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BeigeJacket posted:Sorry if I'm being dim but what's a daisy chain? It means you can link units together, as long as they are within command range of at least one other unit. Say you have a 4" command range. You could have the following setup O----O----O----O----O----O where each ---- is 4". This means that you're covering a line 20" long. By comparison, with Team Yankee, everyone would have to be within 6" of a single figure, creating a cluster rather than a line or "daisy chain"
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Kaza42 posted:It means you can link units together, as long as they are within command range of at least one other unit. Note that you have all of your units set up in a line you can increase the coherency limit to 16" (IIRC), though the times when that formation is actually going to matter isn't exactly common.
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http://battles.nodegoat.net/viewer.p/23/385/scenario/1/geo/fullscreen http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35685889 quote:A Dutch company is attempting to map all the battles in history using Wikipedia. But what does it really tell us? Could be a fun resource for historical scenarios
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Arquinsiel posted:6MM is cheap enough that you can buy both sides easily. The ridiculous prices for Team Yankee stuff makes this even more true. I got what is effectively an under strength soviet armored battalion (T-72 and T-64 companies, BMP-2 company, Recce and ATGM BRDMs, Recce BMP-1s, a Gvosdika battery, a platoon of Shilkas and Strela BRDMS, various command vehicles, trucks, MT-LBs, some BTR-70s etc) off C-in-C for less than the Team Yankee soviet starter box. My buddy's 6mm US Armor (Link below) ran him around $45 I think. http://imgur.com/a/rqg3j (Edit I just looked at my orders and that big blob of communism was $112. Compare to Team Yankee where $120 gets you like 7 T-72s and a couple of hinds.  )
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Von Humboldt posted:Been meaning to ask, is that KV formerly one of the remote controlled ones? If it isn't the one I have is remarkably similar for something with a remote that I used to chase the dog. Excellent to read, as always! Thanks! No, it is not a remote control tank kit. I'm honestly not sure which brand it is, as the Soviet players bought two in secret, painted them up, and didn't reveal it until they plonked two of them down in our first game of the campaign! Germans have almost nothing that can reliably threaten a KV-1 in 1941.  But since it's a 1:48 I assume that it is either a Tamiya or a Hobby Boss one.
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When I get home I should transcribe what I bought. I wasn't planning to use it for Team Yankee though, so it'll be only partially useful for that. It's crazy cheap anyways.
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lilljonas posted:Thanks! No, it is not a remote control tank kit. I'm honestly not sure which brand it is, as the Soviet players bought two in secret, painted them up, and didn't reveal it until they plonked two of them down in our first game of the campaign! Germans have almost nothing that can reliably threaten a KV-1 in 1941. It's historically accurate! Hope you brought a Flak battery.
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Ensign Expendable posted:It's historically accurate! Hope you brought a Flak battery. Tell me about it, we played a huge 6 player battle this weekend, and my platoon had at one point 3 T-34's charging at it, with only a Pz. 38(t) and a PaK38 to defend itself. Playing 41 can be a bit of a bitch for the Axis. Oh, the PaK got run over before causing any damage, of course.
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Okay, something this thread might know: Why are 1:48 models so much cheaper than 1:56 models, despite being so much bigger? I can find 1:48 tanks from £8-15, but 1:56 stuff is always nearer £20.
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Maybe because 1:56 is a lot more niche?
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Ensign Expendable posted:Maybe because 1:56 is a lot more niche? When your 1:48 molds start to break down you can sell them to a company who wants to do runs of plastic army men so you get to recoup costs. Also if you want army men you go 1:48, if you want tiny army men you go 1:72, there's not a whole lot of reason to stop in the middle for 1:56 if you're a military modeller.
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So, what I got from H&R for about 85 pounds: British Fv105 Sultan X 1 Scorpion Fv101 X 2 Scimitar Fv107 2 Fv721 Fox X 2 Ferret X 2 1/2 Ton Landrover X 4 3/4 Ton Land Rover X 4 Chieftain MBT X 10 Fv4204 Chieftain ARV X 1 Lynx X 1 Gazelle X 1 Tornado IDS X 2 British Infantry X 1 British Infantry Support X 1 Milan (Strip of 3) X 2 Royal Marines X 1 Fv432 X 7 Fv432 + GPMG X 6 Fv432 Signals X 2 Saracen X 15 BM36 - Bedford Mk 4 Tonne Truck X 5 Rapier (3) Ground Mount & Crew X 1 Tracked Rapier X 2 Fv433 Abbot 105Mm SPG X 4 Soviet Bmp-1 Ksh Command X 1 PRP-3 Command (Bmp-Son) X 1 BMP-1 X 10 BTR-70 X 11 BRDM-2 X 2 BMP-R Recce X 2 Ural Truck X 4 T-72 X 10 Imr Combat Engineer Vehicle X 1 Minerollers For Soviet MBT's (X2) X 2 Warsaw Pact Infantry X 1 Warsaw Pact Infantry Support X 1 Swatter (Strip of 3) X 2 Spigot (Strip of 3) X 2 Imr Combat Engineer Vehicle X 1 Minerollers For Soviet MBT's (X2) X 2 Mi24 (Hind D) X 1 Mi-2 Hoplite X 1 Zsu-57-2 X 2 Zsu-23-4 Shilka X 2 Zpu-23 + Crew X 2 MiG-25 Foxbat X 2 2S3 Akatsiya 152mm SPG (M1973) X 4 Pretty solid haul really. I can probably get some decent Team Yankee forces out of that if I really want to.
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I've been tasked with painting up the club's Commonwealth armour, and I feel like a complete scrub without a clue. I've found what I assume is the more common colours and camo for late North Africa, Sicily and early Italy, and I'll probably go for a mix of them to. But I'm stumped when it comes to buy decals to the tanks, and where to place them. I'm thinking that 8th army would be a good choice, but there are just so many different geometrical shapes, numbers and poo poo, and I can't find a simple source that explains them all and why a lot of the actual photos I find don't have all of them. Does anyone have a good primer on Commonwealth armour markings, or recommendations for a book or something? The information I've found online hasn't really explained a lot.
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Osprey usually has books that talk about markins and uniforms with autistic detail, so you might want to check what they're offering. And since I'm me, go 4chan, /tg/ board, /hwg/ thread and root through folders or/and ask for help. You could ask /k/ board in a pinch, but they're more molon labe muh guns than history
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http://matadormodels.co.uk/tank_museum/xcamo_starmer.htm This dudes guides are P much the Bible of 8th Army stuff. It's really grog in that you have to email him to purchase, and they're kinda expensive, but they're self published and cool.
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Email? Self respecting grogs only accept cash through snailmail. You can maybe fax them the order form. Maybe.
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My  says that just going to Salute might be easier and quicker.
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Arquinsiel posted:My I'm a dirty Norse, but yeah, I should get my rear end to Salute at some point, just to have been there.
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lilljonas posted:I'm a dirty Norse, but yeah, I should get my rear end to Salute at some point, just to have been there. 
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Colonial Air Force posted:Brother Vinni makes a great Ragnar mini, you could play Saga: Vikings from the History Channel. That reminds me I need to build him and paint him now I'm painting again
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I'm going to be at Salute again this year. Only missed 1 in past 10 years. It's superb
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drat. We should do a Salute goonmeet some year, so that I can take some vacation days ahead of time, and go.
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With a baby on the way I gotta finish any WIP projects I have. So here is the HQ section and a corporal and Bren gunner for our 15mm CoC game we're starting:  I'm going to buy some small washers to add weight and width to the bases. 8 down, 28 to go! Of course, having played a lot of FoW, I have loads of support options already finished. Edit: Where the hell did that tiny hair on the tip of his finger come from? What has he been DOING?
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secretly a baby posted:With a baby on the way I gotta finish any WIP projects I have. So here is the HQ section and a corporal and Bren gunner for our 15mm CoC game we're starting: Congrats! And those are really good for 15mm, great job.
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Those are spectacular 15mm alright. Great job dude.
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Looks amazing, I love how the commander's moustache stands out.
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Does anyone know if there's a Chain of Command list for kursk-era germany and USSR?
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spectralent posted:Does anyone know if there's a Chain of Command list for kursk-era germany and USSR? I checked with our Soviet players, and around that time the soviet rifle platoons would have 2 Senior Leaders, and four groups with 9 men in each (including 1 NCO/group). Two of the groups would have 2 LMGs, and the other two would have 1 LMG each, for a total of 6 LMGs. You could argue for including a sniper in each plutoon. It's actually pretty simple to then calculate the platoon force rating (http://toofatlardies.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=1058 on first page). For motorized rifles you can use the same as in the rulebook, and you could use a SMG platoon. The Soviet rifle platoon from the rulebook could be used to represent an understrength platoon around Kursk as well, so you have quite a few choices there. I haven't read up much about the Germans past 41, but there's a whole bunch of 42-43 lists here: http://toofatlardies.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=2922
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Played a nice little skirmish with the forum's own BULBASAUR this afternoon. I took command of the Union and attempted to break out of a city that was previously occupied but now low on supplies:  The critical move of the game ended up being a Hail Mary cavalry charge from BULBASAUR:  It led to two broken units after a devastating sweeping advance. My right flank retreated back to the trenches I advanced out of:  The rest of the game was me trying to rebuild my position. I was ultimately able to consolidate and keep any of my infantry from breaking but I couldn't escape my position. The confederacy wins the day! 
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Had a great time drinking beers and playing with tallkidwithglasses today. This was my first time playing historicals and it was really fun. Makes me want to paint up a horde of little Napoleonic Russian mans.
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Once again it appears I am totally incapable of painting anyone who looks pleased to be there. "Join the army, they said. Get free land, they said. Now I live in Britannia Inferior and there are Picts eating all my sheep." 
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Cross posting from Kickstarter thread:moths posted:Mad Bob is back with some 1/56 French WW2 vehicles, with a handful of German early/mid-war tanks as stretch goals. I backed his Hungarian line for a Katyusha, and was very pleased with the kit's quality. I hope he hits those stretch goals, since the options are a bit limited at the moment. moths fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Mar 7, 2016 |
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^^^^ One of the pictures of his Pz38H 735(f)is actually a Pz35R 731 (f)  I picked up the new 1/100 Zvezda KV-1 because I wanted to see what the new gun was like, and was pleasantly surprised to see that it has both the new and the old gun mounts in the kit. I guess this means that the older kit will be retired since this looks like the mould was just retooled to fit. Arquinsiel fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Mar 7, 2016 |
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What's the other gun, F-32 or ZiS-5?
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I assume one is the SA18 and the other is the SA38 but I have no idea what those mean beyond that both barrels come in the kit. I know shamefully little about German tanks. e: I'm a doof, they mean the French SA 18 and SA 38 guns. Becuase it's a captured French tank. moths fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Mar 8, 2016 |
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Ensign Expendable posted:What's the other gun, F-32 or ZiS-5?
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Man, early war French tanks are just gorgeous. Those smooth curves, those low treads, that.... tiny... ineffective... gun... 
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Endman posted:Man, early war French tanks are just gorgeous. Those smooth curves, those low treads, that.... tiny... ineffective... gun... Remember that the most those tiny ineffective guns had to deal with was 30 mm of armour.
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