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Arquinsiel posted:Doing some quick maths, with a listed turning radius of 686 feet a Spitfire in 1/72 will make a circle on a ten foot table with three inches to spare on either end. Historicals: Doing math to scale
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At 1/72 you'd probably just use one plane and cards or tokens to abstract the enemy. But then you wouldn't need that miniature either... It could just be a promotional tie in with blood red skies.
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Jan 31, 2020 14:40
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moths posted:It could just be a promotional tie in with blood red skies.
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A tabletop dogfighting game but the table is your entire house and if you forget to make airplane noises when moving your plane stalls
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PinheadSlim posted:A tabletop dogfighting game but the table is your entire house 
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Jan 31, 2020 14:51
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PinheadSlim posted:A tabletop dogfighting game but the table is your entire house and if you forget to make airplane noises when moving your plane stalls
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Jan 31, 2020 16:00
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The "Nickstarter" for that new Muskets & Tomahawks is live: http://nstarmagazine.com/MUSKETS_AND_TOMAHAWKS_II.htm
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Pierzak posted:Buy a 1/72 model, get extra cards useful for said in-game unit in different scale? They did something similar for World of Tanks. IIRC, you got a 1/35 model tank and then a DLC code for that tank in-game. That may have been Italliari though?
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Anarcho-Commissar posted:The "Nickstarter" for that new Muskets & Tomahawks is live: http://nstarmagazine.com/MUSKETS_AND_TOMAHAWKS_II.htm Replicating Kickstarter in it's entirety to save a % from going to Kickstarter - the ultimate grog ambition. Just need to be able to order by fax
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moths posted:They did something similar for World of Tanks. IIRC, you got a 1/35 model tank and then a DLC code for that tank in-game. I think it was italeri and 1:56 scale.
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That's definitely the Italiari/Bolt Action partnership - this was something else with getting WoT players to buy models.
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muggins posted:Replicating Kickstarter in it's entirety to save a % from going to Kickstarter - the ultimate grog ambition. Just need to be able to order by fax It's really just a pre-order with an extra step and a joke-y name.
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Arquinsiel posted:There's a convention run in the UK somewhere that does a tank battle on the lawn of a stately home. It seems pretty fun to be firing ATGMs at ranges measured in yards with 28mm tanks. If I had inherited wealth this is exactly what I'd do with my time, and you bet your rear end I'd be doing it in a custom-tailored snappy uniform and insisting people call me Field Marshal. Also, putting planes and arty on the table at any not-tiny scale always bothers me but otoh, planes and arty are cool models so
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Springfield Fatts posted:Yeah, it could. There's no restrictions other than min/max limits per 1k of forces. At 6mm with smaller number of units you could probably get away with a smaller table than the recommended 5'x4'. I had a look at the WW2 Battlegroup and I reckon when Northag comes out that might be a good bet. It looks like going from 15mm to 6mm might be as simple as just changing the ranges from inches to centimetres - a centimetre is roughly 40% of an inch and 6mm is exactly 40% of 15mm. That way a 6x4' table could be shrunk to 3x4' (the tiny table I have to work with) without compromising the game too much. Looking forward to that in a couple of months then!
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It's even better than that: the models they bring out will be 10mm so conversion might not be that much of a problem. Battlegroup is pretty much scale agnostic anyway and plays fine at 500 pts (although it's harder to get some of the interesting units on the table at that point level).
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moths posted:That's definitely the Italiari/Bolt Action partnership - this was something else with getting WoT players to buy models. Italeri put some of their 1/35 tanks, and later 1/56 and 1/72 into rebranded boxes with WoT images/logos that also included codes for the game https://www.italeri.com/en/category/52
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Wowshawk posted:It's even better than that: the models they bring out will be 10mm so conversion might not be that much of a problem. Battlegroup is pretty much scale agnostic anyway and plays fine at 500 pts (although it's harder to get some of the interesting units on the table at that point level). The only thing is they do individual casualty removal, which is fine but fiddly to track in 6mm, I wonder if they'll ditch that and go for stand removal in Northag if it's designed for 10mm from the get go.
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I finished up my 28mm Union Marines from Crusader, really like these minis.   
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Those marines look great! I’ve been messing around calibrating my 3D printer and I came out with this as the result:  It’s roughly 1:150, resized from a 1:100 model.
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Feb 1, 2020 20:54
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That's absolutely superb, especially for FDM.
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Anarcho-Commissar posted:The "Nickstarter" for that new Muskets & Tomahawks is live: http://nstarmagazine.com/MUSKETS_AND_TOMAHAWKS_II.htm If anyone has played Muskets & Tomahawks before a brief breakdown of the rule system/comparison to other systems would be cool to read.
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Endman posted:Those marines look great! Wow that really is good, I'd be very happy with those results
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Class Warcraft posted:If anyone has played Muskets & Tomahawks before a brief breakdown of the rule system/comparison to other systems would be cool to read. I have a batrep here in the thread, and probably lots of words about it. It's my favorite skirmish ruleset! It uses cards randomly drawn for actions, although I think the new version allows you to have a hand of cards to play. Victory conditions are the usual kind, but there's a bonus one for each commander, like "revenge" or "impress the colonel's daughter".
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Anarcho-Commissar posted:I have a batrep here in the thread, and probably lots of words about it. It's my favorite skirmish ruleset! Thanks! -- Separate question. I'm applying a whitewash to a couple of my Soviet tanks. Would it be accurate to assume most crews would not bother painting new identification markings over the whitewash?
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I've seen a few pictures of whitewashed tanks with red identification numbers on them, but I have no idea if that was standard/common practice or not.
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WIP of my new Calpe French.  Overall they are nice. A lot of details, but a bit exaggerated so that they are easier to paint. Basically I got enough to field four command groups and a regimental command base for all the Warlord greatcoat plastics that I got last year. These are much nicer, and I also bought a bunch to put in the front of the battalions to switch things up and make them look nicer. I tried doing zenithal highlights with black and white spray primer on these. I don't think it's showing all that much, but maybe a tiny bit? This is after base coats and washes, but before highlights. At least the contrast of the two colours made it easier to see what I painted, so it helped my painting speed as well as let me be a bit lazy as the black acts like shadows where I missed a spot of paint. lilljonas fucked around with this message at 09:48 on Feb 3, 2020 |
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lilljonas posted:WIP of my new Calpe French. Great work m8. I love the Calpe napoleonic minis
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Endman posted:Those marines look great! I just recently got a 3d printer myself, and I've found myself being positively giddy at times at the thought of being able to print out just about any historical tank I want to now.
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Sydney Bottocks posted:I just recently got a 3d printer myself, and I've found myself being positively giddy at times at the thought of being able to print out just about any historical tank I want to now. It’s so much fun! This has totally convinced me to pick up What a Tanker!
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Sydney Bottocks posted:I just recently got a 3d printer myself, and I've found myself being positively giddy at times at the thought of being able to print out just about any historical tank I want to now. It's so good for tank games. There's tons of models for every tank imaginable, because none of it is copyrighted. My Flames of War German force cost me a grand total of 50$ for the infantry. All the vehicles are printed. I wanted 10 BA-10s for a tournament - so I just printed 'em. Granted, SLA printing being what it is - A huge pain in the rear end - If I valued my time it would probably be cheaper to just buy the models, but it's so incredibly satisfying to put a model on the table that emerged from a vat of magic goo in your garage two days ago. It is also really nice that the threshold to try new lists using models you would otherwise never have bought, so you have way more variety in the lists you can play. Two of my printed Tigers.  Not historical, but here is the latest thing I printed - a 
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You are getting super nice results out of it.
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Those Tigers look great!
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Endman posted:It’s so much fun! I got a copy of the WaT rules for my birthday, so I'm already looking at what tanks I wanna print out for a game here before long. Geisladisk posted:It's so good for tank games. There's tons of models for every tank imaginable, because none of it is copyrighted. I got a bunch of 15mm German, Russian, and American infantry still in boxes that are just sitting on the shelf not doing anything, so now I can just print out some tanks and support vehicles for 'em and actually get a game or two in.
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Any tips for winning The battle of Talavera? I'm getting a long held dream to play a large multiplayer historical wargame this weekend (Field of Glory Napoleonic 2nd ed), probably as the French  . Time to learn how I can beat my own army.
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Just wrapped up working on some paper dollies. 28mm scale based for skirmish games, mostly SP2 and Rebels & Patriots. Even made some scumbag movement trays out of cardboard and foam. Everybody's got two line infantry units, two cavalry options, two light/skirmish units, two cannons and some officers. French  British  Spanish plus two horse limbers 
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Springfield Fatts posted:Just wrapped up working on some paper dollies. 28mm scale based for skirmish games, mostly SP2 and Rebels & Patriots. Even made some scumbag movement trays out of cardboard and foam. Everybody's got two line infantry units, two cavalry options, two light/skirmish units, two cannons and some officers. That's a cool way to get a force done quickly, good job. 
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I've had Galeforce 9's so called Italian Walls for a while now, and they've looked decent enough. The raised base have annoyed me for years though. Today I finally mustered the energy to improve them with grass and flock, and the result is orders of magnitude better than before.  
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Fish and Chimps posted:I've had Galeforce 9's so called Italian Walls for a while now, and they've looked decent enough. The raised base have annoyed me for years though. That’s a pretty big upgrade, nice job.
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