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So I bought a ton of Napoleonics to do a Sharp Practice battle in February. I like the Warlord plastics for simplicity but man the Perry ones are good. I'm bummed because I bought a bunch of peaked cap Hanoverians but from what I can tell they weren't in the Peninsular campaign, which is what I want to do. I guess I can do waterloo later tho!
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Phi230 posted:It's actually like one smooth motion. No hand crank as I understand it, it's like a lever that also moves on a horizontal axis.
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Aug 19, 2017 01:00
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Phi230 posted:It's actually like one smooth motion. No hand crank as I understand it, it's like a lever that also moves on a horizontal axis. Swinging the hatch to the side once opened was one smooth motion, raising the hatch to a open position required cranking a lever - Which meant that Panther commanders never, ever had the hatch closed. A guy called the Chieftain, a World of Tanks PR person, has a video on youtube where he pokes around a Panther and demonstrates how this works. moths posted:Haha, it's just a line that says you can use a base to represent a squad in smaller games. We do 1 base = 1 squad and 1:1 on vehicles/guns. It works fine. The only thing that kind of gets on some people's nerves is that a single tank regenerates hits between turns, but BKC operates at such a high level of abstraction that it's fine.
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Aug 19, 2017 11:06
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So...Operation Downfall is presumably going to be Bolt Action's next big ahistorical campaign, right? That or Australia. They're releasing a lot of new Pacific Theatre stuff right now. Downfall lets them sell Chi-Nus, for one thing, and they've already established precedent with the Maus for ahistorical/rare tanks.
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Aug 19, 2017 14:32
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Yvonmukluk posted:So...Operation Downfall is presumably going to be Bolt Action's next big ahistorical campaign, right? That or Australia. They're releasing a lot of new Pacific Theatre stuff right now. The Konflikt 47 Japanese stuff is also this autumn, so I would hope they would have it all link up, but then they did bring Bolt Action 2nd edition forward significantly and I don't know what that did to their release schedule.
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Aug 19, 2017 14:50
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I'm a bit sad we don't have a BA scene since I'd love to play some Sealion as literally any side, but what can one do... For vague future reference, which WG plastic kits are as assholish as the Brits to assemble?
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Aug 19, 2017 15:49
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JcDent posted:I'm a bit sad we don't have a BA scene since I'd love to play some Sealion as literally any side, but what can one do... Well, the new US & British Airborne have a lot more one-piece 'arms and weapons combo' on the sprue, so they're much easier to work with. US marines also have some one-piece weapons arms, but also have the 'fiddle with individual weapons and two separate arms' struggle to grapple with. I'm considering seeing if the US & British airborne arms are relatively interchangeable. Because if they are, then I can make some SAS on the cheap...
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Aug 19, 2017 16:14
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Based and flagged 3 bases of Hanoverians tonight. I've been on a painting spree for the last couple of weeks, coinciding with led finishing my MA, but I stopped cold when I had to do bases. It took some serious effort, and a computer meltdown, before I could finish the rest of the battalion. So the last seven bases, plus two bases of skirmishers, are drying right now.
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Aug 19, 2017 20:38
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BRITISH PARAS YOU SAAAY
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Aug 19, 2017 20:41
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JcDent posted:BRITISH PARAS YOU SAAAY  But yeah, they make plastic paras now. They're pretty swell, going from the one sprue I've worked with. I'm thinking of grabbing a box of them myself, since I can get some good use out of them. Some to be paratroopers (since I can have a section of paras in my RM Commando platoon), some as actual Commandos (since they actually did wear windproof smocks like the paras), and if I have any left over, I'll make a section of SAS for good measure. Or Poles.
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Aug 19, 2017 22:05
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Firsr FoW game went super well, really satisfied with how it turned out. I had a HG panzerkompanie. 4 pz ivh, 4 pz iiij, 2 pziiin, tiger, falschirmjaeger platoon, 10.5cm battery I fought US airborne. 3 rifle platoons, weapons platoon with lmgs and mortars, 2 jacksons, 4 shermans (1 76), and 3 priests. We played encounter. I deployed one tank platoon and my infantry and guns, he deployed his infantry and priests. The first few turns my tanks moved up into some woods near the center and parked there. My infantry guarded one if my objectives and my guns. He deployed a platoon on each flank and one in the middle. So those tanks kept putting shots into dug in infantry, killing a few now and then. They were on the center left, I'm a position to protect my left objective. Not much happened the first turns, our artillery pinned some stuff but had limited impact. I got my second tank platoon turn 3 on my right flank, which rolled up and the pziv took a shot that managed to kill a priest. His center platoon started moving up to attack my tanks in the trees, but they took terrible casualties from MGs and my arty once they were no longer dug in. Once the bazooka was dead he pulled them back to some buildings but I was able to get them down to 2 teams and they failed their first last stand. Turn 4 he got his Sherman platoon on my left threatening mg left objective, but I followed that up the next turn by bringing my tiger out over there causing him to abandon that flank and move to the right. I got the remaining 2 pzivs out by turn 8, and he did the same with his jacksons and lmgs. My infantry and tanks on the right advanced on his right platoon, but the appearance of the lmgs there as well as the scout cars made me dig my infantry in. Tiger killed a Jackson pretty quickly, while my pz platoon ob the left continued blitzing and scoot and shooting through the woods fighting Shermans and the remaining jackson. They tie them up for a while but eventually get knocked out. On the right, I pin his airborne platoon and assault with my tanks. His bazooka and gammon bombs fail to do anything and I kill 6, they fell back off the objective. He had enough stuff left that he kept feeding infantry into there to contest while his tanks cross the map to engage. My infantry were continually pinned by his lmgs, leaving my guns undefended. He ran his jeeps and scout cars around to kill half my guns and take my objective while my tanks killed the last of his and cleared the objective, getting him the win a turn before I could. In the end, I lost 2 pziv, 3 pziii, 4 infantry teams, and 2 guns. He lost 4 shermans, 2 TDs, 2 airborne platoons plus some models from the third, most of the weapon platoon, and 2 priests. People here seem to play at 1650, going to add some flakpanzers and motorcycles chutche2 fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Aug 19, 2017 |
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Aug 19, 2017 22:55
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 I made a ghetto light box Don't mind the single strand of cat hair
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Aug 20, 2017 00:39
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Fish and Chimps posted:Based and flagged 3 bases of Hanoverians tonight. I've been on a painting spree for the last couple of weeks, coinciding with led finishing my MA, but I stopped cold when I had to do bases. It took some serious effort, and a computer meltdown, before I could finish the rest of the battalion. So the last seven bases, plus two bases of skirmishers, are drying right now. Looking great! I also tend to wait with basing until I can do a whole sweep. I just finished two units of skirmishing voltigeurs for my light infantry, but I'll wait with the basing to see if gluing them on metal washers are better. After all, having heavier bases might keep them from falling over as easily.  I'm also gluing together my hussars, and god drat it they are endless. I'm going to be painting those suckers for years.
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Aug 20, 2017 21:45
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lilljonas posted:Looking great! I also tend to wait with basing until I can do a whole sweep. I just finished two units of skirmishing voltigeurs for my light infantry, but I'll wait with the basing to see if gluing them on metal washers are better. After all, having heavier bases might keep them from falling over as easily. No wonder they're falling over! Those pom-poms are huge. And magnificent! And yeah, painting the same poo poo for years is basically :napoleonics:
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Aug 21, 2017 06:59
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I'm starting out into some Bolt Action and while building the first few minis the question of base sizes came up as it looks like one of my 2 platic infantry packs is missing the 25x50mm bases. Is it mandatory to put the prone guys on the 25x50mm bases and things like mmg teams on those larger 50mm? round bases or would it be ok to put the models on the regular 25mm round ones and just place them next to each other ingame? If I wanted to build a mmg team or a light/medium mortar team out of the regular multi part plastic dudes, is that okay or is it frowned upon?
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Aug 21, 2017 12:00
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Doctors Inc posted:I'm starting out into some Bolt Action and while building the first few minis the question of base sizes came up as it looks like one of my 2 platic infantry packs is missing the 25x50mm bases. That all sounds OK by my understanding of it. What are going for, if you don't mind my inquiry?
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Aug 21, 2017 13:09
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I started with the japanese. So far I used one set of regular japanese infantry and one set of SNLF to build the following: 1 officer with bodyguard 2 platoons of 8 snlf vets with 2smgs and a lmg each 1 engineer platoon of 14 with 3 knee mortars 1 sniper 1 anti tank rifle team 3 anti tank mine suicide teams I did a ~750 point test game last thursday against some marines and they did pretty good. Probably looking for an armord car and maybe a truck or two and some more infantry in the near future Currently building a flamethrower team with some green stuff and wire, let's see how that turns out...
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Aug 21, 2017 13:29
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Squads, not platoons, I'd wager. I did my Italian Brixia on one round and my British 2in on two small round bases. Idgaf.
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Aug 21, 2017 14:14
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Fish and Chimps posted:No wonder they're falling over! Those pom-poms are huge. And magnificent! Go plume or go home. And I don't understand what you're getting at, my very modest French plan to have one unit of each type of infantry (not even Guards!) and one decent sized unit of each type of common cavalry type (not even Guards!) only amounts to a mere 400 minis. But then there's the allies... ...oh and I'm kidding myself if I think I can keep away from the Guards.
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Aug 21, 2017 14:47
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lilljonas posted:a mere 400 minis. But then there's the allies... Napoleonics are great aren't they? 
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Aug 21, 2017 15:27
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Doctors Inc posted:I started with the japanese. Locally a lot of Europe loving but not a lot of Pacific so it's cool to see the Empire getting repped. If more people played glorious Nippon around here I'd probably do up some cool Gurkhas and poo poo.
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Aug 21, 2017 15:31
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Fish and Chimps posted:Napoleonics are great aren't they? On the other hand, couldn't you do a full-sized regiment in 6mm for less than a hundo, splat some paint on them and base them, and be all good?
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Aug 21, 2017 17:20
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Drone posted:On the other hand, couldn't you do a full-sized regiment in 6mm for less than a hundo, splat some paint on them and base them, and be all good? Of course. My pile of unpainted 6mm nappy is staring at me as well. :P
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Aug 21, 2017 17:30
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lilljonas posted:Of course. In my weird sorta nascent fascination with historicals, I was reading through the Osprey book detailing my local area's contribution to the Napoleonic Wars (I live in what was then a small duchy in Germany, part of the Confederation of the Rhine). I could do the entire army of this little country in 6mm extremely easily and relatively cheaply and field the entire thing on a (big) table, considering it only numbered around 4500 men 
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Drone posted:In my weird sorta nascent fascination with historicals, I was reading through the Osprey book detailing my local area's contribution to the Napoleonic Wars (I live in what was then a small duchy in Germany, part of the Confederation of the Rhine). I could do the entire army of this little country in 6mm extremely easily and relatively cheaply and field the entire thing on a (big) table, considering it only numbered around 4500 men
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Arquinsiel posted:Well... go on then. You could do the same with the Swedish invasion of Norway. The battles saw some 2-3000 men per side, you could do real Napoleonic oobs with 1:1 representation of men! You'd be stuck with two mediocre (at best) armies waffling around fjords and though.
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Aug 22, 2017 06:21
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lilljonas posted:You could do the same with the Swedish invasion of Norway. The battles saw some 2-3000 men per side, you could do real Napoleonic oobs with 1:1 representation of men! You'd be stuck with two mediocre (at best) armies waffling around fjords and though. I would join that project in a heartbeat 
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Aug 22, 2017 07:01
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Phi230 posted:
That's a nice looking LAV and a good photo. Gratz on the light box. Post the catte
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Aug 22, 2017 07:21
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Fish and Chimps posted:I would join that project in a heartbeat With those silly top hats and everything? :P Norwegian Napoleonic uniforms just look so quaint when coming from painting up Frenchmen. These Swedish guardsmen look pretty dapper though:  It's like a blind tailor took a bavarian and stitched British straps on his uniform and then stuck a big plume on his head. What's not to like?
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Aug 22, 2017 07:44
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Phi230 posted:
Whats your recipe for the very nice looking weathering on this BMP?
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Aug 22, 2017 07:59
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:Locally a lot of Europe loving but not a lot of Pacific so it's cool to see the Empire getting repped. If more people played glorious Nippon around here I'd probably do up some cool Gurkhas and poo poo. Same problem over here, as most of the players are playing european theater armies. I wanted to play on the axis side becaus we generally have more allies but didnt want to be the 100th german army. And while some of the lesser factions looked nice, I choose japan for the plastic multi-part kits. I don't like metal too much as it's harder to scratchbuild with them and I like modding my troops a bit. I am still somewhat undecided on what squad size to use. 8 man vet squads and 10+ regular squads worked fine so far but as my grenadiers could go from 5 to 18 men... Any tips?
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BeigeJacket posted:Whats your recipe for the very nice looking weathering on this BMP? Basecoat Castellan Green (or Vallejo Camo Olive Green) Paint gun barrel black Dark Brown Wash like Agrax Earthshade Mix 75/25 Castellan Green + Zandri Dust (Vallejo Cam. Olive Green + Zandri Dust or Iraqi Sand) Combination of aggressive drybrushing and layering on areas I would think exposed to the sun. You want to focus more on aggressive drybrushing on the flat areas so that you can still see a bit of the darker basecoat through. Pinwash with a black wash, like Nuln Oil. Drybrush Runefang Steel (or Vallejo Gunmetal Grey) on edges where there'd be exposed metal or metal-on-metal contact Drybrush Zandri Dust (or Iraqi Sand) on places where there'd be dirt and dust buildup, like the side skirts and wheels. Additionally I used Vallejo's Engine Grime effect to clog up the exhaust grates; and Vallejo's Oil Stains around the gas cap behind the turret. That's it. mllaneza posted:That's a nice looking LAV and a good photo. Gratz on the light box. 
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Doctors Inc posted:I am still somewhat undecided on what squad size to use. 8 man vet squads and 10+ regular squads worked fine so far but as my grenadiers could go from 5 to 18 men... Any tips? Got dang 18-man squads? I'd be leery of going full strength on a regular squad like that just because it feels pretty brittle--like something that might just disappear if it sees a flamethrower, but if they are cheap maybe 10 or 11? Still getting them table-ready but I'm going for my Easy Company I'm actually going with "reinforced up to full TO&E strength platoon" with 3 full 12-man squads. My thinking is that the "full strength" order-reroll and prevent loss of momentum with a bad roll in those early game situations where your vets haven't taken a casualty yet but have a pin marker or two and you're still getting them into position-- or from that daggone Tiger Fear rule. It's pretty expensive though with ~600 points tied up in squads. Fortunately plenty of folks will oblige a 1250 game so I can still fit in some decent support and a Sherman. We'll see how it works in practice. Owlbear Camus fucked around with this message at 14:07 on Aug 22, 2017 |
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That's a pretty cute catte, if I can say so myself.
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 I'm getting close to being done with this one and wanna know how it's coming along because it's the most time consuming model ive ever done
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Aug 23, 2017 01:15
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Hey goons, I bought some Spanish napoleonic guys because gently caress, they look cool, and Paul Hicks is an amazing sculptor. But I can't find good color plates to figure out how to paint them. Can you help? http://brigadegames.3dcartstores.com/Spanish-Infantry-Marching-1-of-5-possible-poses_p_4078.html ^^ These dudes
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Aug 23, 2017 02:43
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Phi230 posted:
What exactly is THAT doing here?
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Aug 23, 2017 03:08
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Phi230 posted:
Might wanna post it here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3148869
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Pierzak posted:Might wanna post it here: But it's for Team Yankee
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