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Just use planes as location markers and keep them at 6mm or smaller, and then have them be the only thing to cross the table boundaries. The next thing is to ensure you have enough landing craft in both scales to do a 1:1 representation.
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Hmm I kind of like the idea of one (very big) board in 6mm and doing something like invading a Pacific island as a club/exhibition sort of game. It'd look incredibly impressive.
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I know nothing more about this, but here's someone's Tarawa board:
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Jul 31, 2019 16:59
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Everyone always wants to do D-Day or the Pacific fit beach landing, never Estonia or Finland.
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Anarcho-Commissar posted:They didn't until the war was basically over, aside from their submarines. Everything else was coastal artillery. Cruel Seas models are fairly huge at 1/300. Go 1/600 and use this guy's garage resin kits: https://ptdockyard.com/narrow-seas/1600-wwii-coastal-forces/1600-russian/
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Jul 31, 2019 17:25
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Yeah a giant 6mm pacific atoll or archipelago is what I was thinking. You could have the islands oversized compared to the sea areas, ships be 1:1 modeled and infantry be 1 stand or vehicle = 1 platoon or something. I think a contested pacific island or something like that would be the only reason to actually have the ships. Like there's no reason to model naval combat for D-Day.
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Jul 31, 2019 17:30
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I think dystopian wars actually was big on this. It was in ~1.5mm scale I believe, and included all the theaters in the same scale
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Jul 31, 2019 19:07
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Stands being a company might be excessive, but stands with a platoon of vehicles or infantry representing a company would be big and chunkily appealing while letting you have a better troop scale. In 6mm or 3mm, obviously. It'd give you a better look for a broader timescale, which would let planes and boats be more useable, maybe? (or a platoon of 3mm on one base just being a platoon, sure)
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"TACWAR" was a wargame played as a staff planning tool when I was in the USMC. The set-up at Camp Del Mar's Amphibious Assault School when I was an instructor there had a really nice beach board. Many, many amphibious assault games were played there. I wish I had taken photos. It was 1/285 (6mm) scale. Ships were represented abstractly. Edit: Here's a photo, not mine, of a game in progress:  Edit: Huh, looks like the photo is reversed. Cessna fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Jul 31, 2019 |
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Lookit those nerds. They're playing in the right scale though, wonder what rules are used. Anyway, back from holiday and back into the drudgery of work and paint. I can post some more of those uniforms and proper explanation if anyone's interested, I'll take it to a history thread if it's a bit too dry to post here.
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Wowshawk posted:wonder what rules are used. Tacwar. Here's a brief description.
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feedmegin posted:Hmm I kind of like the idea of one (very big) board in 6mm and doing something like invading a Pacific island as a club/exhibition sort of game. It'd look incredibly impressive. You could probably do Tarawa or Attu with a large enough map, and the Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo could probably fit on a standard kitchen table at a decent scale. Tulagi & Gavutu-Tanambogo is one of my favourites for this kind of thing because it's such a sharply defined battlefield. Anarcho-Commissar posted:Everyone always wants to do D-Day or the Pacific fit beach landing, never Estonia or Finland. The Aelutian campaign (the battle for Attu specifically) is one option, but I also quite like the campaign for Scheldt, which has Canadians performing a semi-island-hopping campaign in the Netherlands, crossing canals and shooting Germans. LatwPIAT fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Aug 1, 2019 |
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Lol if you don't want to do 1:1 representation at 6mm or 3mm
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I want to do a 1:1 representation at 1/1 scale.
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JcDent posted:Lol if you don't want to do 1:1 representation at 6mm or 3mm If I was 1%er rich this is what a ludicrous amount of my money would be going towards. Whole corps of 6mm on enormous tables gently caress it, a 28mm corps
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After finding pictures of several downed DFS 230 glider planes, in North Africa, in 1942, I could no longer resist. I ordered one for my Fallschirmjägers. In 1:48. It's gonna be huuuge. :O But it should be a nice centre piece for the FJ force. e: not the MDF kit from Sarissa, but the plastic kit from Special Hobby.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:If I was 1%er rich this is what a ludicrous amount of my money would be going towards. I have some 3mm T-55s and they're beaaaautiful.
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JcDent posted:I have some 3mm T-55s and they're beaaaautiful. At 2mm or 3mm it's quite feasable to do a battle in 1:1, especially if you stay away from the most gargantuan ones.
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The summer-dress Brits are somewhat better than Asians in Korea, at least. But only somewhat. 
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Warlord’s faces are usually not great but they’re on a roll lately The bottom row of guys straight up looks like they’re intended to be zombies and the pointing guy is the head white walker
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2-3 looks like a goddamn goblin.
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Don't buy ugly miniatures for Korea: buy hundreds upon hundreds of Napoleonics! I just wrote a blog post on my thoughts on why we're throwing caution to the wind and venturing into that scary place I vowed to never go: brigade (or even divisional and corps) level Napoleonics! https://krigetkommer.weebly.com/napoleonic-blog/big-boy-napoleonics-part-1-expanding-the-battles In other news, if you're into WW2 and want a free (postage not included) set of tank commanders you should check out the yearly survey from the WSS magazine. If you answer the survey you'll get a coupon code that you can use at their webshop, where Rubicon has put up a new sprue of four tank commanders. https://www.karwansaraypublishers.c...151oQRc-4Ugev-w You can also get Old Guards... in SPAAAAACE, or some halflings I guess. Or just use the coupon to buy magazines or books. You can do the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PJ825GK
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Is there a go-to for 15mm WW2 soviets right now?
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PSC or first-gen Battlefront FoW plastics are both pretty good. The new FoW plastics aren't as bad as people say either, IMO.
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moths posted:PSC or first-gen Battlefront FoW plastics are both pretty good. The newer new ones are about as good as their old hard plastics, IMO. The earlier MW ones were pretty dire, though.
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I really like the Team Yankee plastics, and the lessened detail is a trivial price for gun barrels which don't snap off.
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moths posted:I really like the Team Yankee plastics, and the lessened detail is a trivial price for gun barrels which don't snap off. Gun barrels, poo poo; RPG warheads not constantly going missing sells it for me!
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Depends on how many you need, but I got some from Peter Pig recently and really liked them.
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I remembered, GHQ makes tiny ships. They have a ruleset, too, but I don't know if it's any good.
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Someone was complaining about the Epic video game platform having lots of various problems, and I had the realization that the Peter Pig website has more features, what with having a shopping cart and everything. Really makes you think.
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Peter Pig faces are also somewhat distinctive. 
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How do people base warlord metal figures so that the blob their feet are attached to looks like it blends with the base? Just cover the entire base with putty?
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When you add sand/grit for basing you just fill it in so it’s even. If you’re adding static grass it’s even less noticeable
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lilljonas posted:In other news, if you're into WW2 and want a free (postage not included) set of tank commanders you should check out the yearly survey from the WSS magazine. If you answer the survey you'll get a coupon code that you can use at their webshop, where Rubicon has put up a new sprue of four tank commanders. Just a heads up, I filled out the survey and ordered a sprue of the Wargames Atlantic halflings, because I saw some previews of the models and they looked good, and I got a notice that my order is expected to ship in... October. So you might be waiting a while.
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spiderbot posted:How do people base warlord metal figures so that the blob their feet are attached to looks like it blends with the base? Just cover the entire base with putty? Roll some green stuff or putty into a snake. Roll it around the foot blob. squeeze it to make it into kind of a pitcher's mound. It'll blend fine enough once you have sand, grass and other textures on. An alternative is to just cover it all with a bunch of spackling paste/pollyfilla, which is the method I'm using most of the time. 
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spiderbot posted:How do people base warlord metal figures so that the blob their feet are attached to looks like it blends with the base? Just cover the entire base with putty?
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It's campaign time! Me and a clubmate are marching to war, using the Dawns & Departures campaign rules for Sharp Practice 2. This is our first Napoleonics campaign, and we've recruited fellow historical goon zokie to act as umpire. I will have the honour of marshalling my French forces against the defiant Russians standing in our way on the road to Smolensk in July 1812. Will I be able to brush them aside while gathering enough supplies from the local villages, or will the Russians succeed in delaying me and pillage their own land? To maintain a real fog of war, we'll keep separate blogs to record the campaign. This way we have no idea what's happening, as both sides can have several forces on the map. The umpire will receive all orders and resolve them as he sees fit. I think this will be a really interesting and fun experience. First up is my orders of battle, including the personalities rolled up according to the campaign rules, and the starting moves. I'm told my opponent has uploaded the same, but I'm not allowed to check! :O That's my conviction to the all mighty fog of war. https://krigetkommer.weebly.com/campaign-blog-russia-1812.html lilljonas fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Aug 6, 2019 |
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Eagerly looking forward to this one!
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Someone's had a lot of fun thinking up the French commanders 
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