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I want to know what the hell a "volley firing machine" is, because I'm picturing a catapult full of captured panzerfausts.
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Geisladisk posted:I want to know what the hell a "volley firing machine" is, because I'm picturing a catapult full of captured panzerfausts. I've seen photos of wooden frames that mounted one or several captured rockets, I can only assume it was something like that.
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Apr 18, 2017 19:32
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TBH being able to hurl 10 rockets into a bunker in rapid succession is a pretty useful capability.
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Apr 18, 2017 19:57
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You know those landing ships converted into fuckoff MLRS barges? Like that, but smaller and drunk.
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Geisladisk posted:
If there's an "MG lost" under the casualties boxes they have an LMG. IIRC SMGs became more common for squad leaders over time, but you can make a point for having them with rifles. SMG platoons and tank rider platoons fielded all SMGs. I'm not in any way a knowledgable person about Soviet WW2 platoons, but here's an info dump from a better source (Chris Steadman): Soviet Rifle Company, April 1941 Company HQ – strength not determined Machine Gun Platoon – 2 sections, each 1 7.62mm HMG 3 Rifle Platoons each Platoon HQ – strength not determined 4 rifle sections (12 men): 1 SVT 1940 Rifle or 7.62mm SMG; 1 7.62mm LMG; 10 1891/30 Rifle. 1 mortar section: 1 50mm mortar; 3(?) personnel. Soviet Rifle Company, July 1941 Company HQ – strength not determined Mortar Platoon, 2 sections each 1, 50mm mortar 3 Rifle Platoons, each Platoon HQ – strength not determined 2 sections, each 1 SVT 1940 rifle or 7.62mm SMG; 1 7.62mm LMG; 10 1891/30 rifles. 2 sections, each 1 SVT 1940 rifle or 7.62mm SMG; 11 1891/30 rifles. Soviet Rifle Company, December 1941 Company HQ – strength not determined 3 Rifle Platoons, each Platoon HQ – strength not determined 3 sections, each 1 SVT 1940 rifle or 7.62mm SMG; 1 7.62mm LMG; 10 1891/30 rifles. Soviet Rifle Company, July 1942 Company HQ – strength not determined 1 Mortar Platoon, of three sections, each 1 50mm mortar 3 Rifle Platoons, each Platoon HQ – strength not determined 4 sections, each 1 7.62mm SMG; 1 7.62mm LMG; 7 1891/30 rifles. Soviet Rifle Company, December 1942 – 1945 Company HQ – strength not determined Heavy MG section of 1 7.62mm HMG except Guards, where 1 HMG Platoon of 2 7.62mm HMG Mortar section of 2, 50 mm mortars 3 Rifle Platoons, each Platoon HQ – strength not determined 2 Sections, each 1 7.62mm SMG; 2 7.62mm LMG; 6 1891/30 rifles. 2 Sections, each 1 7.62mm SMG; 1 7.62mm LMG; 7 1891/30 rifles. Soviet Rifle Company, 1944 – 1945 Company HQ – strength not determined Heavy MG Platoon of 2 7.62mm HMG 3 Rifle Platoons, each Platoon HQ – strength not determined 3 Sections, each 1 7.62mm SMG; 1 7.62mm LMG; 5 1891/30 rifles. Soviet SMG Company, December 1941 – 1945 Company HQ – strength not determined 3 SMG Platoons, each Platoon HQ – strength not determined 3 Sections of 10 7.62mm SMG A good think with CoC is that you can make any of these platoons to your liking, and then just stat out with the CoCulator how many points they would be.
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Apr 18, 2017 21:07
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drat, that constant mortar platoon swapping...
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Apr 19, 2017 04:48
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Polikarpov posted:TBH being able to hurl 10 rockets into a bunker in rapid succession is a pretty useful capability. The British (maybe just the canadians) did the same thing with UCs.
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Apr 19, 2017 10:38
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Hedgehog marine rocket launchers. I have some Airfix ones around somewhere that I never stuck to Matildas.
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I wrote a review about my new Foundry French Carabiniers. They went on to butcher some Russian Grenadiers in their first battle this weekend, are now my new darlings together with the lancers, who also proved excellent at skewering Cossacks and Hussars. http://krigetkommer.weebly.com/napoleonic-blog/more-french-legere-carabiniers-foundry   E: I also wrote a battle report from my last SP2 battle against zokie. Skirmisher duels! Cavalry charges! And people marching in columns! If you can imagine something more dramatic than that, you have a wilder imagination than me. http://krigetkommer.weebly.com/napoleonic-blog/battle-report-high-noon-at-vitebsk lilljonas fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Apr 20, 2017 |
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lilljonas posted:I wrote a review about my new Foundry French Carabiniers. They went on to butcher some Russian Grenadiers in their first battle this weekend, are now my new darlings together with the lancers, who also proved excellent at skewering Cossacks and Hussars. I started that match with one goal, to use an Open Column and turn it into a Line by that sweet pivot of each group. That it won me the game is just gravy, it's fun to see that manouver is starting to feature more and more in our games. With flank charges, tricks eith coöumns and forcing squares.
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Apr 20, 2017 18:49
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If any goons are going to Salute, see if you have a chance to check out that neat new "travel-sized" Napoleonics game that Perry is releasing in two days. I'm interested to see how it plays and works out in general.
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Drone posted:If any goons are going to Salute, see if you have a chance to check out that neat new "travel-sized" Napoleonics game that Perry is releasing in two days. I'm interested to see how it plays and works out in general. Seconding this
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I will volunteer for checking that out - what kind of thing do you want to know?
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Apr 20, 2017 20:19
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If it's a good game that is fun?
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Apr 20, 2017 20:23
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What do the miniatures smell like and how many can you can fit in your mouth
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Apr 20, 2017 20:43
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Class Warcraft posted:What do the miniatures smell like and how many can you can fit in your mouth Given that they are like 8mm big, I think I could fit a few companies.
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I think, but am not sure, that it's Old Crow Miniatures who if you approach their stall and say "stone the crows" will give you a free pack of 28mm scale crow minis to decorate your corpse piles with.
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Does anyone here understand how Bolt Action's tank rules differ from regular reinforced platoons? Something about radio channels and command vehicles? I don't feel like the PDF included on the website explains it very well. Edit: I figured it out! There's a supplement book. ExtraNoise fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Apr 21, 2017 |
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What are peoples opinions on flames 4th edition. I like the war in the desert and they do starter armies of 8 tanks and two artillery pieces. What's flames like to play? How big are games? Would it be better to just get blitzkrieg commander? Give me your terrible opinions guys. And how much Zveda stuff is available for the period? Any good sources of infantry? I know FoW basing is compatible with BKC.
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Thundercloud posted:What are peoples opinions on flames 4th edition. I like the war in the desert and they do starter armies of 8 tanks and two artillery pieces. Zvezda do have some bits for the desert war, and Plastic Soldier Company have also done a lot of good stuff (early model Shermans and Stuarts, in particular, as well as 25pnders & universal carriers). Not really any other alternatives for infantry, mind.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Not really any other alternatives for infantry, mind. Forged in Battle does some early war British, French, and Polish infantry, and has some relevant vehicles like the Grant, Mk VIb, M4A1 cast hull aka Sherman II ('Desert Sherman'), Sherman III, Stuart III, and of course every German vehicle ever made and plenty more that were never made, because no one generates more bank than wehraboos
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Thundercloud posted:What are peoples opinions on flames 4th edition. I like the war in the desert and they do starter armies of 8 tanks and two artillery pieces. To follow up my death thread post: There's stuff I like about it so I'm not going to say it's all bad. Hit allocation is way simpler, I appreciate the changes to RoF/pinning, and I like that things have more capability of movement. Pre-ranging and area-fire (especially for smoke) is nice with artillery. I love the fact terrain is usually so much simpler, and I like the idea of orders. It does play faster. There's stuff I have a personal distaste for; I think morale from TY was already wonky enough even without moving it to a 1/turn thing (after remounting!), I hate how all the good ways of removing infantry and guns have been nerfed to the point where it feels like you're heavily encouraged to recreate the western front circa 1916. Cards are so annoying; not just the fact all the upgrade options are now weird, board-gamey discard effects (to be bought separately, of course) but the fact they've decided to make all the tanks very slightly different, because you should obviously have the card as reference. Artillery having to add +1 to range in if the template's over terrain; why? I could probably gone on, but there's a billion and one tiny annoyances. Assaults are now nightmares with limited smoke and limited teams-in-contact, and soviets essentially lost QoQ with how many bases you need to ram in, which I obviously care deeply about  And lastly, it's really obvious nobody's examined the rules really hard to see if it actually says what they meant. I posted in the Death Thread on this at length, but I'm pretty sure every segment of the rules has at least one "I strongly assume they meant to say X because this is kind of weird otherwise" bit.
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There's a death thread for FoW?
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Colonial Air Force posted:There's a death thread for FoW? Nah, I just ranted on the death thread.
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The Death Thread started getting completely unreadable so I stopped reading. Now it's saying 1300 unread posts. Please post long historicals themed rants here. Is FoW V4 a shitpile? Are the cards bundled with the miniatures so you have to spend twice as much on official WWII miniatures?
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How is the Tanks X-Wing clone skirmish game that Battlefront makes? It's cheap enough that I might pick up the starter set at least.
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Thundercloud posted:The Death Thread started getting completely unreadable so I stopped reading. Now it's saying 1300 unread posts. Please post long historicals themed rants here. I'll just quote myself: spectralent posted:Stuff I have a personal distaste for? Stuff like the unit cards, nerfing assaults (and really all non-artillery ways of killing dug-in infantry), the wonky morale rules I wasn't insanely keen on from TY... There's a lot of stuff that, alone, I probably would've gone for but together is just too much irritation to really be living with. Cynically, yeah probably. You don't have to use cards, but they've sure made basically everything much more fiddly and less unified in what really feels like an attempt to make playing without them a pain in the rear end. Tanks used to be 8" or 12", and even in TY it's 10" or 14". V4 tanks go anywhere from 8-14", and while all infantry are 8", guns can be 2-8". The upgrade cards, meanwhile, feel 100% like "we split this book up across a bunch of cards so you have to buy more stuff". Beardless posted:How is the Tanks X-Wing clone skirmish game that Battlefront makes? It's cheap enough that I might pick up the starter set at least. I dug it but it's definitely way less deep than X-Wing and my group bounced off it pretty hard. I've heard it's not done great globally which is a shame because it did seem really accessible.
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It never even hit the shelves here sadly, so I didn't get to try it at all.
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Blitzkrieg Commander III is out tomorrow. Anyone picking it up?
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Apr 22, 2017 02:11
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Probably. I've played a lot of mk2 and it was a lot of fun.
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What's the difference between Blitzkrieg and FoW?
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Apr 22, 2017 13:15
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Blitzkrieg Commander is based on warmaster.
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Thundercloud posted:Blitzkrieg Commander is based on warmaster. I would like more detail, or should I give some, em, free trial pdf a spin?
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I don't know if you would be able to find one. The first time non-playtesters will have access to it is today by purchasing it at Salute. It's a really good system (or was in first edition) and can be played from 2-15mm scales. I will be ordering it and likely doing forces in 15mm scale where the minis are a decent size. Because I could then use the same minis in FoW I was curious as to what state that game was in. Apparently not great.
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FoW 3rd edition was solidly alright, and the books might be going cheap now
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Thundercloud posted:I don't know if you would be able to find one. The first time non-playtesters will have access to it is today by purchasing it at Salute. Naw, I was just wondering what are the biggest differences between Blitzkrieg and FoW. Is a FoW rifle/mg base half a squad of dudes in Blitzkrieg too? What about on table artillery? Friction? Activations?
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You can have some artillery on table but you can have it off table. Everything in bkc works without being some huge drama fest of edge cases. Basing is flexible, as is choosing your army, so you can use FoW stuff with the same bases.
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Arquinsiel posted:FoW 3rd edition was solidly alright, and the books might be going cheap now Great segue, you can have a 3rd edition rulebook for literally nothing see below! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3818054#post471634082
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Oh dang. Where is across the world exactly? As I am already thereabouts but would totally be interested in books.
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I actually signed up to play BKC3 at Fall-In last year, since the book was expected to be completed by then. It ended up being v2 because of the delay, but I still had fun and enjoyed the system. So I'll be picking up 3 as soon as I can. Is that soon?
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