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These guys: They're probably too "at ease" to be used for what you'd want. Not that it matters, they were extremely expensive and not even made anymore. I feel like 28mm is the wrong scale for that kind of model, every sculptor wants their mini to stand out.
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I'm suspicious that the WHFB relaunch will include strips of 28mm figures in horde armies, so as to let players field massive blocks of troops without devaluing individual AoS models. Nobody seems to make ranked 28 strips yet, though. There's some very nice 15mm 3d print ones, and I'm surprised nobody's scaled those up yet.
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Fashionable Jorts posted:These guys:
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lilljonas posted:Le Grande Poste Thanks for the effortpost! I have to admit, six bases per battalion looks magnificent, but might be a bit of a space issue. I can definitely see what you mean about base depth too. 40mm for two ranks of three men seems to do me fine for marching figures, but I did discover that other poses do cause a bit of worrying overhang.  These guys are on the edge of okay since Perry Miniatures' ECW range are really small (closer to 25mm than 28mm), but the muskets of the front rank do overhang a little bit, which is concerning. I might have to invest in some 45x50mm bases.
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Has anyone had experience of using an early war Bolt Action army vs a late war one? I just remembered I had a great-uncle who apparently got off a boat onto Crete and was immediately captured by German paratroops, and for him, the war was over. He did get back eventually. So I'm interested in building a Commonwealth army for North Africa/Greece/Crete, but the heaviest AT gun I can get is a 2 pounder/25 Pounder. If I ever got the army done I suspect everyone else here plays mid-late war. Are the army points balanced for that sort of thing (by throwing enough shells at the enemy that they get pinned) or would it be pretty hopeless? I understand if you can't damage something it can ignore pins, so would an early war army fight a late war heavy tank?
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The way Bolt Action is balanced light tanks and light AT guns are actually a better value than heavier stuff. I once saw a guy absolutely crush all comers in a tournament using a swarm of Panzer 1s. I primarily play Japanese who don’t have much heavy equipment across the board and do just fine. My light AT gun has more kills than anything else I field in my other armies. So yeah, it’s totally viable. The British in particular get access to a boat load of special troops, some of which are incredibly powerful such as Gurkhas and Maori.
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moths posted:I'm suspicious that the WHFB relaunch will include strips of 28mm figures in horde armies, so as to let players field massive blocks of troops without devaluing individual AoS models. They are re-launching WHFB?
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IncredibleIgloo posted:They are re-launching WHFB? Someday
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Cross-posting some tiny Romanians: Oath Complete!     Claiming Make Your Mark for the tail numbers, kill markings, and doofy tail art man (which is apparently accurate) on the planes.
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Painted some Art of Tactic T-34s. Very good detail, even though they're tiny. I expected two identical chassis with different turrets, but both the hull and running gear are completely different for the T-34 and T-34-85.
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I'm "rationing" painting cuirassiers until I get more of the chasseur a pied done, but in practical terms this just means that I'm spending my time not actually painting anything. The test model for the 4eme regiment is done - the orange looks a bit too red though and the aim of all contrast for speed is going to go out the window. Black horses are absolutely my least favourite thing to paint in any system, any model, any manufacturer. Horses always look ridiculous because at base they are ridiculous animals. 
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lenoon posted:I'm "rationing" painting cuirassiers until I get more of the chasseur a pied done, but in practical terms this just means that I'm spending my time not actually painting anything. The test model for the 4eme regiment is done - the orange looks a bit too red though and the aim of all contrast for speed is going to go out the window. Black horses are absolutely my least favourite thing to paint in any system, any model, any manufacturer. Horses always look ridiculous because at base they are ridiculous animals. Cuirassiers are so much fun to paint though.  I need to paint up at least one more regiment to be able to field a heavy brigade, though I also have far too many unpainted light cavalry units in my cupboard to rationalize buying more of the heavy boys.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:chasseurs à cheval > any heavy boi I have some Polish Uhlans waiting too. Lancers are elegant af.
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Polish guard lancers are going to be the light wing of the cavalry, but there’s a plan in place: Finish Old Guard Complete Curiassiers Do middle guard GUNS MORE GUNS Lancers
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lenoon posted:Polish guard lancers are going to be the light wing of the cavalry, but there’s a plan in place: Nice. My Nappy Road Map: Polish bulk painting bonanza (4 battalions of Duchy of Warsaw for a separate brigade, 1 more battalion of Vistula Legion) More light cavalry (I already have assembled and partially primed: 1 regiment of chasseurs, 1 of hussars, 2 of DoW uhlans) Top off my French brigades (rebase a bunch of SP2 based infantry and paint some additional command for 4 more battalions) I also have two boxes of Victrix guard infantry, so I might paint them up quickly at some point to bulk out the French army. given that it's just great coats and crossbelts it should be pretty simple. After that I might finally get to a point where I'll buy more minis, and then it'll be to add some French legere battalions.
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Polish bulk painting bonanza is a good pick for thread title. That is all going to look seriously rad. I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to really jump into napoleonics, it is just great. Feel very enthused by the project.
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If I'm making a Régiment Légère, were they in close order like the Ligne or were they more open?
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No. 1 Juicy Boi posted:If I'm making a Régiment Légère, were they in close order like the Ligne or were they more open? Ostensibly they were supposed to be quicker, more independent, and better shots, and were drilled harder in skirmishing (and were shorter because that's how you get judged in 19th century conscription, short = fast.) In reality they'd use standard formations in most cases. They even had their own variant of manlet grenadiers on the right flank company, called carabiniers. They're prolly best modeled just like regular line unless the game sets them apart, and just painted with their colours (more blue bits, fancy epaulettes, and civilian instead of blue trousers if you want to get really authentic)
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Yes it was one of those things that changed over time, and the difference between legere and ligne regiments typically decreased over time. Many of the defining parts of the uniforms were also taken away formally from the legere regiments in the Bardin regulation of 1812, even though many regiments seems to have kept them. Pretty much if you asked the legere regiments themselves they would have answered that they were clearly more elite than those ligne regiments (and that's why all of them deserved to carry epaulettes and a briquet sword like the elite companies typically did), though how true that elite status was had more to do with to what degree that specific regiment had been demolished in a previous campaign. Earlier on (like, say 1805) you'd clearly see that they expected legere regiments to head assaults and to get more stuck in in difficult terrain, villages etc.. For example, when Drout packs nine battalions into a cube at Austerlitz to blitz the Russians in front of him, he puts his three legere battalions at the front. Almost until the end of the period all French units, legere or ligne, were expected to be able to operate in skirmish formations or line formation when needed. In practical wargaming terms there's nothing that the ligne could do that legere couldn't, and vice versa. For a hobbyist it's mainly an excuse for being allowed to paint two slightly different uniforms as a French player, where someone doing Austria or whatever gets to play with tons of different facing colours. But being Napoleonics, slight uniform differences is pretty much what it's all about. lilljonas fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Dec 1, 2021 |
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Just throwing a mention for my recently started PBP Contemptible Little Armies. Currently it's three poor goons against me who has a better view of the map, since it's in my living room and I'm using push pins  https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3986017
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Lol today I hit peak TMP and peak napoleonics simultaneously. TMP: "Why don't people read more about the battle of Hohenlinden?! It's a very important battle but it seems forgotten" TMP 2: "Hohenlinden isn't obscure, there's tons written about it!" Me: "I'm curious about Hohenlinden, so what's a good reading recommendation?" TMP 2: "Like, there's tons of options! For example, there's: "Die Schlacht zu Hohenlinden in Baiern, im Jahre 1800 den 3ten Dec. …." Europäische Annalenm Jahre 1801 Ernst Ludwig Posselt (1763-1804) Tübingen u. Stuttgart : Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1801 128 pages ; 22 cm And well, there's: Die Schlacht bei Hohenlinden am 3. Dezember 1800 und die vorausgegangenen Heeresbewegungen Anton Schleifer (?-?) Erding u. München : Verlag Josef Hauser, 1897 new edition ; vii+48+Anlage(15) pages ; map in color ; in 8° And there's even; Bataille De Hohenlinden Livrée le (12 Frimaire an 1X.) 3 Décembre 1800 Dépôt Général de la Guerre Paris : Piquet, 1829 3 planches et movements There's so much to choose from!" Me: 
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Getting started boxes should probably include vouchers for lessons in the relevant language really. It’s a shame we can’t do all that much about - my french is ok (I can hold conversations about light pointless topics, just like you’re supposed to with school french), but there’s no way I’ll ever learn enough french at this point to dive into proper academic history. Cest la vie, I guess we can console ourselves by reading extensively about stuff that happened to/within our various native languages and learning enough to shout “advance!” when the dice roll right.
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lilljonas posted:There's so much to choose from!" lol i love tmp if for nothing else than to get a glimpse into the mind of an old grognard i'd otherwise never even imagine
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TMP = The Miniatures Page, I think Posting this everywhere because I spent all day procrastinating from actually doing anything useful and because Cessna recommended bloody miniatures and now I can't evangelise for those guys enough. They're gorgeous miniatures but big enough that despite the size comparison image they're almost space-marine-to-guard scale, so they're going to get a complimentary but completely different paint scheme from my main blocks - the fun, pocket sized game equivalent of pike and shotte that I call "Jet set ec double-uuuuuuuuuuuuu"
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Tried learning how to play Sharp Practice! on my own today. I am still not sure I understand movement (can I change direction during a move? or do I have to Wheel?) and Controlled/uncontrolled fire, but I am going to keep playing solo games to try and learn more. gallery: https://imgur.com/a/OUGo65k   
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No. 1 Juicy Boi posted:Who's TMP? The miniatures page. Probably the biggest historicals page before facebook appeared. There’s a ton of reasons not to visit the page, the webdesign just being one, but there are tons of old valuable threads if you’re looking for information and a few good poster still roam the awful mess that is TMP today.
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I have never seen a website that takes longer to load than TheMiniaturesPage. I don’t know why that’s the case.
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Luftwaffles posted:Just finished my first mission in a Vietnam War campaign using "The 'Nam: The Way it Was" by Wayne Bollands. I know this post was half a year ago, but I am just catching up on the thread and wanted to let you know this was a huge highlight for me. I love how it seemed like a fairly realistic encounter, with ambushes, calling in artillery, and fairly light casualties followed by withdrawals, as opposed to most tabletop games where units fight unrealistically to annihilation. Can you tell me about the models? Wondering where you got them from and what your painting scheme was, especially for the Americans. Would love more battle reports like this if you play again!
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lilljonas posted:The miniatures page. Probably the biggest historicals page before facebook appeared. There’s a ton of reasons not to visit the page, the webdesign just being one, but there are tons of old valuable threads if you’re looking for information and a few good poster still roam the awful mess that is TMP today. Ohhh that ugly blue site where the content only takes up the right 50% of the screen. It always comes up when I search for "____ wargame ruleset" trying to find good rules. It's a pretty useful site, but ugly as hell.
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Pb and Jellyfish posted:I know this post was half a year ago, but I am just catching up on the thread and wanted to let you know this was a huge highlight for me. I love how it seemed like a fairly realistic encounter, with ambushes, calling in artillery, and fairly light casualties followed by withdrawals, as opposed to most tabletop games where units fight unrealistically to annihilation. Can you tell me about the models? Wondering where you got them from and what your painting scheme was, especially for the Americans. Would love more battle reports like this if you play again! If anyone knows where to buy that Nam ruleset please let me know. I couldn't figure it out and I forgot to ask back when that post was made. edit: nevermind, found it. https://www.caliverbooks.com/bookview.php?siqq7sb4m5rd2qg00opql7df34&id=28707&subcatcode=I&subcatno=75 Class Warcraft fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Dec 6, 2021 |
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Pb and Jellyfish posted:I know this post was half a year ago, but I am just catching up on the thread and wanted to let you know this was a huge highlight for me. I love how it seemed like a fairly realistic encounter, with ambushes, calling in artillery, and fairly light casualties followed by withdrawals, as opposed to most tabletop games where units fight unrealistically to annihilation. Can you tell me about the models? Wondering where you got them from and what your painting scheme was, especially for the Americans. Would love more battle reports like this if you play again! Yeah drat, that write-up sounds great! Makes me want to play it in a similar MACV-SOG Brightlight scenario, dropping in to extract stranded soldiers and/or helicopter pilots from a hill and blow up the wreck, all the while being punished by NVA forces. Urgh, and I've still gotta finish my Alpini! Don't make me even more tempted for this! (Unless of course, I can reuse my Alpini.... we all remember the very brief, minor Italian Indochina war, right? Didn't make many headlines, but the mountaineers/Alpini were definitely sent to the jungles of Vietnam) 
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alg posted:Tried learning how to play Sharp Practice! on my own today. I am still not sure I understand movement (can I change direction during a move? or do I have to Wheel?) and Controlled/uncontrolled fire, but I am going to keep playing solo games to try and learn more. Your tokens look like tasty mints
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Major Isoor posted:Yeah drat, that write-up sounds great! Makes me want to play it in a similar MACV-SOG Brightlight scenario, dropping in to extract stranded soldiers and/or helicopter pilots from a hill and blow up the wreck, all the while being punished by NVA forces. Oh man, now I'm in the process of talking myself into buying into a 'nam game in a convo with a friend. Partly so that I can try using a couple of contrast paints (green and face) on a white base coat, to see if I can rapidly paint-up a mostly-acceptable force. Since if so, I think I'll probably redo my Alpini using the same style, since I'm not a fan of the watery paints I have for them at the moment. Is this generally regarded as the best platoon-level 28mm Vietnam game, or are there others that tend to be preferred? Shame there's no Bolt Action expansion for it, I guess. Since I'm actually somewhat familiar with that system
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Well, it took me a few months, a lockdown and having a kid, but I finally finished off my Black Seas starter set!   Rigging them took forever but looks great in person. The acetate ratlines are way too fiddly to be worth it as there's basically no surface area to attach them to the masts so I gave up after doing the frigates. Hopefully I will actually get to use them this week!
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This link is pretty much the only reason I visit TMP unless an obscure google search takes me there http://theminiaturespage.com/ref/scales.html
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Pb and Jellyfish posted:I know this post was half a year ago, but I am just catching up on the thread and wanted to let you know this was a huge highlight for me. I love how it seemed like a fairly realistic encounter, with ambushes, calling in artillery, and fairly light casualties followed by withdrawals, as opposed to most tabletop games where units fight unrealistically to annihilation. Can you tell me about the models? Wondering where you got them from and what your painting scheme was, especially for the Americans. Would love more battle reports like this if you play again! I've painted a few troops for Vietnam. They're 15mm scale, based for FoW 'Nam but usable for anything. If you want painting recipes or whatever, let me know.    
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NTRabbit posted:This link is pretty much the only reason I visit TMP unless an obscure google search takes me there  Cessna posted:I've painted a few troops for Vietnam.
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