Desired scans : Rank and File supplements Harpoon 3 & 4 supplements Force on Force supplements Hind Commander At Close Quarters War and Conquest
Angel Kelly
9th May in military history:
1386 – England and Portugal formally ratify their alliance with the signing of the Treaty of Windsor, making it the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world which is still in force. 1450 – 'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated. 1763 – The Siege of Fort Detroit begins during Pontiac's War against British forces. 1864 – Second Schleswig War: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland. 1915 – World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces. 1918 – World War I: Germany repels Britain's second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium. 1920 – Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreshchatyk. 1936 – Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5. 1940 – World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder. 1941 – World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages. 1945 – World War II: Ratification of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine. 1945 – World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation. 1955 – Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
Alexander Sanchez
It is 72 years since the Second World War officially ended in Europe. Scattered fighting continued in northern Czechoslovakia as the final ember of the Reich died. From Moscow to Los Angeles, people celebrated. In London, crowds massed in Trafalgar Square and up the Mall to Buckingham Palace, where King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, appeared on the balcony of the palace before the cheering crowds. Princess Elizabeth (the future Queen Elizabeth II) and her sister Princess Margaret were allowed to wander incognito among the crowds and take part in the celebrations.
In the United States, the victory happened on President Harry Truman's 61st birthday. He dedicated the victory to the memory of his predecessor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had died of a cerebral hemorrhage less than a month earlier, on 12 April. Flags remained at half-mast for the remainder of the 30-day mourning period. Truman said of dedicating the victory to Roosevelt's memory and keeping the flags at half-mast that his only wish was "that Franklin D. Roosevelt had lived to witness this day." Massive celebrations also took place in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami and especially in New York's Times Square.
As the Soviet representative in Reims had no authority to sign the German instrument of surrender, the Soviet leadership proposed to consider Reims surrender as a "preliminary" act. The surrender ceremony was repeated in Berlin on 8 May, where the instrument of surrender was signed by supreme German military commander Wilhelm Keitel, by Georgy Zhukov and Allied representatives. Since the Soviet Union was to the east of Germany, it was 9 May Moscow time when the German military surrender became effective, which is why Russia and most of the former Soviet republics commemorate Victory Day on 9 May instead of 8 May 1945.
Landon Gutierrez
Things were considerably different in Berlin. In many areas of the city, vengeful Soviet troops (often rear echelon units) engaged in mass rape, pillage and murder. Oleg Budnitskii, historian at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, told a BBC Radio programme that Red Army soldiers were astounded when they reached Germany. "For the first time in their lives, eight million Soviet people came abroad, the Soviet Union was a closed country. All they knew about foreign countries was there was unemployment, starvation and exploitation. And when they came to Europe they saw something very different from Stalinist Russia... especially Germany. They were really furious, they could not understand why being so rich, Germans came to Russia. "
In the Pacific the mood was also grim. Rainsoaked Marines on Okinawa listened to the jubilant celebrations on the radio, knowing that for them the end still seemed a long way off. At Trieste in Italy, no sooner had WW2 ended then the board was being set for WW3. Tito's Serbian partisan armies had every intention of seizing the city for Yugoslavia, something Churchill could not abide. He send the 2nd New Zealand Division - who never got the chance for a decent party - to Trieste to block the partisans, and a weirdly-tense standoff played out over the next couple of days before the partisans backed down.
Anyone interested in the events of this particular day are strongly recommended to check out Craig Cabell's "A Day To Remember", which looks at how VE Day was marked around the world and contains a wealth of fascinating anecdotes.
Bentley Gutierrez
An user asked me to add a particular game to the desired scans list but I forgot! Could they remind me what it was?
Panzer 38(t) vs BT-7 - Barbarossa 1941 (Osprey Duel 78)
The tank battles in the Soviet Union during the summer of 1941 were the largest in World War II, exceeding even the more famous Prokhorovka encounter during the Kursk campaign. Indeed, they were the largest tank battles ever fought. This book examines two evenly matched competitors in this conflict, the German Panzer 38(t) and the Soviet BT-7. Both were of similar size, armed with guns of comparable firepower, and had foreign roots - the Panzer 38(t) was a Czechoslovak design and the BT-7 was an evolution of the American Christie tank. With full-colour artwork and archive and present-day photography, this absorbing study assesses the strengths and limitations of these two types against the wider background of armoured doctrine in the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa.
Modern Spearhead. I've looked everywhere but can't find a scan of it.
Nicholas Turner
>Modern Spearhead. That's the one. I'll see what I can do.
Jaxson Cook
>Stalin wanted to ride the white horse in this parade, but he fell off during rehearsal, so Zhukov rode the horse, and rightly so.
Fukken Stalin, not wanting anyone else to get credit.
Nolan Watson
British Destroyers 1939–45 (1) Pre-war classes (Osprey New Vanguard 246)
The Royal Navy entered World War II with a large but eclectic fleet of destroyers. Some of these were veterans of World War I, fit only for escort duties. Most though, had been built during the inter-war period, and were regarded as both reliable and versatile. Danger though lurked across the seas as new destroyers being built in Germany, Italy and Japan were larger and better armoured. So, until the new, larger Tribal-class destroyers could enter service, these vessels would have to hold the line. Used mainly to hunt submarines, protect convoys from aerial attack, and take out other destroyers, these ships served across the globe during the war. This fully illustrated study is the first in a two-part series on the real workhorses of the wartime Royal Navy, focusing on how these ageing ships took on the formidable navies of the Axis powers.
Already said thank you in the botes thread, but thank you user.
Parker King
user from previous thread how did you build the telephone poles?
Ethan Watson
Thanks user.
You're the best!
Christopher Lee
And Great War Spearhead, ta!
Oh, and does anyone have the latest copy of Hind and Seek, because I'm feeling the urge to buy 6mm and drape brown & white cloth over piles of books.
Daniel Butler
GWS II, that is. Also I'm not the user who was just asking for Modern Spearhead, just someone else who likes large-scale games.
Tyler Mitchell
I always love that picture. Why? That empty flagpole. Someone from the Liebstandarte made sure the colors weren't captured.
A friend of mine was stationed over there for a lot of years in the 1990s, and became friendly with a fair number of Waffen SS vets, the few that were left even then. He asked about that picture once.
They laughed, and said the Liebstandarte colors were safe in a very private veterans' collection and had never fallen into enemy hands.
Ayden Brooks
So I obviously have Saxons vs. Vikings for Saga. You guys think the other great pairing would be the Crusaders vs. Saracens for Crescent and the Cross? Also where do you guys find your painting guides for say these four factions?
Oliver Hall
Such a pity
Nathan Hall
Nice, my buddy got a 38(((t))) and I wanted to know more about it. Thanks!
Julian Johnson
BMP
Kevin Thompson
Anyone here played Deus Vult and willing to give me a quick rundown?
Looking into getting into Saga: C&C but I want to be able to use the miniatures for multiple games and Deus Vult seems like a perfect fit thematically. I like that period of history.
Asher Smith
The telephone poles are lengths of wooden dowel. I whittled off a bit of each of them to give a flat surface, then glued lengths of sprue to them for the crossbars. Quick coat of brown spraypaint from wal mart, then elmer's glue and baking soda for the snow.
Repostin the picture in case anyone else wants to see.
Gabriel James
Thanks user. They look good.
Liam Smith
I'm also the user who's been working on this map, with help from another kindly user who gave me some suggestions. This is for our upcoming Bolt Action campaign: It looks like the initial setup is a Soviet/US Alliance vs. the Anglo-German Pact. Finland(Me) has made no commitments yet.
Jayden Scott
>Anglo-German Pact Strange how this could have been a probable scenario for WW1.
Adrian Morales
Always weird to think. But for us, it's just because we said all diplomacy is good. We've even included rules for officers getting captured and then used as bargaining chips.
Charles Moore
I remember is. I saved a copy to adapt for myself.
Tyler Hall
Is a good game, but its mass battle not skirmish so you need many more mans than SAGA. Burn and Loot is the large skirmish version of Deus Vult and plays with many similar mechanics so maybe look at that. I had a game of it last week and It was pretty dang good. A SAGA/C&C force would be a good fit for it too.
Gavin Brown
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Colton Ortiz
In the context of the majority of history, an Anglo-French alliance against Germany seems relatively absurd.
Jose Cook
Someone please stop me from impulse buying an anglo-saxon and viking starter pack for SAGA along with the two necessary rulebooks.
Parker Scott
Don't do it or else real vikings will show up and pillage your farmstead and carry off your daughters.
Carter Peterson
Do you have a friend to play the game with? Are your finances in good shape? Do you have any chores or tasks that need to be done? Perhaps you should start collecting a Seleucid army under the command of Antiochus IV to combat the Macabean, Parthian and Ptolemaic menace instead. ;^)
Josiah Ortiz
Got a couple friends to play it with even I might have to coerce them. Yeah, not worried about much. Again yeah I'm good on that front.
Also I don't bout that last part user. After these two only really interested in Knights and Saracens.
I know I've seen a couple of Saga-specific painting guides on youtube. In general I just learn how to paint colours independent of the subject, then look at Ospreys to determine the colour scheme for a given faction/era
This way I can use principles learned for GW tutorials instead of hoping to find an /hwg/-specific one
Saint Duncan of Rhodes is still the gold standard for beginner as long as you accept that you don't have to buy GW paints/gear to use the techniques he teaches youtube.com/user/GamesWorkshopWNT
Hudson Moore
> Fuck out the way, granny
David Perry
Is there a /hwg/ discord? Should we make one?
Justin Green
No, and fuck no.
Charles Anderson
Did Polish Airborne uniforms differ in color from British Airborne? I know they used grey berets instead of red, but was that the only difference?
Cool. I'm considering making a platoon of them for Bolt Action, partly so that I can pick up a Bear model and have Wojtek the Soldier Bear
Carter Long
That is awesome, the defense of the colors should always be a notable achievement.
Zachary Myers
earlier periods are cooler, buy dux brittaniarum from too fat lardies and get some saxons and brits instead. or the supplement for it, with picts and irish and scots.
it's got a really cool campaign system that gives you a good campaign for two players with minimal effort.
arthurians own
Luis Wright
Can anyone reccomend a good system for pike and shot era, specifically English Civil War in 6mm.
Jose Wood
They're plain and simple and nothing special, but Polemos' ECW rules have always had a solid playerbase and were designed specifically for the big battles.
Does anyone have a complete scan of Battlegroup Overlord?
Dylan Johnson
The only thing that I could say is: Pick up the Anglo-Dane set instead of the Anglo-Saxon set. The playstyle of the Danes will lend itself to better beginning/demo fights.
It's really a great matchup, AD and Vikings. The Immovable Object vs. the Unstoppable Force.
That and Saxons need huge units (over ten men a unit) to benefit from most of their board.
Oliver Thompson
>to benefit from most of their board. I read this as "to benefit from most of their beard" and didn't remotely question it
Henry Cruz
>Wojtek the Soldier Bear >He accompanied the bulk of the Polish Second Corps to Italy, serving with the 22nd Artillery Supply Company. During the Battle of Monte Cassino, in Italy in 1944, Wojtek helped move crates of ammunition and became a celebrity with visiting Allied generals and statesmen.
He was with the land forces.
Jordan Lewis
which osprey would be the best reference for uniforms of individual clans during the sengoku period?
Caleb Jones
There was no such thing as uniforms back then. Armor was usually black, or in case of I think Noda Obunaga's men, red, but other than that, whatever they had.
Wyatt Phillips
Uniforms weren't really a thing in the Sengoku period. The Ospreys about heraldry, ashigaru and samurai armies in the OP are good though.
which is a fantastic resource. red armor is commonly linked to Naotaka Ii and his Red Devils at Sekigahara, but was also used sparingly by other Daimyo.
Landon Williams
>Red Devils at Sekigahara Yeah, that's what I was thinking of, but been a while since I did anything concerning my Feudal Japanese.
Ayden Peterson
Be my friend and you can play with my SAGA starter armies. They're all painted, I just don't have anyone to play with. :(
Luke Gray
yeah i knew that there were no real standard uniform but i was hoping to get a rough idea now that i am painting up a force of ashigaru.
thanks heaps though
Luis Rogers
On Sunday I met up with some lads from /hwg/ I'd never met before to play some 4 player games of Muskets and Tomahawks, a game none of us had played before.
The First game was not so close, as we learned the rules, and the second game was extremely close, and could have been won by anyone in the end, both armies were hanging by a thread with exactly 7 men each out of 40+ on both sides still on the field.
Just a quick dump of what I think were the best pictures taken. If you want to see more they are on my blog already xccamminiatures.blogspot.co.nz/ and I think one of the other lads will be putting them on his at some point.
1/5
John Lopez
French musketry forces British regulars to retreat behind the corner of the fence.
Brandon Jackson
3/5 Canadians take up positions on the fences as British Regulars approach in the distance.
Liam Sanchez
4/5 French Regulars fire volleys to halt the advancing British and their Indian allies in the settlement.
Sebastian Thomas
5/5 British Indian allies are repulsed for now by a single musket shot from the French Canadians at close range.
Colton Gray
6/5 Whilst we are here, a shot of the whole table about half way through game 2.
Colton Foster
>6/5
You have violated all the sacred laws of god and man
Landon Lee
Nice banter, I rate it 5/7
Thomas White
I decided to chuck in a 6th for free and I'm a maverick
Henry White
Any good place to download Afgan: The Soviet Experience from, or any user would be so kind to upload it to Mega? It was deleted from Youtube, and don't have the money to buy it from Journeyman.
Henry Nguyen
The different sections are in the OP I think, check ww2 folder
Brayden Baker
Is there a complete version of the WW2 Warhammer Historical?
Juan Powell
>He send the 2nd New Zealand Division - who never got the chance for a decent party - to Trieste to block the partisans
My great uncle would beg to differ, he met his future wife in Trieste.
Wyatt White
I don't play Bolt Action but I would assume Wojtek is a separate unit who could be taken with any Free Polish list? Or is there a specific theatre restriction? I do love the idea of a paratrooping bear falling from the skies on some horrified enemies.
I recognize that tower!
My great-uncle met an Italian girl during the campaign, but his staunchly Protestant family refused to allow him to marry her (or so my granny used to say).
Blake Bell
It was a tidy couple of games.
I took away from it that boats are pretty useless, that I suck at guesstimating random activation, and that I need to paint more tiny dudes.
Jason Fisher
I think botes are better for really big games that have more waterways or sepcific scenerios built around said waterways with terrain to fit theme.
>The different sections are in the OP I think, check ww2 folder I know, the thing is only the army lists are uploaded not the book as a whole. was hoping someone had it.
Nicholas Carter
The rules are the same as in BGK, the army lists are the big difference.
Caleb Harris
user, where do you live country wise. I'm in the PNW. I'm down to play SAGA with you and be friends.
Luis Jenkins
Baroque would work really well in 6mm.
Charles Nguyen
Oh, okay. I thought there were special scenarios in it too.
Jacob Ross
The only good Fash is a dead one - and a number of LSSAH flags were captured.
Jackson Hernandez
>The only good Fash is a dead one
What an absolute faggot you are, user.
Xavier Garcia
butthurt as always
Wyatt Clark
Oh, thanks - somehow I missed that it was the Ostfront guy. Since it looks like he'll be polishing it up to sell, I'll not bother him with a playtesting copy (because I won't get around to testing it, let alone giving good feedback) and just buy the final version. In the mean time, time to read more about bears and mountains.
Hudson Cooper
Not technically /hwg/ related but anyone got some good tips and resources for making a gaming table??
Noah Myers
How lazy are you? Ikea do a decent 2'x4' board for pretty cheap - two or three (or four, or more) of those with some easily-removable legs (stackable for storage) is my solution. I really, really don't like my local club's pile of 4'x6' boards, they're just awkward.
Angel Butler
Ehh I want it too look good and be easily storable. 4x4 size would be good. Something sturdy so people can slightly rest on it and not fucking break it.
Nathan Ward
Two of those tables? They're pretty solid. Put a cloth over them, clamp it in place on the corners, and you'll be set.
Landon Cooper
I'm looking for some decent references for Soviet vehicles used during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. Anyone have any ideas?
Jayden Rogers
Fuck yeah, thanks a bunch user. You do anything with battlemats at all? Think they're made of the same stuff mouse pads are made from. Anyway know of some good quality ones with desert one with say standard green grass?
Nolan Peterson
Nah, I just use painted cloth for the most part. Lets me make hills with books & magazines, the old fashioned way.
Jaxon Martinez
holy fuck the name of those videos i feel like im on a list now
Jace Taylor
You've been on a list for years. Embrace it.
Luke Cooper
bmp
Aaron Cox
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Luke Torres
Anyone got a good source on some 28mm middle eastern terrain of say around the crusade era. I'm down to home make stuff but mainly just wanna know what your guys' tips are or sources of good terrain are?
Wyatt Hernandez
4Ground does some Arab buildings for Saga:Crescent & Cross, but they're a little on the pricey side. Honestly they're quite easy to make yourself, out of cardboard even. Just find some reference pics and get cutting.
