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Colonial Air Force posted:First against the wall I'm getting into Tanks! and will be buying Open Fire! Tonight for Tanks and it's own FoW Lite. I plan on painting the Germans like the Wolfenstein 3d Germans. I just need a Wolf 3d sound and music program for my Android. Also I could use it to run OPERATION DARKNESS: the SRPG with the best concepts ruined by game execution. British SAS Werewolves (and friends like a pyro kinetic and Herbert West) vs Nazi Vampires. I mean gotta put those Arcane Legions figures to use somehow.. Brits I'll probably do close to accurate. Right now my Tanks! are just cemented and some Devlan Mud wash. Which kinda looks good on the colored sprues. Given I don't know what colors the tanks and armies will be eventually I haven't bothered to paint the treads yet. vvv Ive heard tales about Dust. I do have the Achtung Cthulhu Dust book and might buy the Godlike book (A C is Savage Worlds and 6th ed Call of Cthulhu dual system. I love me BRP Call of Cthulhu and have a big amount of Savage Worlds too.) But some of yall might like my unboxing article on Tanks! http://wargamedork.blogspot.com/2016/10/tanks-first-lookunboxing.html Full of pictures of Tanks. And my British tanks (pre Devlan Mud wash) made some  friends: 
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You should check out some Weird War 2 rulesets like Konflikt 47, Dust, or AE:WW2
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Enentol posted:Anyone have a good colour for British/US armour? Brown. NTRabbit posted:When my Tanks arrives, I'm going to use the Vallejo olive drab primer to paint my Shermans the wrong shade of green for the European theatre in 1944, and there's not a drat thing you can do about it I'm going to paint my Puma in 36th Lyran Guards parade colours and make all the  mad.
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Kommando posted:I'm going to paint my Puma in 36th Lyran Guards parade colours and make all the
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Got my craigslist Bolt Action haul in the mail. Not bad for $80. Now I just need to figure out what to do with them. I believe they are all Fallschirmjager guys
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goodness posted:Got my craigslist Bolt Action haul in the mail. Not bad for $80. Now I just need to figure out what to do with them. I believe they are all Fallschirmjager guys I think the answer is have a really solid german veteran list for 1000 points with some options, which is pretty much all you'll need.
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Apparently we're getting FoW v4 next year, so everyone proceed to your designated panic bunkers.
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Isn't the consensus that Team Yankee is already a smoother playing FoW? V4 might be a really good thing.
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moths posted:Isn't the consensus that Team Yankee is already a smoother playing FoW? V4 might be a really good thing. Depends what they take for it, really. They're redoing the point scale apparently.
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moths posted:Isn't the consensus that Team Yankee is already a smoother playing FoW? V4 might be a really good thing. Team Yankee is good enough that I lost interest in playing FoW all together. IMHO they should just covert over all of it into TY, but if they are just going to take the highlights I'd port over the formation based list building, command and hit allocation rules. I don't know how they are going to make Mid War having TY style points and unit cards but Early and Late war being more "old school" FoW work.. just seems to me like it would simplify things to go all the way, one way or another.
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I need these! http://wargamesillustrated.net/shop/two-bastards/
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spectralent posted:Apparently we're getting FoW v4 next year, so everyone proceed to your designated panic bunkers. Makes sense, haven't they pretty much run out of theater books to sell? Redo the point scale and shovel 'em all back out!
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Thundercloud posted:I think the answer is have a really solid german veteran list for 1000 points with some options, which is pretty much all you'll need. I'm reading through that WW2 infantry tactics book in hopes to learn a little about them. Is 1000pt the typical Bolt action list?
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Is there any decent naval battle game in the vein of that star wars one/armada/drop fleet commander? I'm thinking 4-8 ships per side, approx 1-2hrs per game. Anything up to WW1 is fine with me.
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Sails of Glory. I wrote a whole AAR about it, I'll see if I can find it in the thread. E: Colonial Air Force posted:TO WILLIAM MARSDEN, ESQ., ADMIRALTY
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Southern Heel posted:Is there any decent naval battle game in the vein of that star wars one/armada/drop fleet commander? I'm thinking 4-8 ships per side, approx 1-2hrs per game. Topside minis makes good quality stickers for plywood bases affordable "minis" and has a WW1 Falklands set, and a WW1 Jutland set on the way, and they recommend some rules to use
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goodness posted:I'm reading through that WW2 infantry tactics book in hopes to learn a little about them. Is 1000pt the typical Bolt action list? Either 1000 or 1250, depending on your area. You shouldn't have any trouble getting a game with a 1000 point list.
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I definitely ordered these Also check out my painted Confederates for Sharp Practice =) worked really hard on these http://freshcoastgaming.blogspot.com/2016/10/confederates-for-sharp-practice-and.html?m=1
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I really like the palette you went with- the looted Union pants look a little off from the classic sky blue but it looks really good next to all the grey/tan/brown. Nice work.
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tallkidwithglasses posted:I really like the palette you went with- the looted Union pants look a little off from the classic sky blue but it looks really good next to all the grey/tan/brown. Nice work. Thanks! Maybe it's the lighting, I used Vallejo Sky Blue. Kinda historical I suppose, this really unique kickstarter funded a while ago and my four year old and I played tonight, it was fun! We just used toy model dinosaurs. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1489125413/cretacea-the-game-of-gargantuan-survival/comments?cursor=14491186&direction=asc
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Are you saying I can expect to be playing wargames with my son in as little as 3 years?  How does he do with rules? DiHK fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Oct 19, 2016 |
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DiHK posted:Are you saying I can expect to be playing wargames with my son in as little as 3 years? He does OK with xwing, we use about half the rules, like no cards or damage cards or special stuff, just shields and hull and maneuvering. This Dino game is super simple and themey so he likes it. The biggest thing is attention span, after about twenty minutes he's done.
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I'm working through figuring out what the weapons my guys have and can't tell what one is. It looks like a small lmg but it has a drum magazine attached. (german guys)
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goodness posted:I'm working through figuring out what the weapons my guys have and can't tell what one is. It looks like a small lmg but it has a drum magazine attached. (german guys) Is it just an MG34/42 with a drum mag? They had those too.
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Colonial Air Force posted:Sails of Glory. My goodness I must have this game. Also does anyone know where I can buy a giant captain's hat?
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Sails of Glory is cool - the movement mechanic is particularly sweet - but you stand forewarned: it is extremely fiddly. There are a sick number of chits and markers and cards and poo poo to worry about. Games do not go quickly, and controlling more than a ship or two is onerous. Oh, and unless you're really careful, your ships will crash into each other. It's fantastic conceptually, but would probably be better suited to play over something like VASSAL where a computer could keep track of all of the fiddly poo poo for you. EDIT: Also - http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/232067577857?lpid=82&chn=ps&ul_noapp=true
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I went to a historical con this year and there was a group playing this ACW ironclad battle game that had the most insane charts and tables to resolve everything I've ever seen. I'm pretty sure they actually had to calculate firing solutions with slide rules and poo poo based on the roll of waves/range/environmental conditions. As terribly spergy as lining up my mans to get them in a proper firing line can be, the naval games seem to go waaaaaaaaay deeper.
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I would play the gently caress out of an accessible Ironclad game. I would paint a million ironclads.
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Colonial Air Force posted:Does the drum mag look like an air filter? Possibly? The gun is thinner than the actual lmgs .
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tallkidwithglasses posted:...the most insane charts and tables... 
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Ilor posted:"They're called 'binomial nomographs,' and if your game doesn't have them, it's totally scrub tier." Nomographs are good and cool, but please get someone else to write your rulebooks. Please.
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Ilor posted:Sails of Glory is cool - the movement mechanic is particularly sweet - but you stand forewarned: it is extremely fiddly. There are a sick number of chits and markers and cards and poo poo to worry about. Games do not go quickly, and controlling more than a ship or two is onerous. Oh, and unless you're really careful, your ships will crash into each other. It's fantastic conceptually, but would probably be better suited to play over something like VASSAL where a computer could keep track of all of the fiddly poo poo for you. There are a lot of chits, but they're not hard to manage with the boards you get. For a short have, 2 ships a side I'd probably good.
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Hmm, I was looking for something more like X-wing than something extremely complicated. 
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goodness posted:Possibly? The gun is thinner than the actual lmgs .
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It's really quite a bit like X-Wing (or Wings of Glory, really). And you can play without the chits other than damage, really, just use the basic rules.
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muggins posted:I would play the gently caress out of an accessible Ironclad game. I would paint a million ironclads. The complicated one is probably one of the versions of the old Yaquinto boardgames "Ironclads". I've been playing that off and on since about 1980. It's got a data card for every ship with weapons, armor, and maneuver data; uses plotted movement, and isn't reeeeeally all that complex. You'd want the edition done by 3W, it's got the expansion set worked in so you get all the European and South American ironclads. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6924/shot-and-shell
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I wanna get into Victory At Sea since I hear its awesome ww2 sea combat. Is it good? Is there a better game? What minis are high quality? What scale is good? Price is not a problem atm and neither is painting.
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