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I don't think you understand the purpose of the fax.
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# ? Aug 19, 2014 15:42 |
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Arquinsiel posted:I don't think you understand the purpose of the fax. Nobody born after 1990 does. Nor should they.
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# ? Aug 19, 2014 15:45 |
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Colonial Air Force posted:Nobody born after 1990 does. Nor should they. Make that 1980. I have never sent or received a fax in my life.
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# ? Aug 19, 2014 15:55 |
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Okay, you're heading down the right track. Just keep thinking about what function that property of fax machines could be used for.
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# ? Aug 19, 2014 16:42 |
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Annoying tech support?
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# ? Aug 19, 2014 17:34 |
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Paper airplanes?
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# ? Aug 19, 2014 17:47 |
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Serotonin posted:Paper airplanes?
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# ? Aug 19, 2014 17:48 |
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Tbf Navwar are the only company I can think of who operate by fax and thats run by one old bloke. He gets let off because despite that you will get your products faster than most companies with an online shop and not only does he use 1980s communication tech but he charges 1980s prices. Navwar rocks
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# ? Aug 19, 2014 17:49 |
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The real purpose of a fax machine is a litmus test to see if you should bother dealing with whomever you're corresponding.
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DJ Dizzy posted:Seeing as americans now get Pershings, is american armor viable to play now? Or will it still get murdered to loving panthers. American Armor has always been good and after BG&G became the best in the game. Pershings are nice but not required. Stop listening to who ever told you American armor was bad, they clearly don't know what they gently caress they are doing.
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# ? Aug 19, 2014 19:29 |
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Numlock posted:American Armor has always been good and after BG&G became the best in the game. Pershings are nice but not required. Aight, thanks! (Also, BG&G?)
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# ? Aug 20, 2014 19:02 |
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DJ Dizzy posted:Aight, thanks! (Also, BG&G?) Blood Guts and Glory. The reason why a lot of newer players fail with American armor is that they try to slug it out with German tanks at long range. Naturally the German player stomps them good and then they try to hide their armor when ever the big cats are about. Eventually they give up on it. DF smoke and Stabilizers may not look that good to a newer player as well (Stabs gives you a penalty to hit for increased ROF, and Smoke does no damage), but these are the two things good players exploit the hell out of when running US armor to win. Use DF Smoke to conceal yourself from enemy tanks and get in close, use Stabs to keep your ROF up and get side shots on anything you can't kill from the front. Always use stabs, it means its harder to hit but you get more chances, which means you can score more hits than you otherwise could of. Two dice needing 5's to hit has about the same odds of generating 1 hit as one die needing a 4. But the thing is if you roll two 5's then you now have two hits instead of 1!!
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DJ Dizzy posted:Aight, thanks! (Also, BG&G?) Blood, Guts, and Glory! It was the primary book for US Armor before Bridge at Remagen was released, and to an extent it still is, because US Armor is great. Sure, you don't have access to heavily armed and armored monstrosities like Panthers, Tigers, and Jagdtigers, but the great thing about playing US Armor is that you don't need them, since you can upgrade your basic M4/M4A1 Shermans to do whatever you need. Want to clear out entrenched infantry? Basic Shermans come with 2 regular machine guns and a top-mounted .50 cal AAMG, which also serves as a deterrent to enemy aircraft. Machine guns don't suit you? Well, you can upgrade one tank in your company or simply take a platoon of 105mm howitzer tanks, which have both slightly better armor and a Breakthrough gun. Let's also not forget that all Shermans get a special rule enabling regular infantry to act as Recon teams if they're in base-to-base contact with your tank, removing those pesky Gone-to-Ground penalties from tageting specific enemy teams. Tanks got you down? 76mm guns en masse can take down anything short of a King Tiger, and later-model Shermans have the mobility needed for manuvering to get those side shots if necessary. M4A3E2 "Jumbo" tanks are also ridiculous, as they've got twice the armor as a standard Sherman and have a special rule which makes it so the enemy HAS to allocate their shots to it first, pretty much guaranteeing they'll need to hit with multiple shots to do any damage. US Armor also has access to fantastic support options, be it solid artillery, air support (For which you can buy an additional upgrade to ensure you almost always get 2 aircraft), mechanized infantry, paratroopers, and one of the most broken units in the game, Tank Destroyers, which get to pop up practically wherever they feel like and put up to 8 AT14 FP 3+ shots into whoever's side armor you don't like. tl;dr Americans are great, would play again. Acebuckeye13 fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Aug 20, 2014 |
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Acebuckeye13 posted:M4A3E2 "Jumbo" tanks are also ridiculous, as they've got twice the armor as a standard Sherman and have a special rule which makes it so the enemy HAS to allocate their shots to it first, pretty much guaranteeing they'll need to hit with multiple shots to do any damage. Everything said by the above two posters is correct. But just to clarify this bit, the player taking the hits allocates them, and can treat the Jumbo as having the lowest armor (lowest armor is allocated hits first). You don't have to, as a Jagdtiger will still eat your lunch, but you can opt to take the hit on a less useful vanilla 75mm than risk the death of a Jumbo.
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Serotonin posted:Tbf Navwar are the only company I can think of who operate by fax and thats run by one old bloke. He gets let off because despite that you will get your products faster than most companies with an online shop and not only does he use 1980s communication tech but he charges 1980s prices. Navwar rocks Irregular website rules. It's so back to the 90s.
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 11:16 |
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I want to download the Irregular Miniatures order list, fill it in by hand, send it by snail mail, and pay for it with a cheque. While wearing a monocle and tophat.
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# ? Aug 21, 2014 11:54 |
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I've ordered from 'Warlord US' and it still comes from Britain unfortunately. They told me they'll have a warehouse here soon. Not a bad turnaround time even then. I've ordered some modeling stuff from Poland and it takes forever. I think my favorite site is Offensive Miniatures. Such amazing models and a great branding style. I've ordered a few times and they show up fast.
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 02:01 |
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Crosspost from oath and miniatures thread, some more non-WW2 content for y'all. Decided to add some riflemen to my AWI Continental army from the new Perry boxed set. nevermind the charleville musket on the right, there werent many hunter shirt arms
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 20:57 |
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Charlevilles were pretty common after Saratoga. Looks great! None of those guys should have beards, though.
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 22:21 |
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I'm just going for the backcountry "Haven't had a chance to shave in a few days" look, and the charleville is slightly problematic because those are riflemen
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 22:37 |
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I know, it's just a misconception I have to fight often in reenacting, so I'm sensitive to it even the least bit. They really are nicely done, though.
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 22:38 |
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Maybe I should start getting into AWI. Could be a fun thing, even just to paint. Also going to be moving at the end of September and I can't take my FoW stuff with me. At least not yet, anyways.
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 23:55 |
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Cross-posting oaths! Man, I'm super-happy with how these guys turned out. This gives me a total of 17 Romanian stands ... which means I'm still nowhere near getting them on the table. But now at least I've got an HQ!
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# ? Aug 23, 2014 13:11 |
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moths posted:Cross-posting oaths! drat, those guys are beautiful. The drab greens give them an almost monochromatic look, which is awesome.
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# ? Aug 23, 2014 19:17 |
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Thanks! I mean, yeah Romania gets credit for picking out the colors but I ran with it as best I could.
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# ? Aug 24, 2014 17:18 |
OK, Saga Crescent and Cross chat. I haven't got the book yet. I do have the Conquest Norman Knights and Norman Infantry sets and a blister of 12 Norman slingers from Dark Age. Is the following a legal army in Crescent and Cross 4 Hearthguard Knights 4 Hearthguard Knights 8 Warriors w spear/shield 8 Warriors w spear/shield 12 Levy Slingers I was thinking first crusade era, because that means using Norman gear is absolutely fine. Someone remind me if circle or kite shields are correct. But this is a legal force and I just need to add a Warlord? And is anywhere doing plastic mounted Saracens yet?
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# ? Aug 25, 2014 10:26 |
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The numbers/types units "legal" per the saga rules ; so it should be legal in C&C although equipment may differ. I only put legal in quotes because the build really depends on the points you are playing with; currently you've got 5, most games I've seen are usually 4 or 6 points.
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# ? Aug 25, 2014 12:38 |
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I got Black Powder: Rebellion! today. I haven't really read it yet, so I can't start the , but so far they've already started winning my heart by including Hubbardton. E: I also got the September issue of Wargames Illustrated, and in it are some thoughts on gas attacks for WWI so hooray! 3 Action Economist fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Aug 25, 2014 |
# ? Aug 25, 2014 19:03 |
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To my surprise, I also got my WGI, I wasn't expecting it till later in the week. Since I am away later in the week it means I'm not going miss it and have to wait till I get back. Plus I can read it on the plane
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# ? Aug 26, 2014 00:11 |
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Colonial Air Force posted:I got Black Powder: Rebellion! today. I haven't really read it yet, so I can't start the , but so far they've already started winning my heart by including Hubbardton. Speaking of which http://christopher-bunkerhill.blogspot.com/2014/08/hubbardton-1777.html
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# ? Aug 26, 2014 06:34 |
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Going to be an expensive month what with Rebellion and Crescent and the Cross
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# ? Aug 26, 2014 06:56 |
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I see Warlord have rather cleverly released an article about Bolt Action aimed at 40k players emphasisng Rick Priestly's and Alessio Cavatore GW pedigree as well as how cheap and simple entry is to it as a system. http://www.warlordgames.com/guide-t..._eid=d6d3b23617
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 13:36 |
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Colonial could you help me with something? I'm painting up a group of American light infantry next, and I'm wondering how I should paint the peaked caps. Do you have any good source images?
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 14:15 |
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This website is as old as poo poo but: http://www.midcoast.com/~martucci/2nh/ Some of it will also depend on the unit and the time/place.
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Colonial Air Force posted:This website is as old as poo poo but: http://www.midcoast.com/~martucci/2nh/ Oooh, even embedded music. This is peak Historicals right here, oh yeah.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 15:32 |
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I just picked up Pike and Shotte and ended up with a rules question that I hope someone in the thread can answer. What do carbines and flintlock muskets do, rules-wise? Are they just the same as firelocks but named differently since they pertain to different eras? I looked all through the book and I couldn't find an actual entry for either of them.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 22:47 |
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Found this little guy in my box from Foundry. So awesome
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 18:42 |
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Is that a model of Christopher Lee?
3 Action Economist fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Aug 30, 2014 |
# ? Aug 30, 2014 19:38 |
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These Warlord WW2 plastics are pretty nice (my photo is not). They actually have trigger fingers that fit inside trigger guards. Imagine that!
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 22:28 |
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Yes, the early war Warlord Germans is a nice kit as well. Late war, slightly less so.
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