/hwg/ - Historical Wargames General

>Was looking at modern war
>Like make up a modern nation and paint the colors accordingly
Imagi-nations (as they're called) are cool and pretty common in moderns wargaming. Especially with AK-47 Republic, a ruleset about modern African wars. There's also fullblown 6mm-scale divisional-level type stuff, where you could fit a whole corps on the table, and imagi-nations could be a thing there too (see: Tinytanks).

>Like make up a modern nation and paint the colors accordingly

That would be AK-47 Republic, a very tongue in cheek Cold War Africa rule set. It's designed for larger battles using smaller guys (10 or 15mm)

Modern there's Spoecter and Eureka I mentioned before or if you're willing to look at 20mm (and so can use 1/72 vehicle kits of which there are thousands of options) Under Fire Miniatures are excellent as are TQD miniatures. Zevezda has a limited range of plastic Cold War kits that are quite nice too

And since you're new and maybe haven't gotten oriented yet, 1st and 2nd edition of AK47 republic are in the OP

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Wow those are nice

Looks like a good starting point. Thanks!

Oh also the Boxer rebellion will give you the chance to paint a lot of different colorful figure types for the different nationalities, factions etc. I don;t know who makes good figures though.

Renaissance armies did not have uniforms, you can paint them however you want, for pretty much any country. Before the time of Louis XIV, the closest thing to uniforms were either commanders buying their own troops the same color clothing or mandating some sort of sash or something for identification, like Wallenstein did.

anybody here got a good pic dump of Byzantine soldiers from the 13th century? both post-imperial reformation and the preceding states like the Despotate of Epirus and the Empire of Nicaea?

What was the first time uniforms came in?

Didn't the Spanish Tercios have some kind of uniforms?