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Class Warcraft posted:<Anything not US UK Germany USSR Japan> has very little model support and gets mostly ignored in the various campaign books so they're not very popular - although their national traits are actually pretty decent. I would actually call the Italians the dark horse army because their main national trait can be a huge liability. FTFY Although considering what model support did to Hungary, maybe it's for the best
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Heck, even Japan are a distinct second-tier faction to bother with, after you've run out of variations of paratroopers for the big three and decided to do an ANZAC add on kit for the British figures.
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Arquinsiel posted:Heck, even Japan are a distinct second-tier faction to bother with, after you've run out of variations of paratroopers for the big three and decided to do an ANZAC add on kit for the British figures. There's still a lack of nice looking WW2 Japanese 28mm minis. A.k.a not Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany style minis.
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Romania also suffers from having a more distinct uniform than most undersupported WW2 countries. You can slap down a GI for free french or a german for finns/hungarians and most people won't notice.
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Aug 23, 2021 12:09
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lilljonas posted:There's still a lack of nice looking WW2 Japanese 28mm minis. A.k.a not Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany style minis. Other scales too. I was looking for 20mm a while back and all the cheap plastics were goofy banzai charge poses or expensive AB options. BA Chatte: isn't it also never worth it to take anything higher than unexperienced for mortar teams since the training level doesn't improve the 6+ on-target mechanics? Might be different in v2 though.
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Springfield Fatts posted:Other scales too. I was looking for 20mm a while back and all the cheap plastics were goofy banzai charge poses or expensive AB options. It's a very weird quirk that there are much much better minis in 28mm for the Russo-Japanese War than there is for WW2.
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I think the 3D printing is gonna be the savior of the underserved armies. We've already got excellent options for Finns, Soviets, and Japanese (although some of these do still suffer from Dr Seuss Syndrome). Springfield Fatts posted:
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Aug 23, 2021 17:26
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lilljonas posted:It's a very weird quirk that there are much much better minis in 28mm for the Russo-Japanese War than there is for WW2. Those Empress Miniatures figures are gorgeous aren’t they? The Russians are also perfect for WW1.
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JcDent posted:Although considering what model support did to Hungary, maybe it's for the best What happened?
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working mom posted:What happened?  tbf the artist who decided to paint their mouths as black caverns didn't do the models any favors but yeah...
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Class Warcraft posted:
hahaha brilliant!  Also, I just checked my BA list and realised that I actually had a 1st Lt this whole time, but was playing him like a 2nd Lt  I think I might end up swapping my medium howitzer for a light AT gun (since the howitzer's more expensive than the medium mortar) and then use the leftover points on AT grenades for a squad or two, maybe. I'm also thinking about swapping out my SMG NCOs for rifles, seeing as SMGs ended up being hopeless in our game. LMGs just seem like way better bang for your buck
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Aug 24, 2021 02:05
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Whoever at Warlord is responsible for their studio paint jobs needs to loving stop. Take the Saxon Miniatures range they acquired a couple of years back as an example. Here are some that were painted prior to the acquisition:  And afterwards by Warlord:  They're not horrible, but they're also not exactly inspiring me to buy them either.
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Aug 24, 2021 03:21
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Major Isoor posted:hahaha brilliant! AT grenades are really hard to hurt anything with, unfortunately. SMGs own, but you generally want to take a whole squad of them, or none at all because if when you fire your rifles/LMG's they usually won't be able to fire along.
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Class Warcraft posted:AT grenades are really hard to hurt anything with, unfortunately. SMGs own, but you generally want to take a whole squad of them, or none at all because if when you fire your rifles/LMG's they usually won't be able to fire along. Ah, that sucks. Hmm, back to the drawing board I guess. I might take a medic perhaps, seeing as I'm pretty sure I have an Alpini model with a stretcher somewhere. Not sure what else to blow the points on though, really. Maybe veteran experience for my Lt? Since he's only a regular, from memory. Eh whatever, I'll figure something out
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Endman posted:Whoever at Warlord is responsible for their studio paint jobs needs to loving stop. I really like their painting because it doesn't make me just want to quit painting when I see how poo poo my minis look compared to theirs
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Major Isoor posted:Ah, that sucks. Hmm, back to the drawing board I guess. I might take a medic perhaps, seeing as I'm pretty sure I have an Alpini model with a stretcher somewhere. Not sure what else to blow the points on though, really. Maybe veteran experience for my Lt? Since he's only a regular, from memory. Eh whatever, I'll figure something out How many points we talking here? Sniper and flamethrower teams are both really good if you have 50 points to spare.
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Class Warcraft posted:How many points we talking here? Oh, yeah that's a good idea! It's 45pts, but I can shave off a few for a sniper team. Nice one - I'm not sure how I forgot about that! (Could do a flamer team, but I've already got a flamer tankette. I don't want my Lt to be tried for warcrimes post-war, after all!)
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Class Warcraft posted:AT grenades are really hard to hurt anything with, unfortunately. SMGs own, but you generally want to take a whole squad of them, or none at all because if when you fire your rifles/LMG's they usually won't be able to fire along. >not giving the NCO an SMG why even play ww2 then 
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alg posted:I really like their painting because it doesn't make me just want to quit painting when I see how poo poo my minis look compared to theirs I suppose that's one advantage. And the best painter in the world couldn't make their WW2 sculpts look good after Paul Hicks stopped working for them, so I suppose it doesn't matter there either. 
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Class Warcraft posted:
Oh god, it's like a heatwave in a wax museum
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working mom posted:Oh god, it's like a heatwave in a wax museum The two top right guys are still my fav Hungarian. When they team up, they go as "The Strokes".
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We'll always have Perry
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:We'll always have Perry Yes, but they're mostly interested in Pre-WWII European stuff.
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Going back to book chat, Beevor's Stalingrad and the follow up Berlin are both excellent. I also really liked Leningrad by Anna Reid. Basically, I can't just recommend one book....
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Beevor's Berlin is a horrific nightmare book of horrible warcrimes. Very well written but just be aware before you dive in. It also got him banned from the Russian archives, which is funny.
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I'm not going to start collecting WW2 in 3mm, but this battle report looks fantastic. The rules they're testing look interesting too, they're doing a corps scale engagement over 3 days in an afternoon. It's a good channel for historical miniatures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT0p2KIe0Mo
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mllaneza posted:I'm not going to start collecting WW2 in 3mm, but this battle report looks fantastic. The rules they're testing look interesting too, they're doing a corps scale engagement over 3 days in an afternoon. It's a good channel for historical miniatures. 
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Here are some lovely pics of what I've done over the last few months. I am not a good painter by any means, but I am really happy with what I've ended up with. This many minis is a lot of practice.        
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alg posted:Here are some lovely pics of what I've done over the last few months. I am not a good painter by any means, but I am really happy with what I've ended up with. This many minis is a lot of practice. I've heard of floorgaming but this is ridiculous! (they look great)
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I've heard of floorgaming but this is ridiculous!
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Za Rodina/10
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alg posted:Here are some lovely pics of what I've done over the last few months. I am not a good painter by any means, but I am really happy with what I've ended up with. This many minis is a lot of practice. That's one comfy gaming mat.
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Cigar Box Battle makes their own images in really high res and prints them on fleece blankets at places like Wal-mart, I'm almost 100% sure. They're quality images and I like the fleece blankets because they roll up really small and nice unlike mouse mat style ones. I painted a bunch of 1/600 ironclads lately, just finished some from Peter Pig too though I've decided to re-do their base colors because they're off. Here are some from Thoroughbred Miniatures:  
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alg posted:Here are some lovely pics of what I've done over the last few months. I am not a good painter by any means, but I am really happy with what I've ended up with. This many minis is a lot of practice. 11/10 for the KV-2
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thanks guys, it's actually a really good feeling to have a fully painted army. playing some BA on Monday
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Ok so usually I stay away from anything after WW2, but a bunch of clubmates are preparing a homebrew system for very small scale modern skirmish, which they'll play set in Syria around 2015-17ish. Since the main rules writer is not a big fan of painting, he asked me to paint up a set of I Can't Belive It's Not Russians from Empress miniatures. These are clearly not Russians, and you'd be especially safe to say that they are not the 431st Naval Reconnaissance Point or similar special forces that clearly were not operating inside Syria around that time. What a silly thing that would have been. I did a completely lazy job on the camo by mainly just reusing the main colours I used for the Splittermüster on my Fallshirmjägers, as I thought it looked pretty close to the pictures I could find.  The whole force preparing to mess with ISIS, Kurds, Turks or whatever force happens to be allied against them this week. First up are the grunts with the diverse sets of automatic rifles:    Some MGs and anti-vehicle weapons:   I mixed up some camo schemes to reflect that the not-Russians had a mix of uniform equipment and personally supplied stuff in Syria. Especially things like weapons and magazines were all over the place.    
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Looks great! That camo must've been a pain though, for so many guys (well, it would've been for me, that's for sure!)
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Endman posted:Whoever at Warlord is responsible for their studio paint jobs needs to loving stop. they all look like that one photo of jimmy whales from a decade ago when he was begging for wikipedia funding and it looked like he'd poo poo himself the second the shutters went off
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lilljonas posted:Ok so usually I stay away from anything after WW2, but a bunch of clubmates are preparing a homebrew system for very small scale modern skirmish, which they'll play set in Syria around 2015-17ish. Since the main rules writer is not a big fan of painting, he asked me to paint up a set of I Can't Belive It's Not Russians from Empress miniatures. These are clearly not Russians, and you'd be especially safe to say that they are not the 431st Naval Reconnaissance Point or similar special forces that clearly were not operating inside Syria around that time. What a silly thing that would have been.
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