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>Wargaming Compendium
http://www.mediafire.com/download/cghxf3475qy46aq/Wargaming+Compendium.pdf
>Saga
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/alj31go19tmpm/SAGA
>Black Powder
http://www.mediafire.com/download/o5x6blwoczojmfr/Black+Powder.pdf
>Bolt Action
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/n7jmdnlv1n0ju/Bolt_Action
>Hail Caesar
https://mega.nz/#F!s9xTTDpQ!CasEjRETeqZsJ5LOzYrJdg
>Warhammer Ancient battles 2.0
http://www.mediafire.com/download/uttov32riixm9b0/Warhammer+Ancient+Battles+2E.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/ta7aj1erh7sap1t/Warhammer+Ancient+Battles+-+Armies+of+Antiquity+v2.pdf
>Warmaster Ancients
http://www.mediafire.com/download/cifld8bl3uy2i5g/Warmaster+Ancients.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/3emyvka11bnna1b/Warmaster+Ancient+Armies.pdf
>Advanced Squad Leader
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/d9x0dbxrpjg48/Advanced_Squad_Leader
>Impetus
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/28i9gevqws518/Impetus
>Ronin
http://www.mediafire.com/download/m8xke04pc3hne2k/Ronin.pdf
>Battleground WWII
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/cb83cg7ays4l1/Battleground_WWII
>By Fire And Sword
https://mega.co.nz/#!jxgCWTYD!FCp52DAqIUc-EM-TsRsWv7fB92nJ3kkzKsNcD_urI5Q
>Modelling & painting guides
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/7b5027l7oaz05/Modelling_%26_Painting_Guides
>Twilight 2000/2013 RPG
https://mega.co.nz/#F!C9sQhbwb!NVnD4jvUn5inOrPJIAkBhA
>Phoenix Command RPG
https://mega.co.nz/#F!b5tgXRwa!mzelRNrKPjiT8gP7VrS-Jw
>Next War (GMT)
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/eupungrg93xgb/Next_War
>Battlegroup
https://mega.nz/#F!SolyxarJ!GUg6zWBStfznr6BvYedghQ

Desired scans :
Black Powder supplements
Rank and File supplements
Harpoon 3 & 4 supplements
Hail Caesar! Late Antiquity to Early Medieval Army List
Force on Force supplements
Hind Commander
At Close Quarters
War and Conquest
Germany Strikes!

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14th of May in military history:

1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
1509 – Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians.
1610 – Henry IV of France is assassinated, bringing Louis XIII to the throne.
1747 – War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.
1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
1868 – Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.
1931 – Ådalen shootings: Five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
1940 – World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
1940 – World War II: The Battle of the Netherlands ends with the Netherlands surrendering to Germany.
1940 – The Yermolayev Yer-2, a long-range Soviet medium bomber, makes its first flight.
1942 – The Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) was established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
1943 – World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland.
1948 – Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

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It is 752 years since the Battle of Lewes, one of two main battles of the conflict known as the Second Barons' War. It took place at Lewes in Sussex, England. It marked the high point of the career of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, and made him the "uncrowned King of England".

Henry III was an unpopular monarch due to his autocratic style, displays of favouritism and his refusal to negotiate with his barons. The barons eventually imposed a constitutional reform known as the Provisions of Oxford upon Henry that called for a thrice-yearly meeting led by Simon de Montfort to discuss matters of government. Henry sought to escape the restrictions of the provisions and applied to Louis IX of France to arbitrate in the dispute. Louis agreed with Henry and annulled the provisions. Montfort was angered by this and rebelled against the King along with other barons in the Second Barons' War.

The war was not initially openly fought, each side toured the country to raise support for their army. By May the King's force had reached Lewes where they intended to halt for a while to allow reinforcements to reach them. The King encamped at St. Pancras Priory with a force of infantry, but his son, Prince Edward (later King Edward I), commanded the cavalry at Lewes Castle 500 yards (460 m) to the north. De Montfort approached the King with the intention of negotiating a truce or failing that to draw him into open battle. The King rejected the negotiations and de Montfort moved his men from Fletching to Offam Hill, a mile to the north-west of Lewes, in a night march that surprised the royalist forces.

The royalist army was up to twice the size of de Montfort's. Henry held command of the centre, with Prince Edward, William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke, and John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, on the right; and Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, and his son, Henry of Almain, on the left.

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>>47248478
The barons held the higher ground, overlooking Lewes, and had ordered their men to wear white crosses as a distinguishing emblem. De Montfort split his forces into four parts, giving his son, Henry de Montfort command of one quarter; Gilbert de Clare with John FitzJohn and William of Montchensy another; a third portion consisting of Londoners was placed under Nicholas de Segrave whilst de Montfort himself led the fourth quarter with Thomas of Pelveston.

The baronial forces commenced the engagement with a surprise dawn attack on foragers sent out from the royalist forces. The King then made his move. Edward led a cavalry charge against Seagrave's Londoners, placed on the left of the baronial line, that caused them to break and run to the village of Offham. Edward pursued his foe for some four miles, leaving the King unsupported. Henry was forced to launch an attack with his centre and right divisions straight up Offham Hill into the baronial line which awaited them at the defensive. Cornwall's division faltered almost immediately but Henry's men fought on until compelled to retreat by the arrival of de Montfort's men that had been held as the baronial reserve.

The King's men were forced down the hill and into Lewes where they engaged in a fighting retreat to the castle and priory. Edward returned with his weary cavalrymen and launched a counterattack but upon locating his father was persuaded that, with the town ablaze and many of the King's supporters having fled, it was time to accept de Montfort's renewed offer of negotiations. The Earl of Cornwall was captured by the barons when he was unable to reach the safety of the priory and, being discovered in a windmill, was taunted with cries of "Come down, come down, thou wicked miller."

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>>47248490
The King was forced to sign the so-called Mise of Lewes. Though the document has not survived, it is clear that Henry was forced to accept the Provisions of Oxford, while Prince Edward remained a hostage of the barons. This put Montfort in a position of ultimate power, which would last until Prince Edward's escape, and Montfort's subsequent defeat at the Battle of Evesham in August 1265.

The streets of Lewes were lined with dead and wounded, and most of the latter would also die. The abbot of St. Pancras priory put the number of dead at 2,700, most of them peasants. In 1846, during construction of a railway line through the site of St. Pancras priory, excavators discovered a mass of human bones in a well about 18 feet below ground level. There were enough bones to fill 13 freight cars — probably well over 1,000 skeletons. The bones were taken from the site and unloaded a short distance away, where they were used as fill for an embankment then under construction. Whether they were the remains of Henry’s or Simon’s men is unknown.

Lewes is interesting in that it and Evesham were the only pitched battles to be fought by English armies in the mid-13th century. It provides medieval wargamers with a fantastic chance for a High Middle Ages clash on a relatively even footing, with a lot of colour and gaming potential.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/t387cjc62i1e2f9/Osprey+-+ELI+185+-+European+Medieval+Tactics+%281%29.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/8jo0vztlcex483l/Osprey+-+WAR+048+-+English+Medieval+Knight+1200-1300.pdf

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I'll try not to over-spam this, but once again, if there are any gamers around the South-West of the UK, there's a Jutland Naval Wargame being held in two weeks' time.

Just to sweeten the deal, I've spoken to the organiser (a serving RN officer), and he's told me the following:

-It's at a Royal Navy reserve station, and (as well as opening up the subsidised bar) they will bring out their Jutland memorabilia and be on hand to discuss the battle's history
-It's command-based, with the Admirals on each side in a separate room and communicating with their divisional commanders by signal

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Time to bump

>>47247709
>>47247709
I was there on holiday two years back, neat little town.

>>47248128
>>47248054
Im with the No Logo anon. I like the fact we can start each thread with an interresting new picture

>>47248054
Yeah, nah.

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Im also with NoLogo anons. Sure its easier to find general in catalog, but i usually just search for 'hist' anyway.

>>47249599
I just search hwg
or /hw

>>47249621
searching 'hist' is better, as sometimes there is some other historical threads made by crossboarders, so you can help them if needed

>>47248500
>The bones were taken from the site and unloaded a short distance away, where they were used as fill for an embankment then under construction

Mandatory cringe for carefree destruction of archaeology in the name of progress.

>>47249461
I did have a tongue in cheek idea for an /hwg/ coat of arms, that being a Lion Rampant holding a turnip.

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replayed the Battle of Arracourt in Bolt Action yesterday. Used the Night Fighting rules to simulate the fog.

Was a blast since the tanks went into close quarter combat... and still didn't hit shit.

dumping some pics.

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>>47250468
and out

>>47249983
Riding unbuttoned in a BMP

>>47250468

The paint jobs are lovely, but ouch, some of those mold lines.

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>>47250496
yeah I know man... those were some of the first minis I've painted and back then I didn't know about mold lines. now I do and later ones don't have them any more or least I've tried to remove them. pic related my Fallschirmjaeger.

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Finally, no more problems with paper maps and the damned folds fucking up my chits

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this wa way more work than I expected...

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Friendly reminder that Radpanzers are rad panzers

>>47251252
>making that many of something
>no matter how simple/small/easy

It was always going to be tedious.

>>47251303
you re right, but I didnt think clearly about it beforehand

>>47251448
well, tickle my anus and call me samantha, i have perfect requirements to be a hussar.

>>47250450
>tanks ever being this close and still alive

and this is why BA is shit

>>47251252
>been working on something similar
>looks like shit in comparison

;-; damn u did good anon

>>47253525
We had something similar happening in our first test game of BA tank war using a set of demo minis; 3 Shermans vs a Panther with Barkmann's special rules.

There were multiple cases of one player (the FLGS owner) missing anything-but-a-one shots where the tanks were within a couple of inches of each other.
A few less-likely shots also failed, but that wasn't quite as frustrating.

>>47253557
thx, I can only recommend using iron wool for the trees. accidentally bought 20 times the amount i needed and still only payed 3 bucks.

>>47254196
>accidentally bought 20 times the amount i needed
what are you going to do with the rest?

Scour your pans?

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>>47254242
make more trees when I get some time on hands and scour pans if I need to I guess, there are so many possibilities...

>>47254291
You could use some as smoke for blast or wreck markers.

>>47254317
true, gonna keep that in mind if I ever do 1. WW stuff, for gas and stuff,
but sadly the romasn and goths I plan on purchasing dont spontanously combut after dieing so no casualtitymarkes there...

>>47254369
You could use it on some buildings or something for burning ruins, that could look pretty sweet.

>>47254393
that makes me wish to play 6mm chinese Ahn Armies and make a extra ruleset for hail caesar for using fire, overflowing rivers, broken dams and stuff like that in combat... would be totally awesome

>>47254435
Environmental stuff like that is always a good way to spice up a game, if you ask me.

>>47254456
probably only useful in a campaign setting. so you can use it to plan eleborate traps for the enemy.

it really reminds me of ravages of time, a really good hawaian sharkskin-stitching about the romance of the three kingdoms. dont now about the historical accuracys, but the startegic planing of the maincast is very elaborate and fun to read.

>>47254539
I dunno, you can make stuff like that work for one-off games. For example there's a Through the Mud and the Blood scenario set in 1914 which features changes to movement as a result of the Belgian floods.

>>47254601
true, if you play these very specific szenarios it can work,
I guess I cant convince myself, not to make fire and smoke markers. have to get the colors when I have the opportunity

I've been reading through the rules of Crossfire. Managed to get a friend interested and going to have a test game tomorrow. It got me thinking though, wargames don't seem to be that popular and there are a lot of smaller games around. How do you find people for the one you're playing?

post minis

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>>47255216
crossfire looks really cool, I like its take on tactics and its kind of unusal turn and activation system.

My group of friends are all wargamers, so I just get some of them around to play new things, provided I've already assembled 2 forces and written some rules... I pretty much entirely play homebrews these days.

>be worried about the spacing/scale of my terrain ive been working on mostly ddue to budget restraints (have to use carddboard for bases etc)

>lay it out on the mat for the first time
>doesnt look as bad as I thought

I know its still poor tier but Im pleasedd.

>>47255853
post pics?

>>47255918
I will once Ive finished the touch ups, need to to extra flock and I little paint.

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Anyone know where I could find some suitable minis for pre-Viking age (IE Vendel culture) Scandinavian warriors or similar?

>>47254196
What do you use for trunks?

>>47250566
Don't worry too much, there's a guy in these threads who's literally obsessed with mold lines.

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Bumping with an interesting video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YThv9pmtuXo&ab_channel=DoleInstituteofPolitics

>>47254539
Mah blackskinned friend.
Its not historical in terms of strategic planing, wich is literaly keikaku dori there, but still great manhwa. Sadly no one translates it anymore

>>47257882
I got black wire from the harwarestore and twisted 6 strands togehter. I thought that 2cm would be a good hight for 6mm treetrunks. but be aware, it was a ton of work. next time Im gonna force my friends to help me like in Ford maufacturing plants

>>47263096
Twisting black wire together for trunks, and putting iron wool together as branches and leaves. Sounds like a pretty good, cheap terrain idea. Any other advice/suggestions?

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>>47263122
I went for the cheap and sturdy way, searched and cut some textures and printed them out. through that, all tiles besides the tree ones have a productioncost of 2 cents. due to süray paint, iron wool, printed texture and the wire, the tree ones cost me like 25 cents per tile.

>>47263451
I reinforced the edge with transparent tape, for even more sturdiness, another Anon sugested to paint the edge with marker, to hide the uneven cuts
I desided against flocking anything, becaus I want to easily store the terrain

>>47263451
Well im never posting my terrain project now after this. Congrats anon looks amazing

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>>47263468

>>47263473
thx but id love to see, how you did rockfaces If you have any

>>47263486
How did you get that colour for the leaves? Different sparkling greens.

>>47263501
green spray varnish, the sparkling is probably the ironwoo. was to cheap to get black or brown spray for basing, but im still pretty happy with the result

>>47263534
>im still pretty happy with the result
well it looks fantastic so I don't blame you.

>>47263451
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nice job anon, looks great

>>47263451
how/what did you do to print? doesn't seem like it's just regular paper

>>47263796it is just regular paper

>>47263451
>>47263486
Great work anon

>>47257611
Are those helmet wood, bone or iron? Hard to tell. What do you want to do with them?

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>>47263451
>>47263486
A suggestion for any anons who want to do something like this, instead of tape you could also use matte mod podge instead of tape, will seal that texture on no problem and not make the tiles shiny if you don't want that.

Still, looks fantastic with tape too. How did you cut the tiles so evenly?

>>47250710
good man. youll find the games will be a touch more enjoyable now

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>>47264493
alot of preperation and a little math

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Aerosans are so fucking cool, like a classic example of that insane tech the Soviets loved so much. Do any WW2 systems model them? I know a wheeled variant popped up once in a VBCW game I read about, using Bolt Action rules.

>>47264964
Oh fuck yes, I forgot about the aerosani. definitely including it in the latest ostfront soviet list.

Essentially a very light vehicle with a machine gun. It will get raped by the lightest wind, but could be decent for recon and taking out the odd infantry or light vehicles.

It wouldn't be able to move through cover like a normal vehicle though, would be limited to open ground, and battles would be assumed to be on snow when you're using it...

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>>47264964
On the subject of crazy Soviet vehicles, what about the ekranoplan? Anyone used on these in a game?

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>>47265609
It's the sort of thing that would make a great centrepiece for a game; for example a commando raid to sabotage or capture it.

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>>47264964
>I know a wheeled variant popped up once in a VBCW game I read about
Tally ho!

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>>47248453
A gift for all you fine gentlemen and scholars.

https://www.mediafire.com/?c2ka7ayd75ayv17

>>47266516
Thanks, m8.

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>>47266516
Nice one anon. Pretty sure we have it buried in the folders somewhere but it certainly won't hurt to bring it to the attention of anyone who has not read it. I have a battered copy of the 1981 edition lying around, one of the treasured members of my wargaming library. It's a real time capsule now, written when hex & counter was fucking huge. The section on computer games is amazing in hindsight; it features Taipan and the original text-only versions of Flight Simulator and Temple of Apshai. Also of course there's the pocket wargame "Patton at Metz" and Jim Dunnigan's personal-eye-view of the history of early wargaming. It must be hard for him to look at wargaming today, especially the computer applications, and not scream I Told You So every five minutes.

>>47250710
What game?

Maurice pdf available anywhere? Marlburian era is calling..

>>47264964

There was a Russo-Finnish War variant for Panzerblitz that added these to the game, check over on http://www.imaginative-strategist.layfigures.com/ - I believe a copy of that article is there...

So I've been playing a decent amount of SAGA recently and I really, really like it and I'd like something similar but for different periods.

What other similar skirmish games would /hwg/ recommend I check out? Other than Crescent and The Cross obviously.

>>47267718
The first one who mentions Lion Rampant gets slapped.

>>47267741

Why?

>>47267535
Chandragupta

It is part of the Great Battles of History series of games by GMT

>>47267718
Since it got updated, Chevauchee's supposed to be pretty good!

>>47267864
Thanks m8

>>47267718
Dux Britannium maybe?
It's earlier and more campaign focused but I've seen nout but good about it.

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>>47264269
I think they are iron with engravings.

I want to use them for an early Angle themed army. Basically just looking for warrior kaftans and boar crested helmets.

Is there anywhere I can buy clearly-female 28mm models in uniforms and gear that look vaguely European from somewhere between 1800 and 1950?

>>47270913

The Dicebag lady?

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>>47265648
Ekranoplan Carrier

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>>47264964
ATS and ASL both have the Aerosans in them.

>>47266516
Own it. Think I picked it up in.....the early 90s. Also own his book "How to Make War" although I always thought the title would work better as "How War Works"

both good titles. Should sit down and read them again

I've seen a wiki linked to before that has various uniforms and references for modern regular and irregular forces. Anyone have that link?

>>47265609
Never used it in a historical game, but I'm still hoping to put them onto the battlefield in Battletech.

>>47250487

Looks fun!

>>47273091
Probably the one setting that actually makes the most use of them.
They hardly turn up in anything else.

>>47270913
Dice Bag Lady covers that whole period well, but if you are specifically looking at the 1850-1914 era, then check out Hinterland Miniatures.

>>47271013
>>47277229
I want to purchase her Aethelflaed 2-pack for my Mercian SAGA warband. Anyone purchased from her before? Will they actually be quality?

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Does anyone have any information on the paint schemes for the deck structures of British destroyers circa 1915? Massie's "Castles of Steel" says that they're all grey (holystoned decks aside, obviously), and the capital ships are definitely all grey along their superstructures, but there's this model of the Acheron-class HMS Jackal in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich that has grey superstructure with black funnels and deck structures (pic related), and I can't imagine that the museum would fuck that up. The only date on the model is 1911 (which is the Jackal's launch date), and I can't find out if this is a 1911-era scheme or if it's representative of a wartime scheme.

I have 2 flotillas of Panzerschiffe DD's sitting in front of me and I'd really like to not fuck this up.

>>47278586

All gray. Once WW1 started, Briitish destroyers were in the same charcoal gray as all the rest of the ships, but after December of 1914, ships were painted instead in a medium gray due to a shortage of pigments. L-class destroyers, specifically, were built and immediately painted black in 1913, but by the middle of 1915 all of them had been repainted gray.

Do note that this is for "generic" WW1 painting. Technically speaking, British destroyers went through several repaintings of shades of gray throughout the war (IIRC there were 5 different shades), each being progressively lighter than the last. But if you just paint the DD's in something like Vallejo Neutral Gray or an old GW Codex Gray, you'll be good for essentially the entire war; paint faded so fast under North Sea conditions that almost any shade of gray between charcoal and medium gray is perfectly acceptable.

If you need a cite, check here: https://thomo.coldie.net/2008/02/20/colour-schemes-of-ww1-warships/

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>tfw my Boers finally arrived and I paint one

How am I doin' /hwg/?

>>47280422
its your first time painting anything isnt it?

>>47280422
Get some washes, they'll change your life.

>>47280422
>posted sideways
Why did it do this?

>>47280453
I have a black wash, but I haven't found it very useful. I think I need a lighter one, or a brown one for faces.

>>47280443
Hmm you're right, that pic looks bad because the brown from the chin-strap and the ammo belt have had some brown go between them onto the shirt. I'll fix it up. Aside from that I'm pretty happy so far.

>>47280481
Maybe invest in Army Painter dips, the brown one is quite popular for getting stuff that looks half decent and is quick and easy.

>>47280481
>fucking up a black wash

Literally how, black wash is ez mode to acceptable miniatures. Also dont paint the eyes jesus christ

>>47280504
My local store doesn't sell Army Painter. I'll just grab some Vallejo Model Wash.

>>47280545
Mm he looks like a demon, I guess I'll paint over them. Also the black wash makes his face look like shit so no thanks.

>>47280551
If it makes his face look bad one of three things is wrong

A. You're retardded and dont do a light coat of flesh tone back over

B. Youre putting the wash on while the flesh paint isnt fully dry

C. you're using too much fucking wash

>>47280572
>You're retardded and dont do a light coat of flesh tone back over
It's A. No one ever taught me how to paint, I thought it went paint then wash then basing.

>>47280594
Paint. Wash. Paint again in a thinner/lighter coat over the raised parts of the figure. Highlight if you want.Touch ups. Base.

>>47280606
>Highlight if you want.Touch ups.
While you're doing the tutorial... Is highlighting touchin' the sticky outy parts of the model (nose, knees, etc) with lighter colours? And touch ups fixing where you've fucked it?

>>47280572
Black wash doesn't go well with faces FYI. Dark brown is good for it, black definitely not.

>>47280644
2:1 Red:Black wash mixture for faces will apparently get good results.

>>47280642
Yup, pretty much.

I can recommend looking for some Youtube tutorials.

>>47280717
Thanks buddy. Also could I just use heavily thinned or watered down white paint as wash? Or is wash different to paint?

>>47280731
Thatd work if using waterbased/acrylic based paints but white wash wont really work. You wash with dark colours because it fills the crevices

>>47280749
Oh yeah of course. Well I have like 10 different browns so I'd go with one of those. Should I use thinner or water? I very rarely use the thinner.

>>47280774
depends on what type of paint you have

>>47280851
Vallejo Model Colour acrylics.

>>47280862
water should be fine

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>realizing I just posted in /bgg/ by accident

About to start up Stalingrad with my father. Although, he has about half a century's experience on me. He usually cleans the board except in
>Afrika Korps
Which is beginner level stuff but I digress. I've also only ever played as the Russians.

Any advice, tips, pointers, things to keep in mind/prioritized when playing as ze Germans? Advantageous routes? Maneuvers? Or do I just hope the dice gods roll on my side before he can match my attacking strength with reinforcements? Pic unrelated. Can't find Stalingrad picture. Phone posting.

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>>47281725
Stalingrad is yet another one of those avalon hill games where it all comes down to math crunching and finding as many 3-1 odds shifts attacks as you can.(alot of early AH games were this way....1914, Afrika Korps, the list goes on and on)

people seem to love the game and say its a classic but I find it to not to be.

its one of those games that old crusty grogs have spent huge amount of time trying to figure out the 'right' set up and plans to make. literally spending years to figure out the 'puzzle' of the game. If thats the case with your old man..then there is nothing you can do. he will beat you.

that being said there have been HUGE amounts of articles written on the game. head over to BGG and look over the forums to get some ideas on what you can do

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4651/stalingrad

>>47254196
If it's the really fine stuff, touch a 9 volt battery to it. Metallic iron is unstable in oxygen

>>47283218
> Metallic iron

As opposed to non-metallic Iron?

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Could a kind anon add this to the mini provider list? It's a rundown with pictures of the various 20mm moderns available, pretty useful.
http://imperialarmour.blogspot.ca/2013/07/review-20mm-infantry-figures-in.html

>>47254196
Furnace filter trees are also quite cheap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF4d5RxD19g

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>>47284257

So the Warlord Spec Ops are out for their zombie game.

They say the figures can be used for a wide variety of different troop types including Russians, US forces, and Brits, tho I'm not 100% convinced, tho will pick up a box as I got a 10 pounds coupon from them for apparently not ordering anything from them recently.

Which is fun, since I haven't ordered anything from them ever, but ah well, 10 pounds off of anything. Makes the box 10 poundw with postage to Middle Slavstan.

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>>47264964
Command Decision and Battlegroup Barbarossa have them. Panzergrenadier does too if you're into hex & chit

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>>47272655
>>47266700

A long time ago I got a book from the library where each chapter was about a different era like anglo saxon hill forts, monte cassino,, roman battles etc. It had information on how to make terrain for the period out of household items and basic rules for fighting that era with plastic army men/airfix etc. I remember it being a pretty cool book but haven't ever seen it again.

Ring a bell with anyone?

>>47278586

Pics of ships? I've been looking over some naval stuff from the OP since Jutland's 100th anniversary is coming up.

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>>47289202
>pic related
what a cuck

>>47273091
Mah fellow WiGE lover! If you stat one, post it over in /btg/.

>>47278586
I know you've got a bunch of age of dreadnought and interwar stuff, and I've seen you post a few, care to dump pics of your collection? If it's anything like your BT stuff you have some sizeable fleets.

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>>47291813
Oy. A bit older than what you want to see, but still mostly interwar ships that may or may not be fantasy schemes in some cases.

>>47292571
*newer*, sorry.

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>>47291813
>>47292239

Yeah, no problem. Here's pics of the ships I've been working on recently. The project is to have the entire OOBs for both the Pursuit of the Goeben (1914) and the Battle of Dogger Bank (1915). Both of those were heavily slanted towards battlecruiser actions. Once these are done, I'm going to start working (very, very slowly) on building the entire German and British OOBs for Jutland. No way I'll have it done for the 100th anniversary, obviously, but it'll still be nice to have the dreadnoughts available.

Anyway, I think this is going to be a 7-picture dump.

1/7 - Bird's eye view of the British Fleet. The white on the DD bases is the Woodland Scenic Water Effects, which is still drying from when it was applied to the bases during the first period of tonight's TB-PIT hockey game.

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>>47293532

Oh, hey, my pics are too big.

2/7 - British cruiser squadrons. Top four are the 1st Cruiser Squadron. Bottom four are the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron.

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>>47293609

3/7 - British Battlecruisers. Top four are Beatty's squadron from Dogger Bank. Bottom three are the Mediterranean Squadron from the Pursuit of the Goeben.

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>>47293635

4/7 - Overhead of the High Seas Fleet. Again, this is mixed between the OOB from Dogger Bank and the Goeben Pursuit.

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>>47293648

5/7 - German Torpedo Boats. Unlike the British DDs, I actually have all of the necessary ships here (the British DD flotilla headed up by HMS Arethusa wasn't composed of Acheron-class DDs like the ones headed by the Undaunted and Aurora, and sourcing the correct minis has proven to be an issue).

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>>47293697

6/7 - German cruisers. These are all from Dogger Bank.

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>>47293718

7/7 - Finally, here's the German Battlecruisers. Before anyone says it, yes, I'm aware the Blucher was technically an armored cruiser, but she sailed with the rest of the BCs of I Scouting Group for Dogger Bank and the British classified her as a BC, so her rightful place is with the rest of Hipper's ships.

The bottom two ships were the first two ships I did for this project; Goeben and Breslau. As such, the current paint mix has changed slightly, and I've learned some lessons about not staining the nameplates. I'll redo these at some point.

>>47293765
Ships look great! nice work!

Anyone got any opinions on Graviteam Tactics or Flashpoint Campaigns?

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>>47294838
I've played both, Graviteam is my favourite out of the two, but thats probably because I prefer company level rather than operational level.

>>47295006
Is mius front worth jumping on or should i go with opstar because its cheaper?

>>47295015
I have yet to play mius front sadly, but I can say that opstar is pretty great.

http://pastebin.com/TwMLZQ6h

If you go with opstar this link should be useful

>>47293718

Why is the Strasland model such more detailed than the other three ships here?

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>>47296259

It's from GHQ, while all of the other cruisers and DDs are from Panzerschiffe. A GHQ ship is about $14, while the ship from Panzerschiffe is between $1.50-2.50. When you've got to buy 30 destroyers at a time, that adds up.

The reason that single cruiser is from GHQ while all the rest are from Panzerschiffe is because when I was first getting into WW1-era naval gaming, I just wanted to get enough to run the Goebn pursuit - on the German side, that meant the Goeban and the cruiser Breslau (Magdeburg-class). It made sense to buy those two models from GHQ at the same time I bought the 3 British battlecruisers It wasn't until later that I started collecting models for Dogger Bank and learned about Panzerschiffe. I realized that there was another Magdeburg serving at the time: the SMS Straslund, and I had to either buy a second GHQ model and have the 1 cruiser more detailed than the rest of the squadron, or I could buy a Panzerschiffe Magdeburg model and have the two ships of the same class not match when next to each other. I could live with the former route better, so both the Magdeburgs are GHQ.

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With the naval discussion floating around, I went poking at some of the WW1-era ships and holy hell were the early French ships weird-looking. What's with that hull?

Is that the Hoche?

Who the hell needs freeboard anyway? Not the frogs...

>>47250487
Late but that 15mm BA?

>>47297945

That's 28mm.

>>47250487
>parking lot

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>>47297422
Pic related is a US ocean-going Monitor. Similar, though the French ship also looks to have a large broadside battery of secondary armament.

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>>47297422
Tumblehome was pretty common after age of sail ended for a while. It looks damn sexy on a steel ship. This reminds me, somewhere I've got a pdf of a booklet that illustrates common ship traits I've been meaning to post in the thread. Can't find it now, but I'll keep looking.

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

Pic related is an Italian armored cruiser that fought for Greece.

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>>47298548

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>>47298566

>>47298548
Just wait until the Zumwalts are in commission.

>>47298576
You can also see it a bit on ships like the US Clemson/Wickes DD's, French Aigle-class (at least some of them) Italian Leone class DDs.

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>>47298680
Somehow, they lack the sexiness of older ships. I think it's the lack of curves and protrusions on the hull (which I understand the reason for).

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>>47298701
I can't be the only one who finds the Zumwalt intimidating in a monolith kinda way.

>>47298770
It looks like a superweapon.

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>>47298770
Honestly, the thought of them hammering away at other blocky ships with railguns makes me feel a bit like being stuck in a game of Total Annihilation.

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All this topside action....

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>>47298548
Found it.

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>Oh, we got summat for ya 'ere too, mate.

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>>47298992

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>>47299055
You wouldn't happen to know of somewhere that streams that movie, would you? I've only seen bits and pieces and it bugs the hell out of me.

>>47299085
http://putlocker.is/watch-das-boot-online-free-putlocker.html

>>47298987
> A large body of opinion maintains that
the Italians, for instance, would be obliging enough to eliminate their fleet
from the Mediterranean if left to their own devices.

Will the Italians ever have their shit together?

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>>47299110
Much appreciated, anon.

>>47299172
But anon, Italy is it's own aircraft carrier.

I love the Regia Marina, but they were very poorly employed.

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Just an update about pic related: the fifth faction, brethren of the coast (with a mix of spanish, english and french units) has been unlocked. Possibly we even get to 200k, and get pure frenchmen as well.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/firelockgames/blood-and-plunder/

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>>47293648
Germany used to have such a good looking battle jack. The one they used in WWII wasn't bad looking either, from an aesthetic standpoint, but pic related is a hell of a lot sexier.

Thanks for posting the whole family!

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>>47295015

Didn't Mius refine the interface a bit or some kind of other optimization?

Haven't played Mius but Star is pretty sweet.

>>47250487
If you're still here, what is the board/base made of? It looks great and I wanna replicate it

>>47293765
A friend of mine at my society recently wanted to try some naval war games, particularly WW1-present (none age of sail or classicals essentially) What game would be best to do this with? Which manufacturers for models? I know paper based ones exist but owning the models is a big part of it for us to.

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>>47301283

A single game for everything WW1-present? I don't think there is one; the difference between 1942-era naval combat and 1972-era is absolutely tremendous, and I don't think that a single game can reasonably encompass both.

IMO, your best best is to use General Quarters 3 for WW2, and General Quarters: Fleet Action Imminent for WW1. They're very similar, though optimized to make their particular wars work best. Then choose something for modern naval combat that you like (there *is* a set of Modern General Quarters, but it's unfinished and I don't actually like it much). The three modern naval games I'd suggest are: "Harpoon," "Shipwreck" and "Subs and Sams". Harpoon is the super-high-detail simulation ju jour, if you want that sort of game. The other two are much more abstracted, but much easier to actually play.

Note that I don't generally recommend Seakrieg for WW1-2 gaming because it tends to work best when one player is playing one ship. While that sounds good for learning games, in practice, I've found players generally prefer playing a half-flotilla or a division (about 4 ships) even when starting out completely new. This scale of play is right in GQ's wheelhouse.

GQ3 and GQ3:FAI are in the OP mediafire folder (I supplied the latter).
So is Harpoon 3 (Harpoon 4 is the newest, but 3 will generally suffice).
Subs and Sams is a free ruleset here: http://www.wrg.me.uk/PHIL/pcb.html
Shipwreck is OOP an not in the mediafire folder, but shouldn't be too hard to find.

Finally, I will editorialize and say that I don't think modern naval wargaming is much fun (especially post 1980-era). "Side A locates the enemy and attacks, Side B uses counter-measures. Missiles hit, ships sink, survivors counter attack, Etc." Terrain tends to matter very little; whomever wins the scouting phase and can locate the OPFOR first tends to win. Which is REALISTIC...but not fun for prolonged gaming experiences. YMMV.

>>47301870
Didn't want to play the whole era, just one part of it. Having asked, WW2 interests him most and I can agree. Thanks for the advice on system: where would we get minitures for the games however?

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>>47301929

GHQ is the best, hands-down. Also the most expensive.

I'd choose a scale, first. The usual ones for naval wargaming are 1/700, 1/1200, 1/2400 (or 1/3000)**, and 1/6000. Obviously, as you get smaller, finding spaces to play gets easier. As a reference, in 1/2400 scale rules, you generally get weapon ranges of 1cm=100 yards, which means that naval guns with ranges of 35,000 yards can begin firing at a target 11 *feet* away (although they won't usually start hitting with regularity until you reach 5-8 feet). Naval wargames require a lot of space.

GHQ, Panzerschiffe, and Warweb are your best best in 1/2400. 1/3000 is Navwar (good luck ordering from them). Scale Creep Minis are the 1/6000 provider of choice.

**1/3000 is really a UK scale, while US manufacturers use 1/2400.

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>>47301929
GHQ and Panzerschiffe supply common scales. 1/2400 is what most people seem to prefer, although some like 1/3000 as well.
NEA posted some examples of Panserschiffe and GHQ stuff earlier for a good idea of what that will look like.

War at Sea is 1/1800, but getting minis is hit or miss even with a large shapeways community dedicated to that scale. If Mongoose ever actually releases their Victory at Sea 2.0 ruleset, there should be more options for 1/1800 since that's the scale they're supposedly gonna go with. Unless you get really stuck on the idea of big ships (which I was in part because I got started in naval games because of B5 ACTA which had some huge models), I'd recommend one of the more common scales.

>>47301870
Do you know of any construction rules for converting ships from raw stats to game stats for GQ3? I don't mind paying $20 bucks for my French or Italians, but I don't relish the thought of paying over $100 to have records for the USN.

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>>47300442
>filename

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>>47301156
heya. it's fleece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CPJtARKV58

another one I've made for landing operation scenarios.

>>47289202
I have seen this book before, also at the library, but the name escapes me at the moment.

Regarding your pic related, these people are real. I had one of them come in to the game store where I worked in college, chew us all out for "selling war and violence to children" and then ask if we had "any games where there's no winners or losers". (We did have one; it's called The Ungame and it fucking sucks).

>>47302096
>1/700
i remember when i was so crazy that i wanted to play a naval battles with 1/700 waterline series

>>47304567

It does kinda work for Age of Sail. Not anything later, though.

>>47302103
>Do you know of any construction rules for converting ships from raw stats to game stats for GQ3?

Not any sort of codified rules, no. I'll go back and look through my GQ resources later tonight to make sure.

Side note: oh god, I'm playing in a World of Warships game as the only DD (Nicholas-class) against an ENTIRE FIELD of Cleveland-class CLs. This is going to be miserable.

>>47304616
Maybe you'll get lucky and pass through a strange storm to another reality, one where a four-stacker actually qualifies as a threat.

Thanks for digging!

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I wonder how effective the Nautilus would be as a weapon, it was faster and more efficient than most pre-cold war submarines, but it didn't have any weapons other than its bow ram.

And seizing it from Captain Nemo would be a challenge by itself, of course

http://www.westernexplorers.us/Jules_Vernes_submarine_Nautilus.pdf

>>47280774

Using thinned paint for a wash can work out ok but it's much more difficult to manage. A proper wash is ink+matte medium+flow improver, so it behaves a certain way on the mini and dries with a certain finish which are difficult (but not wholly impossible) to replicate with watered paint.

Generally, textured surfaces like fur or chainmail will take a thinned paint wash better than flat cloth or smooth Armour surfaces, where it tends to dry very splotchy.

For deep crevices, like folds in cloth or facial definition, you can apply the thinned paint right into the crevices (with a small brush and steady hand) and it'll look better than an all-over wash style application. Thinned black paint is also just about as good as a wash for blacklining

Bottom line, washes give you more potential if you're going for a high quality paintjob, and are also easier to use for a simpler "tabletop standard", if your heart is set on thinned paint I'd suggest testing it on one model and allowing it to dry completely so you can get a sense of what you'll be working with. If you aren't careful and just smear it all over the place you can easily get gummed up details

>>47280594

Also, basecoat/block Colours>wash>basing is actually a fairly common method for "tabletop standard", mass-painting of Rand and file dudes, but it also usually looks like shit.

The army painter dip that the other guy suggested comes in paint buckets and is meant to optimize a basecoat>dip>base>matte varnish method to get tabletop standard figs that don't look terrible, so if you just want a passable, fully painted army ASAP, might be worth ordering online

I've been painting 64 Macedonian phalangites and 40 hoplites to what I consider a display standard (though I'll still use em on the tabletop) since Christmas and I have about 20 of each done, so it's definitely a big trade-off between speed and quality, which methods you go with

Check out /wip/ generals if you want to go the high quality route

Anyone play Muskets and Tomahawks? Any good?

>>47305644
Yes and very.

>>47305644
I have played it, I found it to be very enjoyable.

Had a """fun"""" night at wargaming last night.
The host is getting his carpet redone so we were moving all of the furniture and models from the wargaming room. The amount of stuff he's got, it's incredible. We were using the landing and his neighbours apartment (they are away on holiday currently) unpacked it took up the landing, foyer and a large part of their open plan apartment. Between this and uni I haven't really been able to get any games lately, I'll have to change that come swotvac.

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Pursuant to naval wargaming, is there a website out there at which I could research "weather by date"?

I'm looking at putting together an alt-history scenario wherein von Ingenhol actually has the balls to try and send Hipper to interdict the movement of the British Expeditionary Force to the continent. At that time, the Grand Fleet was moving to Scapa Flow for their "distant blockade" strategy, so the bulk of the Grand Fleet wasn't escorting the troop carriers and weren't in any position to intercept Hipper's battlecruisers if he came out to stomp on the BEF. Knowing what the weather was like in the Strait of Dover (where the ship had to sail through to reach continental port) from August 15-17th, 1914, would be very helpful.

>>47309041
I don't know if this is going to help you or not. Best I was able to come up with.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/p/n/Aug1914.pdf

>>47309041
Met Office information is only monthly that far back (I guess that they use it for looking at climate trends).

Ship's logs have been scanned. I looked up Jupiter (in Devonport, Plymouth) and now Albion (around Portland in the channel), Implacable (patrolling the channel), Chester etc. for those dates. They suggest that it was nice and calm, about force 2-3 ENE.

http://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-LogBooksWW1.htm

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>>47310096
>>47310164

Holy hell you guys are amazing. I've been googling off and on for hours and only finding current weather forecasts; I have no idea why I didn't think about looking at ship's logs. Thank you!

>>47310305
I can't sight read Imperial pressure and temperature on sight, unfortunately, but it looks like pleasant late summer conditions in the channel. The b and bc near the force and direction is cloud cover, and again that looks lovely at 25-75%. Perfect for steaming up the channel and sinking Tommy Atkins before he can begin his continental holiday.

The only other thing I can think of would be to try and find the records for RN shore installations.

less ships more non-boring stuff

>>47310482

Fuck off, m8. We take about navals maybe once in 20 threads. Get over it.

>>47310550
Stop acting like a cunt

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I've been enjoying reading these spotlight articles folks have been putting together on the world of warships forum.

The one for HRMS Soemba in particular is a great read.

http://forum.worldofwarships.com/index.php?/topic/7240-december-24-focus-hnlms-soemba-and-mogador-class-large-destroyers/

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>>47310482
*fewer

FTFY.

>>47311184
I dont want fewer i want less

Questfags are coming back ;_;

>>47312620
Fuck, why

Hey, what's the shittiest, most grog website when it comes to ordering?

>>47304377
>any games where there's no winners or losers
DEFCON? Global Thermonuclear War?

>>47313083
I think the point of DEFCON was that everyone loses.

>>47312620
Why are you posting about it in this thread?

>>47313035

Ha, that's an easy one.

http://navwar.co.uk/nav/

To order, you have to download and fill out their order form. Then you have to mail it to the UK, wait for it to be processed and for them to acknowledge it. THEN they'll send you an invoice. Then you have to send back a check drawn upon only - and they mean ONLY - a British bank, in pounds Sterling. Then they'll ship your stuff.

Oh, and they only check their mail and do work for about 4 hours/week.

>>47313147
Yeah, I guess you can interpret them as "all losers" games.

Which is something you would want if you want to ward off crotchgoblins from war.

I think I'm starting to feel, personally, that while military history is awesome and wargames are even better, war is not something I would ever want to ever partake in.

Check-mate, redditmom.

>>47313166
Because it affects all of /tg/

>>47313207
So report them and/or go whine about it in the designated places. I don't see the point in you posting about it here.

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>>47313202

Wh...WHY? Why would you even bother running a business like that?

>no email
>no fax
>no telephone
>open 1 day/week from 1230-1600.

>>47313889
>Wh...WHY? Why would you even bother running a business like that?
Because they basically run it as a hobby and don't want lots of orders flooding in.

>>47313981

Point. You have to admit that it is the shittiest, most grog website when it comes to ordering their product, though.

>>47313202
I ordered from navwar this summer and this is not true, if you pay them with creditcard you just have to send in one letter, you don´t have to wait for the invoice.

>>47314779

That's good to hear. That wasn't the way it worked a few years back when I tried to order from them. Perhaps they're finally moving into the late 20th century with their ordering process.

>>47312620
Wait, wut?

Didn't see anything about that.

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>Test shot of our russian infantry

From Fireforge.

>>47315234
/Qst/ flopped, posters count is abysmall.
Because of that they migrated back here, and Hiro will propably delete /Qst/ soon

>>47315444
Any confirmation on that, or is it just a bunch of assumptions?

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I need miniatures that would look good alongside GW's Middle-Earth minis.

Any tips?

>>47315507

Perry.

>>47310567

>Don't talk about stuff I don't like!
>Fuck off
>WAAAAH don't be such a cunt!

How old are you?

>>47315444

>Get your own board
>refuse to use it and continue to shit up another one with what are now officially off topic threads
>Instead of being banned for being a colossal self centered faggot you instead get what you want

I hate it here.

>>47315965
You are quite free to leave, you won't be missed.

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>>47315965
Man, quest threads aren't THAT bad.

I mean you can literally just ignore or filter them.

>>47315929
>what are jokes
>what is reacting to a post you ddislike without cursing like a childd

>>47316015
Theyre pretty bad in that they flood the board with stuff thats barely on topic, and the fact that most of the quest runners were to self centered and arrogant/stubborn to move to their own board is kinda bullshit but yeah that faggot should just filter them like the rest of us.

>>47316012
stop shilling threads here and/or stop replying to shitposters

>>47316015

They are when they reach saturation, actual discussions get bumped off the board because of quest threads.

Anyone else would be happy with their own board but not quest fags apparently.

>>47316012

It's an anonymous image board, literally no one is missed ever.

>>47315507
Perry plastics.

>>47315507
>>47316353
By the way may I ask what do you need? I'm usually on the search for minis compatible with them to represent some more exotic factions (like Arnor that has very little stuff to it, but the MoMMiniaturas human spearmen would make excellent Spearmen of Arnor, with Perry HYW archers and knights would be Archers/Rangers of Arnor and Knights of Arnor).

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I actually enjoy that quest threads are back. Sure, they're annoying and have their own board ffs, but there was less bumping going on in these threads, which meant less pics of beautiful models.

>>47316868
I participated in one which was quite fun. It was a siege of an Imperial city by Wood Elves. Wasn't half that bad, tho they really deserved their own board for various reasons.

>>47316509
I want some kind of Gondor militia. Like citizens who have armed themselves.

>>47316929
The Perry War of the Roses figures would be great for that. You'll need some shield holding arms, plus some spears to replace halberds with, but otherwise, they could be what they want. Or if you want a more rural militia, Gripping Beast Dark Age Warriors with heater shields. Or maybe Frostgrave Adventurers could work too.

>>47316929
>>47316974
Possibly Fireforge Foot Sergeants, they'd work beautifully too.

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>>47316974
I may go with Gripping Beast Dark Age Warriors for this. I want them to have a real rabble vibe. If I paint them in dark purples, blues and browns, they should resemble the citizens who appear in the background in the film.

>>47317077
As I remember it, weren't LotR figures notably smaller than most '28mm' stuff?

I'm not certain how well the scales will match up with GB's plastics.

>>47317113
Dang, I didn't check the scale before I posted. Yeah, 28mm wouldn't match.

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>>47317158
Bullshit. LotR is truescale 28mm.

>>47317187
it's 25mm.

>>47317407
Fucking hell man, from foot to eye a LotR high elf swordsman is 28mm. The picture I took above you with GB vikings and Rohirrim footman...does it look like fucking 25mm to you? They match perfectly.

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>>47317621
>>47317407
>>47317187
>>47317158
They look pretty compatible if you ask me