My Head or Yours! Edition
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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
>>46909208
>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
>>46909217
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!
>>46909234
26th April in Military History:
1478 – The Pazzi family attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence.
1607 - English colonists land at Cape Henry, Virginia.
1777 - Sibyl Ludington rides 40 miles to alert American forces to the approach of the British.
1802 - Napoleon signs a general amnesty allowing all but ~1000 of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Régime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
1805 - A force of mercenaries and US Marines capture Derne in Libya during the first Barbary War.
1865 - Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston surrenders to William Sherman at the Bennet Place near Durham, NC.
1865 - Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth in Virginia.
1937 - During the Spanish Civil War, Guernica is bombed by the Luftwaffe.
1943 - The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden.
1944 - Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile, based in Egypt.
1944 - Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in Crete.
1945 - The Wehrmacht initiates the Battle of Bautzen, Germany's last succesful tank offensive of WWII.
1945 - Captured Filipino and US troops held in Baguio City are liberated, they then help fight Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita
1954 - The Geneva Conference begins in an effort to restore peace in Korea and Indochina
1960 - The April Revolution in South Korea forces Syngman Rhee to resign. He goes into exile in Hawaii.
1989 - Chinese newspaper People's Daily publishes an infamous editorial, inflaming the Tiananmen Square protests.
2005 - Syria withdraws the last of it's troops from Lebanon, ending a 29-year occupation.
>>46909257
April 27 2016 marks 211 years since the beginning of the Battle of Derne between American and Tripolitanian forces during the first Barbary War.
Between the 15th and 19th centuries, corsairs from the so-called Barbary States (independent Morocco the provinces of Tripoli, Algiers and Tunis, nominally under Ottoman control but largely autonomous) engaged in widespread raiding and slave trading in the Mediterranean. Before the United States' formal independence from Great Britain, US shipping in the region was protected by France. However following the treaty of Paris, this French protection expired and American vessels began to suffer the predations of the corsairs. Spain advised the US to deal with the Barbary States by paying tribute to avoid further attacks. Thomas Jefferson, then US Minister to France, sent envoys to Morocco and Algeria to attempt to purchase treaties and free captured sailors. Morocco was the first Barbary State to sign a treaty with the US on 23 June 1786, however negotiations with Algeria and the other states were less fruitful and piracy against American ships resumed in 1785.
Letters and testimony from captured sailors describes their captivity as akin to slavery, although this had a few marked differences from the slavery practiced in Europe and America at the time. Barbary captives were able to obtain wealth and own property, as well as achieve high status as in the case of James Leander Cathcart who became and adviser to the bey of Algeria. Even so, the majority of captives were doomed to a life of hard labour in pestilent, vermin-ridden conditions. Jefferson now argued that paying tribute would only encourage more attacks. Although John Adams agreed with Jefferson, he believed that the US would have to continue to pay until an adequate navy could be built.
>>46909309
On Jefferson's inauguration in 1801, congress passed naval legislation providing for six frigates (the original six of the US Navy) explicitly for use in the event of war with Barbary to "protect our commerce and chastise their insolence—by sinking, burning or destroying their ships and vessels wherever you shall find them". Shortly after, the Pasha of Tripoli issued a demand for $225,000 from the new administration. Finally given the opportunity to stand up to the corsairs, Jefferson refused to pay. As a result Tripoli declared war on 10 May 1801 by cutting down the flagstaff in front of the US consulate. Notably, Algeria and Tunis did not follow suit and declare war themselves.
For the next several years, war raged in the Mediterranean. In October of 1803 corsairs captured the USS Philadelphia, anchoring it in Tripoli harbour and turning its guns on the Americans. The following year Lt. Stephen Decatur led a famous raid aboard the USS Intrepid, storming the Philadelphia and burning her in an act described as 'the most bold and daring act of the age' by none other than Horatio Nelson. However the United States struggled to win a decisive, conclusive victory. A series of courageous but unsuccesful attacks on Tripoli failed to make much headway and led to the deaths of many sailors. The turning point would come at Derne.
In 1804, former US consul to Tunis, William Eaton was sent to offer the United States' support to Hamet Karamanli, rightful heir to the Tripolitanian throne, which had been usurped by his brother Yussif. Eaton met with the pretender in Egypt and Karamanli proposed to help reinstate him on the throne, the exile agreed to his plan.
>>46909364
The new US naval commander in the Mediterranean, Commodore Samuel Barron, offered Eaton three ships; USS Nautilus, Hornet and Argus under the command of Isaac Hull, as support. Eaton also received a small detachment of 8 US Marines under First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon. With the help of Karamanli, they recruited about 400 mainly Greek and Arab mercenaries. On March 6 of 1805, Eaton (having designated himself general), led his force on a 600 mile trek across the deserts of Egypt and Libya; Their target was the port city of Derne, capital of the province of Cyrenaica. During the 50-day trek, tensions grew between the christian Greeks and muslim Arabs in the force and several small mutinies threatened the expedition. However by the time they crossed into Libya, Eaton had quelled the rebellions. In April they finally reached Bomba, a port city some miles up the coast from Derne and where Hull's naval support was waiting for them.
On the morning of April 26, Eaton wrote to the governor of Derne Mustafa Bey, asking for safe passage and supply. Mustafa reportedly replied 'My head or yours!'. Following the refusal, Hull's ships opened fire, bombarding the batteries at Derne's coastal fort for an hour. Meanwhile Eatons split his forces into two groups; Karamanli would lead his largely Arab party southwest to cut the road to Tripoli, then attack Derne's left flank and storming the weakly defended governor's palace. Eaton would lead the remaining mercenaries and the marines against the harbor fortress. Eaton also had the support of a cannon brought ashore from Argus, though at one point the careless crew left the ramrod in the tube and fired it downrange. The defenses at the fort proved stronger than expected and Eaton's group was momentarily stalled, however this meant the defenses elsewhere were weakened and Karamanli's group were able to ride into the city unopposed.
Good work anon
>>46909416
As Eaton saw his mercenaries become hesitant under enemy fire, he decided a charge was the only way to regain the initiative. Leading from the front, he was wounded in the wrist by a musketball. From the bay, Hull saw the progress being made and ordered his batteries to cease fire to allow the advance to continue. With Eaton wounded, O'Bannon continued the charge and took the fort, raising the US flag for the first time on the East of the Atlantic. Meanwhile, Karamanli's forces seized the governor's palace and secured the western city. Many defenders from the fortress ran into Karamanli's force whilst fleeing through the town. By 4:00 pm the entire city had fallen. The Pasha had not been idle, however. Yussif knew of the attack and sent reinforcements to Derne. By the time they arrived the city had already fallen and Eaton was fortifying his position whilst Karamanli took up residence in the governor's palace. On May 13 the Pasha's army attacked and drove Karamanli's Arabs back, almost recaptuing the palace. Argus and the batteries captured from the fort opened fire and drove the attackers back, by nightfall both sides were back in their original positions. The Pasha's army made several minor attempts to retake the city over the following weeks but were unsuccesful.
Eaton now planned to march across the desert again and take Tripoli, but unknown to him his success had provided key leverage for American negotiators. With an attack on Tripoli looming and the prospect of being deposed by his brother, Yusuf Pasha signed a treaty on June 10 ending the war.
Eaton was furious, according to the treaty the US would still pay $60,000 to release sailors. Eaton felt that his victory could have been used to free all prisoners without ransom. In addition Hamet Karamanli was abandoned by the US and never took his rightful throne, an act that Eaton saw as a black mark on American honour. Eaton's complaints sadly went unheard.
>>46909539
The Battle of Derne features many aspects keenly looked for by wargamers; an exotic setting, colourful uniforms, what-if potential (what if the treaty wasn't signed and Eaton had pushed on to Tripoli?) and a certain degree of swashbuckling adventure.
The nature of the fighting lends itself to skirmish games and small actions due to the relatively small number of men involved.
Sharp Practice (recently in it's new edition!), Song of Drums and Shakos and similar smaller Napoleonic systems could be used to recreate Eaton and O'Bannon's assault on the fortress, or Karamanli's capture and defence of the palace. Earlier-period rulesets such as Gloire, Flashing Steel or Legends of the High Seas could also be used with a little tweaking.
>>46909701
Sadly there doesn't seem to be much in the way of relevant Ospreys for this one, but here's a couple that might be useful.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/g5rf6xtd1z38pfi/Osprey+-+ELI+074+-+Privateers+and+Pirates+1730-1830.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/1qh4fav0gkj4aow/Osprey+-+MAA+352+-+The+United+States+Army+1783-1811.pdf
>>46909507
Thanks m8. Took up more posts than I'd have liked due to the damn character limit busting my balls.
>>46909784
On second look, seems like there are Osprey books on the subject (including wargame rules) but we just don't happen to have them.
https://ospreypublishing.com/the-wars-of-the-barbary-pirates-pb
https://ospreypublishing.com/the-wars-of-the-barbary-pirates-to-the-shores-of-tripoli-the-rise-of-the-us-navy-and-marines-ebook
https://ospreypublishing.com/american-light-and-medium-frigates-1794-1836
https://ospreypublishing.com/american-heavy-frigates-1794-1826
https://ospreypublishing.com/on-the-seven-seas
https://ospreypublishing.com/decatur-s-bold-and-daring-act-the-philadelphia-in-tripoli-1804
bmp
>>46910062
Ill see about uploading some of those after work
Thanks for the effort anon
For those fellows out there that play 6mm ancients, what is your favourite ruleset? Also if you want or have they time please tell me why.
Hello everybody.
Looking for Sharp practice second edition.
Thank you very much.
>>46909701
Didn't notice this in the Napoleonic or Horse & Musket folders.
I know it's only tangentially related, but are there any historical war games for PC that actually attempt to represent real historical conditions the way that tabletop wargames often do?
Basically, I want to get into them, but it'll be quite a while before I have anyone to play with, so I thought it might be cool to play something on my computer in the meantime.
>>46912161
That's because we didn't have a copy until now! Thanks anon.
>>46912161
school me on the attraction of blackpowder era games.
I'm into WW2, sci-fi and not fantasy. Why Napo amongst others?
>>46912862
Spiffy fucking uniforms and ranges on table more closely resembling something in scale?I'm a navalfag so I'm mostly just speculating
>>46912862
Awesome uniforms, fascinating history and a great deal of complicated tactical nuance.
>>46901699
>>46901780
Yeah it's a budget board, I'm destitute so I bought $2 plastic tablecloths from Kmart and cut up a doormat from Dollar King and some 97c black sandpaper and called it a board. Thankfully my opponent had some buildings.
Does anyone have A Fistful of TOWs? Forgive me if it is somewhere and I can't see it
>>46913232
>A Fistful of TOWs
In the Moderns/Games folder
http://www.mediafire.com/download/9xxzdx9568ga3gj/A+Fistful+of+TOWs+3+v01-20.pdf
>>46913218
That doormat idea is bloody brilliant.
>>46912161
Am sold, will be getting myself a print copy.
>>46913962
That big middle doormat was moved from a pretty much unused side of the board to the middle after the farmhouse was destroyed by a Russian Howitzer (with a squad of 8 German Grenadiers still inside).
>>46913218
Fuck. Is that battle being fought on planet namek??the balls are inert
Does the By Fire and Sword folder only have the main rulebook?
And does anyone have a scan of Napoleon at War?
>>46913962
Surprised you haven't come across it before.
>>46914033
>there are weeaboo manchildren in my /hwg/
>>46914274
>>there are weeaboo manchildren in my /hwg/
noig ebbytig uboud wad >>46914033
was torkig aboud
>>46915356
He propably thinks that dragonball is weeaboo.
>>46909257
>He goes into exile in Hawaii.
oh the horror
>>46913141
tempted. will look into scales.
Those of you who play armies comprised of professional soldiers, how do you decide whether to dress your soldiers in dress or field uniform?
Obviously field uniforms are more realistic, but your armies spend most of the time on the shelf anyway and dress uniforms look nicer.
>>46914274
I don't think that makes me a weeaboo. Pretty sure dragonball was a part of anyones childhood born in the 80s
In any case i was just having a joke about your fluro-green board. Just a joke man... Chill. No harm intended. These threads have gotten less peaceful lately
A pretty weird question, but as my Google-fu failed me...does anyone know a 28mm figure of Alan Turing?
>>46915869
it's just joshing. though DBZ is alien to me. Must be a 70s kid thing. Happy with my transforming robots and Evel Knievel stunt bike toy.
>>46912862
Black powder had a wonderful triangle going on with the infantry, cavalry and artillery. Games on featureless tables are no fun, but with some terrain and two somewhat intelligent generals, you get wonderful maneuvering. That maneuvering is more free in the Napoleonic wars and afterwards than in the earlier part of the black powder era, meaning that advance planning is perhaps more of a necessary skill for a general.
>>46915919
>Evel Knievel stunt bike
Oh man, and that Rin-Tin-Tin that could hold stuff in his mouth, and slide down the cable.
>>46915910
I'd doubt there was a specific Turing figure (although you never know these days with all the little indie designers doing weird stuff), but I'm sure it would be easy to find an appropriate mini. There is a huge range of early/mid 20thC civilians you could choose from; perhaps even something from a Pulp/Gangster/Call of Cthulhu line would suit.
>>46916117
Will check, thanks. Hopefully I'll get a diploma this year, and I want to make a figure of Turing with a little diorama to my professor I'm doing my thesis with. I'm writing about cryptography and make a program that can do two different algorithms, so I thought a miniature of him would be a neat thank you gift.
I think I should buy some of those Bad Squiddo Russian women. I don't have any FiveCore WW2 russkies.
Any suggestions for additional add-ons, a light vehicle or something?
>>46916296
>light vehicle
a BA-10 or a GAZ-67?
maybe a T-70 or BT-7?
>>46916296
Fuck those look nice
How do you find a blog for wargames that you like?
>>46913141
>this is what neoreactionaries want as rulers
>>46917178
>nobody ever elects a fat out of touch guy who was born into money
>>46913218
good thing you didn't chose a super annoying color or anything
>>46914274
>not listening anime openings while you paint your 6mm austrian army
>>46914274
>Not listening to the Girls und Panzer OST while painting your 15mm WW2 tanks.
>>46918209
Anon please that is the most basic stuff
>>46917919
It's actually not that bad IRL.
>>46911910
>>46910062
Buried away in the folders are On The Seven Seas (in Horse and Musket) and the Heavy Frigates one (in the Naval folder), and I've added the Light Frigates and the Raid one just now. Never been a fan of the Essential Histories, they're basically just the information found in other relevant books compiled but without the art.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/0gcmj43xvamp4fb/On+the+Seven+Seas+%28Pirate+Skirmish%29.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/d1p5rrrn81z6b80/Osprey+-+NVA+079+-+American+Heavy+Frigates+1794-1826.pdfhttp://www.mediafire.com/download/1v30k4m3yb5bb9j/Osprey+-+RAID+022+-+Tripoli+1804.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/bvw9p0w35o863up/Osprey+-+NVA+147+-+American+Light+and+Medium+Frigates+1794-1836.pdf
Unfortunately they've never done anything for the Barbary Corsairs, a group who have been neglected a lot in military history.
>>46912161
Sharp Practice added to folders: http://www.mediafire.com/download/wwyc1bbgx1y6svq/Sharpe+Practice+v2.pdf
>>46914043
It has the main rules and Deluge broken up into several pdfs
>>46916296
Those really are some excellent minis. Fantasy project #476: build a Chain of Command unit solely out of these.
>Any suggestions for additional add-ons, a light vehicle or something?
Get them a GAZ-M1 staff car so they can roll in style
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAZ-M1
>>46917126
As simple as googling (your prefered game/period)+wargaming+blog and poring through the results. Doing an image search helps too; trying running some of your keywords through that and see where it leads you.
>>46918812
reposting the Raid link because I stuffed it
http://www.mediafire.com/download/1v30k4m3yb5bb9j/Osprey+-+RAID+022+-+Tripoli+1804.pdf
>>46918792
>>46918812
>>46918848
Good work, mediafire anon.
Also congrats to Chevauchee anon, it's now available on WGV
http://www.wargamevault.com/product/181483/Chevauchee-Medieval-skirmish-campaigns?src=slider_view
>>46916296
>>46916353
They look alright. The rest of the DiceBagLady stuff looks absolute dogshit though.
>>46919417
>tfw she makes Aethelflaed figures and Aethelflaed is my historical waifu
>>46919459
>Aethelflaed
I know her from that Angus MacBride 'Women Warlords' book
>>46919507
>tfw your woman won't let you name your daughter Aethelflaed
what would you recomand as a good starting system for napoleonics ? in 28 mm. without a ton of figures needed. Blucher or Sharp Practice 2 ?
>>46919805
That wouldn't really work for Blucher, which lends itself to 10mm and smaller and a lot of dudes.
Sharp Practice works if you want large skirmishes, not pitched battles. For that you probably want to look at something like Black Powder.
Depends on what you want, really.
>>46919805
>Sharp Practice 2
Wait, they made a second edition???
>>46919904
Just recently came out. See >>46912161
>>46919923
Holy fuck, how did I not see that? I fucking love sharp Practice but the rules were a fucking mess, I am so fucking excited!
Someone have the PDF of the napolenic skirmish game from two hour wargames?
>>46916296
>>46916353
snipers look really nice, but the faces on most of the regular female soldiers look horrible. I still might get a bunch of them, just to spice up my troops a little.
Were there even mixed units in the red army? Or were women limited to non-combat-duty?
I know there were female sniper squads, but regular infantry too?
>>46916296
BA-64 looks awesome and you can get the tamiya kit in 1:48 for like 10€
Hey guys. I know, there is /k/ and /his/ but these places tend to be full of trolling and annoying people so i want to ask my question in here first.
Can you recommend me a source of information about german armored trains?
I quickly checked the osprey books in the OP but didn't found anything.
I kinda want to build one, for no particular game, just for my shelf and need some infos but its kinda hard to find anything more than very basic infos about that topic.
To make it a little /hwg/-related, is there a ruleset that covers trains?
>>46920574
/k/ is fine. /his/ is a fucking shithole.
>>46920494
>Women served particularly as medics, nurses, communication personnel, political officers, as well - in small numbers - as machine gunners and tank drivers.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/wr55zn689ph9heq/Osprey+-+ELI+090+-+Heroines+Of+The+Soviet+Union+1941-45.pdf
Given how liquid the front could be in Russia I am sure there were many occasions when female personnel had no choice but to grab helmet and rifle and join the fighting.
>>46920574
>I quickly checked the osprey books in the OP but didn't found anything.
There is a pdf you might like in the References folder!
http://www.mediafire.com/download/lrod61hon11jthq/German+Armored+Trains+on+the+Russian+Front+1941-44.pdf
>To make it a little /hwg/-related, is there a ruleset that covers trains?
Doesn't Flames of War have train units? You might like to ask in their thread.
>>46920634
FoW does have armoured trains. For Germany and Poland at least.
>>46920653
Thanks. Thats a start. What book covers them? Basic rules?
>>46920634
>http://www.mediafire.com/download/lrod61hon11jthq/German+Armored+Trains+on+the+Russian+Front+1941-44.pdf
Thanks. Downloading it right away. Must have looked a little bit to quick.
>>46920695
>Must have looked a little bit to quick.
There is a ton of stuff in there fampai, it's easy to miss things. The References folder is usually a bit of a mixed bag, I try to throw more unusual topics in there.
>>46920747
> That lining
It only looks good on the tank that is blurred out due to depth of field. That's probably not a good thing.
>>46918209
That's mostly WW2 German military songs sang by Japanese girls, so doesn't count.Right? ;_;
>>46920818
There is also the Katjusha song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIY36UbDbQQ
>>46920873
I guess "mostly" covers that too.
>>46920873
I've never watched the show, but I used to listen to that when working a really shitty job a few years back, it helped me find the resolve to continue.
On the subject of Soviet tanker chicks: last thread we mentioned Joseph Beyrle, the American para who briefly served with the Red Army in 1945. It just so happened that, out of all the people he could have met, his first encounter was with the only female senior tank commander in the entire army, Aleksandra Samusenko.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandra_Samusenko
>>46920684
Polish is in the book Blitzkrieg and I think the German one is in Grey Wolf but I'm not entirely sure. Your best bet is to ask in the FoW thread.
>>46919507
What's this picture from?
>>46920684
For germany it is in grey wolf, in a security company it let you add some panzer 38t as tank acort, pretty fun shit for special scenarios
>>46921140
Women Warlords (Blandford, 1990), Tim Newark (Author), Angus McBride (Illustrator).
http://www.mediafire.com/download/a50b144x0gd23bn/Women+Warlords.pdf
>>46918873
Congrats to wossname and ivan, now will osprey finally hire them to get one of the fivecore games in print?
>>46920873
Thank you. I needed that today.
>>46920958
>Samusenko received her Order of the Red Star when her tank crew defeated three German Tiger I tanks.
It's like she was born to harvest Wehraboo tears.
Any books (besides Homage to Catalonia; already read it) that talk a lot about the socialists, and especially the anarchists, in the Spanish Civil War? I'd also be interested in anything about military structure, weaponry available, etc., so that I can make a realistic army.
I'm trying to get into the hobby and this is the war/army I'm most interested in.
>>46919519
What was the name of that hardcore Sikh lady who was the first woman ever invited into the Guru's personal guard? You could name your spawn after her.
>>46922173
Well we do have this; not particularly detailed about the anarchists, but definitely a good starting point
http://www.mediafire.com/download/rl7kfgq12t2k3gk/Osprey+-+MAA+498+-+The+Spanish+Civil+War+1936-9+%282%29+Republican+Forces.pdf
>>46918209
>not listening to legitimate WW2 songs played on old instruments, or recordings from the time
eh, I prefer less japanese girls in my WW2 than most
This is the kind of ww2-core you should be listening to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqccaYkr0E8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MtoLr6EQY0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHcunREYzNY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iihnfrk6fjQ
Or perhaps some music composed in besieged leningrad?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HON-9Z1Greo
>>46920958i think she's cute
>>46918873
>>46921989
Thanks for the kind words, folks. Initial response to the game has been overwhelmingly positive. Got more stuff in the pipeline, looking at getting something together on Sieges now.
>>46922840
>Sieges
oh god no I just bought another toy castle to tinker with, please don't tempt me.
>>46923476
It's gonna be something in a similar vein to the Fief campaign system. A core attrition mechanic for both attackers and defenders, influenced by the outcome of battles and random campaign events.
When the attrition score is high for the defender, battles will focus around storming walls and gatehouses, digging mines and blowing shit up.
If the attackers have high attrition, they'll be fighting off sallies, reduced to raiding supply trains and ambushing incoming reinforcements.
When one side has over a certain attrition score, the campaign is over.
>>46923476
The one design-related sticking point is a question of scale. Chevauchee is decidedly small scale, the polar opposite of pretty much everything relating to medieval siege warfare.
This probably isn't the right thread, but may as well ask.
Anyone a fan of Steel Panthers: World at War and, if so, interested in PBEM?
>>46924007
Right here friend
>tfw /wgg/ is dead
>>46924007
I like Steel Panthers, but I'm a shitty player and I mostly play MBT on small scale.
>>46924007
its the right thread
>>46910062
just curious and like - have had a search but maybe too new - Osprey's Horizon Wars, or any of the non-historical stuff ( Weird Nazi stuff, Alien stuff, etc )
tai, hope I'm not offending any of the grogs
>>46924095
Wgg..."war game general"? And what's that in your screen shot?
If you're up for SP:WAW, email me at [email protected] and we'll go from there!
>>46924452
/wgg/ was a thread on /vg/. Apparently it's kaput these days.
>>46924395
Hey, great news; I too, am shit! But I really want to finally answer the age-old question "Who would win in turn-based, hex-based combat...Yugoslavia or the Netherlands?"
If you're up for a stab at it (not necessarily the absurd scenario I just mentioned), email me at [email protected]!
>>46924522
does it work with demo? I never got the full version
>>46916219
If you're not trying to match an existing set, head on over to "The Guild" forum and contact Matt Hingley there. He's the owner of Elhiem Miniatures and has a deal set up on that forum to do custom sculpts for IIRC 20 GBP. They're in 20mm
http://www.guildwargamers.com/phpBB3/index.php
>>46924452
The game is Panze Battles normandy. Sent you a mail (ianmpgames)
>>46924572
Wait a minute, is World at War the same as winSPWW2?
>>46924602
Not really. Very similar but they are different games.
>>46924576
I think I've found what I was looking for in the meanwhile. The Airfix Forward Command post has a nice sitting figure in front of a radio, possibly taking orders, but with appropriate paintjob and a bigger machine behind his back, he could easily be Turing in Bletchley park, listening to German messages, trying to decipher them.
So gonna buy the Perry ACW Battle in a Box set for Sharp Practice 2.Once I finished my current project.
>>46924576
>>46924645
But thanks anyway, forgot to add this.
>>46920773
>>46920747
>> That lining
That FoW cartoon style looks fucking horrible
>>46924653
Why does one of them have a pike?
>>46924675
Banner pole.
>>46924668
Yeah, I'm not a fan of it either. They try to use the same style on vehicles that they use on figures, but it really requires a different approach.
>>46924653
Have the ACW supplement for 1st edition to peruse in the meantime.
Dunno if it works with the new rules but it could provide some inspiration.
>>46924635
Ah, sorry then. Can't really afford to splash $50 on a game. Sorry, again! Hopefully the other anon will help you solve your Yugo-Netherlandian question.
>>46924709
I'm the other guy. Looking how we're going to do this pbem thing.
>>46924701
By the time I finished my current project SP2 will probably have its own ACW supplement.Also I'm the guy who originally bought and uploaded Terrible Sharp Sword, never actually started that project.
>>46924645
Might also take a look at the Zevezda German recon set. It would take some converting but it's higher quality than the Airfix one
Kind anons:
any ideas for two starter forces that I could model, print and cut out of paper to trial Fistful of TOWs rules to see if I like them before committing a harebrained 3mm project?
>>46924709
Anyway, I looked around and check this. http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1713246
Looks like there is a free version that just doesn't have these campaigns.
>>46924761
http://www.juniorgeneral.org/index.php/figure/figureList/coldwar
Just scale 'em however small you want.
>>46924759
Not a bad idea, but not a really great one either, mostly for two reasons:
- removing the pouches, SMGs, all the military gear would be more time than it'd worth it
- I already have the Airfix chap with his radio, and getting the Zvezda set would probably take me a month as nobody sells it in Hungary
So thanks, but the Airfix chap remains for now.
>>46924765
>>46924802
Thank you both, kind anons!
>>46924765
I'm the guy who originally mentioned this, and yep I just use the free one. It comes with dozens of standalone scenarios, as well as some campaigns, just not the "grand" ones.
Is there a version of 5 men for modern day scenarios?
>>46924940
Standard FiveCore is period-agnostic.
>>46924802
Wait, no- I was asking for army list ideas from experienced FFOT3 anons!
I don't know enough about the game to try it on my own.
Sorry to have mislead you!
>>46924962
The FFT rulebook has a series of army lists and suggested combat formations in it.
>>46924953
Thanks. I saw the 1st edition is super cheap, but is the 2nd edition worth the higher price or would it be a waste of money?
While some of the content of 2nd edition sounds nice, stuff like
>aliens and super powers,
are kinda irrelevant to me, so yeah..
>>46925040
You could get away with either, honestly. It's not like there's a massive competitive scene or anything which would require you to buy the most recent rules. The newer edition is a bit more refined though, so bear that in mind. Also the aliens and super powers bit is all confined in about 5 pages of a 93 page pdf - it's just there if you want it.
Also Nordic Weasel's stuff goes on sale quite frequently, often with very heavy discounts.
>>46925119
>Also the aliens and super powers bit is all confined in about 5 pages of a 93 page pdf - it's just there if you want it.
Thats what i wanted to hear.
>Also Nordic Weasel's stuff goes on sale quite frequently, often with very heavy discounts.
Are there any fixed dates for these sales kinda like steam does them mostly on holidays or are they totally random?
>>46925200
It's up to Wargames Vault, really. They do big sales around the usual times like Christmas if I remember right, but they also do sales on individual items basically whenever they choose to.
>>46920958
she was ironically run over by a friendly tank.
>>46924668
Hey, now. That's not some exclusive thing to FoW. Dumb hacks do it for everything. It's butt ugly on 28mm scale men...
>>46925713
It really depends. A whole army done in this style can look nice, if it is done good. But like always, it looks mediocre or bad in most cases.
>>46925713
The 1st edition FoW main rule book featured a lot of that style which is why I associate it. Maybe they've branched out since then, I haven't kept up.
>>46923970
Many of the actions around sieges though could be very small.
And sieges in themselves could also be tiny, on marginally fortified houses and the like.
So there's still some scope for it. There was a nice article in I think SS&T magazine a few years back about the siege of I think Portsmouth? During the Civil War anyway so close enough to pass, and it had all sorts of little skirmish actions based off of accounts from it. I wish I could remember better but there was stuff like people trying to smuggle in supplies, knock out the lighthouse, get letters out calling for reinforcement and so on.
If anything it'd be more appropriate for most sieges than pretty much any larger game, given it's focus on narrative stuff and small engagements rather than the rare violent storming of a fort.
>>46919805
Songs of Drum and Shakos has a very simple ruleset that manages to preserve a compelling amount of tactical decision-making and risk assessment, whilst remaining very easy to introduce to others. It is truly a "skirmish scale" game, in the sense that each player will typically control something like 7 - 15 models who act individually or in small, ad hoc groups.
Might be what you're looking for.
>>46926197
I'll have to track down that article. I need to read up a little more on siege warfare before I start putting pen to paper again.
Another idea I was kicking around was a scenario centred around mining and counter-mining. The board is essentially impassable at the start of the battle, and both sides can use shovels and picks to cut tunnels, obviously running the risk of cave ins and such.
Every time a figure digs, they generate noise markers which serves as a method of detection for the opposing player. One side is going for a pre-determined point (under a wall or bastion etc), while the other is attempting to connect the tunnels and slaughter the besiegers.
>>46912425
bump
>>46926197
There was a great article in Wargames Illustrated years back about Lichfield and the sieges there.
small hands and feet bump
>>46909208
Bit of an oddball request, but I've got a powerful urge to wargame the messy conflicts in post-Soviet Central Asia. In particular the 1990s Tajikistan civil war.
Does anybody know of good reference material to get a handle on the situation to be able to write up some scenarios? The Afghan side of things has some decent coverage but I'm drawing a blank on stuff north of the border.
>>46928538
I'm really not sure what the hell you're asking.
Try the Graviteam Tactics series
>>46930589
You'll probably have to work from primary sources like government reports, newspapers etc for something that recent. Barring that, start with the sources/external links on wiki
If I'm remembering the right book, there is a brief section on central Asian fighting towards the end of Robert Kaplan's "Eastward to Tartary" though that might have been the war between Armenia & Azerbaijan, it's been years since I read it.
>>46931249
Thanks. I was asking for PC strategy games based on history that aim for simulation and realism, like tabletop historical wargames often do.
>>46918812
>Has Deluge
Nice.
Also, do we have a scan if Devil's Playground for Pike & Shotte? And how hard woukd it be to convert P&S to say 15mm?
>>46932578
guy who has the print version here, I'm positive that a few of the armies shwcased in Devils playground are in 15mm, I think just halve distances.
>>46932578
You could just halve distances or use the normal ones to have a better match between ground and figure scale
>>46931249
anyone else looking forward to the nomonhan DLC for mius front?
>>46924906
You can upgrade free version to paid one by renaming one file
>>46930589
9th company? Based on not that bad russian film about afghan conflict under the same name
>>46932662
>>46933437
Good to know.
>>46922173
>Any books (besides Homage to Catalonia; already read it) that talk a lot about the socialists, and especially the anarchists, in the Spanish Civil War?
>>46926632
...see, I'd been planning to use Chev for fantasy with my dwarves, and this is sounding very dwarfy.
>>46922173
Hemingway's For whom the bell tolls?
>>46935393
Uh, since when was I homo? Thanks, just what I needed.
I got my firstfriendlytournament coming up in a month for Bolt Action. 1000pts and the winner gets a blister pack of their choice.
If anyone can fault my list that'd be great.
Command:
Captain with SMG
2 extra men/bullet sponges
1st Combat Platoon:
Veteran Bersaglieri
1 NCO with SMG
7 Rifles
2 men for the LMG
+AT grenades
2nd Combat Platoon:
Veteran Paracadutisti
7 SMGs
2 men for the LMG
1 Rifle
+AT grenades
Support Platoons:
All veteran
1 x MMG
1 x Medium Mortar + Spotter
1 x flammenwerfferfor werffering flammen
Vehicles:
All veteran
1 x M14/42
1 x Autoblinda 41
My combat experience is limited to games with an equally new friend who plays yanks.
My plan is to make the best of the Avanti Savoia special rule by concentrating fire on weaker/smaller units to give me the moral bonus and avoid the flip side of that rule. When possible i'll also use Italys defense rule to lay smoke where i want, since our mortars are already "dialed in".
Any advice would be great
>>46936111
I'm not an expert at Bolt Action but I have a few games under my belt and my experience is that LMGs are a waste of points. AT grenades are also a risky points sink due to the long range, you might be better with a specialist AT gun instead. Making vehicles Veteran is not something I usually do because it's literally only a morale increase. You can save a few points by making your mortar inexperienced.
Sadly I've never played with or against Italians, so I can't speak on behalf of your vehicles or special rules.
>>46936214
I'll be taking LMG's because... well they came in the blister pack and i can pad out the size of my force. 20points is heavy i guess but not huge... i mean to add an extra man to the squad is 17 points already (or does it stack? am i paying 37 points?).
I could drop some veterans to regs and get rid of AT grenades, and maybe fit an elefantino or pak38?
Avanti savoia basically means that if im losing by 3 or more order dice i get -2 to my moral, but if im winning by 3 or more order dice, i can have +2 to my moral. Hence my idea to take out more fragile units as soon as possible.
>>46936413
Veterans are worthwhile for infantry, though as I said I'm not sure it's worth it for tanks as they don't benefit from the 3+/4+/5+ to damage bonus that infantry get.
You can save some points by having your Captain accompanied by only one bodyguard, which gives your squad a -1 to be hit due to its small (2 man) size. If you lose the AT grenades, make the mortar inexperienced, and cut the LMGs, you can probably take a Pak 38 if that's what you want to use to deal with vehicles. I'd probably recommend it because AT grenades are risky as fuck and your only anti-tank gun is on your M14 and is light. If someone rocks up with a Panther or a Tiger you're going to struggle.
>>46935801
I've got a fantasy supplement in the works, you'll be able to make extra dwarfy dwarves and some subterranean adversaries for them when that's done.
>>46937145
Any chance I'll be able to put my old skaven back to use?
>>46937162
It's gonna be pretty figure-neutral, think the weapon generator but for fantasy creatures. I've got it split between nonhuman sentients and monsters. I'm on my phone at the minute, I'll share the doc with my notes on it when I get back tonight.
>>46936214
Veteran vehicles now only get pinned by weapons that can actually penetrate them.
>>46931249
>>46931646
>>46933931
Wargame Red Dragon and MOWAS2 are better IMO
>>46938153
Pretty sure that's the rule for all qualities of vehicle.
>>46938780
Nope. Inexperienced vehicles get pinned by every weapon that has a PEN value attached to them, Regular vehicles have a 50% chance of acting like inexp vehicles, and veterans get pinned by hits that could actually kill them - it's in the official Errata.
>>46938850
I looked up the errata and you're right. That's a bit better, though it'd be odd to be firing a heavy weapon at a tank that it can't damage.
>>46922173
If you are into FoW theres an unofficial SCW book named Spain in flames
>>46909539
>In addition Hamet Karamanli was abandoned by the US and never took his rightful throne, an act that Eaton saw as a black mark on American honour.
A tradition we've continued to this day.
>>46912161
>Different fonts in the title
I hate it when games do this. It NEVER looks good.
>>46917178
Shit, better than what we've had since Hoover (with the exception of Nixon)
>>46919945
Why did you love it if it was a mess
>>46933931
Sweet. I thought they canceled that project
>>46939223
Commons enough in real life though. Either hope for a lucky hit or drive off the tank since the crew is driving around via periscope so don't know what they're gonna get hit with next
>>46940042
Or sheer desperation. Plus remember, the Bovington Tiger was hit by a 75mm shell from a Churchill which basically couldn't penetrate it only if the stars aligned correctly, yet it made the turret stuck and the crew abandoned the vehicle.
>>46933931
>nomonhan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_tupPBtWQ
>>46939223
>>46940042
For a classic real-world example, from the memoirs of Otto Carius:
Another Jagdtiger in his unit (almost entirely made up of rookies) came under frontal attack by an American Sherman at long range.
Not much of a threat; the JT's frontal armour was nigh impenetrable and its gun could easily blast such a tank apart on a hit.
What do these newbies do?
They panic and try to leave the Sherman's line of fire.
They don't do this by simply reversing.
No, they actually turn the tank 180 degrees, exposing its rear armour.
Predictably, that action is followed shortly with their tank being penetrated and destroyed.
>>46940042
True. I wish the copy of the rules in the OP was updated with the errata because it's going to be difficult to remember all of the shit in the errata during a game. It's bad enough that the rules PDF page numbers don't line up and you can't ctrl+f stuff.
The ballache that occurs when you paint your 1st Rhode Island Regiment in the colours of the 1st Rhode Island State Regiment.
Fuck.
>>46940491
I'm guessing ACW? I know there was a real complicated sucession of units that were formed during that; the North having Regular, State and Volunteer units.
>>46940663
AWI not ACW. AWI is a cluster fuck of uniforms for the yanks.
>>46940682
Oh I see; yes in that case you get State units being absorbed into the Continental Army. The Wikipedia article on those guys is very interesting!
>A total of 88 slaves enlisted in the regiment over the next four months, as well as some free black men. The regiment eventually totaled about 225 men; probably fewer than 140 of these were African Americans. The 1st Rhode Island Regiment became the only regiment of the Continental Army to have segregated companies of black soldiers. (Other regiments that allowed black men to enlist were integrated.) The enlistment of slaves had been controversial, and after June 1778, no more non-white men were enlisted. The unit continued to be known as the "Black Regiment" even though only white men were thereafter recruited into the regiment to replace losses, a process which eventually made the regiment an integrated unit.
So I'm guessing you did them in their Continental Blue when you really wanted their original white uniforms?
>>46940741
I painted them as the 1st Rhode Island State Regiment which was blue faced in yellow. This ceased to exist after Jan 1777.
The 1st Rhode Island Regiment even afer being adopted into the continental system had NO supplied uniforms every man got himself one. this was until 1777? when Rhode Island provided some, at this point they stoped bing the 9th Continental and went back to being the 1st. I can find no reference to uniforms for this period hence my confusion with the regiments.
The white your picture shows I can find in one picture from 1780. A British report about a deserter from 1st Rhode Island Regiment states it's red faced in white.
>>46940805
So I have conflicting reports for the same period of 1780. I, however, more inclined to use the report over the picture.
>>46940042
Even if the shot can't penetrate, it can still damage or destroy some exterior parts of the tank like tracks, periscopes, cupolas or road wheels which might make the crew even abandon it.
If the driver or the commander suddenly is blind the crew will try to get the hell out of there. If the tank is suddenly immobile because a 37mm gun blew off the track.. same result.
>>46940969
Not to mention interior spalling
>"I discussed the plan of action with Senior Lt. Yakov Pertrukhin, the battery commander of the big ISUs. We agreed on the following: the self-propelled guns, employing the long range and firepower of their 152mm guns, would strike first at the mobile Panthers…The Sherman crews would try at this time to distract the attention of the enemy tankers …
>The strike of the large-caliber projectile (Yakov had ordered a concrete-breaking round loaded, for greater effect) knocked the turret off one of the Panthers that had already almost crawled into the square. The second heavy tank blazed up in an enormous fire. The ISU-152 immediately abandoned its position. It was as if they had poured boiling water on the enemy. The awkward armored vehicles hurriedly began to withdraw rearward. The enemy infantry, now lacking tank support, ran away through courtyards and alleys. -Dmitriy Loza, battalion commander, 233rd tank brigade "
> you will never game with the Perry twins, Dave Andrews and co.
Why even live?
>>46941899
Just gonna dump photos until I feel whole again.
>>46941916
>>46941933
>>46941955
>>46941975
>>46941984
>>46937145
Any chance of a title referencing the Battle of Five Armies?
there not being a five in the title of chev makes me sad :( :(
>>46935801
>>46937162
>>46942055
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14We958Hp13sMxEFcDv06fpqtFZWXQbQPMQ-6X_pZrQg/edit Here's a link to what I've got so far. I still haven't decided on a title yet, so we'll see.
>>46942055
>tfw no 1066 game called five men from Normandy
Finally finished my Marine Nationale task force for now. How do they look, aside from needing to be based?
I'll expand in the future, but my next bit of dosh is going to go to either my Kriegsmarine and Royal Navy, or my IJN and Pacific Fleet/ABDACOM stuff.
>>46943925
They look really good Anon. What scale? I'm guessing they're smaller than 1/2400?
>>46943960
Thanks!
I wish I could say I could paint lines and fiddly bits at 1/3000, but I'm nowhere near that good. It's all 1/1800. Mixture of WaS and Shapeways stuff.
>>46941899
Why not tho?
From what i heard they are mostly chill, but lack time
![svA[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/msHBVgk.jpg "svA[1].jpg")
Starting my Anglo-Saxon warband today, anyone know of any manufacturers that use this type of helmet on their minis?
GBP and Footsore only have like 3 all together.
>>46942482
>>46944132
The Gripping Beast Saxon Thegns have Coppergate and Wollaston helmets, the main difference being the presence of a boar crest or not.If you are into early Anglo-Saxon stuff then those helmets are great.
I'm not aware of anywhere that does Vendel period helmets, but you should probably check out Viking ranges in the hope that some Vendel helmets are included for variety. Since the Vendel/Valsgarde graves are all in Sweden you'll probably have better luck looking for viking sets than hope that some sculptor knows about the 7th century trade connections between East Anglia and Sweden.
In the Warlord Newsletter there's some AWI Brits.
Are they by that lad that posted some here a while ago? they look rather similar.
>>46944132
There's a few Gripping Beast figures with Vendel types. They're in the Germanics/C5/6th sets.
They're the only ones I know of.
>>46944899
>Germanics/C5/6th
Yeah, I already ordered this
>http://www.grippingbeast.co.uk/GET01_Armoured_Command_4--product--3099.html
Ones like the spearman are exactly what I'm after.
>>46945362
There's one in the Penda set as well I think.
What do you all think of Blood and Plunder based on what's known about it? Does it have any chance of getting FOW/SAGA level popular?
Which is cheaper to get into: Huge battles using tiny-ass miniatures or small skirmish at 28mm scale?
>>46945455
>Blood and Plunder
WHO?
>>46945592
17th century Pirate/Carribean skirmish game currently being kickstartered
>>46945592
New game being kickstarted. 28mm pirates and buccaneers on the Spanish Main, supposedly lets you do naval battles, attempt boarding actions and fight on each other's ships, fight on dry land, and so on, all with one "intuitive rule set."
Looks possibly good but it could also suck badly.
>>46945629
Naval battle and skirmish in the same scale? I'm skeptic
>>46945548
Just speaking miniatures playing skirmish with 28mm plastic figures might be cheaper, but the terrain could cost you, especially if you need buildings.
>>46945863
You can make servicable buildings quite cheaply with foamboard and/or balsa.
>>46945838
It's no more than a few ships per side. Could work
>>46945548
Consider hassle of storage and moving too: a single 28mm building is the size of a shoebox versus a matchbox for 6 or 10mm
>>46946140
A single building isn't the size of shoebox, it depends on the building.
What's considered the GOAT American Civil War rules for something around 15mm or 6mm?
>>46947699
> That scenery
I love it so much I want to marry that river, settle down and raise a family of tiny little streams.
>>46946296
Even a tiny peasant shack in 28mm has the same footprint of a whole village in 6mm
>>46946443
I hear good things about Longstreet.
>>46945863
are those dragoons?
>>46949316
Dismounted yes. 16th I think.
>>46947767
Call them Brook and Phoenix.
Anyone have any copies of War-games Illustrated? Specifically this issue: http://wi-digital.net/ancients-volume-1/
>>46944132
>tfw no Viking, Celtic or Anglo-Saxon buddies to build a Mercian army to fight
Suggestions for 20mm bases? Have elhiem figures. Thanks /hwg/
>>46946443
Our group is playing Johnny Reb at 15mm
Granted its 2nd edition which is older than I am, so it might not be easy to get a copy.
>>46953553
Individuals?
Pennies.
Or if you feel like burning money, MDF 20mm discs, can be had from pretty much any idiot with a laser cutter doing terrain in large bags.
It's not really burning money either way but it's really hard to beat 1 penny per miniature.
>>46918743
Although in all honesty get some hills or something to represent hills or ditches, because that'll just make it so much better. Imo a table really doesn't need to be much, but paper machete hills or something the like would make it much more fun to play on.
>>46931646
Go for the classic close combat series. More or less what got me into tabletops.
So did anything interesting happened to you lately, fellow wargamers?
>>46913218
holy fuck.
>>46931646
Graviteam in unsurpassed for autism
>>46913292
I'm just getting into historical from 40k and I keep spotting hexagon terrain features. I'm just curious if anyone has any experience. Like, how often do you have to push 'em back together and whether or not it's an improvement over a traditional setup; thinking about maybe going that route for 10mm Warmaster Ancients.
>>46953553
Washers are the way to go if you want to make a magnetized sheet for transporting. I placed most of my 1:72 figures on those, placed a magnetic sheet on the bottom of an Airfix Universal Carrier box, and transport my army in that.
>>46957800
Modular terrain is becoming pretty popular these days. For 3/6/10mm it's ideal, as Tinytanks has shown. There doesn't seem to be much effort involving in arranging them, and it does give you more flexibility than dropping some terrain pieces on a table.
US Army Green Beret in Afghanistan 2001-2002 (Osprey Warrior 179)
In October 2001 the most militarily advanced nation on earth came into conflict with one of the least developed nations as American forces poured into Afghanistan. The tip of the spear was drawn from the US Special Forces community, and largely from the units of the United States Army Special Forces - the famous Green Berets. Together with the Special Activities Division of the CIA and the Afghan Northern Alliance, they overthrew the Taliban in a lightning campaign that redefined modern warfare. This new study reveals the grueling Green Beret training and preparation, the specialized equipment they used in the field and traces their deployment throughout the campaign, from the first insertion of forces through to the fall of Kabul and Kandahar, the Taliban uprising at the notorious Fort of War in Mazar-e-Sharif, and the clearance of Tora Bora and Operation Anaconda in the Shahikot Valley.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/giaikdzg1nhclou/Osprey+-+WAR+179+-+US+Army+Green+Beret+in+Afghanistan+2001-02.pdf
>>46955269
Yeah that's next on my list. Get some hills, some proper buildings, maybe some fences.
>>46957800
hexon stuff clips together fairly well IIRC. their flocking is apparently solid as hell and worth the extra. other hex methods like ghqs are... less good, more diy.
hexes are cool but I don't use them myself.
>>46958672
GHQ have a guide on their site I think.
>>46958616
Ah, perfect. Just what I was looking for! GHQ stuff is exactly what I was looking for.
>>46957372
Currently cleaning up Ostfront for a V.17 release. All army lists have been redone, with a shit ton of fluff and detail added (no rules changes though - lists are solid as fuck already)
A Polish anon has been the catalyst for this, offering to re format the army lists, and playing some games with his buddies. Might even see a polish translation at some point!
This is the rule set at the moment, just need to redo a photo and add some example scenarios.
Also going to add custom scenarios like refighting Crete, D-Day Landings, Pacific theater, El Alamein, etc.
It may not be as pretty as Chevauchee or a TwoFatlaardies game, but its a solid WW2 system for large battles, covering most vehicles and equipment from the period.
I'll bring the campaign rules into the main rule set too at some point too, they're currently in a separate PDF. The combination of a world map with supply lines and production centers that can be captured makes for a good mix of strategy on the map and tactics on the table. The Osfrtont campaigns we've played have been some of my best wargaming experiences! 4 players duking it out over europe and north africa over a period of months, with factions triumphing and becoming ruined, secret pacts, alliances, misinformation and hilarity.
>the solo wargaming guide
How does this actually work?
>>46959807
Did you ever played chess with yourself?
Something like that.
