Öland & Northern Wars Edition

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>Thread Question:
Have you ever combined land and sea in a wargame? how did it go?

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TQ: I've played D-Day (and other naval landing) games with rules for offshore bombardments, counter-fire from coastal batteries etc... and frankly it just all got a bit too much. The kinds of timescales and responsiveness of fire (except from maybe smaller DDs) just didn't align with on-the-ground tactical decision making. Much better represented as a pre-game preliminary bombardment.

>>96277192
It's honestly quite a challenge. I feel like combining land and sea might need a really specific conflict or battle, ideally with ships providing fire, but also landing crafts and maybe multiple small islands or suchlike?

I seem to recall situations where there was a ship supporting landing craft, and the marines that landed need to get up a hill and take out a shore battery, so that more ships and troops can be brought up. It was some age of sail battle, might have been northern wars or something.

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for 28mm mass battles would you recommend Impetus/Midgard style single basing, or multiple smaller bases making up a unit?

>>96277663
For mass battles, I wouldn't recommend 28mm at all.

What's the consensus on Nevermind the Billhooks?

>>96277663
single basing on a movement tray.

>>96278555
The Osprey Graham Turner book on the wars of the roses is excellent btw. In 2025 the fact its like 30 quid for a nice big hardback is remarkable.

Which base size and figure per base should I pick for Austrians and the French for 1809?

What is the most basic bitch pair of historical opponents I should collect as my first ever historicals project (not counting ww2)? A period that's real straightforward to research, got good information on what the armies should look like, easily available minis, easy to paint, etc.

>>96280634
American Civil War.
It's recent enough, many companies make models in lots of different scales. There's plenty of rules to choose from.
Most importantly you don't have to paint hundreds of white cross-straps and/or trousers like you would for Napoleonics.

>>96277663
I don't like singe bases and movement tray, so I go for multi-basing but reduced frontage since you can use them for many rules. So two bases on a 50mm or 60mm frontage, etc. or three Hail Caesar 40mm bases for a unit, etc. will equal 120mm.

I'm making laminated "platoon cards" to track markers/casualties/shock for Charlie Don't Surf and will be using color photographs from the Vietnam war as a background. Which image should I choose to represent US forces?

this one, or ...

>>96281875
this one

>>96281875
I like the first option better.

>>96281875
Instead, use an AI-generated image to get what you really want

>>96283111
Kill yourself

>>96283111
I'm actually using AI to colorize black and white photos because finding good color photos that suit my purposes has been a challenge

My progress so far on my 2022 Russia-Ukraine War project

This is what a valid charge in tactica 2 looks like. A little games of footsies

>>96286183
Needs more drones.

Another valid tactica 2 charge where standing next to the enemy counts. And the slingers can't fire into melee so my almost dead chariots won't be killed before they can attack the camel riders

>>96286268

I wish there were decent WW2 STLs
I can't draw and I've never tried sculpting before so I wouldn't be able to do it

>>96286264
No it doesn't, this is a 2022 project, before the war got really gay

>One of the biggest wargaming companies in the world
>they thought this paint job was appropriate enough to be used for a close up advertisement

>>96286561
They need to stop trying to do eyes.

I don't understand why people bother painting eyes, it just looks terrible most of the time

>>96287333
These eyes will look okay at tabletop height

>>96287388
These eyes look good. Blacked out eyes are perfect for miniatures

>>96286561
These look awful

>>96286345
Wargame3d's vehicles are decent.

>>96286183
Looking pretty cool anon.
Don't see many Mi-2's on the table, especially not at 28mm scale!

>>96286228
>>96286272
making charging, melee and missile attacks work is always a challenge in these kinds of games.
imo units should be able to shoot into melee provided their line of sight isn't blocked by friendly units, and units charging should end up in base contact, rather than in contact by a single point. Just my opinion, nothing related to Tactica 2 rules.

>>96280634
Maybe Normandy in WW2? Allies have Sherman tanks and Infantry, Axis have Panzer IV tanks and Infantry. Easy to find the uniform and tank colors, many miniatures available in 28mm, 15mm, and 6mm.

Then you can add more units as you get more comfortable with your rules: Mortars, Light vehicles, Tigers, Churchills, Panthers, Nebelwerfers, Artillery, Aircraft etc.

I've started reading this in preparation for getting my 3D printer up and running
Seems like a pretty solid book and goes into depth about the battles although likely not as much as Thunder on the Danube
>>96288162
Yeah these look good but what about infantry?

>>96289680
WW2 infantry seems surprisingly unpopular as STLs. My guess is it's a mix of it being boring, there being a great many plastic kits to compete with, and WW2 enjoyers being unpleasably detail-oriented.

3dbreed.com makes stl flies ww2 infantry

>>96289451
Thanks! Yeah I wanted a helicopter for some scenarios with air assaults and "get to tha Choppa!!" style extractions, and I was looking for a Mi-8 or Mi-17, but they are very expensive and would frankly be too large for the tabletop. I went with the Mi-2 because it was only $9 (I ordered it from Poland) and it's small enough to be used as a prop in game, even if it's a little less accurate

>>96286345
The only miniatures I've been able to find that actually have realistic proportions instead of ridiculous heroic scale and have good detail are from RKX miniatures and Studio Historia, both in 28mm.
RKX has a very limited catalogue, so the chances of them having what you're looking for are slim (Berlin soviets, winter US, fallschirmjager, winter Ger and Canadians). Also, the variety of poses is not that great.
Studio Historia does kickstarters and from the reviews that I've read the're not great. They seem to be behind in schedule releasing their kcickstarter minis when they are already launching the next one, and their minis look good on render, but are hard to print due to thin parts.
Keep in mind that I don't have a printer so I don't have actual experience with miniatures of any of those creators, I just try to collect files in hopes of using them in the future.

Does anyone have achtung panzer and iron coffins supplement please?

For 28mm Samurai, would you recommand Warlord plastics, Fireforge plastics, or Perry metals

>>96293228
>Fireforge plastics
Yes, best bang for your buck: Perry are nice but more expensive, and their casting quality...well, sometime it's incredible how such nicely sculpted figures are cast so poorly. It seems to vary by batch somehow.

Warlord are IIRC old Wargames Factory figures...and terrible.

>>96293228
What this anon >>96293319 said. Warlord's ashigaru have a ton of online reviews because that's the sprues that came in the Test of Honour starter box. Everybody agrees it's a pain in the ass to assemble. Do yourself a favor and go with Fireforge if you need a decent sonae. If you want a skirmish force there's nothing wrong with Grey for Now and Zenith Miniatures metal minis except their prices. I found Footsore to be more carved than rounded and Perry Bros/North Star to be a bit old school proportionned but you do you.