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Southern Heel posted:Gosh, baby has arrived and a desire for crunch is at a pretty low ebb, as is time for painting metal dollies. I've been a hybrid boardgame-wargamer for a while now (well, not doing much of either but when I'm doing it - it's a shared interest) and I've been wondering about chit/counter based wargaming. There were some excellent MDF 2mm Nappies posted earlier and I wonder if that's a good shout - but if not, maybe just bases with company/battalion markings painted on? I'm thinking particularly of Agincourt - Napoleonic era... I’ve seen a type of ”pub nappy” games where each battalion is represented by a small coloured stick. Then you can play on basically a foldable paper mat. Found it: https://www.commandpostgames.com/pub-battles/
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New baby arrived? Sounds like you're going to have enough "nappy battles" as it is
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lilljonas posted:I’ve seen a type of ”pub nappy” games where each battalion is represented by a small coloured stick. Then you can play on basically a foldable paper mat. Count Thrashula posted:New baby arrived? Sounds like you're going to have enough "nappy battles" as it is  Still, gotta admire someone who still has the energy and will for the hobby with a freshly-arrived kid.
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I have a kid coming in about a month so I'm scrambling to finish up my Mollwitz board for SYW before I have to tuck everything into storage
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Scrambling to finish so I can pack it away in a closet is depressingly the story of my hobbyist life.
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Got a baby in May, I’ve had roughly… three hours combined of hobby time since then? And yes, most of my hobby things are now in the attic too because of this. Scaling down to just a few things in the apartment.
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My kid was born a year ago, which means I'm slowly getting some of my hobby time back, but I now have to contend with a 1 y/o girl whose entire mission in life is to contrive a way to get ahold of my minis and pop them in her mouth.
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Class Warcraft posted:My kid was born a year ago, which means I'm slowly getting some of my hobby time back, but I now have to contend with a 1 y/o girl whose entire mission in life is to contrive a way to get ahold of my minis and pop them in her mouth. I’m looking forward to assembling a child-proof gummy bear napoleonics army.
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The first Swiss Gummy regiment performed honourably at Borodino and was mentioned in dispatches, seeing off the Russian 237th regiment of sherbet lemons before seizing a battery of chocolate covered licorice cannon
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Aug 29, 2022 21:59
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Pub battles looks perfect to me! I don't suppose there's a UK stockist? Re: baby - she's sleeping alot at the moment, I'm back to working full-time. Obviously, while she needs caring for it's all hands on deck but while she's sleeping for hours at a time it's no biggy. I have her in the pram right next to my little work station.
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Tanktanktankta- wait a minute that’s not right  Spgspgspgspgspgspgspg
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Endman posted:Tanktanktankta- wait a minute that’s not right Very nice! Love me some Semoventes!  Out of curiosity, what system is it for? I'm only aware of BA and CoC.I actually have a 75/18 too, but (unless I'm horribly mistaken about the size of yours) it's a larger scale one for Bolt Action, by Rubicon. I hope you have some little L3s, to back that big fella up! 
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Major Isoor posted:Very nice! Love me some Semoventes! Thanks! I’d love to get some L3s! This is a 15mm model from Battlefront, so I guess technically it’s for Flames of War, but this one will see more action in What A Tanker 
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I have a few groups of Prussian infantry from the SYW that I'm painting up for Sharp Practice. Someone on the TFL forums came up with some pretty in depth start sheets for SYW countries. I was trying to figure out which regiment I wanted to paint as because there's so much diversity and I came across this absolute DRIP It blows my mind that gentlemen just waltzed in to battle like this, it's so good 
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If anyone here is the 3d printing type, Madox Historical makes some incredible minis. They've done Seven Years War, French-Indian War, and American War of Independence so far, and I think they're branching into medieval stuff now while they finish up FIW/AWI. I couldn't be happier with how these Prussians look. 
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Count Thrashula posted:I have a few groups of Prussian infantry from the SYW that I'm painting up for Sharp Practice. Someone on the TFL forums came up with some pretty in depth start sheets for SYW countries. Dappers gotta dap. Please show them to us when you're done!
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Count Thrashula posted:I have a few groups of Prussian infantry from the SYW that I'm painting up for Sharp Practice. Someone on the TFL forums came up with some pretty in depth start sheets for SYW countries. "Lace Wars" does have a sexy ring to it.
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Is there the equivalent of Dwarf Fortress/Advanced Squad Leader level of complexity and record keeping rules for historical miniatures? I know of at least one set for WW2 but how about musket era and modern?
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NC Wyeth Death Cult posted:Is there the equivalent of Dwarf Fortress/Advanced Squad Leader level of complexity and record keeping rules for historical miniatures? I know of at least one set for WW2 but how about musket era and modern? Pretty sure any of the truly grognardy naval games will feature a heavy set of complexity, to the point of only running two or, maybe (?), four ships.
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Count Thrashula posted:If anyone here is the 3d printing type, Madox Historical makes some incredible minis. They've done Seven Years War, French-Indian War, and American War of Independence so far, and I think they're branching into medieval stuff now while they finish up FIW/AWI. I couldn't be happier with how these Prussians look. These look great! What did you print them out on? I assume a resin printer? My Elegoo Saturn 2 is pre-ordered and I have an Anycubic FDM printer. Also, getting into 3D printing seems to be one of the best investments for miniatures a person can make.
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NC Wyeth Death Cult posted:Is there the equivalent of Dwarf Fortress/Advanced Squad Leader level of complexity and record keeping rules for historical miniatures? I know of at least one set for WW2 but how about musket era and modern?
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Arquinsiel posted:You could just run BattleTech from XTRO 1945 and really big forces. ASL isn't actually that complex on a per-unit basis, so if you really want you can simply run something intended for fireteam fights and run company level games. lol i was gonna suggest battletech homebrew actually since i've been playing loads of cbt lately but thought maybe i'd wait to see some other suggestions first since there may be some other button counting games i don't know about
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A Fistfull of TOWs and, believe it or not, Avalon Hill's Main Battle Tank (MBT) for miniatures were the ones i was thinking for modern.Arquinsiel posted:You could just run BattleTech from XTRO 1945 and really big forces. ASL isn't actually that complex on a per-unit basis, so if you really want you can simply run something intended for fireteam fights and run company level games. Thanks I'll check it out!
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The other option is just running ASL and using the chits as record sheets.
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can't remember if i asked this already in the past, but does anyone have a good source of ww2 infantry stls? vehicles are plentiful and free but infantry i can't find with a quick google. i tried scaling down my march from hell dudes as an experiment and the bodies are okay but the guns and protruding arms are too spindly at 6. need something specifically modelled for 6 mm for infantry i think
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Deluxe ASL was created as a way to use minis for ASL, though you are still playing on a grid
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Printing 6mm is going to be a fragile mess on any printer. You could try taking your 15mm March to Hell dudes down 50% to 7.5mm, they're designed chunky and should be able to handle that reduction better than most figures. Source: My friend Howard has been intensely frustrated printing his Napoleonic stuff at 6mm.
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moths posted:Printing 6mm is going to be a fragile mess on any printer. You could try taking your 15mm March to Hell dudes down 50% to 7.5mm, they're designed chunky and should be able to handle that reduction better than most figures. i've had good success with napoleonics and ancients at 6 mm, but they were modelled for that scale. i could compromise and make the figs a little larger but the bigger they get, the more awkward/tightly packed a squad looks on a base (or the bigger i need to make the base)
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I was actually looking at 6mm scale models to maybe do some live ASL stuff and I had come across these: https://www.ghqmodels.com/collections/1-285-6mm-scale https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/AltEndingGames?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=1064399426 Fake edit: I am dumb, don't have a 3D printer, and have done little to no research
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moths posted:Printing 6mm is going to be a fragile mess on any printer.
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Adding to the "I've had plenty of success with 6mm models modeled for 6mm" pile. Henry Turner's Napoleonics stuff prints great at 6mm and is pretty solid.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:I was actually looking at 6mm scale models to maybe do some live ASL stuff and I had come across these:
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Pierzak posted:Even assuming you're going the turbo-heroic, low-detail style most applicable for the size? He was running into problems where the bayonets and rifles would snap if anyone looked at them too hard. I imagine if you can find closed-pose figures where the extended parts aren't too extended you'd be fine. It sounds very much like his figure choice was a factor, based on others' success in the scale.
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moths posted:I imagine if you can find closed-pose figures where the extended parts aren't too extended you'd be fine. It sounds very much like his figure choice was a factor, based on others' success in the scale. Tweaking the STLs in Blender might help as well.
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NC Wyeth Death Cult posted:Is there the equivalent of Dwarf Fortress/Advanced Squad Leader level of complexity and record keeping rules for historical miniatures? I know of at least one set for WW2 but how about musket era and modern? There's always the Phoenix Command Combat System. It was designed by NASA rocket scientists to be the most detail-oriented wounding and ballistics simulator in chart form in the mid-1980s, and focused on squad and platoon level small arms engagements between individual miniatures, and was marketed both as a player-versus-player miniature game and as a roleplaying game supplement. It was originally late-ish Cold War, but got WWII and Wild West supplements and there's a vehicle expansion line with 80s and WWII vehicles.
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After years of waffling, I'm finally ready to take the plunge and get into Napoleonics. I've even decided on the war of the fifth coalition as the rough period. But now I'm struggling to pick a sale. Initially I had planned on going with 28mm for Sharp Practice, but recently I've felt awfully tempted to just go straight for big(-ish) formations and get some 10mm for General d'Armee. I'm rather fond of the Perry plastics and they look like they'd paint up nicely, but I also love the effect of larger numbers of smaller scale minis - although the smallest I've done so far is 15mm. Does anyone have experience with Napoleonics in either/both scales or with either set of rules and can provide some input?
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I don't know anything about GA but with SP, you can definitely drop down to 15mm, if that would help you build big armies for GA later.
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15mm would be the best of both worlds approach. Do your Gd'A force in strips and single-base some for SP. There's plenty of people who play it in that scale.
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My issue with 15mm is that it lacks the detail and, perhaps more importantly, cheap plastics of 28mm while not looking nearly as impressive for mass formations as the smaller scales. Full disclosure: if I end up going the GdA route, I'm pretty much dead set on battalions with one base per company with proper distances between figures, i.e. elbow to elbow, which is the primary reason why I'm not particularly interested in starting with SP in 28mm and then building up to GDA - formations in 28mm always seem to end up looking too loose, and I don't get the impression 15mm helps a ton in that regard. The one good thing about this dilemma is that the fact that I'm already obsessing about dumb poo poo like this makes me feel like Napolenonics really are for me. I'll be counting buttons in no time.
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