/hwg/ - Historical Wargames General

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>Advanced Squad Leader
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/d9x0dbxrpjg48/Advanced_Squad_Leader
>Battleground WWII
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/cb83cg7ays4l1/Battleground_WWII
>Battlegroup
https://mega.nz/#F!SolyxarJ!GUg6zWBStfznr6BvYedghQ
>Black Powder
http://www.mediafire.com/download/o5x6blwoczojmfr/Black+Powder.pdf
>Bolt Action
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/n7jmdnlv1n0ju/Bolt_Action
>By Fire And Sword
https://mega.co.nz/#!jxgCWTYD!FCp52DAqIUc-EM-TsRsWv7fB92nJ3kkzKsNcD_urI5Q
>Fleet Series
https://mega.nz/#F!i1N3xZxL!C6fQ3Z8o2U0gtk5kdXuVcQ
>Hail Caesar
https://mega.nz/#F!XsVD0KgT!twB1NWiFE3aKXK_O1EZ4pA
>Impetus
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/28i9gevqws518/Impetus
>Modelling & painting guides
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/7b5027l7oaz05/Modelling_%26_Painting_Guides
>Next War (GMT)
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/eupungrg93xgb/Next_War
>Phoenix Command RPG
https://mega.co.nz/#F!b5tgXRwa!mzelRNrKPjiT8gP7VrS-Jw
>Saga
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/alj31go19tmpm/SAGA
>Twilight 2000/2013 RPG
https://mega.co.nz/#F!C9sQhbwb!NVnD4jvUn5inOrPJIAkBhA
>Wargaming Compendium
http://www.mediafire.com/download/cghxf3475qy46aq/Wargaming+Compendium.pdf
>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
>Warhammer Historical
https://mega.nz/#F!LxkElYYY!FJB5miNmlWZKMj2VfSYdxg
>Warmaster Ancients
http://www.mediafire.com/download/cifld8bl3uy2i5g/Warmaster+Ancients.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/3emyvka11bnna1b/Warmaster+Ancient+Armies.pdf

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

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26th February in military history:

1233 – Mongol–Jin War: The Mongols capture Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin dynasty, after besieging it for months.
1266 – Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by Manfred, King of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.
1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
1935 – Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
1935 – Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
1936 – In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
1987 – Iran–Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
1992 – Nagorno-Karabakh War: Khojaly Massacre: Armenian armed forces open fire on Azeri civilians at a military post outside the town of Khojaly leaving hundreds dead.

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It is 751 years since the Battle of Benevento was fought near Benevento, in present-day Southern Italy. It was waged between the troops of Charles of Anjou and Manfred of Sicily. Manfred's defeat and death resulted in the capture of the Kingdom of Sicily by Charles, effectively ending the rule of the Hohenstaufen in the Italian Peninsula. The Papacy had long been in conflict with the Imperial house of Hohenstaufen over their rule in Italy. At the time of the battle, the Hohenstaufen ruler in the Kingdom of Sicily (which included Sicily and southern Italy) was Manfred, illegitimate son of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor. While the rightful heir to the kingdom was Frederick's legitimate grandson Conradin, he was young and safely across the Alps in Bavaria. Taking advantage of a false rumor of Conradin's death, Manfred had usurped the throne in 1258. Pope Urban IV determined to wrench the Kingdom from him, and in 1263, concluded a secret treaty with Charles of Anjou, giving him the Sicilian throne.

Charles reached Rome in 1265, but was temporarily halted by financial embarrassments. Manfred, however, did not take the field against him until January 1266, when Charles' main army had crossed the Alps. Alarmed by desertions among his followers and fearing further treachery, Manfred sought to bring Charles to battle as swiftly as possible. Charles attempted to turn Manfred's position at Capua by a perilous crossing of the Apennines which wrecked his supply line; but Manfred had intelligence of his move and lay in a strong position across the River Calore, crossed only by one bridge.

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>>51896213
Charles had divided his cavalry into three "battles". The infantry and the first battle, consisting of 900 Provençals were at the front, commanded by Hugh of Mirepoix, Marshal of France, and Philip of Montfort, Lord of Castres. Behind them were the second battle, which consisted of 400 Italians and 1,000 men of Languedoc and central France. Charles would command the second battle in person. Behind them, the third battle consisted of about 700 men from the county of Flanders under Gilles II de Trasignies, Constable of France, and Robert III of Flanders.

Manfred had adopted similar dispositions. His Saracen archers were in the fore. Behind them was the first battle, 1,200 German mercenaries armed in coats of plate (a novelty at the time), commanded by his cousin Giordano d'Anglano and Galvano of Anglona. The second battle consisted of the Italian mercenaries, about 1,000, and 300 Saracen light horse, commanded by his uncle Galvano Lancia. The third battle, numbering 1,400, were the feudatories of the Kingdom, under Manfred's personal command.

The battle began in the morning, when Manfred advanced his Saracens (archers and a few light cavalry) across the bridge to skirmish. They drove off Charles' infantry, but were put to flight by his Provençal cavalry. Rashly, Manfred's first battle crossed the bridge and counter-charged. At first, the German mercenaries seemed unstoppable; all blows rebounded from their armor plates, and Charles was forced to commit his second battle. The Germans continued to advance, but then the French discovered that the new plate armor did not protect the armpits when the arm was lifted to strike. The Germans were swiftly broken.

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>>51896217
The tide of battle now rapidly turned against Manfred. His troops were forced to defile across the single bridge over the Calore to reach the field. By the time his second battle had crossed the bridge, Charles had ordered his third battle to charge them on both flanks and they were swiftly destroyed. Upon the defeat of the Italians, most of the nobles in Manfred's third battle deserted him, leaving only the king and a few faithful followers. After exchanging the royal surcoat with his friend Tebaldo Annibaldi, Manfred and his followers charged into the fray and were slain. The narrow bridge acted as a bottleneck, causing many to be killed or captured. Only 600 of the 3,600 horsemen escaped.

The destruction of Manfred's army marked the collapse of Hohenstaufen rule in Italy. The remainder of the Kingdom of Sicily was conquered almost without resistance. Settled in his new kingdom, Charles could await the coming of Conradin, the last hope of the Hohenstaufen, in 1268, and meet him at the Battle of Tagliacozzo.

This is a pretty classic medieval battle definitely worth bringing to the tabletop. The role of the bridge is hugely important and the player who exploits it the best will probably win the day.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/6zhcv9i8cgea8w8/Osprey+-+MAA+310+-+German+Medieval+Armies+1000-1300.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/file/9jdnazzrv3iwnv0/Osprey+-+MAA+376+-+Italian+Medieval+Armies+1000-1300.pdf

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Any thoughts on the next community project? An interesting suggestion in the last thread was something involving animals. Please post any nice minis you've produced from the last one!

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Just wanted to post some pikes.

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Not much else going on yet anyway.

>>51896231
I've got some provincials, their canoes and plenty of civilians in my 'to paint' list.

Then it should be on to scenery...

Great. Now I want to paint pike blocks. And I don't even have any game to use them for. Nor any models for it, really, or a FLGS to get models for it from...

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>>51898695
Welcome to my world.

Though if you have no local store (like most of us I'd bet) then just order online. Same for games.

>>51898796
I do order online. It's just that there's a delivery delay, so I can't go out right now, buy some pikemen, glue them together and start painting in a few hours.

>>51898582
Build the scenery Uncle, you fuck!

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>>51898888
Ah, well you should have prepared for the urge ahead of time then.

I think I've got a handful of unpainted pikemen sitting in an unfinished/not even started projects box... gotta keep that lead pile going after all.

>>51898950
Naah. I save money this way.

>>51898977
>Save money

Why do that when you can have glorious inanimate soldiers willing to not obey your every order?

>>51899079
Because I already have a moderate shit-ton of stuff to paint, and three times that (at least) to put together?

I organized my collection today. Put stuff I want to work on into sorted boxes and threw all the old things and projects that didn't materialise into a big box.

If I don't buy anything I will probably finish these things in 2-3 years...

Any of you guys pick up Blood and Plunder? I got my stuff in yesterday and am really excited to play it

>>51900807
Oh yes. Estimated delivery wednesday next week... I might just be "sick" on thursday.

>>51898927
What scenery do we need, Jackie? I could paint buildings or start fucking about with trees.

Doing themed scenery or objective markers might be a cool project this month.

Should also be applicable to pretty much any scale and era.

>>51901433
Trees, Rocky Bits. DO your Mdf buildings need painting? My 4ground stuff didn't.

>>51896197
>https://www.mediafire.com/folder/81ck8x600cas4/Medieval
in the medieval one, the osprey on hastigs has been taken down. Copyright claim

>>51901524
Depends how pretty you want them to be, could be passable without.

Trees is more challenging. We could crowd source a scenario to /hwg/. We're looking at Indians and Brits vs. French in the 7YW. Block house and some buildings as scenery so far.

>>51901645
I've got some trees and I'm going to make some rocky hills. I've got a river as well.

>>51900807
I did, got my stuff a few weeks back. Waiting for nicer weather to prime, but I've cleaned and straightened everything out.

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haven't been painting for a few weeks.. that needed to be changed. Pic related is what i did this weekend so far.

Warlord "Volksgrenadiers" and the old (and really not that great, in comparison) "Veteran Grenadiers".
The heads on the veterans were so bad, i had to replace them with plastic heads.

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>>51902502
Since i mixed the camo, spring or autumn basing? What do you think would look nicer?

>>51902598
I think brown with some sparse traces of green brush would help highlight both shades nicely.

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>>51901565
Funny how it's always the oldest stuff that goes down. Don't forget to check out the Mega link at the bottom of the OP, it works as a nice backup.
https://mega.nz/#!3o0FSTSS!UDzhCn5P-AJ2ThTZuqEK7XWMVRXaMxCcF7GCztN0bZg

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>>51899924
Take an inventory so if your house burns down etc you can claim your lost minis on insurance. Your collection is probably worth several hundred to thousands of dollars.

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How would you set up a scenario where one side is supposed to recon an area?

Just need to visit a number of points on the board or what?

>>51904477
The recon unit has to make it to the enemy deployment zone, and then either survive the game, or make it back to the friendly deployment zone.

Recon is mostly important games where you dont really know where the enemy is, or what kind of forces they have. Anything double blind or with blinds on the table. If you can see the entire enemy force, recon becomes pretty useless and to implement it in a scenario you end up making a unit go for a forced mission to enemy territory or visit some points on the table.

I remember playing Men of War, recon was primarily done with an officer's binoculars... he could see into the fog of war, and work out what was going on, without endangering any units by sending them out to scout

>>51904477
Either that or maybe get to the other side of the board.

Or tokens that disappear as the unit moves into 3" if them like checkpoints. Although I would give the recon player some additional limitations as well as the opponent.

>>51904477
Chain of Command's pre-game patrol phase works a bit like this.

>>51904477
Depends on the system, time period and scoring system.

You could have patrolling to certain points, force assessment with spotting checks, dynamic/rolled change of objective once you complete the recon.

I've run a Force on Force scenario to recon a village and had the objective to patrol to X point and speak with Y. OPFOR rolls a D6 in secret and generates the intel/objective for BLUFOR which is then revealed. OPFOR also controls civilians in this scenario and rolls dice to determine movement range and do some spotting. Only a certain proportion of these civilians are actual informants though and part of BLUFORs job is to try and differentiate which civilians are informants to prevent OPFOR from activating his fire teams prematurely. BLUFOR also gets a score bonus for successfully identifying informants.

There's some more stuff, but that's the gist of it.

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>>51904810
That sounds awesome. Works pretty well without needing a 3rd party referee?

>>51905092
I have one buddy I play with primarily, and while we're competitive, FoF is more about the experience than other games we play. We treat it more akin to a tabletop version of ArmA.

My bases are on washers, so we put a small amount of poster tac to mark the informants. The rest of it is primarily handled by FoFs inbuilt systems. The nice thing about FoF is that a lot of the skill checks can be easily adapted for a variety of uses.

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>>51905400
Cool, that's my attitude towards games.

What's a good miniature provider for WW2 era armies? I'm looking for 28mm I'm going to use for bolt action. Price is a pretty big factor for me.

>>51901068
Finished cleaning mine today, one had a horrible casting issue, 30+ mins with a pin vice, and file to make it look even remotely decent. Huge clump of pewter under an arm had to be drilled out and filed and scraped to make it look like he didnt have one solid lump for a right arm.

>>51896197

Can anyone share any siege battle stories? Or does anyone have any pics of wargame sieges? I'd like to see some more!

>>51906511
28mm is expensive regardless of manufacturer.

If you can get away with it, play it at 1/72 / 20mm scale. Only problem is everyone else plays at 28mm so your army will look a bit odd if your opponents aren't playing 1/72 also.
If you can convince your buddies to play at 1/72, everyone will save money:
$16 US will give you 48 infantry per side - 96 in total - enough for even the largest games.
Tanks are about $9 US each

Or you could buy something like the Airfix BattleFront Gift set:
https://www.amazon.com/Airfix-76-BattleFront-Gift-Set/dp/B003MANNY0/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1488084235&sr

1 Tiger, 1 Sherman, some infantry for each side. maximum cheap-ness

Cruds, I've not played a siege game since Warhammer 5th edition was still a thing. They're really uncommon, and I don't think it's the terrain requirements either. Basically unless the game involves a significant amount of preparation before actually getting to battle, all you really get is an attack/defence scenario with a very limited frontage of engagement for the attackers, and probably some really unrealistic stuff like breaching walls due to attacks made during the battle itself.

>>51907237
1/72 is hard to paint

>>51907945
Its no harder to paint than 28mm. Could be considered easier becuase there's less details and you can get away with basecoat - oil - highlight

>>51907945
Bullshit.

>>51906511
What nation do you want to play?

The cheapest 28mm plastics available are the russians in summer uniform by PSC (plastic soldier company).

>>51908023
People get away with that at 28mm too all the time.

>Airfix

Didn't they release a wargame a while ago? Has anybody played it?

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Anybody has any idea about the missing Osprey Campaign Books?

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>>51911174
Which ones are you looking for? There's about 300 titles in that series. I only add the more recent and relevant ones to the folders to save space. Any missing from the Mediafires should be in the Mega folder at the bottom of the OP. Also a few of the more recent ones haven't appeared as PDFs yet.

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Built some Japanese fortifications or an upcoming Burma campaign.

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>>51911930

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The blockhouse is getting there. I still need to make a ladder for the palisade.

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>>51912253
I am still tempted to redo the roof when I have some more materials, just to at least make on that at least fits. It's a lot sloppier than my temple but it was made a lot faster and for far cheaper so I can't really complain.

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>>51912253
I've got some spare ones from 4Ground somewhere. Want me to pop one in the post?

>>51912284
Nah it's ok. I just need to not be lazy and do it properly.

>>51912284
Give it to me instead

>>51912849
I've never seen you naked.

>>51902502
Would love to know what colors were used for the autumn pattern

>>51914203
All were Vallejo Model Color from a wargaming set for waffen ss. It also has the greens necessary for the spring version and 2 more colors for pea dot.

Base color (the light brown): 70.825 German C(amo) Pale Brown

Dark brown dots: 70.822 German Camo Black Brown

Orange dots: 70.824 German Camo Orange Ochre

After applying the base brown i gave the parts i painted a thinned down brown wash (i used Agrax Earthshade). Then i re-applied the pale brown to the raised areas, then with a toothpick the dark brown and the orange dots.

Hey /hwg/,
Do any of you lads have experience with Warlord's made to order items?
Can anybody tell me how long it usually takes them to get around to fill an order?

>>51915176
it really depends.. got some stuff within a week and also had to wait for 3 weeks once.

>>51915176
Anything I've ordered from it has been shipped within a 'normal' time, as in a day or two.

>>51915209
Thanks. Been waiting for a week already, I'm just impatient, cause I already have everything else I need to get started on my next project.

>>51915261
What did you order?

>>51915368
Nothing /hwg/ related, but I figured I'd be most likely to get an answer here.
Some Gates of Antares stuff

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and one objective marker done.

>>51915728
Pretty cool! Only tiny bit of critique I have is that those bullet holes in the right wing look kinda strange. It looks like the wing was shot directly from the top.

>>51915728
Awesome. 1/48 scale?

>>51915807

Exit holes from ground-fired flak.

>>51916064
Ah! That explains it then. Sorry, should've thought about that possibility.

>>51916064
>Exit holes from ground-fired flak.
yep this.

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>tfw exchange rate and shipping

I just want to have play some Indochina games, living in Canada is rough.

>>51914083
Do you want to

>>51918426
Age of Glory sell the Empress French indo China in the US if that helps.

>>51918573
Sadly they're even more expensive from the USA.
Importing anything here is weird.

>>51918426
>tfw being cucknadian is suffering

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>>51896231
Last time, I suggested animals, prototypes/one-offs, or obsolete/too old for this shit. Another anon suggested some kind of themed terrain piece which also sounded pretty good.

Pic related was my submission from the literature/movie challenge- USS Walker and Mahan and IJN Amagi from the Destroyermen series, pre-Squall.

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>>51918975
This was NEA's insanely awesome submission.

There was an anon with some Last of the Mohican's stuff that I don't have a pic saved of, and I thought one or two others.

>>51919013
This is still awesome no matter how many times it's reposted.

>>51918948
I'm debating between my next period being Chinese Civil War, Spanish Civil war or going all-in on the expensive Indochina stuff.

>>51919253
What about back-of-beyond stuff like Khalkhin Gol or the RCW in Asia? Lots of room for wacky colourful stuff.

>>51919253
I'm doing Canadians in Afghanistan, I managed to grab pretty much everything I wanted model wise from Elhiem prior to the price increase which is good. Sourcing vehicles is a fucking pain though.

I have a small force of modern French as well, and finding a fucking VBL for them involves dealing with Azimut.

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Perry are doing stuff to my dick again.

>>51919013
>>51919052

Holy shit. I missed that the first time around. That's amazing. I didn't think americans cared that much about anything related to history. Especially because everybody around here who matters is a Brit or up here in Canada.

Your country is still a tire fire, NEA, and we'd be better off without its existence, but you've at least redeemed a tiny part of it.

>>51919562

nice b8 m8.

>>51919734

I'm still genuinely appreciative of the diorama, tho.

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Do you typically base your 6mm vehicles?

Planning on painting some 6mm WW2 stuff soon and based seems more practical but unbased looks nicer.

>>51919778
I base everything up to 1:72 personally

>>51919449
I considered it, but I'm not really interested in doing Russians.

>>51919778
Always. It's just smarter to do so in every way.

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Courtesy of a generous anon

Force on Force Companion Book 2: Afghanistan, 2001 - 2010.

Enduring Freedom provides Force on Force players with everything they need to recreate battles in one of the most punshing theaters of the Global War on Terror: Afghanistan. Beginning with a detailed background section, the book presents extensive orders of battle for all of the combatants, including the Coalition, Northern Alliance, Taliban and Al-Qaeda. It also presents numerous new scenarios, new mission objectives and guidelines for constructing your own scenarios. This book is an indispensable guide for depicting the complex and intense pressures of combat in Afghanistan on the tabletop.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/h9pj69q6i6064oe/FoF+-+Enduring+Freedom.pdf

Is ASL beginner friendly? Never played a wargame before but this caught my attention

>>51921289
You should probably start with squad leader, then move on to advanced squad leader...

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I found this. We didn't seem to have it in the OP folders.

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I also bought a copy of this. There is a copy of the smaller scale/more RPG-like long rifle in the OP. This is the larger scale game with units of 10ish figures. Enjoy!

>>51921289
Short answer, yes. Long answer, it depends.

Start with the starter kits. You can get all three from the mediafire up top. Starter kit 2 isn't the ful package, though, it's missing reference charts and scenario cards, which I wish somebody would fix some day.

Read Jay Richardson's starter kit tutorials on BGG. There's five parts about core mechanics and then two parts about specific rules. The first one is here: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/157922/aslsk-tutorial-part-1

The three starter kits all progressively introduce new core mechanics to the general ASL package. SK1 starts with just basic infantry combat and support weapons (flamethrowers, machine guns, demo charges). SK2 introduces guns and ordnance. And then 3 finally introduces tanks and vehicles.

I say ASL is beginner friendly because the progression learning from SK1->2->3 is about as straightforward as an introduction to ASL can get. But at the same time it isn't very beginner friendly because frankly the rules are dense. There are a lot of nuances and exceptions and special rules and special rolls and case-by-case mechanics that you need to keep track of even with just the starter kit system.

I myself have only been exploring ASL for a couple of months now, and I feel it's really, really rewarding if you put in the effort to learn it. And besides, this general needs more ASL/hex and counter discussion instead of just minis stuff all the time.

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>>51921289
is ASL beginner friendly?

Yes
and
No

if it is your first foray into hex and counter games then I really would not recommend it. even with the starter kits which do make the game MUCH easier to learn if you go in progression 1>2>3 or just jump into the Decision at Elst campaign starter kit (which is in media fire as well) the game is not easy. Hell the 3 ring binder is up over 800 pages with all the modules put together in it. (now granted MOST of that you dont need to play any single game)

it is a difficult game but the build up to getting into it has been made pretty easy by MMP and the Starter Kits.

Ive been playing SL/ASL for over 30 years. i still dont know all the rules. But feel free to ask any questions. Ill do what i can to answer.

>>51921653
>it's missing reference charts and scenario cards, which I wish somebody would fix some day.
Im working on it. SK2 is OOP and none of my normal crew ever bothered with the SKs. so hard to get my hands on. And yes im still working on getting the PDF of the pocket edition. Ill put the call out to my crew 2 weeks from now when we get together again.

>And besides, this general needs more ASL/hex and counter discussion instead of just minis stuff all the time
truth. Finishing off a game on my table right now that im recording. once thats done Ill get a brand new fresh game up and i might do an AAR for it. see how it goes....long ass game...31 turns.....

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Got my blood and plunder Brethren of the Coast starter all primed and ready for the painting table. After I finish, I may buy a sloop so I can have a ship as well.

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>>51921505
>I found this. We didn't seem to have it in the OP folders.
I do have it myself but it seemed a little niche to add to the folder! Nonetheless there's room enough right now:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/5okoq31elh973ok/Osprey+-+CAM+260+-+Fort+William+Henry+1755%E2%80%9357%282%29.pdf

>>51921614
This is very nice, thanks anon. I liked Long Rifle so I'd definitely give this a try. We seem to have a few FIW players around.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/pyyy9gu916dybdw/Musket+And+Mohawks.pdf

>>51921326
The original SL in the orange-and-black box is a perfect starter wargame, and I'm definitely biased in favour of it because I played a lot of it. But there's no harm in diving straight into ASL, and we have some informed players on hand.

>this general needs more ASL/hex and counter discussion instead of just minis stuff all the time.
I'm all for that. What are everyone's favorite titles? I mentioned Squad Leader, but I'm also partial to Air Force/Dauntless, MBT, and all those cool Microgame pocket titles.

>>51922472
>fighting out Budapest '45
Hey ASLanon, how did the SS cavalry units do? Florian Geyer and Maria Theresa? I used to have a nice bunch of them in 25mm.

>>51922472
what computer game

>>51922472
>Im working on it. SK2 is OOP and none of my normal crew ever bothered with the SKs. so hard to get my hands on. And yes im still working on getting the PDF of the pocket edition. Ill put the call out to my crew 2 weeks from now when we get together again.
Alright, wow. That would be the sickest shit imaginable.

I own SK1, but play 50/50 between board and VASL. I still consider myself an ASL noob, and even though I know how guns work, I would love to "dry run" a few basic ordnance scenarios on VASL. Even if you just manged to put up the SK2 scenario cards that would be amazing my man.

Also, Festung Budapest looks like some crazy shit.

>>51922792
VASL. The ASL module for VASSAL.

>>51912284
Can I have one?

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>>51922571
>What are everyone's favorite titles?
Well....ASL obviously. Im a fan of the 'Panzer Blitz' series as well. The Fleet series from VG, 'Up Front', 'Gunslinger'(an odd one I know but i love the hell out of the mechanics in it). Hell Ill play most any of the old school hex and counter games. and I LOVE the Metagame Concepts Microgames! I own a few of the titles-printed out a few more from the media fire. 'Ice War' was the very first wargame I actually bought on my own. Also a real big fan of Avalance Press's 'Great War at Sea' and 'WWII at Sea' series


>how did the SS cavalry units do?
historically or in game? I havnt been able to do any of the scenarios from 'Festung Budapest' so cant say how they perform in game. I would say typical of any other cav units with the SS special rules. but i am playing through 'Budapest '45' from Tiller Software but havnt gotten to many scenarios done yet. 3 or 4. did do one where I was the soviets against Hungarian cav.....but not from the 8th or the 22nd Cav divisions.

The guys say I have a look of intense concentration when I play. I think of it more as confused befuddlement.

>>51922938
>and even though I know how guns work, I would love to "dry run" a few basic ordnance scenarios on VASL

take a look at 'Decision at Elst' up on the mediafire. Its a historical campaign with all the rules from SK1-3 in them. some good ordinance stuff in there. 1st scenario is a blast. 3 tigers against several British infantry with Piats.

I'm not trying to be a dick but what's the appeal for playing historicals? I've sat in on a few flames of war games and honestly I thought it was super bland. I've also sat through a demo for team yankee at my lgs and again it was super dull.

>>51923041
lol youre ugly as sin

>tfw started ASL with minis a year ago
>nowhere near completion
>keep starting new things

Man idk if it will ever happen I feel like Im letting /hwg/ down

>>51923041
Oddly I always imagined you as a chronic bad baseball cap wearer. It's probably a grognard thing.

>>51923224
i do wear ballcaps usually, just wasnt wearing one that day.

>>51923146
I'm assuming you mean as opposed to games set in fantasy or sci-fi.

I think most of us are just really big history nerds. It's as simple as that. Getting autistic about which German infantry unit on which part of which front in which year of the war would have one specific piece of field equipment is satisfying for us.

For me, a hectic firefight in Stalingrad is a lot more engaging than some faggot elves running around throwing magic at each other.

>>51921289
>>Is ASL beginner friendly?

If you've never played hex&chit before HELL NO.

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>>51923146
Both of those specific games are pretty bland imo.

The appeal of historicals is you get to command real forces and use real tactics - or try your own. There's much more "fluff" in real life - first hand experiences, documentaries. You can get a much better sense of the units and backgrounds than with fantasy.

Like the other anon said, it starts as an appreciation of military history. Then once you have that you think "damn... It would be cool to re-fight midway but use my own tactics" or "I would love to play a game of veteran Finns fighting off hordes of clueless Soviet conscripts - skiiing out of the wilderness to ambush an aerosan crew before they've had a chance to realize they're under attack..."

Then you realize you can play those games and there are hundreds of rulesets to choose from - everything from simple fast play games to complex, detailed games, and all the shades in between to suit your needs.

>>51923146
It's fun if you're passionate about games and history.
Also requires a healthy imagination.

>>51923146
This guy:
>>51923595
Nailed it.

Though I'll add in it's also possible to play games with no appreciation of military history at all. Some games are simply played because they are games and very little else. Some are actively bad to try and mimic historical tactics whilst playing. Some games let you try historical things in incredibly un-historical ways, such as playing the French from the 1420s versus the French of the 1520s. Or Roman Republic versus Three Kingdoms era Chinese.

There's a huge spread. Flames of war is a very small slice of what goes on.

Anyone know where I can buy italeri that ships to New Zealand?

>>51924082
try the model hobbies website? I live in NZ and regularly get stuff sent from them. Pretty speedy delivery too.

>>51921614
>the smaller scale/more RPG-like long rifle
I like that game. Bought it when it first came out, and it's surprisingly comfy playing a solo game, wandering around hunting and taking pelts down the river to sell.

>>51924643
cheers. not a bad price either

>>51925173
No wucking forries

>>51919547

What scale will this be? I read online it might be 15mm..? But that wouldn't be that small, my guess would be 10mm, but I don't know.

>>51922545
Why do you prime them white from above but the rest of the model grey? Does that give some nice light perspectives?

>>51926579
it's an easy little trick to simulate simple colour modulation.

>>51926418
Judging by the 'It's smaller than you might expect' line I would expect it to be <28mm, probably 15mm at the largest.

In any case the idea of the Perrys doing smaller models gets me unreasonably excited.

>>51926947
15mm at the largest; I think you are correct there.

I own only a few Perry samurai, they are good but not great. Did they do any small scale figures before?

>>51927044
They may have done back in the old GW days for Warmaster and such but I'm not aware of anything specific.

>>51911211
WW2 Campaign Series is not complete
I checked both links

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>>51927483
Which particular titles were you after? I could throw them up into a folder on my Mega. Naturally there are a lot of double-ups in that line, so I've left off older editions if a newer and more expanded one has come out since.

Ospreys themselves are pretty easy to find online, usually just searching Osprey+[title]+ pdf will lead you to several sites.

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>>51923146
Adding to >>51923595
You can also (if you're playimng a well-written set of rules) gain an understanding of why particular tactics were effective, why a war or campaign was fought the way it was etc It can also give you a better appreciation of current events (Loss at Battle of X caused Event 1 which led to Event 2 and War of Z etc)

>>51897398
>>51897410
>>51897416
>>51897421
>>51897427
That terrain made me cum a little bit

Are there any 15mm scale tank skirmish games? Relatively detailed combat and the like but with two or three tanks per side? I'd prefer WWII era but anything works.

Does anyone have any ideas for making coquna walls? I'm thinking of making a Saint Augustine table

>>51928165
that's where the white is coming from.

>>51928465
Probably not the best answer, but you could always try hacking FiveCore/FMaK to do it though it'd definitely take some work to get it where you want in terms of detail.

>>51928465
Tanks?

>>51928903
Yeah. I have no idea if such a thing exists but I feel it'd be fun.

>>51928952
Tanks! is literally the name of the game.

>>51928952
this: >>51928961


Its basically like the X-Wing game, just with WW2 tanks.

You got the booster packs, stat cards etc.

Its a fun game, but its just that: a game. No realism at all, so if you are looking for that you might be disappointed.

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>>51928465
>>51928952
The aforementioned Tanks! is definitely for you. They might have a pdf in the /fow/ thread.
http://tanks.gf9games.com/

>>51929008
Afaik the core rules are free on their website anyway. You still need the cards to play it though.

>>51928961
>>51929007
>>51929008
Oh, that makes more sense now. Looks pretty good from what I can tell.

Thanks!

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I like collages and thought showing it from different angles would help a bit, so again, here's my die-cast SdKfz 234/2 Puma, just to start out my Germans with the token vehicles that not much were made of but somehow really famous and popular.

>>51929817
What scale?

>>51929847
1:72. It was from a magazine series by DeAgostini (actually two, so lots of different vehicles, finally got an M41 Bulldog Walker last week), sadly I got into 1:72 wargaming after it was ended and now it's a bit difficult to get specific vehicles.

>>51929817
Puma is adorable because it's only a little Sd.Kfz. but it pretends it's a big-boy PzKpfw with that turret.

>>51929869
i know that series. You repainted yours right?
i keep seeing huge lots of them all the time on ebay when i search for 1/72 or other tank-related stuff.

>>51929879
Pumas got into trouble repeatedly as their crew didn't really thought of it as a recon vehicle, and stood there for firing as it was a tank.

To be fair it had some followers after the war, somehow I like wheeled tank destroyers..

>>51929903
Yes, the original had a similar base color but with brown stripes instead of green. There are some vehicles I'd like to get, or would like to get more of (the aforementioned M41 for example).

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>>51929922
It was a really good armored car for its time and the backwards driver was a very interesting concept.

My dad served on its "successor" in the Bundeswehr during the 80s.

>>51929922

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=Mikro+Mir+BTR&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR12.TRC2.A0.H0.XM41+Bulldog+1%3A72.TRS0&_nkw=M41+Bulldog+1%3A72&_sacat=0

Plenty of results, but i have no idea what prices would be "good" for those diecast tanks.

>>51930002
Thanks, but these are not for my wallet - the magazine was 1000 for the first, and 1500 for the second series, and they are not that good that I'd pay 10-15GBP (3500-5200HUF) for them. For the most part I could get actual model kits for than money (Trumpeter kits are usually around 3k HUF and they are relatively easy to put together).

>>51930034
I see.
Now with the knowledge about the price of that magazine i totally get your point.

I'm pretty sure these magazines will get another release in a while.

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>>51930034
I was also looking for a 1:72 M41, but they are indeed kinda expensive on ebay. I just really love how that tank looks. M60 is another one of my favourites. In general, USA cold war tanks are really sexy. I even made it so that my African imagination's tanks are all M41s, M60s and Sheridans. t. other anon

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>>51931943
Yeah, they look great. I have two M48s, two M60s and some Abrams tonks from the magazine, plus an M35A1 gun track for 'nam. Tho I like the Soviet designs as well, the T-55 is really sexy, plus the BMP, while being a "simple" infantry carrier, looks great too.

Gonna reduce my stash a bit - I find painting vehicles more enjoyable and rewarding compared to infantry.

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>>51932159
>the T-55 is really sexy, plus the BMP, while being a "simple" infantry carrier, looks great too.
Yeah, gotta agree with you on that. That Sheridan looks really nice.

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Just got back from my holidays abroad and other misc things that mean I wasn't looking at /hwg/
can anyone pretty please link or directly post to the finished last month's projects so I can upload them to our friendly imgur page?

>>51932159
>more enjoyable and rewarding compared to infantry.

What infantry though?
1/72 plastics? 1/72 metal (like elhiem)? or 28mm?

I often get burned out when i paint lots and lots of cheap plastics, but painting good sculpted minis with neat details and everything i always would rate higher than vehicles.

>>51932185
I'm playing "Syrian Warfare" right now, and despite having T-72AVs and even 1 T-90 in my arsenal i still keep a couple T-55 around just because they look so awesome.

>>51932318
Infantry in general.

>>51932290
There's two of them upthread, Mohic-anon needs to repost his and I thought there was another, but I can't remember for the life of me.

>>51918975
>>51919013

Is cold war commander in the download folder and I just can't find it or ...?

God I'm having trouble painting 1/72 and idk why since I do stuff from 3mm through to 35mm

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>>51932784
I've found some 1:72 stuff just has far too fine a set of details to be easily paintable. I've had serious trouble getting through my Zvezda samurai because the models are just too well done. A most wargaming stuff is intentionally chunky rather than to scale so is much easier to paint.

>>51932711
Should be in there somewhere.

>>51928465
It's not out yet but the Lardies are working on something that sounds exactly like what you are looking for called Panzer Ace/What A Tanker.

Should be out later this year

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>>51932711
>Is cold war commander in the download folder and I just can't find it or ...?
Always gets DMCA'd on Mediafire so I put it on Mega and post on request

https://mega.nz/#!jwcXSY6Y!_jMaHQU9JEnPvrNp54ZOtF5SdQnp8aNb9o4nmUOMCFk

>>51934362
Many, many thanks my friend.

any advice on if black powder can be played with fixed bases?

want to try it with small scale minis, which are easier to base effectively at a battalion level, not a company level. This gives space for adding base details, scenery etc, but means you cant re-arrange the battalion between line/column/square etc. just add formation configuration tokens, or ?

>>51934983
>just add formation configuration tokens
Yeah, that sounds the most logical thing. Or maybe break them up for smaller bases, with 4 bases (2 bigger, 2 smaller) you can make a nice square, but if you don't want to do it, the tokens would work.

>>51934983
I play black powder using 3mm minis. I use a 2cmx2cm square base to represent 4 "normal scale" soldiers with a 12cm frontage total for a standard unit

>>51935372
Napoleonic or Magister Militum figures?

>>51936694
civil war odzial osmy

Vows of iron medieval rules good?

>>51937399
Never heard of it, is it new?

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>>51928545
What scale? Really just tan/grey paint is probably good enough. I have a sample of that same rock. Individual shells are no more than half a cm or so wide; reduced to table scale they won't show up. Go for the color + texture the walls look like from 100 feet away and you'll be more accurate than some grossly mis-scaled shell texture.

Think I'm gonna do a panzer grenadier army.
Would 1/48 hanomags be too big?

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Unity of Command is on sale for $4.50 on Steam this week. It's pretty /hwg/

>>51941597
I preferred the week i got graviteam tactics opstar complete for 3 dollars

>>51932639
Cheers mate

BRDM

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Darwin 1942: The Japanese attack on Australia (Osprey Campaign 304)

Following the devastating raids on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, lightning advances by Japanese forces throughout the Pacific and the Far East, and a desperate battle by the Allied command in the Dutch East Indies, it became evident that an attack on Australia was more a matter of 'when' and not 'if'. On 19 February, just eleven weeks after the attacks on Pearl Harbor and two weeks after the fall of Singapore, the same Japanese battle group that had attacked Hawaii was ordered to attack the ill-prepared and under-defended Australian port of Darwin. Publishing 75 years after this little-known yet devastating attack, this fully illustrated study details what happened on that dramatic day in 1942 with the help of contemporary photographs, maps, and profiles of the commanders and machines involved in the assault.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/1q5q986drq9mf9y/Osprey+-+CAM+304+-+Darwin+1942.pdf

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South African Armour of the Border War 1975-1989 (Osprey New Vanguard 243)

The Border War saw the biggest armoured battles in Africa since World War II. Starting as a counter-insurgency operation by the South African Defence Force (SADF) against the South West Africa People's Organisation, South Africa became embroiled in the complex Angolan Civil War, where they came up against enemies well supplied with equipment and armoured vehicles from the Soviet Union. With the aid of stunning illustrations and photographs, this study details the characteristics, capabilities and performance of the wide variety of armoured vehicles deployed by the SADF, from the Eland armoured car to the Ratel infantry combat vehicle and the Olifant tank. Designed for the unique conditions of the region, South Africa's armour was distinctive and innovative, and has influenced the design of counterinsurgency armoured vehicles around the world. Frequently requested by Osprey readers, and written by two renowned experts on armoured vehicles, this will appeal to all those interested in modern armour and the Cold War proxy wars.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/u28mcicl4md6ozz/Osprey+-+NVA+243+-+South+African+Armour+of+the+Border+War+1975-89.pdf

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The FN Minimi Light Machine Gun (Osprey Weapon 53)

In 1974, renowned Belgian arms company Fabrique Nationale brought out a ground-breaking new light machine gun, the Minimi. Its success has been meteoric, arming more than 45 countries around the world. The Minimi offers the ultimate in portable firepower. Firing the high-velocity 5.56×45mm round, the Minimi is a gas-operated, lightweight, belt- or magazine-fed weapon, able to burn through cartridges at a cyclical rate of up to 1,150 rounds per minute, making it the weapon of choice for fire support at squad level. This study uses gripping first-hand accounts and striking combat photographs, following the Minimi to war zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan. It tracks its design and development, as well as investigating what has made it so compelling a choice for armed forces around the world for more than 40 years.

https://mega.nz/#!X5tklCQJ!YBeC2SpQa2H62lkunRbjXmmxqawXFc2pT-lsnq5Ku4I

>>51946808
>>51946820

Well, there goes my evening! Thanks Anon. :)

>>51946808
Thank you greatly kind anon!

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and one more LMG nest for my IJA.

>>51951322
That's really pretty effective, anon. Looks good. Only critique I have is the plastic-ness of the aquarium plants. You find some way to knock that down and give them a little variation in color and it'd be perfect.

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http://www.strawpoll.me/12438105

Oy! vote for the next community project! Will check votes after two days.

>>51951404
If you dull cote it, it should look perfect.

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Terrain is self explanatory, but what do you mean by 'focal point'?

>>51951994
>http://www.strawpoll.me/12438105

Man, I want to vote for "Obsolete/exceeded service life", but I don't even know if anybody <makes> Donald Trump minis.

>>51952892
I guess something that turned the tide of war - the tank for WW1 or something like that.

>>51952966
Hasslefree.

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>>51952985
>hasslefree

I didn't find a Trump mini, but I'm not going to lie that the search result made me giggle.

>>51919778
Yes. It allows for identification more easily, it allows you something to pick it up with, it adds a bit of weight and gives you a standard size for vehicles when the models can have variety.

>>51953053
Look in the modern adventurers or civilians section.

>>51952892
Something along the lines of a particularly dominant feature or structure. I can't remember what exactly the wording was from the anon that suggested it two or so threads ago, so that was my best guess of intent. So either something that either through size, value, or any other quality you can think of means that a battle will sort of center itself around it. As an example, I had been going to try to do a model of the island of Leros for the fiction challenge, that's the real life island that inspired The Guns of Navarone, and it's gonna take up a significant chunk of the board, and would also be something the action centered around for obvious reasons.

Hey /hwg/, taking my first foray into plastics and grabbed a bunch of second hand stuff. Stuff was unpainted but glued together with a yellow glue which I think is polyurethane so I've popped them in simple green and will leave them for a week. If simple green won't debond this, what should I look at next that's safe for plastics?

Painted my first 6mm Dutch-Belgian brigade. I will make 7 brigades in total, one brigade (east indies one) will consist of 2 stands instead of one.

>>51953053
Hasslefree is one of the best fantasy model makers there is. They make very fun models.

>>51953053
I'm 99.9% sure HF made a not-Trump that was naked and incredibly fat, but I'm damned if I can find it

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>>51955751
found it.

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Finished a day late for Java Sea anniversary.

Dutch light cruisers Java, Tromp, and an Admiralen class destroyer.

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I'm starting a saxon army and was thinking Mercia. Was the flag used in battle as a standard? Was it used to decorate the shields of Mercian warriors?

>>51951994
Ooh obsolete would give me an excuse to buy an FT-17

Hey guys what colors would Soviet WWII mittens be in? Having a hard time finding a reference picture.

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>>51958408
Green-ish khaki, unless they're in snow suits, in which case white.

>>51958511
>just got done looking at a resource saying the fur caps were grey and painting them all grey
>this picture shows them green

Goddammit.

Oh well thanks. That Greenish khaki is the same as the summer uniforms right?

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next up on the table.....

>>51957544
There is very little evidence (almost none, most of it being later medieval/early modern) for contemporary use of that flag/heraldry. Shield decoration would be dependant period on but you could use pretty much any Saxon/Germanic/Christian designs.

>>51958912
I've heard there's evidence for a saltire design being used as far back as Offa but not necessarily the same saltire used later.

>>51958749
better than your ugly face or talentless hands

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>>51958605
many were grey, many were green, and shades between. Some were even brown. Quite a variety. And yeah mittens would likely be same khaki as winter uniforms, but even then there would be variety in shades.

>>51959360
So the coats would be a variety as well? I've seen everything from khaki to a dark grey.

I'm trying to get colors that contrast for easy recognition at tabletop distance, so I was hoping that greenish grey or even the olive drab kind of color I've seen would be considered ok.

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>>51959424
as long as things are a shade of green, grey or brown you should be ok. You can use different shades to define different units too - the regulars might be khaki uniforms with grey caps, while the old veterans might have grey uniforms and a variety of brown and green caps

This picture is small, but the colors should be legit. Just an example of some of the variety even within units.

>>51959216
yes because men who play obscure overly complex boardgames with little toy soldiers are so totally known for being extremely handsome

>>51959578
excellent thank you. I'd been painting Germans and was used to the kaleidoscope of colors they had. Thought Soviets would be a more uniform and easier to research experience.

In other news, I'm also an idiot.

ugh someone please tell me german uniforms werent a aprticular shade. Im worried my 1/72 guys are too dark a grey

>>51960641
Is it a color between gray and green?

Congrats it's German. Later the war gets the more variety you get too.

Wish I had the compilation pic some guy made in the Flames of War general, it was great and had a lot of good info.

>>51960674
Well Im doing 1944 and its a dark grey so that makes me feel better

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>>51958749
Seems like a pretty old-school design. The Scheldt Campaign itself seems like it was incredibly unpleasant; bitter fighting through swamps and little villages, perpetually wet and muddy, struggling through a Dutch autumn. Certainly the Canadians there had a miserable time of it.

>>51960683
Also you can check out the Ospreys in the OP, they're a good resource for uniforms and kit

>>51958605
Colours varied, especially once gear got worn, but even at the factory. Basically any shade of green and/or grey is accurate.

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From our friends up the road; a couple of hard-to-find hex&counter classics from SPI

Air War: Modern Tactical Air Combat is a unique, ultra-complex simulation of almost every facet of modern aerial combat. Thirty of the most important aircraft types to emerge since 1952 - from the Soviet Union, United States, Great Britain, France, Israel and other nations - do battle in historical scenarios from the Middle East to Vietnam, from Korea to India-Pakistan, and in various hypothetical scenarios that include World War Three. The game is played on a geomorphic map across which playing pieces move through a hexagonal grid, which functions like the squares of a chessboard in regulating movement. Probability charts reveal the outcome of various game functions.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/08qxcb085u0g7go/Air+War+80.pdf

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Grenadier is a company/battery/squadron scale game of warfare in the period of the dominance of cannon and musket. The game depicts sixteen famous battles from the introduction of the bayonet to the invention of rifling. Because of the tactical scale of Grenadier some of the battles are represented by crucial segments, isolated and simulated. For example the Battle of Waterloo (1815) is represented by the attack of Napoleon's Old Guard on the center of the British line, The Battle of the Pyramids (1798) by the attack of the Marmeluke cavalry on the most exposed French infantry. Several other battles such as Palo Alto (1846) from the Mexican War are covered entirely. Commanders represented include Marlborough, Frederick the Great, Napoleon, Ney, Wellington, and Zachary Taylor. Some of the 16 battles depicted in Grenadier are Blenheim, Austerlitz, Marengo and Jena. Attacks are divided into fire (musket and cannon) and shock (bayonet and saber) modes. There are nine types of infantry units, three cavalry and five artillery. Grenadiers combat resolution systems depends less on chance (die rolls) than any game then yet developed.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/oi03111u8gca2t5/Grenadier.pdf

>>51946808

Thanks!

>>51954581
and they make one of the best women minis out there.

>>51923988
>Or Roman Republic versus Three Kingdoms era Chinese.
Can you recommend me a rules-set for that that isn't rules-light ?

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>>51962978
That sounds like the sort of thing DBA/DBM was made for, especially with tournament gaming. It's certainly not rules-light.

>>51957544
Remove Miercna! Norþhymbra stronk!

>>51963016
I read DBA and it just felt kinda generic, honestly. Like there is not much tieing the statline to the historical unit, which saddens me because there was put much thought into it obviously to balance it.

So, I never liked BA too much, but everyone is playin' it in my area and I guess gotta bandwagon.

How are the Japanese? And what I should consider while building a platoon?

In before "maximize activations and support weapons"

>>51963091
Get a gorillion mortars.

Hi Guys,

I have a request for some PDFs. Would be nice if anybody can help:

1. "Special Forces in the War on Terror" from Osprey Publishing
https://ospreypublishing.com/special-forces-in-the-war-on-terror

2. Still missing Force on Force Supplements (Osprey Version):
FOF COMP 3 - Ambush Valley - Vietnam 1965-1975
FOF COMP 6 - Bush Wars - Africa 1967-2010
FOF COMP 7 - Fallujah - Iraq 2004
FOF COMP 8 - Classified - Special Operations Missions 1940-2010

The other 4 Books I have already found in the modern folder. The Ambush Valley book from the Vietnam folder belong to the old Ambush Alley ruleset. I search for the Osprey version.


3. Line of Fire Magazine (Lock'n' Load Publishing)
I request the Line of Fire Magazine (LoF) from Lock'n'Load Publishing (LnL) as PDFs.

Thanks for any help!

>>51959158
There's saltires found on coinage relating to Offa. Suggesting that it was a national symbol as such is a bit of a stretch in my opinion.

>>51938204 I was looking at trying to get a similar texture for 28mm Blood and plunder

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>>51960674

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>>51964144
You could cutting blocks out of foam or something and scoring a texture with a wire brush but I still think the texture would be too small to show up if built to scale.

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>The flgs in the town I moved to has an active SAGA community
>have several hundred unassembled dark age miniatures

I am looking at 15mm Medieval wargaming. Like I don't have enough projects.

Any good websites on this topic?

>>51962978
>>51963016

Impetus would do it way better than DBA.

>>51960641
as >>51964541 already posted, the colors varied heavily. Maybe during the Blitz most uniforms were the same, but from '42 onward it really depended on availability of both dye and quality of wool. A uniform tailor in France would make it different from a tailor in Poland or Netherlands. Another example straight from wikipedia:
M41 Tunic
The M41 is exactly the same as the M40, but with a 6 button front due to the decline of material quality, which by now was 50% or more viscose rayon and recycled shoddy. SS-specific uniforms nonetheless stayed with 5 buttons."

>>51962719
>>51962729
nice finds!

>>51960772
it looks like an old school design but has a lot of more modern mechanics in it. and yeah. from what ive been able to gather so far it is a very slow plodding game with the canadians and brits working for every inch they make. no grand breakthroughs or fast maneuvers in this one.

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Perry now have Frogs on Camels.

That is all.

>>51967387
I never realised how much I wanted those miniatures

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>>51951994
Gonna let this run until 9PM gmt. If you haven't voted and want to participate (or hell, if you just want to see something in particular anyway) vote! Right now we're tied for Prototype/One-off/Dead end and Obsolete/Exceeded life expectancy.

>>51969588
9PM gmt tomorrow, I mean. Swear I can't post anything without forgetting something.

>>51965746
>from what ive been able to gather so far it is a very slow plodding game

Well, the campaign was slow and plodding. What do you want?

The G-1, G-2, etc. makes it very interesting for both sides.

IIRC Train's design was a P&P MDG several years back whose mechanics were so good they deserved a professional release. You're no "500m Tall General" with perfect control over all of your unit at all times and you really have to plan ahead. You have a limited number of G chits each of which allow different things. You can't even move/fight without them and they neatly model operational concerns like supply, planning, reinforcements, etc.

I've got a Decision Games folio of the same campaign and we've yet to figure out how the Germans can avoid getting stomped let alone "win". (By win, I mean do better than they did historically)

In the folio, the WAllies basically steamroll the Germans until the Walcharen landings get triggered and then things get even worse. If there are no German units in a marked region after a certain turn, basically representing being in artillery range of the Scheldt, the WAllies win.

Whle the folio is a WAllie zerg rush the Germans can't counter, the Train design forces you to actually plan turns ahead allowing the Germans to "win" by pouncing on WAllie missteps and miscues.

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Does anyone know a sdkfz 232 in 1:56/28mm? I really like the bedframe antenna on this lovely ugly thing (and I dont really dig resin from Warlord anyway). I know pic related from Tamiya, but all my other shit is in 1:56 and I don't want it to get too bulky compared to the rest.

For me it's the best option for armored cars in early/mid (100 pts), since its not open topped like the 250/9 (90 pts) or the 222 (95 pts), plus it has dual steering for only 5/10 points more (Bolt Action obviously)

>>51969879

Here's a link to an AAR of the Train design you all may find interesting.

grognard DOT com
/replayaar/scheldt-campaign-aar.pdf

>>51969879
>Well, the campaign was slow and plodding. What do you want?

I would say that the slow and plodding effect is exactly whats needed to mimic the historic pace of battle. Im not saying its a bad thing, but there are people who like the grand maneuver and blitzkrieg style of play, and this game may not be for them.

And yes I know of the Micro Design Groups original design. Never played it but I know of it. And I agree with the G chits. its not something you see enough in games. I think it does mirror more the actual command constraints that are in effect in any engagement.

and i havnt run into anyone yet who really liked Decision Games folio game of the same topic.

If you like the G chits then look at some of Joe Mirandas earlier designs. The Buldge '20' series-its where Train got the idea for the G chits.

and a good friend of mine wrote a review for it you may be interested in

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/838207/short-review-well-maybe-not-so-short

>>51970622
>Im not saying its a bad thing, but there are people who like the grand maneuver and blitzkrieg style of play, and this game may not be for them.

Then they're limiting themselves a small fraction of historical battles and campaigns. There's a Cinematic!!!/Realistic spectrum. Limiting your self to one end or the end, limits your play experiences.

>>If you like the G chits then look at some of Joe Mirandas earlier designs.

Miranda, one of my favorite designers, used the mechanic again in a WaW magazine game covering WW2's SWPAC.

Thanks for the review too!

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>>51959883
speak for yourself buddy i'm the best looking boy at my gaming club

Trying to get games of saga in this week

Does anyone do a model kit that would make a good SMS Seeadler?

>>51969388
I'd kill for good Imperial Camel Corps miniatures. Although Perry do make Sudan Brits on camels which might be just as fun to paint.

>>51970622
ugly fuck

>>51972554
Bruh you're not even trying at this point.

>>51972158
What scale? WTJ do a Bussard/Seeadler

>>51959883
My mum says I'm handsome

>>51911930
>>51911939
Hey, those look pretty good! I might sudgest a little more of the grass effect, but otherwise those look great. I see that they open, did you model the inside? Could you give us an item of reference for sizing?

>>51969910
Sorry, I only could find it in 1/35, 1/48, and 1/72. Only 28mm I found was by warlord. Might have to bite the bullet in it.

Hey, can I post my BA army list here? I'm new to the game and wanted a place to brainstorm.

Here's what I have so far, advice would be great.

Late War German Panzer Grenadiers

1000pts

OB LT- REG 85pts
+1 Reg soldier.
- 2 AR

6 Heer Vet Grenadiers - 101pts
- 1 SMG
- 2 AR
- 2 PF
- 1 RFL
Hanomag 251/1 - 89pts

6 Heer Vet Grenadiers- 101pts
- 1 SMG
- 2 AR
- 2 PF
- 1 RFL
Hanomag 251/1 - 89pts

6 Heer Vet Grenadiers - 101pts
- 1 SMG
- 2 AR
- 2 PF
- 1 RFL

5 Heer Vet Grenadiers - 108pts
- 1 SMG
- 2 LMG
- 2 RFL/LD
Truck - 31pts

5 Heer Vet Grenadiers - 108pts
- 1 SMG
- 2 LMG
- 2 RFL/LD
Truck - 31 pts

50mm PAK Reg - 75 pts
Truck 31pts

Med Reg Mortar 50 pts


I think I'm more happy about it being 1000/1000 then if it is effective or not lol.

Anyone has the old Chipco rulesets? They seem to be gone and I can't find "Days of Knight" medieval rules or "Chrysanthemum Throne" samurai rules.

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>>51921653
SK#2 Charts and Scenarios added to the ASL media fire.

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/d9x0dbxrpjg48/Advanced_Squad_Leader

anyone know of a mission generator for ww2 fivecore/skirmish games?

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Converted PDF only at the moment, hoping to replace it with a proper one later

New Zealand Infantryman vs German Motorcycle Soldier: Greece and Crete 1941 (Osprey Combat 23)

In April 1941, as Churchill strove to counter the German threat to the Balkans, New Zealand troops were hastily committed to combat in the wake of the German invasion of Greece where they would face off against the German Kradschützen - motorcycle troops. Examining three major encounters in detail with the help of maps and contemporary photographs, this lively study shows how the New Zealanders used all their courage and ingenuity to counter the mobile and well-trained motorcycle forces opposing them in the mountains and plains of Greece and Crete. Featuring specially commissioned artwork and drawing upon first-hand accounts, this exciting account pits New Zealand's infantrymen against Germany's motorcycle troops at the height of World War II in the Mediterranean theatre, assessing the origins, doctrine and combat performance of both sides.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/bg8z36thjufq2di/Osprey+-+CBT+023+-+New+Zealand+Infantryman+vs+German+Motorcycle+Soldier+1941.pdf

>>51977889
That german motorcycle soldier really doesn't look happy to be in this match up

>>51977913
i think that panzer just crushed his ride.

>>51977483
Try this:

http://www.wargamevault.com/product/198450/20th-Century-Scenario-Generator?manufacturers_id=5701

http://www.wargamevault.com/product/167937/War-Story?manufacturers_id=5701

>>51978900
Oh hey Ivan. Didnt realise you posted here. Sorry for sharing Five Men at Kursk the other thread, I will buy some more of your stuff to make up for it

>>51978900
I'm starstruck to see you here

>>51978911
Fuck you pirate scum

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>>51979005
>Fuck you pirate scum

Man, if the basic color of the plastic would be different from the color of the tank, that'd be fucking lovely. Moulding US and British tanks in Olive Drab makes them airbrushing lot harder.

Especially that I use the airbrush in a not really well lit bathroom.

>>51978911
Good Boy ;-)

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>>51979861
>Especially that I use the airbrush in a not really well lit bathroom.

Main problem here might not be the plastic color m8.

Get a couple chicken lights from the hardware store. They're like $10 and you can easily position them where you need the light. Also you better be wearing a respirator.

>>51981007
>Also you better be wearing a respirator.
Meh, not worth the hassle. I usually paint one tank per session with Vallejo, AK or Mig paints without any thinner over the sink. Had no problems for the 10 years or so since I've been doing this.

>>51981104
>Had no problems for the 10 years or so since I've been doing this.

I'm sure you'll be fine anon, but the point of wearing the respirator is because of the potential negative long term effects, some of which are subtle and slow to manifest.

>>51979861
There's this thing called "primer". It's seldom olive drab in color.

>>51981181
If you need a respirator for non-toxic acrylics then you'd better be wearing a fully sealed hazmat suit before you get to work with the plastic cement.

>>51981398
I'd rather be a massive pussy than harmed by something this stupid.

>>51981398
The issue is having aerosolized paint depositing in your lungs. It can lead to respiratory issues like asthma or chronic bronchitis.

>>51976940
I fucking love you, ASLanon.

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>>51981455
This.

Acrylic isn't nearly as big a deal as solvent-based paints but there's still a fine vapor of easily respirable paint particles that I personally don't want in my lungs. Particles in that size range can say airborne for hours. Suit yourself though; it's your health that's affected.

>>51981398
>There's this thing called "primer".
I use the base color as a primer...since after applying the decals I spray it with glossy varnish anyway, the primer is rather redundant.

>>51981637
You need to breath in a lot more to have your health affected. But as I don't use it more than maybe once in every two weeks...still say I'll be fine, but in case I'll try coughing up pigments, you'll have the right to say "I told you so".

>>51981850
I get exposed to silica dust and diesel particulates at work (e.g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgBM19l8Qio) so I wear a respirator when airbrushing or woodworking since I don't need to add to that risk with my hobbies. If you're not breathing a lot of it you're probably right, it's likely not going to hurt you but wearing a respirator doesn't bother me and I don't see any benefit to breathing even small amounts of crap into my lungs.

>>51976460
I'd skim your LT to a 2nd LT for less points (nazi's already have an extra "snap to" die), and instead of only small teams make one or two full strength teams. Maybe get rid of the last 2x5 vets and put in one full regular squad.

Also always bring a spotter for your mortar so you can put your mortar all the way in the back behind a building and hide your spotter somewhere in the bushes. Remember that spotters are always down (-2 to hit) unless they are running/advancing. So when he's in soft cover and down, he's already on -3 to hit. If you manage to get him in some building in the middle, he's near impossible to kill unless with an assault.

Also, get rid of half your transport vehicles. Moving around is nice but not every unit gotta go fast. If you can save some points, get a nice recce vehicle (250/9, 222, 231) or maybe even a STUH42 or Pz3. If you got more points, put in a Pz4 (2mgs, heavy anti tank, tiger fear!)

But mostly get yourself a spotter because without it your mortar will be ass.

And maybe a sniper. They can be fucking annoying if you can kill the NCO, or their sniper, or their command unit, or their anti tank guys, or their MG guy in their full squad. Don't forget, a squad without NCO gets -1 on morale.

>>51953053
>>51952966

There is afaik a 28mm Trump in WW2 army getup by some small company .
Named "Donny" or something like that.

>>51982614
Stoessi's Heroes

>>51952966
>>51982614

"Stoessi's Heroes" from Germany does a Donny "Drumpf" mini, dressed as an Airborne Officer.

Looks kinda awesome desu. I'll take a pic of mine if i find him in my pile of unpainted metal. Give me a couple of minutes.

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>>51953053
>>51982614
It's the greatest mini. It's tremendous. It's the best, let me tell you.

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>>51982711
That being said, the casting quality is really good too. Only minimal mold lines and very nice detail.

>>51981104
Mate, you really don't want aerosol shit in your lungs. It'll fuck you up eventually, and then you'll die and someone'll slap all your models up on ebay as PRO PAINTED L@@K and they'll be passed on to another grog, in the endless cycle.

I was wondering if anyone had the Black Powder Napoleonics books? Especially the second one? Getting into it with the starter set (I'll be doing the French), any useful tips for tactics, painting, sources? I have the whole slew of Osprey books from the mediafire folder, but is there anything else to recommend?

>>51982803
>aerosol shit
Standard acrylic paint from an airbrush...for aerosols (spray cans) I obviously don't use them in a badly-ventillated room.

>>51983236
Yeah, it's standard paint, but it's in fine spray of particles form. A well-ventilated room isn't appropriate for that - you want outdoors, or a small fume hood (which is a good idea if you're airbrushing regularly anyway), or at least a proper mask.

>>51963016
Nice to see some Bronze Age stuff around here.

>>51969588
>>51969603
Obsolete and logistics are tied right now. If they are still tied come 9pm gmt, I'll let it run over night and call it at 12pm gmt.

>>51984672
If they're still tied then clearly the theme should be Obsolete Logistics Units.

>>51946820
THANK YOU!

>>51984714
Isn't that mostly redundant?
>inb4 it gets merged with terrain to become a literal mountain of 30 year old c-rations, pemmican and hard tack.

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Obsolete it is!

>>51986252
>the entire Prussian army in 1806

Anyone played Gary grigsbys war in the east

>>51986252
>British tanks in WW2
>American tanks in WW2
>Russian tanks for half of WW2
So, anything but mid-war onwards german tanks?
*looks at to-build pile*
...shit.

>>51986252
Well, there's another project I can't join in for due to lack of anything suitable.

>>51986380
Tried it for a few minutes, seemed too much of an investment at the time..

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>>51986856
>Not impulsively starting a new period and scale

It's like you don't even /hwg/

>>51987083
This post hurts me on a personal level