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I can't wait to see how my Romanians play! ...just as soon as I paint another three hundred of them.
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Phi230 posted:I love cold war stuff so is team yankee for me? There's Sails of Glory, which is X-Wing style with pre-painted models and all. But that's just dipping a toe in the groggy depths of tabletop naval war. There are tons of rulesets out there, and many manufacturers making very tiny ships. GHQ has their 1/2000 Age of Sail and 1/2400 WW1/WW2/Modern Micronauts line, for instance. If stuff like this gets you hot, you should consider one of the rulesets + computer combat systems from NWS.
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# ? Apr 10, 2016 02:12 |
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Phi230 posted:I love cold war stuff so is team yankee for me? Team Yankee's definitely fun. Right now the selection of units is pretty limited, but they're coming out with West Germans and Brits later this year if you're into that kind of thing. Just don't get too attached to your tanks though, 'cause everything dies really easily. But that's the Cold War for you!
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# ? Apr 10, 2016 02:16 |
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The afghansty paras list is out too; I don't know how you're meant to play it though since you can get 12 hinds on the table. Six is already a stretch
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# ? Apr 10, 2016 02:18 |
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Phi230 posted:I love cold war stuff so is team yankee for me? I love Sails of Glory, and there's also Trafalgar (both with write-ups in the OP, and I have some battle reports of SoG in the thread).
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# ? Apr 10, 2016 03:08 |
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Polikarpov posted:There's Sails of Glory, which is X-Wing style with pre-painted models and all. The idea of modern naval tabletop wargaming gives me a grog boner but do I gotta use PC programs to play tabletop? Also any cold war air combat tt games? The groggier the better
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# ? Apr 10, 2016 03:08 |
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Phi230 posted:The idea of modern naval tabletop wargaming gives me a grog boner but do I gotta use PC programs to play tabletop? Also any cold war air combat tt games? The groggier the better The program is just there to automate ballistics and damage modelling in order to maximize grog/hr
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# ? Apr 10, 2016 03:47 |
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spectralent posted:The afghansty paras list is out too; I don't know how you're meant to play it though since you can get 12 hinds on the table. Six is already a stretch Aside from the models needed the list lacks access to SA-14 Gophers to even keep the A-10s honest. I can only imagine the slaughter the Warthogs would inflict on that list. But to Phi230's question, yes, Team Yankee is a very playable 'Cold War Gone Hot' system with cool, though somewhat expensive, models. It seems to be doing well for Battlefront so I expect they'll put more effort into it in the future, unlike their Vietnam game.
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# ? Apr 10, 2016 03:49 |
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Polikarpov posted:There's Sails of Glory, which is X-Wing style with pre-painted models and all. If you are going to do to that, you may as well buy Rule the Waves - its a computer game, but it allows you to design and fight your own Dreadnought era Navy.
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Conan the Librarian posted:Aside from the models needed the list lacks access to SA-14 Gophers to even keep the A-10s honest. I can only imagine the slaughter the Warthogs would inflict on that list. Or go 6mm. The only problem are the turret rules. Acebuckeye13 posted:Just don't get too attached to your tanks though, 'cause everything dies really easily. But that's the Cold War for you!
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# ? Apr 10, 2016 07:54 |
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moths posted:The Russian-produced film Stalingrad (2013) featured some pretty historically questionable depictions of events, but for some reason game designers always instead err on the side of the German propaganda. What the ever loving gently caress? This movie is some North Korea level bullshit.
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# ? Apr 10, 2016 11:10 |
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Got to play Sword and Spear yesterday. Great little game that's perfect for mass battles. Likes faster play Warmaster with a more elegant command system. We played Early Crusaders vs Saracens using Pendraken 10mm
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Commissar Kip posted:What the ever loving gently caress? This movie is some North Korea level bullshit. It's not really that terrible, and that scene is semi-fantasy even within the film itself. The worst part of Stalingrad is that, just like Enemy at the Gates and almost every other loving war movie in recent memory, they've added a love story. E: Well, and the part where the Nazis sacrifice a woman and a child to their old, pagan gods.
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# ? Apr 10, 2016 12:51 |
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I kinda feel like this is the film to watch when delirious with food poisoning. The 1993 Stalingrad film is good tho.
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Colonial Air Force posted:E: Well, and the part where the Nazis sacrifice a woman and a child to their old, pagan gods. This sounds like the best movie ever
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# ? Apr 10, 2016 13:42 |
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The whole movie is framed around the device of a modern Russian first responder rescuing some German kids from a collapsed Japanese building. The kids are afraid their parents might be dead, and the old medic is like "So what? I had five fathers and they're all dead, you don't see me scared!" and then tells the trapped German kids about the brave men who got his mom through Stalingrad (by killing the kids' ancestors, but that doesn't seem to come up.) So there's a bit of Big Fish "recounting a legend" baked into the plot, but it's still up there with Hero in terms of modern propaganda.
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# ? Apr 10, 2016 14:14 |
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Polikarpov posted:There's Sails of Glory, which is X-Wing style with pre-painted models and all. This is crazy. But the website sucks (as most wargaming sites do) - are there any modern rulesets they do with the PC crossover? On that note, is the Harpoon game any good? Does it hold up to modern game designs at all? I think the designer of it did a book with Clancy, but that doesn't mean it's great...
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# ? Apr 10, 2016 14:30 |
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krushgroove posted:This is crazy. But the website sucks (as most wargaming sites do) - are there any modern rulesets they do with the PC crossover? You have a foobar class, which you'll want to look up in the first appendix. It has the spam radar, which is in the sensor appendix, the eggs missile, which is in the missile appendix, the Z engine which is in the engine appendix... ... guns appendix... ... sails appendix if applicable... ...and the X toilet seat which is in the toilet seat appendix but apart from that it's a really simple game!
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# ? Apr 10, 2016 14:33 |
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Hmm that's disappointing. I just read on one of the Facebook groups that Osprey is apparently coming out with 6mm modern rules...anyone know about this? e: ah it's 6mm sci-fi and coming out at Salute this weekend, it's called Horizon Wars https://meeples.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/horizon-wars-coming-soon-from-osprey-publishing/ krushgroove fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Apr 10, 2016 |
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I'm fascinated by 15mm sci-fi. All those systemless manufacturers living from old grogs playing settingless rulesets.
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# ? Apr 10, 2016 17:59 |
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Well one of my earliest sci-fi gaming experiences was Ogre, which isn't really wargaming (although with GEV it was) - that's just a gigantic nuclear missile-tossing AI tank dodging puddles of nuclear lava. Who needs a setting if you're the commander of the humans trying to stop that?
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# ? Apr 10, 2016 18:04 |
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krushgroove posted:Hmm that's disappointing. Is there more info out yet? Or do we just know that there's a book?
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# ? Apr 10, 2016 22:50 |
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6mm sci fi is highly relevant to my interests, but yeah, all I've heard is "It's a thing that exists".quote:
Interesting; I kind of hope there's good support for tanks and infantry too. If I can stat the NSD's MBTs in glorious detail I will be a very happy bun. spectralent fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Apr 10, 2016 |
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What would you guys recommend when it comes to transport for 15mm Historicals (mostly Flames of War)? I want to protect them properly, given that I've started painting them!
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tomdidiot posted:What would you guys recommend when it comes to transport for 15mm Historicals (mostly Flames of War)? I want to protect them properly, given that I've started painting them! I got a sheet magnet with a sticky back and put it on all my FoW bases, then use a cookie sheet to transport them.
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Colonial Air Force posted:I got a sheet magnet with a sticky back and put it on all my FoW bases, then use a cookie sheet to transport them. I should also probably add that I mostly use public transport to move my minis around, and I'm afraid that doing that might be a little risky. Is it OK? Also, how does it work with tanks? Do you just base tanks?
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 02:02 |
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Horizon Wars looks awesome. I'd love to get my space robot on.
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Polikarpov posted:maximize grog/hr JcDent posted:Or go 6mm. The only problem are the turret rules. krushgroove posted:Well one of my earliest sci-fi gaming experiences was Ogre, which isn't really wargaming (although with GEV it was) - that's just a gigantic nuclear missile-tossing AI tank dodging puddles of nuclear lava. Who needs a setting if you're the commander of the humans trying to stop that? Yeah, the 3D cardboard makes the big version slight excessive. Not much more than most wargames really, but for a board game that one person has to cart around... yeah. VVVV Arquinsiel fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Apr 11, 2016 |
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I wish they put out a edition of Ogre/GEV that was like, normal board game sized. I'm kind of annoyed that my two options are playing it with something that looks like i printed it out at work (opps I breathed in the direction of the table, sorry want to reset?) or the LOL XBOX HUGE deluxe edition.
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tomdidiot posted:I should also probably add that I mostly use public transport to move my minis around, and I'm afraid that doing that might be a little risky. Is it OK? Also, how does it work with tanks? Do you just base tanks? Well I used my own car, so I didn't mind if the tanks slid around a little. They didn't, much, though, the magnetized infantry and artillery held them in place. You could base the tanks, though.
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Arquinsiel posted:You can buy the current version of Ogre packaged like the original for the same price as the original now. It's totally worth dropping three bux on if you see it around Bought that, played once, fiddly as all hell
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 09:21 |
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I was struck by inspiration while browsing the Perrys' metal Napoleonics today. Everybody always references the Peninsula when talking about Sharp Practice, because Sharpe is mostly set there of course. But what could make a better skirmish campaign than fighting over artefacts and buried treasure in 1801 Egypt? I think I've pinned down my next project.
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 11:36 |
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I dunno how related it is but the Saga dude is coming out with a Congo game. It looks super uncomfortable to me, what with you basically subjugating people and stealing cultural treasures
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 11:42 |
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Endman posted:I was struck by inspiration while browsing the Perrys' metal Napoleonics today. Nice. We're going for the invasion of Russia, which also saw tons and tons of skirmishes as the Russian armies harried the French army all the way to Moscow and back.
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 11:42 |
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lilljonas posted:Nice. Sounds pretty awesome; I love seeing French infantry in greatcoats.
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 11:52 |
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muggins posted:I dunno how related it is but the Saga dude is coming out with a Congo game. It looks super uncomfortable to me, what with you basically subjugating people and stealing cultural treasures Oh god
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Endman posted:Oh god Could be worse, they could be covering the genocide in the Congo carried out by the Belgians. Yeah, there is a reason the scramble for Africa is underserved in wargame terms, because in history it was racist colonialism and genocide, and it's people don't want to hear about how their side were the baddies. Take the Battle of Little Big Horn. How many people know that Custer's big plan was to avoid fighting the actual warriors and go after the women and children in order to murder them all? Get's glossed over, doesn't it?
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 12:13 |
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There's a brief write-up in this month's WI, although I skipped it because I'm not terribly interested in the game. It looks like the natives get to field animals, like great apes, too. Also, enjoy the new thread title!
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 12:27 |
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Endman posted:Sounds pretty awesome; I love seeing French infantry in greatcoats. We're starting out with prim and proper summer uniforms, and see if I get around to making more and more tattered soldiers as we go.
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Colonial Air Force posted:There's a brief write-up in this month's WI, although I skipped it because I'm not terribly interested in the game. It looks like the natives get to field animals, like great apes, too. Yeah that's definitely where I saw it. I don't know like how bad it is that I enjoy World War II gaming the East Front where they corduroy roads with bodies and poo poo but a colonialism game set in DARKEST AFRICA makes me wince
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