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Cool pics and a neat batrep. I like to read other people's experiences with BG, since it actually seems like a cool rule set, but I'll never get to play the WW2 variant since I've decided to focus on CoC. I've been on a roll today, and finished two huge backlog projects: my half painted Hanoverian Landwehr are now completely finished, as well as well as my years old un-based Germans. Behold!       That's 32 little Napoleonic dudes and 41 little nazi dudes finished. Feels so good to get those done after so many years.
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According to the chieftain, they were apparently still known as M10 in the British army. I don't think the name Achilles was ever really used, but I might be remembering some other AFV from WW2. People have been crazy about retroactively naming those things with all kinds of totally rad cool names. Edit: ugh, made a mess of that page. Fish and Chimps fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Aug 12, 2018 |
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Wow! Those models look gorgeous. I'm really impressed you put so much detail into 15mm. I could never bring up the energy to put time into a project to get that result. I have the same feeling with coc btw, I have the ruleset, but I just got a grip on BG rules, so I'll leave that for the time being. Maybe I'll get some people motivated to try it out in the future.
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Those are 15mm hanoverians? gently caress, I'd love to make Imperial Guardsmen out of them...
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JcDent posted:Those are 15mm hanoverians? gently caress, I'd love to make Imperial Guardsmen out of them... Why? (Also, 20mm)
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Aug 13, 2018 07:35
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Fish and Chimps posted:Why? Cos they look super cool, you painted them really well. Of course, the real question is "why would you make something for 40K," to which I have no real answer.
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Aug 13, 2018 07:41
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I don't know about FandC, but I totally thought you were talking about Napoleon's Imperial Guard and I got confused.
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Thanks, and yeah, I was really wondering why anyone would put any effort into making anything for 40k. I just lost grog points for not thinking of the French Imperial Guard first, didn't I?
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Fish and Chimps posted:Thanks, and yeah, I was really wondering why anyone would put any effort into making anything for 40k. Also known as the real Imperial Guard. Harumph.  Speaking of which, I have two boxes of them from Victrix (Chasseurs and Grenadiers) that I should get around to paint one of these days. But first I need more light infantry. I'll bring a Victrix box (1804-07, but I'll switch heads so should be fine) for my stay with my in-laws in Japan, and together with the HäT ones I painted up I should be able to squeeze out 3-4 battalions out.
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You keep saying you're looking forward to being able to play GdA, but haven't you painted more battalions than we have now? You need 3 brigades of 3-4 battalions to play small GdA games, so you should be pretty much set by now, with your crazy output!
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Fish and Chimps posted:You keep saying you're looking forward to being able to play GdA, but haven't you painted more battalions than we have now? You need 3 brigades of 3-4 battalions to play small GdA games, so you should be pretty much set by now, with your crazy output! I've painted a lot of minis yes, but we're considering 32 man battalions, so we'll also need a lot of them. Just looking at the bonkers divisions Napoleon used in 1812, we're talking 17 battalions in one infantry division (5(!) battalions in most French regiment, and that's in the field, not 4+1 depot battalion). That's 544 infantry minis. Just for one division. I have maybe some 250ish infantry painted now, I haven't counted in a while. While that's numerically about 8 battalions, they are not optimized for GdA/Lasalle yet., I think my current forces are maybe enough for 4-5 battalions straight off, and then I'll need to add specific troops to fill up even battalions, and then I'd definitely be close to a small GdA game. It also depends on how many flank company minis I use per battalion, etc. Let's just say that there's some collective planning needed to be done as we figure out how to make the battalions, as some solutions are better for French, some for Russians, and some for Brittish. I'll start up by getting two regiments of a more normal size, one light and one line, and then work from there. I'm looking at making the 2nd Infantry Division right now, since it included two battalions of Joseph Bonaparte's Spanish regiment as well. This would allow me to include some nice white uniforms for a change, and they'd also be useful in Peninsular games. Also, our Russian player needs to have enough troops as well! He just bought a whole bunch of almost finished line infantry, which he'll be able to form into a combined grenadier regiment. Then he'll have at least one jäger regiment and one line regiment.
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Fashionable Jorts posted:Yeah that's a really weird narrative choice for them to make. The Finns (mostly) hated the Nazis, but they subscribed to the idea of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". As soon as there was peace with the Soviets, the Finns told the Germans stationed in Finland to get the gently caress out of Finland. I believe the time limit they gave the Nazis was so short that they had to leave most of their gear behind. This was a condition from the Soviet side for peace with the Soviets, btw, it's not like Finland had a choice in the matter. I think you're over egging the pudding a bit with the 'Finns hating the Nazis' bit. Given they had their own White v Red civil war not long before, a lot of Finns were down with the anti-Bolshevism part at least.
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feedmegin posted:This was a condition from the Soviet side for peace with the Soviets, btw, it's not like Finland had a choice in the matter. I think you're over egging the pudding a bit with the 'Finns hating the Nazis' bit. Given they had their own White v Red civil war not long before, a lot of Finns were down with the anti-Bolshevism part at least. I though that the primary reason Finland went with the Germans was because they were the only option to protect them from the USSR at that point. Considering the fact that Lapland War happened in the backstory and all that entails, it feels weird that the Finns would decide to actively start fighting in the war again, and that the Germans would happily share all their wonder weapons with them. I mean granted, it was kind of necessary because otherwise you might as well just use Bolt Action lists for the Axis minor powers/Japan, but honestly I find it hard that the Nazis would share that poo poo with themselves, considering the clusterfuck of competing power blocs. The fact that the Western Allies and the Soviets have been separated into different blocs means that it would have presented an actually interesting alternate history scenario if they'd decided to have the Finns say gently caress you to both sides and align with the Allies, who after all had been sympathetic to the Finnish cause until the whole 'co-belligerents with Germany' thing.
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The 'continuation war' is a good bit of Finnish propaganda as they invaded Russia in a war of choice.
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feedmegin posted:This was a condition from the Soviet side for peace with the Soviets, btw, it's not like Finland had a choice in the matter. I think you're over egging the pudding a bit with the 'Finns hating the Nazis' bit. Given they had their own White v Red civil war not long before, a lot of Finns were down with the anti-Bolshevism part at least. To be fair, the Bolsheviks did has plans to dissolve the existence of Finland essentially ending their culture, so it's not too hard of a stretch to imagine people being not cool with that. I'm not saying that the Finn's hands are totally clean, what with many of the Whites during the civil war being pretty fascist, just overall they're not Nazis. So in a fictional alternate history it seems very weird to me that the writers would have them continue down the Nazi path. It feels to me like the person who wrote that plot didn't actually know too much about Finland and just skimmed a wiki article about what "side" they were on. But that could just be my personal biases coming though.
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Why is Konflict '47 stuff so expensive? At my local store a single German spider tank cost $150 while an entire Flames of War starter kit with 3 Shermans and 3 Stugs plus infantry only cost $100.
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My hundreds of Celtic tiny mans finally arrived after a month and a half delay. Not pictured are a bunch of chariots, and my friend's hundreds of Roman tiny mans.  I really want to start basing them, but since we haven't fully settled on a rule system yet, that will have to wait. Edit: The image stopped working for a bit. Fashionable Jorts fucked around with this message at 09:33 on Aug 15, 2018 |
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:Why is Konflict '47 stuff so expensive? At my local store a single German spider tank cost $150 while an entire Flames of War starter kit with 3 Shermans and 3 Stugs plus infantry only cost $100. The big tank is really expensive (https://us-store.warlordgames.com/collections/konflikt-47/products/german-zeus-heavy-panzermech)and very large, but it still sounds like that store is gouging you a bit, depending on where you live.
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I'm in Australia so everything has shipping on top of the regular price.
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Good news, everyone! Warlord are having a summer clearance sale! Nothing on offer for Bolt Action, mind, but looks like some great options for some of their other game systems. Including some pretty good generic moderns, imo. Grab it while you can!
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Yvonmukluk posted:Good news, everyone! Warlord are having a summer clearance sale! Nothing on offer for Bolt Action, mind, but looks like some great options for some of their other game systems. Including some pretty good generic moderns, imo. Grab it while you can! Shipping on the 70 romans I just bought was more expensive than the sprues. Anyone have any ideas on what to do with a bunch of Roman veterans?
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Yeah the $12 shipping kind of kills that deal.
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Unless you buy like 20 sprues... You need to do both sides of the Triumvirate wars, right?
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Arquinsiel posted:Unless you buy like 20 sprues... At 1 pound/sprue, it seems our Russian player is going to even out the odds against my French force. :P Too bad no French napoleonics in the clearance.
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The real tragedy is that the Hannoverians that are on sale share the same uniform as the British, only the hat is different. But Warlord has sculpted the head together with the neck/collar which makes using any sort of spare heads a huge pain. Luckily I noticed this before buying a whole division
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My 4ground stuff finally arrived!  Pretty easy to build, not too many fiddly bits. They look great as is, and you even get some mini-posters and roadsigns in the instructions. Some TTcombat buildings in the back, which scale quite nicely. I can paint them up now I've got an idea about the color scheme of the rest.
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Crap, I applied a matte spray finish to one of my models then realized I somehow missed a huge paint stain on one side of his arm. Does anyone know if I can paint over the finish and then reapply on top of the new paint?
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Class Warcraft posted:Crap, I applied a matte spray finish to one of my models then realized I somehow missed a huge paint stain on one side of his arm. Does anyone know if I can paint over the finish and then reapply on top of the new paint? Sure you can. Just make sure it's 100% dry before correcting and re-spraying, and make sure you don't apply it heavily for the second varnish.
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Welp I guess I have a modern infantry platoon for some reason.
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My German CoC platoon is finally done. After putting it off for a couple of days because of the camo pattern, I finally finished them. I was afraid my painting enthusiasm was killed by the Hannoverians! 
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Fish and Chimps posted:My German CoC platoon is finally done.
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Fish and Chimps posted:My German CoC platoon is finally done. After putting it off for a couple of days because of the camo pattern, I finally finished them. I was afraid my painting enthusiasm was killed by the Hannoverians! Excellent paint job. Do you have any group shots?
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Fish and Chimps posted:My German CoC platoon is finally done. After putting it off for a couple of days because of the camo pattern, I finally finished them. I was afraid my painting enthusiasm was killed by the Hannoverians! Nice! And in today’s news, perry are releasing finnish dragoons, so now their swedish nappy range is getting closer to be enough for a small SP2 force. Tempting! The dragoons in shako should be possible to use for some of the Swedish regiments as well. https://www.perry-miniatures.com/product_info.php?products_id=3915&osCsid=j0m5kfd77umd1susb117dv4p36
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Endman posted:Excellent paint job. Do you have any group shots? Thanks! No, not yet. But I could take one today.
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lilljonas posted:Nice! Doooooo it. Doooooo it!
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Here is my entire German CoC platoon, minus supports, plus loads of reinforcements.      
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 x-posting from the oath thread.
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