/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
Modern Spearhead

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June the 21st in military history:

217 BC – The Romans are ambushed and defeated by Hannibal at the Battle of Lake Trasimene.
533 – A Byzantine fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa.
1529 – French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano.
1582 – Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful of the Japanese daimyo, was forced to commit suicide by his own general Akechi Mitsuhide.
1621 – Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.
1813 – Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria.
1824 – Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
1826 – Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
1854 – The first Victoria Cross is awarded during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road begins.
1864 – New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
1898 – The United States captures Guam from Spain.
1900 – Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
1919 – Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.
1942 – World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the U.S. mainland.
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Japanese forces collapses on the southern tip of the main island.

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It is 2,234 years since the Battle of Lake Trasimene, a major clash in the Second Punic War. The Carthaginians under Hannibal defeated the Romans under the consul Gaius Flaminius. Hannibal’s victory over the Roman army at Lake Trasimene remains, in terms of the number of men involved, the largest ambush in military history. In the prelude to the battle, Hannibal also achieved the earliest known example of a strategic turning movement.

Roman troops marched eastward along the road running near the northern edge of the lake. Eager for battle, Flaminius pushed his men hard and hurried up the column in the rear. Hannibal then sent a small skirmish force to draw the vanguard away from the front of the line, in order to split the Roman forces. Once all the Romans had at last marched through the foggy, narrow defile and entered the plains skirting the lake, trumpets were blown, signalling the general attack.

The Carthaginian cavalry and infantry swept down from their concealed positions in the surrounding hills, blocked the road and engaged the unsuspecting Romans from three sides. Surprised and outmanoeuvred, the Romans did not have time to draw up in battle array, and were forced to fight a desperate hand-to-hand battle in open order. The Romans were quickly split into three parts. The westernmost was attacked by the Carthaginian cavalry and forced into the lake, leaving the other two groups with no way to retreat. The centre, including Flaminius, stood its ground, but was cut down by Hannibal's Gauls after three hours of heavy combat.

In less than four hours, most of the Roman troops were killed. The Roman advance guard saw little combat and, once the disaster to their rear became obvious, fought their way through the skirmishers and out of the forest.

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>>53913347
Of the initial Roman force of about 30,000, about 15,000 were either killed in battle or drowned while trying to escape into the lake — including Flaminius himself, who was slain by the Gaul Ducarius. Another 10,000 are reported to have made their way back to Rome by various means, and the rest were captured. Hannibal's losses were 2,500, plus "many" who died of their wounds. About 6,000 Romans escaped, under the cover of fog, only to be captured by Maharbal the following day. Both Livy and Polybius wrote that Maharbal promised safe passage ("with a garment apiece") if they surrendered their weapons and armour, but Hannibal had them sold into slavery irrespective of the promise made.

Hannibal, emerging from another brilliant victory, had successfully planned and executed the greatest ambush in history. Dodge writes, “It is the only instance in history of lying in ambush with the whole of a large army.” Similarly, historian Robert L. O’Connell also writes, “[It was] the only time an entire large army was effectively swallowed and destroyed by such a maneuver.”

News of the defeat caused a panic in Rome. Quintus Fabius Maximus was elected dictator by the Roman Assembly and adopted the "Fabian strategy" of avoiding pitched conflict, relying instead on low-level harassment to wear the invader down, until Rome could rebuild its military strength. Hannibal was left largely free to ravage Apulia for the next year, until the Romans ended the dictatorship and elected Paullus and Varro as consuls. The result would be the Battle of Cannae, the worst defeat the Romans would suffer throughout the Second Punic War.

This is one of the real classics of Ancient warfare, and an eternally popular subject on the wargaming table.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/vdds17m7zd02zxt/Osprey+-+CAM+303+-+Lake+Trasimene+217BC.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/2gwmsd1696bfe8j/Osprey+-+MAA+121+-+Armies+of+the+Carthaginian+Wars+256-146BC.pdf

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It is 204 years since the Battle of Vitoria, where a British, Portuguese and Spanish army under the Marquess of Wellington broke the French army under Joseph Bonaparte and Marshal Jourdan near Vitoria in Spain.

The French army numbered 60,000 with 153 guns and deployed in a rough “L” shape. The Anglo-Portuguese, Spanish army had 78,000 men and 96 guns which Wellington split into four columns with the centre two under his personal command totaling 30,000 men. The battle began about 8am and it was a clear dry morning with good visibility. Within an hour the French position was under threat as Spanish troops took the entrance to the heights of Puebla threatening the French left flank. The French seeing the threat sent more troops in but the English and their allies held.

Meanwhile British and French troops fought to a stalemate over the village of Subjiana de Alava, which lies north of the heights of Puebla. Here the French were unable to retake the village but the allies were unable to advance out of it due to artillery fire. Picton’s troops to the north had been delayed and the British on the heights continued to advance. Believing the troops in the north were a distraction, the French weakened their centre to commit more troops to the battle for high ground on the left flank. This resulted in 2 of General Hill’s Brigades up on the heights drawing off more than two whole French divisions from the main line, more than Wellington could have hoped for.

Things were not going so well elsewhere for Wellington. Graham's attack on the French right flank at the crossing of the Zadorra River north of Vittoria had run into determined opposition at the village of Gamara Mayor. Wellington was becoming concerned, as by noon his centre columns under Picton and Dalhousie had not yet arrived. When they finally arrived Picton impatient for orders led his division to take the bridge of Mendoza.

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>>53913397
By the afternoon the French had been driven from the heights and were being squeezed into the area around Vittoria as the Allies drove at them from the centre and left flanks. An artillery duel began between 75 Allied guns and 76 French guns, being the biggest artillery battle of the war and the largest amount of artillery Wellington would have command of until Waterloo. By 4 pm Wellington was preparing for the final stroke. Outflanked and under pressure the French finally broke. Only the failure by the allies to take Gamara Mayor prevented the French being cut off completely and destroyed.

The retreating French convoy contained much of Joseph's court as well as 3,000 carriages; it stretched for 12 miles by the time it reached Vittoria. For such a large convoy there was no escape from the Allied troops eager for plunder and among the French convoy were wagons newly arrived from France containing over 5 million gold francs. Joseph himself was nearly captured by the British 10th Hussars and had to leave all his personal belongings behind including his chamber pot. The huge amount of treasure saved the French from complete destruction as looting began by both sides on a huge scale and Wellington only retrieved 250,000 francs. The Allies lost around 5,000 men; the French lost around 8,000 but also vast amounts of money, equipment, wagons, artillery guns and other treasures, but surprisingly no Imperial Eagles. The news of the defeat spread throughout Europe and Napoleon's old enemies Austrian, Russia and Prussia all pressed for war. Vittoria not only marked the end of French ambitions in Spain but the beginning of the end for Napoleon.

This is one of the grand Peninsula battles, a long hard fight on a massive scale that incorporates every element of Napoleonic warfare, command & control and general strategy.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/t6s3g3b6io98q62/Osprey+-+CAM+059+-+Vittoria+1813.pdf

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>>53913418
Because of their capture of King Joseph's chamberpot, the 14th (King's) Hussars would be nicknamed "the Emperor's Chambermaids"; and every 21st June ("Vitoria Day") the officers of the regiment would drink a communal toast from it, a tradition still maintained by their modern descendants the King's Royal Hussars.

BEE EM PEE

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>>53914573
BMP XDDDDD

FUGGGGG

>>53914604
SPEDNZADZ :DDDDDD

Anyone had a go of General d'Armee? Is it good?

>>53913430
>a bunch of British Hussars manage to capture a French king's chamberpot
>decide to do the most juvenile thing possible: fill the damn thing with beer and have a toast

Why is this so funny?

>>53914804
beacause LADS! LADS! LADS! that's why.

>>53914869
So I guess what you're saying is that the Peninsular War was just a lot of lads on tour?

>>53914903
A Briton has never gone to Spain in any other fashion.

>>53914928
Darn right!

Fair well and adjure to you ladies of Spain!

>>53915476
>adjure
what

Does anyone know of a place where I can buy 1/48th scale buildings with detailed interiors? Want to do some room-to-room fighting in Bolt Action. I looked at 1/48th scale dollhouses, but those are $150 at a minimum.

>>53918125
I thought Bolt Action was 1/56? 4ground has a lot of good terrain.

>>53918125
Not 'scale' but 4Ground is generally the place to go for 28mm buildings these days if you're not just making them from scratch. Costs but a lot of the hard work is done already and they're decently durable so years of constant use out of them isn't out of the question.

>>53914804
It's a very hussar thing to do

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Interesting link on how a Soviet/Russian motorized rifle squad works:

http://armawiki.zumorc.de/index.php/Mot.Rifle_Squad_(RU)

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Are Commentaries on the Gallic War and Commentaries on the Civil War worth reading or are they just ancient propaganda?

>>53921626

They're worth reading BECAUSE they're ancient propaganda, you complete fucking moron.

>>53921626
Both.

>>53921626

Have you any other sources as extensive on the subject?

No?

Good, you got your reply.

I know this is a long shot, but has anyone bought this kit?

https://us-store.warlordgames.com/collections/bolt-action/products/large-factory

I'm curious whether it's easy to make the roof detachable. If so, I'd really like to get it for an indoor/outdoor sort of game.

>>53923023
If not, I might get it to make a Frontline Assembly style game, with it producing a T-34 every turn for the Soviets while the Germans try to get inside and blow it up

>>53921724
Be nice, this isn't /v.

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8 hours until the kickstarter launches! Hyped as fuck.

>>53921626
They're very good to read if you want to learn Latin. The Gallic Wars in particular is commonly assigned as reading on Latin courses because it's so well written.

>>53924865
I had the Civil Wars set in my Latin course, may even still have it somewhere.

>>53918311
Vehicles are, Infantry isn't.

>>53918125
Get some cheap mdf buildings. (Not 4Ground, who are among the most expensive you can get).
Check TTCombat for example.


For example their basic town house (which is fairly basic obviously) costs only 9GBP.


Obviously these come mostly without interior. But they are cheap so you got some extra money to spend on either resin or mdf interior bits like from elladan:

https://elladan-shop.de/epages/b0930d3e-9a66-4b1e-a9d0-f66fbfd657e0.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/b0930d3e-9a66-4b1e-a9d0-f66fbfd657e0/Categories/Category1/Weltkriege_und_Moderne/"Zubehör%20und%20Kleinteile"

(There are plenty of small companies selling interior, so just see whats available for you).

>>53923023
>http://www.sarissa-precision.com/Factory_-_Large/p1603368_13760165.aspx

The sarissa website lists the product features:
>removable roof

Is this Grenadier starter set for Bolt Action any good? In the sample list for 1000 points it seems to suggest an entire section is armed with STG44's, I don't know much about BA but that seems a bit iffy to me.

https://store.warlordgames.com/collections/german-army/products/german-grenadiers-starter-army

>>53927240
Historically the germans tended to focus their assault rifles into especially assigned "assault" squads too. 1 out of 3 or 4 squads of an Volksgrenadier division was supposed to be armed entirely with Stg-44s (execption being the rifle grenadier because a K98 was needed to fire the rifle grenades).

That being said, its entirely up to you how you build your army in Bolt Action. If you don't like to have a squad full of assault rifles, you don't have to field it.

Keep in mind there is also the "build an army" option where you could pick 2 boxes of Grenadiers (giving you 60 instead of just 36 minis), a HQ team, a team weapon and 2 vehicles of your choice (or just pick Puma and Stug if you like these).
You basically get 3 more infantry sprues and some metal HQ minis instead of the Pak-40 and either mortar or machine gun team (the pak isn't really needed anyway, since with Puma and Stug and lots of Panzerfausts there is more than enough AT-firepower already) for the price of 75 instead of 90.

>>53927336
>1 out of 3 or 4 squads of an Volksgrenadier division

Thats a bit misleading. Sorry. I didn't want to say that a division had only a couple of squads.
Each VG-division was supposed to have 3 regiments (one with bycicles) which were supposed to have 2 grenadier battalions each.
Each battalion had infantry companies and each of these companies was supposed to have specified assauld-rifle-equipped squads.

Hope it makes more sense now.

>>53927336
>>53927423

Thanks, I may consider the starter set since it seems better value. Good to know it's fairly accurate for late war (for BA standards).

>>53927674
Check amazon or ebay for a good deal on that starter box. I've seen those for as low as 70€.

Also keep in mind that you need the books (pdfs are in the OP) and a set of order dice (around 10gbp, maybe cheaper on ebay).

>>53918125
>>53918311
If you're doing Fighting In Someone's House, 1/48 terrain makes it a lot easier to fit the fuckers in there.

>>53927782
Speaking of fish & chips, actually, I picked up one of the Wally Simon books recently. This one, specifically: https://wargamingmiscellany.blogspot.co.nz/2016/10/wally-simons-skirmish-secrets-of.html

It's a book of highlights from wargames magazines, basically a bunch of short articles where the guy does a small skirmish game with a specific goal or mechanic. Some of them are not really worth the time, some are fascinating but not something you'd want to play, and one of them, which I really should scan since it's so short, was a neat set for house to house stuff in the balkans. The Zgroshk one from that list, if anyone's got it. Both forces were identical, and had troops organised into five-man teams, which went at each other or just hid in houses and didn't do shit - to attack, you rolled to see how many figures in the squad didn't fire, and getting one or two non-firing members was pretty common. Once one guy was wounded, though, well that's the team down to three total possible combatants, as one guy's down and another's taking care of them, and if someone else gets shot dead then there's a good chance they won't get to do shit... which is where sergeants come in, rounding up understrength teams and yelling at them to merge and get back into it.

You also had two machine guns per side, which started off-board and had to be yelled at by a sergeant to get them moving and attached to a team - with only a couple of sergeants, managing that became a hassle. And then there were the wounded!

Neat game, I should really scan it.

The machine gun duel one was also interesting - you chose how many shots to fire from the active figure (lmg, hmg, smg, rifle, whatever) and had a certain probability of hitting - by adding extra shots and wasting ammo, you could walk fire onto targets and take out a whole enemy team with 100% accuracy... but, oops, that was 80 shots out of your 100-round belt, really should have controlled your bursts better.

>>53927898
On reading that blog post, I didn't realise that they highlighted the same two games I did. Heh.

The book wasn't cheap, being £16 or so for a short booklet, but I'm probably going to buy another one of the series at some point. It was interesting in the best way.

>>53927913
And by the way, there are reviews of some of the other volumes over on the lone warrior site: http://lonewarriorswa.com/reviews

They've made it a project to review a whole bunch of old stuff, and even if you're not a solo wargamer, a lot of the reviews are useful!

Hey I was wondering if one of you guys could help me out, cause I'm a bit confused.

I sent an email to Warlord Games' info@ email address, concerning some missing parts on a sprue I received.
I already have an account with them under the email address I sent the email from. I even made an order in their shop from that address.

Immediately after sending off my question and getting the default 'Ticket received' mail I got another email for an account activation. Which, if they made another one for me would use the same email they already should have an account under.

Is this normal? Doesn't seem to make any sense to me.

>>53928977
I think they have issues with accounts. Afaik ordering and website use different accounts, but i'm not sure.

Thinking about buying a box each of the Victrix center and flank companies. Are they any good?

>>53929180
If you like assembling plastic minis, then yes, definitely.

Can someone recommend me a game about small groups of chivalric knights kicking the shit out of each other? Something with a good amount of focus on individual models (Stances, maneuvers) for the HEMA enthusiast in us all would be great.

>>53929180

> Playing Napoleonics in 28mm.

>>53929864
Not medieval knights, but JUGULA might be worth a look. Its about Gladiators, and i expect it to have detailed combat rules for single miniatures. Maybe it can be used for knights too.

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>>53929864
This is a beer-&-pretzels game that fits that description.

If you want something more crunchy, go check the Song of Swords thread (if there's one up).

>>53929017
>Afaik ordering and website use different accounts, but i'm not sure.
That's a bit weird, but I guess that would explain having to make the same account twice.
Thanks.

>>53927240
>Is this Grenadier starter set for Bolt Action any good?

They could be solid gold with embedded diamonds and sculpted down to the atomic level. The fact that they're meant for BA still means they're shit.

>>53927898

Thanks for that link, anon.

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Has anyone attempted to play Charlie company? Even if you haven't can you attempt to decyper this car crash of a force determination table. I'm assuming the blanks for US Army are for an Infantry Squad and the Weapons Squad, or am I forced to use USMC as US Army?

>>53931198
Okay, I'll take the bait.

>implying you can't use 28mm WW2 figures for whatever you want

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I have these supposedly Italeri 25mm US Paratroopers from about ~16 years back and I found a store nearby where they sell more of this line and was thinking about getting a pack of german infantry from them. What ruleset would be a good starting point to getting into ww2 wargaming with this at my disposal? I have never did any wargaming but a 7,50$ investment seems reasonable and I have someone to play with.

>>53931963
1:72 figures, rather than 25mm.

As to Mr. Baity's dismay, I'd recommend Bolt Action. OR you could check Operation Squad as well, it requires less minis (as the name suggests, only a squad).

>>53931963
1:72 is more like 20mm, but thats not important.

7,50 for a set like this is quite expensive though. They can (should) be cheaper, but its ok i guess.

Check out 5 men at normandy from the OP. That system should work fine with that amount of soldiers (if you get an equally strong opposing force).

>>53931198
>replying to the bait

>>53932015
>>53932042
Standing figures measure 25mm with a ruler that's why I assumed they are called that. 7,50 is a 50 figure pack and I'm from Hungary where everything is expensive as fuck. I'll check them out, thank you for the suggestions!

>>53932088
Lol, csá geci.

>>53932108
Van valami jó bolt Budapesten ahol occsón lehet figurákat venni?

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>>53932088
>>53932108
Drop me an email at tamas872[at]freemail.hu and I'll supply some 1:72s to you.

also: I had to complete like 10 fucking captchas. Fuckign Christ, why can't it be numbers again.

>>53932088
Sizes like 28mm/25mm/20mm are measured from the ground to the eyes but its not really important anyway.

http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=457

Seems like this is your set (Italeri reboxed it according to this page).

1:72 is a really good scale to start out cheaply with the hobby.

Check the OP, there are plenty of rule systems for WW2 gaming.

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>>53918125

As I'm including a lot of links in the post this stupid system thinks that it's SPAM, so I will try with it attached.

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>>53932262

The pic.

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>>53932288
And it's live!!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/firelockgames/blood-and-plunder-no-peace-beyond-the-line

... and funded in 2 hours. Now, gimme those stretchgoals.

>>53932262
Wow, these furniture sets are great. Is this really made from plastic? Or resiN?

The buildings are decent i guess, but there are plenty of sellers of generic mdf houses for low prices these days, and with a little love and work they can look just as good as 4grounds.

>>53932318
I don't normally like to call shill, but you sure have been posting this a lot, and your "8 hours to go post" got 0 replies. You aren't involved in development are you?

>>53932343
I'm not, just insanely excited. Will shut up now.

>>53932171
Sent ;)

On a sidenote fuck freemail.

>>53932373
No no, if you are legit excited carry on, I wouldn't want to get in the way of legit hwg relevant exuberance

Link related does a clearance sale and some military kits and miniatures are pretty cheap right now:

http://fromemodelcentre.com

>>53924865
omnia gallia in tres partes divisa est
>happy memories

>>53932867
>>happy memories
We found our Latin studies quite different I think

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>>53932338

Chinese hard plastic, anon.

>>53927898
I was bought the Solo Secrets volume for Xmas, and was a bit underwhelmed. Same format, but he basically repeats 2 kinds of solo game in different periods.
1. Random dungeon. Lay out an array of cards in 6" squares on the table, turn one over when entering the square to reveal enemy troops, minefield, arms cache, treasure, etc.
2. Zombie attack. The enemy just keep coming until your guys hack them to bits (or fail)
These make useful solo scenarios, but there are no great ideas about solo play in regular scenarios, for example.

>>53923023
>https://us-store.warlordgames.com/collections/bolt-action/products/large-factory

I have a review of it on my blog at hntdaab.co.uk*/*blog

Roof is detachable, the interior walkway could be assembled in such a way but it would not be very strong. The crane over the main section can be detachable if you don't glue it

>>53935740
>my blog at hntdaab.co.uk*/*blog
Serious question now - why would you write it "scrambled" like that?

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>>53936391
probably had trouble getting the link through 4chan's anti-spam filters.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadian-elite-special-forces-sniper-sets-record-breaking-kill-shot-in-iraq/article35415651/

>>53933114
Yeah, that one did seem interesting but I got the feeling it wouldn't be as broad as some of the other volumes. TBF with stuff like PEF mechanics from THW and all the other developments in solo wargaming, it's going to be a wee bit outdated - particularly because solo wargaming is often best in campaign form.

>>53923998
What faction box did you get?

>>53942576
Dutch, generic european army, generic sailors and a second of either of these, as well as all the ships. Yeah, I went a bit nuts.

I am sorely tempted to go double on the sailors, and use one of them for danish pirates.

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>>53942656
>danish pirates.
Now this anon like his obscure factions

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>>53942705
>Negerbay

>>53930068
>not owning a textured and flocked basketball court

>>53942977
It's just a football pitch with no markings on, size's about right.

>>53945829
Looks like it'd be an excellent table for Blood and Plunder.

>>53945940
For a short moment there, I thought it was.

>>53945958
I did as well until I saw the sandbags and figs.

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>>53945940
The big ol' Buddha in the background might take a bit of explaining, unless of course the pirates involved were of the South Asian variety

>>53946005
I don't think it's glued to the board, it's probably on a stand of its own.

>>53931963
Battlegroup Kursk/Normandy/ecc.. From the OP.

>>53948401
>there are people who don't paint the visible white on flags they stuck together wrong
Am I just overly autistic?

>>53948712
No, it bugs me too, now that you pointed it out. But then again, I always take a sharpie and black the edges of all my bases and counters and the like, so take that as you will.

Question about the typical paper flags. How stupid an idea would it be to glue it together with watered down wood glue (and giving it some shape aside from "straight as if a rod in a storm)? Completely stupid, might work or actually a good idea?

Graviteam has Operation Star at a mere 6USD on Steam. Has anyone played games from this developer?

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>>53948924
I don't know about wood glue, but I use PVA and glue it wavy.

Pic related, some Spanish Infantry with wavy flags.

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Played a few games of Memoir '44 with a buddy last night and I think I'm finally wearing him down to start trying historicals. I've had the Bolt Action second edition set sitting around for a bit but didn't have anyone to play with. Now I just have to learn the rules. . .

>>53948924
>>53949445

Wood glue is PVA with less water than the kind you find in craft shops.

They are great Strategy games with a great learning curve. I recommend you however the two sucessors graviteam:mius or tank warfare: tunisia

>>53950310
Thank you. I suspected as much (and I think I've looked it up before, but forgot it)

>>53949445
Glad to see I' not the first one.

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>>53913282
Historical fa/tg/uys and ca/tg/irls of /tg/, I need you.

Can you tell me what the fuck is this?

>>53952580
Some kind of bonkers cannon ammunition, probably designed for naval use because those hooks and fire would fuck up sails and masts nicely.

Probably didn't catch on because it looks stupidly complex to produce and is probably not much better than chain shot.

>>53952580
The construction on the gun suggests mid 1400s, might be a re-drawing of one of those designs in the book by Talhoffer?

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The Thracians and the Greeks, on the verge of engaging on a big battle against one another, sent two small detachments to try and secure a bridge crossing for their baggage trains, without realizing that the enemy might’ve sent the a detachment of his own to the battle. It is a cold, windy day and a light rain falls on the battlefield.

Scouts of each army manage to see spot the other’s army, and their commanders arrive not far from one another, and take some time to sort out the armies before engaging in battle. The Greek peltasts hide in the forest and attempt to set up an ambush, while their Thracian counterparts attempt to screen their falxmen before they can engage the hoplites. The cavalry and some of the falxmen stay in the reserves, while the archers are poised to try and take control of the area by harassing the falxmen who have little protection. In the meantime, the Greeks send most of their hoplites to try and secure the left bridge, keeping one in the reserves.

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The Thracians go on the offensive first, and almost immediately seize the right bridge, pushing further and further. Their cavalry doesn’t quite manage to group up properly and is harassed by the archers, and lags behind, while they slowly move to seize the left bridge, the peltasts trying their best to harass the hoplites.

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Despite Greek resistance, the Thracian peltasts manage to break into the forest, even if under heavy resistance, and the Greeks move their sole hoplite to engage with the Thracians. On the left, the archers are successful at holding back the falxmen and the hoplites move into the bridge to try and seize it.

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A devastating offensive combining archers and infantry by the Greeks pushes the Thracians back, who gather up to attempt to hold the hoplites back. Meanwhile near the woods, the Thracians and Greeks find themselves at a stalemate and the hoplites and falxmen attempt to circle one another, while the cavalry approaches under heavy archer fire.

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The battle near the left bridge ends in a Greek defeat, with the hoplites pulling back, but the archers harass the falxmen hard enough that they do not advance. The Thracian cavalry suffers heavy casualties from the archers and engaging with the hoplites, but the falxmen are nearly done circling the woods. Meanwhile, the battle between the peltasts stays a stalemate, with neither side gaining an upper hand.

Damnit, I realized I must've skipped a post somewhere. I believe it was Post 3. Consider 3's writeup the one for post 4, and so onwards. This is the one for post 3:

"The Greek peltasts on the right engage the Thracian ones - eventually, despite the advantage in being hidden in a forest, the greek peltasts are suffering considerable casualties.
The greek archers are applying quite a few casualties on the falxmen trying to cross the right side of the bridge, however they are less successful with their left side counterparts."

And this is write up for post 6:
The battle near the bridge ends in a Greek defeat, with the hoplites pulling back, but the archers harass the falxmen hard enough that they do not advance. The Thracian cavalry suffers heavy casualties from the archers and engaging with the hoplites, but the falxmen are nearly done circling the woods. Meanwhile, the battle between the peltasts stays a stalemate, with neither side gaining an upper hand.

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The Greek hoplites attempt to fall back further, but one of them ends up pinned by the peltasts. The Greek archers fail to pin down the approaching falxmen, the cavalry retreats, and the peltast’s brawl seems to be going to the side of the Greeks.

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The woodland forest halts again before the Greek peltasts get sandwiched by Falxmen, but they still suffer a few casualties from being pinned by the Greek archers. Meanwhile the hoplites near the forest attempt to attack the Thracian peltasts but are harassed back and fail to make any sort of gains in the area. And on the left bridge, the falxmen engage, but the fight doesn't seem to go towards anyone's side. The other Thracian peltast moves towards the bridge to join up forces, and one of the Greek hoplites joins up to combat the potential threat of the incoming falxmen.

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The hoplites on the left bridge manage to hold without suffering many casualties, while the falxmen don't have such luck. The fight in the woods boils down to a stalemate again, while the hoplites are harassed by the peltasts moving towards the right and suffer a decent amount of casualties. The falxmen and hoplites charge into one another, and combat breaks out with no one being a clear winner as of right now. Meanwhile, the cavalry charges - and the archers start suffering heavy casualties.

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The northernmost archers are heavily beaten and pushed back, but do not rout. The hoplites on the left bridge are pushed back and the falxmen manage a breakthrough. The hoplites near the forest attempt to move to flank the falxmen but are still pinned down by the peltasts, which are approaching. The battle between the falxmen and the hoplites grinds to a halt, while the Greek peltasts in the forest finally rout.

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The hoplite is now pinned and continuosly suffering casualties from now both peltasts harassing it. The warriors just manage to rout the hoplites on the left bridge, and the cavalry routs the archers and manages not to get pinned by the fire of the southern archers. In the ensuing chaos, the falxmen take the upper hand in the centremost battle. Seeing the ensuing result, both

Bit of a write-up on the game: it was honestly really quite fun, being considerably lightweight and easy to run, on top of the turns being simultaneous, which meant both had to adjust on the fly to whichever actions their enemies took. The game took about an hour and a half to run besides around an hour to setup which was entirely on my end, so nothing too big there. Would I run it again? Probably.

>>53954298
What system was this run in, and did you play physically or using Vassal/rolld20 etc?

>>53954823
We played over Discord using Free Kriegspiel.

>>53954857
very nice

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>>53952748
Searched it again. >>53952643 got it right. Here's more info about it:
http://forum.sailingnavies.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=724&sid=0523c0ec1d7245745b09393fb6eb5445

Pic related. You can see a lot of incendiary carcasses with hooks amidst the sails of one ship. Link above tells of "fire darts", whose description matches the first pic.

>>53952580
>>53956180
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe7Xnmuw7uA
The video mentioned on the site. Interesting bit at 18:18.

>>53954298
Cheers once more for running the game mate. Lots of fun 10/10 would play again.

>>53952580
There's a cannon in the Korean war memorial museum that looks a lot like this.

>>53956476
>gunpowder, invented in China thousands of years before the west even heard of it.
No, it was actually less than a thousand years.

I hate how American television portrays Chinese discoveries. It's always "the treasure ships were thiiiiiiiiiiis big!" or "they had EVERYTHING before us!" or "oldest civilization on earth!"

Why do we give Western history such good scrutiny but buy into Chinese exaggerations without question?

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Picked this up at Origins this year. Anybody else happen to play it?

>>53957034
>Why do we give Western history such good scrutiny but buy into Chinese exaggerations without question?

Because a lot of our networks get money from Chinese companies and/or want to get into the Chinese market, which means nothing bad ever gets said about China.

>>53957034

Because the West has been far too soft since 1945, we think we need someone to save us from ourselves. We lack confidence.

They're now trying to claim that Arabs invented Penicillin.

Hi, Trafalgar player here. Just wondering if there were rules for the Flying Dutchman for that system

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>>53960465
I get the feeling you could use any rules you wanted for that one, anon

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>>53958861
All western history has been flooded by 'pc'ism'

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(Heavy breathing)

Hope it's better and more balanced than team yankee?

>>53961627
I don't know, do you hope it will be better balanced?

>>53961627
I might jinx something, but would that be difficult?

>>53961627
Hopefully this means more cold war plastics from PSC as well.

>>53962034
They've put up a pre-order for 1:72 T-55s, which needs 200 units to be preordered to enter production, as well as 15mm Leopards will come.

I'm hoping for 1:72 infantry.

>>53961627
>Another 'cold war gone hot' rule set, instead of focusing on actual wars of the period
ah well. 1/72 modern infantry would be nice. Hopefully they do some supplements for actual conflicts.

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>>53946005
>Portuguese and Dutch merchant sailors vs Wokou pirates in Indochina.

Would play

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>>53962310
3rd world nation fightan doesn't shift units.

And nobody remembers Korea.

>>53961627
>T-80U on the cover
Well, its a good start, hopefully it won't get CHEERS'd

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>>53963154
>hopefully it won't get CHEERS'd

?

>>53962831
Pretty sure everyone would buy into 'Nam. Arab-Israeli war and Gulf wars would also be popular. Bosnia and Chechnya would be excellent to get games for, seeing as almost no-one covers them. More even forces too.

>>53963251
I don't know the guy's name, but one of the head dudes for Flames of War shits all over the Soviet faction. "CHEERS" comes from how he signs tweets.

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>>53963333
Long time post-WW2 player here: they're really not that popular. All kinds of non-fiction modern wars suffer from a certain stigmatisation that puts people off. It's not exactly logical but the adverse reaction is there. Also people just don't like asymmetric wars for the most part because it implies only one player gets all the fun stuff to play with and the other player has to buy a shit-ton of figures by comparison. Or one person has to buy everything, which ain't exactly a good option if you're a business hoping to get people buying your stuff (especially to offset costs of plastics mould production) as really you need whole groups getting into it not just one person and whoever is dragged into a game.

Doing NATO vs Soviets bypasses that somewhat and as a bonus lets all the people have all the toys instead of just one player getting the fancy shit and beating up on the other side. Plus has plenty of room for different forces to get more people interested as they can simply pick a nation.

Nobody gives a fuck about Bosnia btw. The anglosphere tends to forget that war even happened despite getting involved. Arab-Israeli war is only popular for those playing Israel. Gulf wars is only popular for those playing the coalition. Sod all people like playing an incredibly weak side because victory by victory conditions is less popular and easily comprehensible than victory by removing the other player's toys.

>>53963710
I'm sad that sentiments like yours exist (and seem to be somewhat common). Many of those wars are fascinating and complex. Throwing masses of tanks against each other à la WW2, but using Soviet and NATO equipment seems so boring compared to the interesting tactics and situations that arose from the real conflicts.

Asymmetrical warfare can be incredibly rewarding for both sides, its rare that the side without "all the toys" will have insane amount of men instead - usually they have about the same, if not less men and rely on local knowledge and support and the ability to disappear into the terrain to survive.
I think the main issue is that it takes more thought to make an asymmetrical wargame and usually you would have to tailor it to the conflict. Its fairly easy to take your WW2 period wargame, throw on some modern skins and it will still likely work for massed tank and infantry pitched battles. Making something like Vietnam or Chechnya work would take a lot more time and effort, although it would be well worth it for those interested in the conflicts.
People also have no frame of reference to know how the units performed against each other in a hypothetical war, or the tactics that would evolve. At least actual conflicts give good examples of how units perform and how the use of units changes over time - the war of tactics: learning from experience and trying to out-think the enemy I think is one of the most interesting aspects of warfare, which most hypothetical war settings tend to ignore completely.

It appears they're more interested in profits than history.

>>53961627
Fuck and i just bought in bigtime into the ww2 version... Well atleast i know what my next projects will be ^^ Still have that "red storm rising" itch to scratch

>>53964051
>It appears they're more interested in profits than history.

Well duh, they're a model company. The people who care about history more than making money wrote the game.

Also 'no frame of reference' is a bit far given the excessive amounts of simulation and analysis that went on during and following the cold war.

>>53964051
>It appears they're more interested in profits than history.

I think asymmetrical battles would be pretty cool, but let's be honest here - these guys have to focus on profits. They're running a business here. If you're not making money, you're preparing to shut the business down.

>>53966040
Plus you have Force on Force for assymetrical warfare.

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>>53964257
>'no frame of reference' is a bit far given the excessive amounts of simulation and analysis that went on during and following the cold war
There are still some pretty big holes. How does a T-80U perform against an M1A2 Abrahms? How do the various Russian missiles perform against the M1A2 or M1? Lots of equipment hasn't had certain ordnance live-tested against it to my knowledge.

>>53966040
>these guys have to focus on profits
Eh it's fine by me, I don't play BG and don't plan to play their modern version, so they can cater to the lowest common denominator if they want.
Personally my interest in wargames starts with history. Alternative history is just kind of meh -
doesn't have the rich background and first hand accounts that actual conflicts have. I like to be able to read books and watch documentaries about a war and listen to music inspired by it while painting my tiny mans.

People do seem to like cold war gone got though, so by all means continue liking what I don't like. I'm sure it would be fun if done right.

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Who here plays in a WW2 setting where the holocaust never actually happened? I do for Five Men at Kursk. I feel it adds an extra layer of realism to the game.

>>53958861
That's true, but I don't think they expect this network content be consumed in China.

I suspect it's more just an exoticism thing contrasted with western self-critical views.

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>>53968684
Here's another image for you guys.

>>53963710
Bosnia has certain "genocide in recent memory" issues. I can see how it might not be popular. I remember traveling throughout that area, and the Serbs were the only ones who actually saw it as a war. The rest of them saw it as a horrible clusterfuck that was part of the fall of Yugoslavia. Less a war than a collapse involving mass violence against civilians.

>>53968684
>>53968773
I'd say /pol/ pls go but this bait is too tasty. Kudos to you sir.

On another topic, does anyone think gaming Syria/Libya in the future is going to be awesome? All the wacky technicals and improvised shit. Crazy fanaticism alongside military organization. It looks like it has a lot of potential.

>>53968886
It ain't bait bud.
I'd post more art but I just formatted my SSD so that's all I've got.

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>>53968904
Sure it isn't anon.

>>53968904
>Doubt

>>53968977
There's entire books written on the topic. If you really thought it was bait, you wouldn't be replying. Anyway, I wasn't looking to derail the thread with politics, I was just wondering if anyone here shared that with me.
Cheers.

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>>53969029
Not bait? Ok.

>There's entire books written on the topic
>pic related

>>53969111
So you would assume anyone who posts about healing crystals is baiting? I'm not saying their being books about the topic is proof of my being right, but you shouldn't just assume everything is bait when it seems controversial. Take a trip to /x/ sometime, I can assure you 9/10 people on there are NOT baiting. They seriously believe the things they are talking about.
And like I said, if you really thought my post was just bait, you wouldn't be replying.

>>53932318
Yeah, really excited. Like the world needs another fucking Pirate game.

>>53970601
I'm pretty neutral on the whole matter but how many other pirate games actually are there?

The only other one I can think of is Legends of the High Seas and that's dead.

>>53969154
>They seriously believe the things they are talking about.
That doesn't make it true though.

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>>53968684
>>53968773
dont suppose you have a similar pic or pics or even like a gallery or manual on camo schemes for armour?
>google
>search ww2 german camo schemes
>search specifics like sdkfz 251 Normandy camo
>search stuff like ww2 France camo schemes
>all I get are black and white pics or eastern front schemes

>>53936391
yeah, I got slapped down by the spam filter

>>53970715
That was my point.
>>53972165
No sorry, all my book pics got lost when I had to format my SSD. Otherwise I'd post more. Just Google "WW2 nazi uniform art", should have some good stuff.

>>53970601
There are like three or four over the past ten years, what are you complaining about?

>>53972457
>I'd post more
We have all that stuff in our folders anyway

>>53972607
Apparently not. Read the thread. >>53972165

>>53972629
obviously that anon has not even bothered to look

>>53972457
ah well thanks anyway buddy.

>>53972652
Wow good point, I hadn't even considered that.
Do you have a point?
>>53972659
Most of it was just found on Google anyway. Good luck finding stuff. Cheers

>>53969029
>Cheers
>>53972683
>Cheers
The fuck is this

>>53972719
What are you whining about now?

>>53972719
The TV show, dumbass. They had a wargaming episode and its a shout out to that

>>53972759
Nah I just say "cheers" as a sort of "farewell" thing. Not a reference to anything
Why is this relevant anyway?

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>>53972165
Your first port of call: the Tank Encyclopedia
http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/
I don't mean to comment on your google-fu, but you could narrow the searches down to specific units i.e. 21st Panzer Normandy; in this case that led me to this
http://www.wargames-romania.ro/wordpress/articles/history/german-camouflage-panzer-iv-part-ii/
Also as another anon noted we have a lot of reference materials in our OP folders; I've never added a lot of Vanguard stuff because the info is usually available elsewhere, but as always if there's a specific title you might need let me know

>>53963154
Erm, a T-80U on the cover doesn't give me a huge amount of hope in that direction any more than the prevalent T-72s in BF's TY did.

T-80U never saw service in GSFG. So another fantasy set.

>>53915476
It's adieu.

>>53972165
The thing about German camouflage, especially later in the war, is it all came down to decision on local units or what was available.

the tanks were delivered in dark yellow painted with canned pigments mixed with (ideally) fuel and painted on with a built in air compressor by the crew. The amount of pigment mixed varied based on how much the crew used, so shades are different frequently.

It all came down to:

Crew skill, time available, Shortages, and local climate.

It's nice to find local schemes, but as long as you go for a base of dark yellow and stick to a
green and brown, you'll be fine.

So working on my 28mm Civil War, intended to fight for Antietam.

The Union are going to be 69th New York Volunteers.

The Confederates are going to be partially Louisiana Tigers, but I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for unique units or just historically interesting ones to bolster them, as I'm not making all the rebels Zouaves.

>>53972786
nah, it's crossover Philposters from /fowg/

cheers

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>>53973757
Cheers

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>>53973487
>Louisiana Tigers
Nice one anon, they were the first wargaming unit I ever collected and painted
Well if you're doing Antietam, and including the 69th NY, how about their brethren in Cobb's Irish Georgia Brigade?
Also don't forget to hit the Ospreys, there's something like five MAAs covering the Confederate Army at every level

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Incidentally the guy I posted above is from the 10th Regiment Tennessee Volunteers, but they only served in their home state, and had just the one big battle (Stones River/2nd Murfreesboro)

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>>53973487
I know a few guys who reenact 69th New York (I'm a reb myself, but it's nice to have friends on the other side). If you want yanks the Duryée's Zouaves are pretty cool. They were at Antietam. There's also the 2nd US Sharpshooters, the 72nd Pennsylvania (previously the 3rd California), and the 1st Maine cavalry.

As for the good guys, you've got the 2nd South Carolina, the 2nd Florida, 12th Virginia, and the Jeff Davis Legion for cavalry.

What's a good way to build trenches for WW2 in 28mm scale?

Anyone got tips or some good reference images?

>>53974667

Thanks, they should be fun, even given their ridiculously hard to paint pants, they should look pretty stylish though.

might give a look through the Ospreys for uniform and history inspiration, I was thinking a second Irish unit but read that the Louisiana Tigers were already a fair bit Irish and I think having solely immigrants murdering each other for an American war would depress me too much.


>>>53975725


Thanks anon, I'll take a poke through the units on the history and read more about them.

>>53976742

I made them for 40k, but maybe this tutorial I threw together awhile back will help.

>>53978323
Have had too much beer, forgot the link

https://imgur.com/a/DmBBC

>>53963710
Best asymmetric game I've tried so far is Hind and Seek. Soviets in Afghanistan and it does a good job making decisions on both sides meaningful and balanced.

>>53973446
This is not necessarily true. Some of the camo patterns were applied in the factory already and were standardized. Especially the so called "Ambush"-patterns.
http://www.miniatures.de/camouflage-german-wehrmacht.html

To come to your question:
>>53972913
The Ambush pattern was used heavily in the normandy.

>>53972719
Cheers is just britbong for thank you

Holy shit you guys have fucking Phoenix Command PDFs. Does anyone actually play it?

>>53979051
>The Ambush pattern was used heavily in the normandy.
Er, no. Ambush camo started being applied during the autumn of -44, and was mostly seen during the following winter.

For normandy, it was still individually applied green and brown splotches.

>>53979105
In Autumn vehicles already left factories in red primer though. Ambush was applied during the summer.

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>>53979105
>>53979051

The use of the ambush pattern is highly exaggerated in wargaming and scale modelling i feel. In reality it was only applied to factory new vehicles for a very short time (like 3 month at max).
So naturally the number of vehicles in that paint scheme should be somewhat rare but somehow modelers and painters seem to love it so it seems like 50% of all german tanks end up painted in ambush.

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>>53979100
>Does anyone actually play it?
It was never intended as a game itself, but rather a system you could use on its own. (Of course it was later turned into specific systems like Aliens and Living Steel). Apparently it doesn't really deserve its reputation because there were definitely more complicated systems. (The same guys actually produced another rule set that was really arcane but I can't remember the name). Once they're familiar with the basics people seem to run it with ease. These days you could probably use various programs to crunch the numbers too, which would speed things up.

Still, it's probably more a curiosity than anything, although the tank rules will definitely be interesting to grogs who really want a crunchy simulation. But if I had to use a contemporary ruleset that covered the same ground, I'd probably go for Twilight 2000.

>>53973160
>Cold War Gone Hot
Well, what exactly could be if not a fantasy set? You remember the great Hot War of the 1980's? Oh, those were the days, when M1A1s and T80s roamed Europe, slinging shit at each other and tactical nukes galore...

>>53978323
>>53978424
This'll help a lot, thanks man

>>53957034
Because Eurocentrism is a major crime in historiographical circles these days.

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>>53979040
Very kind of you anon. It took me a while to make asymmetrical "work" on the tabletop without double blind / referee. Seems to work ok though.
We finally got the printed version of H&S ready if anyone's interested.

I also plan to do a Vietnam version at some stage, after I finish this modern air combat game
The tentative title is I Can't Tet No...

>>53982552
A good title.

Little cliche, but fuck it, why not?

>>53982552
>We finally got the printed version of H&S ready if anyone's interested.
I've been waiting for this btw. Doing it through WGV? Do you know if there's any discount if you've already bought it in PDF?

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>>53982552
"Me LRRP You Long Time"

>>53982696
Made my morning

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>>53982683
Yep its through WV. I just tried to set up a discount, but there's a waiting period between approval for printing and being able to set up discounts. It should be a few weeks but I'll give out 5 discount printed titles here - $8 instead of $14

>>53982696
You know, having lived in Vietnam, it's weird, the girls are either that well endowed or totally flat. Like all or nothing.
Some odd genetics at work there.

>>53983435
>girls are either that well endowed or totally flat

IMHO, this is just a visual expression of the US Army's contribution to the overall Vietnamese genepool.

>>53983534
One theory I heard involved there being a large gap between the sea-going coastal populace, the lowland rice-farmers, and the inland highland peoples. Three groups that traditionally didn't interact much unless it was for the purposes of trade or war.

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Any good /hwg/ related games going cheap in the steam summer sale?

>>53980152
No prob, just be sure to ensure the trench sides are wide enough that models don't slip off due to the angle, mine do sometimes and its a pain.

>>53984817
Tabletop Simulator is half off

>>53984964
I might try a textured spraypaint to add a little roughness to the cardboard.

>>53985694
The plaster is pretty rough as is, I don't think textured spraypaint would make model adhesion any better. We I able to have more terrain storage I probably just would've set them into a table.

>>53984817
A lot of Slitherine stuff is discounted right now.

Anyone got blitzkrieg commander ii? Want to get into it but I checked out 3 and it seems like its a shitshow thats been recalled.

Whatever happened to the American Revolution guy that posted his Brits?

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>Be playing World in Flames, as the Soviets
>Set a garrison army in the Carpathians, more as a speedbump for the expected attack, he exerts a ZoC onto the railroad going through Lvov, meaning he needs to be either cleared out (annoying), or screened off with several units.
> Opponent has been unwilling to use airpower to disrupt this out of supply unit
>And sitting undisrupted, even without supply, he defends pretty well.
>As a result, the invasion started ahistorically in mid-may. It is now the start of October
>He is still there
>He has wiped out a few Hungarian divisions trying to pry him loose.
>There are now 6 corps keeping him company
>And unless he can disrupt the guy (difficult to do in winter), he'll probably stay there until 1942.

I need an appropriate commemoration for this garr unit when he does eventually get killed. Anyone have any ideas?

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>>53988995
dunno

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Next terrain project is going to be this, post-crashing.

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>>53989780
Will there be survivors?

>>53990342
Unclear. I'm gonna have it with a fresh layer of snow over it.

Given that PO-2 pilots didn't get issued parachutes though, maybe I should include the pilot's frozen body?

>>53990635
Including a body does let you add stuff like a pool of frozen blood, which can add a splash of colour to the terrain, which could look really nice if done properly.

>>53990676
Oooh, that would be fun. Definitely gonna try it out.

Issue is now I need a female-looking body for this, because Night Witches

>>53990692
I'm pretty sure you can find an appropriate body in the /awg/ miniature list, as they list quite a few sites that sell quite a few female miniatures.

Although I should point out that most people look the same face down in a bloodied greatcoat.

>>53989082
reform the unit as a Guards Garrison unit.

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Have any of you played that new(ish) Congo game? Wargames Foundry are providing all the models.

Looks decent, wondered if any of you had played it?

>>53990692

Title of the project is "Women Can't Drive", right?

>>53989082
Love hearing stories like this!

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>>53989780
>>53990692
Interesting stuff. Here is perhaps a little inspiration, from the opening pages of "The Night Owl", a beautifully illustrated French comic about a Luftwaffe ace on the Eastern Front, which features the Night Witches extensively.

https://mega.nz/#!jglilLoZ!Ei2k4WNHA_av4UcrPKB9XnNJ74lREI_EA0DYPWacm8o

>>53995871
So, how does it come that the grandmother of a german soldier lived in a village near Nizhny Novgorod?

>>53996406
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Germans_in_Russia,_Ukraine_and_the_Soviet_Union

>>53996415
I'm well aware, and i'm also aware that the town in question lies way behind moscow, so its highly unlikely that he was recruited in a regular way. (Especially since the soviets re-settled/deported all ethnic germans towards the east to prevent that).

I was just curious if that comic book has an explanation. I guess i'll read it to see.

>>53996446
She could easily have emigrated to Germany decades before, most likely during the chaos of 1918-1923, there's nothing implying he's Russian.

>>53995871
What's up with comics about the Night Witches featuring love stories and blonde russian women with huge tits?

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>>53997137
Tropes of the genre I guess
I would assume there was at least a modest amount of both IRL

>>53997161
Well it was a fun read, had good action and plenty of large bosums.

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An interesting-looking matrix game based on the current North Korean situation

>>53998249

Man, I haven't seen a Matrix game in years - it has sure grown up since then.
It was just "three reasons" back then - now it's all "pros&cons" and "simple narrative".
Awesome, tbqh.
IMHO, "Pros&Cons" is superior.

>>53999292
Ivan of FiveCore fame did a pseudo-MG called War Stories.

Do you guys know if the soviets got any M8 or M20 armored cars from the US as part of the Lend&Lease deliveries?

>>54000518

doesnt the small square in the Soviet army book mention it? Otherwise have you tried searched for it?

There is a guy on twitch bulding/painting historical vehicles.

www twitch tv/eilelwen

That alone would be nice since 99% of the miniatures-streamers do paint 40k stuff, but his vehicles actually look really nice.

>>53999400
Any idea if it is any good?

>>54000680
neat

>>54000518
I don't believe they did. We Brits did, though.

>>54000663
Its not for a "gaming" army.

All i could find was that the free french and brazil got some of them.