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Arquinsiel posted:How many packs of mans did you order? There's about 50 dudes per pack, distributed across repeated strips. I'll take pictures of my leftover ones tomorrow if I get a chance and you can see what to expect. I got my infantry from GHQ, a pack of regular and a pack of heavy weapons so I should have plenty to make what I need. I'd still be interested in seeing yours though because there were so few actual product shots on H&R that most of my stuff was bought on blind faith.
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JcDent posted:gently caress the Irish. The two times I faced them in the campaign, my vikings got slaughtered to a man, especially their dice manipulating bs piling on their free end move shooting and Old Ways loving over attack dice. The biggest threat I faced was continual use of kids throwing rocks from a terrain feature. Admittedly he's a new player so didn't know the army very well so didn't use the stuff you mentioned.
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HnR is... not spectacular in comparison to GHQ. I have made a tiny TY army of them and the dudes are somewhat brittle and not well detailed. Meanwhile, GHQ looks absurdly good. In any case, I shall never be able to individually base 6mm to have a shot at single playing Ambush Alley at home: thr legs and gun barrels would probably not be able to handle the treatment.
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What's a good line to play Saga with. Looking for quality viking man's and maidens
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Phi230 posted:What's a good line to play Saga with. Looking for quality viking man's and maidens https://us-store.warlordgames.com/collections/dark-ages http://badsquiddogames.com/shop#!/Dark-Ages/c/20887902/offset=0&sort=normal
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Gripping beast has most of the poo poo you need. I'd wait for february when the Arthurian expansion comes out
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JcDent posted:Gripping beast has most of the poo poo you need. I'd wait for february when the Arthurian expansion comes out THE WHAT edit: their website got hacked so I can't look this up
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Footsore Miniatures makes my favorite dark age models. Absolutely beautiful
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I thought I would try something new this year, and get more organized. So I made a chart for what I plan my French army to look like at the end of the year: Each square is a SP2 unit, so 8 infantry or cavalry. Circles are NCOs and stars are higher ranked officers. There'll be musicians and standards and stuff, but those are less important in SP2. Blue stuff is already painted. I.... kind of like it. It makes it clear for me what to buy, so that I don't weer off and buy camelry or something daft that doesn't get me towards the final goal. And I also get motivated to paint the stuff, as I have the goal in front of me. I might do the same for my other larger projects, actually.
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lilljonas posted:I thought I would try something new this year, and get more organized. So I made a chart for what I plan my French army to look like at the end of the year: This is a great idea. I should do this for all of my projects.
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:This is a great idea. I should do this for all of my projects. Especially since I can't keep all my armies packed up for display, so they are either a) in boxes in a wardrobe or b) sitting at the club.
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Cool layout; great way to track progress and stay focused
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Agreed. drat, so simple and yet so effective.
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I use a spreadsheet and colour code by genre, but i haven't developed a single unified way to represent painted versus unpainted, and it's not nearly as simple or nice to look at as that chart. Combining the two ideas with a website is something I would do if I had continued to learn databases beyond 10th grade in 1998. Or had any graphics design skills at all.
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That's really cool lilljonas. I've been marathoning the Sharpe movies again. gently caress, the later ones get really dark with Sharpe hating his wife and money problems, killing industrial protesters
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How many 28mm dudes would you guys use per base for some ACW Picketts charge goodness?
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In 28mm, I'd probably base them individually and use some kind of movement tray.
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muggins posted:That's really cool lilljonas. Holy poo poo that looks neat and Sean Bean presumably doesn't even die! How are you watching that? E: did it fall off the back of a truck? DiHK fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Jan 27, 2017 |
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lilljonas posted:so that I don't weer off and buy camelry or something daft
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DJ Dizzy posted:How many 28mm dudes would you guys use per base for some ACW Picketts charge goodness? Honestly I'm basing individually with sabot bases so I can use them for SP and whatever big games DiHK posted:Holy poo poo that looks neat and Sean Bean presumably doesn't even die! How are you watching that? Blu ray =) Sharpe movies are the best thing, I could watch one every weekend like tbs movies for guys who like movies
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OK, 15mm grognards - what size washers do you use for your individual troops and how many do you mount per sabot base? I'm thinking of rebasing all my 15mm ACW stuff.
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Pierzak posted:You're gonna do that anyway. Hell yes. I'm already breaking the plan after I realized that the Perry box doesn't come with grenadiers, so I'll get seven units of line infantry. "Hmm, so the reasonable choice is.... to paint a ton of line infantry and buy more grenadiers?"
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muggins posted:Honestly I'm basing individually with sabot bases so I can use them for SP and whatever big games I'm a newly converted fan of sabot bases. So here are some pics of my voltigeurs in sabot bases.  
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I'm so happy you started 28mm Napoleonics.
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Fish and Chimps posted:I'm so happy you started 28mm Napoleonics. Me too man, me too. :P Collecting French Napoleonics is like collecting Space Marines for 40K. There are just endless toys and the biggest danger is to just get lost in all the variety. And then there are tons and tons of books and other materials. Insane!
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Lilj your stuff is so good. I'm almost done with my union troops, then I'm on to FIW provincials.
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Does anyone have a paint recommendation for the green basecoat on a Chieftain tank? Battlefront do a British paint set, but I'm not really interested paying for a bunch of other paints I don't need.
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muggins posted:Lilj your stuff is so good. I'm almost done with my union troops, then I'm on to FIW provincials. Thanks! I found that Napoleonics is a pretty thankful subject, the uniforms are flashy and it's pretty easy to get a decent speed while painting, once you've researched a specific uniform. Like my light infantry now, it's mostly dark blue and red.
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No, I'm an avid mixer of brands: vallejo, army painter, p3, lifecolor, gw, and probably some more. I paint mine a tad brighter than what might be realistic after a few months in the field, but that is largely to contrast with all the drab browns and greys of our WW2 armies. The hardest part was finding a good blue for the coats. After some experiments I went with army painter's Deep Blue. It takes a good shake before and two layers over a grey primer to get coverage, but after that I get a solid blue that is not too cartoonish. For everything else, blues, tans, greys, I just take whatever is close at hand or mix something. Especially pants and coats would be far from uniform colours on campaign. lilljonas fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Jan 27, 2017 |
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Makes sense, I got some landsknect in the sprue sale so was going to do the same brighter scheme to contrast the drab veteran Romans legionnaires that I also got
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I like a lot of Vallejo colors, but for red and some of the other more saturated colors I prefer citadel base
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I myself use mostly Vallejo, but I actually went full-on hipster mode and purchased a huge set of coat D arms paints. Lots of horse colors and uniform colors
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Went to Great Escape Games's homepage. Ordered enough to break their postage calculator. After checking with them on Facebook I'm going to order directly by e-mail and Make Wargaming Great Again (lots of Napoleonics and WW2).
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lilljonas posted:Went to Great Escape Games's homepage. After ordering that much postage should be free! 
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working mom posted:After ordering that much postage should be free! Actually, that's what broke (the weight calculation added S&H despite it being far above the threshold for free worldwide shipping).
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So I'm planning on getting into FoW because it seems to be the most popular historical game around me. I want to field a French national army though. How boned am I? Also, what rulebooks are good to start with aside from the core one?
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turn it up TURN ME ON posted:So I'm planning on getting into FoW because it seems to be the most popular historical game around me. I want to field a French national army though. How boned am I? Also, what rulebooks are good to start with aside from the core one? Well, the game is divided into three periods - Early, Mid, and Late War (with point costs for assorted units varying by era - ie a T-34/76 is far more expensive in Early War than it is in late) French are primarily in Early War (in Blitzkrieg and Burning Empires). You can also get rules for the Free French in Late War here and in Road to Rome. Keep in mind that the new edition is coming down the pipe, so they may be coming out with updates for these sorts of thing. Blitzkrieg and Burning Empires are both I believe some of the oldest books going, at present, so they most likely will be updated first. It may be a good idea to check with your group what era they favour.
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