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Pac-Manioc Root posted:"Commisar as guy who constantly shoots his own men" is some worn out poo poo in wargames. Huh, I've been playing too many wargames, I legitimately thought that a commisar was a military officer, but it's actually a political official. Today I learned, I guess.
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Colonial Air Force posted:That's more or less what they should be, it's just the religion was The State instead of a deity. +1 to morale or something. Yeah "secular chaplain of the State/Party" is a pretty good shorthand. The BA Chaplain Rules are: quote:Chaplain I'd say the last benefit could work more or less as is; and trade the pacifist drawbacks for maybe a bubble where he negates or reduces officer bonuses. Like he's a "third lieutenant" and if both he and an officer are within 6" of a unit they reduce the officer bonus by 1.
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Aug 3, 2017 15:23
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Roll to see if Commissar wrote letters home for the illiterate troops among the "insert unit size" If successful more morale
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Aug 3, 2017 15:52
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I like the one CoC version where the political officer counts as two men for morale purposes. Am I too late to ask about basing 6mm WW2? I'm leaning towards 40mm x 12mm strips of 5-6 figures, but that's primarily so they can serve double-duty in Epic 40k. (This would be primarily for BKC3 and IABSM.)
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Bolt Action: Are you supposed to select one and only one national characteristic to use with your platoon? Because uh my whole club has been doing it waaaay wrong and applying them all.
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Aug 3, 2017 18:30
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No, you use all of them. The British just have one with a couple different options.
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Aug 3, 2017 19:00
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tallkidwithglasses posted:Dang, I don't check in on the thread for like a week and not one but two posters find themselves venturing down the 6mm BP rabbit hole. Thanks that was me. I'm playing with the idea of silhouettes cut out of card if a unit goes to line to make gaps more accurate, since I don't figure march or column would need more than a token.
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Aug 3, 2017 21:13
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I'm crazy and I have a huge table and by god I will play Black Powder in 28mm
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Aug 3, 2017 21:25
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Phi230 posted:I'm crazy and I have a huge table and by god I will play Black Powder in 28mm Go for it then! 28mm can be glorious as well. Here are some better pics of the dragoons I finished yesterday:      More pics on the blog: http://krigetkommer.weebly.com/napoleonic-blog/more-french-dragoons Perry's French Dragoon box is a really good buy, as you get 1.5 units of mounted dragoons for SP2, and 1 unit of dismounted dragoons as well. If I didn't have tons of unpainted stuff I'd be itching for a third box now.
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Aug 3, 2017 21:35
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Looking great as always.
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Aug 3, 2017 21:43
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Fish and Chimps posted:Looking great as always. Thanks! By my calculations I'm just about under 1/3 through my cavalry stash now. 
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Aug 3, 2017 21:57
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lilljonas posted:Thanks! By my calculations I'm just about under 1/3 through my cavalry stash now. When I finish the 6 heavy Dragoons I got primed right now, I'll be exactly half way. Too bad I still got 4 Anglo-Allied infantry battalions and 4 French ones to do after that. Oh, and about 6 cannon and a load of generals and a couple of limbers and and and... 
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Aug 3, 2017 23:03
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Phi230 posted:I quickly assembled the two kits I got. moths posted:I like the one CoC version where the political officer counts as two men for morale purposes.
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Aug 4, 2017 02:30
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Arquinsiel posted:At 1:72 your Panzer IV is going to be the size of a King Tiger. It's waaaaay too big. Square cube law man. It's only the size of one of my BMPs
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It should be around 8.22cm in length, compared to the BMP's 6.74, just going by hull length and assuming your BMP is 1/100. Basically you're talking a 25% increase in every dimension. If you don't mind that it'll look weird and your group is okay with the advantages and disadvantages the size gives you then you can go ahead.
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Aug 4, 2017 02:43
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Well I guess it'll just be good paint practice
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Aug 4, 2017 02:51
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Phi230 posted:I'm crazy and I have a huge table and by god I will play Black Powder in 28mm 
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Aug 4, 2017 04:56
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Well what's the time limit on this cuz I gotta buy and paint enough models first
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Phi230 posted:Well what's the time limit on this cuz I gotta buy and paint enough models first In this case 10 years
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Aug 4, 2017 16:04
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Phi230 posted:
Posting this for more critique and more importantly do my men and BMP look historically plausible.
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Aug 5, 2017 16:20
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It's hard to see the weathering well with the way the pics are lit, but the dust effect on the back is really well done. I like the terrain on the l'il dudes' bases.
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Aug 5, 2017 17:53
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Two Hanoverian skirmisher bases for a brigade skirmish line for General d'Armee.
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Aug 5, 2017 21:25
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Well, Bolt Action tournament trip report: I won! Alright, to lay out the scene, there were a whole bunch of pre-arranged boards that people rotated around, which had various enclosed fields with a central road (with tank traps) running down the middle and usually a pair of dense woods, one for each side. The first scenario was Top Secret, and the board had a road running the down the centre, with a church on one side and a graveyard on the other. My opponent was I think another new player, since he also had a bunch of unpainted dudes. He was playing Germans, I think an SS list? He had a Panther, Puma and I think a Pak 75,as well as two small units of SS infantry and a Forward Observer. After my Sherman bit it on turn 2, I had some good luck on turn 3 where my arty barrage landed bang on the Panther, which lead to it being pinned basically the rest of the game as well as pinning most of his other units, his arty went off course and while pinning a few of my units, it also got a direct hit on his own infantry. I was able to easily get my Commandos up to grab the objective, and aside from an unfortunate incident with an attempted handoff to my forward observer after he got shot before he could escort it off the board, I got the objective off board the next turn. The next scenario was Demolition, against another German player who wasn't from our club, and he was playing a Bulge German list with a few small infantry units, a medium mortar, a sniper team, and oh yeah, a friggin' Tiger. The map had a river running through it and three bridges, with the central one blocked. My Forward Observers was able to deploy in the woods on my side of the woods and put down a barrage that forced him to disperse his troops. He kept most of his troops in the centre and sent his Tiger down his left flank (that bridge was nearer to my objective). His mortar killed off one of my light mortars and my sniper team, but amazingly a squad of my Commandos managed to block his Tiger on the bridge, stalling his advance. Despite lacking any anti-tank weapons, they managed to block him and despite several rounds of near-point-blank shooting, they amazingly survived. My other mortar was not so lucky, but the Tiger was large enough it tied up the whole bridge, and where it was meant the woods blocked line of sight to it for most of the rest of my army, which let them keep calm and carry on to the objective. On turn six, my other subsection had manged to push down the central road, and I released that my prone Vickers K gunner would be able to advance far enough to be in contact with the objective. The newly-dubbed Lance Corporal Leland Jenkins led his comrades in a final effort to take the objective, and this basically forced him into a mad panic to charge my command team with his mortar and another of his infantry squads, but my commandos saw them off for the win. I decided to dub the other section the Tiger Tamers. The final scenario was Meeting Engagement against a US player who had a veteran/paratrooper based list, with a truck and Sherman as support (he also had two bazooka teams, one of which was mounted in a jeep). He chose to keep the bazookas in reserve, and I mostly stalled his advance in the centre by dropping my artillery in his woods, which were fairly central on his side of the board and sent on subsection down each side of the board. When the artillery did come, it only pinned the sole squad of his infantry still in the centre. The flanks saw most of the fighting - the woods stopped his tanks from seeing most of my forces, but I made a major fuckup on my left flank, and that subsection got pretty badly mauled. On the right flank, the Tiger Tamers continued to lead a relatively charmed life, as the howitzer repeatedly tried to hit them and missed (it did once try to hit my sniper after I foolishly put them in the building - in my defense I didn't know about the HE bonus against buildings until he told me - but it also missed). The US infantry squad on that side got lucky and picked off one of my machinegunners, but the Tamers managed to rush them the following turn We got to turn 4 when time was about to be called, and suddenly he brought in the bazookas - I'd forgotten about them, and he'd sent them to outflank! Luckily one failed the leadership roll (which gave my a free command dice since time was called before the. The other rolled up in their jeep, ready to put a bazooka round into my Sherman's rear armour - I'd turned it to support my beleaguered commandos on the opposite flank. It all seemed hopeless...until I realised my opponent and I had both forgotten my forward observer, who was packing an SMG and within charge distance of the jeep. He launched an assault, and despite being outnumbered two-to-one, he managed to triumph over the enemy, giving me another two dice. With time called, I had 4 dice to his none. So to everyone's surprise, including my own, I won the tournament and got two free sprues (everyone else got one - I picked one each of British and US airborne) and the Enemy Agents & Defenders of the Realm blisters as prizes. All in all, not bad for only my second, third and fourth ever games of Bolt Action. I think that was probably the ultimate in beginner's luck, though. That, or Commandos are essentially idiot-proof. But at the end of the day, I had a great time!
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Awesome! Congrats on the win!
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Ilor posted:Awesome! Congrats on the win! Thanks! I'm quite pleased to find that hey, Commandos wore smocks like the paras, so I already start expanding my army with my trophies. I originally grabbed them for conversion fodder! I'm thinking I can use the bare/garrison cap heads from the US paras too. Plus as actual US paras for my US force.
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Is there a good Age of Sail miniature game?
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Arglebargle III posted:Is there a good Age of Sail miniature game? Sails of Glory or Wooden Ships and Iron Men
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Phi230 posted:For some reason I have very poor lighting. What should I do to take better pictures? Reposting again. Really dunno if I'm doing a good job.
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Aug 6, 2017 01:11
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Arglebargle III posted:Is there a good Age of Sail miniature game?
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Dunno if this is the best place for it, but I've got a BA M4 Sherman that I've never opened, and would be into trading it for some Napoleonics 28mm stuff.
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Phi230 posted:Reposting again. Really dunno if I'm doing a good job. Paintwise that's fab; you've got a really great weathered look over the track guard there and you've got a touch of silvering on edges that looks pretty great. The only complaint I could make would be modelling based.
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spectralent posted:Paintwise that's fab; you've got a really great weathered look over the track guard there and you've got a touch of silvering on edges that looks pretty great. The only complaint I could make would be modelling based. What complaint is that? Did I gently caress up the assembly at some point?
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Phi230 posted:What complaint is that? Did I gently caress up the assembly at some point? The left-hand turret launcher appears to be arranged running vertically instead of horizontally; they run parallel on all the BMP-2 models I've aware of. If they didn't fit parallel in assembly it's possible they were facing the wrong way. Like this:  
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Fish and Chimps posted:Two Hanoverian skirmisher bases for a brigade skirmish line for General d'Armee. They look great! Have you tried GDA or Picketts Charge yet? Flipswitch posted: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? I haven't played yet, but hope to. I'd imagine with modern warfare stuff you'd want a pretty good set of LOS blocking things, dips and valleys, vehicles, etc muggins fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Aug 6, 2017 |
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muggins posted:They look great! Have you tried GDA or Picketts Charge yet? Thanks! Yeah, we played a single game of GdA and found it complex but a lot closer to how Napoleonic battles would play out historically than Black Powder. Also, you need loads of units. 6 mm. is probably ideal for it. It seems like a very Grey Hunter set of rules. Fish and Chimps fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Aug 6, 2017 |
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spectralent posted:The left-hand turret launcher appears to be arranged running vertically instead of horizontally; they run parallel on all the BMP-2 models I've aware of. If they didn't fit parallel in assembly it's possible they were facing the wrong way. Just looks like it's angled for reloading.
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Arquinsiel posted:Just looks like it's angled for reloading. Yeah sure we'll go with that instead of me putting the launcher on backwards! Actually IIRC you change out the whole tube rather than angle it to reload the rocket
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Now that you say it that makes total sense, but would never have occurred to me.
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Fish and Chimps posted:Thanks! Yeah, we played a single game of GdA and found it complex but a lot closer to how Napoleonic battles would play out historically than Black Powder. It seems very daunting. I like black powder but it's also very simple and not a very good simulation like you said. It's also designed for massive tables. I'd really like to try GDA or PC.
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How do you guys store your armies. Not for transport but just like around
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