7v+1+72&_fromfsb=0&_trksid=m270.l1313&ul_noapp=true

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>>50464725
Oh, I'm not sure how I missed those. Thanks!>>50463923
I haven't, but if I can't grab one I'll look into it.

>>50463424
lovely anon. Dutch ftw

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>>50461515
>>50461176

It's actually from a set of Japanese propaganda magazines from the late 30s that were on sale on Ebay a while back. From the few sample pics it looked like they had some awesome photos

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>>50465709

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>>50465733
Each issue seemed to be devoted to photos of a particular battle/region

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>>50465739
I wish 4chan allowed multi image posting :/

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>>50465758

>>50465758
Yeah, that would be a neat feature.

>>50465709
>>50465733
>>50465739
>>50465758
>>50465779

Those are really awesome anon. It's a shame there's no easy way to scan them without destroying the bindings.

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Found the guy's page again
http://stores.ebay.com/eastasia-paper-collect/Book-/_i.html?_fsub=18&_sid=170069745&_trksid=p4634.c0.m322

>>50464104
I might be interested in Pikeman's Lament desu, because Thirty War's Year is really silly and making my own crazy officer, who's really into astrology and not paying his troops, could be fun.

>>50435251

OK, signed up with a caveat that if there's nobody whom I can be paired with that won't get screwed in shipping costs, I'll withdraw from the program. I can't figure out a way to make that work any better.

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next up in my gaming queue

>>50435251
Considering sending a painted item, but unsure how to ship without risking paint loss, any ideas?

Also, what's the count to?

>>50469411
Ungodly amount of bubblewrap.

>>50469411
Inside your actual box, a sturdy little box, full of cotton wool and inside a small zip bag for the actual mini.

Thats how i send minis usually.

>>50469407
what is this?

>>50469479
Or even just reasonable amounts of bubble wrap but sent in a box so it's held properly.

>>50469311
No new mail at that account so far. If you don't get a confirmation back pls resend.

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>>50469711

Yahoo's been buggy as shit since the holiday. My folks sent me a message on Friday that didn't reach my inbox until this morning, for example. Here's the message sent:

>>50469806
As i said, nothing new in my inbox since yesterday. Maybe you could use a diffent email address to send it?
Or quickly create a trash-mail account? (Or yandex .. they don't want any kind of real information)

>>50469846

Just threw a Yandex link at you. Hopefully that'll work. I'll stop derailing the thread now.

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Still wip but c&c please. Is the brown to subtle?

>>50470015
I'm assembling a T-34 of my own. How do you plan to put on the Fuel tanks/boxes or whatever they are?

>>50470049
I already have a T-34/76 with fuel "boxes" on its back, so this one will go without any additional fuel tanks to make the both tanks look a bit different from each other.
Thats also the reason for the camo. All my soviet tanks so far are plain green.

>>50469580
Panzer Leader,1940 variant played on Zun Tzu-its kinda a VASSAL clone

is there any hex and chit game (video or traditional) that uses satellite/actual photo maps rather than drawn representations?

Mfw when I stumble home after a few and I have fucking Hampshire as my Anon....

Time to buy a bucket of 1:72 to piss him off...

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>>50471613
d-did i mess something up?

Anyway, all of you should have a mail with an address by now.

Is the Italieri Rorke's Drift box any good?

>>50471613
>Time to buy a bucket of 1:72 to piss him off...
Is there a guy from Hampshire who hates 1:72? How do you know it's the same one from Hants who hates 1:72?

Unironically think I know which person in these threads I'm the secret santa for.

>>50471888
I need to sign up for that still, got some bits and bobs that would be good to give away. Been busy digging holes in a swamp.

>>50471956
I think you missed the boat friendo

>>50471785
Yep. It unironically makes me consider getting into period for.

>>50471956
Bad news anon.. i just matched the people.. Its after midnight, so Dec 1st. Sry.

>>50461439
Well the best shot at Mirracle of the Vistula is calles The Eagle and the Star. There was English edition, look it up.

>>50472099
>>50471956

That being said, i'm still busy with the /WIP/-version since there are way more participants.

If you want to join that instead, do so quickly, i'll wait 20 minutes before finishing there.
WIP-secret-santa-2016 AT yandex DOT com

>>50472138
Already signed up but I sent you an email on the hwg one a few mins ago, just incase you never check that email again.

>>50472138
I'll do it next year, between uni and field work I haven't had the time to sign up.

>>50471613
why do you want to piss him off?
Did you sign up for the right reasons?

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>>50472297
>field work
What kind/topic?

>>50461439
If pic related is the game I think I'm remembering, White can't win

>>50471705
Just one question, mine said "lets make /wip/ great again" at the bottom. Are we overlapping with the /wip/ secret santa? Just need to know if I should be sending them something specifically /hwg/ related or not.

>>50472297
Ok then. I posted my pic in almost every thread for the past 2 weeks, so it was enough time. You must have been really busy i guess. I still feel kinda sorry now.

>>50472374
No. You are the 2nd one asking actually.

Its 100% /hwg/!

I just wrote that copy/paste text and forgot to change it and when i realized that it says /wip/ i already send out 50% of the mails.

Sorry!

>>50472363
>What kind/topic?
Paleontology, Australian megafauna approx 50ka with a bit of archaeology due to an aboriginal heritage overlay to the site.

>>50472397
Ah, didn't see it in the thread, my apologies.

Once again thanks for the effort.

>>50472375
That's fine, I haven't been on for a while.

>>50472413
Neat. I did some paleo field work a few years back in the Lance Creek (Cretaceous) and White River (Oligocene) formations. I've since moved on to economic geology

>>50472363
Thanks, is it in the mediafire?

>>50473174
Nice, I'm an undergrad at UTas which has a fairly economic focus, got on the dig by chance.

BRDM

why is flashpoint campaigns so expensive

>>50476721
Because this is the cost of enjoying a niche hobby.

>>50476721
Very low unit counts, as there is only X number of people who want to buy it.

>>50476906
>>50477064
im too poor for this shit

>>50469411
buy a super-cheap little plastic tub, my local supermarket does ten for a pound or something like that. fill it with bubblewrap and carefully insert a tissue-wrapped figure, then wrap some bubblewrap around the box and put it in a cardboard box or more bubblewrap and a stiff envelope.

the plastic box adds a bit of stability and if the worst happens, stops broken bits falling out.

>>50479005
Bendy pilums, bendy pilums everywhere.

>>50470084
Would you mind showing me? I can't for the life of me figure out how to place them straight without there being at least a tiny hole.

>>50479275
those are speed holes

Anyone have a pdf of Napoleon's Battles (4th), General de Brigade (3rd) or Napoleon at War?

>>50479055
Pila desu

>>50479055
Sounds about right, senpai.

>>50479354
>speed holes
what the heck is that?

>>50479756
>simpson memes

>ordered the Revell reissues of the German and American infantry as those are the only ones missing from my MB collection
>they are around 8 Euros each
>stuff arrived today
>they are in the original Matchbox box

Ah well, the box won't fit with the rest, but the moulding quality is much better, and also, fuck yeah Matchbox.

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>>50479275
Where did you get your T-34 from Anon?

Here are mine. Both are 1/48, left (the one without the boxes) is by Tamiya, the right one is by Hobby Boss.

If there are no little holes, take out a little 1-2mm drill and make them?

>>50481101
I hate that revell is re-releasing old shit instead of making new, high quality stuff.. but then, lots of old stuff would be lost without them.

>>50481816
Well, they just released a T-55. But yeah, some new stuff would be nice, their Napoleonics are among the best.

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>>50481802
See, it looks like you're having my problem. I have a shitty camera, shitty lighting and shaky hands so I hope you're able to see what I mean.

It could of course be a thing with the kit, it's a Warlord games one, but I haven't found this issue when I googled it. Is it supposed to be this way?

Can you see what I mean?

>>50481878
It can best be seen on the left picture. In either case I can't fit the box so that it doesn't leave a small hole without tilting it. Is it supposed to be this way? Am I doing it wrong?
Will anyone notice?

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>>50481898
The Tamiya kit has a small gap for the box to "slot in" so its on its supposed position.
It also has a little bit that rests on the back of the tank so its stabilized.

I took a better pic.

I think the warlord kit is simply not detailed enough.

>>50482114
Can you show the boxes from the Tanks front? Kinda like I did?

>>50482306
>>50482114
Also thank you so very much for this.

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>>50482306
sure

>>50475065
Just make sure you keep your future options open by taking a few GIS classes, and know the basics of economic geology, hydrology and/or soil classification.

>>50483273
So there aren't supposed to be holes after all.
Thanks man

A friend and I are tempted to get into 10mm Medieval minis, anyone have any suggestions? Ideally something that we could put heraldry on if possible

>>50484261
Check pendraken, magister militum and old glory

Hypothetically, if you lived in Canada (say, Ontario) and were a /hwg/ regular, what games do you play and/or what games have you always wanted to poke at but never had the opportunity?

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>>50486823
What ship is that? It a good looking ship.

>>50486823
Either Bretagne or Provence post refits. Don't remember which it was actually supposed to be. It's not Loirraine though, because it would have a catapult where the Q turret is.

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Latest version of Fear Naught! Got the two starter scenarios nailed down, added a guide for creating your own ships, added gunboats, monitors, submarines and coastal batteries.

Since I've been playing a fucktonne of Dishonoured, I'm also thinking about going back to the Chevauchee fantasy supplement and throwing some assassin-y type scenarios together.

Who /fifeanddrum/ here?

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BMP

>>50491141
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RodrZ2we_hQ

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So 2017 is soon upon us and with it, the WW1 centenary continues. Next year will mark a century since the Russian Revolutions, American intervention, Passchendale, Bloody April, the French Army mutinies, the Palestine Campaign - there will be a lot to remember.

>>50494324
And yet manufacturers still don't really give a crap about it...

Fuck you Airfix and fuck you Zvezda for promising awesome new sets and then not delivering shit.

>>50494365
Gotta shit out more WW2 models.

>>50494324
Looking forward to catching up week by week on The Great War channel.
I learned a lot about the Russian revolution in Norman Stone's book "the eastern front 1914 - 1917". very interesting read (although I listened as an audiobook from audible)

>>50494365
There have been quite a few kits over the years, but I agree, many things missing or not in production. I was surprised to hear anon from above say that A7Vs are relatively hard to find in 1/72.
http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/PeriodList.aspx?period=11

The kallistra minis are pretty nice too and they have a pretty decent range, although they dont do armor yet...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mV1aDWjpHg

>>50494452
I meant it more as "nothing really interesting for the anniversary". Airfix promised new kits for both the Brits and Germans, Zvezda promised a game with infantry, machine guns, artillery...yet nothing. HaT didn't really release any WW1 sets lately either.

For the A7V, I'll try and ask Laser Cut Card if they have any plans doing it, they made a Mk IV in 28mm (that they can make in 1:72 as well), so I guess there could be one of those too, as it's not a particularly complicated design either.

Also: HaT made a late war British heavy weapons set, but no standard infantry. Same goes for their WW2 stuffs, both a mortar and a machine gun set, but no standard infantry. Fuck if I understand why they don't like finishing their ranges before starting a new one.

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>>50494488
It would be cool if caesar did more WW1 as I find their sculpts and quality to be great. They've done WW1 german infantry, so my guess is British infantry are on the horizon... We should email them requesting them!

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>>50494530
Question: How to identify the infantry shown in this picture?
Answer: The badge on their lapel of course, which in this case is the distinctive sunburst of the Australians.

>>50494530
I don't really have hopes about them...I have that kit as well, I really like the sculpts, I can make an entire Sturmplatoon out of them.

What I'd love to see from them is some kits for 'nam. Pegasus made a really nice USMC kit, but only the Esci kit is around for the Vietnamese, and some poses from the Specnaz kit that also can be useful. Pegasus has no plans on expanding the range (or any of their ranges, basically), Caesar does only WW2 Germans most of the time (4 out of 6 sets were Krauts in their last release)...maybe Mars will downscale their 1:32 figures (they made a really nice set of Viet-cong and US infantry), but I digress. I have the HaT Aussies I plan to paint up for Europe, as even tho all of them are in their traditional hats and not helmets, there were accounts of them utilizing those instead of the helmets in Europe.

>>50494573
Yeah i remember in "now it can be told" the tommy always remarked you could tell the Aussies by their slouched hats (and this was in europe). I guess up until 1916 everyone was wearing hats and not helmets

>>50494661
Well it did take some time for everyone to realise that its perhaps not the best idea to fight a modern war wearing soft hats, on account of all the shrapnel.

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>>50494573
>>50494661
By the end of 1916 it would have been relatively rare to see soft headwear on the battlefield, but it wasn't unknown. Pic related is some Aussies on the Sonme, Devember 1916; they're on fatigue duty so they could break out some very battered looking hats.

The fact everyone had to wear helmets let to efforts by Dominion forces to other ways to distinguish themselves from each other, because normally it was the hat that identified them. In WW2 this was solved with black shoulder tabs showing the wearer's nationality. But in WW1 I can imagine Anzac troops trying to assert a little identity when they could.

>>50471785
>>50472045
If you do, do yourselves a favour and buy the HaT British infantry as well. Italeri for some reasong gutted the Esci British Colonial kit and left out most of the basic posed minis - instead of the 5 standing and shooting ones, you get like...2 or 3. While the pretty useless ones, like the casualty, the ammo box bearer, prone figures, you get the same amount as in the Esci box.

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Poor Airfix Sheridan was in a really bad state when it arrived to me, but I tried to make it work.

The vinyl tracks are horrible no matter how you look at them. They are stapled together that I've tried to hide with static grass.

Just sent my SS gift towards CZ. Hope you enjoy it Anon!

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>>50488018
Looking a lot better so far anon, just by glancing at it. I wish I had to actually give it a playtest to give you some more useful feedback.

I've been thinking hard about picking up some Topside stuff as cheap way to branch out into dreadnaught era stuff, and I'm gonna be getting a coupon soon. Might just have to pick some up and go from there if I get the time.

I'm pretty excited about the thought of assassin type stuff using Chevauchee. I had already been thinking about trying to run a game sometime using my Kossites from Warmachine (since they could pass as slightly more generic fantasy) but my Kayazy as a gang of assassins similar to Daud's sounds even better.

>>50494376
Well, it's not like the general insatiable lust for nazis is going to slow down in the next few years.

>>50494723
picklehalbe was in use up to about the Somme wasn't it?

>>50496840
wow I havent even started prepping mine yet I've been so busy, putting me to shame.

>>50497201
Thank you kindly anon! I'd be interested to hear about any games you have with it, I've run a few between iterations but me and my regular group are probably too close to it for any objectivity.

I'm glad to hear someone's enjoying Chevauchee, looking forward to putting out more content, it got put on the backburner after I fixed up the initial release.

>>50488018
looks fun.

Anyone have some good Tutorial videos for "Command" ?

>>50479443
Bump = Seriously. :-) I have uploaded a few files of late and hoping that someone will have these and can do the same.

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>>50498807
The stahlhelm came in at the start of 1916

Anyone can suggest me a good source of information about 1500s italian city-states? Any source that could be useful, even non-gaming?

I mean beyond just "google it" and "use wikipedia".

I got my Bolt Action friend coming over tomorrow to try the new version, do we have a download link for the new German book yet? Or do we have to play 2nd edition BA with 1st edition book?

>>50505068
What do you want to know about them?

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do any of you guys have the DBA 3.0 rulebook? can't find it anywhere

>>50506681
a pdf of the rulebook*

>>50506681
should be in our Ancients/Games folder

>>50506732
oh, shiet. thanks

army lists only has Anglo Normans

do you guys know of any good Norman army list? i'm thinking the Norman conquests of Apulia and Sicily, specifically

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Bump

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How do you guys usually run your games?

Balanced battles based on points with little to no context?

Heavily researched and historically themed battles?

>>50509005
for casual games usually points limit, no specific historical context beyond avoiding dumb match ups like one faction fighting itself.

And then we research specific battles and attempt to re-fight them, but using a simplified versions of the scenario and exact forces involved. So for example if a German panzer division is attacking a Russian city, the panzer division doesn't have to have the exact units it would have historically, but instead can have a rough ratio of the kinds of forces a panzer division would have had available at that time and in that theater.

I have done a couple of historical battles with exact numbers (usually halving the irl numbers to get workable tabletop numbers) but often these battles were won or lost in the strategic area, rather than the tactical tabletop area, so they become rather one sided.
One we did involved Russian T-34s navigating by compass in a snowstorm, and emerging out of the blizzard directly in front of under-supplied Romanian trenches, and annihilating everything in their path. The Romanians just had to hold on as long as possible... This was part of operation Uranus iirc

>>50505163
Use Ba2 rules with old army books. Only the Germans have a new army book

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Do you have historical compositions of the Soviet divisions/regiment/battalions/companies/platoons? I've recently got a manual for the Cold War and I wonder how different was organisation during the WW2. Organisation of other armies are also welcomed. Also, I'd like to know more about tactics and strategies of the time.

>>50509563
You need to hit the folders anon, go through the Ospreys and so on.

>>50505336
weapons and tactics of the Italian Wars. What cities were the most important in the age by population, economy or military importance. Possibly how well-fortified each city was.

I'm trying to put together a hexmap of the peninsula, dated 1500, so I'm mostly interested in info on the cities for now. Population data for the era is hard to find.

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>>50510794
There's a few pages here on that subject, not a lot of info but it will give you a start:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/j65ut9zod96wydq/Renaissance+Armies+1480-1650.pdf

All the relevant Ospreys seem to end around 1500, although the title on Condottiere might appeal. Also the Campaign on Pavia could help.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/wdxmcsw2zui2jhq/Osprey+-+WAR+115+-+Condottiere+1300-1500.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/file/umsqva0h67u42cp/Osprey+-+CAM+044+-+Pavia+1525.pdf

It might also help to look at Town; even though it was written for Medieval gaming, it will give you a good idea of where a Renaissance city is coming from.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/d4hp6vj8mn9ajed/Town+-+A+City+Dweller%27s+Look+At+13th-15th+Century+Europe.pdf

Lastly you could look at the sourcebooks for DBR and Impetus, and check out the Italian Wars lists they have. They might provide some inspiration.

This is where you have to go down to your local library and dig up some weighty tomes. Specific raw data like you are after would be spread across a number of sources. A lot of times you're just going to have to make some arbitrary decisions and leave it there. For example I doubt you'll find solid population figures, so you may need to abstract things.

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>>50510794
Here's a map of Italy at the end of the 16th century. about 100 years after your date but its a fairly large image and the main cities will likely be similair to 1500s, even if the borders and factions may have changed

>>50510794
Also this may help:
http://www.homolaicus.com/storia/moderna/monarchie_nazionali/images/italia_xvi.jpg

Its from this page, which has a bunch of historical maps of Italy (and other countries) over time:
https://www.edmaps.com/html/italy.html

Been sorting the stuff I'm sending for secret santa, hope to post by Wednesday

>>50511119
I've ordered some bits, fingers crossed for Royal Mail doing a decent job...

HA

>>50509441
>>50505163

Read up about the new german special rules, they are the only major change for the Germans anyway. A couple of rare units got their point cost changed (like Elefant tank destroyer costs now around 5 points less and other irrelevant stuff like this).

Important:

Hitlers Buzzsaw: Affects now lmg and mmg alike (also vehicle mmgs too)

Blitzkrieg: German Officers can use the "snap to action" on +1 units. So 2nd LT activates 2 instead of 1 unit, 1st LT 3 instead of 2 etc

Initiative Training: If the NCO dies he will be replaced by a regular soldier if you roll an 2+ (instead of 4+ like it was before)

Tiger Fear: Anything with that rule (i.e. Pz4 with long barrel, Tiger, King Tiger, Panther and Jagdpanther and Jagdtiger) cause 1 Pin to every enemy unit with line of sight to the "Tiger" unless the unit shoots at it.

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New thread: >>50511710