Leper King Edition
Previous thread: http://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/43728896/
Get in here, post games, miniatures, questions, whatever you like.
List of mini providers:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uGaaOSvSTqpwPGAvLPY3B5M2WYppDhzXdjwMpqRxo9M/edit
List of Historical Tactical, Strategic, and Military Drill treatises:
http://pastebin.com/BfMeGd6R
ZunTsu Gameboxes:
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/yaokao3h1o4og/ZunTsu_GameBoxes
/hwg/ Steam Group:
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/tghwg/
Games, Ospreys & References folders:
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/lu95l5mgg06d5/Ancient
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/81ck8x600cas4/Medieval
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/w6m41ma3co51e/Horse_and_Musket
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/vh1uqv8gipzo1/Napoleonic
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/bbpscr0dam7iy/ACW
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/bvdtt01gh105d/Victorian
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/b35x147vmc6sg/World_War_One
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/z8a13ampzzs88/World_War_Two
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/z8i8t83bysdwz/Vietnam_War
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/7n3mcn9hlgl1t/Modern
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/8tatre3vd10yv/Avalon_Hill
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/pq6ckzqo3g6e6/Field_Of_Glory
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/r2mff8tnl8bjy/GDW
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/whmbo8ii2evqh//SPI
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ws6yi58d2oacc/Strategy_%26_Tactics_Magazine
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/lx05hfgbic6b8/Naval_Wargaming
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/s1am77aldi1as/Wargames
>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
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!
25th of November in military history:
1120 – The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son and heir of Henry I of England.
1177 – Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Châtillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.
1491 – The siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, ends with the Treaty of Granada.
1758 – French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control.
1783 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
1795 – Partitions of Poland: Stanisław August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and is exiled to Russia.
1826 – The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge: Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.
1864 – American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.
1876 – In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.
1917 – World War I: German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
1940 – World War II: First flight of the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
1941 – HMS Barham is sunk by a German torpedo during World War II.
1952 – Korean War: After 42 days of fighting, the Battle of Triangle Hill ends as UN forces abandon their attempt to capture the "Iron Triangle".
1970 – In Japan, author Yukio Mishima commits ritualistic seppuku after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
It is 838 years since the Battle of Montgisard was fought between the Ayyubids and the Kingdom of Jerusalem. The 16-year-old King Baldwin IV, seriously afflicted by leprosy, led an out-numbered Christian force against the army of Saladin. The Arab force was routed and their casualties were massive, and only a fraction managed to flee to safety.
Saladin had planned and invasion of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from Egypt. Learning of Saladin's plans, Baldwin left Jerusalem with only 375 knights to attempt a defense at Ascalon, but was stalled there by a detachment of troops sent by Saladin who had 26,000 men. The true numbers are impossible to estimate, since the Christian sources refer only to knights and give no account of the number of infantry and turcopoles, except that it is evident from the number of the dead and wounded that there must have been more men than the 375 "knights". It is also uncertain whether the so-called knights included mounted sergeants or squires, or whether they were true knights. Just as uncertain are the numbers of their opponents. An 1181 review listed Saladin's Mamluk forces at 6,976 Ghulams and 1,553 Qaraghulams. However, there would have been additional soldiers available in Syria and elsewhere, while auxiliaries might have accompanied the Mamluks. Whether these would have added up to a total of 26,000 reported by William of Tyre is impossible to say.
Saladin left part of his army to besiege Gaza and a smaller force at Ascalon and marched northward with the rest. Accompanying Baldwin was Raynald of Châtillon, who had just been released from captivity in Aleppo in 1176. Raynald was a fierce enemy of Saladin and was King Baldwin's second-in-command. Also with the army were Baldwin of Ibelin, his brother Balian, Reginald of Sidon, and Joscelin III of Edessa. Odo de St Amand, Master of the Knights Templar, came with 84 Templar knights. Another Templar force attempted to meet Baldwin at Ascalon, but they remained besieged at Gaza.
Saladin continued his march towards Jerusalem, thinking that Baldwin would not dare to follow him with so few men. Because Baldwin was supposedly not a danger, he allowed his army to be spread out over a large area, pillaging and foraging. However, unknown to Saladin, the forces he had left to subdue the King had been insufficient and now both Baldwin and the Templars were marching to intercept him before he reached Jerusalem.
The Christians, led by the King, pursued the Muslims along the coast. The location is disputed, as Ramla was a large region that included the town under the same name. Saladin was taken totally by surprise. His army was in disarray, part had been held up by the mired baggage train while another part of his force had scattered into raiding parties across the countryside. The horses were tired from the long march. Some men had to hurry to collect their weapons from the baggage train. Saladin's army, in a state of panic, scrambled to make battle lines against the enemy. King Baldwin ordered the relic of the True Cross to be raised in front of the troops. The King, whose teenage body was already ravaged by aggressive leprosy, was helped from his horse and dropped to his knees before the cross. He prayed to God for victory and rose to his feet to cheers from his army.
The Jerusalem army attacked the hurriedly arranged Muslims, inflicting heavy casualties. The King, fighting with bandaged hands to cover his terrible wounds and sores, was in the thick of the fighting. Egyptian effective command was under Saladin's nephew Taqi ad-Din. Taqi ad-Din apparently attacked while Saladin was putting his Mamluk guard together. Saladin's men were quickly overwhelmed. Saladin himself only avoided capture by escaping on a racing camel.
King Baldwin's victory was total. He had utterly destroyed the invasion force and had captured Saladin's baggage train.
Baldwin pursued Saladin until nightfall, and then retired to Ascalon. Deluged by ten days of heavy rains and suffering the loss of roughly ninety percent of his army, including his personal bodyguard of Mamluks, Saladin fled back to Egypt, harassed by Bedouins along the way. Only one tenth of his army made it back to Egypt with him.
Baldwin memorialized his victory by erecting a Benedictine monastery on the battlefield dedicated to St. Catherine of Alexandria, whose feast day fell on the day of the battle. However, it was a difficult victory; Roger des Moulins, master of the Knights Hospitaller, reported that 1,100 men had been killed and 750 returned home wounded.
Despite an intervening year of relative peace, by 1179 Saladin was able to renew his attacks on the kingdom, including his victory at the Battle of Marj Ayyun that year. This led to almost another decade of warfare which culminated in Saladin's victory over the Crusaders at the Battle of Hattin in 1187.
Montgisard is a quintessential "Crescent and the Cross" type wargame, with two of the most famous commanders of the Crusades leading classic knight and ghulam armies. A better prepared Saracen player could present a serious challenge to the Jerusalem army, and a historical result is by no means certain.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/vsgd7bp2hvd1l72/Osprey+-+ELI+019+-+The+Crusades.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/yqweqi34z6tczad/Osprey+-+MAA+075+-+Armies+Of+The+Crusades.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/a2dwzr8fwlqma0r/Osprey+-+MAA+155+-+The+Knights+Of+Christ.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/5sn46pirygc8zbv/Osprey+-+MAA+171+-+Saladin+and+the+Saracens.pdf
On 25 November 1941 at 4:25 p.m., while steaming to cover an attack on Italian convoys in the Mediterranean, HMS Barham was hit by three torpedoes from the German submarine U-331, commanded by Oberleutnant zur See Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen. The torpedoes were fired from a range of only 750 yards providing no time for evasive action, and struck so closely together as to throw up a single massive water column. As the ship rolled over to port, her magazines exploded and she quickly sank with the loss of more than two-thirds of the crew. Out of a crew of approximately 1,184 officers and men, 841 were killed. The survivors were rescued by the other British ships.
Tiesenhausen was forced to dive to evade the escorting ships before Barham exploded, and heard only the detonation of the torpedo. He could not be sure whether he had sunk Barham, or if she had merely been damaged and left the scene before he resurfaced. It was not until the Admiralty's admission on 27 January 1942 that Barham had been sunk and described the circumstances that Tiesenhausen knew that he had sunk her. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross that day.
A Royal Navy Court of Enquiry into the sinking ascribed the final magazine explosion to the detonation en masse of 4-inch anti-aircraft ammunition stored in wing passages adjacent to the main magazines, which would have detonated the contents of the main magazines.
The sinking was captured on film by Pathé cameraman John Turner, aboard HMS Valiant. In consideration of public morale and to protect the families who had lost loved ones, the Admiralty decided to keep the film secret until the end of hostilities in 1945. The film has been used many times as stock footage in documentaries. It has also been used fictionally in films such as Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (as an American destroyer), Task Force (as a Japanese carrier), The Guns of Navarone, "Up Periscope" (as an Japanese destroyer) and The Battle of Okinawa (as Yamato).
What have you bought yourself for early Christmas, /hwg/?
I just bought a drill press to base my 100+ WW1 aircraft.
I named it "Das Drill" because it has a depth indicator and I kept saying "Tiefer!" while using it.
I've only based a few aircraft so far, but all the german air core is built, should only take me a night or two to finish building the Allied air cores, then base the lot, undercoat and paint.
The aircraft on the left are S.E.5s and Sopwith Camels, on the right are Fokker Dr. I, Albatross D.V, and Hannover Cl.II
Nice line-up. Didn't realise Barham was today.
Mishima too, haven't read any but he's a fascinating character.
>>43821457
>Mishima too, haven't read any but he's a fascinating character.
I strongly recommend the movie on his life
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089603/
He is an essential read for any student of Japanese fascism, or anyone curious about the wartime generation of that country.
>>43821446
I bought myself a bunch of Zvezda 2S1s and Shilkas, plus one T-72B since my FLGS had it in stock.
The Shilkas and 2S1s are pretty nice kits, certainly with better detail than Zvezda's WW2 offerings.
I still need to build the T-72, but the quality on that seems to be somewhat less, looking at the sprues.
>>43821446
>What have you bought yourself for early Christmas, /hwg/?
not exactly /hwg/ related, but in next few days i'm planning some big shopping in hobby shops. mainly paints, but maybe some kits too.
>>43821254
>1795 – Partitions of Poland: Stanisław August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and is exiled to Russia.
GOOD THING THAT NOTHING HAPPENED TO LITHUANIA rant rant rant meow meow meow
In unrelated matters: what's better, warlord or perry WW2 brits? Why is perry cheaper?
>>43821477
>I strongly recommend the movie on his life
>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089603/
It's really well-made, the novellas have nice scenography and the music is great. But it doesn't really explore Mishima's personality. It takes the reductive psychoanalitical approach that Mishima's homosexuality and childhood was the root cause of everything. This might be appealing to modern western liberal audience (after all, lately Willy Wonka was also given an origin story where his father is an abusive dentist), but doesn't really do anything to explore the Japanese psyche and civilisational changes caused to the society by WWII.
>>43821690
Perry is better quality but limited to North Africa and only Brits and Jerries (for plastics at least)
>>43821690
perry is better but as stated limited to North Africa/Mediterranean. They are however slimmer than most other companies figures so mixing ranges can be a little tricky.
>>43821446
>What have you bought yourself for early Christmas, /hwg/?
Nothing desu, I'm tempted to join the kickstarter for Victory and Glory: Napoleon, but I haven't decided yet.
>>43821750
>desu
oops, forgot the filter.
>>43821711
>>43821743
Slimmer than warlord?
By the way, why are the Blitzkrieg Germans are that cheaper than other, less numerous options on the Warlord store?
>>43822105
yes they are slimmer than warlord, slimmer than every other major manufacturer.
The blitzkrieg germans are the same price as the grenadiers.
>>43821477
No wonder the weeaboo company of Mutant Chronicles was named after him.
>>43821446
>What have you bought yourself for early Christmas, /hwg/?
The Zvezda Samurai Battles, and yesterday I went to visit a friend who found his old 1:72 shit. Around 80 boxes of the aforementioned shit. So I got 7 boxes of Airfix figures (US paras, infantry, UK paras, 8th army, Kraut paras, Afrikakorps, some Gebirsjager, and Jap infantry), plus 7 boxes of AFVs (2 FAMO, one Jeep w/37mm gun, a Humber Mk II, a T-34/85, a Kübelwagen/Bike box without the Wagen as of yet, M4A1 mortar halftrack) each from Science Treasury who make/made copies of Fujimi and Hasegawa (if any Japanons here, how expensive they are there? Are they common? I'd like to get some, is there a place there to order from and ships to mainland Europe? Thanks), plus a box of Tamiya 1:35 US inf. Historicalswise "only" these, but I found a bloody cheap secondhand GW dorf army too.
>>43822152
>The blitzkrieg germans are the same price as the grenadiers.
I mean other armies
>>43822199
I don't really know what you're asking.
But if you mean where are there less blitzkrieg models than later war ones, it's probably because not as many people play the early war.
>>43822234
I meant that there's more manz per buck in Blitzkrieg german box than in, say, British forces box.
Then again, the generic soviet Box might be an even better deal...
>>43821446
>What have you bought yourself for early Christmas, /hwg/?
Thinking of spending some cashmonies to buy some more 6mm bits. I can't really afford to do much more than that. Maybe I should round out my West Germans with a fistful of Marders, M113s and Leopard 1s...
No brand new projects in the pipeline for me for at least a few more months though as there's a big pile-up of them that needs sorting. Tons of painting and terrain making to catch up on due to spending far too much money earlier in the year on things.
>>43821446
An entire army of Bolt Action British Commandos to join my MMG team:
>2 boxes of Commandos!: 50minis
>Commando HQ
>Medium mortar team
>AEC MkIII Armoured Car
>British Sherma Firefly
They sent it monday afternoon. 3-10 days to arrive. I CANT FUCKING WAIT THAT LONG!
>>43824039
Bought the Build an Army, eh? I'm waiting for the rumored 50% Off plastic
>>43824059
Yep.
They wont make any further discount in the Build an Army thing and I think its quite a good price for what you get.
>>43824039
Man, if I didn't have hundreds of figures in 1:72...
>>43824095
From what I've seen of it, it seems a really good deal.
WiP copplestone chinese warlord.
How many men were in a British battalion during the Peninsular war?I'd ask /his/ but... you know
>>43825258
Well they were never at their theoretical maximum, but about 650-700 is a good ballpark average.
At Talavera the smallest Battalion was 431, 7th Foot 2nd Battalion, and the largest was 1019, 3rd Foot Guards 1st Battalion. Most ranged 600-750 though.
I recommend looking at the actual OOBs for the battles you want to model.
sure is quiet here today. you guys got life or something?
so continuing the topic of monster games that crop up every so often...but buddy who runs the Polish game company Taktyka i Strategia has, over the last few years, been releasing a series of games and magazine issues that cover the entire campaign in Poland....at 3 kilometers per hex....at the battalion/brigade level.....hes got a couple more to release but will soon have the entire campaign
I cant even imagine how big a table would be needed....
>>43828007
woah mama
>>43828007
Urge to invade Poland rising
and part 2 of my look at Berlin 1945 from T&S.
a quick look at Combat basics
https://youtu.be/I0L3T8YYAIc
>>43828007
This is the reason hexagon floor tiles and garages were invented.
>>43827636
>you guys got life or something?
No, I just don't have much /hwg/ stuff going on at the moment.
>>43819645
Those two look pretty stellar. Enoshima would make a good themed table at a small scale. Shibuya's got something going for it as well. Thanks for the suggestions.
first for da blocks
>>43825258
>I'd ask /his/ but... you know
I have no idea why you would have to ask them in the first place, it's not like this information is hard to find, Google turns up a bunch of results right away. Also we have a heaping pile of books that describe it all in detail. But as the other anon said you should just go look at the Nafzigers, because there's absolutely no constant or standard figure you can rely on.
>>43828007
>>43828528
I can only imagine how much fun it would be to upscale those maps and using 10-15mm models to represent unit chits...
It would take an entire coliseum set up to accomadate it, but it would be fantastic.
That, or do it online with a few friends over Vassal.
>>43832150
VASSAL is really the only way to do something of that scale sanely
>>43824039
a little bit too much gloss varnish?
>>43832422
>Doing anything at this scale
>Sane
Pick one.
>>43832759
oh ive done plenty of monster games. just need to approach them correctly. not all of them Ive done have been done correctly though
>>43828007
Once again I'd just love to have that map, considering the amount of wars fought over that stretch of turf. It could do for anything from Napoleonic to near future, with just the borders being arranged. Imagine running a WW3 game on that baby.
>>43833345
would also make a damn nice wall mounting
>>43833345
of course you could always say fuck it and go for World In Flames Global from Ssytherine....
yes that is the scale. Ive seen pics of the whole thing layed out on the floor...its...impressive
>>43833724
indeed
>>43833724
>>43833785
I was about to post how interesting it would be to try a global domination campaign with a few friends, with all the convoluted rules for putting units into fleets and performing landings to see who could rule the world, but thought that would just be silly.
Apparently its not
>>43827636
I've been at work all day...
I get to play my first Napoleonics this weekend. Turns out my uncle's played for years. I think it'll be smaller battles, French vs Russians, 20mm, using a ruleset called Charge. I'm looking forward to it.
>>43834406
>all that burning wreckage
busy little game that one!
>>43821446
An entire resin Russian village around which to play the Bolt action soviets I'll be getting for actual christmas.
Also somewhere in the postal system is a Brummbar that I ordered one day before Warlord announced their "20% off any 3 vehicles" 'Tanksgiving' event. Bollocks.
>>43837134
The great thing about Russian villages is that they barel changed between 1650 and 1950, so you could use that stuff for a large number of conflicts which took place there.
I had been thinking that dome looked a little tapered, but I went and took a look at some rural Russian churches and the very first picture that came up had a similar looking dome. Onion-dome churches are an obligatory part of any Russian battlefield.
>>43837134
>>43837227
From the film Come and See/Idi I smotri.Before somebody get the wrong idea here.
>>43837220
Yeah I'm quite pleased with it. I had that image of bulkier onion domes in my head too.
Now I want to get just that right bleached and greyed wood effect, but Im not really confident how. Considering getting an AK or Vallejo wood weathering set, but first I'll probably try to replicate what Ive seen in YT vids of them with what Ive already got.
>>43821261
>>43821266
>>43821276
Cool, just came from re-watching Kingdom of Heaven. Super-inspired now.
>>43837363
That kid actor was traumatized by the filming of that film. They used live ammunition!
>>43837673
I don't know about traumatized, but the director did hypnotize him for the village massacre sequence, in order to create the proper fugue state.
>>43837363
Yes interesting film. Live tracers and everything.
Model villages remind of it, hopefully not rude there.
>>43831932
why are all nafzinger links on the interwebs dieded
>>43838337
>why are all nafzinger links on the interwebs dieded
what do you mean? every pdf I tried has been fine thusfar allow I admit that was only a few
>>43838337
are you sure?
>tfw Brunswickaboo
>>43839129
To be honest, I've always found Bartek's art a little cringe.
>>43839166
He has quite an issue with sameface
>>43839166
>>43839197
My problem is FUCKING HIGH HEELS EVERYWHERE. Fucking Christ, apart from that my boner is diamonds, but suddenly heels and BAMF, boner dies. It's worse than boobplates.
>>43839382
I got your back.
>>43839382
If you want chicks in totenkopfen, and can accept the Prussian Uhlans in place of Brunswick Hussars, then bro do I have the girl for you!
>>43839459
Chicks in uniform and no high heels, new waifu found.
Time to pay a camwhore for a custom vid of her in a Napoleonic uniform getting POV fucked. Wonder when cosplayers will get into historical re-enacting.
>>43839459
obligatory Hinterland Miniatures 28mm Female Hussars post
>>43839506
>Wonder when cosplayers will get into historical re-enacting.
ASLAnon found these pics of some Napoleonic reenactors hanging out with a couple of topless models. I-I didn't save them or anything though.
>>43821235
I'm allegedly related to him, which I find less credible than the idea I'm related to William the Coqueror. He was illegitimate, several of his descendants who provide the link were too, for several generations or every other generation my ancestor is one of the younger sons or daughters making not the best marriage, and the last one in england was the same, and so was her spouse, who was probably not expecting much inheritance wise, and if either of them knew the extent to which they were related to royalty, (probably) they also knew in their hearts that really, it was pretty distant, and they certainly weren't seeing many of the best parties or money from it.
Hence them coming to the Colonies.
>>43839556
He may have lived sufficiently long enough ago that a huge number of people are vaguely related to him, kind of like how everyone in Europe is supposedly descended from Charlemagne or how everyone in Asia is related to Genghis Khan.
>>43839527
http://www.jeanfrancoisteoule.book.fr/galeries/: I
>>43839603
I...I'll be in my bunk...
Trying to get into 6mm cold war miniature gaming.. anyone has some cool pdf rulesets? All i could find for 6mm was rapid deployment shit..
Please help ^^
>>43839680
Fist full of TOWs, Cold War Commander, etc
>>43839680
have you checked our OP?
>>43839696
Thx ! Will check everything once i get home ;)
Cant wait to use muh Mi24As to kill american pigdogs
>>43839680
>>43839696 Are good suggestions, also stuff like FiveCore Company/Brigade Commander for something quick n' dirty.
GHQ also have their own Microarmour rules.
>>43839603
ohhhh hes got a bunch of new stuff up.....
>>43839719
the GHQ rule set is crap though. didnt like it at all
>>43839873
Never looked at it myself, just know of it because I have this Iran-Iraq war scenario that I'm planning to use the force lists from as a guide for getting a couple of 3mm armies.
>>43839623
Tight colorfoul uniforms have their own charm, eh?
>>43839902
I think the biggest problem is that there are no force lists in the GHQ ruleset. just listing of equipment by nationality. and their point cost per unit. so if you want to run an accurate soviet armored battalion with attached forces..you have to do the research yourself to find out what exactly is in the armored battalion
and I just didnt like the rules themselves
>>43839197
guy at the front: "They'd better not be passing secret messages again"
>>43839680
/fowg/ have a PDF of Team Yankee which works well in 6mm. Not the deepest game but easy to get into, especially if you've played Flames of War before.
>>43840037
Finding sufficiently specific OrBats for Iran-Iraq has proven tricky so I'm just using what I can get at this point.
>>43832501
Thats the flash from the camera. Also pre-matte varnish pic.
why are there no 15mm plastic Napoleonics?
>>43841447
Good question - it'd be awesome. Lots of marching figures, command sprue...I'd love it.
>>43841447
>dat paintjob
>>43841484
Fixable with some touchups and a wash. The real issue is;
> Holy fucking shit that bannerpole.
>>43841507
>bannerpole
isn't he a snake charmer?
>>43841507
I'd say the real issue was the enormous green dragon sneaking up behind them
>>43841625
someone said to bring some dragoons and they though he said dragons.....
>>43841726
The French for Dragoon is Dragon. This isn't impossible.
>>43839398
Whats the artist I googled what was said and it came up with some shitty Omaha artist.
>>43821235
Can anyone point me towards were I could get info on greek mercenary bands?
Preferably between 500 and 300 bc, have downloaded the ancient greek and hoplite ospreys.
Primarily looking for composition for doing a small raiding band in 28mm no more than fifteen men.
>>43842702
>Can anyone point me towards were I could get info on greek mercenary bands
Xenophon's Anabasis?
To be frank I'm not entirely sure a raiding party of around 15 men has much of an organised nature.
It's not like 15 men is enough for a phalanx so you could include pretty much whatever you wanted that makes sense. Slingers, Archers, light hoplites, peltasts etc.
get your orders son
>>43843103
>mouldlines
>badly painted
>close up to see all this
Life is suffering.
>>43843103
>flesh coloured hair
>that line down the back and chair
>none of the papers have ANYTHING written on them
>>43842790
>To be frank I'm not entirely sure a raiding party of around 15 men has much of an organised nature.
That's what i'm hoping for i''m just curious to info of any small exsting bands.
I talked about this ij an older hwg thread, the fact that most battles in ancient times tended to have massed ranks which I don't have the patience or money to paint.
am i a bastard for taking a chaffee and a greyhound at 1000 points in BA?
the double recce is just so much fun
>>43843336
>That's what i'm hoping for i''m just curious to info of any small exsting bands.
I have an MA in ancient history, but to be frank I've never come across anyone writing about a party so small, especially 'mercenaries' on independent operations.*
15 marines is the ideal size for a single Trireme, although this isn't exactly a mercenary raiding party, for naval combat it might be something to base yourself on.
>The Attic [Athenian] ships were one hundred and eighty in number, and each had eighteen men to fight upon the decks, of whom four were archers, and the rest men-at‑arms [probably best translated as Hoplites].
Plutarch. The Life of Themistocles. 14.1.
Of course not all the Triremes would have had exactly 18 men on board, so if you created a force of say 12 Hoplites 3 Archers or any reasonable combination you could easily have a unit of marines, who would of course have served on land at some point. Whilst this is at the early end of your time scale it seems reasonable that numbers would be about the same throughout. Triremes were extremely limited in space, being made for speed primarily, and with 60 oarsmen as well it is unlikely you would see large parties on board.
>>43843607
To explain things better I was inspired by this warband:httplead-mountainblogspotcouk/2015/10/see-rome-and-diehtml
I'm currently doing an ma in history myself but my focus is colonial, been wanting a change from painting pith helmets do wanted to do a small classic age band. nothing too uniform.
Any advice would be appreciated.
>>43821446
those are adorable, what company?
>>43823084
certainly made mine look like a pile of shit
>>43843340
I never got it why Recce is so good. Or maybe I just didn't interpret the rules enough, but in case the vehicle already acted, it couldn't make a Recce move, and if it doesn, it counts as already activated. Do I miss something?
>>43843973
At least they are YOUR shit.
>>43843877
There isn't really much advice I can give, the information just doesn't really exist.
The guy you linked just painted models he liked to fit a loose theme, he has Roman Hoplites, guys with scuta, a guy who throws rocks. You wont find any source from any ancient historian who describes the party he made.
So do the same with yours. Paint a handful of Hoplites, paint a handful of light troops, throw in some slingers. It's yours, and ancient history is vague enough you can make it reasonable.
Maybe they are the remnant crew of an Athenian Trireme which was lost through mishap during the Battle of Sphacteria and now lives in the Taygetos mountains, coming out to raid local villages to survive.
Maybe they were mercenaries who went to Asia minor to support a (failed) rebel claimant to the Persian throne who have now resorted to banditry.
They are yours and you can do close to whatever you want.
>>43844029
I get what you are saying just looking for inspiration for that loose theme, his makes sense as there was less cohesion what with it being more ''tribal style'' raiding forces, i'm just looking for other nations that have a similar set up so I can do what I want as it would seem most nations at the time had more organization troops wise.
Thank you for the input though its very helpful.
I'm wondering whgat other nations at the time would have smaller scale warfare that aren't celts.
>>43844197
I'd advise watching the ancient fantasy movies they made recently and in the past few years. The Dwayne Johnson Hercules - it's basically about a wandering group of warriors/mercenaries made up from many different cultures' warriors. The Scorpion King could also work, as well as Gladiator and so forth. While the movies may not be historically accurate, they can give you lots of ideas and inspiration.
>>43844217
I didn't min d the scorpion king movie, i'm thinking Greeks are the way to go as they have a big history of mercenary bands and inter-city raiding plus I can use them for clash of the titans/Argonauts style shenanigans
>>43844197
I think you misunderstand me.
It isn't that the Greeks aren't doing raiding with this number of people. They probably are. The issue is that historians writing at the time aren't interested in it, and they don't leave much in terms of archaeological data because they are so small and low impact.
So just like the guy you linked, who has invented his warband, just have fun with it. No Ancient Roman has written about a 7 man group of randomly equipped soldiers from the 6th century BC (there isn't really any Roman historiography at all until the 3rd century BC, and I can be certain they had no details of this scale of warfare in the 6th century), they weren't worth writing about.
You just need to do what he did, you can make a small raiding party for anybody (Persia, Carthage, Greeks, Gauls, Celtiberians, anyone), just don't expect any concrete data on any of them, your best bet (and the most fun in my opinion) is just to paint what you like that makes sense.
>>43843981
Unless I'm greatly mistaken you're allowed to activate the vehicle and then later in the turn recce move away from fire.
>>43844369
I don't have my BA rulebook at hand, but it's entirely possible I misinterpreted the rules.
What's the absolute cheapest source of 28mm WW2 miniatures? Lowest I've found is Wargames Factory.
>>43844772
Green army men?
>>43844818
second hand green army men.
>>43844772
Papercraft.
>>43844851
>>43844886
Secondhand papercraft green army men.
>>43845048
Freecycled secondhand papercraft green army men.
imperial bump
>>43842408
>I googled what was said and it came up with some shitty Omaha artist.
Bartek Drejewicz
>heels in the desert
at least it sort of made sense with a cavalry chick
>>43843953
Tumbling dice.
I finished painting the first 4 S.E.5s and Sopwith Camels, just waiting on my 1/600 decals to arrive (from doms decals)
I have so many fucking WW1 aircraft, can't wait to get them all painted and play some games.
Total tally of aircraft:
>German Air Core (Luftstreitkräfte)
4 X Albatross C.I
8 X Fokker E.III “Eindecker”
4 X Albatross D.II
2 X Gotha V
4 X LFG Roland C.II “Whale”
8 X Alabtross D.V.a
4 X Fokker Dr. I “Dreidecker”
4 X Fokker D.VII
4 X Fokker D.VIII “Fokker E.V”
3 X Freidrichshafen G.III
4 X Halberstadt CL.II
4 X Hannover CL.IIa
>Allied air cores
4 X B.E.2
4 X Airco DH.2
4 X Nieuport 11 “bebe”
4 X R.E.8
8 X S.E.5a
4 X Airco DH.4
4 X Airco DH.5
4 X Bristol F.2B
2 X Handley Page 0/400
4 X Sopwith Camel
4 X Sopwith Triplane
I can now tell the difference between a Sopwith Camel and an Airco DH.5. There's always something that gives away the model. Just like telling PzIIIs from Pz.IVs, you just got to know what to look for.
Pic has some 1/72 napoleonics and a Puma for scale.
Is there any chance that anyone has a scan of Jugula by Gripping Beast?
Any tips on building and painting the plastic Vikings from Gripping Beast? I'm not too used to painting Historicals.
>>43847638
Good luck.
>>43848111
Same as you would any other miniature, there's a few methods like drybrushing or using washes, up to you with you prefer.
As for the colors, check out the relevant osprey in the OP folders, this one in particular (from the Medieval folder):
http://www.mediafire.com/view/xibm5yhyxtmngqw/Osprey_-_MAA_085_-_Saxons%2C_Normans_And_Vikings.pdf
>>43847616
Hey WW1dogfightanon, there's a good pile of related PDFs up on Avaxhome, if you've ever wanted to have a look. Osprey's "Aircraft of the Aces" (AOA) line would be of great interest to you.
http://avxsearch.se/search?q=Aircraft+of+the+Aces&a=&exact=0&c=all&l=any&sort_by=date_desc
Also search this site for other WWI aircraft related materials, it has a lot of old stuff from the 60s and 70s.
>>43846629
>>heels in the desert
Makes sense from masturbation point
Trying to work out whether it would be cheaper to get the warlord soviet build-an-army deal as separate pieces now theyre doing 50% off infantry sprues and 20% off vehicles
Turns out their normal 'build an army' deal still works out cheaper. Helluva offer.
>>43847616
>Pic has some 1/72 napoleonics
Tumbling Dice too, or who made them? Can't recognize those Cuirassiers.
>>43851016
The Cuirassiers and the puma are both Italieri.
>>43848922
Awesome, thanks! Will definitely check these out.
the Dogfight! game is pretty much finished, still a bit of playtesting to do, but the core is solid.
pic are some more 1/600 tumbling dice minis. Freidrichshafen G.III bombers, and Halberstadt Cl.IIs
Everything you need to know about the modern British Army
>Extracts from Officer’s Annual Confidential Reports
“Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap.”
“He has the wisdom of youth, and the energy of old age.”
“This Officer should go far – and the sooner he starts, the better.”
“This officer is depriving a village somewhere of its idiot.”
“Only occasionally wets himself under pressure.”
“When she opens her mouth, it seems that this is only to change whichever foot was previously in
there.”
“He has carried out each and every one of his duties to his entire satisfaction.”
“He would be out of his depth in a car park puddle.”
“This young man has delusions of adequacy.”
“When he joined my ship, this Officer was something of a granny; since then he has aged
considerably.”
“This Medical Officer has used my ship to carry his genitals from port to port, and my officers to
carry him from bar to bar.”
“Since my last report he has reached rock bottom, and has started to dig.”
“She sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them.”
“His men would follow him anywhere, but only out of curiosity.”
“This officer has the astonishing ability to provoke something close to a mutiny every time he opens
his mouth”.
“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork”.
“I cannot believe that out of 10,000 sperm his was the fastest”.
“The most complementary thing that I can say about this officer is that he is unbearable”.
In case you were at a loose end this weekend
Anyone doing Bolt Action with 1/48 vehicles?
Then this might be interesting:
1/48 Tamiya Sdkfz 251 on Amazon for 16€ and free shipping (from Japan) at the moment.
Usual price is between 20 and 25€ for that kit.
http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0026IBBTI?keywords=Tamiya%201%2F48&qid=1448622655&ref_=sr_1_2&sr=8-2
>>43846629
>that lemonsqueezer squeezing lemons
So I've been considering starting Napoleonics, looking at Black powder/ lasalle but I'd only found 28mm plastics (would have preferred a smaller scale but I dislike metal) and I've just found out that Italeri and Zvezda do 20mm plastics. Now all there's left to do is decide on a battle to do
>>43852326
>would have preferred a smaller scale but I dislike metal
I wouldn't let that put you off.
>>43852398
>>43852326
Small scale is love. Small scale is life.
I hear you on the plastics thing though. 6mm pre-ranked plastics need to be a thing.
>>43852326
20mm plastics can't be compared with 28mm plastics. Smaller "plastic" miniatures are made from more vinyl-like plastic that bends easily and is a pain to paint properly.
>>43852326
Son, I'm here to answer all your 20mm related questions. As a proud owner of approximately two thousand Napoleonic 1:72 figures, with about the tenth of them painted, I think I can help in all your needs. First of all, be sure to check on The Plastic Soldier review, they'll be your best friend on this magnificent adventure.
>>43852769
I beg to differ.
But oh well, there are some secrets to painting 1:72 soft plastic. First of all, wash them in soapy water and let them throughoutly dry. Remove flash with either a VERY sharp knife, or a heated pin. Paint as you'd normally paint, and now comes the magic, get a Plastidip transparent spraycan. It's liquid, sprayed-on rubber that makes your paintjobs immortal - no paint cracks, no flaking, nothing. It leaves a shiny finish, so a matte varnish is highly advised, but apart from that, this stuff if the fucking Holy Grail of 1:72 figure painting. It's wonderful, I love and I've already sprayed more than 200 figures with it, and more than half of it is still in there.
>>43852918
You can do this without worrying that it throws off paint.
>>43852918
I was thinking of doing British, but very few kits seem to have a colour bearer, and for BP I'd need two per battalion. Are they really necessary or is there somewhere that sells 1/72 colour bearers?
>>43853235
oops, just found the HaT infantry command with four of them in!
>>43853235
HaT has a command box that has 4 of them. Apart from that, sword waving officers with their weapons removed and replaced with a flagpole plus headswapped for a shako could work.
>>43853235
There is no actual need for having flag bearers in BP, they just advise you to have them in the middle of the unit for easy of referencing where to measure from.
>>43854786
I'm pretty sure you can't play Napoleonics without standard bearers... it might even be illegal.
>>43854879
Confirmed - once I tried to play it like that, and two French Old Guards kicked the door in, dragged me to a Grognardifier Camp, and taught me how it should be done.
I haven't cried that much in years. Thinking about it makes my asshole squeeze.
hey /tg/, is there a wild west shootout miniature game?
Hey guyze, remember how talked about "too soon"?
>1/35 cat
>>43852707
I don't want to play napoleonics, but daaamn are they pretty
>>43855530
Something something six gun saga?
>>43855530
THW's Six Gun Sound
or WH Legends of the Old West
(in the OP of the 7chan wargames request thread)
>>43855578
>Zvezda
>labelling the little green men as russian infantry
As close as we'll get to an official admission
By the by, is 1/56 itallieri basically the same as BA vehicles? Or what's a good alternative?
>>43855935
In the same vein, how good are 1/100 zvezdas for FoW?
>>43856002
Italeri makes Warlord's 1:56 vehicles. Check Rubicon.
Fine, but tad more underdetailed than Battlefront's and PSC's stuff.
>>43856002
>s 1/56 itallieri basically the same as BA vehicles?
They are 100% identical. Italeri produces the BA kits. The 1/56 soldiers sold by italeri are 100% the sprues sold by warlord.
If you want the vehicles, buy the italeri boxes (they are cheaper, and some come even with paint, glue and a brush).
If you want the soldiers, get the boxes from warlord since they are cheaper there.
Only difference in the vehicle kits is the sheet of decals.
>>43843123
>>43843159
>>43841484
As far as I don't like some paintjobs, guys this is HWH general not a paint and critique thread.
>>43856077
>>43856076
But Italieri's stuff is more late war, no? Their own website lists a StuG III, a Pz III L/M/N, a Tiger I that my friend tells me is a late model, a Panther thats yeah LW and a Sherman.
I just want a tank that I could match with a box of Blizkrieg Jerries I plan on getting.
Also, Zvezda is something I can get in my country for 3 euros per 1/100 WWII tank, no shipping.
>>43856182
They are the saaaaaame fucking plastics. Italeri makes the tanks that Warlord sells in their own boxes. If you want early tank, that sucks since nobody makes them in plastic 28mm.
>>43856235
Damn, now I'll have to get plastic germans or grenadiers and lug StGs around like a regular chump.
Probably to be expected, I heard that FoW is all Late War in my country, so why other WWII games would be different worldwide?
Oh SD.KFZ 231 (8-RAD), you'll be in plastic one day.
>>43856160
well painted minis increase the pleasure of the game. i know that not everyone is bohun or alexiz but with modern paints, washes and amount of tutorials on yt someone must be one lazy fuck to paint thier minis like that.
>>43855578
>1/35 cat
and this is why i'm gonna buy this set.
>>43856415
Quite frankly due to the retarded pricing for wargaming models, you can get plastics for about the same price as resins.
I'd say grab early war armies in 1:72 and do what you want - wait till others get released in plastic with vehicles, convince others for smaller scale and so forth. There are lots of good early war stuffs - First to Fight is doing their models based around the Invasion of Poland with all the models, both figures, tanks, other AFVs, softskins, guns, etc.
motherfuckin' SIX new Ospreys incoming within the hour
watch this space
>there are people who unironically don't play Napoleonics
>>43859562
What can I say? I'm a WWI kind of guy.
>>43859562
soon my friend, soon.
Also, as many Napoleonics use a scale where one man=one man is it sensible to use smaller scale buildings than the soldiers, or would it look daft?
>>43859655
Talavera-anon used 3mm buildings with his 10mm stuff and it looked fine.
>>43859655
>one man=one man
do you mean one man doesnt equal one man?
It's really common to use smaller buildings than soldiers, but it's down to taste. Some people can't seem to stand the out of scale buildings, some can't seem to stand 1 house representing a town. It's up to you.
>>43859783
>do you mean one man doesnt equal one man?
yes, thanks
Guadalcanal 1942-1943: America’s First Victory on the Road to Tokyo (Osprey Campaign 284)
The Guadalcanal campaign began with an amphibious assault in August 1942 - the US's first attempt to take the fight to the Japanese. It escalated into a desperate attritional battle on land, air, and sea, and by the time the Japanese had evacuated the last of their forces from the island in 1943, it was clear that the tide of the war had turned. The inexorable Japanese advance and the myth of Japanese invincibility shattered. In this new study of the campaign, Pacific War expert Mark Stille draws on both US and Japanese sources to give a balanced and comprehensive account of a crucial, brutal conflict. Analyzing the three Japanese attempts to retake the island in the face of ferocious American resistance, this book shows how the battle was won and lost, and how it affected the outcome of the Pacific War as a whole.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/sy9n2q07bh4z8h9/Osprey+-+CAM+284+-+Guadacanal+1942-43.pdf
Taranto 1940: The Fleet Air Arm’s Precursor to Pearl Harbor (Osprey Campaign 288)
The Royal Navy's attack on Taranto in 1940 heralded a new age of warfare. It was the decisive moment in a struggle for dominance of the Mediterranean that had gone on for months, as the British and Italian navies both looked to secure maritime supply routes for their colonies. With the enormous demands of a global war beginning to tell, the British capital ships were simply too thinly spread for a large fleet action against Taranto, where the bulk of the Italian fleet lay menacingly. How was the Royal Navy to eliminate the threat of the Regia Marina? This is the story of one of World War II's most devastating raids, recounting how a handful of obsolete Fairey Swordfish biplanes swooped in and destroyed an Italian battleship and badly damaged two more. With expert analysis, detailed colour illustrations and a gripping narrative, this book explains the origins of the attack, its planning and execution, and what happened in the aftermath.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/3upcfyjs90mtbyt/Osprey+-+CAM+288+-+Taranto+1940.pdf
US Marine vs NVA Soldier: Vietnam 1967-1968 (Osprey Combat 13)
In 1967-68, the United States Marine Corps (USMC) was on the front line of the defence of South Vietnam's Quang Tri province, which was at the very heart of the Vietnam conflict. Facing them were the soldiers of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA), men whose organization and equipment made them a very different opponent from the famous, irregular Viet Cong forces. From the ‘Hill Battles' in April 1967 to the struggle for the city of Hue (January-March 1968) this bloody campaign forced the two sides into a gruelling trial of strength. The USMC held a general technological and logistical advantage - including close air support and airborne transport, technology, and supplies - but could not always utilize these resources effectively in mountainous, jungle, or urban environments better known by their Vietnamese opponents. In this arresting account of small-unit combat, David R. Higgins steps into the tropical terrain of Vietnam to assess the performance and experience of USMC and NVA forces in three savage battles that stretched both sides to the limit.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/db15odhyi0vtf1o/Osprey+-+CBT+013+-+US+Marine+vs+NVA+Soldier+1967-68.pdf
German Infantryman vs British Infantryman: France 1940 (Osprey Combat 14)
When Hitler's forces poured into France and the Low Countries in 1940, the uneasy peace of the ‘Phoney War' was shattered, and Europe was ripped apart by another Blitzkrieg. Forming the backbone of the German advance were the well-equipped Schützen (Rifles), motorized infantry who embodied the essence of the fluid, swift warfare that had characterized World War II thus far. Facing them were infantrymen of the British Expeditionary Force, units of considerable fighting quality who had nevertheless received no special training to conduct combined-arms warfare in conjunction with armour. This study investigates the combat between the two adversaries at small-unit level, recreating the ferocity of the fighting on the front lines of the Battle of France in three key clashes at Arras, Calais and Merville. Assessing the training, organization and unit ethos of both sides in the context of a new type of mobile warfare, David Greentree reveals the extraordinary difficulties encountered by infantry units in trying to remain in contact with their armoured and mechanized formations.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/30wz1sx5zao9m5i/Osprey+-+CBT+014+-+German+Infantryman+vs+British+Infantryman+1940.pdf
ermahgerd ospreys
German Commerce Raiders 1914-1918 (Osprey New Vanguard 228)
This is the story of Germany's commerce raiders of World War I, the surface ships that were supposed to starve the British Isles of the vast cargoes of vital resources being shipped from the furthest reaches of the Empire. To that end pre-war German naval strategists allocated a number of cruisers and armed, fast ocean liners, as well as a complex and globe-spanning supply network to support them - known as the Etappe network. This book, drawing on technical illustrations and the author's exhaustive research, explains the often overlooked role that the commerce raiders played in World War I. Whilst exploring the design and development of the ships, it also describes their operational history, how they tied up a disproportionate amount of the British fleet on lengthy pursuits, and how certain raiders such as the SMS Emden were able to wreak havoc across the oceans.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/ao1r6z85rrny82w/Osprey+-+NVA+228+-+German+Commerce+Raiders+1914-18.pdf
Rhodesian Light Infantryman 1961-1980 (Osprey Warrior 177)
The 1st Battalion, The Rhodesian Light Infantry, was one of the most innovative and successful counter-insurgency units in modern history. Formed as a commando battalion in 1964 after the dissolution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the RLI was an all-white unit made up of South Africans and men from the UK, Europe and US. It was a key weapon in independent Rhodesia's struggle against the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army and Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army during the bloody Rhodesian Bush War. This comprehensive study explores the unit's dramatic history, revealing the RLI's fearsome airborne and combat capacity, which gave the unit, at times, near total tactical superiority against its opponents.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/1y4zae7dq3i4epz/Osprey+-+WAR+177+-+Rhodesian+Light+Infantryman+1961-80.pdf
Thanks Osprey bro!
>>43861306
>>43861550
My pleasure /hwg/uys, some great titles this time round. Hopefully we get a few more before it all goes in hiatus over Christmas
That Peter Dennis is busy, he illustrated 3 of the 6 here, and has another 5 titles on the way in the next three months.
I think I like the commerce raider one most myself; I love the story of the Seeadler, and the art is fantastic.
>>43855530
You bet your sweet bippy
>Western games
http://www.mediafire.com/download/kqh3q4odxa0sg66/Aces+%26+Eights.pdf
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/4zg4few23p1at/Boot_Hill
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/7ldbpnl9ah08n/Deadlands_Reloaded
http://www.mediafire.com/download/6hcihnhawlz24jo/Gunslingers+and+Gamblers+RPG.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/uo8w8ud3hr4ssut/Warhammer+Historical+-+Legends+of+the+Old+West.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/3fd0adqfipoj09g/Warhammer+Historical+-+Legends+of+the+Old+West+Expansion.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/wh1u1pdr3nonexq/Gunslinger.rar
>Ospreys
http://www.mediafire.com/download/mwruzow038xrq0f/Osprey+-+WAR+172+-+Apache+Warrior+1860-86.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/s59lvwkl1rcwa2q/Osprey+-+WAR+105+-+Native+American+Mounted+Rifleman+1861-65.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/q521a2i9zm5n9l8/Osprey+-+WAR+075+-+Comanche+1800-74.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/8bwpufydk3ucs1u/Osprey+-+MAA+344+-+The+Tribes+of+the+Sioux+Nation.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/97q0a3b3kpzb94m/Osprey+-+MAA+168+-+US+Cavalry+of+the+Plains+1850-90.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/708k00tbvlysbii/Osprey+-+MAA+163+-+The+American+Plains+Indians.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/ih0qr706evbbmix/Osprey+-+MAA+063+-+The+American+Indian+Wars+1860-90.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/gyunmutnr0r94b8/Osprey+-+ELI+174+-+American+Civil+War+Guerilla+Tactics.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/ahau1xuyo04e2xj/Osprey+-+ELI+140+-+The+American+Civil+War+in+the+Indian+Territory.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/0ouw85uru1ura27/Osprey+-+ELI+119+-+Apache+Tactics+1830-86.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/l74mtvm8iilwy8q/Osprey+-+ELI+107+-+Buffalo+Soldiers+1866-91.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/w26ay3kk57a2k6n/Osprey+-+ELI+096+-+American+Frontier+Lawmen+1850-1930.pdf
>>43865631
and dangnabbit I forgot this
This >>43848111 anon again.
So, I'm planning on writing some background for my warband. I've decided that my warlord's model will be pic related. How do I explain it? I know Lamellar armor was discovered in a dig, but it was not made in Scandinavia, rather, it was from Central Asia. Does anyone know if there are known years for when the Vikings raided the Khazars?
Bit of background for my warlord as well.
>Sigurðr the Bloody
>Age 35
>Norse Pagan
>>43865809
Vikings rather frequently reached as far as the Caspian during the time of the Khazars from the 9th to 11th centuries. Look up "Caspian expeditions of the Rus'" on Wikipedia.
So you could certainly justify lamellar on your Warlord.
Someone have the iron fist's battlegroup series pdf?
>>43855578
Ahaha! I don't 1/35, but now I do.
So, there are 15mm scale LGM, any other scales?
>>43860320
>>43860336
>>43860361
>>43860384
>>43860410
>>43860436
thank you based osprey anon
also bmp
>>43855578
I'm still trying to figure out how to get the mold release off of zvezda products. I've soaked them in 3 different things and they still feel slick as hell
>>43856182
The kits sold by italeri cover your late war needs thats true.
The Panzer 3 L (without the Schürtzen) is somewhat an exception.
Warlord themselves have a Panzer 4 as well, but i think Ausf. F2 is the earliest version you can build from that kit.
But the Rubicon Pz 4 can be build as early Ausf. D.
If you don't mind resin tanks, Warlord (as well as other companies have everything you need).
Or you go the 1/48 route and get an Tamiya kit. They have an Panzer 2 as well as an early Tiger and an early Stug. (they are usually priced around 20€, just like the warlord/rubicon kits).
Besides, Bolt Action isn't very strict with early/late. Its totally fine to use your blitzkrieg germans together with a Panther or any other tank you like. I refuse to believe that the german army as a whole stopped wearing their old uniforms in 1943 and got new gear from one day to another. Even in 45 there could have been some units with older style equipment.
>>43868441
I just checked. The Warlord plastic Pz 4 can be build with the short 75mm gun as well.
>>43869783
fucking gorgeous
>>43869972
Apart from the lipstick smiles his figures are gorgeous.
Really a great advert for 6mm in my opinion.
>>43870868
BMP
>>43865631
>You bet your sweet bippy
you do realize that almost no one here knows what thats from right
Anybody got a Deus Vult pdf? Not seeing it in the top links
Want to see the basing rules/unit composition to see if I can make a multipurpose army.
>>43871733
IIRC 4 men per 40mm stand for infantry and 2 cavalry for a 50mm base.
>>43872672
Thanks
Do you know if equipment/banners/musicians makes a difference? Not sure how similar to, say, WHFB this is.
Making a retinue for Lion Rampant (where equipment and standards and such like don't matter) so if it turns out putting lances on my Teutonic Knights locks them into something I wouldn't necessarily want in Deus Vult, I'd rather just give my knights hand weapons, etc.
>>43872985
As in almost every historica wargame, not really.
BMPs
Attending a Blucher tournament tomorrow with some of my Talavera guys.I've only played the rules once, wish me luck.
Anyone have that link to all the Sharpe movies?I left my DVDs at home
>>43833785
This makes my dick hard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Giants
>He even forced tall women to marry tall soldiers so they could breed more tall boys.
how fucking hot is that
>>43876111
Will you take some pictures for us?
>>43876232
https://mega.nz/#F!ygUBGRIY!Vo1b4w6eXG2OIXqVL0i8ZQ
As if we haven't been spoiled enough! A weird duck this one; it covers uniforms, tactics, organization - a little bit of everything. The Elite series has gotten a lot more general in recent years.
Victory 1945: Western Allied Troops in Northwest Europe (Osprey Elite 209)
Even when Western Allied troops gained a foothold in Normandy, World War II in Europe was far from over. The route to Germany's interior and the Nazis final surrender was long, arduous and blood-stained. The Wehrmacht's stubborn resistance and the shocking losses suffered by US, British, Canadian and ‘Free European' troops meant that the Allies had to adapt and refine small-unit tactics, battle-drills, and their use of weapons and munitions. The troops who finally met up with the Red Army in Germany were a very different fighting force to the one that struggled up the beaches of northern France. This book offers a comprehensive guide to the late-war Allied troops, exploring their uniforms, equipment, organization and tactics. Detailed description and accurate colour pictures illustrate the means by which the Allied troops on the ground evolved to the point of winning the war on the Western Front.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/0714xhpw4ci7d25/Osprey+-+ELI+209+-+Victory+1945+Western+Allied+Troops+in+NW+Europe.pdf
>>43876111
Good luck!
>>43880777
bmp-2
/hwg/, I'm looking for any and all dogfighting games you have for WW1 and WW2. There must be dozens of them. I'm especially looking for ones with RPG elements.
>>43882611
Simple - mid range complexity:
Aces at Dawn, Check your 6, Wings of war
Advanced:
Dawn Patrol, Blue Max
Modern:
Air War, Check your 6 Jet Age.
These are all in the OP folders, under WW1 or WW2 or Modern.
I also wrote a WW1 dogfighting game, attached.
I'll definitely think about adding RPG elements, or at least a kind of campaign game where pilots can increase skill over a few games depending on how well they do.
>>43883666
>tfw only spot typos when you post it
Ah well, each version gets tighter. also 666 get
>>43883666
Help, Satan. I do not see Blue Max or Check Your 6 in those folders.
>>43884630
That's because we don't have Blue Max, and Check Your 6! is in my Mega folder
https://mega.nz/#!vwMngZbR!91OrqgI5u2imvHC6h-8IgHkHyHmXZ997crB9O6tXhqw
>>43885023
I should have known he would lie to me. Thanks anon.
>>43885023
How about Check Your Six! jet age?
>>43886569
That's in the general Wargame folder as it happens
https://images.rapgenius.com/cc13aec6e6de2e84a62ea456bec18db5.801x1000x1.jpg
>>43884630
ah yes sorry about that, when I said these are all in the folders, I meant some of them are in the folders.
I do have a copy of Blue Max, but is seems like a more recent, simplified version, which is probably a good thing.
http://www.mediafire.com/view/7sskv6wg2hv8vjz/Blue_Max.pdf
Sorry I forgot to zip it.
Both this and CY6 Should be added to the OP folders
>>43886634
>http://www.mediafire.com/view/7sskv6wg2hv8vjz/Blue_Max.pdf
Nice one thanks anon
First Albatross D.Vs roll off the production line
Still waiting on my decals though, they need their cross pattée.
There's almost no way to reproduce the actual lozenge camo design used on German aircraft at this scale. Interlocking hexes of 5 different colors. I did my best.
>>43887241
>There's almost no way to reproduce the actual lozenge camo design used on German aircraft at this scale.
Somebody needs to produce a decal for it, like they do for the larger scale models
>>43887360
That would be great, might suggest it to dom the decal guy
>>43883666
There's also Canvas Eagles, which has the benefit of being completely free.
>>43877454
> The king—who was about 1.6 meters himself—needed several hundred more recruits each year.
> He tried to obtain them by any means, and once confided to the French ambassador that "The most beautiful girl or woman in the world would be a matter of indifference to me, but tall soldiers--they are my weakness."
Alrighty then.
>>43887920
I Have to say I dont really like hex format for air combat. Feels to constricted. The Cavas Eagles system looks very nice though, great attention to detail. And it has a campaign system for >>43882611
The mission table and missions are also very cool.
>>43887948
I believe this is what the role-players mean when they refer to 'magical realm'
>tfw you're an absolute monarch and everyone has to bend over backwards (sometimes literally) to accommodate your fetish.
What are some games you made? Post them!
>>43865631
The deadlands stuff got DMCAed
>>43889556
http://www.wargamevault.com/product/148798/Gang-Wars-An-Unofficial-FiveCore-Supplement
I've worked on this, a scenario centred around anti-terror operations on an oil rig and rules for robots for FiveCore.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1adKkDICulhW9og1QITFGzZOGfqc4ea05zQHYhQQcYFY/edit#heading=h.56031up0kpi7
My first homebrew; a set of additional rules and force tables for Five Men in Normandy, revolving around the Troubles in Northern Ireland circa 1970.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZtCJdid87JFI3IRDwK9sy_S8Ey6IIuUoJuwBmdUE3yw/edit
My current project; a rules-lite jousting game with RPG elements and a full campaign system.
>>43889556
Latest version of my NZ wars game.
>>43877584
Just got in, I took pictures don't worry.
Came 3rd out of the 7 French, and 5th out of 14 overall. Not too bad I don't think.
>>43890435
>out of 14
Fucking hell, you have 14 for a tourney and I can't find a single player to play with...
What's the best period/army to have a chi ro shield fest?
>>43893502
Greek City-state?
>>43893502
Late Roman/Early Byzantine
>>43837134
I asked in /wip/ but forget to check the answer. Where are these from?
>>43893132
In retrospect there may have been only 12. There were supposed to be 14, but we may have been 1 short in the end, so the organiser didn't play.
If anyone is interested in some photos and a quick write up they can be see at xccamminiatures (DOT) blogspot (DOT) co uk
>>43896913
Forgot to attach an image for illustration. They aren't great photos.
>>43896921
Source? Really interested in WW1.
>>43898505
28mm Late War French are available from a few places but those look like Scarab Miniatures to me.
My personal recommendation for Frog infantry would be the Forgotten and Glorious Company of Art. Small company but they make some tasty stuff.
How do 1/72 miniatures look with 4 to a 40mm x 40mm base? Would I be better off doing six per base?
>>43898736
Depends on era, close formations are more common in some periods than others.
Hell even in WWI between 1914 and 1918 the spacing in formations changed drastically.
>>43898505
From the Sidney Roundwood blogspot; he's a big Through the Mud and Blood fan and has heaps of posts on it. Most of his minis are Great War Miniatures from Northstar Figures, but he mixes in other lines and does a lot of conversions.
