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Life is short bro - I suggest buy, wash heavily and touch up the bits which you need to.
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If its local and you can inspect them then yes. If from the internet: in my experience what you're probably going to receive is a box in the mail of mini's dumped into the bottom with no consideration for wrapping them to protect damage, and who will have spent the entire trip grinding against one another and falling apart and only once you reassemble them all will you realize that a bunch of pieces are missing.
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There's something about 28mm Napoleonics that literally makes my heart thump a little faster. Thanks for posting your tiny (but still relatively large) mans. 
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I'm looking to make a horse-drawn limber for my 88mm flak gun. Anyone have any ideas for prebuilt models or how I might go about putting one together myself?
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Jun 2, 2017 22:18
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What scale? If you're working in 20mm or lower they're easy to find.
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Jun 3, 2017 13:25
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Jun 3, 2017 17:20
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Finally I can get the SS and Svastika dice that I always wanted!
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Has anyone played l'art de la guerre? I found a local wargaming club and apparently it is ( along with LaSalle) the defacto standard. From what I can tell it's something of a mix between DBA and warlord's r&f games
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Southern Heel posted:Has anyone played l'art de la guerre? I found a local wargaming club and apparently it is ( along with LaSalle) the defacto standard. From what I can tell it's something of a mix between DBA and warlord's r&f games Never tried it, but it seems to have sailed up as the new DBA, probably after DBA 3 being like a decade late and then completely failing to make a lasting impression.
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lilljonas posted:Nice. Man your hobby is so good. I nominate you for best historical grog goon. I have purchased painted models on eBay in the past if it was a decent price and the picture showed it was okay. It worked for me but it was like wading through a lot of garbage.
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I got hold of some of the first run of Desert Rats plastic infantry from Battlefront at the Games Expo. Here's my review and build. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH-TipHm9UA
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It would appear that Pike and Shotte is dead with my current home opponent, so my only way forward with that era is to re-base as Kings of War Historical. I'm debating whether to magnetise them onto the KoW Trays or just glue them ontop and be done with it. lilljonas posted:Never tried it, but it seems to have sailed up as the new DBA, probably after DBA 3 being like a decade late and then completely failing to make a lasting impression. It seems very similar, some of the nomenclature has changed but the rules aren't foreign. It would appear the main difference is that bases are double-depth (i.e. square rather than oblong) and have cohesion (i.e. a number of hitpoints) instead of being automatically destroyed. They seem to take it super loving seriously though, but maybe this is just the impersonal face of a forum post. Apparently they travel around the UK going to regional/national tournaments - which seems like a bloody alien concept to me as I'm much more ale-and-crisps than comp-and-score-cards. I guess we'll see how it pans out.
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Thundercloud posted:I got hold of some of the first run of Desert Rats plastic infantry from Battlefront at the Games Expo. Too Many Soft Plastic Men
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JcDent posted:Too Many Soft Plastic Men I will see how they take paint tonight. Plus sides are the weapons don't have to be as big as metals and less chance of ankle breaks. Also 1/3 cheaper than FOW metals, but official WWII models from battlefront are the most expensive for the scale. Minus sides it's soft plastic and I am really not sure how it will take paint.
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So, the new plastic has way less detail, the flash is harder to remove, and still need base-cleaning to get in a slot, and now introduce a gun-bending issue? Why are we using this instead of the existing plastic?
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spectralent posted:So, the new plastic has way less detail, the flash is harder to remove, and still need base-cleaning to get in a slot, and now introduce a gun-bending issue? Why are we using this instead of the existing plastic? Soft plastic has cheaper moulds, and if grogs sit on their minis they won't snap.
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Thundercloud posted:Soft plastic has cheaper moulds, and if grogs sit on their minis they won't snap. Who is sitting on their models? I mean, it seems to be 90% of the marketing pitch and I've never dropped a rulebook on my figures before. I wouldn't mind so much if they were cheaper compared to plastic but so far it seems to be hard plastic prices still.
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Jun 5, 2017 14:12
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Cheaper for them, not us
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If I understand correctly, soft plastic molds are made from steel and take decades to wear out. It all seems like they want to take FoW into mainstream big box stores, but that is such a bad idea for so many reasons.
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For the plus side soft plastic means undercuts and making this all one piece, but the minus side is cleaning a mould line out from that undercut.
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This is a long shot, but does anyone have the 1/72 La Haye Sainte set by Airfix? They rereleased it in 2015 with a lot of plastic figures with it, but I'm interested in knowing if the size of it will fit our painted collection of heroic 18mm and 20mm Napoleonics. I'm reading Jeremy Black's Waterloo book and I'm getting an appetite for continuing our Waterloo project, even if I have to paint both sides. Edit: I can see now from the dimensions mentioned in a review that it would be much too large. Fish and Chimps fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Jun 5, 2017 |
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muggins posted:Man your hobby is so good. I nominate you for best historical grog goon. Wow, thanks! I ended up passing on the offer, since I already have a lot of unpainted stuff that is higher priority. About a hundred infantry and almost as many cavalry left. At least I managed to squeeze in one box of plastic French from Warlord this past month, excluding the metal command miniatures.  15 Fusiliers, which means I can field a six unit formation of them. I'm also getting close to have enough for two smaller formations.  5 Voltigeurs, and once I have enough of skirmish posed Voltigeurs I'll shove these into a ranked Voltigeur formation
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Fish and Chimps posted:This is a long shot, but does anyone have the 1/72 La Haye Sainte set by Airfix? They rereleased it in 2015 with a lot of plastic figures with it, but I'm interested in knowing if the size of it will fit our painted collection of heroic 18mm and 20mm Napoleonics. I need to stop doing this, because I never actually get the things I spot and then spend ages trying to find them online.
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We played the first game of our ACW Sharp Practice campaign that I'm hoping to get published by TFL     
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Warlord Games sent me a surprisingly condition free $15 coupon code that expires June 11th. Seems silly to let it go to waste. I want to get something for my BA Soviets before it expires but am getting into the game with only one demo under my belt, having traded into a whole mess of Soviet infantry, a couple mortars, an observation team, standard bearer, T-34 and couple other things. What might be a good, fun, get for not much more than $15-$20 bucks? Assault Engineers look cool as Hell.
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:Warlord Games sent me a surprisingly condition free $15 coupon code that expires June 11th. Seems silly to let it go to waste. Assault engineers would be a good choice. Also consider a zis 3, it doubles as an both an AT gun and an artillery piece. How'd you get that coupon if you don't mind me asking?
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Class Warcraft posted:How'd you get that coupon if you don't mind me asking? They sent it to my email as a "mother's day" promotion, presumably because I ordered there before (dogs for Frostgrave in that case). If you've placed direct orders maybe check your spam filter and see if you got one. Warlord Games posted:Hi A Owlbear Camus fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Jun 6, 2017 |
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Yeah, warlord hands out coupons now and then. Sometimes everyone seems to get one, sometimes it is random.
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Naval infantry!
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In preparation for getting my poo poo pushed in Warmachine-style on Friday at my new adoptive club (at least, in theory) in ADLG I've checked out Dash of Elan on YT. He's got some great batreps, here's a couple for ADLG: Intro to the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNCn9LNmJOA A 'live' game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ActOFcNExxA
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If you preordered some T-55s from PSC (remember them?), then they're apparently finished and shipping over this week!
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spectralent posted:If you preordered some T-55s from PSC (remember them?), then they're apparently finished and shipping over this week!  Huzzah!
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Lots of sprues for sale from Warlord, around 50% off: https://store.warlordgames.com/coll..._eid=07b0bdc004
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Southern Heel posted:Lots of sprues for sale from Warlord, around 50% off: Aww yissss! Gonna buy even more nappy horses even though I have tons of unpainted poo poo, because
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Wrecked house is so tempting along with blitzkrieg infantry for operation Sea Lion. But it's everything at once this month.
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As usual NWS Online has matched Warlords sprue/house/base sale, which already being at half-price of retail means you can get sprues there for 75% off. Most are like two bucks each. http://yhst-12000246778232.stores.yahoo.net/nwswagaplsps.html They only have Black Powder and Bolt Action sprues and shipping is slow but hell yeah, two dollar sprues. Edit: although if you can get free shipping from Warlord that might be a better value in the end. Class Warcraft fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Jun 7, 2017 |
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 I would err worry about anyone who's a bit too enthusiastic about busting those out at a game
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Class Warcraft posted:As usual NWS Online has matched Warlords sprue/house/base sale, which already being at half-price of retail means you can get sprues there for 75% off. Most are like two bucks each. yea nws has some pretty brutal shipping pricing too
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I got both General d'Armee and Travel Battle by mail yesterday. Travel Battle is indeed very very simple, but a really cool concept for holidays or if you (say) have a baby. I haven't had time to read GdA yet but if anyone is on the fence about buying the rules and have any questions I can answer them. Same for TB of course.
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Fish and Chimps posted:I got both General d'Armee and Travel Battle by mail yesterday. How big armies do you need for GdA in 28mm? Asking for a friend...
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