/hwg/ ⟅Historical Wargames General⟆
Anonymous
9/9/2025, 8:30:30 AM
No.96506350
>okay I'll buy Pillage
Then I saw the prices for the rules and decided not to buy pillage. Holy hell this is bad.
Guess I'll suck it up and buy the PDF rules.
Anonymous
9/9/2025, 9:53:32 AM
No.96506529
>>96506431
>Pillage PDF rules.
Available in Rick Roll Trove
Anonymous
9/9/2025, 10:20:19 PM
No.96510476
Just as the DBM spear exception is vulnerable to missile fire, I propose a similar unit.
Saxon Raider, 400 to 600, Warband Exception,
They're 4 or 4 Fast vs melee, but 2 vs missile and cavalry.
With their loose formations and smaller shields, but intense aggression, they can fight and beat auxiliary but can't keep pace with pisoli
Anonymous
9/9/2025, 11:39:06 PM
No.96511129
>>96512456
>>96515753
>TQ
Of course I use smoke, half the fun of wargaming for me is putting down little smoke plumes
Anonymous
9/10/2025, 3:17:36 AM
No.96512456
>>96517802
>>96511129
Nice puffs my friend
PAINT YOUR T-60!
Anonymous
9/10/2025, 3:21:53 AM
No.96512481
>>96513016
>>96513974
Trying to make a realistic artillery mechanic for a ww1 game.
Currently it's like this:
>You fire your artillery (heavy seige variety)
>it has an area of damage of 4 hexes
>roll die for each individual hex trying to get a 6
>rolls (2,2,4,6)
>the first 3 hexes are misses and the last hex is a hit because you rolled a 6
>Any unit in the hex will be stunned or killed, and leave a crater
-Theres also a shop where you can buy a large assortment of historical artillery for the nation you play as, and they each have different areas of effect sizes and shapes.
Anonymous
9/10/2025, 4:52:08 AM
No.96513016
>>96513418
>>96512481
>roll no 6s
>shell has zero effect on anything
Is this the intended experience?
Anonymous
9/10/2025, 5:57:07 AM
No.96513418
>>96513016
yeah, the intention was to replicate ww1 artillery barrage on a trench line. So they will mostly miss, but they will suppress and cause craters which can be used as mini defensive forts when going over the top.
For example A long range Skoda 38cm kanone fires from behind friendly lines but has a wide 7 hex spread. So it may miss targets but will also create craters and prevent opponent from bundling up in one area
Anonymous
9/10/2025, 8:24:50 AM
No.96513974
>>96520032
>>96512481
Have you read much in the way of first world war accounts?
This is a decent one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARD-xXwKI3A
I collected a few WW1 audiobooks together here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARD-xXwKI3A&list=PLYIx7audKFzw4SyvD7Kq3QCjt1BhdEoCB
What I remember is that artillery could be relatively precise - if you wanted to hit the enemy trenchline, you generally did thanks to observers, or it being a static defense that probably hasn't changed position in a year or so.
While artillery is falling, everyone is in their dugouts, or hugging a crater, no one moves (unless they're currently on the attack and the artillery is a creeping barrage supporting them).
Then once the artillery clears, people immediately get back into their positions and man their guns.
This is why creeping barrages became so necessary, as you need a physical / smoke barrier between you and the enemy and to hit the enemy as you're walking up to his trench in order to effectively suppress MGs and rifle fire.
If it's a hex game I'd say any hexes targeted by artillery are suppressed, and if they are in a trench or shell crater, they'd take casualties on a 6+. If they're in a dugout they take no casualties, and if they're in the open and advancing, they'd take casualties on a 3+, although they'd immediately hit the ground after the first barrage, so would be like 5+ after the initial fires.
Anonymous
9/10/2025, 2:33:14 PM
No.96515051
Anonymous
9/10/2025, 4:51:32 PM
No.96515753
>>96517802
>>96511129
Apparently you find it more fun than painting your fking models
Anonymous
9/10/2025, 5:40:55 PM
No.96516039
>>96520564
>>96506341 (OP)
I love smoke and fire effects and I use them almost every game. I remember playing 40k as a kid and we would always kept every destroyed tank one board with smoke and fire bellowing out. It was so thematic and cool, but it's completely unheard of in modern 40k. The tank literally just disappears once it's healthy bar is empty.
I have been playing Spectre Operations and use lots of smoke grenade which necessitates smoke effects on the board.
Anonymous
9/10/2025, 6:01:18 PM
No.96516171
What's the gold standard for bronze-age miniature wargame? Ideally rank and file.
I'm thinking Mediterranean bronze age, but if the game has army lists for other parts of the world (Europe, China...) it's even better.
Anonymous
9/10/2025, 10:08:37 PM
No.96517802
>>96517811
>>96512456
>>96515753
I'm makin progress
Anonymous
9/10/2025, 10:09:39 PM
No.96517811
Anonymous
9/11/2025, 12:32:27 AM
No.96518680
>>96566964
>>96506341 (OP)
What am I in for?
>>96506431
Pirate it, the creator did too after all.
Anonymous
9/11/2025, 2:15:16 AM
No.96519163
>>96518848
This settles it, I'm buying it out of spite.
Anonymous
9/11/2025, 2:15:48 AM
No.96519166
>>96518848
Kek the rules are probably written by AI too
Anonymous
9/11/2025, 2:27:48 AM
No.96519210
>>96520718
finally started working through charles grant's seven years war rules after letting the war game sit on my shelf for years. surprised by its elegant simplicity, particularly the movement rules for heavy cavalry.
any recommendations for other ~mid 20th century wargames?
>>96518848
NOOOOO HOW DARE THIS PASSIONATE YOUNG MAN NOT SPEND MONEY ON SHITTY DIGITAL ARTISTS TO ILLUSTRATE HIS SOLO PASSION PROJECT!!!??
AI-seethers are so fucking cringe, I laugh
Anonymous
9/11/2025, 6:07:21 AM
No.96520032
>>96520574
>>96513974
Thanks Ill play the book though,
I am mostly interested in Austria-Hungary but it's difficult finding even movies about their side.
Also thats a great idea for the mechanic. I want to be super in depth autistic with the artillery since it will be an artillery based game. Like theres plenty of autistic games for Warships and tanks but not artillery, and I want it to scratch that itch, so any ideas are welcome
Anonymous
9/11/2025, 7:09:55 AM
No.96520314
Looking through a bin I had out back, turns out I had some bronze age blisters all along.
I don't even remember buying them.
Now I'm stuck, do I base them individually and paint them or just re-sell them?
Except for the chariot that thing looks sick.
Anonymous
9/11/2025, 8:14:43 AM
No.96520509
>>96520524
>>96519437
That AI is trained on those "shitty" digital artists, so he's just putting money in the pockets of someone who's stealing from them.
Could have just not had art or commissioned a good piece for the cover.
Alas. not the first game I'll skip because the devs went for slop.
Anonymous
9/11/2025, 8:20:04 AM
No.96520524
>>96520509
>AI filters annoying people
Good to know.
Anonymous
9/11/2025, 8:38:09 AM
No.96520564
>>96516039
Love this anon - all tanks should always stay on the table after being destroyed - it's a must and I will die on this hill (albeit behind a burning tank)
In a recent game I was refereeing the players asked me if a target behind a burning tank had cover... so I rolled a scatter dice to determine the wind direction and made the call.
Anonymous
9/11/2025, 8:42:22 AM
No.96520574
>>96520032
I had a lot of fun designing Westfront after reading a ton of first hand accounts of the war.
It's more company scale, but I had creeping barrages as an off table event that happens when you're ordered to make certain types of attack. You have no control over exactly where it's placed, but have to advance behind it anyway if you want to use it for cover... which often meant you'd take casualties from your own artillery, which is realistic (and even preferred by commanders of the time - they expected at least 10% casualties from friendly artillery, otherwise the creeping barrage is too far away!)
Anonymous
9/11/2025, 9:30:59 AM
No.96520718
>>96519437
>borrows the rules
>borrows the art
What the fuck is his problem
>>96519210
Any of the John Curry reprints. Charlie Wesencraft in light of his passing this year.
Anonymous
9/11/2025, 10:46:50 AM
No.96520960
>>96519437
Agreed, the sad thing is they're still miles better than AIfags.
Anonymous
9/11/2025, 2:49:02 PM
No.96521501
Total clanker death now. Those guys from Dune had the right idea.
I have been making some rules to play with my sons. I've been using AI to make art. Do you really expect me (a layman) to pay some faggot to use his "art" when I can ask AI to make serviceable stuff for me for free?
Anonymous
9/11/2025, 3:27:30 PM
No.96521659
>>96521623
You could get your sons to make some art for free.
Anonymous
9/11/2025, 4:01:17 PM
No.96521799
>>96521995
>>96522255
>>96518848
the guy pirated the rules from MESBG then used AI sloppa to fill it up with artwork kek
Anonymous
9/11/2025, 4:39:45 PM
No.96521995
Anonymous
9/11/2025, 5:32:30 PM
No.96522231
>>96522543
>>96521623
You don’t need to justify your use of AI. There is no problem with it. Anti-AIers think you’re stealing an artist’s money but have no problem with pirating Adobe products.
Anonymous
9/11/2025, 5:39:20 PM
No.96522255
>>96521799
Sounds pretty clever. MESBG is a great ruleset too.
Anonymous
9/11/2025, 6:38:18 PM
No.96522543
>>96522231
This. Faggots on /tg/ will steal a hundred PDFs from the share thread, that passionate boomer grogs spend countless months creating, but they have a meltdown when you don't pay some deviantart tranny $20 to make you some shitty digital splash art. They act like using AI to decorate the pages of your PDF rulebook will prevent the next Michelangelo from existing
Anonymous
9/11/2025, 7:09:11 PM
No.96522728
>>96523164
The pro-gamer move is to skip using art and just have photos of minis.
Anonymous
9/11/2025, 8:20:08 PM
No.96523164
>>96523287
>>96522728
The historical Chad move is to include real historical photos or fine art depicting the period/battles
Anonymous
9/11/2025, 8:35:45 PM
No.96523275
>>96521623
You aren't selling a product. False premise.
Anyway, when the robots come for my trade job, I'll just laugh, because I fucking hate it anyway.
More time to push little men around on the table.
Anonymous
9/11/2025, 8:37:22 PM
No.96523287
>>96523164
>fine art depicting the period/battles
bonus points for homoerotic ones
Anonymous
9/11/2025, 11:03:42 PM
No.96524282
>>96526568
>>96526907
I can't find Pacific Command in any folder. Am I completely blind and stupid?
Anonymous
9/12/2025, 12:58:32 AM
No.96524929
>>96526599
>>96506341 (OP)
My ‘Flames of Shame’ are one of my favourite things I’ve ever made
Anonymous
9/12/2025, 8:26:57 AM
No.96526568
>>96524282
Please, buy and upload it.
Anonymous
9/12/2025, 8:40:27 AM
No.96526599
>>96524929
Most of the elements are not painted, the rest is ugly.
Tanks are destroyed only because flames are the least ugly thing in this game.
Anonymous
9/12/2025, 9:34:29 AM
No.96526762
>>96528461
Anonymous
9/12/2025, 9:53:56 AM
No.96526853
>>96521623
>Do you really expect me (a layman) to pay some faggot to use his "art" when I can ask AI to make serviceable stuff for me for free?
You put together a perfectly readable post, so I'm going to assume you aren't so retarded that you can't understand the difference between a glossy, full colour, hardback physical rulebook available for general public purchase and your own homebrew. So do you have a persecution complex or is this post setting up the backpatting from fags in the replies? Nobody is expecting you (a spanner) to pay some faggot to use his "art", and you fucking know it. I hope you aren't teaching your sons to carry on like this. On that note, if you're writing this homebrew for your kids and you to spend time together over a shared hobby, I'm baffled why you wouldn't make it your own and get them involved by getting them to illustrate it.
What we have, in Pillage, is (like I said) a glossy, full colour, hardback physical rulebook for a historical game, which is peppered with with shitty fantasy digital illustrations. If these were with shitty fantasy illustrations made by a person, opinions would start with sympathetic vicarious embarrassment for the guy putting it together and get worse from there. Instead we have shitty fantasy digital illustrations made by a computer (trained on shitty fantasy digital illustrations made by people), which for some reason (which I do not care to understand nor do I have any interest in having it explained to me) means there's posters going "And That's A Good Thing™". I don't care about that faggotry. It looks like shit, it smells like shit, it's shit.
Anonymous
9/12/2025, 10:08:25 AM
No.96526907
>>96527143
>>96524282
Uploaded to Rick Roll Trove
(With Nimitz & Charlie don't Surf)
Can vehicles enter ruins in Bolt Action v3? All the players in my club always move their tanks into ruins to get the 4+ cover save and it looks absolutely ridiculous.
Also, how much terrain should we put on the table? Our table is usually so filled with terrain that it looks like a 3E 40K Cityfight board, making assaults suicide and vehicles worthless.
Anonymous
9/12/2025, 10:44:35 AM
No.96527015
>>96527534
>>96536437
How many battalions/brigades do you need for General d'Armee to be enjoyable?
What about other similar rulesets?
Anonymous
9/12/2025, 11:35:39 AM
No.96527143
>>96527525
>>96526907
Thank you. The font seems huge, in the reviews it looked different.
Anonymous
9/12/2025, 1:42:56 PM
No.96527525
>>96527143
>The font seems huge
Maybe because it's not a true pdf but a pdf made from an epub file.
Anonymous
9/12/2025, 1:46:48 PM
No.96527534
>>96527015
Just try to find scenarios made for the Rules and you will get the size of the armies.
Jazz
9/12/2025, 5:22:07 PM
No.96528461
>>96526988
Tracked vehicles
can enter rough terrain if the model can be placed in it. I'd have to check half tracks. Wheeled can't.
How much terrain is about preference and vibe. If you guys want urban combat, roll with it. I prefer isolated villages with a few terrain features.
Anonymous
9/12/2025, 10:52:06 PM
No.96530260
>>96531075
>tfw own some 28mm ww2 miniatures
>can't justify playing any more than one or two squads on my 4x4 table
is Nuts! a good skirmish option?
Anonymous
9/13/2025, 1:14:00 AM
No.96531075
>>96530260
I've heard consistently good things of the Five Men At X games
Anonymous
9/13/2025, 11:39:44 AM
No.96533278
Nuts, Five X serie and some Horse and Muskets Rules
added to Rick Roll Trove
Anonymous
9/13/2025, 12:29:35 PM
No.96533413
So I've been looking at dead man's hand redux as a neat little game to play with some buddies, that doesn't take too much investment. I saw zombies on their page, is there a sort of zombie outbreak ruleset for it as well. Or is there another wild, or weird, west set game you all would recommend. The amount of terrain and models you get in their new starter is makes it a solid option, even if I use another games system.
Anonymous
9/13/2025, 2:08:25 PM
No.96533657
>>96526988
Ideal terrain to me is dense urban terrain with some open streets and 1-2 large open areas like a city square, factory yard, field, etc. Pic related
As for vehicles in ruins, I don't give a fuck what the rules say, if it's not thematic and relatively believable for the period being simulated, I don't like to see it on the tabletop. Thankfully I have a large group of male family members I get to play with and I feel comfortable checking them if they try some 40k waac shit. Half of us are veterans, so we are pretty good at playing on the spirit of the conflict instead of gamifying it.
Either way, you should house rule it so vehicles have a chance to get stuck and immobilized in ruins
Anonymous
9/13/2025, 2:12:18 PM
No.96533667
Should I put some 10mm cowboys on individual bases?
Anonymous
9/13/2025, 2:51:10 PM
No.96533760
Anonymous
9/13/2025, 3:06:23 PM
No.96533809
>>96534075
>>96540620
It doesn't really count as "historical" but I'm thinking about doing a 2020s gone hot project with US Marines vs Chinese PLA island fighting in and around Taiwan. Trouble is I don't really know much about the US Marines organization, specifically how units are composed around the LAV 25 amphibious assault vehicle. PLA has heavy armored amphibious assault battalions, but frankly since Chinese army is "foreign" to us I feel a lot less pressure to accurately portray their forces.
Anonymous
9/13/2025, 4:29:24 PM
No.96534075
>>96533809
Base the Marines off the 2030 reorganized Marines, specifically marine littoral regiments which are being specifically organized to island hop around Taiwan
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RTsWUFQcKuY&pp=ygUadXMgbWFyaW5lcyB2cyBjaGluZXNlIGFybXk%3D
Anonymous
9/13/2025, 5:58:56 PM
No.96534417
>>96528612
Lol I have those same roads printing at half scale right now, nice
Anonymous
9/13/2025, 7:51:53 PM
No.96534919
>>96528612
Where do you live?
In Western Europe, even in an isolated village, if houses are not attached, they are near each others, there are edges and walls aroud them, you have gardens and orchards, if you have a round place, you have buildings around it.
Anonymous
9/13/2025, 8:18:22 PM
No.96535087
>>96535464
>>96535956
>>96528612
Soulless. Where is the foliage?
Anonymous
9/13/2025, 9:28:34 PM
No.96535464
>>96535087
2 girls, 1 cup added to Rick Roll Trove
Anonymous
9/13/2025, 11:11:01 PM
No.96535956
>>96535087
I left the house in a hurry and forgot that box.
Anonymous
9/13/2025, 11:48:53 PM
No.96536222
>>96536230
>>96536437
Does anyone here have experience with wargamesfoundry Imperial Roman Legionaries? They look pretty dope but I can't find anything about them anywhere.
Material?
General sculpt quality? Tiny advertising pictures are useless.
How do they scale compared to others? Victrix, Warlord etc
Anonymous
9/13/2025, 11:49:54 PM
No.96536230
>>96527015
About three infantry brigades, say 12 battalions is a good start. Maybe one more later, then 1-2 Cavalry brigades, 1-2 arty batteries. A few decent reports here showing mostly average-sized forces (in 28mm, but battalions are battalions):
https://www.youtube.com/@roundie99
>>96536222
I don't have them, but they would likely be smaller than most manufacturers today as is all the old Foundry ranges. Nice figures, more like 25mm than 28mm though. Google for size comparisons.
Anonymous
9/14/2025, 12:20:07 AM
No.96536463
>>96536510
>>96536578
>>96536437
>smaller than most manufacturers today
God dammit.
Thanks anon, nice one.
Anonymous
9/14/2025, 12:26:15 AM
No.96536510
>>96536629
>>96536437
>>96536463
Hmm, I have some Chinese figures from them and they are compatible with other manufacturers I have, pretty much 0 height difference
Anonymous
9/14/2025, 12:39:49 AM
No.96536578
>>96536629
>>96536463
Eh, Romans have a reputation for being short in this period so it's a hidden bonus.
Anonymous
9/14/2025, 12:46:05 AM
No.96536629
>>96536690
>>96536510
Good to know, but I was specifically looking for info on the Romans. Thanks for the info.
>>96536578
I get that historically, they more than likely weren't a tall people, but I'm trying to find the Imperial Roman miniatures that read the best. Right now, it's looking like Victrix.
Anonymous
9/14/2025, 12:54:58 AM
No.96536690
>>96536629
The size difference between them and the Warlord plastics always makes me smile.
Anonymous
9/14/2025, 1:25:04 AM
No.96536908
>>96540601
>>96536437
Cool channel, thanks for the rec
12 battalions is not bad at all
Printing them should take me about 4 days, painting them about a year
Anonymous
9/14/2025, 3:27:52 PM
No.96540121
>>96540161
>>96540323
>bought CoC couple years ago
>read through but never got a game in
>CoC2 comes out
is it remotely worth having learning games of CoC1 now, or is CoC2 significantly different?
Anonymous
9/14/2025, 3:38:21 PM
No.96540161
>>96540467
>>96540121
You should always keep up with the latest Big COC
Anonymous
9/14/2025, 4:22:51 PM
No.96540323
>>96540121
The basics between each edition are the same, however CoC2 has a lot of changes that’ll trip you up if you learn 1st edition first. It’s pretty unanimously seen as a superior edition, so finding someone to play 2e would be easier than 1e.
Anonymous
9/14/2025, 5:01:48 PM
No.96540467
>>96540161
It's a bit too hard for me
Anonymous
9/14/2025, 5:32:38 PM
No.96540601
>>96536908
Some examples of larger games here:
https://www.youtube.com/@CheckYourLeaderTV/videos
Fictitious 1815 campaign vids from 2-3 months back, also 28mm.
You'll also need skirmisher bases for the skirmish screens, though they don't add a ton of painting admittedly.
Anonymous
9/14/2025, 5:37:34 PM
No.96540620
>>96540936
>>96540969
>>96533809
Based, I've been toying with the idea of doing a 2030 WW3 project, with some NATO troops, either French or Germans, some Americans, vs some Russians and Chinese. Making some eastern European urban terrain , to represent Poland or something
Anonymous
9/14/2025, 6:39:31 PM
No.96540936
>>96540620
Do 2025 Russian invasion of poland, have European supports but no American supports
Anonymous
9/14/2025, 6:47:01 PM
No.96540969
>>96541113
>>96580502
>>96540620
Do UK instead of Frogs or Krauts. UK is ZOGs most faithful lapdog after USA. French could be cool though, Macron is a world class Russia hater and French armys drip is immaculate
Anonymous
9/14/2025, 7:11:14 PM
No.96541113
>>96541195
>>96580502
Anonymous
9/14/2025, 7:24:37 PM
No.96541195
>>96541236
>>96541113
What about it?
Anonymous
9/14/2025, 7:31:29 PM
No.96541236
>>96555106
>>96541195
I find it distasteful.
Anonymous
9/14/2025, 10:50:15 PM
No.96542794
>AB figures make the nicest 20mm ww2 minis
>only ever produce 2 variant squads
REEEEEEEEEE I want my full platoon without repeats
Anonymous
9/15/2025, 2:52:16 AM
No.96544024
>>96544123
I've joined the old man historical club at the ripe age of 28.
Was looking for Imperial Romans but my LGS was sort of lacking in them. Plus this seems to give a decent little starter army at an acceptable price.
Anonymous
9/15/2025, 3:15:08 AM
No.96544123
>>96544024
I'm rather fond of the Gripping Beast Arabs. Good memories.
Anonymous
9/16/2025, 12:02:21 AM
No.96550408
>>96550858
>>96553179
Anyone here picked up those Warlord mystery boxes when they were on offer? How did it go? I'm not one for some (most) of their sculpts but savings are savings and its harder to fuck up a vehicle.
Anonymous
9/16/2025, 12:56:34 AM
No.96550858
>>96550408
I didn't grab one but for the ones i saw they were a 2E starter army set plus a few loose kits from the same country. Discount vs MSRP at least.
Anonymous
9/16/2025, 6:48:43 AM
No.96552726
>>96554363
>Bolt Action group is putting a North Africa campaign together
>Tempted to get Axis & Allies: North Africa and use it as our campaign system, but play Bolt Action games to resolve land combat
Anonymous
9/16/2025, 7:06:23 AM
No.96552794
>>96518848
Somebody who thinks ai is ever better than the absence of it has revealed that they are not worth engaging with in any creative field. Even if they didn't use ai for the actual rules its just a tell that its not worth me engaging with anything that comes out of their vacuous gormless bug mind.
Anonymous
9/16/2025, 9:14:15 AM
No.96553179
>>96550408
they're a way for Warlord to get rid of stock that never sells
Anonymous
9/16/2025, 10:37:22 AM
No.96553372
>have a bunch of Afghans for some reason
>remember they were part of the Achaemenid empire
It all comes into place.
Are there any highly crunchy, borderline RPG WW2 rules out there? I mean where you're playing at max a platoon, which would take you a long time to play, but a fun, decently long game could be had with only a couple units per side. The scenarios you're playing aren't really points balanced but rather have narrative based objectives. For reference, I've been playing 40K Rogue Trader recently, and it just makes me want to play something similar but set in WW2.
Anonymous
9/16/2025, 3:35:37 PM
No.96554363
>>96554680
>>96552726
Does bolt action not have a built in campaign system?
Anonymous
9/16/2025, 3:38:16 PM
No.96554376
>>96553548
Chain of Command is a narrative heavy platoon-level WW2 game. The campaign system is pretty fun, you generate personalities for all your leaders and even track the mental state of your senior leader. If you lose enough games the guy kills himself. You also track the opinion of your men and the opinion of your CO.
Definitely not as much mechanical customization as 40k/Rogue Trader, but as you take losses you can customize how your platoon is organized on the fly. In one campaign my Panzer Grenadier platoon had taken so many losses I concentrated my LMGs into two 5 man squads while I had one squad of all riflemen for maneuver purposes.
Anonymous
9/16/2025, 4:46:05 PM
No.96554680
>>96555380
>>96554363
No actually. There's the Combined Arms campaign system they sell separately, but from what i saw looking into it it didn't look very fun. A few of the books have some sort of campaign system, but my basic logic was
>Need North Africa map that covers everything from the Torch landings to Cairo
>Oh hey, Axis and Allies has one
>Wait, why create a separate campaign system...
Anonymous
9/16/2025, 6:12:46 PM
No.96555106
>>96573178
>>96541236
The French don't even use the FAMAS anymore since 2018 when they moved to the HK416 for combat units. Only rear echelon losers and the poor sods stuck doing Opération Sentinelle get handed a FAMAS
Anonymous
9/16/2025, 7:01:05 PM
No.96555380
>>96554680
It will work, and if your gaming group agrees, why not.
Anonymous
9/16/2025, 7:39:12 PM
No.96555656
>>96556606
Do you guys always go for big army projects or do you settle on small sample-sized armies as well? I often feel the urge to build a pocket-sized army with a variety of small units that wouldn't translate well to any historically-accurate army composition. Lately I have been eyeing Macedonians a lot, but I just want to build and paint maybe three dozens of Phalangites, a dozen of Royal Guard, half a dozen Companion cavalry perhaps. I am not even sure for what game such an army could be used.
Anonymous
9/16/2025, 9:52:07 PM
No.96556606
>>96555656
I buy random kits, never put them together, and hoard them in boxes until literally years later.
Anonymous
9/16/2025, 10:54:16 PM
No.96557018
>>96553548
5 men series is pretty narrative driven
Anonymous
9/16/2025, 11:10:36 PM
No.96557138
>>96558496
>>96560305
It's hard being the only young guy in a historical wargame club and year after year you watch another friend die and have to help with his estate sale and you notice your club getting emptier and emptier year after year. Within 5 years I'll be the last man standing with almost no new blood coming in to revitalize the hobby or the club
Anonymous
9/17/2025, 2:45:51 AM
No.96558496
>>96557138
Sound like a great opportunity to pick up some old boomers mini collection dirt cheap at estate sale. I've been to a few estate sales hoping to find some old grogs wargaming shit, but it's always just ugly ass trinkets and literal junk. I have been lucky and got some old firearms before
Anonymous
9/17/2025, 6:09:11 AM
No.96559497
>>96563115
>>96553548
I'm planning something like this, 1 squad of special forces in places like Burma, LRDG, Vietnam, Soviet-afghan war, Rhodesia, etc. Coop skirmish game along the lines of Rangers of Shadow Deep meets the Missile Threat mercenary air campaign meets Metal Gear Solid. It will be relatively rules light gameplay, but some inventory, weight and ammo management and XP system. Realistic weapon and magazine weights and magazine sizes.
Enemies will be driven by a simple flowchart and will patrol (unlike rangers shadow deep where they move directly towards you), so options for stealth instead of brute force.
The idea is to have a core system that can handle multiple conflicts, then just adjust the weapons, enemies and random events to suit each conflict. You could play as allied special forces, or VC/ NVA or Japanese patrols, so options for both sides.
Would be cool to do something on stay behind forces too, say late 70s early 80 cold war gone hot where Soviets have advanced over your position and you need to call in srikes and survive as long as possible.
Pic is the cover for the Vietnam version, teaming up with Flytrap Digital who do awesome operator minis
Anonymous
9/17/2025, 6:22:08 AM
No.96559558
>>96560930
Is 28mm better than 15mm for nogames Napoleonics?
Should I focus on getting the bread and butter done or just paint a lot of Imperial Guard?
Anonymous
9/17/2025, 10:11:58 AM
No.96560305
>>96557138
>no new blood coming in to revitalize the hobby or the club
You need to distinguish hobby from club. This is a mistake I keep seeing being made by boomers like LWTV who lament some sort of decline in the hobby. Just because young people don't want to play with boomers doesn't mean they're not entering the hobby. Companies like Victrix wouldn't be growing if that were the case. Young people play with their own groups, typically a mix of historical and non-historical games, and don't generally go to shows because they don't perceive there to be any need when their hobby networking is largely online.
Anonymous
9/17/2025, 2:30:04 PM
No.96560930
>>96563995
>>96559558
For nogames, no matter the period, 28mm is superior. I would say also try and get some 54mm minis, those are a beaut. If you are looking to play, you have to consider the space. If you live in a studio apartment with no space whatsoever, consider smaller scales. They look good, too. But for painting 28mm is a great scale while still letting you play if you have a big table.
Anonymous
9/17/2025, 7:18:32 PM
No.96562304
>>96562981
Do you have any Vallejo paint recommendations for the US infantry uniform (15/20mm) for the Vietnam War, especially for the OG107? Is the Russian uniform from WWII (924) the best base?
Anonymous
9/17/2025, 8:18:29 PM
No.96562633
What events in ancient history make for a good background/inspiration for building and playing with a small warband of dudes? I'm looking for stories like Polycrates supposedly taking over Samos with just fifty men.
Anonymous
9/17/2025, 9:21:02 PM
No.96562981
>>96563096
>>96562304
I think so. I've painted my Nam minis with the Vallejo OD and it comes off as too dark to me. I had to drybrush everything with Strakren Green to make everything pop a bit more. I wouldn't get too hung up on exact colors though, dirt and weathering ensured that uniforms appeared in all sorts of shades of green
Anonymous
9/17/2025, 9:38:01 PM
No.96563096
>>96566091
>>96562981
Guy here has also used Olive Drab (as primer) and have highlighted with kakhi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QrJFnNzMbI
I am a bit confused because Olive drab (used as primer) seems lighter and greener than I though.
His method is fast (few colors) and the result is cool but a bit to brownish.
Anonymous
9/17/2025, 9:41:11 PM
No.96563115
>>96563239
>>96566145
>>96559497
Amazing idea. There is a guy on YouTube called The Solo Wargamer who exclusively played a version of Spectre Ops/Asymmetric Warfare that he home brewed to hell and back to allow solo play, with roaming enemies, concealed enemies, etc. and eventually he made his own game called Haywire which I believe you can get for free. It is intended for solo spec ops missions. Anyways, you could steal a lot of good ideas from that guy. Also yoi should really consider stealing a lot from Asymmetric Warfare, the combat system and game play REALLY evoke a feeling of what modern combat should feel like.
I am planning starting a Vietnam project for AW soon once I'm done moving houses, what you're saying really interests me, I love late cold War stuff like Rhodesia, Soviet Afghan, etc
>>96563115
>There is a guy on YouTube called The Solo Wargamer
Le gars a un putain d'accent français à couper au couteau
Anonymous
9/17/2025, 10:04:24 PM
No.96563248
>>96563239
No hablo ingles.
Anonymous
9/17/2025, 11:44:06 PM
No.96563995
>>96560930
Well I'm convinced
Is there a difference in quality between groups who do 28mm and those who do 15mm?
Anonymous
9/17/2025, 11:47:11 PM
No.96564012
>>96580502
>>96563239
Yes I meant to say he's worth watching if you can stomach the horrendously heavy French accent, but I forgot to write it. It took me a few videos to get used to the accent, but his passion for wargaming and homebrew got me to stick around
Anonymous
9/18/2025, 8:02:50 AM
No.96566084
Question for the Americans, esp. East Coast - where do you guys buy your individual sprues? We have a decent place here in Australia but my older American m8 is unsure who to go with. Any ebay sellers or websites? Will crosspost once so as not to be annoying but he likes awg and hwg. Thanks
Anonymous
9/18/2025, 8:04:45 AM
No.96566091
>>96566617
>>96563096
These are great.
Does anyone have any good tips for cleaning up 1/72? Other than a sharp blade
Anonymous
9/18/2025, 8:29:43 AM
No.96566145
>>96563115
Hey glad you like the idea! I'm definitely excited to get started. have done 1 playtest rescue mission and it was a lot of fun. 1 operative evaded 2 squads of 4 enemies each, and managed to drag 2 wounded comrades to safety, although was wounded at the end of the mission...
Here's the cover for the Afghanistan version - the Infiltrate series name should nicely line up with the settings to create unique game names.
I'm currently grinding through all the Ostfront 2nd ed. army lists - the game is pretty much done, and I'm 82% complete on army lists... just Continuation war, D-Day+ and Pacific to go. Oh and the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, because no one has ever covered that.
Once that's done I can fully focus on the Infiltrate games.
Anonymous
9/18/2025, 11:05:29 AM
No.96566617
>>96566741
Anonymous
9/18/2025, 11:51:08 AM
No.96566741
>>96566617
mmm, I can smell the carcinogens from here
Does it bother you when you mix heroic scale and more truescale models on the same table?
Anonymous
9/18/2025, 2:13:10 PM
No.96566878
>>96567570
>>96567856
>>96566781
Hardly. Historical miniature ranges are extremely inconsistent when it comes to model sizes and proportions even within the same manufacturer's catalogue. If someone is bothered with that, I have a hard time to imagine how do they even enjoy this hobby.
Anonymous
9/18/2025, 2:30:04 PM
No.96566964
>>96518680
carpal tunnel syndrome
Anonymous
9/18/2025, 2:50:39 PM
No.96567057
>>96567332
>>96567856
Is Hail Caesar any good or does it suck like Black Powder?
Anonymous
9/18/2025, 3:46:04 PM
No.96567332
>>96568154
>>96567057
Hail Caesar is good like Bolt Action
Anonymous
9/18/2025, 4:27:16 PM
No.96567554
>>96569244
>>96575447
>>96566781
Not really. If anything, every human on a battlefield having the exact same physical dimensions is weirder.
Anonymous
9/18/2025, 4:30:00 PM
No.96567570
>>96566878
wait a second, I recognize that artist
Anonymous
9/18/2025, 5:39:49 PM
No.96567856
>>96567941
>>96570801
>>96566878
>>96567057
What's with the anime tranny shit being spammed in here all of a sudden?
Anonymous
9/18/2025, 5:59:07 PM
No.96567941
>>96567856
Nobody tell him.
Anonymous
9/18/2025, 6:45:01 PM
No.96568154
>>96567332
I guess it must be good because that's all people fucking play.
Anonymous
9/18/2025, 8:17:47 PM
No.96568668
>>96526988
depends on what you want for terrain. can be as open or closed as you want
Anonymous
9/18/2025, 9:50:35 PM
No.96569244
>>96575149
>>96567554
Most people (particularly within the same population group) tend closely towards the average. It's not ideal to have all your dudes exactly the same size, but that's better than constant variation. Extreme outliers, like what you posted, are exactly that.
(also, that guy is clearly into bodybuilding, which won't make someone taller, but that kind of physique was nearly nonexistent going back barely more than half a century ago)
Miniature "scales" are bullshit ("28mm," etc.); they should us actual scales, like 1/56 and such. Scale creep punishable by execution.
Anonymous
9/19/2025, 12:46:59 AM
No.96570443
>>96570713
genuinely think Bolt Action would be ten times better if you added a turn end dice to the bag, like a turn end card in Sharp Practice.
Anonymous
9/19/2025, 1:34:25 AM
No.96570713
>>96570443
- Units activating automatically, but with a hidden turn timer (like you describe)
- All units having a chance to activate, but needing to succeed at an activation check (ideally with some type of method to give priority, but this is difficult to implement)
- All activations requiring a check, with a failed check ending future activations for the turn
Which do you prefer, if any? Something else? Not for Bolt Action specifically.
Anonymous
9/19/2025, 1:45:19 AM
No.96570801
Anonymous
9/19/2025, 3:00:20 AM
No.96571245
>>96574544
>>96506341 (OP)
Does anyone have ADLG v4 army lists for late middle ages or DBMM army lists for late middle ages? Forgot to bring them when I traveled for work unfortunately. Really should just despine and scan them if I ever get a copier.
Anonymous
9/19/2025, 9:43:34 AM
No.96573178
>>96573494
>>96580502
>>96555106
I find it funny that France used to take pride in making all its own shit and then they just turned into cucks and started sucking off germany like everyone else that isnt the USA Russia or China
Anonymous
9/19/2025, 11:58:57 AM
No.96573494
>>96580502
>>96573178
France can't produce everything and must make choices, and it's not so bad to turn to an EU country.
Furthermore, France remains the second largest arms exporter in the world, well ahead of Germany (...and the UK).
Anonymous
9/19/2025, 3:38:06 PM
No.96574390
>>96575166
I have a strong desire to buy a box or two of Warlords Winter Germans to make a Siege of Cholm force.
Considering that the sprues include STG-44s which i can't use, as well as their 2025 prices, are there any good STLs of appropriate winter figures?
Sadly i'm quite lost when it comes to digital WW2 files, so i'm asking the experts.
Anonymous
9/19/2025, 4:10:54 PM
No.96574544
>>96571245
I haven't been able to find ADLG v4 anywhere, sadly. There's an ITA version floating around, but that's it
Anonymous
9/19/2025, 6:12:59 PM
No.96575149
>>96575447
>>96577067
Anonymous
9/19/2025, 6:15:18 PM
No.96575166
>>96575420
>>96574390
RKX miniatures has lots of winter German STLs iirc.
Anonymous
9/19/2025, 7:01:42 PM
No.96575420
>>96575166
Thanks. They are lovely figures, but sadly
>lots
is not really the case.
They have one set with 4 bodies of greatcoats, and a variety of weapon options, but half is for late war, and their other sets are Battle for Berlin very late war, including stuff like Fliegerfaust and Volkssturmgewehr 45 and Hurtgenwald Volksgrenadiers, again with lots of STGs.
Fallschirmjäger and LW Felddivision is of little use too.
I might pick up the multipart set for the winter guys regardless, and see if the bodies with greatcoats match with spare Warlord arms with regular rifles for some mid-war winter troops.
Anonymous
9/19/2025, 7:05:24 PM
No.96575447
>>96566781
>>96567554
>>96575149
The bodies do not bother me, and even you have a squad of 10 guys, all the same height in 28mm, the different poses will change their height anyway. One might stand upright, one could kneel, one leaning forward to aim etc..
It bothers me way more if the weapon and their equipment is different sizes. Because no matter what pose or body shape the kneeling soldier has, his Thompson or Enfield should be identical to his running midget comrade.
Anonymous
9/19/2025, 10:36:02 PM
No.96577067
>>96575149
Clearly these aren't exceptional individuals, and if you created a unit of WW1 models, half of them should be as short as the short guy, and half should be as big as the other guys. Clearly this photo wasn't taken to show "hey, look how much taller we are than him. This is not typical."
Anonymous
9/19/2025, 10:57:52 PM
No.96577222
>>96577600
I'm not sure if this is the right board, but I'll ask anyway.
I want to play Bolt Action, but I have nobody to play against. Has anyone here tried BASIS - Bolt Action Singleplayer Intelligence System?
If so, how do you find it?
For those who don't know, it's a system for running solo games of Bolt Action by using a rudimentary ai and target preference table to drive the "enemy" team.
Thanks anons.
Anonymous
9/20/2025, 12:04:38 AM
No.96577600
>>96577604
>>96577222
I'm interested, but when I play with myself I usually just play both sides as the player
Anonymous
9/20/2025, 12:05:42 AM
No.96577604
>>96577600
I've done that myself in other games, but it's nice to not be making the decisions and having the game play out in an unexpected way.
Anonymous
9/20/2025, 2:03:26 AM
No.96578327
>>96580502
Anyone ever seen figures done up like the French Septinscular Battalion? I've found some uniform resources to go from on this site:
http://frederic.berjaud.free.fr/Articles_de_Didier_Davin/bataillon_septinsulaire/le_bataillon_septinsulaire_1807-1812.htm
And the Balkan Wargamer page.
I have a box of Victrix 1807 - 1812 Frenchmen and I figured I could get a halfway decent approximation of a handful for fun. I like the region and its history.
Anonymous
9/20/2025, 11:30:55 AM
No.96580397
>>96580502
>>96563239
MarcoOmnigamer has an horrible wop accent and 25k persons get over it just fine. Stop the self-hatred.
Anonymous
9/20/2025, 12:11:04 PM
No.96580502
>>96580692
>>96540969
>>96541113
>>96563239
>>96564012
>>96573178
>>96573494
>>96578327
>>96580397
This thread is definitely too French, and the French suck, this must stop.
Anonymous
9/20/2025, 1:33:48 PM
No.96580692
>>96580502
You guys just can't give it a rest
Anonymous
9/20/2025, 4:55:15 PM
No.96581411
>>96581440
Victrix' Carolingians, when?
Anonymous
9/20/2025, 4:59:29 PM
No.96581440
>>96581411
STOP the French
