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Class Warcraft posted:Speaking of Zulus, I'm planning on running another play-by-post game here on the forum soon. This time we'll be replaying the battle of Isandlwana between the Zulu and British. There will be room for 10-12 players, and will feature a 12'x6' battle involving somewhere around 500-600 miniatures. British are painted, Zulus are halfway done, and I'm still 3D printing and painting up some more terrain. Hell yeah, down to down some Brits.
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Cessna posted:What's a good rules set for 15mm Ancients besides DBA these days? I'm interested as well, especially something with compatible basing. I've got some 100YW an Marian Romans based or DBA, and my first batch of Carhaginians is being printed right now. That'll give me two pairs of historically matched armies. I always liked DBA. it's simple, elegant, plays fast, and armies aren't huge. Any alternative would have to be better in at least a couple of categories. Or, of course, being what everyone else local plays (SF Bay Area).
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Somehow I missed that question. I like Dux Bellorum, although it's post-Roman Britain so might not suit your needs for those armies.
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BaronVanAwesome posted:I'm not sure what was in the Wargames Illustrated, but it looks like just the one sprue in both blue and grey, 12 per side. A bunch of line infantry, what looks to me like a command squad, a cannon, and a mounted officer. Awesome, and thanks for this photo! It looks like the final game has two different assortments of poses - it's hard to tell at a glance, but the leftmost man in each line is wearing a different hat between the top and bottom half of the sprue.
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Class Warcraft posted:Black Powder has an expansion ruleset that deals with the AZW in more detail, but it's still not a great system to simulate it. Black Powder was written for units to represent a battalion, so when you get to things like Rorke's Drift where one side has ~100 men it has to do a bunch of gymnastics to make it work. Link as soon as you're up, I'm going to kill some brits 
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BaronVanAwesome posted:This is my first historical game, and to be honest I don't know a lot about the ACW in general - I'm pretty sure everything I know is from North and South from the NES. I have some reading to do - if anyone has any recommends for good movies/documentaries that would rule.
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Ilor posted:Fortunately for you, we just did an article about this very thing recently on Goonhammer (where the focus for the historicals team for the past two months has been the ACW). You can read it here: https://www.goonhammer.com/goonhammer-historicals-books-tv-and-movies-to-help-you-get-started-with-american-civil-war-gaming/ This is cool, thank you! I think my dad used to have the PBS stuff on VHS once upon a time. I've also definitely seen the Martin Sheen Gettysburg movie and all I remember is cackling at how bad his accent is
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If you want to hear some truly awful southern accents watch Cold Mountain don't watch Cold Mountain, it's terrible
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Book recommendation: The Myth of the Lost Cause: Why the South Fought the Civil War and Why the North Won by Bonekmper. Very helpful for arguing against "it wasn't about slavery" blowhards.
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My favorite counter to that argument is to just pull up and start reading off the Declaration of Causes of Secession for each of the confederate states. They all specifically say it's because of slavery.
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Cessna posted:Book recommendation: The Myth of the Lost Cause: Why the South Fought the Civil War and Why the North Won by Bonekmper. Good book and you'll need the ammo against "Lost Cause"ers if you're American lol. I think his treatment of Lee vs. Grant is a little uneven and is used as an extension of his anti-Lost Cause argument, and as military history it's not as great (the author ignores too many strategic variables like railroad infrastructure, telegraph usage, contemporary Napoleonic thought, etc. that would have characterized Lees decision making). I think it could also use some better background on the foundation of the US and the unanswered questions of federalism, and the founders inability to act on the mounting opinion that racial slavery was immoral as the direct lead to the civil war. Civil war is, after all, the ultimate expression of internal legal/political debate. If I recall correctly as well, there isn't much time spent explaining that Lincoln/Republicans only wanted to limit the spread of slavery i.e. via the Corwin Amendment et. al. IMO it's important to balance the destruction of the Lost Cause myth with the fact that most people earnestly believed Jeffersons bullshit about the wolf not being able to be contained nor freed, instead of elevating the Union to some morally superior position like the Confederate sympathizers have tried to do for a century+ with the CSA. A very thorough and well researched/documented destruction of the Lost Cause myth, but you'll need to fill in the gaps with the military history of the ACW and early American history if you don't know much in that arena either. e: I should include a book rec after criticizing another book like that. I still think "Battle Cry of Freedom" by McPherson is the best single volume work on the US civil war. Keegan's "The American Civil War: A Military History" is an excellent primer for a wargamer hot cocoa on the couch fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Apr 27, 2021 |
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Seconding "Battle Cry of Freedom" it does an excellent job covering both the military and political aspects of the war.
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:A very thorough and well researched/documented destruction of the Lost Cause myth, but you'll need to fill in the gaps with the military history of the ACW and early American history if you don't know much in that arena either. Agreed - I think it makes for a good starting point. It isn't the definitive history of the war by any means, but that doesn't mean it isn't worthwhile as a clearly laid out straightforward response to the "it wuz state's rights" bullshit. ACW is a great subject for a game, but it attracts assholes. Just as WWII has Wehraboos, ACW gets Lost Causers. It's nice to have a concise summary of why they need to STFU, and this book is good for that. Class Warcraft posted:Seconding "Battle Cry of Freedom" it does an excellent job covering both the military and political aspects of the war. Yes. Fateful Lightning by Guelzo is another good 101-level intro.
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Battle Cry of Freedom is fantastic because the author managed to slip a Marxist critique of industrial capitalism into the opening chapters of a widely circulated, Pulitzer winning American history book 
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I'm partial to Catton's books on the Civil War. His prose evokes the grandeur and tragedy of the great events in motion better than anyone else I've read. The Coming Tragedy is an absolutely fascinating analysis of the 1860 presidential campaign and Buchanan's miserable lame duck period. In other news, I got some 15mm Carthaginians out of my 3d printer. These are March to Hell 15mm Carthaginian archers (the other photos came out blurry). Good minis, but I'll have to be much more careful getting them out of the supports. 
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Those look awesome, almost enough to make a dude buy a resin 3d printer
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Endman posted:Those look awesome, almost enough to make a dude buy a resin 3d printer I had the same thought. It's nuts how good things are getting - give it another couple of years of hardware and .stl file development and you'll be able to decide you want to get involved in a new era or game and in 24 hours have a full (if unpainted) army.
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Given how it's possible to print in multiple colours we might end up seeing some block coloured armies showing up by then.
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The industry is still in it's teething stages, but getting better to be sure. As discussed in this thread and the TG 3d printer one it's more waiting for producers to catch up with demand than the tools themselves. The company that makes those 3d models just announced a new line of smaller scale 1066 stuff which is good because their specific style of rendering doesn't work (to me) far above or below 15mm scale.
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Arquinsiel posted:Given how it's possible to print in multiple colours we might end up seeing some block coloured armies showing up by then. I've got the same March to Hell kickstarter and I've honestly just considered switching resin colors between armies since I have multiple. I'd have transparent red romans and transparent green germans, but it would still be fun until I got them painted up.
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mllaneza posted:I'm partial to Catton's books on the Civil War. His prose evokes the grandeur and tragedy of the great events in motion better than anyone else I've read. The Coming Tragedy is an absolutely fascinating analysis of the 1860 presidential campaign and Buchanan's miserable lame duck period. did you clip them before curing? Because that helps
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:I've got the same March to Hell kickstarter and I've honestly just considered switching resin colors between armies since I have multiple. I'd have transparent red romans and transparent green germans, but it would still be fun until I got them painted up. That'll work to distinguish armies, but look at what Shapeways are doing with their "coloured sandstone" prints.
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mllaneza posted:I'm partial to Catton's books on the Civil War. His prose evokes the grandeur and tragedy of the great events in motion better than anyone else I've read. The Coming Tragedy is an absolutely fascinating analysis of the 1860 presidential campaign and Buchanan's miserable lame duck period. Heck yeah, March to Hell Rome has been an incredible value... Republican roman, imperial roman, Celts, germans, gauls, carthaginians, and more that they're still developing! Its hundreds of minis and more to come, and it was a wildly low cost to kickstart.
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Springfield Fatts posted:The industry is still in it's teething stages, but getting better to be sure. As discussed in this thread and the TG 3d printer one it's more waiting for producers to catch up with demand than the tools themselves. The company that makes those 3d models just announced a new line of smaller scale 1066 stuff which is good because their specific style of rendering doesn't work (to me) far above or below 15mm scale. The cool thing about that to me is that the files will stick around forever, or at least as long as they're hosted and compatible with the printers - so hardware tech will move in fits and starts as different generations come out, but once there are solid files for an era they'll always be there. So the file libraries should (in theory) just keep growing as people fill gaps.
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Huh. Must admit I'm a little disappointed the second WA WW2 set is Germans, but I guess it makes sense to do a unit that the partisans can fight and they're not yet another Wehrmacht/SS kit. Also you can make them tank crew.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Huh. They're also releasing a French infantry kit that you can use to make WW1/WW2 French infantry that are supposedly almost done and should come out first.
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Comments are tasty though. Looking forward to the French kit. We're planning a couple of daytrips to WW1 battlefields and museums,so that'll probably end up in a Blood and Valor project.
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Wowshawk posted:Comments are tasty though. Hahaha, holy poo poo those comments are indistinguishable from parody. Everything from someone bitching about the wrong number of buttons to someone saying “I collect WW2 uniforms, mostly German... please leave your left-wing comments out of this”
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Yvonmukluk posted:Huh. There better be a ruleset to have a melee only army with mechanics dual wielding wrenches.
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Notahippie posted:Hahaha, holy poo poo those comments are indistinguishable from parody. Everything from someone bitching about the wrong number of buttons to someone saying “I collect WW2 uniforms, mostly German... please leave your left-wing comments out of this” 
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JcDent posted:did you clip them before curing? Because that helps I did, roughly and had some damage. I've decided to forego the reusable gloves and just keep tapping work for disposables, the disposables give me much greater sensitivity and utility in my fingertips. That's going to be necessary for getting the 15mm out of the supports, along with actually clipping. The 28mm I've done I could cleanly get out of the supports entirely with just fingers, the 15mm are more sensitive. I think for the pikes I'm going to remove them from the .stl files and replace them with accommodation for a 1 or 2mm brass rod. I'll also want to make some pointy ends for them of course. That will save a ton of printing time for the back rankers holding their pike upright - resin printers have to print every vertical layer, and they take the same time no matter if it's just few dots for the pikes. As for a purchase; the printer I'm using is $399 on Amazon, a kilo of water washable resin is about $40, a nail curing UV light is about $28, and an ultrasonic cleaner is $30-$35. The full-sized printer is $699. The difference is a 6.1" or 9.3" diagonal on the printing area. My first print here is 5 stands (DBA basing) of infantry; 1 foot command (3), 2 pike (4), and 2 archers (3) or 19 figures. Without the lowered pikes I could get another 4 figures on the base. This prints in 3.5 hours, about 45 minutes of that being just the top ends of the vertical pikes.
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Arquinsiel posted:I checked the comments
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Wowshawk posted:Comments are tasty though. LOL that was an entertaining read and now I fully grasp why it’s difficult to attract people to gaming.
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Having binged The Great I'm now inspired to make a Russian Imperial Army diorama. What's the best source for 18th Century Russians and a lady of the court? I see Zvezda made some Peter the Great's infantry, but they seem hard to find. I'm not attached to 1:72nd, I hear 54 mm is a popular wargaming scale too.
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Ensign Expendable posted:Having binged The Great I'm now inspired to make a Russian Imperial Army diorama. What's the best source for 18th Century Russians and a lady of the court? I see Zvezda made some Peter the Great's infantry, but they seem hard to find. I'm not attached to 1:72nd, I hear 54 mm is a popular wargaming scale too. There are tons of scales out there, from 6mm to 54mm. What you want to do with it is really what will determine which is best option. Is it for display only, or do you intend to game with it? Do you just want a handful of really detailed figures, or a large scene with hundreds of men?
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Class Warcraft posted:There are tons of scales out there, from 6mm to 54mm. What you want to do with it is really what will determine which is best option. Display only. I would prefer a handful of detailed figured. The smallest I've ever painted is 1:72nd, and I don't think I would want to go smaller.
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Ensign Expendable posted:Display only. I would prefer a handful of detailed figured. The smallest I've ever painted is 1:72nd, and I don't think I would want to go smaller. 28mm (1:56 scale) is pretty popular right now. I use this site to track down manufacturers of 28mm historical minis: https://28mmreview.blogspot.com/p/18th-century.html This site is similar but for 1:72 scale: http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/
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Saw a post on reddit about a guy showing off his plans for a 36ss-themed army. Before I could finish replying "you're a fuckhead" the thread had been deleted but 
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