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Asher Harris
19th May in military history:
639 – Ashina Jiesheshuai and his tribesmen assaulted Emperor Taizong at Jiucheng Palace. 1445 – John II of Castile defeats the Infantes of Aragon at the First Battle of Olmedo. 1542 – The Prome Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in present-day Burma. 1643 – Thirty Years' War: French forces under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeat Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi, marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant land power. 1649 – An Act of Parliament declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years. 1655 – The Invasion of Jamaica begins during the Anglo-Spanish War. 1776 – American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars. 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour. 1848 – Mexican–American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for US$15 million. 1919 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence. 1934 – Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria. 1941 – The Viet Minh, a communist coalition, formed at Cao Bằng, Vietnam. 1942 – World War II: In the aftermath of the Battle of the Coral Sea, Task Force 16 heads to Pearl Harbor. 1959 – The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail. 1991 – Croatians vote for independence in a referendum.
Gabriel Brown
It is 374 years since the Battle of Rocroi, which resulted in the victory of a French army under the Duc d'Enghien against the Spanish Army under General Francisco de Melo only five days after the accession of Louis XIV to the throne of France. Occuring late in the Thirty Years' War, the battle is considered by many to be the turning point of the perceived invincibility of the Spanish tercio.
The Habsburg Spanish army of about 27,000 men advanced from Flanders, through the Ardennes, and into northern France to relieve French pressure on the Franche-Comté and Catalonia. The Spanish troops set siege to Rocroi, which lay athwart the route to the valley of the Oise. The French, under the command of 21-year-old Louis, duc d'Enghien, reacted quickly and forced a battle before the arrival of 6,000 Spanish reinforcements. The Spanish failed to block the route to Rocroi, which passed through a defile bordered by woods and marsh. Enghien advanced through the defile and assembled his force along a ridge looking down on the besieged town of Rocroi. The Spanish quickly formed up between the town and the ridge. The French army, some 23,000 strong, was arranged with two lines of infantry in the center, squadrons of cavalry on each wing and with a thin line of artillery at the front. The Spanish army was similarly arranged, but with its infantry in their traditional tercios, or squares. The two armies bivouacked in their positions for the night.
At dawn the French army attacked, but the French infantry in the centre were bested by the Spanish. The cavalry on the French left, advancing against Enghien's orders, was also thrown back. But the cavalry on the French right, under the command of Jean de Gassion, routed the Spanish cavalry opposite. Enghien was able to follow this up by attacking the exposed left flank of the Spanish infantry. Spanish cavalry made a successful counter-attack to drive off the French cavalry, but were checked by the advance of the French reserve.
Michael Flores
Enghien now carried out a huge cavalry encirclement, sweeping behind the Spanish army and smashing his way through to attack the rear of the Spanish cavalry, which was still in combat with his reserves. The Spanish horse was put to flight, leaving the Spanish infantry to carry on the fight. The French were twice repulsed by the stubborn Spanish squares, so Enghien arranged for his artillery and captured Spanish guns to blast them apart.
The German and Walloon tercios fled from the battlefield, while the Spanish remained on the field with their commander, repulsing four cavalry charges by the French and never breaking formation, despite repeated heavy artillery bombardment. Enghien then offered surrender conditions just like those obtained by a besieged garrison in a fortress. Having agreed to those terms, the remains of the two tercios left the field with deployed flags and weapons.
The total Spanish losses were about 7,000 dead, wounded, or captured. French losses were about 4,000.
The battle was an important personal victory for Mazarin, and established the reputation of the French general Enghien, the future "Grand Condé", but the Spanish were able to rapidly regroup and stabilize their positions. Despite this, the battle was of great symbolic importance because of the high reputation of the Army of Flanders. The French victory at Rocroi marked the first time the Spanish had been defeated in a major land battle in nearly a century. Though they had failed to crack, the battle also marked the beginning of the end for the Spanish tercio as a favored fighting formation. After Rocroi and the Battle of the Dunes (1658), armies began shifting to more linear formations.
Blake Barnes
The sedan chair belonging to the elderly Spanish infantry general Fontaines (who was from the Spanish Netherlands - now Belgium - and was known to the Spanish as Fuentes) was taken as a trophy by the French and may be seen in the museum of Les Invalides in Paris. Fontaines was killed in the battle; Enghien is reported to have said, "Had I not won the day I wish I had died like him".
Rocroi is a must-play battle of this era. Both sides have a varied and colorful array of troops, the outcome is not set in stone, and it represents a major shift in the military thinking of the time. After Rocroi, shot would begin to dominate pike, and the sun was about to set on the Spanish Empire.
It tells me that it's "delivered via spamfilter service", no idea what that means lel. But yeah check tomorrow morning, I'll try sending from hotmail if it's still not there.
Jaxon Martin
Well, those graveyards don't make sense either, and I don't think they exist. Probably photoshop.
Ethan Kelly
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Grayson Gonzalez
Well, I think YOU are photoshop!
Colton Long
Wow, he's a big guy
Jeremiah Lee
For thou
Wyatt Collins
For you
Noah Ortiz
There's a difference between a church graveyard/ old family plot and a commercial cemetery. It tends to show in groundskeeping and layout.
Cooper Fisher
>pike and shotte
Oh the Era I so want to play but can't due lack of interest from my friends...
Logan Peterson
My gaming buddies have as much interest in historicals as much fucks I give if I'll have a gaming partner.
Just do solo gaming if nothing else comes around.
Jace Butler
Tercios a shit.
Lucas Campbell
UR SHIT!!!111!!!!11!!
Jaxson King
>naming your army after a territory you don't even own anymore
Charles Gutierrez
I love bolt action
Jason Gonzalez
Are there any adjustments needed to play Bolt Action in 1/72 scale?
Zachary Jones
It seems to me, after reading a few books on the subject, that many of the battles of the 30 Years Wars (if Rocroi is even technically part of that), were played up to be decisive in some way or another, when really there wasn't a single decisive battle in the entire thing, hence why it lasted for 30 years and just kind of petered out as the combatants went bankrupt.
Alexander Price
Pretty much. Many of the battles had the potential to be decisive, but the counter-actions of skilled and seriously unskilled leaders following battles which would have seen one side lose (like the multiple times the road to Vienna was pretty much open or when notable commanders got killed) prevented it.
Noah Hughes
Which isn't to say that there weren't large or interesting battles, just that none of them decided much of anything.
Except possibly Lutzen. Assuming that Adolphus wanted to usurp the Imperial throne, which he might not have.
Asher Lopez
Honestly the 30 Years' War, for all its importance both politcally, culturally and historically, was an overwhelmingly pointless war that seemed to repeatdly have no real objectives.
Owen Young
Gave us the concept of a nation state though, which is nice I guess.
Jack Bennett
>the 30 Years' War You can replace this with a lot of wars, and that sentence will still make sense.
Blake Bennett
Well, there was the objective of neither side wanting to lose in order to not to have their enemy's conditions imposed upon them. And the whole Catholicism vs Protestantism thing which was a genuine concern.
But yeah, it's the kind of war that normally would have ended maybe 20 years earlier but successive interventions by other 'powers' got in the way of internal fighting.
Lucas Howard
Well the Imperial objectives were consistent and clear: put down open rebellion (successful) and drive the invaders out of Germany (not successful).
Brandon Miller
Yeah still nothing mate, just send it from a regular email. Its strange that it wouldn't even show up in my junk folder... I double checked the address I provided and it is correct.
Liam Cooper
Out of curiosity, what's your reading list for it?
Xavier Morales
Not needed per se. You can adjust ranges and move distances or not, some people like that the distances "feel" longer with smaller figures.
base size doesn't matter, especially if your terrain is scaled to 1/72
Juan Gomez
Probably something to do with Microsoft's """intelligent""" methods of fighting spam. I just sent it through Hotmail.
Hudson Morales
Some years ago I read the classic Thirty Years War by C.V. Wedgewood, which got me interested in the subject. More recently I read Europe's Tragedy, which is a more modern book and also great. There aren't exactly mountains of books in English about the war in which England basically did little to nothing.
Anthony Brooks
1/72 scale will make the weirdly short ranges in Bolt Action feel more accurate for what those weapons were actually capable of.
Daniel Adams
3mm would be better.
Cooper Myers
Yeah but who can be assed to move individual 3mm infantry?
Andrew Foster
Anyone who cares about making their mini scale and table scale reasonably accurate? You know, real wargamers?
Nathan Adams
Pretty sure there are simulationist games for that already and you shouldn't try to force Bolt Action to be what it's not.
Inb4 that guy shows up again and tries to force the "warhamster" meme some more.
Henry Reyes
>muh gate keeping
William Collins
Ha ha, I observe what you are doing there.
Logan Anderson
If you don't play Kriegspiel and wear an appropriate Prussian uniform the whole time you aren't a real wargamer.
Xavier Moore
I'm looking at buying a company of British paras from PSC. Does anyone know if their boxes come with bases? I see it in the description on some things, but not others - however the Brit paras were redone fairly recently.
Christian Lee
What scale and manufacturer?
Ryan Gomez
2mm and I don't know.
Samuel Morgan
>Inb4 that guy shows up again and tries to force the "warhamster" meme some more.
it's no a meme and no one is forcing it.
It's an apt term for a mediocre set of rules and people have been using it longer than you've been alive. Learn to live with it.
Owen Perez
it's basically the micro$hit of wargaming, grow up
Everything looks worse so close with bright lighting (camera often an inch away from the miniatures), but certainly at gaming distance they will be passable.
Owen Murphy
Anyone else waiting for their Operation Sea Lion book to arrive? I'm pretty hyped.
Julian Parker
Not really as I have absolutely no interest in the scenario of Germany entering Britain.
I'm kinda sad Warlord went down this way.
Cooper Ross
It's just a fun little What if? scenario where you can do some fun Early War shennanigans. They've already covered most of the major theaters/battles at this point so whats the harm in covering some alternate historical scenarios. I wouldn't mind seeing an Allied invasion of Japan or something similar down the road.
Dominic White
I've got their box of 15mm Early War Germans - there are no bases in the box, but each (standing) guy has an integral base of about 10mm.
Colton Kelly
>They've already covered most of the major theaters/battles Do they have any Chinese scenarios?
>>"reasonably accurate scale" Max firing range MG42 - 4700m Effective range (probably half) - 4700m/2 = 2350m Let's take ground scale 2mm -> 2m (2mm mini scale is even smaller than that) - 2350m / 2m * 2mm = 2350mm
So the effective combat range of a MG42 on your table is 2,35m or 7'8. If you wanna make your ground scale "reasonably accurate", everything is pretty much always in range of everything else (except hand grenades). Very few wargames do this (they exist, though).
This has been discussed before and it still stands - most (WW1+) wargames can't be reasonably played with real ground scale.
>>"warhamster" Actually the sound reminds me more of Warmaster. Also I can't see how a hamster "aptly" describes your critique of the game. Also I'm the same age as Warhammer Fantasy, so I doubt anyone used it long before that.
Jackson Cruz
I first saw Warhamster in the VIZ comic about GW. I think that blokes a yank though so I doubt it comes from there.
it's still an awful term.
Xavier Lewis
I always love how everyone assumes that EVERY firefight was fought at "effective range", nobody went closer to one another, and they just shot each other at 2000 meters, thus no range is accurate and 4'x6' tables are absolutely haram.
And while it was said that your eyes get quickly used to it, I'm still not sure how you could shoot accurately with an MG42 at 2k meters without any kind of scope...
Dylan Barnes
I read somewhere that most modern firearm combat occurs at 15m or less, but I'm not sure if that included war or was in civilian contexts only.
Isaiah Rodriguez
That's what their pacific war books covers. Covers the American involvement and the Chinese theater.
Austin Robinson
I read something about 200m - except on a plain, open field where it's something like 300m.
I mean, seriously, to hit something at 2000m you need a freakin' scope. Ever seen a MG42 with a freakin' scope? Me either.
Jaxon Cox
>Ever seen a MG42 with a freakin' scope? That's because they used tripods!
Wyatt Nguyen
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Mason Roberts
force warhamster?
I first played warhammer fantasy back when 2nd edition was released in the states. people were calling it warhamster back then. so not sure what force is being applied
Jeremiah Cooper
Besides scopes German tripods also had automatic traverse & elevate mechanisms for long ranges.
Alexander Howard
Same mine is on its way. Gonna do a demo force for it and can't decide on the armies. Thinking about say early war free french with a Char 2C vs. say some invading germans but that doesn't seem very sea lion worthy. Think it's gonna be homeguard vs. BUF Traitors.
Nathaniel Hughes
>Ever seen a MG42 with a freakin' scope? Me either.
Time to read a few books about ww2 weapons i guess..
Elijah Myers
Even if the MG did not have a scope, all MG crews were supplied with bino's, so the spotter could tell the gunner if he needs to adjust his aim.
How the fuck do you think naval guns work? They don't have scopes either.
Robert Stewart
Empire in Flames does have rules for three different flavors of Chinese armies. They don't produce any Chinese models uncortunately but other companies do.
Gavin Williams
>"warhamster" >Actually the sound reminds me more of Warmaster.
You're not alone. Have a relic of ye olde interbutt. Also I fail to see warhamster as an insult because hampsters are pretty cool. Or cute at least. I mean they're not as good as guinea pigs but they're better than mice. /hottakes
Warmaster was pretty cool. Damn thing died locally before I even got an army going. Still got some empire halberdiers in their original packaging. Warmaster Historical never even started to take off here but I heard it fixed a bunch of little problems Warmaster had and was generally well received.
Charles Nelson
Saw those on TMP while taking a break from watching the current meltdown, looking good except for the yellow filter.
You tried white-balancing that with a sheet of paper? Also: post AARs and thoughts please.
Ian Murphy
>Ever seen a MG42 with a freakin' scope? Me either. Reminder that machine guns are usually team weapons.
And that a lot of them used to have sights marked up for indirect plunging fire.
David Diaz
>because hampsters are pretty cool. Or cute at least. I mean they're not as good as guinea pigs
Them's fighting words, Hamsters are in all ways superior to those fucking pigs.
Hunter Miller
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Caleb King
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Jacob Sanders
Anyone has the Pony Wars ruleset?
Jacob Barnes
Anyone have a scan of Osprey MAA 424: The Chinese Army 1937-1949? Thinking about building a circa 1937 Chinese Army for some homebrew rules.
Noah Moore
Chinese Civil War armies is in the OP mediafires - covers 1911 to 1949
1937 is a fun period to game in China
Matthew Howard
Nice photoshop. Warhamster was never a real thing and will never be a real thing. Stop lying.
Brody Collins
>Yellow filter There isn't any filter, I assume its just from the yellow cardboard they're photographed on?
Without the yellow background they look kind of bland, like in this size comparison picture of the Soviets
Wyatt James
Then in 28mm scale are 3 meters and half of table. I think that range of some weapons is a bit weird.
Liam Kelly
Kovalic repeatedly made warhamster jokes in his Dork Tower comics for years and years.
Ethan Butler
I see what he means, the white balance in your pictures is off. You can see the white of the can and monitor logos are slightly sepia tinted. If you take a picture in front of a sheet of white paper and then use a photo editor (like GIMP) to correct the white balance then you'll get a better representation of what the figures actually look like.
I think they're very nice by the way, I need to get into to smaller scales.
Nathaniel Walker
>increase the price of the kit by $9 >decrease the number of models by 14 Are Warlord the GW of historicals?
Jose Flores
Yes.
Caleb Reed
Yeah.
Grayson Young
Shit like this is why I bought 1/72 miniatures instead of Warlord's. They are way too pricey! GW is the company in which I spend most of my money and I'm not made of money.
>It is 374 years since the Battle of Rocroi, Have any anons here seen the movie "Alatriste" and is it worth tracking down?
Mason Sanchez
Yeah, it's enjoyable, but the book was better as it didn't have to fit into a movie's length. Some parts felt rushed.
Elijah Sanchez
I play Kriegspiel dressed up like a Piedmontian officer (thanks greatgrandfather for being in the Bersaglieri, that hat is sick) and play exclusively armies of the Italian peninsula.
I'm probably not a real wargamer.
Christopher Smith
>Yeah, it's enjoyable, but the book was better as it didn't have to fit into a movie's length. Some parts felt rushed.
I've read the books and enjoyed them. Having read the books, I'm not expecting much from the movie other than the Rocroi battle scenes.
Thanks for the "review", I'll definitely track it down now.
Zachary Gonzalez
It takes place at the end, if that was Rocroi...been a while since I watched/read it, but the battle scenes were nice, albeit not the main focus for the most part. Lot of talking between the main characters as per the book.
Jacob Thompson
>Lot of talking between the main characters as per the book.
That's one of the reasons I enjoyed the book series. I also know that lots of talking usually makes for a dull movie!
Jacob Lopez
>Are Warlord the GW of historicals? >6 minis for $20 I might as well splurge on Steel Fist samurai.
