'>Advanced Squad Leader
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/d9x0dbxrpjg48/Advanced_Squad_Leader
>AK-47 Republic
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/6v39gcjode5ln/Insanely_Based_AK-47_Republic_Folder
>Battleground WWII
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/cb83cg7ays4l1/Battleground_WWII
>Battlegroup
https://mega.nz/#F!SolyxarJ!GUg6zWBStfznr6BvYedghQ
>Black Powder
http://www.mediafire.com/file/f8a58xjysyweaz8/Black+Powder+Rulebook.pdf
>Bolt Action
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/n7jmdnlv1n0ju/Bolt_Action
>By Fire And Sword
https://mega.co.nz/#!jxgCWTYD!FCp52DAqIUc-EM-TsRsWv7fB92nJ3kkzKsNcD_urI5Q
>Flames of War
https://mega.nz/folder/lc1SRajQ#QTDXthNFG-sDoYe08bhV9A
>Fleet Series
https://mega.nz/#F!i1N3xZxL!C6fQ3Z8o2U0gtk5kdXuVcQ
>GMT
https://mega.nz/#F!D1dHQZCJ!V9pYq0CUc4iCrNiOcBOBtg
>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
>The Perfect Captain
http://perfectcaptain.50megs.com/captain.html
>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';

'>>92619343
>What is your hobby guilty pleasure?
Starting new projects before finishing the current ones.';

'>>92619343
TQ: I go all-in on accessories. I'm working on a project at the moment, and not only have I built a new 15mm army specifically for this battle/theatre, I have bought specific dice, a custom-cut tray for storage, etc. All this for something where I could have brought models, dice, etc which I already own.';

'>>92620424
I do this sometimes by overestimating how quickly I can finish up a battallion or company. I have an Italian line regiment on the desk rn I'm almost finished with and a box of combined elite companies and hussars on the shelf. I'd say it's fine as long as you don't have piles upon piles of unpainted models and kits lying around.';

'>>92620526
What's the war and theater? If it's a popular one it sounds like it'd be a cool investment.';

'>>92620571
It's a specific beach army for a D-Day event running this summer. Based on sand dunes etc. I already own a bunch of WW2 stuff (even desert, but that's a different year, different tech, and different type of sand). Frankly, beach assault games are pretty miserable meat grinders to play, with limited tactical decisions for either side. But they're iconic, and they're also a part of the commemorative side of the hobby. So I'm guessing it's a project which will get an outing somewhat less than once per year in the future.';

'>>92619343
>TQ
Always aiming to play the most obscure or side armies in a given conflict. I really enjoy researching equipment, uniforms, TO&Es, and the like, and I have a bit of an autistic need to know things other people don't, so I tend to gravitate away from the "main" armies. Back when I played Bolt Action, I played Romanians. I plan on making a force of modern PAVN for FFT3, and for late Cold War I'm thinking of doing either Hungarians or Bulgarians, with either Greeks or Austrians to go against them depending on which WP nation I go with.
The only time I want to collect the big players is if the conflict itself is more obscure, like Israelis and Egyptians for the Suez Crisis.';

'>>92620534
I still have a brigade each for Prussian and France for my 1813 project I need to paint and am already looking for SYW stuff. It's crazy.';

'British western front khaki, what paint should I use? And it will be late war, which isn't as brown as the 1914 or WW2 uniform.';

'did you guys know that since the app from battlefront was killed, they uploaded all the V3 stuff including vietnam to a free google folder?
That and maybe add this to the mega:
Nordic forces https://files.catbox.moe/f6t1n8.7z
Warsaw pact+Red dawns https://files.catbox.moe/da3da7.7z';

'>>92621727
also if someone could share the west german book it would be pretty cool';

'Anons, any reason NOT to do something like this? Meaning basing my miniatures individually and then using larger bases to play the games I want to play (mainly Impetus, but I want the flexibility to be able to play ADLG, FoG, TtS, Mortem et Gloriam, and other games as well).';

'>>92622179
And additional question, if I want to use squares, would you recommend the more traditional 20mm squares, or 25mm ones given that miniatures are usually bigger nowadays? I'm going to be playing mostly with a couple of friends who'll use the same basing as me, they're waiting for me to decide';

'>>92622179
>>92622188
Sounds like a perfectly logical thing to do to me. One of the greatest boons of Historicals is being able to use the same models for different games, and basing usually only matters insofar as everything from both forces is consistently based.
As for 20s or 25s, assuming you're doing 28mm minis I'd probably go for 25s, it'll make positioning them a little easier';

'>>92619343
>What is your hobby guilty pleasure?
I'm that guy who wants to have a unique army and won't do this or that project if too many people do it. For example, I wanted to do a WW2 Free French desert force, but I've already played with 2 people who have these, so I won't do it now.
I'll just keep working on my SNLF paratroopers, Soviet police and Polish Army in the East like an autist, I guess.';

'What's a good ruleset for HYW/WotR for smaller scale minis and larger battles
I like Never Mind the Billhooks for 28mm and single base removal, but I don't know how well that adapts to like, 6mm element based figures.
How do people feel about Flower of Chivalry and Days of Knights?';

'>>92619343
>OP pic
Great. Even /hwg/ has gone woke.';

'>>92619343
Y.J.K';

'>>92622442
Yes, I forgot to mention I was referring to 28mm minis. I thought that 25mm for bases would work better as well, but I'm a little wary of the fact that most games use the 60mm x 40mm format of DBx, meaning that I could only fit two infantry or cavalry to a base at most, resulting in anemic-looking units perhaps. In any case, the extra spacing seems to be realistic for Ancients (except phalanxes, maybe). Thanks for your response, anon, I'm having a really tough time deciding on how to base';

'>>92622535
Me too. Paulista revolt seems fun to me, as does the Yucatan Caste War.';

'>>92623429
You could always increase the overall bases to 75x50mm, to maintain the same amount of models on the stand.';

'>>92620598
Sounds worthwhile, D-day is iconic and you'll have plenty more games where you can hit the beach
>>92621545
Best adviceI can tell you is put down the card and pick up the brush, but you already know that. It's easier to spend then it is to build and paint but trust me the satisfaction of a fantastic looking collection is much better than a quick dopamine rush from a purchase.
>>92622943
Liberals done put women in historical wargaming. Truly, the west has fallen.';

'Bumping the thread with some cool minis';

'Hi, I'm done with scifi and fantasy games for the most part, and I want to switch to historicals.
Is there a wargame with official rules and stats for the Spanish Civil War?';

'>>92627985
I dunno if it has stats for it, but Osprey has "A World Aflame" for interwar stuff. I myself sadly can't say anything on it, I've yet to get into any Osprey games';

'>>92627985
Any WW2 game that covers early war should work well for Spanish Civil War.
Fist full of TOWs, Chain of Command, or Ostfront for example.

There's a few blogs where people game it:
http://www.orkneywargames.com/category/modern-periods/spanish-civil-war/
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/797306.page
https://www.heresybrush.com/en/2015/spanish-civil-war-how-to-paint-a-spanish-rural-house-2/';

'I want 28mm minis so bad BUT THEY AREN'T SUITABLE FOR GAMING
>just buy some to paint
I DON'T WANT TO I WANT TO GAME WITH THEM';

'>>92628768
They're fine for small scale games - a few squads vs. a few squads. Ideal for special forces operations.
What period are you looking at? pretty much every period has some kind of skirmish warfare.';

'>>92628799
I don't like skirmish games generally';

'>>92628823
Then suffer.';

'Very baity question but what do we do when very "woke" individuals start wargaming and add inaccurate things? We have plenty of movies, games and even documentaries today that change historical facts for things such as representation, and big mainstream nerd wargames such as Warhammer are adding "woke" things.
What do we do when someone unironically paints his ancient Germanians black or insists on other things we would frown upon? Just stay away from these individuals and gate-keep our gaming groups?';

'>>92624924
welp prepare your butts';

'>>92629678
Generally, history fans and historical wargames are pretty safe from this and I don't ever see it becoming an issue in historical games. History fans are generally right leaning white males, and we obviously have a preference for things to be generally historically accurate. Gatekeeping is always the answer, however, and you should be doing it regardless';

'>>92630099
Tundra works has always been a gay canadian liberal twink with an obsession with Asian immigrant woman (Asian preference just means you can't secure a white girl)';

'Does anyone at all have the PDF for Nevermind the Bill hooks deluxe version? I can't find it in the trove';

'>>92629678
Sorry Chud, but you WILL be forced to play with the woke moralists, segregation is illegal. And no, you will NOT be allowed to play Germany.';

'>>92630099
>conflict featuring millions of men
>but there were DOZENS of female combatants!
Same cucks that didn't do a ACW range because the college they shill their minis at would get mad.';

'keep flipflopping with what scale to do imaginations stuff in
I already have thousands of 1/72s and was gonna use them
aaaaa';

'>>92630636
1/72 is gay monopose shit';

'>friend gives me a bag of old 10 and 15mm metals
>among them are a bunch of napoleonics
>enough for a skirmish size force
Problem is I have no idea about the period uniforms, so I don't know who they are. I think they might be British though, but I'm not sure.
Any help, fellow Tom's?';

'>>92630840
From what I can tell those look like peninsular war british';

'>>92631007
Danke Tom';

'Tenno Hekai Banzi!

Finished up the officer for my Tosa Jinshotai Detachment. Going to be playing with Fistful of Lead Horse and Musket. Really like these Bac Ninh miniatures, that Jose is a great guy. I also got a book he recommended called Bakumatsu From Samurai to Soldier and it might be the best Boshin War reference available in English.

Gonna slowly finish out the rest of the Jinshotai and then get to work on the Denshutai with some plans for a few other detachments after.';

'I've gone in on an AK47 Republic army after learning the classic rules are so much better than Reloaded.
How do I convince people to play this shit?';

'>>92630704
perfect for rank & file';

'>>92630704
you can have like whole plastic 1/72 army for dba for price of five 28mm metal minis';

'>>92631136
Beautiful work, anon, update us as soon as you paint more. I know virtually nothing about the period, but you just got me interested with your comment';

'>>92630450
>>92630603
Way to get your panties in a twist over nothing. Imagine getting mad because a range for the FRENCH REVOLUTION has miniatures for the women's march on Versailles. You know, the pivotal turning point that neutered the monarchy.';

'Women ruining everything yet again';

'>>92629678
I consider myself a pretty woke person, but I also love historical wargaming. speaking for myself at least you won’t need to worry about this. Anyone who cares think you’re all Nazis in the first place, and anyone who doesn’t isn’t a threat in the first place.';

'>>92631595
>>92631520
>>92630603
As long as it remains historically realistic I don't see the issue with adding women into wargames. Plenty of women fought in the mobs that stormed the bastille and Versailles and the counter revolution in the Vendee, if anything having zero women in those games would be historically inaccurate.';

'>>92631624
This sort of thing is fine by my books as well, women can totally be a part of unorganised mobs, last-ditch defence groups in sieges, zealous revolutionary groups with little organisation. There should also generally be more women present when modelling campsites and wagon trains, pre-industrial armies both needed and had a hard time getting rid of women followers. Also look up the uniforms of the actually employed vivandiers of the French second republic and second empire, I'd love painting those for a dumb project.';

'>>92628823
>likes 28mm
>doesn't like skirmish games
life must be suffering for you';

'>>92628724
>>92628744
Thanks!';

'>>92628823
what in the world do you play then
a table with 2000 28mm minis?';

'>>92631434
Thanks for confirming 1/72 is for poorfag plebians';

'Today I painted a bunch of peltasts for Foundry.';

'>>92632586
>bragging about money
Don't worry Anon, you can still have happy and fulfilling life with your micropenis.';

'Kindly requesting Wiley Games' Fistful of Lead 2nd edition files';

'I just got the Pike & Shotte 15mm set, does anyone know if the rules are similar to 28mm pike & shotte so I can still have, say, 15mm samurai fighting ECW soldiers? Or if not, is there a 15mm system that lets me live my historical Deadliest Warrior battles?';

'>>92630544
Please, does someone have this? I'm also requesting. Id even take the original non-deluxe rules';

'are there any good games that one could play out the 90s yugoslav conflicts in? every forum i see this question asked in gets 10 bajillion sobby responses about how it was a horrible time and why would you want to play out a game in this period from hypocrites
also would be nice for any ww2 games who give stats to yugoslav partisans/chetniks etc or any "cold war gone hot" games where you can play as yugoslavians';

'>>92631608
How are you woke and what are you doing on this website?';

'>>92631136
Love it anon. I just finished my Tonghak rebellion project. I think between a few anons here we've got all of Japan from the bakumatsu to ww2 filled out.';

'>>92633220
Bolt Action 3rd Edition';

'>>92633220
AK47 Republic actually might work for yugoslav shenanigans. Right tech level, works to represent the varying factions and levels of competency.';

'>>92632586
I have both 1/72s and 28mm, plus 10mm, 15mm. Neck yourself.';

'>>92633269
4chan is just reddit-lite at this point';

'>>92633306
well hell I appreciate it anon, looking at the description of this game it might be the move.
ill check it out.';

'>>92633328
Real-ass woketards still think Reddit is a misogynist hive of scum so I doubt your credentials.';

'>>92633412
The Classic version is much more coherent than the Reloaded rules.';

'>>92633452
>defending reddit
Thanks for proving him right';

'>>92633328
>>92633452
>>92633269
I think the lot of us should just admit were either double or triple agents. you don't admit you are woke here, unless its a false flag. this screams psyop all over it.
I run a 1.3k follower hard left wing twitter shitposting account (vaguely associated with leftcoms and maoists, not just some social democrat retard) and I come here so I can call people niggers and discuss the horus heresy.
there are probably more than one of me here. I'm sure at least 3 people in this thread feel relatively neutral about trans people, and want some kind of economic reform.
everyone ever is a double agent- it reminds me when someone in here referred to a game as "transfem" instead of calling it tranny material, and it immediately outed him as some kind of double agent.';

'>>92632064
Perry's have some second empire vivandiers.';

'>>92633471
meds';

'>>92633471
psyop isnt the right word I suppose for something so small scale and personal. just people playing at being other people. a series of masks and masquerades. parapolitics on a micro scale. all vying at some unknowable shitposting power game';

'>>92633471
I've been voting left for years and I'm supportive of gender equality and gay rights. Really dislike trannies and all that "white people are evil" shit that the left has adopted. No room for actual politics supporting white workers anymore, gotta shill for Palestinian troons.';

'>>92633484
shut the fuck up you medshilling nigger quadruple jewish agent revisionist. I'm right and you're scared. you don't even know who you are anymore. Monday you'll go into work and make a joke about men dressing as women at the water cooler, go to lunch and talk to some girl with dyed hair about your bisexual little brother that you want the best for, go home and talk about the jews on the chan, login too reddit r/leftcom and discuss bordiga, then go to bed after texting your trans best friend that you hope things get bette for her tomorrow, and dream of raping chinese babies.
we are infinite algorithimic multitudes. we are nothing and everything. hate love peace and war.
you're scared cause you dont know who you are. meds cant fix the kinda of ultra-internet self creation we've made. Know yourself and know you can never know yourself.';

'>>92633515
no backbone. dip into the cyanide all teh way or nothing at all. total societal abolishment, support every cause. boohoo, the world isnt made for you anymore. we all jerked off to tranny porn in college once or twice. there is a sickness deep in your soul that you recognize winds shifting but are afraid to jump all the way to the right.
there is nothing but total abolishment of the self in the face of every tendril of the internet rage-bait machine that makes you hate your fellow man, operated by anons, shitposters, capital, news sites, and meme makers. there is no "you" separate from the algorithim.';

'>>92633479
Cute';

'>>92633551
>>92633518
>>92633471
>we all jerked off to tranny porn in college once or twice
can you just troon out and go to /lgbt/ instead of projecting your fantasies onto everybody you fag';

'>>92633626
scared, scared arent you
you know the sickness. a caveman holding a flaming torch at encroaching shadow
i knew that phrasing would get you. like a robot picking up a codeword. manchurian activation. you think im something that im not, or am, like you, or not. reacting to codewords.
MKultrad.
quintuple agents faux-reacting to a codeword to signal to me that we are not ideologically aligned, even if we are.';

'>>92632912
Very nice painted Anon. Would protect phalanx with/10.';

'my brother ate one of my fucking miniatures i fucking hate autistic people';

'>>92633681
^
>>92633328';

'>>92633551
>>92633681
>screeching incoherent schizo is also a self professed leftist
Classic. Post physique';

'>>92633741
i am far beyond your comprehension and far beyond your understanding you just want to target me so you can get me and silence me but i wont let you you're scared and i know it you're trembling in your little chair as you typed that i can sense your fear';

'>>92633741
I'm 6'6 and fat like tony soprano. a big fat fatty mcfatterson. i also have faggy long hair and used to have jewish hippie mustache. a poor quality chin as I did not work out in my youth. I make no attempts to deny I am a physiological burden to the eyes, something that should have not been born. do you, anon?';

'>>92633756
this isn't me. but he's playing me. you're picking up the game. good. you are me and I am you. ALPHARIUS ASS CRACKA ASS BIETCH HH AND SHIEET';

'>>92633746
>>92633756
Can you just post your miniatures instead of fantasizing about trannies out loud? Or are you only here to be a nuisance?';

'>>92633778
I like being a nuisance :D';

'>>92633714
how does this even happen?';

'>>92633802
He's autistic';

'>>92619343
Looking for VASL opponents if any anons are up for it. I play ASL and a bunch of GMT games (Stalingrad 42 and all the 4X games, Pacific War, Vietnam 1965-1975). Willing to buy whatever else though if anyone's down to play';

'>>92633269
I subscribe to center-left Keynesian economic theory, I am not racist, and am LGBT. I just also really like historical wargames and this is the only place on the internet that has any level of good discussion on the topic.';

'I've never met a bordiguist that wasn't unhinged. If the average neo-brehznevite Zee-tard twitter communist is a brainlet retard, the eternally online leftcom is a midwit retard, so stupid that joins cause with gonzaloites and other degenerate anti-Leninist waste in their unending crusade against brain matter.';

'>>92634219
>admitting to being an actual fag
LMAO!';

'>>92633778
I apologize to the thread for contributing to the comment thread that spawned this. I did not realize that attempting to assuage fears of wokes would cause this';

'>>92632912
>>92633692
Were peltasts still used to protect phalanx by the time of the Successors, or was that job relegated to mercenaries/thureophoroi?';

'historical wargaming?';

'>>92634234
it continues. reveal yourself, triple agents of the world!';

'>>92634235
It is what it is';

'>>92634319
As far as I know, peltast were still used during the hellenistic period, but their role overlaps with that of the thureophoroi and the supposition is that the latter took their place. On the other hand, wargamers overfocus on troop definitions, to ancient writers a heavy infantrymen was a heavy infantrymen, and a skirmisher a skirmisher. The minutae of equipment and panoply was unimportant to them. The difference between a peltast and a thureophoroi is a bit academic in this sense.
For what is worth, the later Antigonid army had a unit of peltasts, but modern historians think that those were Hypaspist style troops armed as phalangites, and not light infantry.';

'Nevermind the Billhooks PDF anyone?';

'>>92632586
How many games have you played in the past 12 months?';

'Ok, so this might be a strange request, but I don't know what thread would be a better fit.
What I am looking for is artillery rules, like deep artillery rules, not "this shoots like a rilfe but bigger bang" like they are usually done in wargaming.
I mean the role of recon, indirect fire, batteries, shoot n scoot if period appropriate, and so on. Maybe there's even some really autistic one where you calculate loads and fuses and such?
Maybe even an "artillery only" game? I know it would not be historical at that point, but I don't know where else to ask.';

'>>92630544
>>92634462
Go on 4plebs and use the search bar';

'>>92634707
Just did and I only see myself asking for the PDF over the last 2 years';

'>>92619343
What do we think the new edition of Bolt Action will be like?

How drastic a change in army building will there be?';

'>>92634747
i dunno man that's where I downloaded it months ago. Try telegram';

'>>92634617
Fistful of TOWs puts a good amount of focus on artillery fires and the rules for them, from battalion mortars to regimental batteries, plus stuff for airstrikes and gun runs.';

'>>92634462
https://www.mediafire.com/file/udrpwpyhj8f47qf/Never_Mind_the_Billhooks_Deluxe_2022_DlHSO8.pdf/file';

'>>92634617
Mein Panzer has an entire artillery drop in system that handles everything from fire missions, calls for fire, FOO's, FAC's, missiles and everything else.';

'>>92635127
>Virgin anon beating around the bush
vs
>>92635424
>Chad anon delivering the goods';

'>>92633284
>Tonghak rebellion
Oh nice! Got any pics? I think I remember you posting about that when you started it. I actually think there's a anon on here going full samurai, so we've got Japan covered even wider still.';

'Anon, who was asking about Warlord Epic Naps size vs Magister Militum and Essex, pic related. MM matches good enough for me to accept them on the same base. Essex is of comparable height but too chunky imo. Ymmv';

'>>92635870
>>92635907
Just play 28mm and stop faffing about with the rice shit';

'>>92635870
ok we get it, they're not the same scale';

'>>92635870
MM left, Essex right. I like the Essex figures a lot, but I wouldn't mix them in with a unit the Epics. Maybe in the same army but that'd be a stretch for a sperg like myself.';

'>>92633756
That's a lot of words from someone that can't lift 2 pounds.';

'>>92634617
>>92635679
Even covers shoot-and-scoot rules.';

'>>92636670';

'>>92636700';

'>>92636707';

'>>92636717';

'>>92635424
Just need the USA to get The Ruckus now...what a stupid idea to not be able to buy it pdf';

'>>92631520
>>92632064
Women fought in the ranks sometimes openly in the french revolution but were slowly kicked out when universal rights were clawed back. Nonetheless some got military pensions later. It's all on record.';

'whether or not it's historically accurate is irrelevant, advertising that your range includes 'dozens of women' is gay as hell';

'>>92635870
on the table you'll hardly even be able to tell the difference. this table goes from 12mm-18mm. the only thing that gives the epic scale stuff away is the gay clone trooper copy pasted poses';

'>>92635865
I'll take some pics soon. Bases are not done, because I hate bases. Maybe someday.';

'>>92619343
>What is your hobby guilty pleasure?
Terrain. I love collecting and painting and playing with mini's, but a beautiful table, or well done terrain really gets my motor going. Speaking of, do any anon's know any companies that sell hyper-realistic tree's, or a good youtube for making hyper-realistic tree's? I've honestly considered making a board around a bonsai tree.';

'>>92637649
>women are gay
You can come out of the closet, anon.';

'>pic rel
All these dudes are printed with an FDM printer (AnkerMake M5C) and really happy with how everything turned out. 15mm, based for Mein Panzer with a *. The Squad in the middle is a section, but the stand is split between the riflemen and the LMG. A lot of the company+ size games are designed by tankers, and it shows. So I've split my infantry sections properly to give my platoons their own fire and movement capability. And thankfully Mein Panzer is able to accommodate that. I'm also going for 1:1 representation.';

'>>92635749
yeah but unironically start checking telegram for rules. It's much faster than begging on /tg/';

'Are there any good WW1 games? I'd like to see one that's around 6mm in size.';

'Gonna play Regimental Fire and Fury in the morning, anyone try it and if so how is it ?';

'>>92638122
liking men is gay
women like men
ergo, women are gay
q.e.d.';

'>only now realizing how cheap 6mm was all along
I feel retarded for ever falling for 28mm';

'>>92638808
Kallistra's Raging Empires, or Westfront, or something like GDW's Over the Top if you want something really heavy duty';

'>>92639648
Pretty much - check out what I got recently for my 6mm WW2 project (pic) 183 for entire early, mid and late war forces for both Wehrmacht and Soviets.

Total Spent: 183 USD
Total Tanks: 52
Light Vehicles: 15
AT Guns: 16
Infantry Figures: 308

Infantry from 2D6 Wargaming
Vehicles from Heroics & Ros';

'>>92639648
Wait till you discover 2mm';

'>>92639748
What's even the point? Just use chits when you're gone that far.';

'>>92639648
I also think 6mm plays better for equal board sizes.
just played two games at a convention yesterday, both 6mm. One napoleonic and one WW2. was a great experience and really tipped me over to swap to 6mm. I will finish the current project and then migrate to that scale.';

'>>92639748
how the fuck do I paint 2mm ancients bros? I can make a brown and tan blob with bronze highlights but it kinda looks like shit';

'>>92639748
my matchstick 2mm armies beats any manufacturers attempts to make 2mm "figures"';

'>>92639778
You can get the impression of massed ranks, and do big battles with a realistic ground scale.

>>92639825
Dots. Here are some of my 30yw Imperials

>>92639890
Pics?';

'>>92630544
>>92633217
https://mega.nz/file/NRojRSyT#jA2To08uhVkj3tLQ__GNOz3OCYA_wFYyKDDxLvqm6uY';

'>>92639915
>Dots
so how do I do that? Do I basecoat first? What colors should I use';

'>>92622179
heh, I grokked it as logical way to use my 15mm DBA based ancients with 20mm based on larger stands, which I use for rpgs; still waits for first serious tests tho';

'>>92630704
if one has skills, can do some torso swapping and modding with stuff; on side note just helped friend glue Bolt Action minis and it was WYSIWYG hell';

'In keeping with thread themes and common discussion in the thread, we have an image here of a showdown between some poor rural 28cel Bavarian man and a crowd of angry German and British 15chads (20chads?) who spotted a lone virgin 28cel walking through their neighborhood. (1975)

In all seriousness though all 28chads, 20chads, 15chads, 10chads and even you 8, 6 and 2mmchads and every chad in between in the thread have a good week. Great to see all the awesome paint work. Haven't been posting much here, I've been working on my "pulp apocalypse" project which isn't exactly thread appropriate. Hope everybody elses stuff is coming along swimmingly. Cheers fellas';

'>>92639991
I prime black, then dot on the clothing (colour you want with a significant amount of white to lighten it), dot on flesh (pale flesh tone), paint wood a light colour, paint the metal, then wash the whole thing with a brown wash, Army Painter soft tone works well.';

'>>92622179
terrain issues, can become a pain in the ass';

'>>92639339
what about women who like women';

'>>92640668
Looks like your modern day English rose. Neat seeing him/she/whatever appear in the Franklin series.';

'>>92639915
Looks very impressive, but I think you need smaller flock, unless this was the battle at the sawmill';

'>>92639648
The speed and ease of painting is another thing,';

'are there any games like Lion Rampant that are a little more "crunchy" or period-accurate rules-wise?';

'>>92622179
I like this version with thin metal sheet and magnets: https://iagsmgm.blogspot.com/2023/04/early-imperial-roman-auxiliary-archers.html';

'I have DBA 3.0 and ADLG rulebooks and neither of them have made it off the shelf since I bought them. I want to buy into an era where I can play a variety of armies against each other with a pool of figures.

Forgetting the aesthetics, which is likely to lead to better match ups?

1a Anglo Saxon/Danish (Spears) vs Norman (Knights) vs Irish (Auxilia) vs Scots (Pikes) vs Vikings (Blades)

1b. As above but pivoting from Norman to Frankish and involving Byzantine/Arab/etc.

2. HYW English vs HYW French vs WOTR vs Spanish (more of a mirror match with varied armies)

3. Biblical era i.e. Sea Peoples, Hittite, Egyptian, Achaian Greek

4. Another suggestion for interesting matchups?

>>92642020

Doesn't Lion Rampant cover pretty much Dark Ages through to War of the Roses? There are definitely 'more accurate' rules for all of these periods and those inbetween but which are you referring to?';

'More Jinshotai. Two more and the core of this Detachment is done.';

'>>92644333
Webbing and shoulder tab detail.';

'>>92622188
20x20 will give you the most adaptability.';

'>>92644333
>>92644342
lookin good lad';

'>>92636843
Well don't buy it then:
gofile.io
/d/sgPnvX';

'>>92641258
Is there a special label maker or template for making little labels for stands? I'm just getting into microscales and I'd like to label what formations different stands belong to or what kind of stand they are.';

'>>92645707
It's up to you, personally I'm a fan on labelling my minis. To make it clear which unit they belong to, which direction they are facing, and any special details that aren't readily apparent from three feet away.

I mask off the rearmost 5mm of the base before basing, and then paint my own labels on. I think it looks much better than printed labels.';

'>>92638122
Your attempt at pilpul is noted';

'Did the Battle of Olustee today using Regimental Fire and Fury. Rolled like absolute garbage so got my butt utterly kicked. On a D10, I rolled over a firing result of 4 only once lmao.';

'>>92646348';

'>>92646356
For 9 turns I fired on the 7th Connecticut with 4 artillery pieces and 3-4 infantry units and only managed to remove one of their bases. They were meant to be the sacrificial screening unit that holds until the Union reinforcement reaches the battle lines but ended up gumming up my dudes for the entire game.';

'>>92639648
I’d only want to play it for line infantry periods (1700s through US Civil War). Those are the only ones I can stand having square bases on either';

'>>92646384';

'Anyone have a favorite 28mm historical painter? pic related is about the best I’ve ever seen, though he hasn’t been active much lately.';

'>>92646395';

'>>92646402';

'I want to try some hex and counter games
Where's are some games you'd reccomend a beginner from any of these periods?
- Punic Wars
- Late Rome/Migration Period
- Early medieval
- Late medieval
- Peninsular War
- WWII Eastern Front
- WWII Italian Front
- WWII North Africa';

'Any Successor/Seleucid experts here in /hwg/?

I'm looking to better understand the army of Antiochos III. At the Battle of Panium he seems to have had a large variety of troops with him: "Polybius identifies the presence of cataphracts, the elite cavalry agema, Tarentine soldiers and more cavalry, phalangites, hypaspists, war elephants, unidentified infantry and light skirmishers in the ranks of the Seleucid army at Panium."
I have several questions:
- Were Galatians and Thracians present in any way or form? They seem to have been an important component of later Seleucid armies.
- Were Scythians/Parthians present in the form of light horse?
- Were all cavalry essentially cataphracts at this point? At the Daphne parade, much later, there seems to have been an element of companion cavalry (represented by minis such as 1st Corps, Relic, or Aventine Seleucid Companions), elite cataphracts, line cataphracts, and other lesser cavalry.
- Were these hypaspists the argyraspides, or was there an element of peltast there?
- Were there thureophoroi among the lighter troops? They seem to have been already widely used by Greeks and Successors alike, but not really mentioned in the sources in this battle.
- Were Cretans a component of Seleucid armies at this point? I know they were a part of the Daphne parade, but this is much earlier.
- Were there any imitation legionaries in the works at this point? Similarly, they seem to have been a component in Antiochos IV's armies, but perhaps he was the one to start this transition of argyraspides into imitation legionaries.

I have a few similar questions about Magnesia, but that's much more documented. In fact, I'd be interested in being able to represent the army of Antiochos III across its history, as well as having a Roman, a Ptolemaic, and a Carthaginian army of that same period, but I'm a slow painter and I know it's going to be a very long term project.';

'>>92644856

What a legend';

'>>92644333
Looking good! the Boshin War has always seemed interesting, do yo have any good general history books to reccomend on the topic?';

'>>92646610
I fell for the hex and counter meme - it's very strong medicine. I bought a few different games to try, but the sperg was so acute I couldn't stand it.';

'>>92646610
>WWII North Africa
The Campaign for North Africa: The Desert War 1940-43';

'>>92648640
Thanks anon! The best book I've gotten is called "Bakumatsu: From Samurai to Soldiers - Japan in The 1860s" it was recommended to me by Jose from Bac Ninh miniatures, and it's fantastic. I highly recommend it for anyone interested in the Boshin War.';

'>>92619343
>be me
>buy nary some rubbing alcohol or a bottle of craft paint for three or four months
>wake up
>buy two Napoleonic armies, some fantasy, dark ages and italian wars figures
>go back to sleep

Why am I like this argh';

'>>92646610
GmT
Command and Colors Series';

'>>92633309
Zased';

'>>92649096
I love hex and counter for a deep simulationist spergery and historical feel. Tabletop for me its more fun mechanics and spectacle. I am way more hollywood with my tabletop';

'>>92646407
finally a fucking game being posted';

'>>92634219
God help us all if this placeis considered to have good discussions';

'What's on the workbench for everybody today? Here is a downed interwar pilot I am using for a capture the flag scenario with a little twist. Still some work to do but coming along nicely. Ideas for some basing bits to give it a bit more flavor? I'm gonna add a bit of debris and rocks but maybe somebody could come up with a unique item that would be found on an early interwar biplane. I'm not too familiar with aeronautics of the era.';

'>>92650734
Not that anon but pretty closely aligned yet I've been on this godforsaken shithole site since 2004, and I agree. If you look at the other places to discuss historical games you've got: The Miniatures Page which is just holy fuck no, just no. That place is a tumour and has been since even before /tg/ existed. Hell even before 4chan existed. Dead reddit pages so no. Most other places are just nothing more than just circlejerking about miniatures or barely able to tolerate even the slightest of dissenting opinions. Lead Adventure which is basically just Hey Look At My Blog so the same shit as Reddit Facebook and Instagram. The Wargames Website you might once in a blue moon get some replies on a topic. And even more dead or niche holes.

Here? If anons are helpful, they'll be helpful. If they're cunts they'll openly be cunts. They're not hiding behind particular forum rules wangling and being bros with the admins to try and get away with shit. You can openly shit on games you don't like and people can shit on you for it or agree with you and it's fine. You can recommend obscure crap. You can openly share stuff, more or less, which I think helps overall. It's a damning condemnation of the rest of the internet that this place is still (usually) one of the better ones for just general historical wargame discussion.';

'>>92646348
>>92646356
>>92646384
Sauce on the minis? Very nicely painted and based.';

'Has anyone here purchased the premade 6mm HYW army packs from Irregular? And has pics?
Or just any of their Medievals.
I want 6mm minis for HYW but Baccus jumps straight from crusades to WotR and Irregulars pics on their site do me no good
Would it look too strange or wrong to use non liveried kits from the Baccus WotR range and some stuff from the crusades range to make a sort of hodge podge range?

Alternativly what's everyones experience with Old Glory 15s or Pendraken 10mm';

'>>92651557
Old Glory 15mm are pricey as fuck for ok sculpts and limited models, they charge outrageous prices for shipping. They are two states away from me and still charged 15 bucks. Pendraken are pretty good but I've found there models are a little to fat and squat for my taste. It also all depends on what your wanting to do game wise as well so you'll have to elaborate.';

'>>92651814
Elaborate how? I'm looking to build armies suitable for the Hundred Years Way as I said in my post. More specifically late 14th to early 15th. My main interest is in doing 6mm scale but 15 or 10 may be an alternative if the 6mm options aren't that good';

'>>92639915
Looks nice man, are these from irregular miniatures? I've been looking at jumping into 2mm ancients for a while and I haven't decided between those and the ones from Lasercast and Antonine miniatures. The scale seems pretty different between them. Kinda prefer the flatter blocks, maybe even try and forgo bases.

>>92639778
Chits don't look great on a custom terrain board. But yeah many hex n chit games are just better games than a mini ruleset.';

'>>92651871
My bad, I meant elaboration on rulesets. If the ruleset your using has more focus on unit variety(genoese crossbowmen, french militia, Flemish archers, etc) you'll wanna use Old Glory or Pendraken. If the units are more generic or there's a bigger focus on tactics then you'll wanna go 6mm.';

'Starting a Quatre Bras inspired board, will post progress.';

'>>92651814
Essex are nice
Alternative Armies
Demonworld
Khurasan
GZG
Kallistra (more 12)
Ab Models or Blue Moon (more 18mm)
Cpmodels
Peter Pig
15mm going pretty strong really

Shame about Splintered Light';

'>>92651051
Put on some more highlights here. Just gotta touch up the skin and flight goggles and shade the revolver and I'm gonna call this one a doner and move onto the base.

Have a good one yall';

'>>92651051
>>92652626
Nobody cares, 28cel.';

'>>92651051
Very nice, although the poorer lighting makes the model here >>92652626 look almost less finished. I don't think you'll want to have too much stuff on the ground, the base is quite small to begin with.
I've finally gotten back into the swing of things with my 6mm stuff, painting some dismounts for dragoons and some Haiduks for my polish army.
>>92652774
Post some models or off yourself. If you don't have models to post, text your mum before jumping off a bridge.';

'>>92652911
>28cel wishing death upon me
Every time. Why are you 28cels so unhinged?';

'>>92651951
What scale you doing?';

'>>92652920
>>92652911
It's obvious his brain is consumed by internet rot, no sane or decent person says phrases like "28cel" or obsesses over what scale other people's toy soldiers are.';

'>>92646817
Those are some very detailed questions anon. acoup has been running a series on late Successors vs Middle Roman republic. The article on Antiochus III is quite nice.
If you are particulary interested in the battle of Panium (200 bc) I guess you should realise the Daphne parade is kinda far off, 35 years. You're much better off studying sources on the Battle of Magnesia which is after all only 10 years later (190 bc). Or even closer: after Panium Antiochus marches west and captures Ptolomean possessions all over western Asia Minor and also marches into Thrace. It's hard to believe he wouldn't have any Galatian or Thracian mercenaries in his army at this point. Likewise Cretans were notorious mercenaries and where certainly there at Raphia (217) so why not.
The hypaspists mentioned would probably have been the Silver shields right. Especially on the right flank. Use of peltasts as an elite force on the right flank is a Macedonian invention of Philip V.
Imitation legionaries I wouldn't have thought, those really came in after the Roman gave the main Hellenistic armies some asswhoopings between 200 and 190.
Thureophoroi would be going out of style but very likely still there, they are there at Magnesia after all.

Hope this helps. I'll be starting a 2nd Macedonian War campaign later this year and Antiochus might show up in that one, not sure yet. Hope to be posting some pictures soon.';

'>>92653108
>call somebody out for being a 28cel
>this is apparently bad behavior and insane
>28cel wishes death upon me
>this is totally normal and sane
28cels are something else.';

'>>92651951
That's great anon, please keep us updated. I'm also preparing to work on my first board so I'm keen to see how you tackle it.';

'>>92651951';

'>>92646610
It's not what you asked for but Reds! is my recommended hex game for a beginner. It's a gentle introduction to important concepts such as ZoCs, tracing supply, CRTs with column shifts etc. Very very fun and fast playing game too.
In general I'll always recommend chit-pool activation games over anything else.

As for WW2 stuff I'll direct you to VUCA sims games. Some stunning looking games in there for sure. This one Traces of War is supposed to be pretty approachable as well, haven't played it myself though.';

'>>92653066
It’s not super precise, that’a why I said inspired. Will be usable for for the 6-15mm range, I will not put buildings on it for now.';

'>>92653199
It’s my first board project too. I just want to try some things, see what works for me. I think that leaving buildings off for now allows this to be used for multiple periods and theaters.';

'>>92651204
A vast majority of them are Old Glory. A few are from bring and buys so no clue on those';

'The wga ottoman heavy infantry models i commissioned from a 3d printer were shipped today, I hope they arrive before the long may weekend here in Poland.

Looking at the renders of the islamic heavy cavalry victrix has done also tempts me to start an army project for the crusades.

Would it be appropriate to use the fireforge bedouin infantry to represent levantine arabs?';

'>>92654007
Don't start a new project before finishing your old one anon. That way lies shame only.
Let's all be honest here, who has a pile of wip stuff in the closet that has been untouched for over a year? If so, I sentence you to consoom abstention until you finish at least one (1) box of troops PER unfinished army.';

'>>92654109

I actually don't have much of a pile of shame. My current issue is fastening a display vitrine to the wall, as the doors are so heavy that the bloody thing falls over if they're open.';

'if I'm in Canada, what's the cheapest source of shields? round, kite, tower, wicker...

it doesn't matter as long as they're shields and their cheap to get including shipping.';

'>>92646610
Check out some of the old Avalon Hill games: can be got cheap second hand on BGG and eBay, and have nice simple rules that are still played today. For Eastern Front their The Russian Campaign is highly regarded (and recently got a GMT reprint), and for strategic WW2, Third Reich is the most recommended.
I also love their 1965 game Blitzkrieg, which uses fictional Big Red and Great Blue as the major antagonist nations, and has a roughly postwar technology level (pic related)';

'Old glory USA ships to leafland for $95.
Old glory UK ships to leafland for $20.
I don't get it.';

'>>92649545
>recommends game to new guy with a bazillion counters and special rules for Italians needing more water to boil pasta
Don't tease';

'>play hex game
>can't move left or right
wow cool';

'>>92655211
AH 3rd Reich was an amazing game, with an odd mix of carefully pre-planned operations and free-wheeling improvisation across whole fronts.
Must play it again soon';

'>>92651051
Semaphore codebook?';

'>>92655034
for round smooth shields you can use screw caps. I got several thousands for dirt cheap at Rona years ago I still have so many left. (you can get them on amazon if you don't want to go out.

for anything else I also would like to know. especially for tower shields.';

'Jinshotai Detachment is done. Or mostly done, I need to touch up a spot or two. Over all im pretty pleased. Next up is the Shogun's Denshutai Detachment.';

'>>92653119
Thank you for your response anon. Yes, I guess you're right that Magnesia would be much better than the Daphne parade for research and inspiration. Magnesia really interests me as well, although many sources state both that battle and the Thermopylae one as decisive Roman victories, so it's kinda harder to want to play Seleucids there lol.
Regarding the Thureophoroi -- so they replaced peltasts, and were replaced by what? Thorakitai? I've always considered Thorakitai to be basically better armed Thureophoroi anyway, but to be honest, it's the first time I'm thinking about the vanishing of the Thureophoroi. Do you know why they went out of style? Is it the battles against the Romans and the rise of the imitation legionaries?
I'm planning to have a large and varied army that can cover Antiochus III's army, as well as Antiochus IV's army represented at the Daphne parade. Only have some Victrix parthians/scythians, and celts so far, I'll try to take some good pics to show.';

'>>92655514
>>92653127
Stop making /hwg/ 40k tier deranged plz
Everybody can use what they want';

'What good skirmish hwg exists out there. I found a local group that does play historicals, but they want to play 40K size games with it and I don't.';

'>>92657606
sharpe practice, SAGA, chain of command';

'>>92657606
lion rampant, the belloludi series of games, battleground HD's games';

'anyone that plays Team Yankee, how shitty is the T-80 shock battalion?';

'Managed to pick these three up at an arms fair earlier this month, pretty much brand new. Lots of lovely piccies inside them.';

'>>92659511
Very nice anon. How much they cost ya?';

'>>92659540
A whole fourty pounds, came in the original box too. Pretty good deal for three hardbacks.';

'>>92659568
I must admit I'm a bit jealous. No good second hand stores near me so I have to go to big chain book stores. Had to fork out 15 bucks for softcover book on the War of 1812.';

'testing out painting some 1/72s
waiting for the wash to dry before some highlights
what is the best way to get rid of the flash? I didn't bother too much on these ones but I definitely will on any more I paint';

'>>92646817
Galatians and Thracians were almost always included in the Seleucid army. Galatians were hired by everyone and Antiochus had a substantial number at Magnesia. The Seleucids also had Thracian settlers.
Parthians and natives/Greeks served as horse archers, mostly in the eastern part of the empire.
The hetairoi and agema would be heavily armored but not true cataphracts. Supposedly he made all his regular cavalry cataphracts but that seems implausible. Anyway, Antiochus III had large numbers of them. Generally Seleucid cavalry used lances without shields. Later the agema becomes manned by Thessalian colonists once the Seleucids lost.
The Argyraspides numbered 10.000 and a number of these would have been hypaspists, of those a fewer number were agema. The absolute best of the best.
Peltats and thureophoroi essentially were the same, light infantry that could fight in melee. Very common, Antiochus had many of them during his campaigns in the Iranian and Afghan mountains.
Cretans were everywhere, both as archers and javelinmen. Jews were also popular mercenaries and/or settler soldiers.
No imitation legionaries during Antiochus III's reign, though thorakitai are essentially that already. The difference between thorakitai and thureophoroi is armor, otherwise they're the same and barely warrant different labels.

Get this book.';

'>>92659511
Jelly!';

'>>92660917
Soft plastic? Cutting carefully with a sharp blade is the only way I've found that works.';

'What scale is this? Looks smaller than the usual 13/15mm of other warlord games.';

'>>92663428
No clue, realisticly it's probably the same scale as their other stuff. Would be a pleasant surprise if they stuck to a more convenient scale for once';

'>>92664328
their scale isn't in scale even with itself';

'>>92663428

enjoy painting >120 12mm shield designs bro';

'>>92664903
Isn't that part of the joy of the hobby? Being able to paint something and be proud to show it to others is well worth the effort and time invested.';

'>>92652238
What's up with Splintered Light?';

'>order something from Baccus
>Most orders for which all items are in stock are dispatched within twenty one days of ordering
>twenty one days';

'>>92666319
Lots of conventions to go to, please understand';

'>>92653371
Placed woods, marked major and minor roads, sanded river.';

'>>92669026
Everything but fields, roads and rivers gets a nice coat of spackle.
Observe the little helpers gloves, never too early to get children into the hobby.';

'Look for good solitaire or 1v1 hex and counter WW1 games?';

'>>92663428
13.5mm officially

>>92664903
there's transfers for that';

'Hmm.
I didn't know Games Workshop also did historical wargames.';

'>>92669760
and i'ts way better than their fantasy/sci-fi stuff';

'>>92656830
Tell me of the jinshotai detachment anon, tell me what hooked you into the project your working on.';

'>>92669760
It's been a long time since they did. Never really advertised except for maybe a single announcement in White Dwarf magazine way back that they were doing it, and not carried in GW stores.
Seems to have been basically done because a bunch of the development/production staff with some clout wanted it (Perry twins were making historical miniatures on the side, all the people that'd go on to make Warlord games were playing historical games throughout their time there still) and managed to blag it as an experiment of branching into another market (that wouldn't cost much) before GW went too corporate and consolidated entirely around it's core games.

There's been a whole mess of people doing interviews with the original/sort of original GW gang lately about the old of GW, it'd be nice if someone actually asked Priestly or the like about Warhammer Historicals stuff instead of just old editions of Warhammer Fantasy and Rogue Trader.';

'>>92670274
>if someone actually asked Priestly or the like about Warhammer Historicals stuff
Filmdeg actually did, and I think Jordan Sorcery recording with Andy Chambers also touched on the subject';

'>>92669760
The issue with the game is that it takes WHFB's statline and applies it directly to different soldiers across history, which makes no sense. Why would you have a Strength stat when, more or less, everyone has the same average strength across any kind of ancient/medieval historical armies? Why not have a different stat in place? Same with toughness, initiative, or others.

I think there could be potential there, but its stats should be drastically changed';

'>>92670740
you think battle hardened knight would not be stronger and tougher than half starving peasant? stats are right. you just need to use them smart.';

'Odd question, but you guys are as likely to know the answer as anyone: what Waffenfarbe would a common soldier assigned to a General Officer's HQ wear (WW2 Germany)? I'm aware that General Officers wear hochrot, but does that extend to their staff? I'm thinking basic lackies - drivers, batmen, runners, radiomen etc. Or would they wear the colour of the arm from which they were seconded?';

'>>92669279
>>92669026
nice work, really inspires me to get started with a board project myself. Interesting that you chose to have woods permanently on the board.';

'>>92669026
>>92669279
That's awesome, I'm envious of being able to store something like that. Storage has been the main thing keeping me from diving into terrain.';

'>>92671110
Thank you, anon!
They are mostly for looks, only one has relevant impact on LOS and the ability to develop forces and is balanced by other terrain features. For skirmish games or WW2 historicals you could always add some scatter terrain. I tried to keep the center relatively open while having plausible choke points and objective locations.
I want to use the board mainly to try some crafting techniques, test design philosophies and try out rule sets.';

'>>92669760
cannot copyright history';

'>>92660917
one experienced modeller recommended me using soldering iron in some cases
typically sharp knife and patience
also try matt varnish, these looks too much shiny';

'>>92651132
one needs to lurk more to build up efficiency into filtering out cunts wanting to be cunts without cause';

'>>92670740
You think a white Saxon bvll really would have the same average strength as a Chinese peasant? Don't be ridiculous';

'>>92644179
anon playing DBA here; personally I would aim for interesting era which could allow to add armies and play some form of campaign (if you dig some DBA sources, there should be some list of most prominent conflicts); or armies using interesting types of units (so 1a is kinda meh while not so bad as a campaign background); about Biblical era I do have yet to witness someone having it
I do strongly recommend to check with some others local players';

'>>92644179
>4. Another suggestion for interesting matchups?
I was lucky (as 15mm are hard to get here) to get my hands on armies allowing reenactment of Punic Wars, since about Pyrrhus era (some Total War kinda campaign); have most existing factions around Italian Boot peninsula (except ancient Spain and some fringe barbarians like Scythians, Berbers; also have to yet get enough pikemen fo some needed successors armies)

had much less luck with original aim of campaign with time-space of 1410 Grunwald, have about 1/3 of sides needed';

'>>92671433
everything looks super shiny under my desk lamp, I've not put any varnish on it, looks fine in normal light';

'Please brace for a potentially very stupid question. Regarding Napoleonics, do nations have a "thing" like a design theme or are they the same toys but painted differently? Like such and such has great infantry, so and so has great cavalry, the youknowwho have great artillery?

Like, what is each army's big meme? Are Prussians well drilled and equipped compared to their foes? Or no?';

'>>92672764
The specifics depend on the ruleset you are using but generally speaking all armies have their specific flavor. This flavor also changes over the course of the war. 1806 Prussians are very different from 1813 Prussians.
Most rules obviously play with cliches like the Russians being bad shots but tough melee fighters or the French Old Guard being the closest thing to a Death Star in napoleonics.';

'>>92669279
Sand down the spackle.';

'>>92672932
That's good to hear. You touched on a couple, but could I get a quick rundown on a couple other nation's usual memes? I'm trying to pick out a system on the side, but want to dig deeper into some specific nations at the same time. Just watched the first season of Sharpe so I want to know a bit more before just picking "the good guys" for my first army.';

'>>92673030
Idk what kind of foam that is, but does the spackle not crack and flake off when the foam underneath flexes?';

'>>92673102
French: well led, superior elite troops, fight well in attack column.

Brits: good shots, superior light infantry.

Russians: bad shots, tough melee fighters, bad leadership.

Prussians, early: well drilled, poorly led.

Prussians, late: high-low mix, good leadership.

Austrians: big formations with a lot of staying power, but not very maneuverable.

German minors: trashy (CotR) to really tough (Saxons, Bavarians)

Italian minors: trashy to average.

Spanish: trashy.

Portuguese: strong light infantry.';

'>>92673148
It’s XPS foam which doesn’t flex that much, so cracking is no issue. Will mount the boards on 3mm MDF regardless.';

'>>92672764
Napoleonic armies have their quirks, but in the end everyone is using pretty much the same tactical doctrines and equipment, even if things like column-vs-line get memed to hell.
If you want more varied tactical and equipment styles between nations, go for late 17th to early 18th centuries; particularly in Eastern Europe you have a lot of variance in tactics, unit types, and equipment, and even in the west there are regiments with varying levels of pike, dismounting dragoons, caracole/trot/gallop cavalry, even some scotsmen with axes and swords.';

'what happened to Napoleon at War? i remember that some people tried really hard to push that game in my country but i didn't care that much since back then i was a 40k kiddy';

'>>92651557
I bought a massive Mongolian/song dynasty set. I asked for a hundred quid worth of minis and he sorted me out decent. Quality sculpts and dirt cheap.';

'>>92673270
What's the "Sharpe" of that era to lure me in and show off the coolness?';

'>>92619343
anyone actually looking forward to bolt action 3d ed?

The shite pace of releases has put me off them that and ''resin'' that's a step down from metal.
Feels like i'll see 4 different 2000ad games, 5 more epic spin offs and some other random nonsense before an army I collect gets any units.';

'>>92670140
The Jinshotai, Quick Shock Squad, is from what I've been able to find or translate from moon runes, the Tosa Domains most modern and elite unit of the Boshin War.

A 600 man battalion armed with imported rifles and western style uniforms, they fought in platoons split in half to mutually support each other. They operated as shock light infantry that would skirmish to close with the enemy before finally engaging in melee. They were also modern in that they were made up of volunteers of both samurai and peasants, were paid weekly, could request leave, had a mail service, and even their own army hospital unit. Despite Tosa joining the war late as the third major Imperial Clan, the Jinshotai was considered pivotal for the emperors victory.

As for what got me hooked, I'm really interested in transitional periods in warfare, where new and old clash. The Boshin War exemplifies this to the extreme. Those in power in Japan realized that it must modernize or suffer the same fate as China during the opium wars while the Samurai coped and tried to cling to their identity and traditions. The war is interesting because the japs didn't fight the same as their western contemporaries. Instead of line regiments, they fought mostly as companies in open or loose order, skirmishing and used lots of irregular light troops. It was also a very small war in number, lacking any unit organization in size over a battalion, and those were the exception and not the rule. Most of the armies involved were made up of small heterogeneous independent companies, some of which lacked any uniformity at all. Written accounts mention samurai in frock coats and bowler hats armed with spencer rifles and katanas fighting alongside men in archaic iron helms wielding spears and revolvers. It's a hodgepodge mess and I love it, but finding hodgepodge minis to represent some of the more esoteric units is impossible.';

'just played a game of mhwbk
it was fun
time to order more zulus
does anyone have anything from newline designs? are they compatible with 1/72? might just order a couple things to see what they're like';

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'Slow night.

I'm interested in getting into the French and Indian wars. Where should I start?';

'>>92676756
The usual stuff: read some source material, chose faction, scale, scope and scenario. Pick a ruleset according to your needs. Use the recommended basing scheme to chose your minis. Build a board, find opponents.
???
Fun!';

'Are there any good chit-based wargames of the 3rd Crusade or suitable for warfare of that period?';

'>>92673995
NTA but Alatriste

I game both pike and shot and horse foot and guns. If you're disposed to playing skirmish versions of them or they can both be very static.

>>92674164
I am a Warlord fanboy insofar as I think their starter sets are just really good value. Outside of that the resin is kinda meh and I don't see why you wouldn't buy a Warlord starter of some kind and then branch out to Victrix or Perrys fairly immediately.

I feel like WW2 is pretty well furnished by board games desu, painting 100 green guys and 100 grey guys doesn't appeal to me. Big Trucks, however, I think light vehicles would be my "in" hehe';

'>>92678700
What a fucken movie
https://youtu.be/SX-y87nmZnc?feature=shared

A showcase of renaissance combat types';

'>>92678706
Decent set of books as well. Probably more focused on individual combat than wargaming-scale actions, but Perez-Reverte can spin a yarn - even under translation (although if you can read the original spanish, it's even better).';

'>>92619343
you just know';

'>>92678722
Will have to check out the books tbf

>>92674428
Best Mersey rules imho.

>>92672343
For some reason Biblical armies don't shake out as well in DBA. LH and Ps and Ax heavy armies don't. But I still think it's Platonically Perfect Wargame.

>>92671733
Warhammer asks weird questions to begin with. I think Oathmark does it very elegantly by comparison.';

'>>92678420
Men of Iron Tri Pack
Fucken great spread';

'Best fantasy h&c wargames?';

'>>92639825';

'>>92679541
you just confirmed what he said about brown blob';

'>>92679303
Can only think of one offhand
WIZARD KINGS
https://youtu.be/sCHk8YmhgRo?feature=shared';

'>>92676756
1. Find friend or opponent also interested
2.pick a ruleset to use
3. Buy, build, and paint models
4. ??????
5. Profit';

'>>92669760
Let it go lol';

'>>92678759
>LH and Ps and Ax heavy armies don't shake out.
I was thinking about balancing singular battle with some stratagem of choice from DBM/DBMM; in campaign lighter armies would be balanced by beign cheaper/faster to train.';

'>>92680140
Yeah I mean HOTT is still very solid you can play that and use DBA as reference material. The two will allegedly be updated in onebook anyway soon';

'>>92678420
Check out Acre: the Third Crusade opens. It's in one of the archives.

If you're more interested in a strategic level game, there is Onwards Christian Soldiers. Which is, well it's a Richard Berg game, so an undercooked mess: 1000 counters but not the ones you actually need to play the game, rules booklets that contradict eachother, ideosyncratic movement rules, tons of errata "suggestions", and yet, a fascinating level of detail not found anywhere else.';

'>>92674428
Newline vs AB 20mm vs 1/72, either Revell or Zvezda, can't recall. Really, really like Newline.';

'>>92670823
Per "Painting War #1" the Waffenfarbe for general staff was crimson. Take that for what it's worth, being a secondary source to the nth power.';

'>>92679541
Wh.. what am I looking at here?';

'>>92682274
2mm tercio by the look of it
Probably irregular
Not bad';

'>>92681973
Thanks
It seems they used to sell 1/72s, but maybe they merged them into 20mm stuff, right?';

'>>92682693
I couldn't say, I only have a few of their colonials and a single pack of Napoleonics I bought last year. I actually equate 20mm with 1/72, maybe incorrectly. In my experience most the size difference comes down to manufacturer/sculptor rather that the nominal scale. I'm looking at some of the 1/72 plastic I dug out for the pic, PSC, Revell, Ceasar, Zvezda, and they're all over the place sizewise. The plastics are pretty much all very slender compares to the metals tho. Hth';

'>>92682880
yeah, I have some figures from several different manufacturers and they have different proportions but they look fine together on the table
Got a 20mm Rorke's Drift today and it looks kino';

'>>92682880
I think 1/72 is pretty close to 20mm
25mm in the most exaggerated sculpts
It is more natural and elegant looking to me. When my three big periods snd their forks - gallic wars, vikings in ireland, italian wars and ecw and 100 days campaign are done, I think it's either 15mm or 1/72 for me. I have spent a lot on this hobby, 1/72 is such a reasonable ask to justify a lot of what I have done in board games.';

'>>92683592
Oh and somehow I ended up with late romans and goths, I got the megalomania and was like I shall do two ages of rome lol. Just a smattering of all mind';

'>>92669760
Their Western game uses the old LOTR rules.';

'Does anyone have experience with Henry Turner 6mm napoleonic prints? I am especially interested in Russians here.';

'>>92683592
1/72 hasn't been 20mm in a long time (that was when it actually was 1/76). Check PSR for real sizes. Most will be 24mm.
Would have recommended 1/72 maybe 10 years ago, but now you will have a real tough time to source boxes outside the most popular periods and engagements. You will always find your Romans and Gauls, your French vs Brits for the Peninsular war, but apart from that... good luck finding Austrian artillery, Ottomans etc, etc.
You can still rely on the 2nd hand market somewhat (still no Austrian artillery) on the manufacturers not so much. Companies closed shop, or are in limbo (Hät), and those that still produce new sets (the Ukrainians), rarely reissue their old stuff.';