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Fish and Chimps posted:Well these certainly are 32 Hanoverians I never have to paint again. Those look great! I have to admit; I've never seen anyone paint Hanoverians before.
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Endman posted:Those look great! I have to admit; I've never seen anyone paint Hanoverians before. Thanks! They shouldn't be that rare since about 1/3 of the brigades in the British divisions at Waterloo were Hanoverians. c0cky30 posted:Latest After Action Report. Great looking table! I shared you AAR with my CoC-happy gaming group. Fish and Chimps fucked around with this message at 11:59 on Jul 23, 2017 |
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 I just got my shiptment of 10mm mans from Pendraken (half-assembled 28mm KV-1 for scale) - They're so tiny and adorable!  First time working with a scale other than 28mm. This should be interesting. Geisladisk fucked around with this message at 14:10 on Jul 24, 2017 |
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I cannot but help feel that 10mm was the scale I wanted to play when I got into FoW. 15mm is fine, and 6mm is great for sweeping battles, but 10mm seems to have the right level of chunky cartoonish detail in vehicles for whatever impulse drove me back then.
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Hi goons, does anyone here play Spectre Ops? I've been asked by my LGS to help make semi-realistic boards with them, what size tables do they use? 6x4? How much scenery or am I looking for? or go with something towards a realistic representation?
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First base of Foot Guards painted. Would have had more but the little one woke up. They're supposed to look like they're forming square when they're all done.
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For Napoleonics do you have to paint your same guys in different formations? Like marching, shooting, or square?
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Hey guys. I'm curious whether any of you have played Dux Britanniarum. A friend of mine have been trying out the campaign, and we've seen it's got a lot of good reviews online. We're wondering... how. We've been trying *very* hard to like it, but the rules are just really poorly worded, and just so many things are unclear. I'm convinced we have to be doing something wrong, and we've asked on their forums for rules clarifications on what shouldn't be fringe issues. The forum has sadly been less than helpful. I was hoping that some of you on here might be able to shed some light on the subject.
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Phi230 posted:For Napoleonics do you have to paint your same guys in different formations? Like marching, shooting, or square? No, thank Christ! Usually they'll be based on 4-8 bases so you can just place them in the different formations. I just want a little variety in my battalions. Most of my guys are just marching so I'm trying to switch it up a little.
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Phi230 posted:For Napoleonics do you have to paint your same guys in different formations? Like marching, shooting, or square? Nah, but it looks nice for a lot of people who want their rank and file to look cool. Just like macedonian sarissas or swiss pikes.
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I just spent £55 on 144 French to build a brigade. Send help 
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Fish and Chimps posted:I just spent £55 on 144 French to build a brigade. Send help Ok send me ur french
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:Bolt Action Rules Question: When you add an LMG or flamethrower to a squad, one additional guy gets designated loader/assistant. Can he still act independently as a rifleman/submachinegunner, for example if your LMG gets sniped out, and during assaults? That's how I thought it was but now that I'm looking at the way they tell you to assemble the squads for the starter set (loader and gunner on the same base) it looks like maybe the loader and LMG operator have a suicide pact? The way my group plays it is that the loader is needed to fire the LMG and can't fire his own gun. However in assaults or if the gunner gets shot he acts like any other infantryman in the unit.
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Fish and Chimps posted:I just spent £55 on 144 French to build a brigade. Send help I just did an inventory of my unpainted nappy hoard. The infantry part alone is some 300 models strong. How the hell did I get this kind of backlog in one year?
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I thought my stash was huge, but I tried out the desktop background generator on scalemates and it told me that my stash was too small to generate a decently sized one, so I guess I'm not as bad as a lot of people.
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Yeah, at this point I have more unpainted WW2 stuff than painted WW2 stuff. 
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I have boxes and bags of unpainted Napoleonics everywhere. Hanoverians, Guards, Highlanders, artillery, heavy cavalry, and then all my unpainted ww2 stuff in both 15 and 28mm. I repeat: Send help Edit: The tip of the iceberg. 
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Jul 26, 2017 22:23
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 Smaller scales are cool because you don't just get a couple of tanks, you get so many tanks. 
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I need to start painting again I have a full company of 28mm in backlog rn
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  First battalion of Foot Guards painted. The square works really well I think. I still need to do bases but I'm thinking I'll do a big batch at some point.
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Fish and Chimps posted:
Looks nice! But didn't you miss the white stuff on their cuffs?
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zokie posted:Looks nice! But didn't you miss the white stuff on their cuffs? I don't know, why don't you paint 400 little dudes and tell me. j/k I'm being really selective about the details I can paint at this small scale with these huge numbers of dudes. Cuff embroidery didn't make the cut. Edit: e.g. these highlanders where their kilts really only have an approximation of tartan, but it'll look close enough on the table. 
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That square looks really good. I got to play Chain of Command today, just some basic stuff, and probably made a huge amount of mistakes, but I liked it in practice, super elegant.
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Crossposting some 6mm scale Parthians!Grey Hunter posted:Oath Complete
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Grey Hunter posted:Crossposting some 6mm scale Parthians! Nice! I'm back to painting some WW2, a platoon plus support for DAK, in a brief Napoleonic break. God drat is it relaxing to paint compared to 19th century stuff. "Hmm... I guess I'll slap these three types of brown on them, and then wash them with brown."
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It was tough to get all these corks but I managed it. My wife selflessly assisted me.  A regiment of Heavy Dragoons for the first third of the Union Brigade. I even have a Ponsonby model to lead them.
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Got my first order from PSC, 10 pz IIIs and 5 pz IVs. That'll bulk up my stuff nicely, they look fantastic. Building a Herman Goring tank company. 3 of the Pz IVs are becoming Pz IVH HQ tanks, and two more are being made into F1s for my midwar army. The pz IIIs are mostly becoming IIIMs for the tank platoons, with a few IIINs. Added to that, I've got a pair of Tigers (Probably just going to paint one for the desert and one for Italy) and a fallschirmjaeger platoon. Wanting to get a motorcycle scout platoon and a 10.5cm battery, and maybe some flakpanzer gepards and some air support to round things out.
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Just buy five of everything. You know you'll want to use that many eventually.
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Arquinsiel posted:Just buy five of everything. You know you'll want to use that many eventually. You are the devil.
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I'm just saving you headaches in the future mang.
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Should I make an Oath to paint stuff? Is it a good motivator? I have a huge backlog that I'm afraid to begin painting because I've spent so much time off and I'm afeared of loving them up especially since I need to do stuff like camo and weathering.
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Oathing last season helped me tremendously. I got a ton of stuff painted. This season, not so much.
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I find Oathing is super useful as a motivator to actually _finish_ things. Your mileage may vary, but I say go for it! There's nothing to lose.
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Seems like SP2 is the go to Napoleonics system around here, but I would assume BP is more popular in general? Do either of those things matter if I just want to buy and paint some 28mm mans? I can just pick a system when the whim strikes me? Is 28mm the most popular size? I'm new to this level of grog mans.
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Oathing is cool and good. Even if I do gently caress up, at least I gently caress up with nearly done miniatures in my hands!
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COOL CORN posted:Seems like SP2 is the go to Napoleonics system around here, but I would assume BP is more popular in general? Do either of those things matter if I just want to buy and paint some 28mm mans? I can just pick a system when the whim strikes me? Is 28mm the most popular size? I'm new to this level of grog mans. I think more people here aren't as hot on Black Powder because it needs a billion models and a lot of table space to play at 28mm. If you're just looking to paint it doesn't matter at all what ruleset you're using, and I think if you base them 4 dudes to a base you don't even have to do anything special to use the models in both systems.
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:I think more people here aren't as hot on Black Powder because it needs a billion models and a lot of table space to play at 28mm. Just play God's Own Scale if you want Black Powder. https://www.baccus6mm.com
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I do black-powder-era minis at 15mm scale. It works fine for Sharp Practice.
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Don't go 28mm for BP! Just look at the pics in the rule book to see how much space they expect you to have. Also, you'll go crazy before painting enough 28mm dudes to play. If you're certain you want to play divisional sized games, you should really pick a smaller scale.
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Yeah, I think there's two ways I'd go for 28mm Napoleonics: 1: If you want your own force, start out with something like Sharp Practice or even smaller scale skirmish. We started playing with about 60-70ish miniatures, and it still worked. At around a hundred or so minis, it's perfectly fine and I don't think I'd get that much more out of the game by adding more stuff at the same time. However, I can keep growing my collecting by broadening my options, but I can still get a game in in 2-3 hours (minus prep time) and a 6'x4' table (though a 8'x4' table is better). Basically, two boxes of plastics and maybe a metal blister or two, and you're golden. 2: Club-based collective madness. There's a club nearby me where they get together a few times every year, with a ton of space, and play division level games (currently General de Brigade). These are long term players who have tons and tons of miniatures, and they still collectively pool them for their games. So one might be painting up a division of Prussian landwehr infantry for like, a year. It looks great, but you have to really organize it, and it's definitely a very long term dedication. Now, you can get the second version much much easier by using a smaller scale, like 6, 10 or 15mm. Hell, even 1/72 scale miniatures are easier, as their much smaller footprint means that you need less space, and they cost a fraction of 28mm miniatures. So if you want to play 28mm Napoleonics, and you don't have a dedicated group of people ready to spend a year or three painting, I'd go for option 1. You can always use those miniatures later on as a base to expand from, just beefing up your units until they are big enough to join in larger battles if you find a local scene. e: for me, I went with 28mm mainly because I like painting the uniforms in that scale. However, I've also bought 6mm miniatures for when we plan to play really big battles. Both are nice, and choosing one doesn't prevent you from giving the other a try as well. It's a very different experience, they scratch different kinds of itches for me. lilljonas fucked around with this message at 08:01 on Aug 2, 2017 |
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