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Cessna posted:Has anyone bought/built/painted any of the Black Powder "Epic Battles" stuff? I have a lot of the Civil War ones, and I have painted a lot of them. As someone with deep knowledge of the US Civil War, including uniforms, unit histories, etc. I love them. They rank up really well and look great on the tabletop. They are easy to put together and paint.
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How easily do they split? I don't like the super long ranks they come in by default.
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alg posted:As someone with deep knowledge of the US Civil War, including uniforms, unit histories, etc. I love them. They rank up really well and look great on the tabletop. They are easy to put together and paint. gently caress. It would have been a lot easier if you'd told me "no, they're bad."
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Springfield Fatts posted:How easily do they split? I don't like the super long ranks they come in by default. They work OK. With paint and their small size it's very hard to see where you split them.
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alg posted:These are mine in action Welp, ordered the big Gettysburg box.
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Southern Heel posted:I'm quite pleased with how this 10mm star fort is looking - I got it as a 3D model from Project Diratia on MyMiniFactory and it was split in a really silly way, but other than a wonky corner it's printed out quite well I think and certainly is as imposing as I hoped it to be. Now to figure out some siege rules... Hey, we're working on similar projects! I bought the same fort during the winter MMF sale. Did you end up making any modifications to the file to fix the weird splits? I'm going to be trying to wargame the siege of Malta, so let me know what rules you end up using. Major Isoor posted:Hey, just wondering, is anyone aware of any good Bolt Action scenarios? Doesn't matter if they're official or unofficial - just preferably non-themed like the core book's scenarios, if that's an option. (Since I use an Italian Alpini force, while my friend uses the Romanian army. So yeah, not really any suitable campaign books for us There are a bunch of free scenarios up on Warlord's website under the articles section. The Case Blue book has scenarios for Romanians and Alpini, but not against each other (obviously).
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alg posted:These are mine in action Y'all are killing me here. I'm trying to save for a house.
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Virtual Russian posted:Y'all are killing me here. I'm trying to save for a house. 10mm? 15mm? 28mm?
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Class Warcraft posted:There are a bunch of free scenarios up on Warlord's website under the articles section. The Case Blue book has scenarios for Romanians and Alpini, but not against each other (obviously). Oh thanks! I'll take a look at their site now - I wasn't aware they had a bunch of freebies
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Class Warcraft posted:Hey, we're working on similar projects! I bought the same fort during the winter MMF sale. Did you end up making any modifications to the file to fix the weird splits? I’m just going to mount a half of the fort onto a single base. I did think about putting each section on its own so it could be somewhat modular but because of the angles it’s only ever going to be pentagonal or half a pentagon! I don’t think I have any rules at all, which factor in wargaming a siege, instead of abstract through dice rolls and card drawers in a campaign context…
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:its not strictly historical, but i plan at some point to do a broad foray into late medieval/very early italian wars. circa 1450-1550. youve got wotr presence, but also continental knights, the emergence of the pike w the swiss, the ordonnance, the italian levies + mercenaries, mounted crossbowmen + stradiots, etc., plus the growth of hand guns from boom sticks carried by armoured guys into the arquebusiers and musketeers with ripped sash clothing. a lot of variety, a lot of colour, and a lot of potentially theoretical matchups that are quasi-historical, even if you have to stretch some Interesting! I will dig around a bit more in that era, then!
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Cessna posted:Has anyone bought/built/painted any of the Black Powder "Epic Battles" stuff? I’ve got most of the napoleonic sets. They build and paint in a heartbeat and don’t take much effort to look pretty. They are my favourite minis to work with. 10 stars of 10. My only complaint is I’m so loving sick of Waterloo, but eh, brit companies gonna brit the gently caress out.
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Count Thrashula posted:10mm? 15mm? 28mm? They're an odd scale, between 10mm and 15mm. I'm okay with this, as I'm just going to get ACW stuff and I don't care if it's compatible with anything else.
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Cessna posted:They're an odd scale, between 10mm and 15mm. for ACW, I have had good luck with Kallistra, and Old Glory 15mm work really well for commanders, camps, etc. Really at that scale, it is hard to tell often that things don't match exactly unless they are on the same base right next to each other
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alg posted:for ACW, I have had good luck with Kallistra, and Old Glory 15mm work really well for commanders, camps, etc. Yea, pretty much. I wish they were a more standard 15mm, but they're cheap and look good. I look forward to burning tiny Atlanta in scale.
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Major Isoor posted:Hey, just wondering, is anyone aware of any good Bolt Action scenarios? Doesn't matter if they're official or unofficial - just preferably non-themed like the core book's scenarios, if that's an option. (Since I use an Italian Alpini force, while my friend uses the Romanian army. So yeah, not really any suitable campaign books for us Check out Bolt Action Alliance scenarios they’re fun for 1 off games
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Cessna posted:They're an odd scale, between 10mm and 15mm. Oh I was just making a joke about the house Virtual Russian is saving up for  But to add content - MCMiniatures on Wargaming3d has a HUGE line of 13.5mm/epic scale Napoleonic stuff - https://www.wargaming3d.com/product/small-15mm-w-epic-size-french-line-1812-15/. Pretty much name a country and unit type and he's got it. Great way to expand past the confines of Waterloo.
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Southern Heel posted:After a hiatus I'm putting the finishing touches to my 10mm ECW armies and I've realised I really prefer the metal miniatures from Pendraken compared to the Henry Turner 3D prints. Henry's models are good but the Pendraken stuff is just fantastic. The period 1450-1530 or so is the one I'm most interested in in terms of modeling and wargaming and there's actually a considerable amount of variety if you are willing to move away from the WOTR focus of British wargaming. In addition to the Burgundian and Italian Wars, you could, depending on how far afield you're willing to go, even include matchups between European armies and Ottoman, Moorish, or Muscovite forces (e.g. the siege of Constantinople and conquest of the Balkans; the final phase of the Reconquista and the Iberian campaigns in Morocco; and the battle of Orsha, respectively). There is considerable variation in the use of heavy cavalry (lots in French and Burgundian armies, little in Swiss, for instance), light cavalry (stradiots quickly became widespread, but mounted skirmishers of other types were also employed), the types of ranged weapons employed (crossbows vs longbows vs arquebuses), and the ways in which infantry were deployed (pike squares, of course, but also the liberal use of pavesiers in Eastern Europe, for example) as well as continued use of wagon-based tactics in some regions. In fact, given the fact that this was a period of rapid transition in European and Middle Eastern armies, it includes more variety in force composition and tactics than in many earlier or later periods; it's just that the British focus of historical wargaming has led to the WOTR, which is tactically speaking among the most boring of all conflicts in this period, being the main focus of most manufacturers and ruleset writers.
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The Italian Wars have the best looking units of any conflict ever
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Count Thrashula posted:The Italian Wars have the best looking units of any conflict ever yup
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Springfield Fatts posted:Just played my first game of C&C Tricorne that I got as a gift and now I'm like "hmmmm how many stands would it take to convert this to minis....." Tons of people do C&C Napoleonics, they just use 6mm figures on bases the size of the C&C hexes
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Count Thrashula posted:Oh I was just making a joke about the house Virtual Russian is saving up for I'm an artist, so lets say 10mm.
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Springfield Fatts posted:Just played my first game of C&C Tricorne that I got as a gift and now I'm like "hmmmm how many stands would it take to convert this to minis....."
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Cessna posted:They're an odd scale, between 10mm and 15mm. Being plastic and designed in a computer they are probably much closer to 15mm than traditional metal ones. In either case, with all the hats and guns poking up it's pretty much impossible to tell the difference between 13-18mm anyway
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MeinPanzer posted:The period 1450-1530 or so is the one I'm most interested in in terms of modeling and wargaming and there's actually a considerable amount of variety if you are willing to move away from the WOTR focus of British wargaming. In addition to the Burgundian and Italian Wars, you could, depending on how far afield you're willing to go, even include matchups between European armies and Ottoman, Moorish, or Muscovite forces (e.g. the siege of Constantinople and conquest of the Balkans; the final phase of the Reconquista and the Iberian campaigns in Morocco; and the battle of Orsha, respectively). Thank you for this amazing detailed reply and information. You mention of Constantinople has me looking at Byzantine armies of the same period too. I’m on holiday at the moment. I have packed the DBA 3.0 book, and I am busily mapping out the various army relations!
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Southern Heel posted:Thank you for this amazing detailed reply and information. You mention of Constantinople has me looking at Byzantine armies of the same period too. I’m on holiday at the moment. I have packed the DBA 3.0 book, and I am busily mapping out the various army relations! The Italian Wars is a very interesting setting. It also allows you a lot of choice in hobby level, as you can make everything from quickly painted hordes of pikemen to elaborately dressed gendarmes and landsknechts where the sky is the limit when it comes to painting. There's also a ton of development of tactics and army composition, so within the period you can do a lot of different things. The Swiss had their specific style, the Spanish their tercios, and as mentioned you can even add the eastern Mediterranean if you want even more variety. And in 28mm there's even a lot of options in plastic these days, so it's not even one of the more expensive periods to wargame. It's probably our main "forever project", as the last five years or so have seen club members slowly grow a bunch of both fantasy and historical armies based on the setting. At this point I'm pretty sure we have several armies that could be finished at a push - both enough humans to play historical battles and an assortment of Italian Wars themed orcs, undead, halflings and upcoming ducks. One of these days! The latest addition was me buying a set of Perry's plastic mounted men at arms to see if they would work as mounts for sculpting ducks on top. They would not, but now I have an excuse to paint up some medium cavalry to go with all the gendarmes my clubmates have been collecting. lilljonas fucked around with this message at 10:13 on Jan 6, 2024 |
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To be honest, I don’t know anything at all about the Italian wars - that’s at the very end of the time periods that I’ve spent time reading about, and being English generally gravitate towards the British Isles as well. Is there a book you can recommend? To be honest, I’m likely to incorporate both the Dark Ages and HYW/WOTR/etc. into my multi-era imaginary nation conflict rather than being specifically historical - but it would be great to get some context.
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Southern Heel posted:To be honest, I don’t know anything at all about the Italian wars - that’s at the very end of the time periods that I’ve spent time reading about, and being English generally gravitate towards the British Isles as well. Is there a book you can recommend? I shamefully only have one book (https://www.amazon.com/Italian-Wars-1494-1559-Modern-Perspective/dp/1138739049#customerReviews), and it is a bit tricky to recommend. It is divided into two halves, one covering the events of the wars and one about the military and social developments of it. The actual war chapters are... challenging. It's such a completely confused mess of actors involved that it makes the War of the Roses look like checkers. And the way they are told in this book is pretty detailed, so I found it very hard to follow along and keep track of things. The latter chapters are a lot easier to read. So after reading the book I had a bit of a better idea of the wars, but it's like I know a bit about the very very overview of the wars, and a lot of small details, but not like, the medium scale view of the wars. They are stupidly complicated though so I'm not sure there are any easier source. Pick it up if you can find a cheaper, second hand, copy I guess.
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Yeah I'll admit to a barely rudimentary knowledge of the Italian Wars, I just think it's such a fascinating era right on the cusp where you have the solidification of Pike and shot while at the same time having elaborate plate mail knights and also garish Landsknecht. Basically, France and Spain paid Swiss and German mercenaries to fight over parts of Italy - past that and it's a complicated mess of personalities that makes Game of Thrones seem quaint.
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Count Thrashula posted:Yeah I'll admit to a barely rudimentary knowledge of the Italian Wars, I just think it's such a fascinating era right on the cusp where you have the solidification of Pike and shot while at the same time having elaborate plate mail knights and also garish Landsknecht. It basically straddles the end of the Medieval age and the explosive birth of the Renaissance when it comes to warfare, so yeah, lots of interesting stuff and variety. And huge pike formations with lots of flags look great no matter if you’re a good painter or not.
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Count Thrashula posted:The Italian Wars have the best looking units of any conflict ever For sure
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Can't wait to see how this ends up. https://www.fightforamerica.games/ The dude that is Spectre Miniatures now says he is doing all the figs, which is certainly a feat.
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Southern Heel posted:Thank you for this amazing detailed reply and information. You mention of Constantinople has me looking at Byzantine armies of the same period too. I’m on holiday at the moment. I have packed the DBA 3.0 book, and I am busily mapping out the various army relations! You're welcome! Here's a pretty good resource to learn about different theaters for this period, from the creators of the great Never Mind the Billhooks ruleset: https://www.nevermindthebillhooks.com/theatres
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Robert Facepalmer posted:Can't wait to see how this ends up. loving lmao, I wonder how many of the blue force capitol police will immediately go neutral and let red force into the building
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Dirt Worshipper posted:Check out Bolt Action Alliance scenarios they’re fun for 1 off games Ohhhh, yes! This is 100% what we needed - thank you!
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