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I was thinking today that it's odd that air wargames are all extremely finickity and full of stuff to track - many have written orders, most involve meticulous tracking of heights, speeds, and ammunition. Are there many examples of "cinematic" style dogfighting games that're aiming to be quick and breezy?
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Before it became a bloated mess the X-Wing tabletop game was based on Wings of War, which is pretty good. It might be out of print though so finding a copy could be hard.
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Apr 24, 2024 21:22
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Blue Max is fun enough as board game style action but I truly can’t remember how complex it is. Wings of War is great but miserably unavailable.
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Apr 24, 2024 22:48
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Really? I saw loads of it in Australia a couple of weeks back. Of course I also found expansions for West End Games' Star Wars game that went out of print in 1998 so maybe things are skewed there...
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Apr 24, 2024 23:01
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spectralent posted:I was thinking today that it's odd that air wargames are all extremely finickity and full of stuff to track - many have written orders, most involve meticulous tracking of heights, speeds, and ammunition. Are there many examples of "cinematic" style dogfighting games that're aiming to be quick and breezy? It also has stuff for level-bombing, dive-bombing, strafing, and similar right in the basic rules (as opposed to a supplement like most other rule sets). I reviewed it for Goonhammer back in the day if your interest is piqued: https://www.goonhammer.com/goonhammer-historicals-review-bag-the-hun/ I just recently got it to the table for my regular gaming group, doing a quick scenario of Spitfires vs Bf-109s over the English Channel:  It's a ton of fun and once you get the hang of it plays pretty quickly. And like all Lardies games it does cinematic/narrative really well. Ilor fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Apr 29, 2024 |
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Apr 24, 2024 23:56
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They really should be paying you for all the great advertising you do for their games 
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Apr 25, 2024 00:08
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Arquinsiel posted:Really? I saw loads of it in Australia a couple of weeks back. You can very easily find Wings of Glory, the modern miniatures-sales-driven version by Ares games. The older simpler card-based version, Wings of War, was published in English by Fantasy Flight from 2004-2011 and is now out of print.
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Apr 25, 2024 02:41
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JonBolds posted:You can very easily find Wings of Glory, the modern miniatures-sales-driven version by Ares games. The older simpler card-based version, Wings of War, was published in English by Fantasy Flight from 2004-2011 and is now out of print.
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Apr 25, 2024 15:13
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tomdidiot posted:They're sunk into a recess and I can't get under the magnet to snap hem off. I have had luck with a 2mm micro-chisel and slowly cutting a narrow trench into the material in the side of the magnet and eventually getting underneath and levering it out. You'll have to rebuild the gap afterwards so this may or may not be practical. I've re-aligned magnets from Titans I rescued from eBay in this way. However those do have well defined sockets with flat (and hidden) edges so a little damage will not be visible.
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Apr 28, 2024 16:54
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Endman posted:They really should be paying you for all the great advertising you do for their games
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Apr 29, 2024 15:57
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Studio Tomahawk's V for Victory is coming out in June and I cannot wait! I love Muskets & Tomahawks, so this is a natural day one buy for me.
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Apr 29, 2024 16:13
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3 Action Economist posted:Studio Tomahawk's V for Victory is coming out in June and I cannot wait! Oh hell yeah, that's exciting, however: quote:For those who don't know what V for Victory (which is pronounced "Five for Victory" if you ask) is [...] This annoys me more than it rightfully should (I'm sure there's a perfectly good reason for it)
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Apr 29, 2024 16:17
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I asked those Frenchmen if this one would finally get a PDF release and all I got was a "no" Le owned
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Apr 29, 2024 17:58
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Count Thrashula posted:Oh hell yeah, that's exciting, however: 
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Apr 29, 2024 18:04
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Z the IVth posted:I have had luck with a 2mm micro-chisel and slowly cutting a narrow trench into the material in the side of the magnet and eventually getting underneath and levering it out. You'll have to rebuild the gap afterwards so this may or may not be practical. Pin drill a hole next to the magnet. Then freeze the piece. Gently insert a dress makers pin into the hole and wiggle. Freezing temps make super glue brittle.
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Apr 29, 2024 18:54
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Count Thrashula posted:Oh hell yeah, that's exciting, however: This is totally perplexing. Are they just loving with us?
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Apr 30, 2024 21:25
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They have never done PDFs because apparently PDF=piracy. Never mind that other than Frostgrave, I think Saga is the most common wargame pdfs that I have seen floating around. Grogs gonna grog.
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Apr 30, 2024 21:53
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I was really excited until the brief said it was a 30-a-side reinforced platoon WW2 game where you have missions with objectives. I love SAGA, but that sounds worryingly like every other WW2 28mm game in the universe.
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Apr 30, 2024 22:08
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Robert Facepalmer posted:They have never done PDFs because apparently PDF=piracy. The combo of No PDFs + never actually having rules consistently in stock has made my decision on Saga for me.
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Apr 30, 2024 23:20
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We're also still waiting on the 2022 FAQ lol
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Apr 30, 2024 23:31
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Lumbermouth posted:The combo of No PDFs + never actually having rules consistently in stock has made my decision on Saga for me. Good thing boot PDFs don't seem to be hard to find. Hell, for a decent amount of time, Scribd had a copy that looked like it was made from the publishing document (crop marks, Distiller header and footer).
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May 1, 2024 00:15
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I don't think he advertised it very well, but Madox Minis/War Bear Studios/whatever he goes by just launched his Napoleon's Campagne de Russie kickstarter which includes something like 280 3d-printable 28mm mini STLs plus whatever stretch goals they hit, which looks like it's going to be most of them. If you like the Russian Campaign, this is AWESOME. I'm excited. It's only $63 all in for the early bird tier, so jump on it. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/warbearstudios/napoleons-campagne-de-russie-russian-campaign
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May 1, 2024 18:57
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Holy poo poo, they did not advertise it well as I love that guy's stuff and didn't know about it. I'm in for both forces!
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May 1, 2024 20:45
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Count Thrashula posted:I don't think he advertised it very well, but Madox Minis/War Bear Studios/whatever he goes by just launched his Napoleon's Campagne de Russie kickstarter which includes something like 280 3d-printable 28mm mini STLs plus whatever stretch goals they hit, which looks like it's going to be most of them. If you like the Russian Campaign, this is AWESOME. I'm excited. It's only $63 all in for the early bird tier, so jump on it. Button counter twitch in my eye. They do look quick to paint though, which is a plus. E: the French army looks, IMHO, much better suited for a 1813/14 campaign than Russia. There are some smaller issues that will not upset anyone but a very dyed in the wool French collector, but the uniforms are the "Bardin" 1812 regulation uniforms that were not worn by the troops marching into Russia. The differences, especially in the jacket design, is quite noticable. As a generic, later 1st Empire army that doesn't take ages to paint? Probably a good option! As a Campaigne de Russie army? An unfortunate label. lilljonas fucked around with this message at 07:37 on May 2, 2024 |
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May 2, 2024 07:28
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That's valid - I'm mosrly getting it for the Russians. I already have Piano Minis' (superior) pre-1812 French, so good to know I can safely stick with those.
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May 2, 2024 11:30
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lilljonas posted:Button counter twitch in my eye. Why is Napoleon crossing the Alps in Italy in Russia?
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Cessna posted:Why is Napoleon crossing the Alps in Italy in Russia? He crushed past Moscow and is working his way across the Urals?
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May 2, 2024 18:00
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lilljonas posted:Button counter twitch in my eye. They do look quick to paint though, which is a plus. Yeah, I used to subscribe to his Patreon but the uniform inaccuracies that are never fixed seem to be becoming more and more frequent.
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Hey, I'm reading Battlegroup NORTHAG atm, and I might not be quite understanding something. The British list lets you have 0-1 Chieftains, Mechanised Infantry, etc in the main force list. This is all well and good! But, putting it together, the chieftains are 129 points. One troop in vanguard and one in main is a bit over 250, then you take a mech platoon at 70, and you now have, in the smallest possible game, some 170 points to spend, of which by and large you'll be spending on stuff like traffic controllers and observers. Is that... right? Like, for the soviets there's absolutely no difficulty filling out a 1000 point list, but for the british it feels like you run out of list options before you run out of points and a lot of lists are just going to be "I take everything", unless there's some manner of getting around those limits I didn't spot.
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May 7, 2024 16:23
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What's the Goon opinion on the new Warlord Hannibal range?  I've seen people playing the ACW and Waterloo ones, so I'm guessing they're successful enough. (I have both, still in their boxes because I have no time to play them  )If I ever get to play it, I will just tell "TRIARLELI!" like they do in Rome Total War every time I touch them. Comstar fucked around with this message at 08:47 on May 12, 2024 |
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May 12, 2024 08:39
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Generally I think the epic stuff is cool and good, but Warlord's currency conversion rates are pretty wild. The Hannibal set is 240 british pounds on the UK site, or 385 dollars on the US site. That's a 1.6 pound to dollar conversion, while the global exchange rate is more like 1.25, lol.
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May 12, 2024 10:41
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I love it, but that price point is a non-starter. Rules wise it's just the latest edition of Hail Caesar, right?
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There's some streamlining but yeah essentially. Nice models but I didn't like the footprint of the units and these seem harder split vs guys holding rifles.
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So I just found our there's a wargaming club next door suburb to me and it looks like they play Flames of War and Team Yankee. I know both games have been accused of being more tank parking lots than anything else in the latest editions, but for those who have played both, which is more fun? I could see having fun playing both a late war Russian Bagrataion force or a Team Yankee Red Storm Rising/M1 Tank Platoon based army, but I wouldn't have the time for both I suspect. Last time I played a 6mm army it was Epic Space Marine...the 1st edition.
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Comstar posted:So I just found our there's a wargaming club next door suburb to me and it looks like they play Flames of War and Team Yankee. I know both games have been accused of being more tank parking lots than anything else in the latest editions, but for those who have played both, which is more fun? Flames of War. There's a lot more variety and the game is better as a result.
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Comstar posted:So I just found our there's a wargaming club next door suburb to me and it looks like they play Flames of War and Team Yankee. I know both games have been accused of being more tank parking lots than anything else in the latest editions, but for those who have played both, which is more fun?
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May 13, 2024 15:07
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Arquinsiel posted:Are they playing it in 6mm or have you just not noticed that the game is 15mm? This is worth checking before you buy in. Huh for some reason I thought it was 6mm! I guess I thought the infantryman were a lot smaller.
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May 13, 2024 15:13
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It's 15mm, they're just poorly sculpted.
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May 13, 2024 15:34
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Cessna posted:Flames of War. There's a lot more variety and the game is better as a result. Also the tanks are smaller and as a result look a bit more plausible in command.
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Has anyone tried Disposable Heroes, here? I've been informed if I liked CoC I'll like that.
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