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lilljonas posted:There's a preview of Hail Caesar, a.k.a Black Powder! with togas, here: Looks awesome- Im a huge fan of Black Powder, and Im not as keen on Warhammer Ancients as the rest of my gaming group is, so I may try introudcing this to corrupt them!
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So, casting in resin is a complete bitch and I ruined about four attempts at the silicone mould after getting lucky on my first one. But I ordered more silicone, and things are going better now that I completely disregard the instructions. Here's some more 6mm stuff:     Current complete lineup:  I did a lot of trial casts of the first house. Here's the medieval Japanese version of MacMansion Town:  Here are some greens that are almost finished and I'll cast next:   It's a ton of work because of the bubbles that I have to fill in with green stuff, but I'm starting to learn what kinds of details I can and can not do without causing too much bubbles. But I really want a vacuum chamber now!
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Feb 13, 2011 19:59
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Dude, I am really impressed. That stuff looks really good and makes me wish I had a need for 15mm Asian terrain.
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Feb 13, 2011 20:04
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PeterWeller posted:Dude, I am really impressed. That stuff looks really good and makes me wish I had a need for 15mm Asian terrain. 6mm.  But I'll probably start doing 15mm stuff soon because it's frustrating not to be able to do more details. If I do more details, the bubbles will wreak havoc at 6mm.
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Feb 13, 2011 20:14
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I'm even more impressed now that I know those are half as big as I thought they were. I can't wait to see what you can do in 15mm (and 28mm, so maybe my Eldar can have some cool houses where they make their ninja stars for their ninja star guns).
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Feb 13, 2011 20:42
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Lord Commissar posted:Are there other places to get information?
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Feb 15, 2011 19:36
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lilljonas posted:But I really want a vacuum chamber now! Step 1: buy a 5 gallon bucket Step 2: buy a Shop-Vac Step 3: Drill a hole in the bottom of the bucket large enough for the vacuum's hose to fit snugly into, then glue aquarium airpump hose around the edge. Do the same for the top rim of the bucket. Step 4: Pour your resin, place the bucket over your mold upside-down, hit the power button on your vacuum and wait about 10 seconds, then turn the vacuum off and remove the bucket. Congratulations, you have a homemade vacuum/degas chamber 
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Feb 16, 2011 01:55
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Silhouette posted:Step 1: buy a 5 gallon bucket Have you tried it yourself? I read a lot of "just attach a vacuum cleaner to a bucket!" tips online, but I haven't really seen good pictures of a working example of it, with results. Anyway, might as well try it later on. Today I sat through an eight hour lecture by the tax office on registering my company. Ungh. Time to make some greens instead.
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Feb 16, 2011 20:24
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Does anybody know what's up with Minifigs / GFI? Apparently they're out of business now, but for some reason nerd-industry news exists only on forums.
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Feb 17, 2011 20:13
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Well the site is "down for maintenance" but I don't know if they're out of business. Did you try calling?
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Feb 17, 2011 20:15
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Just tried - call was forwarded to GFI's voicemail, but the box was full (please hang up). There's some internet reports of drama, and apparently it's under new management and maybe one guy is trying to run the whole show.
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Feb 17, 2011 20:21
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lilljonas posted:Have you tried it yourself? I read a lot of "just attach a vacuum cleaner to a bucket!" tips online, but I haven't really seen good pictures of a working example of it, with results. Anyway, might as well try it later on. Today I sat through an eight hour lecture by the tax office on registering my company. Ungh. Time to make some greens instead. No, but it's a proven design that a bunch of dudes on the Hirst Arts forums use. Someone used a clear bucket and posted pictures of the actual degassing process, but it was months ago and i'd never be able to find the specific thread. But even if it doesn't work, it's maybe $10 worth of material to build one if you already own a shop-vac, so it's an acceptable risk.
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Feb 17, 2011 23:23
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Silhouette posted:No, but it's a proven design that a bunch of dudes on the Hirst Arts forums use. Someone used a clear bucket and posted pictures of the actual degassing process, but it was months ago and i'd never be able to find the specific thread. But even if it doesn't work, it's maybe $10 worth of material to build one if you already own a shop-vac, so it's an acceptable risk. I checked the shop-vac homepage, is it specifically a high powered vacuum cleaner or would any vacuum cleaner do?
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Feb 18, 2011 00:47
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Yeah, any standard vacuum with a hose attachment should work. Shop-Vac is just the brand name for a line of high-powered wet/dry canister vacuums, usually used in mechanics or woodworker's shops (hence the name  ).
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Feb 19, 2011 02:56
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Decided Im defintly buying Hail Caesar- the article on Warlord Games site make it sound great, and the lists that Rick Priestley has stuck up on the Hail Caesar Yahoo Group look decent. I am going to play it with 6mm figs as I have a load of 6mm Baccus Early Imperial Romans that I havent got round to painting yet.
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Feb 19, 2011 18:25
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lilljonas posted:There's a preview of Hail Caesar, a.k.a Black Powder! with togas, here: Theres been a lot of moaning on TMP by the Grognards about the ranged attack for all units (Phalanxes with missile fire- oh my god, bless my beard) , but having read the latest article on Warlord Games it looks like that close range stat is only under 6 inches but is also to represent the supporting attacks in a multi unit combat, which makes sense then for units such as pikemen to have a fairly high stat.
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Feb 19, 2011 23:04
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The sperging about it is silly, anyway. I bet the first page in the rules section will say "If you don't like some of these rules, don't use them!"
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Feb 20, 2011 00:03
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Black Powder is pretty explicitly "yeah we just put together this rule system we like for playing narrative games, house rule the poo poo out of it if you want" so I imagine Hail Caesar will be the same.
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Feb 20, 2011 00:18
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I've never seen a game that DIDN'T say that, but that's exactly what I mean. Black Powder is all about that, and these grognards are sperging out about one tiny rule that probably even maskes sense in the context of the rules (that none of them have read yet).
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Feb 20, 2011 00:23
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I think the biggest issue is that the market is pretty much saturated with tournament style rulesets and something this freeform is almost unheard of for ancients, as opposed to horse and musket (which rarely has points, extensive army lists/builders etc). The big games like Impetus, Field of Glory, DBA/DBx are tightly designed and balanced, with mostly reiterations of the same game concepts that have been in the mix for decades. So for a game like Hail Caesar to come along and introduce a level of abstraction like giving phalanxes a skirmish value, and a design philosophy of "we really just wanna have fun pushing mans around v v" is obviously going to be met with resistance and funny looks from the more grognardy amongst us. Black Powder even had a lot of resistance simply for the fact that the rules were supposed to be "fun" more than they were "historically accurate", which was a wild notion especially amongst Napoleonic gamers, but since its release there has been quite a few people to come around to it. It seems too, that games like Lasalle and Blucher are mixing the two extremes of "a game with a little resemblance to the period (Black Powder)" and "an ultra realistic simulation (old school grognardy games like Empire/GdeB)" to create something that feels like the period without actually being constrained to stupid things like ground scale, time scale, ratios and base depths. I like FoG, but if Hail Caesar can break this tournament mindset that ancients rules designers seem to be stuck in and just make a game that's fun to play, I can get on board with that.
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Feb 20, 2011 01:04
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The problem I've always had with the grogs and their "tournament" rules and balancing is that isn't historical, either. Forces are rarely evenly matched. If you want to play a(n) historical scenario, then who even needs points? If you want to play a "what-if" scenario of equally balanced troops, then don't pretend your rules are historically accurate.
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Feb 20, 2011 01:07
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I fell in love with the idea of fun gaming with Black Powder as well as the emphasis being on proper scenarios not just 2 balanced armies lining up and having a bash. Its worked really well for Napoleonics in our gaming group, and Im looking forward to taking that into Ancients, which is where our group started its move into historicals away from GW all those years ago! We've been playing Warhammer Ancient Battles for years, and while it can be fun, its never quite felt right to me for certain eras. For Romans in particular it just never looked or felt right. The best games of WAB we have had ever had have been Dark Ages games, where the large scale skirmish feel of WAB suits the tactics and era. We also branched out into Warmaster Ancients and that seemed to suit Classical and Biblical era battles much better, and we fell in love with having a command system (which then saw us branching out into other Warmaster derivatives such as Blitzkrieg Commander) but one thing that never felt right to me for Warmaster Ancients was the close combat rules which always felt clunkier and more confusing than they should. Hopefully with Hail Caesar its going to be the answer to my wants- a decent comman system, a good way of replicating the look of ancient battles and an elegant close combat system. Its top of my purchase list for Salure this year
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Feb 20, 2011 10:28
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I'm really interested in whether it can be used for my samurai armies or not. Late 16th century is sort of just before the warfare Black Powder is designed to portrait, so I've been hesitant to pick it up. However, I'm a bit afraid that Hail Caesar would be far too early and not be suitable. Or will it be possible to combine the two in some homemade way? Either way it will be nice to find out.
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Feb 20, 2011 10:38
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lilljonas posted:I'm really interested in whether it can be used for my samurai armies or not. Late 16th century is sort of just before the warfare Black Powder is designed to portrait, so I've been hesitant to pick it up. However, I'm a bit afraid that Hail Caesar would be far too early and not be suitable. Or will it be possible to combine the two in some homemade way? Either way it will be nice to find out. Id imagine you could combine them easily enough. They are making a Pike and Shot supplement apparently for Black Powder, specifically for the ECW, but surely that would work well for Samurai? To be honest I know gently caress all about Samurai battles and tactics, so Im loathe to say wether either would work, but I imagine they would. Ive copy pasted this from the BP Yahoo group if this is any help quote:Last Saturday I ran another one of my 15mm Sengoku period Samurai games using Black Powder at the locak Barrage convention in Baltimore. I ran a new scenario which had a lot more maneuver then my previouis scenarios. EDIT in fact someone has uploaded a Samurai mod for BP on the group. http://rapidshare.com/files/448907984/Gleaming_Katanas.doc Im not sure about all the special rules hes invented as I know nothing about Samurai, but the army lists themselves look reasonable. Jinjin Bemar fucked around with this message at 10:53 on Feb 20, 2011 |
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Feb 20, 2011 10:49
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Jinjin Bemar posted:Id imagine you could combine them easily enough. Awesome, I'll check it out. Edit: I finished two new moulds. First out is the biggest one this far, a large warehouse/store likely to be found in a busy larger city. It's actually one of the first houses that I designed, but it was wrecked by an early botched mould making session and a lot of things had to be re-done. The second is a wedge-shaped house with thatched walls, a common design in the north and in the mountains where they get very heavy snowfall. I'm especially happy about this one as I managed to squeeze in almost all the detail for an exact copy of an actual house, one I found in a historical architecture book I picked up in Sapporo this winter.   Finally a small overview of various houses now that the styles are a bit more varied. Also two smaller houses that I'm making to give even more diversity to the village. 
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Feb 20, 2011 10:57
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New homepage is live, and I'm finally open for business! Making a logo and design and stuff was a real chore, but I'm much happier with the look now. http://www.muraminiatures.com/
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Feb 27, 2011 22:08
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Fair play, they look seriously tops.
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Feb 28, 2011 17:56
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Oh yeah, look at that!
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Mar 1, 2011 20:55
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Where can I get my own Heracles in a cowboy hat?
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Mar 1, 2011 21:33
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Immortal Miniatures, although I couldn't find those specific models on the site.
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Mar 1, 2011 21:51
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So those Polish early war guys in FoW look pretty badass. Elite cavalry taking on tanks and artillery trains and poo poo? Gatdamn, that's rad as hell. But I don't have the rules or anything. It looks like the Open Fire! box set is actually the same price as the core rulebook on Amazon, but then I need the Blitzkrieg book also? Can anybody familiar with FoW and the early war Polish in particular give me an idea of where to start and not explode my wallet? The Oldest Man fucked around with this message at 07:57 on Mar 2, 2011 |
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Mar 2, 2011 07:49
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I'm not sure which book the Poles are in. The Open Fire! box is a great starter kit, anyway, as you get the mini rulebook (but go to Kinko's and get it rebound). Also: http://theminiaturespage.com/news/71208/ New 6mm Romans!
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Lord Commissar posted:I'm not sure which book the Poles are in. The Open Fire! box is a great starter kit, anyway, as you get the mini rulebook (but go to Kinko's and get it rebound). Hey those aren't Romans, those are Normans! Also is the "mini rulebook" missing anything important?
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Mar 2, 2011 17:24
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Their new Vikings are boss too and I'm kind of wanting to make a Viking longhouse now as there are no 6mm scenery for Vikings as far as I know.
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The Oldest Man posted:Also is the "mini rulebook" missing anything important? Nope. It's basically just missing the "hobby" section.
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The Oldest Man posted:So those Polish early war guys in FoW look pretty badass. Elite cavalry taking on tanks and artillery trains and poo poo? Gatdamn, that's rad as hell. But I don't have the rules or anything. It looks like the Open Fire! box set is actually the same price as the core rulebook on Amazon, but then I need the Blitzkrieg book also? Blitzkrieg has all the early war lists, including all the Polish ones. I think there's also an article on the site with a list for Warsaw Uprising lists, if you want to do late-war polish partisans or something silly like that, but that's not really what you're looking for.
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Posting this question from the 40K thread here for Tuxedo Jack:Tuxedo Jack posted:So me and a few friends are getting into Dystopian Wars. Just ordered my Federated States Battlegroup today. (We drew straws, basically... As in, one dude called Prussians and the rest of us were like "DAMMIT.")
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Mar 3, 2011 23:02
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I'm pretty sure you can buy water decal paper for your home printer. I use regular sticker paper, then scale down for size. It worked great on my Raven Guard and IDF-based IG back in the day.
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Mar 4, 2011 00:11
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Lord Commissar posted:I'm pretty sure you can buy water decal paper for your home printer. Yep. Only thing is, you have to spray varnish the sheets after printing because otherwise the ink would just run off.
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