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I tried to paint lozenge camouflage on a Gotha IV in 1:144 when we played Canvas Eagle. It was horrible. Don't do it. (but play Canvas Eagle, it's a great game and you need like, 4 planes to play it)
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Arquinsiel posted:Protip: Camo that looks "right" also looks "boring as gently caress". 
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Apr 22, 2014 09:45
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You see what they look like thumbnailed? That's what they'll look like on the table.
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Apr 22, 2014 15:36
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A good camo is a model that the opponent forgets about. 
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Apr 22, 2014 15:39
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That's right, and they look 
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Apr 22, 2014 15:40
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This is why I stick to 18th century, no camo to paint!
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Apr 22, 2014 16:38
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FYI Too Fat Lardies of Chain of Command fame (among other games) is having a 15% off sale on their website until the end of the month. They have PDF versions of the rules available as well.
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Apr 22, 2014 22:14
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I have a question regarding painting planes: I don't have an airbrush, so should I use a coloured primer, like one of the Army Painter ones? It's a warhammer ork plane  , although I want to make it look vaguely like something out of the East African Campaign
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Apr 22, 2014 23:07
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Weirdo posted:I have a question regarding painting planes: I don't have an airbrush, so should I use a coloured primer, like one of the Army Painter ones? As a base coat? As for the camo, Plenty of aircraft used sharp-edge lines, like how the Italians painted their Stukas. Nothing stopping you from doing solid tan/khaki on top and solid white on the bottom, either. If you are wanting an airbrushed look, there are ways of achieving that, which I'm sure someone will enlighten you to.
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Apr 22, 2014 23:36
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YF19pilot posted:As a base coat? As for the camo, Plenty of aircraft used sharp-edge lines, like how the Italians painted their Stukas. Nothing stopping you from doing solid tan/khaki on top and solid white on the bottom, either. If you are wanting an airbrushed look, there are ways of achieving that, which I'm sure someone will enlighten you to. Sorry, yeah I was wondering about primer for use as a basecoat. I've never painted anything to large so I guess I am bit worried about brush lines or the like.
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Apr 23, 2014 01:07
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Gesso is kind of a pain in the rear end because it requires touchups, but one thing it doesn't do is show brush marks. You can get a big bottle of it from an art supply shop for $5, if you get the white stuff you can colour it, and if you hate it it comes off easy enough.
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Apr 23, 2014 02:03
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So, I lost some weight (mainly to support my wife, I was only slightly overweight by my BMI) and as a reward I got a 6mm British Napoleonic army (1815) from Baccus - I'm really happy with the models, but I've been looking at my bases trying to figure out the best way of basing them. This is my reentry into wargaming, so I've decided to go with 40mmX30mm bases - which is 15mm scale for Field of Glory, and half scale for Black Powder, but looking at them and thinking of the ineviatble French army, I was wondering how this looked.  The left hand force is the British, fighting in their lines. They have plenty of open ground on their base and will look good in lines, even if there is a little more open ground than I would have liked. The right is is why I'm posting. how do you think this looks as a column - each base still only has 16 figures on it, but by putting the french to the back/front I can make them look like columns. What do you experienced hands think of this?
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Grey Hunter posted:So, I lost some weight (mainly to support my wife, I was only slightly overweight by my BMI) and as a reward I got a 6mm British Napoleonic army (1815) from Baccus - I'm really happy with the models, but I've been looking at my bases trying to figure out the best way of basing them. My experience is that you want to be able to move from column to line and back again easily. I base mine on 40x20 for infantry and 40x30 for cavalry. A typical unit in line is four bases wide and one base deep, a march column1 wide and 4 deep, and an attack column 2x2. Works well and looks nice on the table IMHO.
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No article on it yet, but the newest Wargames Illustrated has a big add for Saga: Cross and Crescent on the back (which is apparently delayed), and I want it. I need it! Also Jugula.
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already ordered one of everything for Jugula, kinda glad cross and crescent got delayed or it would have been a very expensive month.
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What did one of everything include and How much did that set you back?
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May 1, 2014 05:45
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Ordered from architects of war, so rulebook -32, 2 card decks (need one per player)-22,fancy playmat -32, famlia pack 1 -40. So $126 (shipping is free). I know I need more gladiators to play, but will just proxy until more come out.
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May 1, 2014 16:48
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Ooh - Jugula. Has anyone been able to do a demo of it? I'm curious as to how it plays - the fact that it has a campaign system is intriguing to me. I was looking for the Warhammer Historicals gladiator game, but if Jugula is any good, I'll wait for it instead.
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berzerkmonkey posted:Ooh - Jugula. Has anyone been able to do a demo of it? I'm curious as to how it plays - the fact that it has a campaign system is intriguing to me. I was looking for the Warhammer Historicals gladiator game, but if Jugula is any good, I'll wait for it instead. I haven't played it, but somewhere there was a nice write up on a blog. It was also in last month's Wargames Illustrated. Definitely on my list. E: Studio Tomahawk is rapidly becoming my favorite rules company. 3 Action Economist fucked around with this message at 17:31 on May 2, 2014 |
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I saw a writeup on a blog, so it may have been the same one you refer to - it's what put the game on my radar in the first place. I'll see if I can track down a copy of the Wargames Illustrated that featured it.
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May 2, 2014 18:11
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Colonial Air Force posted:I haven't played it, but somewhere there was a nice write up on a blog. It was also in last month's Wargames Illustrated. What issue number is it? I don't want to buy the wrong one. Colonial Air Force posted:
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May 2, 2014 18:39
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berzerkmonkey posted:I saw a writeup on a blog, so it may have been the same one you refer to - it's what put the game on my radar in the first place. I'll see if I can track down a copy of the Wargames Illustrated that featured it. Found it. Colonial Air Force posted:http://backtotheminis.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/ive-tested-jugula-next-gladiators-game.html?m=1 Indolent Bastard posted:What issue number is it? I don't want to buy the wrong one. Issue #317, I just checked (I guess that's TWO months ago).
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Ten-hut! Oath Season 5 is go! Come hang out, chill with other painting goons, and maybe win some prizes! The rules have been (very) simplified this year, there's a bunch of prize support (and more to come!), and there's no "minimum oath" so you can just oath a single figure to paint in a whole month if you want to.
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krushgroove posted:Ten-hut! Someone is painting up a Tankovy for April. Must respond in kind....
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I would have oathed all 21 but I hadn't finished basecoating half of them so there were two colours.
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Forums Terrorist posted:I would have oathed all 21 but I hadn't finished basecoating half of them so there were two colours. Pretty sure it's one colour per mini, I've happily oathed a group of minis where half were primed black, and half were primed white, plus one not primed at all.
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NTRabbit posted:Pretty sure it's one colour per mini, I've happily oathed a group of minis where half were primed black, and half were primed white, plus one not primed at all. Yep, that's fine, it's just the ones that are part-primed and part-basecoated, or zenithal primed that we get funny about. Easiest thing to do is just take pictures of the sprues 
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krushgroove posted:Yep, that's fine, it's just the ones that are part-primed and part-basecoated, or zenithal primed that we get funny about. Easiest thing to do is just take pictures of the sprues Then assemble them from the sprue and paint all in the one month, just like the Soviets did irl 
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In case you guys missed it, Remagen, plastic Pershings and Panzergrens coming in June. Only gripe I can see is the box for the Pershings only include one turret base, so you might not be able to swap between Pershing and Super Pershing. I may have to grab a box or two for myself, though I've been shifting to Axis as right now we only have one dedicated Axis player, two American, one Russian, and one British, other than myself who normally runs Americans.
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The plastic Panzergrenadiers have been out for a while though? I bought some a few weeks back.
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http://freshcoastgaming.blogspot.com/2014/05/bolt-action-i-shall-return.html I wrote up some initial thoughts on Bolt Action. Trying to get my group into it. Another 85$ 40k hardcover will help
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Forums Terrorist posted:The plastic Panzergrenadiers have been out for a while though? I bought some a few weeks back. Sorry, meant plastic regular Grenadiers, not Panzergrens.
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Alright, so there's a Flames of War group at my new FLGS that seem to be pretty cool guys, and I'm considering buying some tonks to screw around with since I just can't justify the cost for 40k so much anymore. I've been poking around and it seems like British armoured companies are super rare or something, as I can't seem to find any advice/info on them. Anyone here have experience, or know a site with some info or even just some battle reports I could look at?
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What period? If it's late (the most common) do you like Shermans, Cromwells or Churchills more?
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Yeah, Late War seems to be the most commmon. I enjoy the Firefly Shermans, but really any of the three could be fun.
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In most British armoured squadrons you get 1 Firefly to a platoon. The exceptions are certain Armoured Squadrons from Overlord, which let you take a separate platoon of Fireflies, at the cost of not getting any in your other platoons and having to make do with older equipment otherwise (M3 Stuarts instead of M5s, for example). Basically though, a typical British tank company will look like this: HQ Tanks 3 tank platoon 3 tank platoon 4 tank platoon Recce Artillery Infantry/Wildcard AOP You hug cover and move in with the Shermans while the Fireflies hang back and use Semi-Indirect Fire to blow hard targets to bits (remember, in Flames the individual members of a platoon can hang back and cover the others). Recce lifts Gone To Ground to let your other units shoot better, prevents ambushes, and occasionally dashes for an objective. Artillery pins and smokes, the AOP makes sure you can do that, and the wildcard lets you tailor the list to your specific playstyle.
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Forums Terrorist posted:In most British armoured squadrons you get 1 Firefly to a platoon. The exceptions are certain Armoured Squadrons from Overlord, which let you take a separate platoon of Fireflies, at the cost of not getting any in your other platoons and having to make do with older equipment otherwise (M3 Stuarts instead of M5s, for example). Basically though, a typical British tank company will look like this: Awesome thanks! I'll look into some of the lists and see what I can make tick. Would you recommend going with Trained units and not Veterans for the cost decrease?
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That's entirely up to you and the kinds of tables you play on. Take a points level (1500, 1650, 1750 and 1780 are the four most common I've seen) and try to build a list. If you can't fit in everything you like try dropping the veterancy. Conversely if you feel like you have the headroom try upping it. There are some units (artillery) that I would almost always take at the highest veterancy I can get but otherwise it's up to you. The two most common list builders I've seen are Easy Army and FOW Lists. You have to pay for Easy Army ($2 a book) but it's much more complete.
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Yeah, I dropped some cash on Easyarmy because it seemed pretty nice. Definitely makes screwing around with potential lists easy when you don't know the rules very well yet.
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Also, if you're going British, get the Open Fire box and sell/trade the Germans. That gets you 6 Sherman Vs and 2 Fireflies, which is a solid base to start with.
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