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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!
Bolt Action: Empire in Flames

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July 4th in military history:

362 BC – Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans.
1187 – The Crusades: Battle of Hattin: Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem.
1253 – Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of Dampierre.
1359 – Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
1456 – Ottoman wars in Europe: The Siege of Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade) begins.
1610 – The Battle of Klushino is fought between forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Polish–Muscovite War.
1776 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
1802 – At West Point, New York, the United States Military Academy opens.
1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg: Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders after 47 days of siege. 150 miles up the Mississippi River a Confederate Army is repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
1863 – American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia withdraws from the battlefield after losing the Battle of Gettysburg, signalling an end to the Southern invasion of the North.
1903 – Philippine–American War officially is concluded.
1918 – World War I: The Battle of Hamel, a successful attack by the Australian Corps against German positions near the town of Le Hamel on the Western Front.
1942 – World War II: The 250-day Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimea ends when the city falls to Axis forces.
1943 – World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle, begins in Prokhorovka village.
1976 – Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.

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It is 40 years since Operation Entebbe, a successful counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission carried out by commandos of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Entebbe Airport in Uganda.

A week earlier on 27 June, an Air France plane with 248 passengers had been hijacked by two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations (PFLP-EO) under orders of Wadie Haddad and two members of the German Revolutionary Cells. The hijackers had the stated objective to free 40 Palestinian and affiliated militants imprisoned in Israel and 13 prisoners in four other countries in exchange for the hostages. The flight, which had originated in Tel Aviv with the destination of Paris, was diverted after a stopover in Athens via Benghazi to Entebbe, the main airport of Uganda. The Ugandan government supported the hijackers, and dictator Idi Amin personally welcomed them. After moving all hostages from the aircraft to a disused airport building, the hijackers separated all Israelis and several non-Israeli Jews from the larger group and forced them into a separate room. Over the following two days, 148 non-Israeli hostages were released and flown out to Paris. 94, mainly Israeli, passengers along with the 12-member Air France crew, remained as hostages and were threatened with death.

The IDF acted on information provided by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. The hijackers threatened to kill the hostages if their prisoner release demands were not met. This threat led to the planning of the rescue operation. These plans included preparation for armed resistance from Ugandan military troops. Israeli firms were involved in building projects in Africa during the '60s and '70s and while preparing the raid the IDF erected a partial replica of the airport terminal with the assistance of civilians who had helped build the original.

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>>48098345
The operation took place at night. Israeli transport planes carried 100 commandos over 2,500 miles (4,000 km) to Uganda for the rescue operation. After a week of planning, the raid itself lasted 90 minutes. 102 hostages were rescued. Five Israeli commandos were wounded and one, the unit commander, Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu, was killed. All 7 of the hijackers, three of the hostages and 45 Ugandan soldiers were killed, and 30 Soviet-built MiG-17s and MiG-21s of Uganda's air force were destroyed. Kenyan sources supported Israel, and in the aftermath of the operation Idi Amin issued orders to retaliate and slaughter several hundred Kenyans present in Uganda.

Operation Entebbe, which had the military codename Operation Thunderbolt, is sometimes referred to retroactively as Operation Jonathan in memory of the unit's leader, Yonatan Netanyahu. He was the older brother of Benjamin Netanyahu, the current Prime Minister of Israel. In the ensuing years, Muki Betser (2-in-C on the raid) and the Netanyahu brothers (all Sayeret Matkal veterans), argued in increasingly public forums about who was to blame for the unexpected early firefight that caused Yonatan's death and partial loss of tactical surprise.

As a result of the operation, the United States military would begin the development of Delta Force. In a letter dated 13 July 1976, the Supreme Commander's Staff of the Imperial Iranian Armed Forces praised the Israeli commandos for the mission and extended condolences for "the loss and martyrdom" of Netanyahu.

This raid is a daring and detailed affair that would be perfect for the tabletop. So many variables are in play and results could be different every time.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/zax7jmo7gu8gyx3/Osprey+-+ELI+018+-+Israeli+Elite+Units+Since+1948.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/lns3jw59hn3868v/Osprey+-+RAID+002+-+The+Entebbe+Raid+1976.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ct-meb6U0

Anyone still play Wooden Ships and Iron Men? I think that's my favorite historic war game.

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>>48098487
Definitely 'an oldie but a goodie'. It was one of the first wargames I ever heard of.

Anyone betting that yet again despite the timing the wargames show at Bovington tank museum next weekend will still fail to have a Kursk-based game?

Osprey-anon, if you're out there, would you by chance have a copy of Combat Aircraft 23, Arab-Israeli Air Wars, 1947-1982?

Thank you

>>48098487
>Wooden Ships and Iron Men
I'm going to tell a funny story.

>Game made by Avalon Hill
>AH Bought by Hasbro
>Hasbro has replacement rules sheets on their website for their board games
>Put Wooden Ships and Iron Men on the list
>LOL... The rules are the game

http://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/7090001.PDF

>>48098365
Gonna need more pics

>>48098290
>Charles Bronson Edition
Fuck yeah.

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>>48099713
No probs anon. Put it on Mega because it's a little large and niche to go in the Moderns one.

Arab-Israeli Air Wars 1947-82 (Osprey Combat Aircraft 23)

When the UN called for the end of the British mandate and the partition of Palestine into two independent states, the RAF found itself under attack from both sides. Tracing the development of hostilities in the Middle East, this book covers the period from the establishment of the first proper Israeli Air Force in 1948 to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. Israel's War of Independence against its Arab neighbours, the inevitable 'round two', the Suez Crisis of 1956, the Six Day War of 1967, the Yom Kippur wars of 1973 and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 are all detailed in this fascinating chronicle of war in the Middle East.

https://mega.nz/#!XxdFjbDa!7JV42V3_z63CFDB4y7nKW3fkJFfiwPxUv2Ktl1sXVr8

>>48100973
It was run by The Bunker at Partizan 2013. I'll post 3 more pics after this.

>>48103123
Bronson was one of those old-school movie tough guys who actually had seen combat; he flew 25 missions over Japan as a gunner on a B-29. He won a Purple Heart for wounds received during his service.

>>48104032
>Bronson was one of those old-school movie tough guys who actually had seen combat;
Fun Fact: Jimmy Stuart, of It's A Wonderful Life fame, flew somewhere between twenty official and forty or so unaccounted combat missions as a bomber crewman over europe and was awarded the DFC twice

>>48104533
Wasn't there a movie where he was part of a bomber crew under SAC? Or did my fevered brain put him in someone else's role?

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>>48106310
Yep, it was even called "Strategic Air Command".

>>48104040
>>48104074
>>48104059
This is an amazing looking set of boards.

Has anybody played "A world in flames"? How is it? Do you use some kind of point system to balance it?

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>>48106464
>"A world in flames"
You mean that Aussie-made monster-sized WW2 strategic game, anon?

>>48106477
I should have specified, I mean the Osprey games inter-war company size game "A world in flames".

>>48106464
>>48106477
I guess he meant the Osprey interwar stuff.

>>48106488
>>48106493
"A world Aflame", sorry.

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Playtesting my Vietnam game, got a big A1 map printed and laminated today.

US had a huge build up of forces in the first 4 turns (about 8 years of time in-game), but even outnumbered, the NVA and VC were able to inflict heavy casualties. Both sides have lost about 17,000 casualties at this point, and US forces are verging on having low morale.

The VC attempted to push into saigon, but were beaten back by shit tons of motorized infantry and artillery, their camouflaged infantry getting pinned down.

NVA forces in the north were able to outnumber 2:1 and annihilate a unit of Air Cavalry, and forces from both sides converged in a large battle around Da Nang and Hue.

The VC currently holds the city of Kontum although US forces are surrounding the city.

Due to some altercations with Civilians, the US lost some war support, and for the next 4 turns the war support is as follows:

VC/NVA: Build up of forces: D6+2 extra units per turn

US/SVA: Minimal unit on the ground: D6 - 1 extra units per turn.

So the US will be on the back foot for the next 4 turns, but they already have quite a few men on the ground. Losses are pretty even so the game seems pretty balanced at the moment... I definitely added a few things and clarified a few rules to far. Camouflaged infantry got nerfed a bit, same with tunneled infantry. Also I've introduced LRRPs for the US, so they can recon enemy forces.

>>48104074
>>48104059
>>48104040
>>48098365

That's fantastic. I love the terminal building. Transporting all that to the show would have been a real bear

>>48106012
Anyone know when/where this is?

Most likely the Congo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_Addio

>>48107388
Name of the webm is the name of the movie. It should be on youtube.
its staged

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Anyone have an a e s t h e t i c way of making tires in 20mm? They seem to be a very common part of road blocks in east Ukraine

>>48107434
Could you bulk-buy Lego (or fake lego) tires and use those?

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>>48107440
That's a great idea. I was looking at slicing up automotive vacuum hose but the lego tires will have some more detail

>>48107440
Lego might be an option.

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Lego-50-Reifen-Rader-25-Achsen-Fahrzeuge-Auto-Kg-/161934272036?hash=item25b408e624:g:lnkAAOSwWTRWyiW-

For example, 50 tires for 12,50 is pretty reasonable if you ask me.

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>>48106981
The VC forces assault Saigon retreat back up the ho chi minh trail, in the face of massive US resistance.

US Forces besieging Kon Tum are able to completely annihilate (or capture) the VC and NVA unit there, while in the north VC units make the most of having much more reinforcements, deploying 7 new units and immediately engaging the outnumbered US and SVA forces in Hue.

Faction Overview, Start of Turn 7:
>VC/NVA:
26,000 Casualties so far
War Support: Build up for major offensive: 2D6 extra units per turn
Morale: Average, verging on High

>US/SVA:
20,400 Casualties so far
Current War Support: Average Operations: D6 extra units per turn.
Morale: Average, verging on High

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This pic is nice for two reasons:
1. The new russian desert camo
2. They use a fucking Nagant

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>>48106502
I can't speak from personal experience, but I do know it's become the system of choice for a lot of people running Very British Civil War games, and they usually play "pick-up" battles where force sizes are determined based on campaign play and the nature of the battle. But given how straightforward it is you could easily create a points system of your own and include it.

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>>48109256

Are you sure that isn't something government forces are using or a looted rebel weapon?

>>48110221
i think its a "modern" sports version of that rifle. I've seen pics of russians in Chechnya with it and in Georgia too.
I assume GRU units have some freedom when it comes to personal equipment.

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I primed my current batch of minis yesterday evening and let them sit on the balcony over night.
I also ordered some new bases. I think i'll wait for them to prepare the rest of my modern minis so i can paint all of them in one go.

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First minis pretty much done aside from some cleanup related to the sides of the bases and sealing.

I'm pretty happy with the US woodland and Iranian desert DPM camo turned out, as well as the whites. I'm also pretty happy with the SKS guy in general.

Due to the shit lighting I used the black wash I did is not showing up as well and makes the minis appear noticeably brighter. I'm not particularly happy with the black wash which I think is mostly down to me fucking it up. Not very happy with the gunmetal (Black > Gunmetal > Desert Sand Wash > Black Wash) as it's too metallic so I think I should throw another thin layer of black after gunmetal in the future. There's a fuckoff huge moldline on woodland vest guy that I somehow missed. I feel like some paint is on too thick, particularly the 2nd guys right hand.

>>48104533
Audie Murphy was an actor too before his death

>>48110221
>>48110291
no, thats the sniper version of the mosin, you can tell by the different bolt and the way the scope is setup, although the scope is probably a more modern version than what originally came on that rifle.

Whether the russians still issue them or they found it on a rebel is beyond me though. They still use the ammo for it and I'm sure there's still some kicking around in a warehouse so I wouldnt be surprised to see it issued, but then again everyone has the damn things. Hell they go for under $500 in the states all the time with that exact set up

>>48110514
theres a lot of variety in that box. WWIi germans and what looks like soviets as well as some sort of more modern eastern bloc soldiers. What all is in there?

Anyone play SAGA? Really want to give it a go, the system looks very interesting with the 'battle boards'.

Plus I live relatively near to Hastings, so I like the idea of painting up some Anglo-Danish and Normans anyway.

>>48115244
It's a very fun game. It's also reasonably fast, so that you can get a game in without dedicating a day to it. Very "beer and pretzels", but in a good way.

>>48115244
Where abouts "roughly"? I have family from that end of the world (Battle, Rye, etc). Though I am on the other side of the world now!

Also: More info on 1066 wargames. That is tempting.

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>>48110221
>>48113772
There is always fun shit floating around the world.

It actually looks somewhat decently cared for too.
I hope it actually went to a good home instead of either sitting in a weapons locker forever or being destroyed.

>>48115686
http://www.angelfire.com/mb2/battle_hastings_1066/

There are probably more up to date/fashionable things out there.

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Anybody tried Galeforce 9's TANKS demo rules yet? I like the idea of small scale armor on armor actions, and would kind of like to run something along those lines using some smaller minis for a little bit better feeling of scale and not being a parking lot.

>>48117860
I guess the other part of the question I neglected to ask is if in fact they do suck, is there another ruleset that will scratch my itch?

>>48117860
Don't go into it expecting realism or simulation of any kind, it is super gamey.

>>48118255
It's apparently based on X-wing minis.

>>48118299
I scanned the rules, and there were certain similarities in the turn structure that reminded me of X-Wing. Glad to know I'm not going senile yet.

>>48118257
I don't mind gamey sometimes, but I think in this case I'd rather have something that's a bit more simulationist than gamey. Any recommendations?

>>48104032

Thank you anon for the osprey!

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>>48119933

>>48117860
>>48118255
I played 2 games when the starter boxes arrived at my FLGS a week and a half ago.

Both were 2 M4A4 Shermans (the British ones) vs 2 StuG IIIGs.
First one without any upgrades, the second one with 10 points of upgrades each.

It plays nice and quickly, with simple rules that seem to make both speeding around for close quarters and sitting at range to snipe worthwhile.
Simple, but quite a bit of fun.
I certainly plan to play it more, at least as a filler game between games of Flames of War or when I have a little spare time at my FLGS.

Bonus feature: the core set comes with stat cards for all tanks in the first wave and most upgrade cards. Only nation-specific crewmembers aren't in there.
That makes it fairly easy to also use spare models from other sources (Battlefront, Plastic Soldier Company) to get more of certain tank designs cheaply.

>>48115686
Well, I live much closer to London, but my parents own some land in Rye so I'm down there quite a lot. Such a beautiful part of the world.

>>48122799
>heroic scale
I was never quite sure if this worked out as a net positive for wargames. Fat hands and big heads doesn't make for pretty miniatures as such.

>>48118485
I think it is the only actual rule set made for tank skirmishs, if you want something less gamey mod one of those "realistic" wargames or at least one with complex rules for vehicles.

>>48122902
The first heroic minis weren't made like that so it could be easier to paint?

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>>48122902
They have their own kind of charm as they are bloody easy to paint most of the time. It makes them a bit toy soldier-y, and when it's too over the top (like Platoon 20), it looks really bad. But when it's less apparent (I'd say S and S and Elhiem are in this ball park too), they aren't bad. I don't really a fan of them in 20mm mostly because plastic minis tend to follow a more truescale approach, and they don't really mix well with each other.

>>48122949
Tanks! are made only for tanks. For a touch more realistic approach with more arms, I'd recommend Operation World War 2. Can be really fucking fiddly at times as you need to track each crew member in the tank (and they can get KO'd, other crew members can take their places, but fare worse if they are not trained and so forth), plus they can dismount, etc. etc. A really fun game if you have time as it's a long game but overall, it has basically everything.

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>>48122799
Third from left looks a little surly, must have not had his schnapps that morning.

That M36 uniform design - the dark green Feldbluse with the light grey trousers - is my favorite version of the Wehrmacht uniform. It's classic, probably thanks to postwar movies and tv which always use it for German infantry regardless of period or location. In this case it's cool because it helps reflect that these guys are garrison/occupation troops in France, lower down the supply chain.

>>48123013
Yeah operation ww2 is pretty good for that, it is even better if you use a campaign or roleplay system with only vehicles and infantry/artillery as npc.

Another useful ruleset for that is Nuts! With Fury expansion.

>>48123310
It'd basically make it Men of War: the Wargame and it sounds fucking awesome.

>>48123338
True.

>>48113794
from out of my head:
>cold war soviet infantry
>modern afghan police/military
>a few soviets in hazmat suits
>swat snipers/spotters

These are by Assault Group and Eureka Miniatures.
Then there are 2 squads of warlord games germans i built but never continued to paint them and a few test miniatures (warlord japanese and wargames factory soviets)

>>48113103
>pls respond
Give me your criticism/tips or I'll crash this plane!

>>48123876
Not sure if that's the minis or the painting, but some of the faces are bad. Other than that, fine, I like the camo ponchos.

>>48113103
For guns:
primer: black
paint them with german panzer grey or a similar very dark grey
light drybrush with gunmetal

>>48123907
I think Elhiems faces are rather hit and miss as I find them to be very angular and stylized.

I did a very basic Vallejo Dark Flesh > Vallejo Flesh Wash > Vallejo Black Wash. Perhaps I should do the flesh wash and then detail in the eyes and recesses instead of black washing the face?

>>48124407
just use a brown wash (like agrax earthshade from gw or army painter soft tone) instead of the black one.

what companies do tank crew members?
I need some 28mm soviet ww2 tankers but i struggle to find anything besides the warlord games minis

>>48124407
Black wash on faces is a really bad idea.

>>48124407
>Perhaps I should do the flesh wash and then detail in the eyes and recesses instead of black washing the face?
In my opinion a wash should rarely be the last step in any part of the model. In GENERAL I paint by Undercoat > Basecoat > Midtone, Wash > midtone again (but not covering all of the washed midtone) > Highlight

If you wanted it much simpler you can just undercoat > basecoat > wash > highlight. I'd avoid black wash for skin.

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>just finished downlaoding all of the 86 Ancient Ospreys

>individually

Sucks being a poor fag.
Time to steel myself to download the Medieval ones individually.

>>48127940
Osprey anon havent uploaded all his collection
There is more
Good luck

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>>48127964
fug :O

>>48127940
Protipp: get Jdownloader. Add all the links by copy pasting them in. That programm is smart enough to reset your router each time your free user dls are done so you get fresh ones. Or you simply let it run in the background and after a few days it has downloaded everything.

does anyone have a scan of Peter Pig's ACW naval rules, Hammerin' Iron or have any experience with them?

or could suggest another ruleset for gaming this period?

>>48127997
I just downlaoded it and I just finished grabbing a handful, but I cant find them.

They say they're in my downlaods, but they aint.

>>48128616
you can set your download destination within the programm. i don't know where its located by default, but i think its not your standard windows download path.

>>48128642
yeah, just googled something about it. Going to try it.

Thanks again. The internet is just so fucking dandy, aint it?

>>48128179

Iron and Fire got some good ratings...

There is also something-River Wars and Anaconda Campaign system in the folders above, but I would not recomend them for antything but replacement till you locate something superior.

>>48128660
Just so you know: You can also save Youtube videos (you can even decide in which format, only video, only audio, even as webm) and also if you copy in a link of a 4chan thread, it will save all pics. A really nice piece of software.

>>48128757
sweet. Im just downlaoding the first fifty of the medieval stuff. Some of them had a connection error or somehting. Ill just downlaod those ones later then.

>>48128179

I want to also add, that Peter Pigs system is- as far as I recall- hex based. For me it makes it so "mech" it reminds me of Battletech (obvius wordplay being obvius). But people play it, and are OK with that.

>>48124602
>>48125304
>>48126375
Thanks for the tips, once I get some more time I'll try it out on the next groups.

>>48128956
Well, Battletech might as well have started as a pre-Dreadnought warship game for how it works mechanically (somewhat) so I'd say the comparison is not totally without merit.

P.S: I fucking love Battletech

Does anyone make any decent 28mm IDF and Egyptian/Syrian soldiers with the tanks to match?

Me and a buddy wanna play Flames of War on a higher scale, not a fan of 15mm tbqh.

>>48129560
I cannot imagine 28mm fow looking anything other than completely retarded.

>>48129560
Go for 1:72 mate, FoW in 28mm sounds like a horrible idea. Could work in 1:72, tho some tanks are hard to find if you're going for the six days. Allegedly ACE will do Centurions this year.

What's your problem with 15mm if I might ask? Not my favourite scale either, but it can grow on you, plus BF would give you everything you need in the same scale, same quality over the range with rules to go with them.

>>48129560
> wanna play Flames of War on a higher scale

I mean, you could just play Battlegroup.

>>48129614
>What's your problem with 15mm if I might ask?

Honestly I just prefer the detail you get with 20-28mm minis, it's more fun to paint and looks pretty on the shelf.

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>>48129747
I agree with you on that. FoW miniatures always look weird and clunky. Like they're "heroic" tanks or something

Problem is modern isn't really suited to 20 or 28mm. The minis are far too large for an average size table.

have you thought about going smaller instead? 10mm or smaller? it would be ideal for modern and you could have helis and aircraft represented too. The distances would be much more realistic compared to the minis on an average tabletop.

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>>48129747
15mm can look pretty great, and the plastic BF stuff plus the newer PSC 15mms are great.

Give it a go at least.

>>48129506
Battletech actually was an adaption of a classic naval rule set (name escapes me ATM). NEA would know it if he's about, and could explain it in more depth.

>>48132068
Fletcher Pratt is the one, had to look it up.

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>>48129809
Nah, I prefer mechanized infantry so 15mm is probably as small as I'd go.

Mongrel miniatures had a 28mm IDF line (pic related), not sure what happened to them.

I guess I'll crack and go for a 15mm squad and see how the end product looks.

>>48124407
Faces are really bad on some modern minis. something companies are finding difficult to nail.

>now waiting for slew of minis with beautiful face.s.s..

>>48132520
Faces will always be the hardest bit to get right because human brains are very, very good at recognising faces and noticing when they're not quite right.

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>>48132545

Alternatively there's faces like my Warlord Japanese, which are rather good, except half of them look like this.

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>>48132905
I know right, theyre eerily spot on, and yet so incredibly racist its hirarious

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>>48133097
I've no idea what you mean.

In case anyone cares, the Twilight 2000 collection is missing the Heavy Weapons Handbook.

https://mega.nz/#!L8MlBQDZ!ZmpMpz9dl31-I-tJZyqsCaS9knHS44tV9EbtulFBsXs

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>>48132520
The guy who does the sculpting for Under Fire Miniatures and TQD Casting is one of the best in the industry

>>48129560
>higher scale
>28mm

are you retarded, most people downscale it to 6mm. 28mm. Jesus its going to look horrible, itll be 40 tanks literally touching each other

>>48133187
you need a picture of the guys with glasses. Every damn one looks like an American caricature of Tojo

>>48135572
yeah this. 40k only works because they squash the vehicles length and raise the height. Real world tanks like an M1A1 dominate the table at Malcador/behnblade size.

It would not work for flames at all unless you played on an open field, unless you played an infantry mech company at 500-750pts tops

>>48129560
Like other guys said if you don't like the little scales try 1/72 minis. Now if i remember well most of the fate of a nation arab list are mostly spam list so watch out with the tank companies since you will need a lot of tanks and it will looks worse than in 15mm.

>>48135980
>unless you played an infantry mech company at 500-750pts tops

Exactly what I plan to do.

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>>48133732
As curator of that, I certainly care anon! Thank you for the contribution, I'll add it as soon as possible.

The one T2K item I'm really looking for is the old hex-and-counter wargame "Last Battle". I never even knew it existed until a few years ago and I've been searching in vain for a scan.

>>48138800
I've also been trying to find it, to no avail so far. If I can find a physical copy, I'll try and scan it for us last few t2k players

LAV-75

So apparently two boxes of BMPs arrived from China faster than a whole lot of bases from the UK.

For once, the bases would've been more important as my Cold War Soviets are a more distant project.

No photos because my laptop refuses to see my memory card for some reason.

>>48138800
>T2k wargame
Yes please. I can't wait to kill some commies with my Leopard-IIIs and LAV-75s.

does anybody happen to have the ottoman empire army osprey for 1775-1820?

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>>48141631
In our Napoleonics folder, anon

http://www.mediafire.com/download/5gvlq7p2d9p552i/Osprey+-+MAA+314+-+Armies+of+the+Ottoman+Empire+1770-1820.pdf

>>48141653
i checked again and still can't find it thank you for the link

>>48142715
Is the Doctor an active participant in the battle?

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>>48142801
Just scenery

Do you guys know if "The Assault Group/TAG" does sales for their miniatures? On big holidays maybe?
I'm about to order from them for quite some money and i would hate to see that there is a -20%+ off sale in a couple of weeks or so

>>48143241
Unfortunately no anon, they just do a 20% discount in the shows that they place their stand, all of them in UK IIRC.

>>48143241
Not really, but if your order is really big, I guess you could ask for a bargain.

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>>48140735
Did you order S-Model kits from Lucky Model? Ive never bought from them but have been tempted by the price

>>48143318
>>48143372
Thanks.

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Any ideas how to make this technique work for wargames terrain?

http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/scenery/clods/

I think if you painted it dark browns it would make for a nice looking muddy eastern front road. Maybe spread the mix onto floor tiles or plasticard? It might be too delicate and brittle for gaming in the end

>>48143549
I ordered from here:

http://www.ebay.com/usr/sunlightmodelstore?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2754

>>48143795
is ebay cheaper than aliexpress?

>>48143905
No idea desu, haven't considered Aliexpress in this regard. Got the two boxes for 13.99$ per box, plus 8$ postage.

>>48116199
>you will never fight for freedom with the weapon used by your ancestors to do the same

>>48122949
The vehicle rules in Five Men at Kursk look pretty comprehensive so you could probably run a tank-focused game of that pretty easily.

>>48109198
>>48106981
I'm looking forward to seeing more of this!

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>>48145966
I'll continue the playtest over the next couple of days, will post results.

Here's the latest version of the rules if anyone is interested.

I would love to get into publishing wargames. I wonder if I could make a living out of it... would definitely have to up my layout game and get a proper publishing program instead of just open office.

>>48146764
Well, it's certainly a nice hobby. I know a lawyer who developed his cherisheed tactical boardgame for a decade. Profit is marginal. Even Berg does other stuff, and he spits games with remarkable speed. One of war boardgame developers confessed once that he gives all ,,game" profit away on charity. But keep your work up, I watch it with intrest.

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>>48142715
>>48142801
Feeling the depth and quality of that long grass... Makes me want to paint napoleonic slippers and house coats.

Tell me folks: who makes smallest WWI planes? I want to go for a cheap game with acceptable scale, and I was thinking about 6 or even 3 mm.

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>>48151067
Oddzial Osmy

>>48151067
There was one guy with some excellent-looking WW1 planes in here some weeks ago, but I can't recall what they used.

Maybe check the archive if no-one else delivers?

>>48151238
Thanks! That's what I was looking for. I saw their stuff and it was nice. I'm a Pole, so I can order directly. Great! Anyone can recomend any ruleset?

>>48151614
Canvas Eagles is pretty well regarded and it's free, too.

Does /hwg/ have any good references for WW2 Kriegsmarine paint schemes? I'm looking to paint up some Navwar Kriegsmarine and Royal Navy botes and am having trouble finding appropriate information.

>>48151614
I just found an old WGI issue that has an article on aerial wargaming. In it's WWI section it recommends Canvas Eagles (>>48151643) as well as Aerodrome, Wings of Glory (basically X-Wing: WWI Edition), Red Eagle and Duel of Aces.

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>>48151953
Thank god for another shipfag. We're few and far between. I've heard good things about a book called "German Naval Camouflauge" vol 1 and 2. Also in the naval MF in the OP, it helps somewhat, even if it's not on a ship for ship basis.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/9cdrvk17jt5c4ec/Painter%27s_Guide_to_World_War_Two_Naval_Camouflage.pdf

For Royal Navy, I've just been kind of going with "historically inspired" rather than historically accurate.

If you're a Facebook user, join a group called NAVAL BOOK REVIEW, and while you're at it join a group called Naval Wargaming as well. Lots of good shit in both of those.

What ruleset are you planning on using?

Anyone have experience with Battlegroup? I heard it's supposed to be pretty okay.

>>48153133
Totally newb as far as naval gaming is concerned. I remember play "silent service" back on the C64. I fancy something with submarines, depth charges, you know ships above the water-line and boats below. WW2 and onward. Am I catered for?

>>48153133

Thanks Anon, you're the man.

My dad and I play Victory at Sea with some older USN and IJN models (possibly from GHQ?) that he got when I was little, but we recently decided to expand our collection to the Atlantic theater.

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>>48153740
Mongoose's "Victory at Sea" should have you covered.

Harpoon 3 or Harpoon 4 are excellent and highly realistic naval games too. They're VERY in depth, but they do a great job as long as you can rustle up a referee and play double blind.

>>48151067
Tumbling Dice are pretty good. 1/600 excellent range. You can get pretty much anything you need. I bought almost 100 of them! (my pics)

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>>48151614
Here's my Dogfight! ruleset as well, pretty simple and effective, and has stats and points for most of the aircraft in WW1, as well as zeppelins!

>>48155515
>zeppelins
Sure, but does it do dirgibles?

>>48156119
Zeppelin on zeppelin dogfight action.

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So pic related didn't help me.
Anyone has a real system /engine/rules to play solo?
I'm imagining something with cards.

>>48153608
No actual experience, but reading some battle reports, it sounds bretty gud.

>>48151067
navwar sells 1/3000 planes...

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>>48157700
I just had to do the math. A Sopwith Camel would be slightly less than 2mm long. A Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI (which is fucking humongous) would have a wingspan of 1.4cm.

>>48156119
Sadly it doesn't cover allied dirigibles, but it does have observation balloons!

I figured zeppelins were much cooler and saw much more combat and bombing than allied airships, but I could be wrong. I can easily add in allied airships if people think they should be in there...

>>48157801
I have some ww2 Biplanes for my fleets, and I can fit 10 of them on the nail of my thumb

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3 months after purchase I finished one of the Valiant 6pdr guns.

>>48158086
Looks pretty nice!

What ruleset do you use, assuming you game?

>>48158104
Thanks. Bolt Action, or in case I can convince someone, Battlegroup.

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>>48153740
>I remember play "silent service" back on the C64.
I lost so many hours of my youth that way. God bless Microprose. Also Silent Service 2 and Attack Sub 688 on the Amiga, they were excellent simulations for their time. For me the real C64 naval wargaming buzz was thanks to PHM Pegasus and Strike Fleet. The former was especially awesome; to this day I'm still a little miffed that hydrofoils never became a thing.

>>48158173
me and a friend would also play Fighter Bomber on the Atari ST. We'd play as pilot/co-pilot with one on the joystick and the other doing keyboard duties for landing gear, flaps, weapon selection and map, stuff like that. A right laugh.

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>>48158170
>tfw also have some 1:72 figures around perfect for Battlegroup (owned for donkey's years) but everyone went 28mm Bolt Action because smaller figures are scary or some shit like that.
>tfw not had a game in months
>tfw wonder why I bother with this hobby beyond the fleeting sense of happiness of new figures leading to the contentedness of just looking at said figures and then the mild despair at spending money on stuff that will never see the table.

>>48158625
Solution: get two armies set up to play against each other. Invite people to game/set up the game at the club. Soon people will find it fun, and want their own armies.

>>48158625
Make two armies. In 1:72 they are dirt cheap, and you say you already have some.

>>48158657
>>48158783

Only been doing that for about 8 years now for various games.
People just don't want to try shit. Or don't enjoy what you do so even if they'll give you a game, nout comes of it. For example Iran a game for a guy who wanted to do Vietnam, turned out what he meant wasn't actually doing historical vietnam using Force on Force/NEIS and 20mm figures for it, turns out what he wanted but was unable/unwilling to articulate was 40k Vietnam.

After having bought Perry Foot-Knights, Mercenaries and War of the Roses infantry my collection is finally complete with both a set of light-cavalry and heavy-cavalry. Can't wait to get home and paint them.

My set of warlord games highland scots also arrived in the same package. not going to use them for anything historical though, they are going to be a mordheim warband

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During the F&IW and the 7YW, were artillery pieces brass or black?

I found an old WHFB Galloper Gun. Would it be suitable for Muskets and Tomahawks cannon, does it need a repaint? I've been going through all the Ospreys and there are brass ones depicted in the artist's illustrations for some, buuuut...

>>48158836
That really sucks. Thankfully I could always find at least one person to play with me, worst case scenario my brother.

>>48158836
... try to find a new, better club? Worst case scenario, maybe someone from here lives somewhat reasonably nearby?

1:144 - 1:160 Japanese n-scale railway.

Anyone produce tanks, vehicles, soldiers (modern or WW2) in this scale?

>>48158941
Isn't 10mm around that scale?

>>48158969
It's close enough that it ought to look okay, as long as all the footsloggers to get are from the same range.

>>48159014
>>48158969
Says here I can use 12mm.
http://www.longrangelogistics.com/wargames-by-scale/12mm-wargames-models/

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>>48158941
10mm is 1:160 and there are a lot of models made in that range. pic is 10mm

>>48159050
http://www.miniaturefigurines.co.uk/Catalogue.aspx?ScaleID=1&CategoryID=1&SubCategoryID=3

12mm Brits. 28 for £4!! Crickey

>>48159065
>>48159050
>>48159040
>>48159014
>>48158969
>>48158941
I don't really need another scale. Just looking really. 6mm keeps me happy.

Is there much in 1:76 stuff out there? I imagine a lot of the old Airfix stuff is in that scale, but 1:72 is more popular. Inherited a heap of model railway stuff in OO which is 1:76.

>>48159199
lots. 1/76 and 1/72 are pretty much interchangeable anyway. Very close.

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>>48159199
1:72 and railway stuff works great.

>>48159199
Airfix and old Matchbox (reboxed by revell). It matches well enough with 1:72 though.

>>48160220
"Jones, be a good sport and take a peek at the chaps shelling us"

"It's Morris dancers, sir"

>>48160220
>terrain looks nice
>minis look like shit

ugh

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>>48160390
>"Its Morris dancers, sir"

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>>48160390
Those Fascists won't know what hit them, a-hey-nonny-ho

>>48160425
How about you stop being a colossal fucking faggot.

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>>48160483
>>48160425

>>48158625
I know that feel

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Would you guys be interested in a group build of some kind?

We all have until some date, say the end of the month, to build/paint something related to a theme like a fortification, something blue or casualty marker. It would need to be a very broad theme to cover most people

>>48160539
Sorry, I'm in a foul mood and shitty posts make me worse.

>>48153740
Victory at Sea has some ASW rules, as does Naval War, a game in development right now. Both are fast playing. If you want some way more crunchy stuff, check out General Quarters 3 in the naval section of the MF in the OP. It's got all kinds of fun optional rules like pattern running torpedoes and the like.

>>48160730
Sure, why not.

>>48160730
>It would need to be a very broad theme to cover most people

Stuff like fortification or markers probably work best for this since time period, game and scale won't matter.

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after some experiments with the wargames factory soviets i started to like them. some of their poses are very cool and they seem to be compatible with warlord soviet bits as well.

Only the 3 guys marked in red bother me at this point. 2 of them stand upright with straight back and knees asking to be shot.. and there is basically no way to make them look dynamic. They look like army men, which is cool for 1 or 2 minis within an army but not if there are like 10 of them since they are in every sprue.
The 3rd guy (most right one i marked) has his back bent like he is throwing a grenade. (He looks really silly actually with the smg like i built him to avoid having a duplicate).

How would you build these 3 particular bodies to add some variety without making them look retarded? ;_;

>>48161016
Looking good, mate. Standing shooting poses could represent those that are shooting from the cover of a wall or something.

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>mfw I find a £10 discount code from Warlord Games in my spambox.
>mfw shipping is £5.

£5 for six tiny mans I don't need...

So, how do you name your Osprey pdf files, what sort of format do you use?

I mean, novadays when you download them the filenames are often total gibberish. So what would be a good format to use, the number first?

>>48161131
How long is the code valid? They had free shipping events in the past i think.. they might do it again.

>>48161131
I bought the Spec Ops last time, and they still sit in their box...

>>48161135
The name of the series first if you have all of them in 1 big osprey folder.

If not, just the name of the book.

>>48161176
>>48161168
>Digital Rebellion! - Black Powder Supplement PDF

Job's a goodun

>>48161083
Thanks. Still have to clean them and fill some gaps and look for a base for the prone guy and build a loader too.

While you are right i guess i'm just sad that there are 9 soldiers out of the 30 that will look almost identical. Those advancing bodies i used to build tank hunters look so much better.

>>48117860
Just bought it, as I had a tank itch to scratch, and I am not getting into FoW again. I gave the rules a read, and they're definitely "x-wing with treads", but seem fun.

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>>48161135
Osprey - (line)(number) - (title)

i.e. Osprey - MAA 069 - Sailors of the Cod Wars

>>48161016
>How would you build these 3 particular bodies to add some variety without making them look retarded? ;_;

Any one of these bodies would make a good commander. Someone pointing and yelling orders, perhaps?
Maybe you need a couple of sentries for some scenario.
The guy with the twisted back could perhaps look good with a bigger gun?

Keep in mind I havent seen the sets and know next to nothing about soviet uniforms.

>>48160730
I'm interested, but depending on what you pick I'll need more than till the end of the month, depends if I need to order/buy anything. Maybe go till the middle or end of August?

>>48160730
Casualty markers sound good. (Or Causality markers)

>>48161559
Man, cutting logs into lumber before power equipment would be a terrible job

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>>48157426
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>>48163065
>>48162583
>>48160850
>>48160919

Lets do some kind of casualty/wreck marker, that way even the naval guys can participate if they want. A ruined building could probably even work; the point is to get everyone to finish a little project

Due date of lets say Aug 15 work for everyone?

>>48163675
Sure. I have a small ruined Airfix Forward Outpost I could do, and it'd be a nice forward HQ for BA. Or I could tackle the innumerous tanks in my "garbage box", but I don't really feel like it...

>>48163675
I'm in, got some Napoleonic casualties from the heavy cavalry box set so that's good.

When the next OP is made it should be included in there.

>>48163653
not found the answer yet, either. got Stuart Asquith's book too. Mostly about how to play with yourself, not against a system.

Saw this posted by Piers Brand on the BoW forum. Thought it might be of interest to Battlegroup fans.

> For those not on Facebook and The Guild, figured I’d post the vague news on what’s in the pipeline for the Battlegroup series…
> Firstly the vehicle cards and a large format rulebook are due for printing (a sign of an ageing hobby when the mini rulebook is too hard to read! Me included!). The rules stay the same in the large format book, but their will be a new Normandy campaign and a couple of army lists, plus all the generic scenarios, to help new players. We need more rulebooks and figured this time to do a large format one to make it easy on the eyes!
> After that it’s the first Desert War book, covering Crete and the first half of the Desert War in North Africa. This will be one of the bigger hardback books in the usual format.
> Looking longer down the dirty pipeline of production… We have two smaller campaign books in development, following the style of Wacht am Rhein released earlier this year. One is covering Budapest and one is looking at the Liberation of Holland.
> And finally at the end of the pipe is my start on stuff for an eventual book looking at the war in Burma!
> Hopefully all will come to fruition but things may change, though the cards, rulebook and Desert book are all fixed as the next wave of releases.
> I’m also still working on a Cold War version but won’t be much on that till I’m happy with it…
> I’m off to carry on recovering from the Battlegroup Overlord campaign weekend at Bovington last week!

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>>48166402
I'm particularly intrigued by the Desert/Burma books. That might be what finally makes me take the plunge on those tasty Perry Plastics.

>>48166402
Any experience in playing the game solo?

>>48166427
Me too. I have a whole bunch of stuff for the period, tho I might need some vehicles for the ANZAC for Burma.

>>48166526
> Any experience in playing the game solo?

Eh, it's kind of like playing 40k or any normal wargame solo. You can certainly do it but it's not really the same.

>>48166398
I'd be happier just playing against myself but the book you mention seems to be obscure as shit.

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>>48166402
I'll probably get the Budapest one

>>48167268
shit that picture is cool

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So I'm trying to get started ACW wargaming. I bought a copy of Black Powder because I'd heard it suggested here for being a decent system. I'm new to wargaming and my eyes are glossing over a bit while reading some of the army organization bits. The way I'm interpreting things, is that the bare minimum I can use is an infantry regiment per side. I only ask because if I were to get my friends interested, I would have to provide both armies and I'm only looking to get the smallest infantry possible so I'm not out of a lot of money at the start.

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>>48168909
Do you find it....wisible?

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I get the feeling I was not supposed to make Dane-axe men with the hirdmen box.

>>48169835
Would have advised to get Longstreet instead, especially how Northstar sells it for ten pounds at the moment with the cards in the folders. What scale are you doing? 10mm is ideal for the period if you don't want to spend much.

>>48169835
>I bought a copy of Black Powder because I'd heard it suggested here for being a decent system.
This surprises me.
Almost every time it pops up people say "it's okay but you are probably better off with X"

>>48171227
You are, it's just that the Dane Axe guy has a very specific set of hands/pose.

I ended up cutting off the Dane-Axe heads and putting them on rods so that I could drill them into other hands.

Are you working on Saga Jomsvikings?

>>48172502
>>48172851
I saw black powder for cheap in a hobby shop while on vacation, and I had heard good things. I had intended on using 28mm since I prefer that scale, but I'm not opposed to using other scales. Especially if it'll save on the wallet. I'll check out Longstreet.

>>48172851

*Almost every time it pops up on /hwg/

>>48173357
Sure, I assumed that was implied.

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Anyone else make use of the black tree design sale on ww2 minis? I sold 23 old plastic (painted) germans i bought a year ago for 30 euros and then ordered the following replacements:
Waffen SS Panzerschrek (2)
Wehrmacht Character Set I (4)
Wehrmacht Character Set II (4)
Wehrmacht Flamethrowers (2)
Wehrmacht HMG (Static MG34) Team
Wehrmacht Infantry with Rifles - MP44 I (4)
Wehrmacht Infantry with Rifles - MP44 II (4)
Wehrmacht Infantry with Rifles V (4)
Wehrmacht Infantry with Rifles VII (4)
Wehrmacht Infantry with Rifles VIII (4)
Wehrmacht Infantry with SMGs I - PPsH (4)
Wehrmacht with SMGs IV (4)

With shipping its 43 euros, so for 13 euros extra i get a really cool replacement force which is larger and which will look much much better. The charater sets are nice, an extra HMG will be fun when BA2 drops. And the PPSH troops also look mighty cool. Really excited to receive this shipment and get painting. Currently working on 12 LMG teams i ordered from BTD and so far i am really happy with the sculpts, especially the 2 shoulder firing teams.

Feedback welcome on the wip models! About to start painting the guns.

>>48173442
Looking nice. I take a look at the BTD sales as they have some neat fantasy and medieval figs, but could never bear myself to get 28mm WW2 - 20 pounds for a single tank is a bit much for me.

I wonder what BA2 will bring tho. I wish they or someone else will make a detailed list of what's different, tho I don't think I'll buy the rulebook just because it's 2nd ed - we have basically everything for 1st ed, armies, theatre books, and some neat houserules (like +1 shots for all MGs to make them worthwhile). But it was expected sadly.

>>48169835
If you're new to wargaming, or want something that is a bit more abstracted and laid back, Black Powder is a fun system.

That being said, I do not believe that the system works well for the American Civil War.
We are currently using it for Napoleonics (but are soon to switch to a 'better' system) and I can't see it being anything other that an introduction to playing ACW on tabletop.

My suggestion is to
1: Find suggestions for other rulesets, either to start out with, or switch into after a few months of BlackPowder.
2: Use 10mm or 15mm miniatures.
My group uses 15mm miniatures at a 1:20 figure to man scale (we use the orders of battle from Gettysburg to establish unit sizes. Doing this, it was about 300$ for a Federal Corp.)

>>48173537
Skim read the Rebellion! suppliment for the AWI. It looks like a fantastic resource for gaming the conflict.

With another rule set.

>>48172951
Yup, read up on them and the idea of a well disciplined force of pagan pre-Knights is awesome.

>>48174001
They're pretty fun to play. Very different than normal Vikings.

Be careful though, that huge difference can mean the first game against Jomsvikings can kick up some bad feelings.

They're not as bad as the Pagan Rus though, and the second game is a much bigger challenge for the Jomsviking side.

>>48172502
I checked and it's 20 pounds. Am I missing some WILD discount?

>>48174639
http://northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=5647

"Special offer price: 9.99"

>>48174655
WOWOWOWOW.
Thanks anon.

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>>48174911
No probs.

In the meanwhile, progress on my British Sherman. Didn't put any specific unit's insignia on it, as I won't do it for my other vehicles, because I want them to use as generic as possible.

>>48173442
A while ago i ordered some stuff from black tree design to test their sculpts. I got the PPSH germans and some sets from other time periods.
Let me say it politely: I'm not impressed.

I have read that they have 2 ranges of germans, their original "good" one and then the later additions which aren't as good.

The minis in your pic look nice.. my 4 smg-soldiers not so much.
I also got a crusader era arab command, hitler and some vikings. hitler is ok-ish (the mini obviously), the arabs are ok and the vikings are underwhelming, just like the german soldiers.

personally i won't order from them again.

>>48173515
There will be a list with differences sooner or later and while it had to be expected, i think it was also needed. House rules are nice, but some things are just OP and really needed a rework.

>>48175027
Do you base your vehicles now or is this just for the photo?

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>>48175384
I started doing recently.

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>>48175316
should have added my pic.

From all the metal miniatures i have i enjoy The Assault Group the most at this point. Warlord comes 2nd, but i can't stand their faces (2 of the BTD germans remind me of those actually). Artizan would be 2nd, but the minis i got from them had terrible amounts of flash and required way to long to clean

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>>48175434
Uhh, the metal Warlord faces are horrible, especially their Japs. Followed closely by the TAG Vietcong...why every Asian 28mm figure is Mickey Rooney?

>>48175457
Faces are hard, harder still in 28mm, and to give a racial characteristic that is recognisable (or any detail really) unless you're Perry or Meier their is going to come out looking like characature, even moreso for old hand-sculpted models.

>>48175396
Looks nice. I like it.