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Interesting read. For me there is a fifth element to boardgames v most miniatures wargaming, and it is that the board game box contains everything you will need to play it. Two years on from deciding to play the invasion of France in 1940 I am still buying and painting miniatures. To a very large extent this is because miniatures wargaming can be open ended. There is always scope to buy, paint and field another unit of a type you don’t already have (or have enough of). Buy a board game and you’re ready to go immediately.
I have played board games for almost as far back as I can remember. For me they came before miniatures gaming did. From Ludo and Snakes & Ladders, through Risk, then myriad SPI hex based wargames, and more recently onto Warfighter and Zombicide, I have enjoyed them all. Through the latter two I discovered the fun in cooperative gaming and they opened a whole new field of games for me. Long live the board game!
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deephorseParticipantVery nice collection there.
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deephorseParticipantProject – an individual or collaborative enterprise that is carefully planned to achieve a particular aim.
I have never considered any of my wargaming activity to be a ‘project’. Looking at the above definition I can see that none of my actions have been projects because they have never been ‘carefully planned’! In addition, the ‘particular aim’ has always ended up being a moving target. There’s always a ‘need’ to add another tank, another battalion, or another bunker complex to my collection, outside of what was originally considered. 😮
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deephorseParticipantSolved. Harry has indeed made exactly the same post on another forum and that is where my reply is!
phew! But also, another forum? Say it is not so 😛
It get’s worse Mike. Visiting another forum this morning it’s also been posted there! 😧
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deephorseParticipantSolved.
Harry has indeed made exactly the same post on another forum and that is where my reply is!
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deephorseParticipantThat’s really odd. I am subscribed but don’t recall getting any notifications about posts I don’t see here and there is nothing in the spam folder either? I will keep an eye out.
If replies were made before you subscribed to the topic would you still get to know about them? The posts that I think disappeared were the second and third ones on the topic. You hadn’t commented by then Mike.
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deephorseParticipantHave you looked at having your own printed? Quite a few sites offer bespoke playing cards.
I made a post saying the same thing this morning, but it’s gone, along with someone else’s post that was immediately above mine. Strange.
On this topic?
Yes, unless Harry repeated this topic somewhere else.
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deephorseParticipantHave you looked at having your own printed? Quite a few sites offer bespoke playing cards.
I made a post saying the same thing this morning, but it’s gone, along with someone else’s post that was immediately above mine. Strange.
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03/01/2020 at 20:30 in reply to: French Armor for the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of France: Hotchkiss tanks #128884deephorseParticipantYes, he does 1/100 but I haven’t seen 1/120, which I believe is 15mm. I’m in the process of ordering 14 20mm Matilda Is from him so that I can field 4 & 7 RTR for Rapid Fire 1940.
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01/01/2020 at 10:52 in reply to: French Armor for the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of France: Hotchkiss tanks #128745deephorseParticipantAn interesting post Mark, thanks. I am slowly but surely building up forces for France 1940 in 20mm. I have had most of the necessary Germans for many years, but all the First to Fight stuff has enabled me to move on from pretending that my grey Panzer IIIs were the correct ausf. Thanks to S-Model, Altaya/Ixo and Early War Miniatures, my French and B.E.F. can put up some token resistance (a bit like the real thing), but there is a lot more to get.
I have a copy of The Seeds of Disaster, but have yet to dip into it. Fortunately I bought all the Minitracks (I think they are called) books on French AFVs many years ago, and now search the internet for more source material. Unfortunately the vast majority of it seems to only come in the French language, and I stopped learning French at O-level. There is a lot of very good stuff that I can’t resist though, so my ‘French language’ library is growing. The GBM magazine series is an absolute treasure, and I so wish they would publish an English edition.
Thanks to the JP Wargaming Place blog I discovered Minigeneral in Portugal who produces both common and really obscure 3D printed French stuff. They are well worth looking at.
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deephorseParticipantI don’t know yet. All three episodes are on my Sky box waiting to be watched.
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deephorseParticipantI remember Roy Dilley. Wasn’t he the chap that wrote a series of articles in Airfix Magazine on how to make every member of the 17th Lancers by converting them from the Airfix Golden Hind? Or something like that.
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deephorseParticipant“To the Strongest!” “Mortem et Gloriam” Welcome back!
Thanks for that. And to clear things up completely for me how about ADLG? Some form of Ancients Long Range Desert Group?
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deephorseParticipantDepends upon how detailed/realistic you want it to be. I’m content with a strip of suitably coloured cloth that sits on top of my battle mat. I’m not investing a fortune in something that might only get used once or twice a year.
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deephorseParticipantMy read on this is even though the dice favored one side for the most part the few times it favored the other side, happened where it mattered most.
This is my view too.
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deephorseParticipantI had no idea that there was a drop-down menu, but now that I know where to look I can access it.
Ah Ha! Does it work ok for you?
Yes it does, but I don’t see myself using it.
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deephorseParticipantI had no idea that there was a drop-down menu, but now that I know where to look I can access it.
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deephorseParticipantAn interesting video, thanks for posting it. Two points of criticism from me, constructive I hope! I found the soundtrack to be jarring, but once I realised that there would be no voice over I just turned the sound off. More importantly, I felt that sometimes you panned across a game too rapidly for my eye to take in all that could be seen. Pausing the video just gave a blurred still frame. If there’s a lot to take note of in the area you are capturing then a slower pan will allow us to see more of what’s there. Thanks again.
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deephorseParticipantAn interesting read, thanks. I am left wondering just how accurate an unguided rocket would be trying to engage individual AFVs at up to 2000m range? There are plenty of images produced by a Google search BTW.
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30/11/2019 at 15:54 in reply to: Battleground 2019 – Sat 30th November, Stockton-on-Tees, UK #127399deephorseParticipantA good little show and well worth going. My only disappointment was a lack of 20mm WWII on offer besides Grubby, but I guess that you only get the traders that want to come. Nice to meet Leon and put a face to the forum posts.
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deephorseParticipantThanks for that John. I have to ask, however, what sort of game, particularly for the defender, will the historically accurate use of vast amounts of smoke make? “Hmmmn, I can’t see anything, therefore I can’t shoot at anything, and, oh look, I’ve just been overrun by the Soviet hordes”. With apologies for the use of exaggeration for effect!
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25/11/2019 at 10:02 in reply to: Battleground 2019 – Sat 30th November, Stockton-on-Tees, UK #127083deephorseParticipantLooking forward to it. Drawing out my life’s savings on Thursday.
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deephorseParticipantThanks for that. Have never tried flock, but I have used PVA on mounting board, though with the unfortunate result of the PVA bending the board up at both ends like a banana when used on larger bases. I’ve moved on to MDF now.
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deephorseParticipantVery nice. Would you care to share your basing method and materials please?
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deephorseParticipantLove that Centaur!!!
High Praise indeed coming from you Piers. Thanks.
The detail on Armourfast kits is quite soft and I found that washes don’t bring out the detail as well as they do on other manufacturer’s product. I also found that there is still a slight shine coming through the turret decals. I gloss varnished all areas that would have decals, so that meant the entire turret was glossed. Afterwards I applied two coats of matt, but I think that because most of the turret decal is transparent the matt doesn’t completely remove the underlying shine of the gloss coming through the decal. Looks OK on the table top though.
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deephorseParticipantAs a maker and seller of terrain, a seller of figures, a writer and seller of rules and the host of a certain gaming community, you are welcome. Please do support your favourite companies, few of us are rolling in it and a great deal of us make less than minimum wage when all things are factored. Your support is appreciated and needed! 🙂
If you make what I want then I’ll buy it. I guess the issue for such as yourself Mike is to determine what exactly it is that we want!
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deephorseParticipantThanks for the extra information R Mark. I can’t imagine making more than one of these, especially in a smaller size.
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deephorseParticipantPegasus also do a landing craft with crew and soldiers on board. Apologies if Willz’s images show this already, but they are not visible to me. Some of these kits are currently on eBay UK.
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deephorseParticipantSpiffy! What in the world did they use those numbered markings for? Looks like they’re supposed to bearings, but how would you use them with something that doesn’t’ have a fixed POR? Perhaps I should google…
As I understand it the purpose of the compass markings was to enable external observers to direct the fire of the tank onto targets on shore. The original intention, I believe, was that the Centaurs would never leave their landing craft, and to this end they initially had no engines. They would support the landings without ever landing themselves. When Montgomery learned of this he had the engines put back in. The plan then was that the Centaurs would go no further inland than a few hundred yards, and be withdrawn within days. In the end they ventured quite far inland and fought for between two and three weeks crewed by Royal Marines. Or so I’ve read!
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deephorseParticipantLovely job! The markings are a special D-Day feature. They show how deeply your tank has sunk after it falls off the front of your landing craft…
Close!
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deephorseParticipant“I thought one of the three criteria was functionality.
This included working trains as was marked on day two.
Failure to have working trains resulted in lost marks, rather than marks added if they did work.
Working trains was part of the brief and not a bonus.
The bonus came from the scratch build challenge?”I was being facetious there Mike!
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deephorseParticipantIt is. I have been watching The Great Model Railway Challenge https://www.channel5.com/show/the-great-model-railway-challenge/ and was surprised by what the judges thought was amazing modelling. I have always assumed that train folk were better at the modelling side in general than wargamers, but after watching two series’ of the show, I am thinking that maybe wargamers could teach them a trick or two.
It wasn’t really a model railway challenge though, was it? It was more about creating three or four ‘animations’ around a theme, and ensuring that they worked. There were bonus points if your trains didn’t derail. In the three days that the teams had I thought that some of them created some interesting and imaginative layouts, but a true ‘model railway’ challenge it was not, and it shouldn’t be viewed that way.
Oh, and Rod Stewart’s work is amazing.
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deephorseParticipantJust superb. Shame that I don’t need tropical Fallschirmjagers.
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deephorseParticipantEasily solved. Buy some more, and almost immediately the first lot will appear…
This approach usually works for me.
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deephorseParticipantAs a gamer consuming some cool new media you like, are you likely to plan how to game it? (This has been brought to you courtesy of me watching Black Sails again)
No. I have enough on my plate as it is. I’m not at all sure that I know what “cool new media” is anyway.
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05/11/2019 at 12:51 in reply to: Battleground 2019 – Sat 30th November, Stockton-on-Tees, UK #125946deephorseParticipantWent to this show for the first time last year. It’s in my diary to go again this year. Looking forward to it. I do note that there is no mention of catering for 2019. Will there be some?
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deephorseParticipantI have Battlefield’s early war French and B.E.F. figures and think they are excellent. I looked at EWM and SHQ for their early war figure ranges but Battlefield looked by far the best.
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deephorseParticipantThat’s the best basing I can ever remember seeing.
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deephorseParticipantCollected my ‘Motorhead bomber’ this afternoon. I doubt that the box will ever be opened, let alone the kit be built, in my lifetime. But I just had to have one!
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deephorseParticipantYes, I was looking under the CP Models tab by mistake. Thanks.
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