|
Southern Heel posted:The parliamentarians rise! I decided to differentiate each of the English Civil War armies by choosing a discrete colour palette. The Royalists are all in yellow, red, burgundy, etc. and the Parliamentarians are all in shades of blue, white and black. I like it. I have some cowboys to finish up for What a Cowboy, but after that I'm planning to decide on a time period and do a test unit of the Warlord Epic Pike and Shotte minis. First Gang of Outlaws, next up I'm gonna work on some lawmen, and then maybe some particularly violent ranchhands.  
|
#
?
May 1, 2023 20:06
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 26, 2024 07:30 |
|
|
Oh are we posting tiny dudes? I just did a test paint of some 10mm Britons for a Hail Caesar project I might work on. 
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2023 21:56
|
|
|
Starting to think about late Roman/ Byzantine armies for Saga. Not sure how to distinguish heavy cavalry from each period- invasions era late Rome has melee and cataphract cavalry, viking era thematic Byzantines have melee and bow cav, crusades era post Manzikert has just melee. Was thinking of doing lance cavalry for thematic Byzantines (since they have an ability named after the kontos spear) and maybe guys with maces/swords for crusades era, but those guys are usually pretty heavily armored and idk if that style continued into the twelfth century?
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2023 22:10
|
|
|
Count Thrashula posted:What are the best solo friendly wargame rules out there? Things with randomized activation, no hidden info, etc.
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2023 22:37
|
|
|
How is What A Cowboy?
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2023 23:12
|
|
|
spectralent posted:How is What A Cowboy? I'm gonna try to play it this coming weekend, I'll do a report after that.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 00:46
|
|
|
Ilor posted:From an activation perspective alone, TFL's Chain of Command and Sharp Practice are both fantastic for solo gameplay. Chain of Command is the only game I've ever played solo where I have been able to ambush myself and legit say, "Wow, I did NOT see that coming!" How did you do that and how did the game do that.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 03:45
|
|
|
Surprising yourself while playing solo is perfectly feasible so long as you're high/drunk enough to forget what you're doing between turns.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 05:21
|
|
|
Comstar posted:How did you do that and how did the game do that. You can spend a CoC Point to perform the Ambush action, which lets you deploy a single infantry team 12" from a jump off point, which can be a surprising amount of distance for sure.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 05:57
|
|
|
Ilor posted:From an activation perspective alone, TFL's Chain of Command and Sharp Practice are both fantastic for solo gameplay. Chain of Command is the only game I've ever played solo where I have been able to ambush myself and legit say, "Wow, I did NOT see that coming!" Victory without Quarter has the same card based activation mechanic for pike and shot era and is free, just FYI Count Thrashula posted:Oh are we posting tiny dudes? Also these are cool - 10mm is the perfect scale if you’re not pointedly going for small skirmishes
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 06:14
|
|
|
Cassa posted:You can spend a CoC Point to perform the Ambush action, which lets you deploy a single infantry team 12" from a jump off point, which can be a surprising amount of distance for sure. Also you roll five dice to see what activations you get each phase. Rolls of 5 collect until you get the CoC dice that you can spend on doing special things, like an ambush. So you could totally have a situation where you, during your German phase go ”I’ll just move my panther forwards, the Americans have only two coc points so I’m safe.Only for you as the american say, roll a double turn (double sixes) with lots of fives too, and then surprise yourself by being avle to launch a surprise offensive including an ambush by an AT team thay pops up in a hedge behind the panther. It’s all on the random activation economy, you don’t get the same in a more chess-like igougo system. lilljonas fucked around with this message at 06:36 on May 2, 2023 |
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 06:31
|
|
|
By the way, NavWar did finally write me a letter to tell me my payment information was not valid (after when I faxed it to them I was immediately the victim of a scam and then had to cancel my card, after which I faxed them saying 'please call me so I can give you payment information). Just lol, no. Having sampled the Age of Battleships with Grand Fleets for the Russo-Japanese war and enjoyed it, I don't have any massive urge to replay the Battle of Ulsan again. The fleets as they are, are quite imbalanced and the game (like the real battle) is a bit of a foregone conclusion. One solution to this is to add another flotilla (i.e. another pair of battleships (Peresviet & Shikishima-class) and some destroyers) per side to bring the points up to the 'small-medium sized game' level, instead of below the 'very small' threshold. It's either that, or I bring the timeline forward to WW1 and two new fleets. It'd be the same number of ships, but they higher costs (i.e. SMS Seydlitz (Battlecruiser) is 145pts vs IJN Asama (Armoured Cruiser) is 40pts. Though I would end up with another pair of similarly small fleets, they would at least be less of a glass hammer. I could also try another rule-set, if anyone has recommendations or suggestions? If we're looking at alternate rulesets I would be interested in something which doesn't track via rosters/unit cards - I think Fighting Sail manages everything through a couple of different token types, for example? Southern Heel fucked around with this message at 12:02 on May 2, 2023 |
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 10:47
|
|
|
Historicals: The Americans have two CoC points
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 11:55
|
|
|
Southern Heel posted:Victory without Quarter has the same card based activation mechanic for pike and shot era and is free, just FYI Holy crap, how did I not know about these rules? Thank you. Southern Heel posted:By the way, NavWar did finally write me a letter to tell me my payment information was not valid (after when I faxed it to them I was immediately the victim of a scam and then had to cancel my card, after which I faxed them saying 'please call me so I can give you payment information). Just lol, no. It's amazing how many wargame companies still live in 1978. Cessna fucked around with this message at 15:20 on May 2, 2023 |
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 15:17
|
|
|
Need to make a scenario for What a Cowboy or LotOW where you have to race to save the telegraph lines from being cut by baddies because otherwise no one will be able to order new miniatures.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 15:28
|
|
|
Cessna posted:It's amazing how many wargame companies still live in 1978.  If there were websites in 1978, they'd all be Peter Pig's.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 16:34
|
|
|
C.f., The Miniatures Page.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 16:38
|
|
|
The thing about Peter Pig is that they are super responsive and have photos of all their stuff on the site. It's easy to navigate, and the checkout process is sensibly outsourced to Romancart. I wish everyone was as good as Peter Pig.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 16:40
|
|
|
The other bizarre thing is the website does get regular updates, for both pricing and new models. So presumably he just likes how it looks?
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 17:16
|
|
|
Heroics & Ros got a real nice new website not that long ago, but they still don't have pictures of all their toys up there. TBH I'd prefer the effort went into showing you what you were buying rather than flashy modern web design.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 17:57
|
|
|
Well chuffed that Tumbljng Dice are slowly adding pictures- you’re taking a chance on each model but in general you end up trumps. I also picked up two Napoleonic fleets for Fighting Sail because it “saved me (£3) postage in the long run…”
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 18:03
|
|
|
Arquinsiel posted:TBH I'd prefer the effort went into showing you what you were buying rather than flashy modern web design.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 18:13
|
|
|
Pierzak posted:I still prefer the old-rear end website parts to the mobile interface parts. Ran into a website with a new feature I instantly loathed - it would not show anything apart from "you are offline" if it couldn't maintain a connection. Anything that was opened didn't cache and disappeared the moment the connection dropped. A livestreamed shopping site.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 18:25
|
|
|
Arquinsiel posted:Heroics & Ros got a real nice new website not that long ago, but they still don't have pictures of all their toys up there. TBH I'd prefer the effort went into showing you what you were buying rather than flashy modern web design. God, yeah, H&R are some of the worst offenders because some of their models are actually quite nice (if not GHQ quality), and others are formless lumps. There's no way to tell.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 19:10
|
|
|
https://www.peterpig.co.uk/pdf%20rules.html is the real highlight they're a good company with good products!
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 19:29
|
|
|
What's completely insane is I have 100% seen AK-47 republic out in the wild before. People are definitely already pirating it.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 19:40
|
|
|
If they modernized their website that process could actually be automatic. All of the recent Pathfinder poo poo I ordered has my name and email on it, and frankly their webstore sucks rear end compared to many others.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 19:57
|
|
|
spectralent posted:What's completely insane is I have 100% seen AK-47 republic out in the wild before. People are definitely already pirating it.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 20:33
|
|
|
Comstar posted:How did you do that and how did the game do that. Cassa and liljonas covered the basics, but I'll give you the longer version. I was playing a "Probe" scenario, where the attacking side's objective is to get a unit off the opponent's table edge. As the British, I had one section laying down a base of fire and one section working its way methodically along a wadi that provided some cover. There was a low ridge that ran across most of the center of the board, and with my third British section I decided to try for a mad dash over the ridge and across the maybe 20" of open ground to the German table edge. IIRC I also had a mortar barrage going as the Brits, so the German deployment options were somewhat limited. Anyway, I'm moving my 3rd British section forward at the run and I was very close to the objective. The next phase was a German phase (CoC doesn't always alternate sides, sometimes one player will get to go multiple times in a row, though usually able to activate less stuff when doing so), and when I rolled my Command Dice to generate activation resources for the German side, I rolled enough 5s to build up a a special resource that let the Germans perform an "Ambush" action (which in CoC allows you to deploy a team, fire with that team, and then return them to your reserves if you choose and if they're not using a crewed weapon like an AT gun). As the Germans, I happened to have an LMG team still in undeployed reserves, so as soon as I generated enough resources to do it, I deployed them and hosed the crap out of the Brits in the open making a dash for the baseline. Additionally, the extra deployment distance you get from an Ambush meant that I could deploy the German LMG team outside the barrage zone. Before I rolled those Command Dice as the Germans, there was very little the Germans could have done to stop the mad British dash, but I got exactly what I needed to make the Ambush happen. So suddenly my stellar idea of using the mortar barrage on the center-left of the board to screen my troops making a bold move to the right turned into a nightmare poo poo-show where my 3rd British section got immediately lit-up by close-range LMG fire. In the open, with no cover in sight. IIRC, it was also a German double-phase, so I was able to subject those poor British bastards to several successive volleys of fire. Before they could respond, they had taken heavy casualties and were pinned. This prevented them from making any further advance, and they suffered more casualties, a wounded leader, and broke shortly thereafter. I've played a lot of solo games of CoC (especially during the pandemic), and I am consistently impressed at how cool the game play experience is, even when you know what forces your "opponent" is bringing to the table. There are also home-brew add-ons in some of the Lard Annuals that add further randomization in supports, which adds even more uncertainty to solo play.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 20:48
|
|
|
moths posted:
I was reading through some PP rules today and was struck by how God awful the formatting is and how the scenario maps are... Hand drawn. It's all so charming 
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 22:30
|
|
|
There is somehow something reassuring in all that lo-fi hobby space.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 23:27
|
|
|
Just an incredible website to model quality ratio. I don't know who this Peter is, or how he manages to sculpt such nice figures with his little cloven hooves, but he's doing god's work no mistake.
|
|
#
?
May 3, 2023 00:25
|
|
|
If you are playing Flames of War he does a beautiful little burnt out Universal Carrier with corpses in it that fits perfectly onto an objective base which I highly recommend. Also a set of British infantry having a tea break that'd do nicely as another objective.
|
|
#
?
May 3, 2023 01:44
|
|
|
Endman posted:Just an incredible website to model quality ratio. I don't know who this Peter is, or how he manages to sculpt such nice figures with his little cloven hooves, but he's doing god's work no mistake. I’ve painted Peter Pig’s 15mm samurai range and it is legit good and on a very nice balance between details and paintability. E: ITT Pig Lovebombing
|
|
#
?
May 3, 2023 08:07
|
|
|
I'm honestly impressed they taught a pig to script in HTML
|
|
#
?
May 3, 2023 09:55
|
|
|
peter pigs stuff is quite good and he runs a good, responsive business, and it's very funny to me that his website is so bad. it adds to the charm imo
|
|
#
?
May 3, 2023 13:15
|
|
|
I love when I buy a bunch of STLs I completely forget about, like nicely detailed 28mm French line infantry or an entire range of 15mm samurai
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2023 02:39
|
|
|
Took my Britons out for a test drive against Anglo-Saxons tonight. It was a close game but didn't go well because Britons aren't exactly well suited to attack     
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2023 02:49
|
|
|
That's awesome. What rules? Saga?
Count Thrashula fucked around with this message at 03:19 on May 4, 2023 |
|
#
?
May 4, 2023 03:17
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 26, 2024 07:30 |
|
|
Count Thrashula posted:I love when I buy a bunch of STLs I completely forget about, like nicely detailed 28mm French line infantry or an entire range of 15mm samurai Are those samurai from Smol Miniatures? I've been thinking about getting some.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2023 03:29
|
|
