Thread 95904716

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>>95841672

>What is /awg/?
A thread to talk about minis and games which fall between the cracks, or peoples' homebrew wargames.
The >>>/tg/hwg thread doesn't entertain fantasy (for good reason) and the other threads are locked to more specific games.
This thread isn't tied to a game, a publisher, or a genre, let's just talk about fun wargames. Any scale, any company, any miniatures.

>Examples of games that qualify.
A Song of Ice and Fire, Argatoria, Batman Miniature Game, Carnevale, Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings, Deadzone, Dropfleet and Dropzone Commander, Freebooter's Fate, Frostgrave, Gaslands, Judge Dredd, HeroClix, Kings of War, Maelstrom's Edge, Malifaux, Marvel Crisis Protocol, Masters of the Universe: Battleground, Moonstone, Oathmark, OnePageRules, RelicBlade, Rumbleslam, Stargrave, Sludge, Warcaster, Warmachine, Xenotactics...

...and anything else that doesn't necessarily have a dedicated thread.

>Examples of companies providing rules for alternative wargames.
Atomic Mass Games, Black Site Studios, CMON, Mantic, OnePageRules,
Osprey, Para Bellum, TTCombat, Wargames Atlantic, Warlord Games...
...and many other publishers.

>Places to get minis; Updates to the minis list are welcome.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D2DbNJ2mYAUxh5P9Pq9NZqS5tXHGn0i2JhZchEwbA2I/edit
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/373197.page

>Novice Troves, meant to serve as a sampler of available systems. Check out the Share Thread for up-to-date troves.
https://pastebin.com/MjtsC8AX
https://mega.nz/#F!zSYW0I4a!vXh8-UPi_tWXpJES_-p4zg

>TQ
What's next on the chopping block, Anons?

>>95904716 (OP)
>TQ

The only unpainted models I have at the moment are a box of mantic abyssal dwarfs that was sent to me as replacements. I haven't felt inspired to sculpt beards etc for them, as I kitbashed them with some chaos warrior helmets. Instead I've been touching up my older models and varnishing them.

>can paint 1-2 miniatures in a day when I have a deadline
>spend weeks otherwise kvetching about not painting

I really hate myself. There's always something stopping me. I need to throw my phone into the sea.

Also my girlfriend takes up a lot of my time but I don't have a painting desk at her house. That would be nice.

Unironically, WGA sculptors are so shitty. I've seen Etsy amateurs with better 3D sculpting

>>95904952
Counterpoint: No.

>>95904716 (OP)
>What's next on the chopping block, Anons?
I am packing up and throwing out all of my unfinished projects.
Not the greatest of days.

>>95905052
Why

So that we already know what are the cheapest undead and the cheapest orcs lets talk about more modern approach.
What are the cheapest 28 mm "grunts" with guns? Generic, cheap bodies for all of your pulp and sci-fi needs?
I just want a huge swarm of shitty backwater militia for scenario play. Something killed en masse by heroes.
Starting with strong contender, napoleonics from Em4. At 5£ per 20 bodies, even if you cannot find some use for the command, they are probably one of the best deals on the market, but I am sure they can be overshadowed by some chinese green army men.

>>95904716 (OP)
>What's next on the chopping block, Anons?
Trying to get my 1st ed lead Greenskin and Elf army(ies) painted and done to a tabletop standard, then I retvrn to 2mm imagi-nation stuff.

anyone bother with the new Heroscape, or is that too /bgg/ for here?

>>95904716 (OP)
>TQ
Put in an order for some Cygnar. Even if I end up not liking warhmavhine I can use them for OPR.
I just really to paint some power armor and tesla punk feels way more fun than space marines

>>95905052
>throwing out
Not even ebay or shipping to random anons?

>frostgrave cultists 3 announcement
>It's a revamp of the male cultists in the style of the females (which sucks)

They claim they want continuity in their range, but I bet it was the pointy hats. Box art they showed does not show much, but it does not look very good either.

They did not mention the old box going away tho. So maybe it's not so important.

>>95905889
I’ve been enjoying it, but I was a big fan of the original run. It’s nice to have more players and more local events for a game I already have a lot of stuff for
Haven’t bought any of the new minis yet, but none of the rules really appealed to me. Vaguely want the new utgar kyries to play with some Minions of Utgar
It’s fun

>>95905010
Looooong arms are long.
also,
>teacupping handguns like it's a 1978 silhouette competition.

But really the sculpting is good, if bland, and trying to make one set of arms fit multiple bodies ends up with them grossly out of scale to the rest of the sculpt. Cad sculpting for injecting molding also has to deal with a lot of limitations that sculpting for 3D printing doesn't.

>>95905318
>>95905986
Mostly binning stuff for later. The projects are not in shippable state, unless you want scratchbuilt orc mechs without arms and legs or terribly heavy castle made out of putty. And some terrible conversions too.
Simply I bit more than I cam chef, I started more projects than I have time or space to and I need to get my shit together.

>>95906142
For example there is an entire trench network I am throwing out due to it being made out of airdrying cry and being too heavy to transport.

>>95904813
>those Skullz servitors
Man, I know why they didn't make those regular casts (they fuck up molds something fierce) but they're so damned good. Who are the fatties? Armor slapped on something Nurglitch?

>>95904716 (OP)
>What's next on the chopping block, Anons?
A shed and some better storage for all my shit. My grandmother unexpectedly left me like $10k. I can finally get a proper workshop, and maybe pay another year or two off of my mortgage.

>>95906699
>Who are the fatties?


The two Void-Born Scum are high-strength, high-toughness bodyguards armed with pistols and knives. I bought a pair of Blood Bowl Nurgle bloaters and carved and filed away all the wounds and corruption, before oversculpting to give them one-piece flight suits. The strapping was very deliberately copied from the old Citadel Klegg models in the vein of my Grigor Klegane conversion from a few years back.
After some indecision on the heads I settled on a second head from the North Star pack, and one cut from a Forgeworld Tech Thrall. The knives and pouches are from the RTB01 plastic space marine kit, whilst the holstered pistol is from (I think) a space marine Primaris Reiver. The pistol arm on the upright guy is from the Necromunda Goliath sprue.

https://magpieandoldlead.blogspot.com/search/label/Cold%20Trader

>>95906723
Sick.
Nice blog

>>95906791
Met the guy at an event the other month, I just love his little world and photography of it. I would like to do similar.

Too hot for the hobby now. Thanks to climate change and British brick houses.

>>95905979
>teslapunk.
I wish I could throttle your neck from my house.

>>95906984
Mate I'm at 35º (95°F for burgers) in my house right now, not even Ac or a fan being used, still painting my orcs.

>>95907212
Temperatures like that just suck. Paint is drying in the tip of the brush so easy sometimes.

>>95907238
Thining my paint all the time, nice is the minis dry fast so I can make a batch in a few hours.

>>95907199
Based telekinetic homicidepunk enthusiast

>>95904801
Lovely models anon, masks are always cool.
I particularly like picrel pose, can we get a close up?

>>95906984
I just saw a bunch of britoids complaining about how "hot" it is today... It was 78F ... LMAO

>>95906984
>have a bunch of shit to prime
>"tropical humidity" for the next few weeks
What a load of shit.

>>95906825
>>95906723
Shoulda known it was Magpie, dude's got good style and way too much fucking money to burn.

>>95907412
I live in the PNW, tell me about it. I tend to batch-prime two or three times a year and then coast on that for several months. Although oddly in midwinter you often get a nice dry patch that's great for a quick hose-down as long as you preheat the primer and the minis.
>get an airbrush
I have one, but IME the primer just doesn't hold as well over the course of 15 years and a lot of temperature swings.

>>95907438
>PNW
Papua New Wuinea ?
I swear I have made this joke already

>>95907340
>78F
That's not even 26. Thats fresh from where I'm from. I don't start to sweat until 37ºc
>>95907412
At least mine is dry heat, when its humid, oh boy...

>>95907412
I live in south Georgia/Florida border, 90+% humidity and I still prime and varnish outside

>>95907317

These are fireforge medieval russian infantry, they use the same bodies as the Scandinavian infantry kit. But this set has composite bows, different heads and shields compared to the self bows and bardiches that the scandis get. It looks pretty gnarly up close, and a few years ago I didn't really have the skills to scrape the mouldlines from the mask, which comes as a separate piece on the sprue. I think the shield is a 3d print as well.

Well that's it for Reaper in the UK

Their prices had already got ridiculous, like Reaper Bones being £5 each for plastic and the metals being £10 compared to British companies charging half.

Bizarre how high their prices are

>>95907199
what would you call a comicbook style fantasy based on the tech and style of the turn of the 20th century?

>>95909131
I'm pretty sure it's the fatigue caused by cyberpunk being a cool portmanteau, so then everything was:
Dieselpunk, Steampunk, Frostpunk, etc, etc, forever till we die.
Shit get's tiresome.
Warmachine is just an early 2000's fantasy mecha game with art that matches it's era. It doesn't need a "punk" appellation, especially since it is decidedly not punk at all.

Apparently RGD Gaming has gone down, and since WGA helped them get their shit going in the first place they just posted the RGD Satyrs as a WGA kit. Expect Fauns, weirdly small Centaurs, Scythians, and Amazons (basically just female Scythians).

>>95910795
It went down at the start of the year and they were selling off their stock for cheap. I got 80 of their amazons for like $20.
What pisses me off is that WGA is selling you half the box for the exact same amount RGD used to charge. Like Warlord jacking up the price on Wargames Factory.
I wonder which of them will make their amazons available first.

>>95910818
Huh. It's too bad, I liked a lot of RGD's stuff. I just never bothered going back to the website after getting my kickstarter rewards. They had metal faun shamans/leaders with deer skull helmets and instruments.

>>95910828
>They had metal faun shamans/leaders with deer skull helmets and instruments
And minotaurs. Which were never sold.

>>95910839
I bought one of the minotaurs way back around when the kickstarter was still active.

>>95910818
Their amazons were ass though.

Speaking of kickstarters will Reaper ever make another one ? I missed them all.

>>95910850
Sure. The last one was only back in March this year.

>>95910818

Isnt WGA updating the sprues a bit and making the brutes slightly bigger than they used to be?

>>95910926
Lol no.

>>95910942

Ok, I was wrong then. It looks like a nice kit though. Shame about the price increase.

>>95905979
Post pictures once you get yours, mine were extremely awful. The printing quality was worse than what I bought on FB trading groups.

>>95910846
I really like them personally, however they don't go to any base smaller than 25mm square. Because one set of legs is so wide that they overhang even on 33mm bases, but are nice and flush diagonally on the squares.

>>95911238
They are 3d printed?
Oh dear. I thought they are gonna be plastic

>>95910818
Well, time to order those Sophies I was looking at.

>>95911291
I don't want to be mean but this is something that I can't wrap my head around for a long time now. What is the thought process for a person that spend (sometimes big) money on stuff without even basic research? I see it so often I start to think that maybe I'm the weird one here, spending a few hours even before I pull the trigger on a new box. Nowadays I keep bumping into posts of people surprised their minis are made of a different material than they thought or coming without rulebooks despite the product description being clear it's only minis inside etc.

>>95911351
Most people impulse buy anon. Its why there's advertisements everywhere or why there is candy/sodas/magazines at the registers in grocery stores.

>>95910846
Any pic? Can't find shit online.

>>95910926
>>95910963
I don't know what size they were before, but this is them now. Has it changed?

>>95904813
Bro this is such a good little weirdo space crew.

>>95911913
He's an artist.

>>95911933
Neat, ty.
Meh can't say they look bad maybe a bit bland

>>95911952
They are. They were okay at $40 for 48(40 Amazons and a frame of Scythians), but if they keep the price and only give you 24 Amazons then, just get a 3d printer.

I don't know if this is the right thread but. I was thinking of starting OPR Star Quest, is it any good and is the Campaign book worth it? (and is it possible to get the book without the need to register anywhere? No interest in any patreon shenanigans.) Also is there anything similar you might be able to recommend? Maybe with a bit more choice for customizing and leveling?

>>95912127
Five Parsecs From Home is the daddy

>>95911907
Crazy they didn't sculpt big floppy dicks on the satyr brutes

>>95912127
>>95912238
i'm seconding 5 parsecs. Its a great game.
pic related are some space not-arabs i built and started to paint last week for more enemy variety for that game.

>>95911351
I haven't dropped any cash yet

>>95912333
I fucking love mixed tech sci-fi.

>>95912238
>>95912333
Okay Thx, Gonne take a look at it then.

>>95912376
I'm sure you can find the pdfs somewhere. I've done 2 quick pics for you from the rulebook (buying it is worth it in my opinion, but i also got it as pdf for free first to try it, before spending money on it).

>>95912474
Its quite a bit of bookkeeping to keep track of everything going on in a campaign, but it gives you so many random events and other stuff that can happen.
I'd say its fairly easy to just use those "campagin"-things and port them over to whatever game you are playing, if you dont want to use the 5 parsecs combat system. Its not bad, and its quick and easy to learn, but its not as deep as some might want their combat to be.

>>95912474
>>95912483
Thx but after looking at the sheer amount of randomization and despite having lots of features no real cosumization (and not that much equip/skills n so on) i think this game is not what we are looking for. Also it feels kind of a "don't get attached to your guys" kind of game.

Would love to use my English inspired army for oathmark

>>95913942
If you live in London I'll play ya

>>95913942
Really nice decorations. I like the shields and lances a lot.

>>95913942
Paint you are movement trays.

>>95913942
They look like they abuse the Irish

>>95914080
Unfortunately I live on an island on the other side of the pond.
>>95914171
thanks, masking tape is a godsend
>>95914242
I refuse, cause I use them for other things as well.
>>95914371
at least twice a day.

>>95914371
The American education system strikes again

>>95913942
A specific reason why I want to use oathmark (besides the model size working well at about 50 total with average 10 per infantry block) is the whole feudal expanding your dominion system. would love to incorporate a werewolf tribe or some scottish dwarves as auxilery.

>>95914509
>the proddy crys in pain as he strikes you

>>95914540
i could make a crack about Catholics and pedophilia but it's beneath me...like a priest with an altar boy.
Anyway dipshit oppressing the Irish isn't a medieval pass time, that's what Scotland is for, the boghoppers had to wait their turn until Cromwell.

There needs to be more wargames in 1/72 mm. Its probably the cheapest scale.

>>95911907
Left to right: wargames factory Amazon, Midland halfling, WGA villager, RGD Amazon, and RGD satyr.
It looks the same.

>>95914509
The English conquest of the Pale took palce towards the end of the XII century "Mr Education"

>>95914602
until Cromwell
>What was the Nine Year's War
>What were plantations of Ulster

>>95913942
If your in Lancashire I'm up for a game

>>95914850
1/72 scale, or 72mm scale?
Because I don't think you'd be able to make out much detail on the troops at 1/72mm ...

>>95914930
1/72 aka. 20 mm
Sorry, funny mistake.

>>95915004
>>95914850
I want to like 1/72 but holy shit cleaning the flash off of the soft tiny plastic is unbearable.

>>95914850
Any wargame can be played in 20mm Anon. Sometimes you dont even need to adjust the distances.

>>95914930
It's pretty surprising how nice modern 1/72 infantry are. Cheap CAD changed everything. 1/72 armor kits are also an insane value for the money. A bigger problem is sourcing non-WW era anything. A 20mm-ish game is a nice middle ground between 15mm (which already has plenty of troop detail) and modern 32mm
t. working on a front mission hack of the old at-43/dust tactics rules.

Also, quit using trailing ellipsis wrong, it makes you read like a whining beta.

>>95915065
1/72 has fucking everything I swear.
You want rednecks? Yes.
Anubi? Done.
Literally LOTR from the movies but the named changed? You know it.
Dirty pirates including filthy pirate wenches? Already done.

>>95915097
Don't forget the most common cars used for Gaslands. Hotwheels and Matchbox might not be perfectly 20mm since they don't really care about scale to begin with, but 20mm terrain and models usually fits with them pretty well.

Thinking on getting some of those to make some broos/gors, how easy are they to put together?

>>95915603
The body is one piece, the arms go together at the elbow. Very monopose.
At 24 for $40, GW Gors end up costing about the same.
You don't get enough shields or two hand-weapons for everyone though.

>>95915660
Dang, thanks for the heads up, will trawl ebay to see if anyone is selling shitty gors...

>>95915669
Be aware that most of those ebay sellers have not realized that their listings are outdated by now, since GW released the Old World box of 30 Gors/Ungors.
Most of those ebay prices are based on the AoS box of 10 of them. By now, if you can get GW stuff with 20% discount from any hobby store, you might get a better deal buying a new ToW box instead of getting them used.

>>95915697
You are right, those are some decent prices, the 30 gors for 60 euros is about 2 euros a pop, and I remember the kit and was good, some leftover peltast stuff and they would make exellent broos/satyrs and plenty of bits for other shit.

>>95911238
Holy shit don't buy from them. 4/5 of the spears were snapped, and 3/5 sword dudes had broken swords 1 was so warped it was a joke
I have printed better shit than this for pennies. I pray some hero steals the stls while I get a refund

What's going on with Red Box games? last thread mentioned something about Tre Manor

>>95917052
The guy running it said he's selling off all of his current stock and then he's going to start fresh with new sculpts and not reorder any of the old ones again.

>>95904813
Dude these are sick. Where'd you get them? Especially those big boys in the back. Some of them give me retro necromunda vibes.

>>95917290
doh nevermind I saw>>95906723
Those are fucking amazing anon

>>95915603
Damn, someone made Turkish infantry?

>>95910818
Fuck WGA

>>95911933
>>95910818
These honestly look like shit, I can see why the company went under

>>95912238
Where you get those shipping containers?

Why in the fuck are starship minis so rare

>>95914509
Seethe paddy

>>95915309
Hot wheels are 1/63

>>95918438
I like them, but they do look like what a small time independent sculptor makes. Because that's what they are.

>>95918477
They are exactly that, and that obviously does not make them big sellers. I dont know the sculptor, but i assume he thought by investing into plastic molds for his sculpts, he could bump up those sales numbers. And i kinda think it could have worked with a more popular topic. But his stuff is just super niche.

Still planning out my zombies. I think I've got a bit of a plan for the paint scheme after watching Duncan's video on zombie skin. I'm trying to decide how to do the bases. I've got three ideas I'm mulling over let me know what you think /awg/
>1. Simple bases that came with it, slapping on some stirland mud and drybrushing slightly
>2. Get some 3d printed graves and skulls to make it more cinematic and tell a bit of a story
>3. Clear bases so you can just see whatever they're standing on

I'm very tempted by the clear bases because it's less work but what do people think about this?

>>95918885
I think that Kickstarter is also a trap for small producers. If you just want to fund a run of product and then deliver that product to the people who want it without losing money, then it's great. If you want to fund a continuous production of product and then sell it, you just gave most interested customers all the product they want out of the first run (without losing money on it, at least). Now what? They already have the thing.

>>95918927
>Now what? They already have the thing.

It can work, if its a popular product.
Imagine instead of fucking Fauns, he would have made WW2 Infantry.

>>95919024
>imagine he made generic boring shit everyone already makes
No.

>>95919088
Its the boring generic shit that prints the money and allows companies like WGA, Victrix and Warlord to make the odd obscure sets on the side.

>>95918893
I dislike clear bases. For zombies, espeically if you are doing a horde, i'd go with option 1.

>>95919373
Yeah you’re probably right. It’s not like they’re invisible. It’s the cheapest option too. Maybe I’ll just slap some ikea rocks on too and paint them, that should do.

>>95919231
WGA just seem to make whatever. I'm still baffled over their lizardmen and werewolves.

>>95914080
Huh, a fellow landan-er. Which side of the river?

>>95915603
I honestly think these minis work really well for Runequest/Glorantha stuff. Got that Broo look to them.

>>95915065
>>95915097
ikr. I use 28mm for fantasy but I have platoons for literally every nation that fought in WWII in 1/72 with all kinds of heavy weapons, support, armor, hell even airplanes. And the sculpts are really, really nice, they're anatomically correct and they almost paint themselves, with fine detail that just comes to life with a basecoat and wash. The fact that it's ludicrously cheap is just the cherry on the cake.

>>95904813
>Gf
Dude I am living the exact same life, excellent paint job

>>95919548
>I'm still baffled over their lizardmen and werewolves.

Exactly, but i dont think its a far fetched argument that for every box of something random like werewolves, they sell 10 boxes of Grognards or other things that appeal to a far wider audience.

>>95915097
Show us your 1/72 armies Anon.

>>95919863
My cat completely distracted me and I forgot what I was saying regarding the gf. But I still stand by that paintjob being sweet as

>>95919876
Later.

>>95919879
Pussy made you stupid either way.

>>95920104
You ain't wrong

>>95919876
My dog has eaten them, I swear.

>>95911398
>Most people impulse buy
Grim. I understand impulse-buying cheap shit like sweets or vidya but not tabletop games that require you to spend even more on equipment, tools, materials etc not to mention time.

>>95911351
>What is the thought process for a person that spend (sometimes big) money on stuff without even basic research?
Nerds have lots of disposable income.

My 2022 Russian VDV coming along nicely. Almost finished up with these guys then I'll move on to the Ukrainians.

Why are there no rulesets where your guys can go prone on the open field? Every ruleset just treats open terrain as zero cover, but from my time as an infantryman I know that going prone in the grass makes you pretty hard to hit, especially at range. It would be simple to have a rule where you can go prone and get a small cover bonus but with a penalty to movement or something, idk

>>95920912
> or vidya

whats the difference in impuse buying a video game for 40-60€ compared to buying 1-2 boxes of miniatures in a whim, because they looked nice or interesting?

>that require you to spend even more on equipment, tools, materials etc not to mention time.
You mean, tools like a PC, to play those games on? Or time, to actually play what you bought?

How is it different?

>>95921174
>Nerds have lots of disposable income
Generally untrue, nerds typically don't have lots of income,.they just have childlike low impulse and spend it poorly

>>95921715
You hardly ever buy a new PC for every game you want to play but many people do side-purchases like extra paints, bases or bits when they buy new minis.
>whats the difference in impuse buying a video game for 40-60€ compared to buying 1-2 boxes of miniatures in a whim
With Steam, GOG and other platforms you can buy dozens of games for a buck. On the other hand people hardly ever buy a single miniature - they always go balls deep.
You are trying to be a smartass here, trying to make both hobbies look on par in terms of financial and time investment but everyone knows the difference you mouth-breathing plebbit freethinker.

>>95911351
In fairness the starter 2 player boxes are hard plastic

>>95922366
Do you assume all TTCombat miniatures are hard-plastic as well since some of their Dropfleet ships are plastic?

>>95922438
generally companies go with 1 method of manufactoring if they can help it.
Why in blazes would anyone go with 3d resin when you have access to anythng else

>>95922348
>but many people do side-purchases like extra paints, bases or bits when they buy new minis.

Some do that, others just have a (sometimes vast) collection of paints amassed over the years.

>With Steam, GOG and other platforms you can buy dozens of games for a buck.
>On the other hand people hardly ever buy a single miniature - they always go balls deep.

You are making assumptions Anon.

> in terms of financial and time investment

Tell that to anyone with 5k hours in some pay to win gacha game. Or a steam library with 900+ games, 500 of them never even installed.

Both hobbies can be done unreasonably, and both can be done with normal, sane, spending habits.

>>95922478
>generally companies go with 1 method of manufactoring if they can help it.
Do they now? I can assure you there are more companies with mixed materials portfolio than mono-material ones. Wargames Atlantic and Victrix are the only ones that come to my mind as the plastic-only companies. Games Workshop, Corvus Belli, Warlord, Battlefront, Perry, Mantic, TTCombat, North Star - all of them sell kits of various manufacturing methods. Some of them even mix material within kits.
>Why in blazes would anyone go with 3d resin when you have access to anythng else
Spending a minute on their website is enough to answer this question.

>>95922348
GOG doesn't have shipping costs and delayed gratification.
I pay my shiny dollar, I get my 90s boomer shooter.

What are you all currently playing/wanting to play?

>pic unrelated

>>95923237
Conquest. Recently got my first new player at the club, which IS fun, but he's also been messaging me every day on dicord since. It's been 2 months now and i don't know what to do/make of it

>>95923849
He wants gay sex

>>95918448
Those are the ones from AT-43
. unfortunately pretty rare now, like $20 each second hand

I wish someone made decent hard plastic shipping containers

>>95923875
You joke, but i've seriously considered it being true. Says he's living with his partner (a woman), but then one time out of nowhere greets me with "hello huggywyggy" and that my reason for being pretty neutral about the summer weather is because my sweat runs down my chest hair and irritates the pores. All i could say was lol. I'm not being anything beyond friendly and labeled him as prob autistic.
So he's gay and fronting being hetero? What kind of layered ruse would that be? Luring me into a false sense of security?

>>95924058
Challenge him to a game, whoever wins, tops.

>>95924058
Yeah I think once you get married you just kind of fag the hell out. 30% of my telegram chat history is married dudes begging to send me pictures of their dick and I do everything I can to not look like a woman or horny on there.

Anyway- Has anyone ported any of the 1.0 This is Not a Test factions into 2.0 yet?

>>95923237
My Conquest two player starter set just arrived. I played an introductory game at a con and it was really fun and I really like the old dominion.
It was on sale for 70 bucks and I got a guy from my club to split the box with me so I got the 25 Old Dominion dudes and a rulebook for 35€. Excited to start painting, just gonna have to convince more people to try the game out.

>>95922478

For the last time, this is tabletop gaming, these companies are not usually run by smart men, and when they are, they usually just embezzle from their parent company and fuck off, because the people who hired them are... as mentioned... not smart men.

Quarchads, where we at?

>>95923237
The last game I played was kill team. I’ve been wanting to play Space Station Zero with my girlfriend but just haven’t found the time yet. I need to make some paper turrets for it first but have all the other minis sorted.

>>95923963
Check AliExpress for Lego shipping containers.

>>95904716 (OP)
Kits I am about 80% sure I'm getting next month
WGA Boxers, WW1 Russians, Cannon Fodder and Villagers
Kits I'm about 50% sure of
Perry Franco Prussian, a box of each in firing and skirmishing positing, maybe some Bavarians
Victrix Late Roman light and heavy infantry

Definitely maybe next month
>Mantic ratmen?

Whoever recommende dI dig out Fistful of Lead thankyou, you've removed a kind of modelling block for me because I can just work with bands of 4-8 figures. Leader, second, a specialist or two and an infantryman or two or three if fodder.

>>95925495
>Playing with women
Sounds dreadful

>>95926084
She is trans, mtf. Does that change your calculation?

This thread's about to become very not good.

>>95925849
heads-up, Mantic appears to be discontinuing the Ratkin Slaves (in the Chaos Dwarf) line soon

>>95918893
You want simple bases matching color your main table / mat.
You also should do the graves as army specific terrain. Having dedicated terrain is a really nice touch
As for painting remember it is not a coloring book going with only premade pre-approved schemes using only the official paints is super gay.

>>95920912
Go and moralise somewhere else dickhead

>>95919876
Not pictured: twice as much unpainted minis, several tanks from all eras, complimentary terrain.
I figured out that I could make two forces as generic as possible to test out diffferent systems with.

>>95926449
Oh I would just buy an ambush box anyway
It's a good deal, the starters are too, the army boxes are alright but buying individual units from them always felt like defeating the purpose. They are my budget filler guys like Warlord are.

>>95926461
Definitely better to use minis rather than just collect them, but it can be too easy. Probably not as bad as drunk driving

>>95926475
Sweet! Time to do some imaginations... New England green vs the Confederacy grey vs tans (European mercs)

>>95924951
Currently working on a different project, but will come back to finish them.

>>95926450
I use three different mats. One is woodlands, another wastelands. And the last a wintery mat. So the clear bases would be good for any.

I’ve got some paper terrain I could make for a graveyard which would work well for army specific terrain. That’s a great idea.

Not necessarily going with a pre approved paint scheme. More different ideas from different youtubers. However, I’m still very new to painting and find when I follow other people’s paint steps it turns out a lot better than when I wing it. I went for my own scheme with my last dudes and it turned out pretty mid. Guess it’s all learning.

>>95926497
>One is woodlands, another wastelands. And the last a wintery mat. So the clear bases would be good for any.
Brown with grey drybrush then.
>I went for my own scheme with my last dudes and it turned out pretty mid.
Post it we can give tips.

>>95926486
That Quar field gun is so adorable. They need other creatures like Bumblepods and Chirpypets to throw into the endless uncaring grinder. In the glib cuteness of the quar future there is only war!

>>95926530
That's a slightly modified German le.IG 18 model.
I didn't like the official RCO model enough to spend money on it and I don't think I'll be getting the specialists box in the near future either.

>>95926098
>Playing with trannies
Sounds dreadful

>>95926670
>wargames opponent u can sex

Oh noes

>>95926695
You're pissing into the wind. The people behind all that post Obergefell v. Hodges money that's flooded the rest of the west decided traps are the weak point to attack, everyone's conveniently forgetting what they were jerking off to back when /b/ was a real board

>>95926704
I'm pissing alright

>>95926695
I find mentally ill people profoundly unattractive, so no.

>>95921420
Which system are you planning to use?

>>95919876
Finally have time. Yeah I like amazons and femdom, that's why I got them a box of "camp followers and bearers of burdens" so to speak. But fuck, the cleanup is awful so they've been in this box instead.

>>95926958
These are the reason I got fed up with cleanup: most of a box of dark alliance half-orc pikemen. Really obnoxious and they still weren't flush so I had to use greenstuff at the base. Bah!
I still haven't learnt my lesson and I'm eyeing the cyclopes now.

>>95926989
This picture pretty much sums up why nobody bothers with 1/72 miniatures and people happily pay extra for either metal or hard plastic stuff. No offense Anon, but it is just dreadful.

>>95926958
You're a camp follower lol
I should have kept my 1/72
I had some of these guys but a lot of ancients, napoleonics, WW1, you name it

As much as I find building 40 pikemen stressful and about the limit of my retard work mangled hands I fucking love mixing different sprues though...

>>95927005
It's all learning. Fine grit sanding sticks. Finish with army painter dip or gloss.

>>95927005
A lot of the issues I have with the scale aren't in certain manufacturers like Zvezda whom for my money do the best work, but they're purely historical(their fantasy line was 1/56 and now long oop) and I want my Achaemenids in 1/56. It also kinda defeats the biggest draw of 1/72 which is the wide assortment of figure types.
On the left a Zvezda hoplite, on the right a linear b thug.

What kind of music do you guys listen while painting?

>>95927060
None. Podcasts/audiobooks to occupy the part of my mind that gets bored.

>>95927060
Random Mexican songs, Anime songs, and the LOTR soundtrack.

>>95927060
Techno, house, drum and bass

>>95927104
Techno for painting? Nice.
>>95927094
LoTR and morrowind sountrack are some of mine too.

>>95927109
Yep but not necessarily doofy stuff, very techy stuff from Detroit

>>95927060
Scream and fart compilations.

>>95927060
mostly podcasts, but when I painted my wild west stuff a lot of Johnny Cash and similar stuff

>>95927223
Based.

I just put comfy old music.

>>95927052
Ugh, their Fantasy and Sci-Fi lines were mismanaged so horribly it should have been a crime. Fantasy survived at least for some time but Sci-Fi was basically dead on arrival.

>>95915097
Almost everything, but no spacemen. Where are the troopers, the starport scum and the aliens?

>>95927060
I take phone calls for a living and often paint while listening to people. It’s a mental health line.

>>95926989
of the stuff I've finished so far it was mostly the Uruk-hai, mounted cimmerians, warg uruks and trolls that had flash. The elves, dwarfs, humans (good and evil), cyclopes, wraiths barely have any flash.

I would like to paint the stocks of their sci-fi AKs in that typical orange-brown colour of the real guns. Anyone got an idea what paint would work well for that?

>>95927060
I listen to audio books

>>95926798
Asymmetric Warfare

Is this worth it? How's the game. I'm a big Elder scrolls fun but the game always seemed to be a token fest and Skyrim centered.

> Contents:
> 1 x The Elder Scrolls: Call to Arms Revised Rulebook including the updated rules of the game, incorporating errata collected since the game’s launch.
> 1 x The Elder Scrolls: Call to Arms Core Rules
> Core rule book, Quests book, Escape from Helgen Quickstart
> More than 200 cards including heroes, followers, adversaries, quests and more
> 2 die cut counter sheets
> 13 special game dice
> 1 x Imperial Plastic Starter Set
> Hadvar, Hero of Helgen
> Imperial Mage
> 3 x Imperial Soldiers
> 1 x Stormcloak Plastic Starter Set
> 1 x Ralof, Warrior of the Resistance
> 1 x Ysrald Thrice Pierced, Stormcloak Commander
> 3 x Stormcloak Warriors with Greatswords
> 1 x Bleak Falls Barrow Plastic Delve
> 1 x Dragonborn, Champion of Skyrim
> 1 Draugr Deathlord
> 3 x Skeleton Archers
> 3 x Draugr Warrior with Greatsword
> 1 x Ethereal Dragonborn

I know there's a Bushido guy on here, can I get a quick rub down? I nearly impulse bought the starter at my LGS yesterday, but I want to do some research.

>>95927060
I watch terrible shonen anime.

>>95926958
Didnt knew there were 1/72 amazons.

>>95926704
Anon doesn't like being reminded that anime traps equate to trannies irl
THEY WERE ALWAYS GAY.

>>95921420
>>95927747
Oh yeah. Make sense. I loved Osprey’s Black Ops, but I would love to try this one.
Hey quick question: given that you want to run the Ukraine war with it, does it have rules for drones? (And should it? Maybe it’s like artillery and should be left outside of the scope of skirmish combat)

Any of yall try brutality?
I'm looking for a skrimish where I can use any team I want and this looks on the money

Science fantasy skirmish game? Better if easy/solo friendly

>>95924951
I've been working on some on and off (mostly off) for like three months

FUCK WARLORD KILLING OF SLAINE
>>95915097
Everything you wrote is from the same russian maker tho

>>95912127
>>95912238
I tried to upload it here but 4chan is giving me issues. the books can be bought on drivethru for like 5 bucks: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/501911/into-the-frontier-grimdark-future-star-quest-narrative-campaign?src=hottest_filtered

>>95928109
>can I get a quick rub down

>>95930563
I don't think its Warlord killing Slaine so much as Warlord losing the 2000AD license.

>>95929037
Yes it has rules for drones, including FPV drones. It has rules for a ton of off-table assets you can call in, close air support, attack helicopter, artillery, mortars, drones, etc. lots more.

This ruleset was written by the guy who made Spectre Operations, and it's basically an updated version of Spectre Operations v2. It was released after the Russian-Ukraine war started so it has rules that reflect that.

>>95930635
>I tried to upload it here but 4chan is giving me issues
PDF uploading is on hold indefinitely. Just put it on gofile or wherever.

>>95905029
There are definitely some that have room for improvement. The Roman citizens were pretty bad in some places. The guy sculpted the feet and footwear in very bizarre fashion. The rest is pretty good but those left some to be desired.

Anyways, I found a micro sized echinoid fossil in my basing mix today. 450 million years old, most likely. At first I thought it was a part of a tooth.

Here's one of the footsore Paul Hicks halflings I wasn't going to buy because I need to focus on ongoing projects. They are pretty nice minis, unique in that they are truescale like his other figures. I'll post some more detailed review of them later.

Normally I don't make big purchases like this but I decided I want a bit of variety in my life.

Over the weekend I tried a few Steam games, and my god, strategy as a genre is nearly dead, ans most of the old titles run so frenetically on a new computer OR you have to sign up to something else... wtf happened since I was a kid...thank providence for tabletop man

Walls are done. Now its time to play :)

>>95928585
lol, same here anon. i like to rewatch ocean dub of dragon ball z while I paint sometimes

>>95931876
Lookin' good

For fistful of leadanon how big are your units?
My rule of thumb is
4: elites in heavy armour
5: upper end of regulars, veterans or specialists
6: competent conscripts, light regulars, fewer specialists
7: rabble

For Bigger Battles I was thinking of keeping 2-3 units like this representing the normal FFOL bands and then having 2-3 units of 10 foot with much more uniformity of type...would this work?

>>95931853
You can thank Paradox and the autistic whales that encouraged them to put out $200 of DLC for every game they release.

Does anyone actually play OnePageRules?

>>95932423
Yes, I played it just with week.
Its really nice for free play with non-standard armies.
OPR give me freedom
WHFB 6e gives me structure

>>95926958
>The basing still eludes me
For 1:72? I've used a couple different things. The most useful is "coin" counters from the old Pirates of the Spanish Main CMG, they're .75mm plasticard that's slightly smaller than a penny but bigger than a dime. There were usually 9-10 per booster on the crew/item card and EVERYONE who played the game has dozens of them. As a nice bonus, you can multibase them on regular 40mm bases. Works well for weapon teams too.
Cavalry usually fits on a 25mm base cut in half.

>>95929255
>Any of yall try brutality?
>I'm looking for a skrimish where I can use any team I want and this looks on the money
Yeah, it's one of the things my group does when we need to blow off steam. The one-player/NPC AI is really good. The warband creation is so fast we spent several months playing games where you just grabbed a handful of random models and statted them up on the spot. Which leads to things like fielding Major Kusanagi, a velociraptor, a couple robots, an angel, and a werewolf against some heroclix and a Kingdom Death pinup. It's a great way to break out whatever random models you've collected but never had a chance to put on the table.
The lore has a lot of stupid edgelord shit in it, but a) I'm a GWAR fan anyway and b) you can always ignore it.

>>95931876
nice, diggin' it.

>>95932791
>The lore has a lot of stupid edgelord shit in it, but a) I'm a GWAR fan anyway and b) you can always ignore it.
Planned to
but whats GWAR?

>>95927109
Do you know what happened to the German CAD anon that used to make Balmora housing sculpts?

>>95932423
Yespic is my high elves battling my friends daemons of war

>>95932912
Better pic

Any easy skirmisher rule sets that allow for both fantasy and history? I was thinking to get into Saga but I heard it's hard to have Age of Magic armies go up against the Saga historical universes. I also don't really want to just play a fantasy skirmishes were there's just human faction or something because I'd like specific historical factions go against each other, but also undead or goblins.

>>95931876
Sick.

I’m putting together the Wargames Atlantic Lizardmen and I’m trying to figure out what exactly this thing is on one of the offhand options. Looks like some kind of weird ocarina or something? I’m genuinely at a loss. Anyone got an idea?

>>95932947
That's what I would think. Either a whistle of some kind (Aztec death whistle proxy, perhaps?) or a funky pipe for smoking lizard weed.

So I was digging through the old pile and found these Zombicide guys and while I could put them in any old undead force, I'm wondering if you guys know of any very small scale games where this would be a complete team?

>>95932849

It's a shock rock band with outrageous costumes and lyrics. They had a miniature game and Adrian Smith made cover art for one of their best albums. They are still active, but just not the same after the original singer died from a heroin overdose.

>>95932791
>Kensei-anon still alive
Glad to read that.

>>95931853
>giving $340 to Warkikes Atlantic
Yikes

>>95932920
if you're fine with the activation rules lion/dragon rampant would work.

>>95932959
Relicblade comes to mind as the first game that likes around 4 minis per side, you probably want an extra little zombie or two to round out a squad for whatever game but there should be some smaller scale ones if you check the mega. I suppose also because I've been reading it lately Deepwars(building your own units and playing on the surface or playing its sister game shadowsea) also works at 4 minis for a starter force.

>>95932849
>but whats GWAR?
A punk/metal band and art collective from the 1980s that does extremely silly and offensive stage shows. They're also all gamers - I got a backstage pass once for helping crowdfund something and we literally spent an hour bullshitting about foam rubber props, wargames, and D&D while a couple of groupies got progressively more and more uncomfortable as they realized what kind of nerd hive they'd walked into. Several of the members have died, retired, or been punted over the years. The shows are usually kind of like extremely gory and silly comic books mixed with live-action kaiju performances. There's a lengthy, very stupid mythology attached to them that's more than a little bit parodying Kiss and 40k. This guy is their "manager", he keeps the band hooked on crack and uses a boltgun as a sidearm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRFfPQwRYFw
The guys who created Green Jello and Tool were college roommates and did stage work for Gwar back in the eighties.

>>95932988
>>95933195
RIP Oderous.

>>95931853
I recently just got into minatures, and I have to say the WGA Goths suck. They are kind of small, half their heads look way too narrow and they look like they are wearing Hulk hands. I don't know if that's one of their early sets, but it's not very good, especially next to the Victrix Late Roman unarmored infantry.

>>95932044
You're welcome.

>>95933266
Hmmm good to know. I haven't yet pulled the trigger, I will think about the Victrix ones.

>>95933195
>>95933221

That sounds like a really fun evening, but I'm a bit surprised Gwar would have groupies. You don't play metal to get chicks.

I was legitimately sad when I heard Dave Brockie had died, I regret that I never got to see Gwar live. Even if Dave was in really bad shape at the last shows he did

>>95933555
>I was legitimately sad when I heard Dave Brockie had died, I regret that I never got to see Gwar live. Even if Dave was in really bad shape at the last shows he did
My girlfriend saw them live and said it was an incredible experience. Always wanted to see them live myself but never had a chance. Brockie seemed like a passionate, if tortured individual. Shame he passed and damn have the years went by since he passed too.

>>95933476
It might be worth it to buy a sprue of GBP, WGA and Victrix from an ebay seller. Then you can compare, contrast and kitbash.

As I said the WGA Goths are small, their peasants are bigger and I've been able to kitbash then with Victrix who I think I way better sculpts, especially the faces.

>>95933708
Well I trusted your judgement and got them separately from Victrix, they will be perfect not only for my fistful of lead bands and bigger battles they will give me some spare bits for fantasy kitbashes. Really love that late Roman period.

Gripping Beast I have found the sculpts hold up okay but they are definitely on the smaller side. I normally don't care if it's not egregious but I'm glad I spent extra and got some extra figures.

>>95933127
Do lion or dragon rampant have hero units like in Saga or are there actual factions that have different flavors? Or is it just based on what you choose to field and how they look?

>>95934289

You can buy or roll leader upgrades in lion Rampant and the leader also gives some command bonuses to nearby units. I guess you could make more powerful single model units in dragon rampant. The upcoming 2nd edition will probably give a lot more variety in that department.

>>95933195
>>95932988
>>95932849
>GWAR
And they have their own wargame, too!
It's miniature agnostic and pretty good, using the War engine.

>>95927060
Music and sometimes police body cam footage of those who deserve being arrested being arrested. It just tickles my neurons while I paint.

Is ASOIAF dead?

>>95935076
Might as well be, with CMON struggling.
I've seen some stores put those minis on deeper discount than usual too

>>95935076
I hope so, all games based off pop culture shit should be killed

>>95935076
The novel series certainly is. Germ has not written a fucking word of it in like a decade.

CMON is also extra broke now, so even if it isn't dead yet, it will be once the license comes up for renewal.

>>95906218
My ass thought those were fried tortilas by the thumbnail

>>95935853
George was fuming few months back over House of the Dragon to the point of stating he's making progress to make sure no one else can "ruin his story", and even mentioned finishing writing one of the character POVs, but that's all we're really heard.

What an awkward timing for CMON though, they just started released Swords without Banners army and the new Zombicide game is out too (one of my favorite of Zombicide releases so far) yet suddenly they are selling one of their cash cows (Zombicide). It is concerning.

>>95935937
That fat lazy fuck isn't doing anything but shitposting online and raking in cash.

I think i'll buy some more Frostgrave Cultists before they release this new box. They look like shit. The Cultists 2 set had some nice looking arms, but the miniatures themselves look nothing like cultists.. They should have named them Wildlings or something.

>>95935937
>George.
>Doing anything.
Keeek. He even let the valerion be black wich those silly mops in they heads, he doesn't care as long as he has mone for his hookers.

>>95932791
>Yeah, it's one of the things my group does when we need to blow off steam
Do you think its worth buying or is it better to pirate?

>>95935527
You should kill yourself

>>95906218
Welp, I just ate dinner and now I'm hungry again. Thanks a lot, asshole.

>hey WGA, any updates on the Chinese?
>oh officially licensed Sharpe. Okay, I guess a 54mm Sean Bean explains the delay
No seriously what the fuck.

>>95936881
They should have been released what, five years ago already?

>>95927660
White, then orange, then brown wash brush strokes.
But seriously, Bakelite or wood furniture?
Because I bet you could do scale Bakelite by just doing messy wash layers. And at scale, I guess bake and wood would be pretty similar.

So, WGA does an official licensed Sharpe's rifles game now:
https://wargamesatlantic.com/blogs/news/sharpes-rifles-the-wargame

Is there really a market for that, next to Muskets&Tomahawks and Sharpes Practice? (And maybe The Silver Bayonet?)

>>95936935
Thanks for the suggestion. No need to get super realistic with the wood grain there, as its not real AKs anyway, but lets see how they turn out eventually.

>>95936881
sculpted by the guy behind Lost Heresy Miniatures (a digital sculptor on patreon). So for once, i expect some high quality stuff, because his stuff usually is very good.
Certainly a massive upgrade to WGAs usual digital sculpts and it should translate nicely to plastic. Pic related for example.

>>95936388
They didn't look like were in the same cult as the first box, but bandage lady on the right here is inarguably in A cult. Cultists are just religious fanatics, after all.

>>95936975
They may be getting greedy after the success of the Barron's War and so taking on more existing properties.
Monster Girl Encyclopedia the strategy battle game licensed straight outta K.C. coming before the warring states somehow.

>>95937201
I mean, they hired Andy Hobday, so the guy has to work for his money, and he does write games for a living. With Barons War being a good game, i think his games he will write for WGA (their sci-fi deathmatch game, the grand battles small scale game etc) will be worth to look into too.
But still, i dont see the need for yet another napoleonic skirmish game when there are already some quite good ones. But maybe that particular nice is bigger than i know.

>>95937201
I'd expect a Last Kingdom wargame based around Saxon Arthur stuff ahead of that, given they are already licensing Cornwell.

>>95936724
Why, can I insulted your star wars and marvel slop?

>>95936881
They do seem to be spreading themselves ridiculously thin
>all the generic historical and fantasy stuff
>plus the Quar range
>plus the 10mm range
>plus that alt-history sci-fi thing they're producing for that other company
>now the licensed Sharpe stuff
>all with split production in both the US and UK

>>95932044
Yeah, that pisses me off too. Nta btw. I remember thinking about buying Stella's on sale, then realising I would have to spend another £80 just to get stuff that should be part of the base game anyway.

>>95937357
the split production is actually beneficial i think. Lets say they have 20 injection molding machines in the US, so they can make 20 different sprues there at any given time.
Now they have maybe 10 more machines in the UK. So they can make 30 different sets at the same time.
Sure shipping the molds back and forth is probably a logistical nightmare to cycle through their increasing range at both factories, but more machines mean more stuff will be available.

>>95937257
Historicals go pretty wild, although it's hex and chit games that go really stupidly granular.
>no, pike and horse 1654 can't handle that battle which took place in 1670, you need horsey pikes deluxe 2 with the 1669 expansion
>by the way both of these cost $70 and are only intended to play one to three real life battles or very small ahistorical variants of those battles. no, they are not compatible ruleswise, even though they both use very similar rules derived from a ruleset that was released in 1986 for a different singular battle that occurred in the mid-16th century.

>>95937551
I wonder if you could mix hex and chit with toy soldiers. Although at that point you're probably better off with a videogame rather than doing maths for half an hour to figure out logistics and how this impacts your game of Hail Caesar.

>>95934289
Like other anon kind of said its more of the latter. there are basic unit profiles that you customize with special rules per profile or overall fantastical rules for fantasy stuff. You can make hero units by making a powerful profile and using a single hero to represent it, and overall you would be building faction rosters yourself, but you could make distinct rosters for different human factions and fantasy factions. I think the book does give example factions too which you could treat as default.

>>95936388
They might be inspired by that House Bolton's keep kitbash from few years ago using some Cultists bits and that would be awesome honestly.

>>95937257
Barons War is average at best in an already flooded genre (ANOTHER medieval skirmish, YAWN)

Dios mio.

>>95938455
Why are britoids so obsessed with this boomer TV show? The British in the Napoleonic Wars were lapdogs for Nathan Mayer Rothschild in his war effort against Napoleon because he ended the central bank in France and created the nationalized Banque de France

>>95938539
Retarded take esp. Given the Continental System

>>95938455
I always liked how the red sash contrasts with the green uniform.
>>95938539
This but for completely different reasons: Because Horatio Hornblower is the superior 90's/early 2000's britbong napoleonic mini series.

>>95938614
Based and Hornblower pulled.

>>95936453
>Do you think its worth buying or is it better to pirate?
There's a free demo pdf kicking around that you can fuck around with to figure out if it's right for you.

>>95936935
>>95927660
yeah, GW Flesh Wash over yellow ochre made perfect Bakelite. Ochre is super easy to find under some variant of "plague/vermin brown" in most paint lines (it's a sort of brownish goldenrod), and their old Flesh Wash was chestnut with a touch of dark red IIRC. Reaper does a good chestnut wash, so does Army Painter.

>>95937183
>>95936388
Eh. https://www.checkpointminiatures.co.uk/shop/hd2836-pointed-hoods/ . Also some good stuff for making Redemptorists out of them, and North Star has a couple conversion kits of their own.
The new heads do look a lot more cartoonish, though. There's a reason I haven't been picking them up.

Ok, counted it out, this is a 996 point (for a hypothetical 1000 point game) of humans for a game of oathmark

>>95938622
Its the only pill to take. Hornblower actually has to face the challenges of leadership from above and bellow, competent and dangerous officers, competent and dangerous subordinates.

Sharpe is fun romp but hornblower is the better exploration of the nature of command.

>>95938592
My fellow British patriots... Not like this...

>>95939340
What's the name of thine fiefdom sir knight?

>>95939514
Still a retarded fucking take
They also financed Cromwell and the Great Restoration
Regardless, The Continental system was France aggressively cutting off British trade, attacking countries that traded with Britain, isolating and starving the economy. No European country was permitted to trade with Britain under this system.

Despite this, the Coalition prevailed. Who financed Napoleon? Who reihtroduced slavery?

>Napoleon initially won the allegiance of Jews when, in 1797, he emancipated Jews in Ancona, Italy. He officially chose two High Priests of the Jewish Nation and seven councillors to the High Priests.

>>95906074
Honestly the pointy hoods are cool but they become almost too distinctive. I hope the original stays on the market and we just get more variety, along with demons and gnolls its a great go to bad guy ise my figure set

>>95939983
Nigga unironically invoking Cromwell, who invited Jews back to England for the first time in hundreds of years since the Edict of Expulsion in 1290, all so he could have his liberal vengeance against traditionalism

>>95936388
naw im glad theyre redoing the cultists, i dont care one way or another about the pointed hoods but the faces and masks in the first set, and ESPECIALLY the bodies in the first set are very weird and not as versatile as they could be
New one seems to have more neutral posing, more weapon variety, and more head variety
Ill concur that the new ones fit more of a "dregs" role than cultists, but overall im looking forward to these since the second set was so nice (just all female, ill probably get a sprue but i dont want to have a full warband)

>>95938539
Its really the last time they get to pretend they were really relevant or good in a war

>>95939908
lord protectorate of the anonymarchy

>>95940146
im pro cromwell and pro-anti-jews

I'm thinking a building an undead warband for both Saga and Dragon Rampant. In Saga there is mindless zombies, in DR is there a zombie type? Would it just be the LR levy type?

>>95940180
The irony is that Napoleon was pussy whipping the angloids the entire time in the Napoleonic war until the Germans defeated him at Waterloo

>>95936388
I hope they fix the cloth, the pantaloons are ok but the thoughtless way the coats are sculpted with all those folds makes it look, and I'm being as nice as I can be, like the fabric incredibly thin and doesn't have any weight to it. Shame about the Capirotes if they kowtow to the spectre of am*ricans on tw*tter

>>95940146
You keep saying this like it's spoopy esoteric knowledge kek
It's not the point
To the anit semite jews are the arbiters of history, a middleman of great events
The goy has no autonomy or context without
Jewish permission in the mind of the anti semite
Shit is fucken weird

Fwiw
Terracotta Boxers will now stalk your dreams

>>95940749
...I unironically really like the look of those Ghost Boxers, I might have to add some to my Pulp collection. Just a white base with a seafoam green contrast/ink, right?

>high 200s
>the fuckwit shows back up
Y'all need to just report the troll and move on, no need to drag the idiotic shitflinging in here when we've got another fifty games to read and wish we could play instead of what the club at the LGS keeps demanding.

It occurred to me that hobgoblin would be a pretty good introductory wargame for my son. The rules are simple, there's no individual casualty removal and units are only removed at the end of turn, so every unit gets to do at least something during the battle. The fortune cards can be added later.

For those with kids who wargame with them, how and when did you start playing with them?

Games for this feel?

>>95940180
>>95940573
seething Johnny foreigners

>>95941886
Necromolds. It’s all silly putty so the can destroy them to their hearts content. The game even gets them to smash their enemies when they kill them. My two sons got very into the smashing part.

>>95940616
>>95936388
Oh no wtf why did they have to remove the cowls? That's what was the most iconic about this kit! Come on, these are supposed to be bad guys damn it

>>95942510
>>95936388

Don't worry they're still producing Cultists 1, it's not getting retired for the new box.

>>95941886
I just started a campaign of CfNA with my 4yo. He's been loving it so far

>>95942523
Based, if you're lucky you might even finish it before he turns 18

>>95942614
>tfw your sons coming of age ritual is having to beat CfNA with Italy

Alternative Armies has new website and to celebrate they have 20 % off on everything.

>>95942523
kek

Are there any note-worthy alternative skirmish games with a pre-planned action system à la X-wing and Star Wars Armada? I wonder how would it work in a non-naval game.

>>95943919
It would work great for a high speed mecha game, like Votoms or Front Mission with the roller dashing, or obviously any kind of dogfighting be it mecha or biplanes.
A licensed Armored Core game ripping of the FlightPath movement templates and dials would be perfect, as AC has always enforced fatal out of bounds areas in the vide games. And the variety between tank like heavy hover versus high speed dash means the tactical level could be deep.
Would definitely be hard to balance though. Boosters, FCS, movement types, weapons types, a total nightmare.
Would also be a way better Gundam game than whatever that hex based boardgame coming out next year is going to be.

>>95943919
You could go all the way back to the OG Crimson Skies

>>95944468
Every now and then I wanna do that, I have a huge boner for pusher prop planes.
(why yes I do love the drone age thanks for asking)

>>95944468
>>95944299
I had skirmish games in mind, 28mm to be exact. Having to think so much in advance feels like an interesting challenge both in terms of gameplay and game design.

>>95941886
Stratego and pushing minis around at 4

>>95944611
Yeah, but the dial and movement templates have this kind of built in inertia, that people don't really have. As far as tactical level movement goes anyway.
Though I have played a few tactical squad level video games that use preplanned movements for both sides where you then get to watch the turn play out. So I can see how it would work, but it would almost need to be a grid based board for precise movements versus a dial with move templates. The stress based mechanics are also super underused as far as skirmish games go, so that's a must use.
I'm messing around with grids right now referencing Dust Tactics for a sort of okay implementation of grids with both human and mecha/vehicle scale movement.

>>95942096
Seconding this. Necromolds is basically designed for onboarding kids to wargaming.

>>95942726
I just stumbled on this by myself. I was already waiting for a possible summer sale.
But man this new website is not better at all. It's actually worse. Some elements are so hard to read. And how do I filter for platoon and value packs? Am I this blind?

Are there any mythology themed awgs that try to settle the question of "could Thor beat up Zeus?" Or do I have to make my own. I've been feeling nostalgic for Smite lately.

>>95946228
In the novice trove, there's Osprey's Of Gods and Mortals. Its not quite Smite gods vs. gods, its warbands of mortals and monsters lead by a god fighting over gods' warbands.

>>95945963
It's so much worse. How did the cellphone singlehandedly destroy functional web development? Sidebars? Can't have that. Persistent and nested menus for easy navigation? Nope, doesn't display well on a 3" wide screen. Everyone is using the same shitty e-commerce templates and they are all so bad. Euro/Brit companies are definitely the worst, and that's where all the cool minis are.
Who would have thought the future was vertically letter-boxed webpages with only 1/3 of the width of my screen being utilized.

>>95942510
Nobody externally knows for sure yet, but it's a safe bet.
>>95942516
I'm not going to buy Cultists I just for some heads if the bodies in Cultists III are a significant upgrade. It's an inconvenience if there's no capirotes, I've liked the look since I started playing Warhammer way back. To be fair, I haven't bought Cultists I yet, but they are at the top of my list for my next fantasy project once I conclude what I've got on the go already.

>>95946816
>they
that is to say the cultists in general

>>95943919
>x-wing
>naval
Its a Wings of War/Wings of Glory ripoff.
There was a D&D one about dragons as well.

Non-skirmish large/operation scale wargames with a ref can have simultaneous orders and that turn unfolds as written.

>>95947615
Dogfighting games and naval games have a lot in common, because momentum and anticipating the enemy's maneuvers is a critical part of the decision chain.

>>95948583
>Uni part body and even an arm.
Fuck that's worse than I tough, its broos or nothing... A pity because htey barrel like body would make very good broos.

>>95948612
depending on what your plans were for them that doesn't necessarily disqualify them. If you have other arms you prefer you could just cut them at the shoulder and attach the more traditional multipose arms that way. Might have to use a bit of putty to cover the transitions, but I'd wager you can use arms from most historical kits with those if you need uniform equipment.

>>95923963
>I wish someone made decent hard plastic shipping containers
reaper makes these. Not super cheap, but unless you own a 3d printer yourself it'll probably not get much cheaper.
https://www.reapermini.com/search/container

>>95950174
>>95950174
>>95950174