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I love that grenadiers traditionally had conical hats, instead of tricorns which were in vogue when most armies started fielding them. That's because slinging your musket over your head, so you can throw your grenade, in the heat of battle is a lot easier if you wear a cone on your head.
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I gather the overall effectiveness of them is what led to the development of the Shako to replace the Tricorne by the Napoleonic era?
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Phi230 posted:Same with Dragoons. Dragoons evolved to just be heavy cavalry but stuck with the designation That's more of a British thing to not have to pay them so much.
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zokie posted:I love that grenadiers traditionally had conical hats, instead of tricorns which were in vogue when most armies started fielding them. That's because slinging your musket over your head, so you can throw your grenade, in the heat of battle is a lot easier if you wear a cone on your head. I can tell you from personal experience that cocked hats (most armies actually wore bicorns) are a pain in the neck when moving your musket to the shoulder.
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edit: Perrys will apparently be releasing a line soon: https://www.facebook.com/perryminiatures/posts/1323202574468512 Fish and Chimps fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Dec 5, 2017 |
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Dec 5, 2017 14:30
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Making some process on my French MDF wagon (with some green stuff additions)  I feel like the green stuff and the mud paint hides the square MDF look pretty decently.
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....aaaand it's done! Now I just need to paint up a driver as well.
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Hi guys. I plan on getting some Perry Samurai guys for Test of Honour (Peasants, Ikko Ikki, bandits, etc). Does anyone know if they do January sales?
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I would just like the record to reflect: gently caress you guys - last night I had a dream about Napoleonics.
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Thundercloud posted:Hi guys. I plan on getting some Perry Samurai guys for Test of Honour (Peasants, Ikko Ikki, bandits, etc). Does anyone know if they do January sales? I’ve followed Perry for ten years, and haven’t seen a single sale. Ilor posted:I would just like the record to reflect: gently caress you guys - last night I had a dream about Napoleonics. Speaking of, a clubmate even recently dreamt that I was the mastermind behind a miniature smuggler ring, using match box sized army transport bags to get through customs. lilljonas fucked around with this message at 09:21 on Dec 18, 2017 |
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Dec 18, 2017 06:54
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Perry don't do sales, but their miniatures are pretty cheap as normal - particularly if you live outside of the UK and don't have to pay VAT 
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Endman posted:Perry don't do sales, but their miniatures are pretty cheap as normal - particularly if you live outside of the UK and don't have to pay VAT You can get the plastic kits on discount at other shops though, and many of them will have free international shipping if you spend some £40-50, so there's basically no incentive to buy the plastic boxes directly from Perry. For example, https://www.firestormgames.co.uk/ has their boxes at a constant 10% off, and with free international shipping for £40+ orders. I think Thewarstore has pretty good discounts if you are in the US. E: Tonight I fished out a tank that had been in storage for a year or so, and got to work on giving it decals. It's a bit of a fantasy tank, a French Foreign Legion Sherman being used to support the Free French in North africa:  Now I just need to give it a coat of Micro Sol, some varnish, and then it's desert weathering time baby! lilljonas fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Dec 18, 2017 |
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More news from HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT: THE GAME I nicked an M577 and repurposed it for my westgermans  I've also started working on PSC's new Leopard 1 models. In a hilarious manufacturing fuckup, they managed to forget to include the driver's hatch on the plans sent to the factory, so they now have to retool the mould. Whoops!  At least their mistake means i'll get 5 additional Leopard 1, meaning i'll probably never have to buy more of them except for conversions into engineering vehicles.
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 A friend has been busy building Hitlers fevered dreams for his alternate reality afrika korps. the ratte and monster are mostly cardboard and plasticard.
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This inspires a Games Workshop designer.
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Those are to scale with the little ones aren't they.....
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This would be the best OGRE expansion...
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moths posted:This would be the best OGRE expansion... Mention it to Steve Jackson at a con and he'll steal your idea. Speaking from experience here...
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No, it's the allies who had nukes. The Ogre in this case would be some upscaled T-35-esque monstrosity straight out of a nazi's meth-withdrawal nightmares. Five turrets, one of which lobs teeny nukes and annihilates entire panzer units.
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DiHK posted:Those are to scale with the little ones aren't they..... Yeep, these are indeed 15mm 1: 100 and the world is a better place for it.
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How would you even provide rules for those things
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Play Ogre with them.
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Phi230 posted:How would you even provide rules for those things Immobile gun emplacements.
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Imagine the fuel use for those things. Rule - Every time this unit moves, roll a d6, on anything but a 6 it runs out of fuel and is immobile for the rest of the game.
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Dec 22, 2017 10:02
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On a one, part of the vehicle spontaneously combusts.
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Dec 22, 2017 10:54
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On a 2-4 it sinks into the ground, destroying any roads or other terrain features beneath it.
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Were they actually hoping to use those in Africa? How would they even get one there?
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Dec 22, 2017 14:12
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You move the factory there first, duh.
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moths posted:Were they actually hoping to use those in Africa? How would they even get one there? By driving it over the hydroelectric dam across the Strait of Gibraltar, duh!
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You can't move it over water! It's bad enough that it attracts every allied pilot with a spare hand grenade, now you're just begging the torpedo bombers to have a shot. If you must, though, the secret to floating it is a very large river barge, pulled by horses. Shh. It's superior wunderwaffe secret Nazi technologies, ja. (I should go paint a tank, but eh)
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I love when history gets on the cusp of bad scifi moments before getting off the crazy train.
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Mainly because the crazy train shot himself....
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Yeah, I was on some TY FB site today and those 15mm parking lots are just off the hook.
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Polikarpov posted:
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Does anyone know where I can get individual guns and support weapons in 15mm scale for Chain of Command? I've got Soviet, British, German and American infantry platoons and a handful of tanks, but i'm having a hard time sourcing single sets of mortars and AT guns. I don't really want to spend $12 to buy a pack of AT guns or a mortar platoon from Battlefront and wind up with a bunch of leftovers I won't use.
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Peter Pig might do what you're looking for well enough.
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Peter Pig's website is just the most beautiful thing.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Peter Pig's website is just the most beautiful thing. Shopping here is when you know you have finally embraced the historical madness!
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