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spectralent posted:Kerscher is kind of a joke list, but you know that. It works, sometimes, but it has no arty and no recce and Tiger Is are kind of useless by late war. You're really hoping for a nice poorly-supported tank list so you can blow everything up with your great guns. ALL OF THEM. (currently focusing on the two 11th Armoured lists & probably Hungarians. Using Stugs for the time being, since I've not been able to source plastic assault pancakes (plus I already had them from Open Fire - and maybe Kerscher, because that wouldn't take long to set up - literally one PSC box set and a Zvezda Tiger & King Tiger and you're pretty much done). I'm kind of considering making a Canadian Rifle company and using the CAR as support platoons instead of yet another Tank Company, since I've been told that is good synergy.
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I have a feeling I might've been the one giving you that advice. Assault pancakes are purely resins, AFAIK. The thing about Brits is it's almost always worth considering taking any armoured list as an infantry company with a lot of support. British infantry can be mounted in heavy APCs, so you have a solid mechanised component to your list, and more importantly, it opens up night attacks, which is pretty much a combination "get into assault free" ticket for your infantry and also a "gently caress up anything that opens fire with fireflies" combination. The main things you need to be concerned about are bogging checks and your slower movement speed, but unless you're unlucky you have 4-5 turns of scurrying under cover of darkness to position.
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lilljonas posted:Nice to see you have a good first game! Finding a good group of gamers is probably the largest influence on how enjoyable the hobby is, more so than game you're actually playing or how nice looking your miniatures are.
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Ilor posted:Then we should do it. I know exactly two things about VASSAL or Roll20 (those being "jack" and "poo poo"), but there has to be some way we can put something together so you can at least give the mechanics a try. Maybe we mine Grey Hunter for ideas after that Sharp Practice game, yeah? I could start making the assests for a CoC Roll20 - its only really the maps that take any time.
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Grey Hunter posted:I could start making the assests for a CoC Roll20 - its only really the maps that take any time. I play wargames on maptools, and this site is fantastic for top-down views of basically every military figure you need http://www.juniorgeneral.org/index.php/figure/figureList/topdowns
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I've been playing in a campaign-style Flames of War game for about a year now using maptools. If other people are also using virtual tabletops, I figured I should post what I've got here. This isn't all the assets we've used, just the ones I have on hand at the moment. They should all be scaled right for Flames of War, proportions-wise at least. Mostly early-mid war stuff https://mega.nz/#!KFZmiIoS!fkkTL6te7aZNlEocF346AmgErbIKozVJzWAhqvJbU-Y Here's some of the American stuff from it:    
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Kaza42 posted:I've been playing in a campaign-style Flames of War game for about a year now using maptools. If other people are also using virtual tabletops, I figured I should post what I've got here. This isn't all the assets we've used, just the ones I have on hand at the moment. They should all be scaled right for Flames of War, proportions-wise at least. Mostly early-mid war stuff I've been looking for online FoW for ages. Is their a community at all or just setting up private games with friends
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I love my crazy local wargaming community. Yesterday I posted some WIP pics of my first French line infantry: Other dude: "Nice. I look forward to see how Sharp Practice works out. I bought some of Perry and Victrix boxes a while ago, that I never got around to doing anything with" Us: "Really? That's great! Which ones did you get?" Other dude: "Well, most of them." So now it seems that if we combine the stuff that I've bought and the light infantry that another guy is thinking of getting, we'll end up with a pretty sizeable French army much sooner than expected.
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I've been looking at the Perry AWI boxes for Sharp Practice, and I can't really sort out from their description if they include light infantry suitible models. I'm trying to decide what I need to buy to get a good starter force, I think two boxes for each side, but do I get a box of Continental Line and a box of militia for the Americans, or two Line? Likewise does my British force need two line, or a Line and box of Hessians to make things look a bit more interesting. Any advice on getting a good start army for both sides?
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You'll get good mileage from mixing British and American perry plastics for both sides (cuff lace being the only problematic uniform difference) All the British plastics are advancing, the Americans are at shoulder arms with some informal arms and hunting shirts as well. The American box includes light infantry hats if you want the late war official uniform, otherwise there are only a few hunting shirts, if you want rifles I would suggest buying the metals, although I'll quote mine that I made from the box.
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Dirt Worshipper posted: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.
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Colonial Air Force posted:Yeah it really depends on what you're going for and how Considering this is the historicals thread I think it's safe to assume we all feel maximum
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Well then, which theater? Northern, Mid-Atlantic, or Southern? Also which year? It changed a lot. It was a long war.
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We had our second game of Sharp Practice 2 yesterday and this time we went Austrians V French. Happy to say the game ran much much more smoothly than our first attempt. Its a fun ruleset.
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I just bought some Arab Light Horsemen in anticipation of learning to play Saga: Crescent and Cross. My local gaming store has a Saga day once a month and I'm trying to motivate myself to build and paint a 4-point warband in 30 days. (I'm doing Saracens)
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Oh for god's sake after all that effort putting my Comet company together, Battlefront put out a compilation box. Typical! Oh well, at least the Bulge compilations are coming out soon. And I suppose if I'm buying into BA at the same time I couldn't really justify buying two big boxes of WWII minis.
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Some neat information on Red Army tactics from WW2 http://www.20thgmb.com/rkaa-tactics.html
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Yvonmukluk posted:Oh for god's sake after all that effort putting my Comet company together, Battlefront put out a compilation box. Typical! Oh well, at least the Bulge compilations are coming out soon. And I suppose if I'm buying into BA at the same time I couldn't really justify buying two big boxes of WWII minis. It is, to be fair, a bad box  I've been talking about it with a lot of people and we're all of the agreement that the only good starter is the US one. The German one is at least tolerable if you assume it's meant to be a CT Panther company, but you can't get CT Jagdpanthers.
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Colonial Air Force posted:Some neat information on Red Army tactics from WW2 http://www.20thgmb.com/rkaa-tactics.html Texans recreating a Soviet Guard brigade? Now I've seen everything.  Cool link
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Colonial Air Force posted:Some neat information on Red Army tactics from WW2 http://www.20thgmb.com/rkaa-tactics.html Man, that's fascinating stuff. ...Probably worth showing the milhist thread. EDIT: Actually, one of the obvious questions is how many troops are those figures standing in for? The range is pretty obviously compressed, but what about the troops? Is it 1-1, one stand/tank per platoon, to a company, etc? spectralent fucked around with this message at 12:52 on Aug 25, 2016 |
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lilljonas posted:Texans recreating a Soviet Guard brigade? Now I've seen everything. I'm a New Englander who recreates a Soviet Guard brigade. spectralent posted:Man, that's fascinating stuff. ...Probably worth showing the milhist thread. It doesn't state, but I'd imagine there's some compression.
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The main reason I ask is since if the scale is platoon then it looks like "deep battle" happened on a much smaller scale than I assumed. If each tank's a company then that's still shitloads of men and armour, which isn't so surprising. Do you mind if I link it and ask the milhist thread?
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spectralent posted:It is, to be fair, a bad box Yeah, but if I'm going to be building a garbage Comet army anyway... But in other news, I've just realised an upside to building Canadian and Hungarian infantry - I can probably use those miniatures (with the exception of stuff like Panzerfausts and other LW kit) as a nucleus for Mid-War armies too - specifically a Dieppe Rifle company and a Corps Bicycle Company.
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Theres a pay what you want sale on a Five Men in Normandy/Fivecore bundle: http://fivemennormandy.blogspot.dk/2016/08/fivecore-retro-collection-available.html
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First block of 8 French fusiliers more or less ready for basing, from the Perry plastic French Line Infantry box:  Main feature is the hand-drawn "N" with a crown on the ammo pouches.  Might take a second pass over the faces and hair, but these are line troops after all, and I need to paint a whole bunch of them ASAP.The box is great in that there are few parts per miniature (most have just a separate backpack) which makes assemply a lot faster, and it will give me roughly 3 units of 8 line infantry, command, and 3 units of 6 voltigeurs or 2.5 units of 8 grenadiers. So I might up getting more troops so that I can field four full units of line infantry at the same time. lilljonas fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Aug 26, 2016 |
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VacuumJockey posted:Theres a pay what you want sale on a Five Men in Normandy/Fivecore bundle: http://fivemennormandy.blogspot.dk/2016/08/fivecore-retro-collection-available.html Well, I don't need it, nobody here plays historicals, I don't have any minis for it, so I only paid 3.50
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lilljonas posted:First block of 8 French fusiliers more or less ready for basing, from the Perry plastic French Line Infantry box:
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Ilor posted:Very nice! The insignia detail on the ammo pouches is a fantastic touch. Thanks! I'm getting some help with figuring out details from the scary Napoleonics community in town next over. They play General de Brigade in 28mm. Like, with tons and tons of miniatures:  Sharp Practice will do nicely for me to start with, 30-50 miniatures is much more realistic.
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spectralent posted:It is, to be fair, a bad box Sure you can, in Desperate Measures (Which is what the box comes bundled with). Still not a great list though (but at least it's better than Soviets! 
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lilljonas posted:Thanks! I'm getting some help with figuring out details from the scary Napoleonics community in town next over. They play General de Brigade in 28mm. Like, with tons and tons of miniatures: Yeah, I want to try Sharp Practice so very, very badly, but I refuse (REFUSE, I say!) to start buying into another historical miniatures game until I have at least one Axis and one Allied platoon done for CoC. REFUSE! I must stay strong. I must! But you fuckers with your gorgeous minis and awesome tables aren't helping, nor is reading more about how SP2 works and digesting batreps and suspecting that it will be fun as hell to actually play. I suppose I could do what I'm doing for CoC and just proxy stuff until... GODDAMMIT! NO. REFUSE, I SAY!
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So while waiting for Bolt Action 2nd Ed to come out on September 20th, I was considering picking up a cheap assortment of US troops from Dreamforge to play some battles using 1st Ed rules. Are these models any good? Can a friend and I reasonably run a couple trial skirmish games while waiting on the full starter sets? I notice these sets don't come with any kind of heavy weapons or HQ, will that be a problem?
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ExtraNoise posted:So while waiting for Bolt Action 2nd Ed to come out on September 20th, I was considering picking up a cheap assortment of US troops from Dreamforge to play some battles using 1st Ed rules. I'm not a big BA gamer, but when we started out with CoC, we did something similar. We played trial games with like half or three quarter strength platoons, just to get to grips with the rules. I think it is a great idea, as you can figure out the basic mechanics for movement and shooting and such, and then gradually tack on vehicles and heavy weapons and so on. That way you don't have to pause the game to read rules quite as much, as the learning curve is more even. It's also a good way to get started with painting, as it is easier to paint a handful of guys at a time, than to sit with an entire army in front of you. Wargames Factory (which are now Dreamforge, kind of), is a bit of a mixed bag. I bought the boxes from their samurai range, and the quality is a bit uneven from kit to kit. Some are decent, some honestly look a little bit bad in comparison to other ranges. However, they are cheap, around half the price of warlord games' plastic Americans! So if you are looking for a cheap way to pick up the bulk of a platoon, it's not a bad idea. Just looking at the sprues, it seems that it doesn't come with a LMG, which would be the main thing missing from making a "proper" plutoon out of it. It does seem to have some kind of NCO in it. E: When I started out with my Germans, I got a bunch of Warlord's older, quite bulky, plastic Germans. Later on I picked up their more recently released Germans, as well as Perry's Germans. Both of those look way better than the first ones I got, but once they are painted and placed on the tabletop, it's much harder to tell them apart. So don't worry too much about your first batch not being "perfect".
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Sure you can, in Desperate Measures (Which is what the box comes bundled with). Still not a great list though (but at least it's better than Soviets! I had thought the trained list couldn't take JPs. Checking, I'm as wrong as I can be: only the trained list can take JPs. And yeah, the Stalin's Bears list is a joke. I pity whoever picks up that starter.
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ExtraNoise posted:So while waiting for Bolt Action 2nd Ed to come out on September 20th, I was considering picking up a cheap assortment of US troops from Dreamforge to play some battles using 1st Ed rules. I can only speak to the Soviets, and I will say that they are worlds better than the Warlord ones, at least in terms of accuracy. Like lilljonas said, WGF can be a mixed bag; I have some of their Vikings/Anglo-Saxons and they all have stupid giraffe necks, but the Sovs are fine.
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