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What other Cold War type games are there? I'm curious on Team Yankee but my area has a real love/hate with Battlefront stuff so I've never really had an even opinion on what to expect.
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Yeah no Ivans for another week because lol Battlefront are a mess. Cheers for the Cold War recommendations as well thread, been looking them up this week and me and a bud are gonna try some stuff.  Might give TY a go but I've not played FOW so I'm going in a bit blind.
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Dec 12, 2015 21:44
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JcDent posted:Zvezda's Gvozdikas and Shilkas are boss. Hinds a little less so. T-72 are of the wrong model (as in, wrong for FoW and for the box description). Abrams is hot, detail-less garbage.
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Dec 12, 2015 22:33
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My flgs has a demo kit for TY down and we have some of the stuff built, the T72s look cool, gotta be said. Made me go all  for historical stuff.
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Dec 16, 2015 02:21
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spectralent posted:TY also seems to be simplified compared to FoW and have less "You need this to make a decent list"! Go on, doooo iiiiiit, joiiiin uuuuuus. I might stall out for more stuff so I can sperg out. Plus I just bought Twilight Struggle to get mah Cold War fix.
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Dec 16, 2015 12:10
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Yakovlev because I'm an alcoholic.
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Dec 16, 2015 12:40
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Really, all you need to know about Battlefront's treatment of the Eastern Front is that the Germans in Berlin get stupid prototypes that saw service for maybe five minutes before getting blown up, and Soviets can't even take SU-85s.
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Dec 29, 2015 22:16
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Yeah I can forgive them the name because of the book, but even then the name of Team Yankee is poo poo anyway even with what it's linked to.
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Dec 29, 2015 23:03
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I'm gonna stall out for newer stuff before I leap in, at least until the Shilkas are out, but it does seem cool so far. Curious how much stuff they'll add from the era, more choppers, tanks that sort of thing.
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Dec 30, 2015 01:06
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spectralent posted:Zvezda do shilkas I forget that historical have that buy from other companies thing. What companies are good to look at?
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Dec 30, 2015 12:49
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I'll do some scouting, thanks mate. Greggster posted:Anyone knows how long it could take for Battlefront to send items that got out of stock?
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Dec 30, 2015 13:43
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pz your old av was way better  Zvezda seem to have a really lovely rep over here as being a bit cheap, I have zero experience with them but it has put me off just a little it. Just started playing Dropzone Commander so it'll be a little bit before I get into TY anyway. Might snag the rulebook today and keep reading it.
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Dec 30, 2015 15:01
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Numlock posted:I don't know if you guys have looked beyond the cover of the Team Yankee rule book but most of the people who have, have come to the conclusion that the Soviets in TY are better than the Americans. Picked up the TY Rulebook and gonna have a few games with some buddies and see what's good. My store has 8 US players so far and 1 Soviet. lol
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Dec 30, 2015 17:35
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JcDent posted:Flashback to Wargame chat
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Jan 1, 2016 11:14
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I hope they do a modern war one but then it wouldn't be in the historicals I guess. maybe make it like 1990 or something
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Jan 17, 2016 13:36
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Is Bolt Action any good? The Soviet Naval stuff is breaking me and possibly my wallet!
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Jan 25, 2016 23:15
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Now that is loving cool. I'm hoping my work place begins to stock the Tamiya models as we started selling the hobby supplies and their kits are gorgeous.
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Feb 27, 2016 22:19
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Picking up a few in person as DBL literally works in the same building as me and these are awesome as gently caress. Grabbing the tank commanders especially as I'm picking up into Bolt Action for some beer and pretzels games.
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Mar 13, 2016 12:04
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JcDent posted:I'm collecting 2 Team Yankee armies in 6mm and I know nobody will play with me, but it's so cheap...
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Mar 30, 2016 16:33
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Acebuckeye13 posted:It doesn't help that their attempt to create non-horde Soviet lists (Heroes) were so ill-considered that many of them are borderline unplayable. Really, it all comes down to interest-Battlefront could make fun, interesting, and historical lists based off of Soviet interests, but the writers only give a poo poo about nazi tanks, so gently caress it. I'm loaning Red Bear and Gay Wolf off a friend and they're cool little books. Lots of typos tho. Tbh FoW is a good game cause the player base is so easy to annoy here.
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Apr 6, 2016 12:04
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moths posted:The Russian-produced film Stalingrad (2013) featured some pretty historically questionable depictions of events, but for some reason game designers always instead err on the side of the German propaganda. Polikarpov posted:Bolt Action has a Commissar as well, but he's totally optional. Any units he's in command range of must remove a model if they fail an orders test but can re-roll the test. If this happens 3 times in a turn the Commissar gets fragged instead.
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Apr 9, 2016 11:11
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What makes the Katyusha so bad? I know the IS-2 is garbage.
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Apr 9, 2016 22:29
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I kinda feel like this is the film to watch when delirious with food poisoning. The 1993 Stalingrad film is good tho.
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Apr 10, 2016 13:18
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Kriegsmarine vs Naval Infantry Brigade are the coolest things.
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Apr 11, 2016 19:38
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Tbh their stock issues are still probably being slammed by them pouring so much money into Dust over their core range but they're pretty incompetent in general.
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Apr 15, 2016 01:52
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Not sure whether to post this here or in the scale model thread but for highlighting Russian Green/Vallejo Camo Olive Green, what shades do people use? I know Soviet armour had a lot of varied tones but I'm trying to plan out ahead on what it would look like depending on certain shades, anyone here have any examples and advice on painting Russian WW2 tanks?
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Apr 16, 2016 01:12
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Ensign Expendable posted:Vallejo Russian Green is actually the modern armour colour. WWII era 4BO was noticeably lighter. I own too many bloody paints.
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Apr 16, 2016 23:47
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ToyotaThong posted:I really loved Red Thrust by Steven Zaloga. Each chapter revolved around one aspect of the Soviet Army. From what I remember. 
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Apr 23, 2016 14:15
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What are people's thoughts on the upcoming Tanks game?
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Apr 24, 2016 19:04
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The funniest thing about Warlord sculpted infantry is almost half of them look like someone has just squeezed their balls really hard or are posed like they're trying to do it to someone else. I wanted to run a Black Death list but then I saw how much £££ I'd have to shell out to run it and went gently caress that. I want my little black hat mans.
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Apr 28, 2016 16:26
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Sweet, cheers dude! I'll definitely have a browse around the places you've mentioned as I think the Morskaya Pekhota are cool as hell. I know someone who could probably cast up the bandoliers if I asked him nicely enough (and seduced him with enough alcohol).
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Apr 29, 2016 10:46
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At the risk of starting another Battlefront hates Soviets derail, the amount of  they put into Soviets is baffling.
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Apr 29, 2016 13:42
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I'm picking up some Squiddo Soviets but for the rest of my BA stuff. Who generally does the best quality 28mm quality for infantry and then vehicles? Surprised there isn't more out there for 28mm. I noticed Plastic Soldier Company are hella cheap, but I don't know the market enough to know the quality of the competition.
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May 19, 2016 11:38
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Man I don't know if it's the paintjobs then, I need to see some Warlord Soviets in person because they don't look that great to me. I have heard good things about the winter kit though.spectralent posted:PSC can get you an entire soviet army for like £35. They're very old-timey figures; they have the kind of look you'd expect of upscaled 1/72 figures (which they probably are), which can look kinda soft. I'd recommend Wargames Factory's soviets, but they got bought out by Warlord. PSC probably aren't horrific, and it's hard to argue with a full set of infantry plus HMGs, antitank rifles, infantry guns, etc for £35. What about the vehicle kits? Rubicon seems a bit hard to get hold of at the minute and they only have the T-34/76 and /85 which is a bit limiting.
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May 19, 2016 12:22
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spectralent posted:For soviet WW2 vehicles you're going to find plastic T-34s and for everything else you'll be ordering in resin and metal from specialists. So far as I'm aware nobody even does IS-2s or KVs in plastic, and if you want something like a BT or a BA you're lucky if there's even a resin manufacturer. Or the bote. moths posted:The 15mm are outstanding, some have recognizable facial expressions and there's a great sense of movement / action to the sculpts.
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May 19, 2016 23:07
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Cheers for posting those up dude, that's super helpful.
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May 20, 2016 11:05
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Def. gotta get a KV-2 to gently caress up some Germans!  Got my first BA Demo lined up for next Thursday, looking forward to it.
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May 20, 2016 14:51
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moths posted:I think Dice Bag Lady has some coming soon, right?
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May 24, 2016 03:50
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Had my first game of Bolt Action tonight using a friends Soviets. Great fun was had with alcohol and food served. He forgot the MG teams so just used proxies for them. I like to think the Maxim was strapped to the dog. Only took 3 or so pictures because my phone needed charging.  
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Yeah I thought that was a neat touch, cool models and they look a lot better than they do on the Warlord site. Gonna be rolling 43-44 Russki's and gonna wait until the new book hits, so got plenty of time to plan out a force. Did really enjoy it though, nice beer and roll dice game.
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