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ParticipantI understand the various turret colors as recognition aids and they certainly are less of an advertisement than the Italian barber poles but still, bright turret tops combined with a camouflage scheme, not to mention a often prominent swastika on the deck, would seem counterintuitive.
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ParticipantI have seen that Leon & Asmussen book and failed to remember the authors. It is quite good and as I recall, very good on the changes throughout the war which were pretty common for the Kreigsmarine.
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ParticipantReally nice work on a cool subject.
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ParticipantMal’s work is top notch and for depth and detail, I’ve not encountered better. I have the four Alan Raven books on British Camouflage as well as the single volume on Royal Navy Camouflage by Peter Hodges and both are useful but I believe they are out of print. I’m unfamiliar with the Leon and Asmussen books but for individual classes, the Man O’ War series from RSV Publications did a very good job on Royal Navy cruiser and battleship classes.
I have some of the Squadron Signal books on the Kreigsmarine but in my opinion, the data and images available on the web are as good as anything I’ve seen in print.
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ParticipantSounds like a great trip. It has been a while but we loved Scotland and I envy you making it to Scapa Flow.
We share patient wives. In addition to Edinburgh she waited while my kids and I explored all around Stirling and (I think) the Gordon’s museum in Stirling Castle including a soup tureen presented after an early 18th c. battle that I swear you could bathe in.
My main memory of Culloden was how on earth could anyone think charging over that gorse that seemed more tanglefoot barbed wire than plant was a good idea.
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ParticipantThank you. 6mm is my favorite scale and these look wonderful. I appreciate the AAR as I was unfamiliar with those rules.
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ParticipantThank you. This has always been a favorite ‘what if’ and I’ve gamed it in a variety of scales with 6mm on my one of these days list.
While I believe the USA would have handled the land war in a tidy fashion, I believe the naval war in the Gulf would have gone badly.
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ParticipantPaint then base. I have no idea how I’d begin to do it in reverse.
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ParticipantThank you. I enjoyed the article and I quite like the style.
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ParticipantGreat report and great fun. Reminds me of the many of the great games we had playing Martian Empires.
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ParticipantSimply great work. I am always amazed at how gorgeous well painted 3mm can look.
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ParticipantI enjoyed the links to the various games and I was particularly taken with the use of 2mm terrain with 6mm troops. This is certainly a visual hobby and those games truly are enhanced by great terrain.
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ParticipantPersonally I’d bet on a frayed electrical connection or analog switch getting a bit corroded as opposed to the LED’s themselves going toes up.
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ParticipantJust brilliant work!
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ParticipantGreat write up.
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ParticipantMy ships are almost always labeled for name. Land forces are about 50% labeled depending on the rules I’m using. I don’t do skirmish games so the labels are unit level with the exception of commanders where I use a dressmakers pin with a label showing the name.
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ParticipantAny chance these could come in 6mm?
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ParticipantAs with several Warlord games, fun rules but the models are simply too big. The models are so large and the ranges such that scrums in the middle looking a bit silly are common. At 1/300 you can have the models very close yet still a medium ranges. Those that opted for 1/600 or 1/1200 probably get a game with a better feel unless you double/triple the ranges and use a bigger area.
In Victory at Sea a destroyer physically touching a battleship near the stern will, unless Japanese, not be at point blank measuring bridge to bridge as the rules require.
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ParticipantI find the painting and modelling a very satisfying part of the hobby. I may game for 4-6 hours every week or two but I paint, base or build terrain at least every other day. Just for me, but if there wasn’t the tangible painting/crafting part of the hobby, I wouldn’t do it as I can turn on the computer and play any historical game period I desire at virtually any level from skirmish to strategic.
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ParticipantWelcome into the light! In the immortal words of Peter Berry “God’s One True Scale.”
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ParticipantCongratulations on 10 years of quality stuff.
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ParticipantGiven just how much I despise assembling plastic figures, if these are at least tolerable I will certainly prefer them to build your own sprues type things. I still prefer the heft of metal but the economics of historical figures should make sense for Firms and resin is probably a good deal cheaper.
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ParticipantFor what it’s worth, I used to have two 4×5 tables on casters I could spin to do 4×10 or 5×8 but now lacking a basement I use four 2×3’s and folding tables for maximum flexibility without warping issues.
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ParticipantFor what it’s worth, Novus Design Studio in the US has some quite nice ones.
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ParticipantI played it quite a bit and was very pleased. I ran 4 new players through two complete run throughs of Salamis in a single afternoon and it was a fast and relatively clean rules set.
I’ve since moved on to Ad Mari Bellum on Wargames Vault that, for me, felt just a bit more flavorful but still fast and uncomplicated.
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ParticipantGreat work. Will you be using only Microworld or also Baccus or some other manufacturer?
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ParticipantAnother vote for Windsor Newton. I’ve used it for the last 5 years and find it does better over a wider range of humidity and is far more cost effective then Dullcote.
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Participant50 years ago I caught a flight back from Korat RTAFB to Nakon Phanom RTAFB with a raging hangover and enjoyed possibly the smoothest if slowest flight I’ve ever had in a C-47 with the brass manufacturers plate that showed the aircraft built in 1938. Fantastic aircraft although the joke back then was taxied at 100, took off at 100, climbed at 100, cruised at 100 and landed at 100.
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ParticipantGreat work and a very neat tutorial. Now if I can only figure out how to scale things down to 1/4800-1/6000. I’m going to try that method exactly for 1/2400 just with smaller stuff.
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ParticipantI don’t think it is a problem, I just want to use it on some of mine. I use the two Lifecolor sets for my RN as well as the AK sets (which I believe are out of production). The Alan Raven books are my primary source although I also have one of the Mal Wright books. The Western Approaches scheme seems to have moved to including all of the 507 series of grays in addition to the Peter Scott type colors sometime around mid/late 42 but I cannot see any rhyme or reason to the application. Given the exigencies of war, I assume individual dockyards had a fair amount of leeway in applying the measures?
I readily admit that worrying about painting 1/4800 and 1/6000 destroyers and under in the right camouflage is seriously OCD at best.
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ParticipantOutstanding work as usual!
Is that a Western Approaches scheme? I usually see it with the W.A. blue and/or green over white. Is that combined with an Admiralty medium gray or blue-gray?
Just a wild guess on my part but is the shell splash an acrylic medium over a wire armature? Since I game in 1/6000 and 1/4800 for WW1 and forward, my stuff is way easier to work with. I couldn’t come close to this fantastic work in 1/700 on my best day.
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ParticipantWonderful work. I’ve always wondered what the right color is for the blast bags on RN ships? I’ve seen white, light gray and dark gray.
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ParticipantThose are quite nice and are fully compatible in quality to other ranges. I look forward to the PDF.
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ParticipantAn excellent bit of craftmanship!
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ParticipantWhat scale are your ships?
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ParticipantI’m not very good at introspection but since I’ve been doing this since 1975, I’d have to guess a combination of satisfying creative urges, enjoying some excellent companionship and a love of history. Mixed together with a certain intellectual challenge of competition I find it keeps me enthralled even after all this time.
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ParticipantAs a smaller scale gamer in mostly naval and some ancients and medieval, I had low expectations and they were met.
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ParticipantVery disappointing news as I really liked their 1/2400 pre-dreadnoughts. I am surprised another vendor isn’t readily available as resin and FDM printing is pretty mainstream these days.
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ParticipantI’ve ordered 3 mats over the years. The first two went OK, the third has been a truly awful experience. I will not use them again.
I like hexes on my mats and Deep Cut Studios has done good work for me.
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03/08/2022 at 17:05 in reply to: The Ultimate Napoleonic Wargame Rules Review and Comparison #176476ParticipantReally a nice resource. I started with Volley & Bayonet and moved to Grand Armee/Blucher but your review makes me give strong consideration to BBB as a second alternative.
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