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Who Asked This JokerParticipantThe moderator here seems to be pretty even handed…not that much moderation is needed!
The content is either about history or wargaming.
There is a kind of a Who’s who of expats from another wargame website…familiar faces.
My one dig (and it has been mentioned earlier) the “recent posts” roll is far too short.
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
Who Asked This JokerParticipantThe problem with photobucket is they limit the DL usage of a given account. Right now there is not your images, which I am sure I would marvel over, but rather a image of a dial saying you are over limit. 🙁
EDIT: Third Party hosting disabled. Visit some link.
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
Who Asked This JokerParticipantMore ships! I do enjoy the photos of that which I have no talent for! Welcome aboard. I’ve not been here long but it has been a fine place so far!
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
Who Asked This JokerParticipantI’ve seen a quite a few familiar faces from another site here. I remember seeing your name (BrianW) on TMP. Welcome aboard!
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
Who Asked This JokerParticipantI think the important point is that you could post ships on the north edge of the Neck and fire with impunity. This is something the British could not do against Breeds hill because of the hight of the hill itself. Anything approaching the neck would be subject to naval gun fire. A smaller ship was the Lively. It had 20X9 pounders. That would essentially give the British a 10 gun heavy battery at their disposal. A larger ship, if it could get close enough was the Somerset. It was a 3rd rate ship of the line. The 13X32 pounders would have been pretty demoralizing to the continentals. There would also be 14X18 pounders and 6X9 pounders. I suspect they could have broken up any Continental attack.
I do think it would make for a very interesting scenario. Part of the victory conditions would be for the British forces to not take excessive casualties.
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
Who Asked This JokerParticipantThe plastic disease has to do with temperature and climate control. I had a friend who had the Astronaut set at their summer cabin. It was not winterized. He left them there. The following summer he returned to find that most of the figures had crumbled. He thought some kind of bug ate them or something. We were only about 10 years old so cut us a break. It was likely the cold temperatures that broke the plastic down.
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
Who Asked This JokerParticipant1/72 scale plastic figures definitely shine for WW2. We are also are spoiled for choice with Medieval, Ancient, Napoleonic and Colonial eras. Other eras still have holes that need to be filled. Mid 18th century has many OOP sets and the cavalry is underrepresented. Renaissance during the time of the 30 Years War and ECW also have some significant holes. The Early Dark Ages/Post Roman Britain are still lacking in proper generic Dark Age Germanic foot warriors.
Fortunately there are companies that do 1/72 scale figures to fill the holes. Lancer has a range of 18th century figures including cavalry. Tumbling Dice have a range of Renaissance figures for TYW. Tumbling Dice and New Line Designs combined can fill the holes for the Dark Ages.
Of course, the main reason to buy plastic figures to begin with is cost. They are significantly cheaper. So, by going metal, you are effectively tripling your cost. It is a good scale and the one true scale as far as the birth of the hobby is concerned. 😉
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
Who Asked This JokerParticipantNot too fiddly but not terribly easy to estimate either. Ultimately, we play games. There is no need for this sort of granularity. Stick with either 45 degrees from a corner or straight ahead from any part of the unit.
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
Who Asked This JokerParticipantNice and effective paint jobs! Those look great!
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
05/06/2017 at 14:53 in reply to: Systems you think are good but you do not think you would enjoy playing #64103Who Asked This JokerParticipantDBM. it’s clearly one of the best systems when it comes to representing actual ancient battles. But I really don’t think I would enjoy it. It takes the rather elegant simplicity of DBA and adds just enough additional troop-types to baffle my increasingly limited powers of cogitation. Pat
Element-wise, you can break it down as having 6 times the variety of DBA. With DBA it’s just blades, spears and so forth. With DBM, they get graded on experience and drill. They are Irregular and Regular. They are Superior, Ordinary and inferior. So 2X3X1 = 6 types per element…ignoring Some elements can be Fast and there is an exception element that breaks the norm. Looking at it in this structured way, DBM is not that bad.
Where DBM falls down for me is with the rather impenetrable uncontrolled pursuit rules. DBR has no such rules and is otherwise DBM for the renaissance. The only reason I’ve not played DBR is because I don’t have the minis!
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
04/06/2017 at 12:44 in reply to: Systems you think are good but you do not think you would enjoy playing #64039Who Asked This JokerParticipantI won’t go into naming examples. I think it is better to say that I do not like most modern game designs. While I think that most games these days are pretty well designed, I do think most of them are also over engineered. Too much detail for the level of operation they portray. Many systems also boast a “command and control” system. More often than not, these systems have less to do with actual command and control and more to do with generating friction in a game. Some larger scale systems will allow you to command a corps and leave you to maneuver battalions/regiments. In a corps level game, you should be concerned with Brigades as you basic unit. Finally, games these days boast “elegant and innovative” game mechanics. This is nothing more than marketing speak for “fiddly”. It’s all about statistics in the end. The rules should be make you more concerned with maneuvering your troops than the actual game mechanics.
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
Who Asked This JokerParticipantHellenistic with elephants.
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
Who Asked This JokerParticipantI don’t have a problem with respectful suggestions for alternative figures from other companies. Most gamers mix and match ranges anyway. Even a different range of hard suits would provide adversaries for Angel Barracks hard suit figures. As mentioned above, be respectful and don’t slag other companies.
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
Who Asked This JokerParticipantI’ve not painted ancients in a while. Quite frankly, it’s been a couple of months since I picked up a brush. The last 15mm ancients I painted were Seleucid Cataphracts…about 1/3 done. I’ve been doing some car model vehicles for the Western Desert (WW2). I also have 1/72 scale plastic Fantasy on the paint table. Most of the busy life of the house has past so I can see getting back to painting soon.
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
Who Asked This JokerParticipantI can paint to an ‘8’ if I take my time and highlight and so forth. Like others, I paint to play these days. I suspect my paint jobs are more like a 6 or 7 now. Mostly block painted with a few highlights to add at least some depth.
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
Who Asked This JokerParticipantNice work, Konstnatinos. 1″ bases or 2cm? I like the look of the offset figures on the line.
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
Who Asked This JokerParticipantThose look great! One question. What are the notches on the front of the bases?
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
Who Asked This JokerParticipantWow! Really fantastic stuff!
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
Who Asked This JokerParticipantDark Age Britain figures – Picts, Britons, Saxons, Irish – in 1/72 scale and in plastic since there are no terribly decent figures out there.
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
Who Asked This JokerParticipantI watched the first season and a half and gave up The books are written by a cynical man. Not my cup of tea.
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
Who Asked This JokerParticipant<q>Darryl is good people – no harm, no foul.</q>
I never meant to insinuate Daryl was dishonest if my post was taken that way. That’s why the goalie instead of a long diatribe that nobody would read anyway. 😀
Print shop is definitely the way to go for a longer set of rules.
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
Who Asked This JokerParticipantIndeed! Technically Matt Murray is just saying “No!” in general. He’s kind of a negative guy…or something. 😉
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
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Matt Murray says, “No!” to piracy.
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
Who Asked This JokerParticipantFor a long time when we got started in Napoleonics, it was all made up battles. The nationalities were real. British, French, Austrians, Prussians and even Russians all made it to the battlefield. We fought over a fictitious Island nation of Lower Slobovia. The battles were often named for the room we were laying in. Once played in my friend’s garage. A relativity featureless battlefield dubbed “Girage Plane.”
Did not make up names for Duchies etc but that would also be interesting.
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
Who Asked This JokerParticipantOnce at 5+. He’s a grunt for Pete’s sake! 😉 Take the worst of both worlds. If there is one grunt, there is probably many.
Better chance (4+ or 3+) is for more skilled characters.
More shots is for better weapons.
My 2 cents.
John
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
Who Asked This JokerParticipantAnything in the Western Desert. Already did “Snipe.” Siege of Tobruk would be fun.
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
Who Asked This JokerParticipantHi Phil,
I saw those articles a few days ago. While I have not fully read them yet, they look very interesting! Thanks for posting!
John
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
Who Asked This JokerParticipantNice report. To the point of numbers, I suspect the battle was probably somewhere around 45,000-50,000 troops per side. We are ushering in the “Dark Ages” here and the support system just doesn’t exist for armies much bigger than those.
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
Who Asked This JokerParticipantI’ll second the Carthaginian/Punic army. You can have a lot of opponents. Early Hoplite army as well? I’ve noticed there is no Mycenaean/Minoan army there. One of each and you could fight out the Illiad. I Hellenistic Pike army is always good. Lots of color and plenty of different troop types. Throw in a couple of elephants and you could do the Pyrrhic invasion of Italy against the Polybian army.
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
Who Asked This JokerParticipantI play Battle Academy and Pike and Shot (based on the same engine). They are both very much like miniatures games. I still play Field of Glory (computer). I’ve recently discovered Pioneers which is a clone of Settlers of Catan.
John
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
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