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In that case I would do it like any other linear obstacle like walls or fences. Start with a base (sheet styrene, MDF, heck even wooden tongue depressors) and use polystyrene foam to build up a "bump" maybe 3/4" high. Cover the lower parts of it with sand, paint that part dark brown and drybrush one or two lighter brown colors. Paint the top half green, then cover the whole thing with a mix of flock and static grass. Finally, liberally attach lichen or foam "bushes" to the top of it in an irregular pattern. Boom, bocage. Essentially, bocage is really just a thick turf berm with grass and bushes and poo poo growing on it.
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Mel's got a video covering like 9 different ways. Hopefully one will work for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQxHnoLpPUc
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So I got a game of Field of Glory Napoleonic today. Was supposed to be a 8 person tounrment but no one else showed up so I played the organizer. The red lights indicates a routing brigade.  .Battle report later, if I have any motivation to write it up.
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Finished up three 28mm buildings for Bolt Action and other historicals that they'll work for A two story house that stacks (inside not painted yet)   A small one story house with a blue front door (roof also comes off this one)  And a very large centerpiece church    Luckily this behemoth breaks up into smaller sections 
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Apr 5, 2021 19:26
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Did you sculpt those yourself? :o
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That church is great! Nice job.
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Apr 6, 2021 09:55
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Tias posted:Did you sculpt those yourself? :o Looks like there's PLA 3d printing lines in it, which I'm hoping for because I'd love to have those STLs!
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1809-11 Anglo-Portuguese vs 1814 Spring Prussian army In an alternative history, the FRENCH EMPEROR, NAPOLEON has decided NOT to attack RUSSIA, but instead send THE GRAND ARMEE to SPAIN, to end the threat from BRITAIN, and their alliance with the Kingdom of PORTUGAL. To assist his invasion, Napoleon has ordered the KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA to supply a full corps of their army. They have traveled the many miles to arrive to the north of Portugal. The DUKE OF WELLINGTON, knows that an enemy force is approaching from the north, but does not yet know their composition or size. He has sent a small, elite force of the ANGLO-PORTUGUESE army to probe the enemy force, and advise on the size of the threat bearing down on him.... I had signed for a FOGN 500 point tournament at Conquest 2021, but everyone else had worse things to do than spend time playing with model solders. So I got a normal 800 game vs Djando the Organizer that he very nicely offered to give me a game instead. As I had expected to play a smaller game with a smaller army, I had not had time to finish basing everything, so I had to go for a very small army. The observant will note it's VERY small - an army value of only 20. Djano was playing the largest possible conscript army possible. Could an army of elite British Infantry be able to attack an army of lower elan and training when outnumbered 3:2 in Infantry, Calvary and Artillery? Read the full battle report on MY BLOG to see the full story! How it started:       How it ended:  I would post the full report here, but I can't work out how to convert blogger code to BBcode with working picture links 
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No. 1 Juicy Boi posted:Looks like there's PLA 3d printing lines in it, which I'm hoping for because I'd love to have those STLs! They are indeed 3D printed. I ordered mine from the Etsy Shop AlRealityTerrain but I believe the STL for the printed church came from Printable Scenery.
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 Finished my Saga test model, and now await the rules while I prep a batch of Vikings.
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That looks sweet. To save you headaches on the shields, if you draw the lines on in pencil and stay inside them you can just use an eraser to clear it up afterwards and your brain will magically get better at painting straight lines.
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Playing a 1200 point game this Sunday with my Germans against my friends Finns. Here’s what I’m bringing to the table:  List is: Platoon 1 Veteran LT + 1 Lad Regular Heer Infantry Squad x 2 (8 men w/LMG) Veteran Medic Regular Medium Mortar w/Spotter Veteran Flamethrower Team Regular 37mm PaK 36 SdKfz 222 Light Armored Car Panzer 38(t) Platoon 2 Veteran LT + 1 Lad Regular Heer Infantry Squad x 2 (8 men w/LMG) Veteran Flamethrower Team Regular Light Artillery Motorcycle with Machine-gun sidecar Still need to paint a couple things before Sunday and there are a handful of stand-ins. Edit: Painted the flamethrower! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH  
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Definitely lost my mind. I have no idea how to make 2mm look good, but I have to admit I love the effect. And I printed out a sled for it that I can put a label on to remember whose regiment it is! Stand battalion of pike and shot, Royalists, ECW:  
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Played a 1200 point practice game of Bolt Action yesterday. Operation Barbarossa theatre selector, Finns v. Germans. These two armies will team up next month against Class Warcraft & another friends Soviet armies. The table Initial layout:  Decided the left side of the table needed a little more terrain, so I added two small ponds that acted as difficult terrain.  Objectives  Mission ended up being Key Positions with 5 of them. We placed 1 in each of the buildings in the center of town and 1 at each end of the road. The game was pretty fun overall. I don't have a play by play, but basically what happened was the Germans moved in to secure the two buildings on their side of the table while the Finns moved in to occupy the church. My Germans went infantry heavy on the left flank while the right had the AT gun deploy in ambush, an officer, a heer infantry squad & the motorcycle with machine gun side car. The Finns kept a BA-10 & a unit of Kaukopartio in reserve. The BA-10 was knocked out as soon as it came on the board by the PaK 36, and the Kaukopartio squared off against the Heer infantry squad & the officer on the right flank for most of the game. They had 1 pin on them, rolled a FUBAR and panicked to the edge of the board, but were able to rally at the end of the game to contest the Eastern road objective. Below are some action shots! Heer infantry squad goes down as a result of hearing artillery going off in the distance, but the shot goes wide.  PaK 36 knocks out a BA-10 as it enters the town.  A Panzer 38(t) and a Heer infantry squad square off against a Sisi Recon squad for control of the Western road objective.   The Panzer was knocked out shortly after this by the Finnish Medium Artillery.  Fighting on the Eastern side of town remained fierce for the entire battle.  A veteran flamethrower team tries moving into position to dislodge a Sisi Recon Squad out of the church. The flamethrower team manages to kill one member of the squad, but is wiped out the following turn when the unit charges them.  The game ended in a 2-1 victory for the Germans, who managed to hold onto the Western road objective and one of the central houses. The Finns managed to keep the Church, while the Eastern road and one of the buildings were contested. Favorite moment of the game: Losing a light artillery piece to a sniper squad on the 2nd turn of the game. Totally get why tournament players hate snipers now.
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Really nice table. Looks like a joy to play on.
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Finished up a unit of 8 Heer Pionier for my German Bolt Action Army.     Based these guys off of a picture I found online of the 34th Engineer Battalion who fought on the Eastern Front. 
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This is an insane question that was inspired by Warlord's Epic ACW set they're doing: For the current Black Powder ruleset, how "compatible" are the eras/armies? ie Can I pit the Union army against some 1815 French dudes I realize this may of questionable historical accuracy (at best)
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Black Powder is a fairly generic rule set, so I can’t see why not
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BaronVanAwesome posted:This is an insane question that was inspired by Warlord's Epic ACW set they're doing: If you mix those forces a grognard will come to your house and smash your models, iirc.
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BaronVanAwesome posted:This is an insane question that was inspired by Warlord's Epic ACW set they're doing: There were certainly weirder matchups in the 19th century. A British army equipped with artillery and breech-loading rifles was annihilated by the Zulus equipped mostly with bronze age tech.
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Did anyone play Empire Earth? The concept of bronze age Spearman fighting battlemechs is basically the greatest matchup since Rhino vs. Baby. I have ordered a set for Epic ACW but I hope they make a Napoleonic series
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Class Warcraft posted:There were certainly weirder matchups in the 19th century. A British army equipped with artillery and breech-loading rifles was annihilated by the Zulus equipped mostly with bronze age tech. Turns out Bronze Age humans did NOT gently caress about when it came to whipping rear end.
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BaronVanAwesome posted:This is an insane question that was inspired by Warlord's Epic ACW set they're doing: Well the Unionists would have much more efficient rifles and artillery, but on the other hand they would have the disadvantage when it comes to cavalry. I think that with the right scenario, or just by tampering with the points values, you could create some interesting battles.
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Class Warcraft posted:There were certainly weirder matchups in the 19th century. A British army equipped with artillery and breech-loading rifles was annihilated by the Zulus equipped mostly with bronze age tech. Every time I read about Isandlwana I am struck by exactly how many terrible decisions Chelmsford made. Peak Victorian arrogance on display.
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The Zulus were a better army in any meaningful way than the British except for firepower. Faster both strategically and tactically, more sustainable logistics, you name it. I really should work on my wargame Zulus.
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BaronVanAwesome posted:This is an insane question that was inspired by Warlord's Epic ACW set they're doing: I mean there will already be rules for muskets and smoothbore artillery presumably
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They're just a bunch of blokes with pointy sticks! How could they possibly stand a chance against Her Majesty's most capable and well-equipped fighting me- oh no
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Tried branching out into the local Bolt Action community. It's a bunch of old men who are very vocal about their politics, which aren't mine. Might just play with friends.
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Funnily enough, I just checked and BA has a VASSAL module.
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Beerdeer posted:Tried branching out into the local Bolt Action community. It's a bunch of old men who are very vocal about their politics, which aren't mine. This sucks. You should put the word out at your local FLGS that you're looking to form a Bolt Action Gaming League. I bet there will probably be some other locals who dislike those guys and want to play. If you can wrangle some friends in to play with you it might help to grow it.
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Beerdeer posted:Might just play with friends. This is the answer.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Funnily enough, I just checked and BA has a VASSAL module. I wonder if it looks better or worse than trying to do it on TTS.
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JcDent posted:I wonder if it looks better or worse than trying to do it on TTS.   
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So about equal, huh? 
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JcDent posted:So about equal, huh?  Never played BA myself, or seen it elsewhere than photos from real games.
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TTS has the advantage of when its time to remove a model you can pick it up and huck it off into oblivion
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Bolt Action looks so much like Warhammer 40k to me; it's weird. And despite the avatar some gronk bought for me years ago, that's a downside. Although I've been painting tanks for Parking Lot Simulator 1942, so I can't talk.
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Class Warcraft posted:TTS has the advantage of when its time to remove a model you can pick it up and huck it off into oblivion You can also slowly increase the size of your vehicles to make your opponent go insane.
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And when they do snap they can flip the digital table!
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