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Serotonin posted:Yep and it looks fantastic. Will be hitting up their demo table at Salute and buying some more plastic tanks Great! I have many questions but I think the pdf goes on general sale tomorrow. I do want to ask if it one tank per player? And what nations / eras are represented?
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moths posted:Great! I have many questions but I think the pdf goes on general sale tomorrow. It's presented as being one tank per player for the purposes of the campaign, though you could easily have one player commanding a couple tanks in a battle. At the beginning of each round the order every tank will act is decided, and then each tank takes its turn. The tank stats listed are 1939-1945, Germany, France, UK, Japan, Soviet, and USA. The way they are presented the stats generally improve across the board for tanks built later in the war. The actual stats are very simple though, just an armor and strike value and one of a handful of special rules (e.g. slow, fast, low-profile, tank destroyer etc.) so you could probably adapt the stats to multiple eras.
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Signal posted:In chain of Command, can you take a halftrack and put an AT gun with crew into it, to make one of the armed variants? You can usually just buy the armed variant itself. The Consolidated Arsenal has listing for most of these (e.g. the SdKfz 251/10 with 3.7cm Pak-36, which clocks in at Support List 4). If it doesn't have the variant you want, you can just run the vehicle + gun stats through the CoCulator to get the correct Support List cost.
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Ilor posted:You can usually just buy the armed variant itself. The Consolidated Arsenal has listing for most of these (e.g. the SdKfz 251/10 with 3.7cm Pak-36, which clocks in at Support List 4). If it doesn't have the variant you want, you can just run the vehicle + gun stats through the CoCulator to get the correct Support List cost. Great, thanks! Now to figure out what panzergrenadier force I want to build to fight Americans in Normandy. :p
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:After playing quite a few 500pt games of Bolt Action, I've decided that: Gyro Zeppeli posted:Yeah, listbuilding right now is a case of "But I want EVERYONE to have Thompsons and BARs!" Speaking of Bolt Action, I do have some rules queries for the thread, since I was just in a BA tourney (I lost. Which I'd be OK with - it'd be proof of my 'the more painted my dudes, the more I suck at using them' hypothesis, but I wound up playing some real rules lawyers.) 1) When it comes to artillery/HE, you can overlap units that are nearby, as long a you maximise the target units, right? Does that include weapons teams/vehicles? Because I was told that you had to centre the template in both cases. Which is annoying, since after rolling one of the best arty barrages I've ever done (the fact he'd clumped all his units in one place helped), I had both of those that could have had some nice collateral damage. The example the TO gave for weapons teams was if someone had dispersed the models of the team out to 3 different points, which if anything you'd think would be a counterexample (since if Id been shooting this hypothetical cheeselord mortar team with one of my light mortars, I would technically hit loving nothing centred on the base). 2) This isn't really a rules question, but I had to mention it. Last game (the 8th Army guy), we have a board that's an actual hill with a bunch of ruins. Very impressive, especially since most of the others are just flat boards with a bunch of hedges & houses. My opponent declares he's calling in his free artillery on a tiny bit of ruins on my side of the hill where some of my units are gathered, since you can technically just barely see it from his side of the hill. The poker chip he used as his artillery marker wouldn't even stay on. I guess I technically came out ahead (well, ahead of everyone outside the top though, since one part of the booby prize (apart from a 'hilarious' trophy with breasts that has found its rightful place in the back of a cupboard and probably later a landfill) was a set of the British Airborne hardcarts, which might make a nice objective. A lot better than the sprue of farm animals everyone else who wasn't in the top 3 got. I dunno, maybe I'm the rear end in a top hat. Despite all my complaints over that particular experience, I'd still heartily recommend Bolt Action though! I mean, I can finish painting my dudes and I can't sink any lower, right?
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Serotonin posted:Yep and it looks fantastic. Will be hitting up their demo table at Salute and buying some more plastic tanks
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Thanks for the WaWanker info! I'm somehow more pumped for it now.
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Signal posted:In chain of Command, can you take a halftrack and put an AT gun with crew into it, to make one of the armed variants? The Consolidated Arsenal has fan-made stats for just about every vehicle you can imagine
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I've brought my models over to my sister's place, as she's home on maternity leave and I figured this would be a good family bonding thingy and give me some social interaction while also getting to hang out with the cats. I have to assemble: 8 SU-85/85M/100/100M tank destroyers. (Plastic?) 1 IS-2 obj. 1943 (Some sort of resin?) And to paint: 1 spetsnaz platoon, 1 engineer sapper platoon. (Also resin?)  (Not pictured here the IS-2 package as this picture came later in the day!)  (There was a surprising amount of "Some Assembly required..." this day!) Following instructions my friend passed me here: https://flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=4303 and with the superglue, brushes, I bought at the arts supply store I began my task.  Tank tied up awaiting interrogation by the enemy team's Caveira For some reason initially the glue doesn't just stick together and has to be held together, but later sometimes sticks instantly, which gets annoying when trying to precisely align the fuel tanks on the rear of my SU's. The fuel tanks in particular cause a lot of headache as my fingers end up getting caught in the glue and pulling the tank off of the tank via my finger tip. My friend on discord who told me there was a huge discount on Flames of War mini's which prompted my to clear out the available stock of Soviet kit from that store suggested I take a candle and eat up the blade of an exacto knife. My sister vetoed the idea.  My sister also intervenes a couple of times, apparently its a bad idea to cut towards yourself but I was being careful I swear! A cutting board is brought in.  (This machine kills fascists!  )I assembled the SU-100, and found that nothing really stops me from also assembling the SU-85, since I didn't glue the top and bottom together presumably I can swap tops for different scenarios?  ("You can totally pick up chicks in a tank") The SU-85 though won't have exhaust ports, the crew will have to have the hatches open to deal with it. There will be no complaints!  That 45 degree hatch can gently caress off.  (Iosif Stalin Tank Online... )Cupola hatch slightly crooked. I'm not 100% that I got the treads attached right or if superglue is appropriate for it, I found no assembly guide online phone googling. I had to dig up and find some pliers to hold the smaller resin fuel tanks because gently caress sawing those danglies off with a exacto knife.  (Psst Comrade, if we don't move, the bunny rabbit won't notice us...) So far I've made two SU-100's, with optional SU-85's that they could swap with. The next two will be primarily SU-85's (i.e the ones that get the exhaust ports), I found this took me like 4 hours so I'm taking a break for a while but I hope to finish assembling the rest the time time I'm there. My Brother in law is Bulgarian who was a child during Communist Bulgaria, I can't wait to mention how communist forces are slowly taking over his apartment.  My friend says to make 3 SU-85's and 3 SU-100's as that's closest to the army list he suggests I use, Motostrelkovy Batalon? Cheapest option is infantry batalon, or go back and get 15 Shermans and pretend their lend-lease for like 50$. Thoughts?
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:i really hope you didnt buy any more of their poo poo after being treated like that, because holy gently caress Ever hear of the "sunk cost fallacy?" My Germans:  My Soviets:  These pics were taken about 8 years ago. Since then I've roughly doubled my Soviet tanks and added a Naval Infantry battalion. The Germans got a Fallschirmjager company. I've also got plenty of Vietnam stuff:   Plus a load of Vietnam armor, North Vietnamese, Viet Cong, etc... And my in-progress Soviets:  That said, I've bailed. I'm done. I'll fill a couple of gaps in my Cold War armies - which I'll use with other rules - but beyond that, I'm out.
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Fortunately, all of that stuff can be used for games that are way better than anything Battlefront puts out. I encourage you to check out TFL's "I Ain't Been Shot, Mum!" for company to battalion scale WW2 action, for instance. So fear not, your cost is not entirely sunk. Foundering in heavy seas, perhaps, but not sunk.
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Cessna posted:Broad insanity You have my respect. Also, fear. And envy. And confusion. But mostly respect.
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That sure is a lot of stuff! Get into Battlegroup Kursk, why don't ya. Dunno what's good for FoW-based Nam, tho.
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JcDent posted:Get into Battlegroup Kursk, why don't ya. Hell yes. That's my game of choice these days. I'm also planning on using that Cold War stuff for Battlegroup NORTHAG. JcDent posted:Dunno what's good for FoW-based Nam, tho. TFL's Charlie Don't Surf: 
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Ilor posted:Fortunately, all of that stuff can be used for games that are way better than anything Battlefront puts out. I encourage you to check out TFL's "I Ain't Been Shot, Mum!" for company to battalion scale WW2 action, for instance. So fear not, your cost is not entirely sunk. Foundering in heavy seas, perhaps, but not sunk. I'm liking Battlegroup Kursk, but I do like the Lardies' approach. I'll check out I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! I seem to recall rumors that they were making a Cold War version of that one - I Ain't Been Nuked, Mum! - did anything ever come out of that one?
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I'd look into Blitzkrieg Commander when they finally do a corrected edition as well.
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Phi230 posted:How many of you revisit models to improve them? When I took out my old samurai collection from storage for rebasing and reorganisation, I went over all of them to clean up chipping and stuff, and also to tidy up some details. E: a good start, if you want to play with painted minis in a new scale or period, is to just block paint all the basic colors until you have a playable force. Then you start to use them, and go back to do stuff like washes and highlights later on. I did that for one of our German WW2 platoons, when we wanted to play a big bash and didn't have three playable platoons.
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Phi230 posted:How many of you revisit models to improve them? All the time. In fact, looking at that photo, above, makes me want to re-do those whole drat armies. My techniques have changed quite a bit since I painted them.
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moths posted:Has anything more come out regarding the BKC3 corrections? They're saying August so my bet would be November. It's been allmost a year already. I had been under the impression the corrections weren't huge, but obviosly they're big enough to take a year to do.
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Yikes. I thought it was cool that we'll get free copies of the corrected edition though, so I can't really complain.
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Might mean I have armies painted by the time they send it out.
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Phi230 posted:How many of you revisit models to improve them? I don't paint them to begin with, so it's never a problem 
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Phi230 posted:How many of you revisit models to improve them? I keep discovering details I've skipped, like brass shako plates or highlights on bayonets. I just can't be bothered to go back and fix it 
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I'm just asking because I feel like I paint faces, skin and highlights poorly Also I think I did a bad job on my hinds
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Finished painting the band of brothers starter set:   
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Phi230 posted:How many of you revisit models to improve them? I'll be patching up chipped italian paras for a game on Saturday.
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How cost effective would it be to 3D print mini's. Getting my own printer vs finding a shop that does 3d printing?
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Raenir Salazar posted:How cost effective would it be to 3D print mini's. Getting my own printer vs finding a shop that does 3d printing? 
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First Time Caller posted:Finished painting the band of brothers starter set: theze are dope
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What ranges do people recommend for 15mm or 6mm Cold War guys? I know of Battlefronts (overpriced) stuff.
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Flipswitch posted:What ranges do people recommend for 15mm or 6mm Cold War guys? I know of Battlefronts (overpriced) stuff. Plastic Soldier Company and Zvedza
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Cheers, do PSC only have a small range? My LGS doesn't stock Zvezda at all. Will look into GHQ, cheers mate!
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Psc are building their range with regular releases. Zvezda have a few modern kits, but haven't released any more for a while.
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Does What a Tanker have a release date for the PDF?
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Yesterday or the day before that. I got my copy already
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Wait, PDF? I only see the physical copy on their website. I ordered that already, but a PDF would be great while I wait for the physical copy.
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GHQ are pretty but expensive, I go with Heroics & Ros which is dirt cheap and acceptably good.
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