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Thanks for the recommendations about Napoelonic uniforms! I'll check them out.
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Finished the officer too. I'm very surprised by how much I enjoy painting 28mm. When I need to paint up entire units, I'm sure I'll start to change my mind. For now, I love getting to go all out on details and highlights at my own pace.    Also, Wowshank this is all your fault! Sending me that AWI skirmisher sprue tipped me over the edge to buy some Perry Danes. Something I've thought about doing for years. Fish and Chimps fucked around with this message at 11:18 on Dec 13, 2019 |
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Glad to push you down the rabbit hole!
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Fish and Chimps posted:Finished the officer too. I'm very surprised by how much I enjoy painting 28mm. When I need to paint up entire units, I'm sure I'll start to change my mind. For now, I love getting to go all out on details and highlights at my own pace. Nice! And yes, it's nice to take the time to rally make a model look as nice as possible now and then. I kind of tend to forget to do that when I have long periods of just painting big batches of rank-and-file units.
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Hey a while back someone was doing some African CoC with a big push on rapid german penetration of lines. Anyone got a link?
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Cassa posted:someone was doing some African CoC with a big push on rapid german penetration
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I'm sure that German are reasonably into BBC.
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We're planning on a CoC Gazala 1942 campaign, but I don't think I've written that much about it.
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lilljonas posted:We're planning on a CoC Gazala 1942 campaign, but I don't think I've written that much about it. Play more SP2 campaign games dang nabbit! 
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Are you thinking of the TFL blog? There were a lot of blog posts about building the Perry desert figures, the lists, a few battle reports, etc.
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Fish and Chimps posted:Play more SP2 campaign games dang nabbit! My campaign opponent got a temporary job in another city and won't be back until spring dang nabbit!
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lilljonas posted:My campaign opponent got a temporary job in another city and won't be back until spring dang nabbit! Curse him! I just got hooked on your campaign reports.
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Youuuuu Russians!
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JcDent posted:Youuuuu Russians!  "...and I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for your meddling Barclay de Tolly!"
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Cassa posted:Hey a while back someone was doing some African CoC with a big push on rapid german penetration of lines. Anyone got a link?
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Ilor posted:That was probably me. I wrote a PSC for 8th Panzer Regiment's headlong dash through the 5th South African Brigade during Operation Crusader. If you wait a week or two, you can get it in the 2019 TFL Annual, but if you need it sooner let me know. Yeah, no rush. It was mostly because I wanted to ask how you setup your terrain. A desert must provide some challenges when you wanna set up an interesting battlefield.
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Just gotta say the Napoleonic and ACW talk the last few pages has been amazing. Good job goons If you're looking for a good modern ruleset (you should be) Contact Front just came out and it's looking really cool. From God's Eye Games https://godseyegames.com/product/contact-front-digital-edition/
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Cassa posted:It was mostly because I wanted to ask how you setup your terrain. A desert must provide some challenges when you wanna set up an interesting battlefield.
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My buddy and I just started dabbling in Chain of Command, and both games we have played have resulted in my near tabling. The last game was the first of our campaign, seeing the Soviets push into Manchuria against the IJA. He had enough support points to bring an HMG. He simply parked it between two squads to soak hits and mowed me down. I tried to smoke it with my knee mortars but it scattered, and he killed the squad entirely. While historically accurate it doesn’t really make for the most enjoyable play experience. How do you guys deal with stuff like that?
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^^^ This. A lot also depends on the mission. CoC loses a lot if the game is allowed to boil down to "two sides line up and blast each other until one of them breaks." But most of the missions involve some kind of movement or maneuver, and in many cases the defender is better off waiting as long as possible to deploy their units. If the Soviets are "pushing into Manchuria," then presumably they are the ones that need to move. HMGs are only good against targets they can see, so make him come to you, ideally at a position where his HMG is of limited or no utility. Also, if it comes to it, snipers are great for picking out a particular team, as the hit has to go on the targeted unit.
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I changed my recipe a bit from the test mini and here's a Bren team! I'm pretty pleased with it.
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So it seems Warlord have merged their Bersaglieri and regular Italian infantry sets together to simplify stockkeeping. I ordered the Bersaglieri with sun hats, but was slightly worried when regular infantry with helmets boxes arrived. Turns out they just have ALL the heads in the pack now.
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Arquinsiel posted:So it seems Warlord have merged their Bersaglieri and regular Italian infantry sets together to simplify stockkeeping. I ordered the Bersaglieri with sun hats, but was slightly worried when regular infantry with helmets boxes arrived. Turns out they just have ALL the heads in the pack now. They've been like this for years - all Italian infantry comes with ALL of the heads. Unfortunately none come with 28mm Adrian helmets, which would be great for Spanish Civil War.
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The first box I got was just Bersaglieri with the sun hats, but I have no idea how long it had been sitting on a shelf before I picked it up. I could check for a packing date or something maybe.
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Speaking of Warlord, they've just redesigned their webstore so actually finding things is easy now.
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Can confirm, the Warlord Italian Brixia mortar team I just got had all the heads. As I'm closing in on finishing my standard Italians, I think Bersaglieri in sun hats will be my next Italian unit. I have a few now, but not enough for an entire platoon. But I have so much other poo poo to do before that (complete Russian and Japanese platoons, more supports for all my other armies) that it will probably be a while until I get around to it.
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Aren’t Italian platoons enormous? I seem to remember their sections being at least twice the size of other nations’ armies.
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Endman posted:Aren’t Italian platoons enormous? I seem to remember their sections being at least twice the size of other nations’ armies. The sections are huge but most of the platoons have just two, one with riflemen and one with the LMGs afaik. E: wrong, but two sections where half the section is a group of two Breda teams, and half the section is a ten man riflemen team. So two huge sections per platoon. lilljonas fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Dec 16, 2019 |
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I found this via some googling: It's tempting to paint some to fight my Brits.
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Endman posted:Aren’t Italian platoons enormous? I seem to remember their sections being at least twice the size of other nations’ armies. My 19-man Polish rife squads laugh at the flexibility!
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I ordered two 3-man packs of models from North Star miniatures for Dracula's America and instead they sent me two 10-packs of models. So, uh, A+ would shop again.
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My mid-life crises continued and I now have 2nd hand reprints of CHARGE! Or how to play wargames and Donald Featherstone's War Games. Anyone here ever played them, and how do they compare to modern ones? Certainly a difference in the 3 or 8 pages of rules compared to the 50+ of General de Brigade and General de Armee I have already got. I note the Lional Tarr Periscope can now be replicated by 21st century phones, so the rules for that can be used as is I hope. Comstar fucked around with this message at 10:04 on Dec 17, 2019 |
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Endman posted:Aren’t Italian platoons enormous? I seem to remember their sections being at least twice the size of other nations’ armies.
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Endman posted:Aren’t Italian platoons enormous? I seem to remember their sections being at least twice the size of other nations’ armies. I think they definitely changed from theatre to theatre. I think in North Africa at least, they were quite small because they stripped out most of the unneccessary personnel and adopted semi-German doctrine with fireteams based on LMGs.
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Endman posted:Aren’t Italian platoons enormous? I seem to remember their sections being at least twice the size of other nations’ armies. quote:Unit Structure: The 1942-43 Bersaglieri light infantry platoon was truck or motorbike transported and commanded by a Tenente and two NCO Sergentes. It included two sections of 24 men each (48 Soldatos), with each section subdivided into three Squadra (squads) of eight men each. Each Squadra was commanded by a Sergente and composed of a light machine gun group (mitragliatori gruppo) of four men and a rifle group (fucilieri gruppo) of four men, each commanded by a Corporale.  It yields a platoon size that is either 51 or 57 men depending on whether the sergeants commanding each 8-man squad are supernumerary or not (which again, I can't find a definitive source on). That's pretty massive compared to most other nations' platoons. And this in no way addresses the "field expedient" organizations that may have occurred in places where the Italians were under German C&C.
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Here's how my Stugs are coming along... Still nervous about the camo scheme but I've started doing some black lining.  I don't spend enough time painting so I think I'm going to try and push to get a lot of this army done over the holiday break.
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Battlefront have put out their road map for 2020 releases https://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=6844 Basically: Plastic Daimlers, Dingos and Crusader AAs for British in Normandy IV/70s, hetzers, ba-64s and SU-76s for Bagration. For Team yankee, the brits get the lions share of releases with Foxes, Challengers and Warriors. Amis get Bradleys, Apaches and M1A1s (pretty sure that’s just a re release as their M1AQ1 120 mmp is already on the spire). EDIT: NATO also gets plastic M109s (already in army books - but now in plastic!) and the Brits and Amis get MLRSs. Soviets get their T-80s, BMP3, Tunguska, TOS-1. There’s also a Team yankee starter set being teased which is US vs Soviets. Surprised there’s no Plastic Sextons for Normandy Brits. tomdidiot fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Dec 19, 2019 |
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