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Polikarpov posted:Tonight I made a small amount of progress on a company of T-72s Oh man. I'm looking forward to getting my hands on some GHQ.
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Polikarpov posted:Tonight I made a small amount of progress on a company of T-72s  T-72 buddy. I just wrapped up mine last night. Now onto the basing.
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Jan 13, 2018 18:46
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eugh, those napoleonic parking lot games are just so baffling to look at! And this guy is a total fop  Meanwhile, in the future, the west german bordertown of Schnitzelwürfel fell to a massive East German armored attack after a massive soviet bombardment 
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Jan 14, 2018 16:28
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Is it a rule in TY that tanks have to be touching?
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Jan 14, 2018 20:16
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Something, something, command ranges, Battlefield bad at making game. I would believe that this is a conscious efforts to cram more tanks on the table so that you would buy more.
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Jan 14, 2018 21:15
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Their points lists are designed that to field full-size units you gotta buy more boxes since a lot of units are odd numbered and they only sell in 5's. So if you want like 2 T-72 units you gotta buy 2 box sets just to make 2-half size units
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Jan 14, 2018 21:25
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At least the Napoleonics game would have people that densely packed. Not that it makes for a interesting game - how do you maneuver with that dense a field? Both are the problem of the wrong scale being used.
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Jan 14, 2018 21:26
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I don't even play TY and I'm already tired of these comments. Let us just take as read the fact that Internet Forum Something Awful is near unanimous in feeling that the TY ruleset encouraging densely packed tanks is not great and never speak of it again.
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Jan 14, 2018 21:36
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I think the bigger problem is the French general's inability to identify the lack of capability for musket fire to penetrate the frontal armour of a T-72
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Jan 14, 2018 21:48
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NTRabbit posted:I think the bigger problem is the French general's inability to identify the lack of capability for musket fire to penetrate the frontal armour of a T-72 It's Jerome, nobody liked Jerome, he's a fop
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Jan 14, 2018 22:21
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 T-72 The great thing about 6mm is I lost the turrets of two of these while they were sitting around not getting painted and it just doesn't matter. They'll show up eventually, or I can just buy more for like 50c each. I also realised that with these done I've finished all by the pair of ZU-23-2 and... most of the infantry 
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Jan 15, 2018 02:47
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im the stray pube
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Jan 15, 2018 04:29
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It's for scale 
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Jan 15, 2018 04:37
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Hmmm, those look like... either HnR or Scotia Grendel.
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Jan 15, 2018 07:05
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Not speaking of tank parks, I got my first flags from GMB Designs today, for my French, and they look delish. Gonna put some on my new Chasseurs-a-cheval as soon as I finish basing them.
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Jan 15, 2018 17:53
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lilljonas posted:Not speaking of tank parks, I got my first flags from GMB Designs today, for my French, and they look delish. Gonna put some on my new Chasseurs-a-cheval as soon as I finish basing them. I will never use anything else than GMB
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Jan 16, 2018 09:45
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Fish and Chimps posted:I will never use anything else than GMB Do you prepare them in any special way, or is just PVA glue and folding them a bit by hand the way to go?
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Jan 16, 2018 12:27
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Frobbe posted:
man how closely packed are those tanks
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Jan 16, 2018 12:37
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lilljonas posted:Do you prepare them in any special way, or is just PVA glue and folding them a bit by hand the way to go? No prep. Just watered down pva on the back, and folding it between to brush handles.
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Jan 16, 2018 16:47
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It makes sense when you remember that the tanks in Team Yankee wouldn't have had radios, so they have to communicate by shouting at each other.
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Jan 16, 2018 17:35
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Another minor piece of Battlegroup booism - The sides of a Panther, which are 20-30mm thick, not sloped, and could be penetrated by AT rifles, have the same armor rating as the front of a Sherman, which is between three and six times thicker (depending on variant) and sloped at fifty degrees. Kruppstahl is some serious loving poo poo. The rules look great, though. Nice middle ground between something like Chain of Command and Blitzkrieg Commander. Can't wait to try it out.
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Jan 16, 2018 17:41
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Ilor posted:Is it a rule in TY that tanks have to be touching? Recoome posted:man how closely packed are those tanks Basically, the problem is twofold: In TY, if a unit in a platoon wants to stay 'in command' of their unit leader, they have to be within 6" of that tank. If they leave that bubble, if they move, they have to try and move back into command-so right away, the rules encourage clumping your unit together. To make matters worse, the physical size of the models is noticeably larger than the previous WW2 vehicles in base Flames, which means that larger units, by necessity, turn into a giant parking lot. I like TY, and I wish I had the chance to play more of it, but that aspect is... not a good system.
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Jan 16, 2018 17:55
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Have they commented on why they replaced the classic command chain system? Or is the answer "hurr-durr Battlefront"?
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Basically, the problem is twofold: In TY, if a unit in a platoon wants to stay 'in command' of their unit leader, they have to be within 6" of that tank. If they leave that bubble, if they move, they have to try and move back into command-so right away, the rules encourage clumping your unit together. To make matters worse, the physical size of the models is noticeably larger than the previous WW2 vehicles in base Flames, which means that larger units, by necessity, turn into a giant parking lot. They don't have to be in command range, it just makes them shoot worse. Have a macedonian dude with a homemade spear. I have to make 184 of these. Regret 
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Jan 16, 2018 19:50
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Has anybody been able to take a look at Gangs of Rome? I love the idea of it but am wary of buying the book sight unseen. Historicals are a fickle mistress.
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Jan 16, 2018 20:23
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Frobbe posted:They don't have to be in command range, it just makes them shoot worse. Is that a Forged in Battle 15mm Macedonian? How do you find them? I'm considering getting some Hellenistic models to work on for fun. Also, does anyone sell decent 15mm spears?
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Jan 16, 2018 20:33
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Lord_Hambrose posted:Has anybody been able to take a look at Gangs of Rome? I love the idea of it but am wary of buying the book sight unseen. Historicals are a fickle mistress. I pre-ordered about $100 of stuff. I have the pdf but tbh I haven't read it yet. Was gonna wait for the real book. It is getting a lot of hype from the fb group.
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Jan 16, 2018 20:36
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MeinPanzer posted:Is that a Forged in Battle 15mm Macedonian? How do you find them? I'm considering getting some Hellenistic models to work on for fun. North Star sells spears http://www.northstarfigures.com/list.php?man=62&page=1 at 50mm long they're good for a 15mm scale sarissa to give to a phalangite like the one pictured, which is a Forged in Battle Macedonian Phalangite at the slope (also available in at the march), I've got some myself NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Jan 16, 2018 |
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Jan 16, 2018 20:42
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Lord_Hambrose posted:Has anybody been able to take a look at Gangs of Rome? I love the idea of it but am wary of buying the book sight unseen. Historicals are a fickle mistress. the pdf is free tho?
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Lord_Hambrose posted:Has anybody been able to take a look at Gangs of Rome? I love the idea of it but am wary of buying the book sight unseen. Historicals are a fickle mistress. The rules are a free pdf: Link. In a somewhat related problem, someone talk me out of buying a big pile of those Aventine 28mm Republican Romans. A regular opponent of mine has Successors, and I love the era - but will I ever actually paint them?
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Jan 16, 2018 22:29
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Cessna posted:The rules are a free pdf: Link. You might not paint them, but when has that ever stopped anybody?
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:You might not paint them, but when has that ever stopped anybody? My basement is already about to collapse into a singularity from the mass of all of the unpainted metal... Totally worth it.
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Cessna posted:The rules are a free pdf: Link. you shouldnt buy those aventine romans because you should buy the victrix romans instead  
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Jan 16, 2018 22:40
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Those are beautiful. Seriously, you're killing me here. (But I'm awful at plastic. Give me cold, hard metal.)
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Jan 16, 2018 22:43
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Oh poo poo, free rules. I will have to give them a look. Thanks, all.
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Cessna posted:Those are beautiful. Seriously, you're killing me here. dont be afraid, plastic is your friend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNijtptEtcQ 30 gbp for a box of 60 cute roman boys 
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:dont be afraid, plastic is your friend I got four boxes of Victrix French Napoleonics in a second hand lot sale last year. They're really nice for conversions, going to make all kinds of weird stuff out of them. (Weird as in "*squints hard* those rolled up forage caps in the backpacks are GREEN, not blue, did you paint up your imperial guard in greatcoats as italian royal guard?", not as in sci-fi mutants from space type of weird.)
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Played Test of Honour again, still liking it. Played it with the cards this time and injuries to Samurai instead of just removing them. Samurai can take huge amounts of punishment. My monk guy was on 12 blood drops (light wounds) at the end of the game. Next time we will play with the morale rules and I will hopefully try out the list I will take to the warring states event.
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Cross-posting from one of the painting threads: Progress! I've been working on some WW2 historicals of late, including some 8th Army Desert Rats:  So that the Afrika Korps dudes I just finished basing will have someone to fight!  Here's British the 2" mortar team:  One thing that always bugs me about multi-based weapons teams is how you handle wounds/casualties. The game for which these minis are intended is Chain of Command, where casualties and "shock" on a unit are integrally important. A lone MG-34 gunner without an a-gunner working hard swapping belts for him is less effective, so you want a way to track multi-man teams. The solution to this (as it is for seemingly all problems) is magnets! The base is a 2" diameter steel plate (i.e. a washer with no hole in it), and the loader is affixed to the base with magnets like so: Now you see him:  Now you don't:  Mmmm, magnets...  In this last picture, the cracking you see is what happens when you apply DullCote when it's 3 degrees F outside - in the 10 seconds it took me to walk outside, spray my poo poo, and walk back in, it had already crackled like that. These guys need another coat (there's still some shiny bits from the MinWax wash), but I'll wait until it warms up a bit.
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Ilor posted:
drat, that's a really elegant solution. I've been basing my crew operated weapon teams individually and it's a pain in the rear end. Good work.
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