Thread 96836637

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>>96836637 (OP)
>TQ

The whole North Africa campaign. Excellent shitposting by Australians gave the Germans their first land defeat of the war (a feat they repeated on the Japanese months later). Monty showed he was more than just a hypeman and defence in depth with overlapping artillery arcs routed the fast tank assaults with close air support that had worked so well for the Germans in 40, 41.

If the Germans were hard done by in any metric, it was in being underresourced, like at a level that is politically suspicious... as thugh they didn't want the Desert Fox doing *too well* but that's just a half baked pet theory.

>>96836637 (OP)
Why is the Nevermind the Billhooks folder labeled as "Schizoid content?" I compiled and uploaded that folder to share with other anons here on /hwg/ who might be interested, I don't get why I am getting called a schizo? I share tons of files here on /hwg/, I don't understand how that makes me a schizo?

>>96836782
Sounds like something a schizo would say.

>>96836782
Billhooks has extremely bad reputation here due to atrocious behaviour of the Billhooks schizo in /awg/. Collective responsibility is a default response against such people even if they are acting alone so expect harsh hostility when mentioning that game.

>>96836897
Why are we defacing the /hwg/ OP because of /awg/ drama?

Everyday I wake up from a night of dreaming that I was a hussar in the Napoleonic war.
Is there a game that portrays, not big battles, but small scouting parties of Hussards? Scouting, counter scouting skirmishes, raiding small farms for forage, ravaging the local populaces daughters, all while looking dapper as fuck?

>>96837447
GURPS

>>96837841
excuse you

>>96837447

Song of Drums and Shakos is probably your best bet

>>96838136
That's perfect, thank you

>>96837447
I wish I dreamed cool stuff like that.
Instead I have the fucking Somme dream where I'm waiting for the whistle. Sometimes there's an explosion.

>>96837447
>Hussars
You know I'm quite the anglophile but really in the Napoleonic wars the French absolutely MOGGED the British in every way. French hussars were cool as hell, elite swashbucklers and womanizers who weren't afraid of death. British Hussars? Just regular ass light cavalry dudes.
How were French officers promoted? Based off merit and experience and bravery. How were British officers promoted? They purchased their commission and promotion was based off nobility and seniority. British were drilled with longer steps than the French, yet someone they French marched and advanced faster in literally every single battle they found the British.

It really is a shame the Rothschild wanted to depose Napoleon, the French could have been cool but the Jews had to go ruin it to this day

>>96838136
>>96838520
A game with no flavour for the period whatsoever. Chosen Men is better.

>>96839187
Rothschild didn't defeat the French at Talavera, Quatre Bras, Waterloo. The British and coalition did.

Their horses were also so poorly treated the British could detect cavalry regiments downwind because of rotting saddle sores.

>Mfw worked with Warlord™ Resin© today
Somehow they managed to combine all the flaws of metal and resin with no obvious benefits. The material feels very fragile. It's very light, feels like the mini is made out of foam. I assume no mold retooling was performed since mold lines are extremely visible.
To be fair, there are next to no warped or bent parts but if there were any I would be quite hesitant about straightening them up under hot water considering how fragile and easy to snap the material feels.

>>96839301
>The British did
The Rothschilds almost singlehandedly funded the British army against Napoleon. This isn't even schizo posting, it's an undisputed historical fact

>rotting horses
Yeah and Napoleon was a dwarf and Hitler was actually half Jewish and everyone who fought in Vietnam has a buddy who totally fragged his LT in the latrine!

>>96839726
What model? I fucking hate resin in all forms

>>96839885
Their SPQR range was using Warlord Resin for minis that used to be cast in metal, apparently. I bought Caesarian Roman scorpion and Cavalry boxes for SPQR since I found an online store that had discount on them. I do believe they are still cast in metal if you buy them directly from Warlord under the Hail Caesar brand.

>>96839812
Who were the Rothschilds backing prior to the telegram that shorted British markets? It's on the tip of your tongue, Adi

>the historical literacy of the semitically possessed

Also: You can read a lot about how Continentals, especially the French treated horses and how it horrified the British.

>>96839994
>You can read a lot about how Continentals, especially the French treated horses and how it horrified the British
Source: British authors who weren't even alive during the Napoleonic era

>>96839921
Warlord resin is rough, I quite like their plastics and how simple they are to put together but one of the big marketing things was "it has almost no mould lines" which is oft repreated about many kits and is seldom if ever true.

Later iterations of Sio have proven better but circa SPQR they were rough... I had some Numidian javelinmen and they were very flashy

>>96840007
Just stick to WW2 distortions and crying about manufacturers. We must all play to our strengths.

>>96836637 (OP)
In 10 years GW will be charging 10-20 USD per figure if they are still around. They were in trouble two price rises ago

>>96840018
I accept your concession

>>96839301
>Chosen men is better
I'll give it a read, but I specifically read before that it sucked

>>96840102
>offtable bombardments
>less generic units
>leader progression
>familiar mechanics

I'd say it's better, people here just hate muh Osprey

>>96840074
Literally the loss of mountworthy horses on the French side to sickness and harsh conditions was a contributing factor to their defeat.

>>96840140
Do you think that the loss of horses was caused by professional cavalrymen letting their steeds skin rot off due to "improper saddles" (European saddles looked the same as English ones) or maybe it might have had something to do with the almost two decades of constant war involving millions of men across several continents?

>>96840114
>familiar mechanics
Can you elaborate on this?

>>96839301
>>96840102
>>96840114
Chosen Men and A Song of Drums/Shakos aren't even the same type of game. SoDaS is for small group of 5-10 individuals, Chosen men is played with several units which can be up to 30 men in a single unit, it accommodates 100+ men per team

Anon asked for a game where he can live out his dreams of being a hussar scouting, raping and plundering, and Drums and Shakos is obviously a better fit than a small battle game with off table artillery.

>>96840268
He means it's more similar to Warhammer mechanics

>>96840251
>>96840268
>>96840315
Yawn
Just read
I know it's anathema but you're online, the answers are right there

Look, a heckin epic battle of Chosen Men
https://youtu.be/pQqO84Xdorc?si=HJJwxez-7lRvKR3J

As many as 20 figures on the board

>>96840102
You probably watched the little wars video where they said it's shit snd the author is a complete twat
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GeagCEmcEYA&pp=ygUTTGl0dGxlIHdhcnMgb3BzcHJleQ%3D%3D

>>96840410
https://youtu.be/WM3c0KGhKSs?si=xSwIwRBCbbeVt5FZ

That exact same guy has videos playing A Song of Drums and Shakos and he said he prefers it over Chosen Men.
Anyways, your posting style is very obvious and you're constantly just arguing with everyone in /hwg/ and /awg/, so I'm just gonna ignore you from now on and deprive you of the (You)s you crave. Come back when you want to have a discussion in good faith

Are there any manufacturers out there that produce easy to access smaller scale miniatures like Warlord does with their 'epic' line? I'd be interested to bring ancients to my group, but Warlod seems like the only easy option for a simple purchase of two armies.

>>96840467
But he's incorrect. ASODS basically uses Napoleonics as a desktop theme. There is really little going on beyond distinctions between foot and mounted and a few firearms and formations, but it essentially is just A Song of Blades and Heroes. Even with the lists, Chosen Men has more flavour, and a standard 400 point game is certainly not 100 figures or thereabouts. I'm not obligated to agree with you just because you take disagreement personally.

>>96840437
Little Wars are twats.
>do you want le privelege of editing our videos for free?

Operation Torch starts a week from today. We'll be running a campaign where we play Axis & Allies: North Africa for a strategic map, but resolve individual land battles with Bolt Action. Gonna run from the beginning of November through Christmas. Should be fun.

>>96836744
Eh Rommel constantly outran his supply lines and kinda refused to consider logistics properly. He could have been constructing oil pipelines from Tripoli or suchlike, but was just always obsessed with GOTTA GO FAST.

I read a lot about him in the desert campaign and the guy was borderline suicidal crazy at times.

>Decide to personally recon into enemy with a few officers and an armored car or two
>Recon at night, no support, just the general and like 10 staff in a few armored cars
>Takes ages trying to find how to get through the barbed wire on the front line
>Recon, but then can't find where to get back
>Have to camp out on the enemy side, within like 2km of an entire Allied armor division
>Somehow make it back in the morning.

A lot of the north Africa campaign reads like this - crazy stuff that he manages to get away with, often ending up surrounded behind enemy lines, but manages to somehow escape.
He pushed his men and machines to the absolute limit, but felt that logistics were 'someone elses problem'.

>>96841285
Good shit anon, map campaigns are where wargaming hits its stride.

Does axis and allies consider supply at all? and are more units introduced each turn, or do you just start with a set amount and attrit from there?

>>96841405
It has an extremely heavy focus on supply. Transporting it, capturing the enemy's, and using supplies for your attacks.

There's a Convoy system, where you purchase units based on your country's RP allocation plus the territories you control. Units you purchase appear in Convoy territories and once they move onto the map, can be interdicted by naval units.

>>96841432
>>96841405
Oh yeah, the rules are actually free if you wanna check it out: https://renegadegamestudios.com/content/File%20Storage%20for%20site/Rulebooks/Axis%20Allies/A%26A_NorthAfrica_Rulebook_v9_WEB.pdf

Not super applicable to anything else but it did help me decide that I wanted to commit to this for the campaign rather than making up my own thing. Plus, saved me from printing out my own map and finding my own counters for units. I'll be playing the Brits in this one, but we've got at least one player for each country, even the French.

>>96841377
He wanted to be Guderian but didn’t realize North African desert was slightly different than Northern France. Same mistake Guderian made in Russia

>>96841475
>Oil comes from the desert, right? We can just forage for it

>>96841500
ya got me anon. I peed my pants a little

>>96841475
People always forget that big places are big!

>>96841377
>obsessed with GOTTA GO FAST
If I had access to a bunch of those German recon cars and squad cars I'd be driving all day, too. It's always been my dream to get a Volkswagen 181, or a repro of the kubelwagen (found a place that does it in the U.S.)

i've mentioned this a bit in the past but I've been helping organize an estate sale for a deceased wargame club member. hes one of our more eccentric boomers with an absurd collection. we've managed to sell about half the stuff in his garage but we learned this week that he also rented a storage locker and we looked inside it today. Hes got half of 6mm operation overlord in here. Just the gliders alone, we counted 2 bags he had and they each had 100 gliders in em, he had 10 bags of gliders total, so if the other bags are the same as the bags we counted, hes got 1000 gliders. And thats just the gliders, hes got similarly absurd numbers of landing ships, infantry, and armored vehicles. its incredibly impressive and autistic in my favorite kind of way but what the hell was he planning on doing with this? you'd need a 30 foot table or some shit. On the plus side, the club is going to have more 6mm terrain than we could ever want, but I've no idea how we'd manage to sell this or how much we should even list it on ebay for, and no one wants to count this shit. And even if we did count and list it all, who the hell would buy it? And if we gave it away for free? Who'd take it? Its so much stuff and 6mm WW2 is something very few people are interested in.

>>96841727
>the madlad was trying to recreate all of operation overlord in 6mm

>>96841727
>Who'd take it
Most of the anons ITT. Set up a link somehow where we can give you our addresses and pay you for shipping

>>96841890
if it was entirely up to me, this is an option I'd entertain, but it isn't. right now, the kind of "estate sale council" our clubs formed is leaning towards trying to convince Noble Knight to sell it. They want to get as much value as possible for the widow and her 3 young children and I think its a charitable notion that they should pursue to the fullest.

>>96842124
Noble Knight to buy it to resell*

Looking for a good 28mm scale Asian elephant. Are there any good plastic options? The only plastic elephant I can find is from Victrix and it for an African elephant.

>>96836637 (OP)
Anyone has by any chance Cold War Commander pdf?

Pdfs anyone?

>>96840010
>Sio
I have yet to see decent siocast. From my experience it's the shittiest material I have worked with no matter the manufacturer.

Have we peaked in terms of detail quality on 28mm historical miniatures? Perhaps the real question is, do we really need more when it comes to detail quality on 28mm minis?
I've been working with some recently released minis from Victrix and I already felt they are too detailed for my taste. I bought them for a skirmish gaming project so that's fine, but if I wanted to use them for a full scale army with 150-200 minis I would simply end up with a burnout.
It may be an unpopular opinion but this is where I would stop with the number and quality of details and chase for more historical accuracy instead.

>>96842649
>It may be an unpopular opinion but this is where I would stop with the number and quality of details and chase for more historical accuracy instead.

Agreed. I would prefer a focus on poseability too.

Were hoplites using NERF knives or is Victrix trippin' here?

Does anyone know who makes DISMOUNTED hussars?? And secondly, saddled horses just standing (not galloping) with no riders?? For my hussar game I would like the option of dismounting to enter buildings and farms and stuff and leaving the horses tied to a tree

>>96843563
I always take my spreading knife to battle

>>96843858
Best I could find with a quick Google search. This German site has dismounted Prussian hussars and Prussian horse holders, and French horse holder but no dismounted French.
I don't know enough about Napoleonic uniforms but can Prussian hussars be painted up as any nation? All hussars look similar to me and I imagine only the most autistic rivet counters would notice the difference

>https://www.hagen-miniatures.de/test-category-21/figures-40/war-of-the-austrian-succession-seven-years-war/prussian-army/dismounted-prussian-hussars-skirmishing.html?language=en

>https://www.hagen-miniatures.de/test-category-21/figures-40/war-of-the-austrian-succession-seven-years-war/prussian-army/prussian-hussars-horse-holder.html

>https://www.hagen-miniatures.de/test-category-21/figures-40/napoleonic-wars/french-army/dismounted-french-hussars.html?language=en

>>96843858
>Does anyone know who makes DISMOUNTED hussars
Perry.
>For my hussar game I would like the option of dismounting to enter buildings and farms and stuff and leaving the horses tied to a tree
I'm not failing for this pointlessly detailed scenario for a game that will never happen. That's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. I refuse to participate in that kind of perversion.

>>96843906
What

>>96843920
Perry Miniatures, they have a few dismounted Hussars. I am totally not familiar with that period but they have a plastic set for mounted and dismounted dragoons as well - maybe it's possible to convert them?

>>96840390
>Just read the same anglo sources as I did.
>Just read my sources of beans on toast eaters that still to this very day, in this very thread, can't get over a battle they won centuries ago in a war they absolutely lost.
I'd rather not, Dementianon.

>>96841285
Keep us posted anon, this is the best way to do it.

Starting Bolt Action with a few friends. We've all written up army lists to build and paint towards, but none of us are aware of the proper list building "etiquette".
What % of a list's total points should be allowed for infantry, tanks, transports etc? Is 500 points of tanks in a 1500 point list too much, etc?

>>96843965
Generally with 3rd ed the rules aren't as stiff. As long as you have a solid rifle platoon as your core, you'll be decent however you pick to theme it. Right now, the meta pick is spamming light tanks with autocannons, so people might get annoyed if you do that, unless it's in a historical context like a bunch of Panzer IIs in a blitzkrieg list. If everything else is Blitzkrieg appropriate, people will accept Panzer IIs

>>96843965
If you are playing only/mostly with your group of friends, then i would recommend to discuss what time period and what theatre you want to play. If everyone brings an early war list, things should be fine, same with if everyone brings a late war list.
Its like >>96843985 said, and i agree: If you bring a list for late war, and your tank are 2 Panzer II in support of your Sturmgewehr-Veterans because their autocannons are so strong, then i would call this cheese.
Same with bringing something like a Tiger against a early war italian player.

>>96843985
>>96844417
Theatre and time period is a bit fuzzy for us as we start since we have an Australian player, a German player, and a US player. Just playing for fun before leaning into historical recreation.
Would 2 Panzer IV's and a Hanamag be too much armour in a 1500 point list? How much infantry should there be to balance it out? Have 40 infantry so far.

>>96844654
30 euros is wild, I just bought like 200 figures from Perry and paid 20 pounds for shipping to the US.

>>96844689
That's a perfectly normal amount of tank in 1500.

>Australian, German, and US
North Africa is your best bet. Colonial Australian troops fought in the same theater as US troops, both against Germans.

>>96844654
Americans don't deserve good things, hope this helps.

>>96844654
Don't like it? You can thank Drumpf.

>/hwg/ derailed by things that never happened
>/awg/ derailed by some schizo being mad about ahistorical helmets in an ahistorical setting
The same writing style, the same time. Funny how it works.

>>96845165
I forgot to save the screenshot proving the coordinated attack on traditional forums by spamming extremely off topic nonsense and constant argumentation. It's unfortunate being coming more and more obvious. The method to destroy forums was to make them too uninterested and boring so people just stop coming to them

>>96844654
Europeans are bombarded by political propaganda pertaining to America. I think Americans really underestimate just how much of the non-American news cycle is dedicated to American politics. I lived in Japan for a few years for work and it was like that there too, although Japs are generally more reserved and won't openly seethe about it. I met some Australian women there who invited me to dinner. They talked about Trump for half of it.

>>96845208
>https://crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/mining-the-chans/

>>96845327
So it's true. Damn. It's insane the lengths they will go to subvert very the smallest corners of the internet. That's how much they hate you for having normal lukewarm conservative opinions. This isn't /pol/ we are talking about, they're even trying to fuck up a historical wargame general on fucking /tg/ despite there are like 15-20 dudes that come to this general max

>>96841377
Germany had one style of winning a war and lacked the resource base to do it any other way. Rommel isn't that atypical really. They were basically all drilled to go fast and get creative and exploit every opportunity because if they don't take those risks and win in 3 months then they're gonna lose in 3 years.

When it works its stunning and incredible and seems so smart because arguably dumb risks happened to pay off. When it doesn't work(or rather works tremendously but still isn't enough) well now you're neck deep in Russia with no way out because these crazy bastards wouldn't take a negotiated peace if they had so much as a single siberian village left.

A few of the dudes show up to the Gunfighters Ball game in period outfits

>>96845967
My brain autofilled a cigar into the hand of the back right guy because that's the prop he'd be holding in a movie, even though it's just the game box behind his hand.

Warlords lead painter... That explains so much

>>96845165
>>96845208

You're just sufficiently so everything that challenges your extremely limited understanding of history (grainy screenshots from /pol/) and autistic lack of a theory of mind so every time someone says something that contradicts your peabrained worldview, it must be a conspiracy.

>>96843951
>anglo sources

Deflection. Do you only trust accounts from the losing side?

There win't be any more posts from me I'm afraid, you guys are fuckwits lol

Uh oh the schizo is back in the thread

Does anybody know if the Hail Caesar Army Lists book differs in any way from the first edition that was split into two smaller supplements? Besides errata like the busted Han China list being fixed.

On anticipation of the Victrix Caesarian Romans being released in a few months, I've been reading Julius Caesars book, The Gallic Wars,.and holy fuck this guy was such a Chad.
>Helvetii are trying to cross the river Saône
>they are using little boats to ferry thousands of people across slowly a few at a time
>Caesar learns about this and immediately straps up and marches his legion out at midnight
>March all through the night and catch them by surprise
>kills everyone still left on this side of the river
>The remaining Helvetii say "thank God we are safe on this side of the river, it took up 20 days to cross, there is no way his army can reach us"
>Caesars men immediately construct a bridge and are over the river that same day

>>96842433
I remember really liking a 28mm scale Assyrian Elephant model I looked at months ago but I can’t find it in my browser history sadly

>>96847997
>I've been reading Julius Caesars book, The Gallic Wars,.and holy fuck this guy was such a Chad
You too, if you write the book that tells the story of your life, you could come across as a chad.

>>96848987
Yes but I mean look at his accomplishments.

>>96848987
I, Anon, conqueror of the autist tribe, vanquisher of the down syndrome tribe, rapist of the shill tribe, has authored this record of grain and grain accessories.

>>96847997
>We were fighting hundreds of thousands of enemies! And what I say is true because these Gauls were carrying census tablets inscribed with the names of each and every individual in the tribe!
Yes, sure bro, a highly sparse agrarian society can support an army of that size. Nevermind the fact that it would take hundreds of carts to carry something like that, and that it would be completely useless.
I like the book, but you have to take everything with 2 kg of salt, guy is too self-aggrandizing. While Delbrück clearly has an agenda, I like his take on Caesar telling the other legions he'd face Ariovistus with the Xth legion alone -- it's because he was probably matched in terms of numbers against the Germans and he could actually take them with a single legion.

>>96849934
>Anonyme de Gaul tries to downplay Caesar's accomplishments
Typical.

>>96849954
NTA but I don't think anon is downplaying Julius. But this ancient emperor probably did try to make himself look better in his own autobiography.

New Bolt Action anon here again.
I understand the game system has recently jumped from 2nd edition to 3rd edition. Which edition should we stick with (considering we are just playing amongst ourselves and not going to events)? Can 2nd edition content be used in 3rd cleanly, like the Australian supplement?
Also, how many pin markers and order dice are recommend? I'm assuming 15 order dice for each team and like 30(?) something pin markers.

Sculpting my way through a small 80 years war skirmish project, just finished painting these Dutchmen I sculpted. I'd like to make a few more minis and then paint up two bands for a game of En Garde.

>>96848987
>>96849709
Historians disagree with the numbers of casualties, but no one disagrees with the deeds or events that occured

how convertable are the warlord pike and shotte cavalry models? It tends to mention that the riders are made of metal, and occasionally states that they have choices for arms and helmets, but I haven't been able to find any photos of sprues or pieces online. I'm curious about buying the cuirassiers for non-historical purposes.

Why are Numidians always depicted by wargamers as black niggers, when they were, in fact, not black?

>>96852569
nvm, atlantic cavalry serve the same purpose, are plastic, and a lot cheaper.

>>96852626
What's funnier is that Victrix used the same old shitty Osprey's as their source.
Citating Khurasan Miniatures and using an image of Relic Miniatures.
>Most ranges depict the Numidians as they (or Moors) are shown on Trajan's column, but in this much earlier period, they are described as wearing goat skins, with the tufts of fur not shorn off around the edges. This was probably fairly tough and may have provided a bit of protection from blows as well.

>>96852626
Specifically to spite you. Yes, you in particular.

>>96850263
delicious.

>>96850263
>these Dutchmen I sculpted
A personally sculpted project? Requesting higher-res photos then, as high as possible.

>>96852957
Whatever happened to manlets? They fell off hard.

Anyone know a source for some halfway decent mid to late WW1 French in 28mm? I can find Brits and Germans but I the only French I can usually locate are either ancient metals or the WGA Plastics which are ... fine ... but I'd like dudes carrying more gear/look a bit bulkier.

>>96853486
Not sure if they have French but I saw WW1 miniatures for the game Blood and Valor at a convention and they looked really cool. It's worth googling to see if they have what you need

Third edition anon here, any other third edition bolt action players have the soviet book, and if so would mind sharing it?

Painted these Anglo-Afghan War figures a few years ago and have put them in this box and haven't opened it up since until now. My painting has come pretty far since these guys

What ruleset would you use for a quick light skirmish with them? Trouble is all my terrain is green and European countryside themed, I don't have any mountain/rocky/desert shit

>>96854483
Play at the beach but any sandpit will do, really.

>>96854483

Sharp Practice

By the way this guy was my self insert

>>96854483
Men who would be kings using their half sized rule would be my obvious choice. Nice minis anon, it's inspiring me to paint up MY massive collection of Afghans.

>>96854483
>>96854563
Beautiful stuff Anon. Get it on a table and have some fun with it!

>>96836744
> Le Rommel was le politically undermined
Throughout his career he pissed off his superiors because he would literally go around them and ask for shit directly from Hitler, including during the NA campaigns

>>96854483
Maiwand day has some terrain tutorials for Afghanistan. pretty much all you need are pine chips and foam.
You could give The Sword and the Flame with half-sized units a shot, the intro scenario in the book is laid out like that.

>>96845967
Extremely based black man

>>96850225
I just started playing this edition, but it seems a decent amount has changed. In some ways it seems to be streamlined, but once again I only just started. Just look it up on plebbit if no one else answers you.

>>96850355
It is difficult for a historian to contradict a source that is almost the sole source.

>>96850225
>order dice
you should be fine with a pack of 12 for the first time, multiple weapons teams and tanks include a order dice and fewer units make your first games faster.

> pin markers
i had 2 frames of markers in the two starter sets i have bought and never ran out of markers so far. i dont use the dial on the markers and just place as many markers as the unit has pins, and even if i would run out of them i would use a dice.

Caesars battle against the Nervii might be the coolest battle in Gallic Wars, and the closest he ever became to losing to the Gauls.

>The Belgae attacked extremely swiftly and unexpectedly, completely catching the Romans off guard while they were busy digging trenches and foraging for materials.
>The Roman command didn't have time to issue commands to their troops or form real battle lines
>But the soldiers were all experienced veterans and formed quick rough formations on their own initiative
>The Belgae were on them so quickly they didn't have time to throw javelins, they immediately drew swords and fought at close range
>the Romans didn't even time to put on helmets or remove the covers from their shields
>all the Romans foraging and gathering materials came running back and rather than finding their unit they jumped into the first formation they saw
>the Romans were split up into several isolated groups, each completely isolated from the other and all in danger of being surrounded
>The Romans auxillary cavalry left to guard the baggage train, being mostly Gauls and some Numidians saw the Romans I'm such a desperate struggle and as seems to be typical of the auxiliary cavalry, tucked tail and fled the field
>one legion was in dire situation, moments away from being overrun, Caesar mentions every single centurion in that legion was fighting in the front and they were all killed or severely wounded down to the last centurion. One centurion named Publius Sextius Baculus was severely cut so many times they he was covered red in blood and could no longer stand, so leaned on his shield to keep fighting
>Caesar took a shield from one of the soldiers at the back of the formation and ran to the front and personally directly the men to reform and open ranks,.etc. which gave the men a second wind

>Labienus, Caesars second in command had beat the brakes off the Belgae who were fighting his group and pushed them so far back that he crossed the river and captured their camp
>Now uphill behind the enemy he turned around and his legion saw the other Romans getting clobbered down below
>They charged back downhill and now attacked the barbarians from behind, completely changing the tide of battle
>all the other Romans rallied and won the day

This battle is cool as hell to me because is illustrates what made the Romans so dominate, and they is their indomitable Faustian spirit and extreme discipline and professionalism even in dire circumstances.

>>96858708
Well Ceasar's legions were all career soldiers and much better equipped than the Belgae. Also helped that Ceasar had extremely talented subordinates. Most of his opponents were part-time warrior freemen. Ceasar's campaigns against the other Romans on the other hand and the escapade in Alexandria, real nigga shit.

>>96850225
Another Third anon here, I started with third as well, the supplements are void unless approved to my knowledge, Commonwelth-non main brit content coming next year, but if you ask your group you may be able to use the supplements form 2E. order dice? id recommend start with 20 dice and pin markers, as in 1 marker per dice you have for yourself, but depending on game size use more or less units. For 1250pt matches i like 12-14 units so i use 12-14 dice

>>96855568
Yes, some things look streamlined, however i advise not using plebbit as ive seen entire posts telling people to use le'meta and not the fun or funni options even when asked

>>96853055
I enjoy sculpting my own minis ye, I sadly dont have any high res pics at the moment, but have a render instead. I'll eventually put these guys up on Cults.

>>96860108
Aw, I thought it was traditional sculpting, never mind then.
(still looks good though)

Anyone excited? Not a fan of how the foliage camo looks but it atleast looks like it's a seperate piece from the figure. Also feel like these guys have the complete opposite energy of the current plastic japanese kit. The current one has a lot of energy with charging and combat stances, while these new ones look like they lack any energy at all. Hope they show the sprue friday

>>96860108
What's your sculpting process?
What software do you use?
What do you start with when you begin sculpting a figurine?
Do you know of any good tutorials online?

>>96863138
The current sprue is horrible, and the new one will be an absolute upgrade

PLEASE I BEG OF YOU! WWII war games rules publishers, PLEASE there was more than one (1) country in the Axis, in fact there were more than two (2). It's okay you are allowed to write about more than Germany (and sometimes Japan) it won't kill you.

>>96863638
The others were completely irrelevant tho.

>>96863638
Warlord already does Italy

>>96863638
What factions do you want to see more of?
>inb4 resistance fighters that can be made with civilians and capture weapons
I’m talking official government troops in uniform with homeland weapons and vehicles.

>>96863638
>you are allowed to write about more than Germany it won't kill you.

For a commercial company, making less profit is close to death.

>>96863855
Yes, of course, the Axis would have done just as well if half their troops literally didn't exist. Also, have without the Romanian oil fields.
So clevar your historical takes are.

>>96863883
Italy and Hungary had substantial amounts of homegrown equipment. Italy's armored vehicles were certainly "unique" from other nations and special in their own way.

history was fairly gay

>>96860108
Very cool. Do you make them modular or just one pose and then start again from scratch?

Would the Gauls and Britons look fairly similar? Victrix makes Gauls but not Britons, and I was wondering if you are supposed to just use the Gauls as Britons??

Guys, anyone here with an experience with those below? If yes, are they good/bad, and why?

https://www.amazon.com/Tamiya-America-Modelers-Cutter-TAM74093/dp/B00LMIBEDG

>>96864019
i'd suck francis 1er's penis then mayhaps a smidge of buggery after

>German Flamethrower team. Weapons: 1 Infantry flamethrower or 2 one-shot infantry flamethrowers.
What happens once the models have fired their one shot weapons? Is it assumed all models carry a pistol, or do they just have no weapon after?

>>96866102
Which game?

>>96866121
Sorry, Bolt Action. Specifically v2

>>96865120
britons more shirtless, dyed blond hair, tattoos, chariots

>>96860129
Thanks anyway mate, honestly in a different timeline I would have sculpted traditionally but Ctrl+Z is just too good.

>>96863501
Before I start a project I tend to read up on the subject (this is usually how I get interested in a topic in the first place) and then I gather a godawfull amount of reference material. I use Blender and I start using a basic posable anatomical dolly to get a good pose and then I start working on the clothing etc. Reference is key for good results. In general you work from primitive shapes down to more refined/finished items, adjusting as you go. Sculpting digitally is quite forgiving as you can reorient and resize parts of the model throughout the process, so its easier to fix mistakes.

I started out with Blender guru's Donut tutorial series, great for learning the UI and the basics of Blender. Then I did some more hard surface modelling tutorials of his,and modelled some tanks and whatnot. Then I followed a sculpting tutorial by Grant Abbit. After that it was just trying it for myself and failing upwards.

>>96864063
Depends on the project, for more uniform periods (WW1 etc.) I tend to make a posable master dolly fully in uniform and refine it after posing. Otherwise I use a basic anatomical dolly and start from there. A nice bonus is that you can re use some assets throughout a project.

Generally I'd encourage everyone to try and sculpt their own minis, its super rewarding to paint up your home made miniatures and use them for games.

pic rel. pic of the basic dolly and a WIP matchlock man.

What the fuck is up with bolt action plastics. Got the new soviets and every single piece on each sprue has a full ring of flash/mold lines i have to file off. gets worse when it runs across the whole rifle or smg. Didn't have this shit several years ago

If a legion of late Republican Romans and a legion of Early Imperial Romans fought in a death match, who do you think would win, assuming identical number of men

>>96866703
Where can I find basic dollies? Are there models with basic poses: a man running, a man standing and shooting, a shooter lying down, etc.? Where can I find them?

How long has black leather been around? Would medieval Europeans have used it? Was there any reason to produce or wear it other than just looks? What other colors were common?

>>96868110
I don't know specifically when it came around but they had it in medieval European and even as far back as rome.
You boomers really need to learn to ask ChatGPT shit instead of asking dumb questions on here

>>96868187
>chatGPT
You're just being conditioned to believe that whatever you're told is truth.

>>96868187
>You boomers really need to learn to ask ChatGPT shit instead of asking dumb questions on here
Back in our days we had something called human interaction, son. You should try it sometime.

>>96868250
You're on 4chan, not the country club lmfao

>>96868229
It is pretty scary to watch slowly grow more and more apparent. First the voice assistants in every phone and every room of every house. Now you just ask your phone something instead of using a search engine - or heaven forbid your own mind or a book! The day that neural implants become widely available will be the death of humanity. Why think when ChatGPT in your cyberware can think for you?

Played a game of Bolt Action, Brits vs Italians in North Africa. Ended up pretty one sided because of an artillery barrage that took out the Semovente and pinned half his army.

>>96869128
No news from that anon that was to take pictures of you?

Anyone know how well Fireforge Byzantines will scale with Victrix Late Roman cavalry and infantry? In terms of both just being in a unit together and kitbashing?

Damn the Romans really had some dogshit cavalry compared to their world class infantry, engineers, and officers

>>96869204
No sign of him, and I was there for a good five hours (played a game of Bolt Action first) so he's kinda a shitty stalker.

>>96868229
>>96868250
Just report it for being an extremely low quality post. You know that he's here just to shit up the thread and start an argument.

>>96863638
I'm gonna have you covered anon.

Pity I wont be covering the Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran, it's just not really 'fighty' enough (Iranians resisted in some places but mostly weren't very well organized and kinda just fell back or didn't defend in the first place. Also not much in the way of new equipment or interesting tactics that haven't already been covered in other theaters.

Aside from that, Ostfront 2nd ed will have:
Chinese
Japanese
US
British
Wehrmacht
Italians
Finns
Hungarians
Polish
Soviets
French
DAK
East African KAR / Colonials / Askari

All in one book.
Current progress is I have all the army lists researched and typed up, covering every major theater of WW2 from 1937 to 1945, and reflecting all the changes in troop quality and equipment, sometimes down to a 6 month period in granularity.

Currently playtesting the Pacific theater, and typing up a few more sections of the main rules (which are about 30 pages in total) and should be good to go in a month or so.

>>96868060
NTA but you sculpt them anon. It’s not as difficult as it looks, it just takes some time. Here’s some of mine from a few years ago

Anyone have or know where to find the instructions for Italeri’s/Warlord Games’ plastic panzer III? My box didn’t come with one and I’m profusely retarded. Google hasn’t been helping much

>>96870761
Never mind it fell out of the box when I opened it and I didn’t see it on the floor

>>96870257
>only one to answer answer anons question
>shit up the thread

>>96868187
I've tried to use LLM search multiple times and it's given me incorrect answers for about 3/4s of my searches. It's unbelievably shit and it's laughable that people actually post screens of it expecting to not get ripped apart with actual sources.

>>96872019
Any example to support your claim?

>>96868110
>http://myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.36473.html
Guy used medieval recipes to dye leather and posted his results.

The Operation Torch campaign of Bolt Action has begun.

The British, after being pushed almost to the banks of the Nile and now fully reinforced by convoys from the Suez, are launching a multi-pronged counterattack into Mersa Matruh. Three different games will be played to decide the winner here.

The Italians have decided to establish a defensive line at Tobruk, laying minefields and bringing in forces to hold it.

Meanwhile, the Americans' initial assault on French North Africa has begun, and the Germans are scrambling to move forces into position to hold the west.

I've been thinking about dipping my toes into 15mm even though I've been hesitant for years. Do you guys know any 15mm manufacturers for late Republican Romans for my Caesar in Gaul project?

What do you think, would you do it in 15mm or 28mm? I've never seen a 15mm figure irl so I'm struggling to comprehend the size difference

>>96875653
A 15mm figure is 15/28ths the size of a 28mm figure.

>>96875677
Explain

>>96873123
Not him, but LLMs lie often. They are mimicking a conversation not acting like an encyclopedia. If it's a basic question like when was the war of 1812, it's reliable, but if it's something that requires research it's hit or miss. I usually as in incognito mode so it would rely on your past conversations. And I ask it 2 or 3 times. If I get the same response it's probably correct.

But even when it gives your sources, you need to check those a. really exist and b. actually reference what's being discussed. Also if you say "that's wrong" if it was just making stuff up it will say "you're absolutely right" then make up something else. Rarely will it say it doesn't know.

It's still amazing, and it's only in it's infancy, if LLMs are indeed going to scale up and not plateau around where they are now. But don't just assume it's right.

>>96876860
ChatGPT does have a "Research Mode" you can activate which does a pretty decent job. It will search the internet for the information you want, spend like 15 minutes collecting data, then give a report, with source links that you can click on and verify.

I've found it pretty useful for grabbing obscure data from the internet, or collating large amounts of data that would be onerous to do manually. Obviously you want to double check it's work though, because in the end, it is just joining words together in a way it thinks is correct, and doesn't have 'knowledge' of anything.

>>96876860
They should really divert a few billion dollars worth of AI investment into training it to be able to say "I don't know"

>>96875653
If 28mm is about the size of the top joint of your thumb, 15mm is roughly the size of your thumb nail.

Personally, I'm completely infatuated with 15mm. Significantly cheaper than 28mm, makes the scales of most wargames work significantly better, and terrain, in my mind, looks better at that scale as well.

>>96877594
I agree, however, the figurines are less attractive (there is no plastic) and generally speaking, there is much less choice.

>>96863138
I’m excited because the current box is one of the worst building experiences I’ve had. I’d rather work with metals.

What was your biggest 28mm project ever? Have you managed to finish it?
I just finished to assemble a second batch of 40 phalangites for my Successors army and I still have 48 more to build, with 32 Silver Shields on top of that. I want to add 12 light cavalrymen, 24 slingers and a war elephant or two to this mix in the future.
I like the look of all minis I got for this project, I know it will be fun to play mirror matches with my girlfriend but I can sense the burnout waiting for me just around the corner. I don't want to switch to any other project for a break because I have no discipline and I know I simply won't come back to my Macedonian boys if I put them on a shelf now.

>>96847490
I have it but it will take me 2-3 days to actually sit down and compare them. If you have any specific lists in mind, that would help in saving me some time.

>>96877813
>less choice
That really is my biggest hangup. Being spoiled for choice, in both models and terrain is what makes 28mm supreme

>>96877910
My WOTR Army has about 250 infantry and a few dozen cavalry. It took me about 6 months start to finish

>>96875677
Kek.

>>96875653
15mm is quite comfy. It's roughly twice smaller than your regular 28mm minis, but, please bear in mind it's also twice leaner. So it will appear to be quarter sized instead. It will save you time, sanity, space and money while still retaining enough noticeable details for you to have fun with.

Okay just impulse bought a big lot of 15mm caesarian roman army on eBay. My first foray into 15mm, we will see how it goes.
Now to find 15mm Gauls

>>96878484
holy moly

>>96878484
>>96878896
They were painted by this hog >>96846968

>>96841457
Not gonna lie, that mech really caught me off guard given the otherwise grounded setting, gameplay, and models.

>>96841457
Out of curiosity, why did you include poojeets on your army?

>>96878962
To be fair, the article says that their painter Andrés Amian was the one who worked on the japanese. I actually like the paint jobs kirsten did, though the faces aren't the best

>>96879613
He's already been doxed as an Indian immigrant living in Albuquerque

Trying to track down a couple models to finish off a project, and hoping you guys might have a lead. Working on a Cold War Soviet-based project and all I'm missing is
> 2B9 Vasilek mortar
> more than one SPG-9 team that's decent quality (found one good one on cults, but I don't want to just copy/paste the same single model)
> snipers/marksmen that aren't just WWII sculpts (I've gotten a couple leads on this, at least, but they're all STLs so checking for any other options first)
Plastic or printable would be preferable, but I can work with metal if needed.
Cheers.

>>96880269
Sorry, forgot to clarify, 15mm scale.

>>96880506
someone opened the ark when they shouldnt have

>>96879935
Well good on him lads. I hope he'll successfully bleach his bloodline and ascend a few castes in doing so. This is a hobby for gentlemen and I assume anyone partaking in it is honorary Aryan be it by deeds or good of heart. It is one thing to be born in the filth, it is another to extract yourself and try your damn best every single day to join your betters. I for one won't condemn his feces skin color or oriental spice mix scent until the very day he tables me.

>>96879613
>>96879935
>>96881348
So, funnily enough I'm actually white and have no personal connections to India at all. When I started this army I included a squad each of generic white brits, scots, and hindus, with plans to add south africans, australians, etc to produce a cross section of the 8th Army (ignoring how it was split up by origin at the divisional level), but when I posted the first few pictures here, some guy had an absolute meltdown over the presence of the turbans. Ironically, that got me interested in reading more about the British Indian Army, and that plus picrel had me decide to commit to being a bit more accurate and field soldiers from a specific Indian division instead of just randomly throwing the races together.

Also, it's funny how people still have meltdowns over the mere concept of Indians.

>>96882547
I think it's more the case that you're really easy to bait buddy.

Personally I just wish you'd give your bases a rimjob (hehe) since it kind of detracts from the figures.

>>96882547
>I'm actually white
>projecting this hard

Sure you are, akshit. How's the weather in Brampton?

>>96877910
>What was your biggest 28mm project ever?
My dick lmaofaofa.

>>96882547
Good on you anon. Ignore the retards trying to whitewash the British army in WW2.
The Indian infantry were some of the hardest fighters in the 8th Army

>>96880893
>painting the Japanese yellow and squinty eye slits
Basado!

>>96882547
It's hilarious he baits you into explaining this every single thread

>>96884292
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

>>96878484
>>96878896
>>96880893
old man mask vibes

Multiman appears to actually be reprinting the ASL starter packs. The second one still isn't available though.

I bought some goodies today at targe
some victrix dark age archers and a handful of some metal perry early crusaders to go with some gripping beast dark age warriors I got a couple weeks ago
not entirely sure what army I could use them all as tbqh, I don't have a lot of 28mm stuff so could flesh it out with a couple more things

Pal told me to paint his band of brothers box set. I painted my own winter grenadier nazi army. Can I get away with using the same color palette for the us airborne? Or common vallejo paints? Don't want to get specific colors for 12 models

>>96886343
You need a dark reddish brown for the coats and a military green.

>>96886343
Mate I've been using the same palette of like 12 base colors for the past decade. You don't need specific colors, you just need to learn to mix paint and then write down the ratios so you can replicate it.
Start trying to think like an artist instead of a consoomer

>>96886343
I'm using the very same shade of grey for every single mini.

Best ww2 box?

Has anyone played Infamy Infamy?

>>96887450
I like those metal ammo boxes they shipped .50 BMG in

so i painted some perry gendarmes
its my first time painting historicals and it was really fun
does anyone have any advice on what i should get next? i would like to play some games (furioso?) with them if i can find an italian wars group somehow.
also does anyone have any tips on basing or how to paint the ash lances they look a bit boring i think

i hope this boring blog doesnt offend anyone i just have no friends to show my models to also wtf how are we page 9

>Want to buy and paint some medieval knights and men at arms because Age of Empires 2 was formative for me
>No one local plays any games I'd use knights in
>Don't have the time to create a new group from wholecloth just to get people to play games with me
>Nowhere to display knights if I were to just make them a painting project
Life is pain

>>96890579
Just breed a woman to produce your own sons who you instill a love of wargaming inside.
That's what I did. My son is 3.5 now and loves my models and seeing me play,.he is always telling me "dada I can't wait until I'm bigger and I can play petit people with you"

>>96890606
>my son is 3.5
If your progeny must be a D&D edition you could at least raise a good one

>>96890579
I always get enough figures for both sides of a game. None of my friends would actually buy figures and paint them but they'll all play if the figures and rules are there.

>>96890579
>not being a solo wargamer

>>96890579
WOLOLO

>>96887450
The "Hit the Beach" starter for Flames of War is very good, has a lot of infantry, panzers and shermans for pretty cheap. They don't produce it anymore but they made so many that you can find them floating around 3rd party retailers and ebay easily.

>>96887450
My very choice goes to Maginot Lines' pillboxes.

Is 2nd edition of Hail Caesar a decent upgrade of the 1st edition rules or is /hwg/ torn on this one?

Tell me about you current project? Bonus points for including a pic

>>96894813
That guy looks like he's about to make an incredibly rash and short sighted decision that will lead to the destruction of his family and subjugation of his tribe

>>96894813
I finally got around to painting these after they sat on my shelf for way too long. Gonna print a Comet overnight so I have three late war tank options.

>>96880893
I'm loving these faces
I want a whole adventure about these two and to see what kind of shenanigans they got themselves up to while isle hoping in the pacific

>>96894813
>>96877910

Who do you think this was referring too?

>>96900472
buy an ad

>>96890579
If you're lucky you'll find a historical wargame club in your area if you look around on Google. That's how I found the 2 groups I play with and it's been fantastic

Gonna work on my SWAT terrain board. I've got a cargo ship and the bank from Heat. What other scenarios can i dip into for a large scale SWAT operation? Prefer to avoid mass shooting scenarios like schools because it's still a touchy subject for most gamers, especially if I try to run this at a con

>>96901467
There is a SWAT HRT game based on The Sum of All Fears.

>>96901572
>HRT game
No thanks, that way lies mental illness.

>>96836642
Can I get this added to the Fow/Team Yankee folder?

Team Yankee - Nato Forces

mediafire 4jrndl7hoy6a2ft

>>96903123
>https://www.mediafire.com/folder/4jrndl7hoy6a2ft
Nope, because we can't access that file

>>96903881
replace "folder" with "file" and it should work.

>>96903881
>>96903123
Are folders in the OP even maintained?

>>96901467
Do something based on the SAS Iranian Embassy assault?

Since Team Yankee sucks shit, are there GOOD moderns regular-vs-regular forces games where the basic unit/base is a squad/fire team?

sometimes i just like to look at my knights.

one thing is that the flag isnt historically accurate. It should be a smaller, starch stiffened, vertical rectangle, not a flowing modern style flag. But I think it looks good all flowing and regal is so I am a bit hesitant to replace it.

>>96904277
i got bagration axis allies added earlier this year/last year.

>>96905874
ImagiNation is fine.

>>96905874
What about these flags? It also is a bit strange to see knights flying St. George without the royal standard. They always are flown together in this period. Even the peasants depicted here are flying it next to the royal standard.

>>96907920
I do have a royal standard, its just in my other block of lower rank infantry atm. Just so that each has one.

>What about these flags
huh, it does seem the one in the back left is free flying. though it does seem to be the tailed design rather than the more modern free rectangle.

>>96908809
Those long horizontal "free flying" flags with the tapered tail shaped like a triangle I think are called battle standards, I'm not sure how it all works but I know those long ones that flow like that had the most customization of the monarchs. Like the Yorkists for example had theirs with the animal or symbol they chose. I think Edward IV had a sun. Richard III had a boar. Ect...

I'm asking here because there's no dedicated hex and chit thread. Does anyone have any advice on printing maps and game counters for old wargames?
I stumbled upon the SPI games collection while crawling though the archive and I'm hoping to get my brother interested enough to play with me (specifically the LOTR games but that's off-topic).

Damn it I'm still waiting for the Piano Wargames kickstarter to send me my stls

>>96905767
Fist full of TOWs

Maybe Cold War Commander?

>>96911532
Wow what are those models from? Amazing

It is somewhat of an option, but I was wondering whether I was missing something more modern/made with 1:1 modeling in mind.

anyone know any good 28mm Hajduk miniatures, or kits to make them? You could probably take a commoner miniature of some variety and give him a cloak and a musket on his back alongside a hand weapon. thats my best guess at least.

>>96910624
Check your local library for A3 or above printing options. Check your maps with InDesign or Publisher to redesign at the best format. Track satin (betwen matte and glossy) paper for a slight light sheen effect and don't go below 200gsm.

Counters aren't a big deal.

>>96912712
Seven days to the River Rhine is 1:1 scale and I quite like it. It's fairly simplistic, but that works fine for just getting minis to the table. The community is good as well, lots of additional rules tweaks etc available that have been well playtested.

>>96916110
I wanted to post that then I tought "fuck it it's the very same conversation every times, should I really bother?"

Good on you for being more faithful and stern in your duty anon.

Waiting on my opposition

Fellow fathers, what can you do to ensure your young kids grow up with a passion for history and wargaming?

Lmfao why does ChatGPT praise Rommel and list his amongst the greatest generals in history? I'm not a WW2 expert but I personally can't think of anything Rommel has done that compared to others on this list

>>96917828
Simply be a good example. Never force your kids to enjoy your hobbies, but make them accessible and let your kids see you enjoying yourself. They will soak up and mimic you, often growing a genuine appreciation for the things you love in the process.

>>96917909
Grant wasn't even the best general in the ACW (Lee mogs him) so how can he be one of the greatest in history? Never trust ChatGPT

>>96917828
Speaking as the son of a Tom, take them to battlefields or other places where you can relate the reality of history to them. Get them some picture books, Horrible Histories is a good start. Let them have fun. Have them paint some minis, see if they dig it.

>>96917828
Your kids will want to emulate you and will be passionate about your passions if you are a strong, loving, and present father.
Anyways, I read lots of stories and books to my 4yo and he loves it. Every night he asks me to tell him a story and I tell him a 2 minute simplified version of some heroic deed or historical event. This week I have told him about how Brennus sacked Rome and said the famous words "Vae Victus," and the story about how Alexander tamed his horse Bucephalas, etc. I told him about Caesars conquests and the next night he said to me "dada can you tell me more about the Garlic wars" haha

>>96890171
Perrys are fun. Maybe streak some darker brown down the hafts, and glue some sand to your base before you flock it. Cant help you with the other stuff but they look good.

>>96918041
British beat a combined German/Italian force. Both Italian tanks were destroyed for the loss of one Matilda II.

At one point, the Tiger was about to round a corner and open up on my infantry, so I drove an Armored Carrier in front of it. Tiger went for a ram and somehow lost, getting its turret jammed in exchange for damaging the carrier's engine. My squad of Gurkhas(commando rules) did well, chopped up a German command squad, italian officer, and an anti tank gun crew. The Axis destroyed most of my SAS jeeps and LRDG trucks and wiped two small Commando squads who didn't accomplish anything, and the Italian artillery observer was somehow invincible.

Fun game.

>>96918933
>>96918041
Didn't mean to reply, sorry.

>>96918942
How dare you interrupt my inane ramblings with a batrep. Is that a downed plane? Are rules for actual aircraft a K47 thing or are they present in later BA editions?

>>96919029
The downed plane is just terrain, it was there when the battle started.

I really liked how the sunlight hit in this picture

>>96836744
>Excellent shitposting by Australians gave the Germans their first land defeat of the war (a feat they repeated on the Japanese months later). Monty showed he was more than just a hypeman and defence in depth with overlapping artillery arcs routed the fast tank assaults with close air support that had worked so well for the Germans in 40, 41
Point of order: Tobruk was the Australian 9th. Division under command of Morshead, not Montgomery. It was Morshead that set up the defence in depth, drilled his men relentlessly, and set deliberate ’weak points’ in the defensive line that funneled German attackers into highly efficient kill zones. Monty didn’t arrive with the 8th Army until roughly eight months after Tobruk had already shattered the myth of German invincibility and drained their resources to the point of rendering the German NA campaign a foregone conclusion. Morshead also crushed the Germans at second Alamein, three months after Monty arrived.

Everything Monty did, Morshead did just as well if not better. It’s a shame that Morshead has been forced into Monty’s shadow but we can’t have the damned colonials showing up the real officers, what? What? Haw-haw!

If someone is able, could they please post a photo of some Bolt Action miniatures next to a 28mm vehicle? Bonus points if it is a Panzer IV.
I found a metal tank in my old mans storage, but I have a feeling it is a bit too small. My models are just below the turret in height and I am unsure if that's how it is mean to be.

>>96919089
Bolt Action tanks are somewhat out of scale to the infantry

>>96917931
Lee is like Rommel. Great tactician, poor view of strategy. Grant was a better campaigner. even when he fought losing or indecisive battles, it served a larger strategic vision. The Vicksburg campaign is also the finest campaign of the war

>>96919186
Infantry are a little big compared to tank, yeah?

>>96917909
>>96917931

You can't understand a ChatGPT response if you don't know the exact question asked.
Furthermore, you can find tons of these ridiculous rankings on the internet, created by humans.
In fact, it's certainly from these rankings that your AI drew upon to generate its own ranking.
These rankings are not 'objective' and 'scientific' but highly subjective and often based on trivial criteria and clichés.

Rommel enjoys a strong aura in popular culture; his reputation far exceeds his actual role, and he is undoubtedly the most famous general of World War II.
His name must be mentioned countless times on the internet, which may explain why he was chosen by the AI.
Similarly, ChatGPT certainly noted that Grant defeated Lee.

Ranking generals from the same war is a very complicated and, above all, highly biased exercise, but doing it for the entire history of humanity is simply absurd and pointless.

>>96919425
pretty much this.
I've tested it in Copilot (because it shows the sauce in the answer directly), and you can see it gives "HistoryNet" and similar pages.

This was my question:
"Can you please generate a list of the greatest generals of human history?"

And here is your "main" source:
https://www.historynet.com/top-100-greatest-generals-of-all-time

I'm sure, with a more refined prompt, the answer can be deeper and more detailed, but a simple question like this gives you nothing more than a sloppy overview of which generals are mentioned a lot online, but you still would have to dig deeper yourself if you want to know more.

>>96919908
>he said "please" to an AI text generator
We are so fucked

>>96919186
The Chi-Ha is not even the worst example, they were not very big in reality.

>>96920255
If anything, those models are too big compared to the miniatures.

>>96920375
Nah it's alright.

>>96919908

The Question is absurd, the historynet list too.

>>96917931
Nathan Bedford Forest was the best in the ACW, no contest

>>96917931
>Lee
JUST ONCE MORE DECISIVE BATTLE

Played a game of Bolt Action against a friend and he got a Flakvierling for his army to fuck up my american air support.

And holy shit the quad autocannon is scary. It just shredded my airborne to ribbons. Any tips on what to do against autocannons? My only thought about what I can do was bring in a sherman and just hunt that AA down, but there's gotta be another way, right?

>>96919908
>No Scipio Africanus
>No Hannibal, the greatest sub-Saharan Black African general of antiquity
https://medium.com/@illuminationcomms/meet-hannibal-the-greatest-black-military-general-who-conquered-europe-a0cf3f93d304
>No Patton
Trash list.

>>96922459
Snipers, mortars and arty. Or just bring LRDG with their jeeps covered in MG’s and slaughter everything.

You can also bring a ‘sacrificial’ distraction Carnifex type unit to draw its fire (always move it last, go Down as soon as they draw its fire). If he’s smart and he knows what you’re doing this may not work.

Do you guys know any wargame with absolute scale a.k.a miniatures, ground and terrain scale are all the same and consistant? 1mm in height equals 1mm in length?

I'm looking for system like this in order to get into 2mm wargaming, probably Napoleonic. I'm tired of "one miniature represents 200 man" bullshit and want to play real 1:1 wargames where you can judge distances and scale purely by just seeing the table

I cannot find anything on the internet regarding rules that cover this sort of gaming.

>>96924062
Skirmish wargames are all you've got

>>96922459
Flak artillery can be suppressed by mortars due to their negligible mobility. Bring two and odds are good you drop a shell on him by turn 2. And mortars are goodcat everything else too, so it's not like it's tailoring.

>>96924062
Hard call. 6mm Napoleonics, 7 Years War, American Revolution or American Civil War on a 6’x4’ table are likely your best bet. The effective weapon ranges involved in these time periods are fairly short. 2mm is going to be too abstract for you I think.

>>96924062
Anything 6-15mm. 15mm is actually much smaller than you think of you're used to 28mm.

Some dude said Napoleonics, but honestly that's not the best because battlefields stretched across many miles, so ancient battles are best in that regard because the footprint was smaller generally, formations were smaller and maneuver was much less dynamic than the shit Napoleon pulled. If you have to go black powder era I would do French and Indian War since engagements were fairly small compared to stuff in Europe, some of the bigger battles had less than 1000 dudes combined total

2mm is just shit to be honest, at this point you aren't using miniatures, it's essentially a token. So why even bother with miniature wargaming? Just play hex and chit or a map based campaign with tokens at this point.

>>96924062
It sort of depends. Smaller scales obviously work better, but 15mm even up to WW2 can work in my opinion. While the ground scale doesn't fit, it fits at a tactical level, by which I mean that terrain (including the regular undulations of a landscape) often put a hard cap on ranges anyway, and actions at maximum range were quite rare up into the modern period. The limited weapon range for SMGs in Chain of Command, for example, are a "hard cap limit" of a certain distance, but that's more to represent the limited sights of the period and the fact that those armed with such weapons were often too busy leading at all but very close quarters to be firing their own weapons rather than directing fire.

It also depends on the scale of engagement. Its hard to do a 1-1 Brigade scale action even at 6mm, but Platoon or company is much more feasible

What the fuck are these?

I bought a large lot of late Republican caesarian Romans 15mm off eBay and all the archers look like this. They don't look like Romans at all. Anyone know what they are?

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but don't these guys look like LATE Romans, NOT Republican Romans?

Wtf are these Romans or not?!

A friend of mine is building Finns from WW2 and mentioned wanting some Tankettes, I think I'll print him some. From a bit of reading it seems like the Vickers 6 Ton / T-26 is the right choice. IS there something better?

After the breakout from Cairo described here >>96918933, the British move into Mersa Matruh and the Italians and Germans retreat to establish a second line at Tobruk and Bir Hacheim

>>96924062
>I'm looking for system like this in order to get into 2mm wargaming, probably Napoleonic. I'm tired of "one miniature represents 200 man" bullshit and want to play real 1:1 wargames where you can judge distances and scale purely by just seeing the table
quick bit of division and you can discover how practical this is for yourself

>>96924536
>2mm is just shit to be honest, at this point you aren't using miniatures, it's essentially a token. So why even bother with miniature wargaming? Just play hex and chit or a map based campaign with tokens at this point.
picrel you tedious cunt

>>96925711
>>96925711
>picrel you tedious cunt
Hey idiot, if everyone is telling you the same thing, maybe you should try listening

>>96924062
1:1 napoleonics maybe look at Blucher or Shako? I'd have to check how their ground scale works.

If you play at 2mm (like pic related) you can do 1:1 real life numbers to miniatures, but generally people abstract and do 6mm as the smallest scale.

>>96919186
>The Type 4 Ho-Ro
ONLY 12 WERE EVER BUILT

Why this unit is in the Japanese starter kit is just further proof that Warlord are retarded and don't bother with even wikipedia level research.

What about the Type-95 Ha-Go? Literally Japans most produced armored vehicle in WW2

>>96925505
1939 Winter war they only really had FT-17s and L-180 Armored Cars

1941 Continuation War they had T-26 or T-26E, T-28, T-27A and BT-7s.
Then by 1944 they had StuG III G, T-34s, Pz.IV J, KV-1s, BT-42, and ISU-152

>>96926121
>Everybody says so!
t. triple boosted

He's right to call you out. You've already been told and shown 2mm was allowing wargamers to play on the best tables, with forests being more than mere trees and village being more than mere houses. Something a hex map and bigger scales could never reproduce.

We're not going to indulge you every time you chose to be dense and expose your dumb opinion as a fact times and times again.

>>96926121
>everyone
One maybe at most 2 autistic niggers that feel an overwhelming compulsion to post the exact same scripted dialogue every time somebody mentions this scale even in passing is not "everyone" and you're not worth listening to anyway

>>96927639
If we're not worth listening to, why did you ask us?

Tricking my boy for his birthday. He's alreadyat an age where most of my stuff is cringe. He's still super duper keen for a game or two, don't worry friendeeleeleedeedee.

>>96924897
>>96924911
Early Imperial Romans I'd guess, rectangular and hexagonal shields, the figures look like Old Glory 15mm: https://oldglory15s.com/product-category/old-glory-15mm/ancient/dark-age-and-medieval/rome/imperial-romans/

>>96929040
If you're wondering why you (not the general, you) are not worth listening to, this hobby requires a fair bit of reading comprehension and it took all of two posts for you to forget I also replied to the guy asking the question so I'm probably not him then you astonishingly retarded sack of shit

>>96933608
You're only mad because you're angry. Grow up.

>>96860129
>traditional (miniature) sculpting
you need an insane amount of practice and the return for that investment is incredibly low, lower than any other artistic endeavour imo. Do not recommend. It's cool but whenever I see it I just pray for their soul.

>>96907920
Is the black armor in that depiction just artistic shorthard/shortcomings for silver/shiny armor? I rarely see miniatures with blackened armor and I know there's apparently historical accounts of knights deliberately polishing their armor to be more intimidating/ look like some divine light. I painted a few black with drybrush blue for sky reflections that looked cool a while ago.

>>96936491
Armor colors were as subject to fads and passing trends as everything else in fashion, so there was definitely at least one period where a bunch of guys all painted their armor a dark grey or black to look cool.

>>96933825
Word salad

>>96939608
>>96939608
>>96939608