Desired scans : Rank and File supplements Harpoon 3 & 4 supplements Force on Force supplements Hind Commander At Close Quarters War and Conquest Modern Spearhead The Face Of Battle General d'Armee (TFL version) Swordpoint
Robert Harris
January the 23rd in military history:
971 – In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops. 1570 – James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such. 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends. 1900 – Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat. 1915 – The Chilembwe uprising, regarded as a seminal moment in the history of Malawi, began as rebels, led by a minister, attacked local plantation owners. 1920 – The Netherlands refuses to surrender the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies. 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Rabaul begins, the first fighting of the New Guinea campaign. 1943 – World War II: Troops of Montgomery's 8th Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German-Italian Panzer Army. 1943 – World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua. 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign ends. 1945 – World War II: German admiral Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal. 1961 – The Portuguese luxury cruise ship Santa Maria is hijacked by opponents of the Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is overthrown. 1963 – The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attack the Portuguese army stationed in Tite. 1968 – North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo, claiming the ship had violated its territorial waters while spying.
Angel Rivera
The Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels was the name given by Australian troops to a group of Papua New Guinean people who, during World War II, assisted and escorted injured Australian troops down the Kokoda trail. The Angels were named for both their frizzy hair and helpful role.
The Japanese had built up a force of 13,500 in the Gona region of Papua with the intention of invading Port Moresby. The key to the offensive was an overland trail across the Owen Stanley Ranges. The trail was approximately 100 miles long, folded into a series of ridges, rising higher and to 7,000 feet and then declining again to 3,000 feet. It was covered in thick jungle, short trees and tall trees tangled with vines. 4000 Australian lives were lost in the campaign. It is speculated that this number would have been much larger had it not been for the Angels. As one Australian has noted:
“They carried stretchers over seemingly impassable barriers, with the patient reasonably comfortable. The care they give to the patient is magnificent. If night finds the stretcher still on the track, they will find a level spot and build a shelter over the patient. They will make him as comfortable as possible fetch him water and feed him if food is available, regardless of their own needs. They sleep four each side of the stretcher and if the patient moves or requires any attention during the night, this is given instantly."
No known injured soldier that was still alive was ever abandoned by the Angels, even during heavy combat. The last Angel died aged 91 on Christmas Eve 2017.
I have. I've shared the ASL and VG stuff (plus other scans) in the OP's, now I want new h&c scans. I know of some anons and gamers-garage who refuse to share.
Looking for 70's, 80's and 90's gaming magazines.
As I get new stuff, I'll share them as well.
Brody Evans
Is there a WWI module for "Five Men in Normandy?" Thinking about trying it in my Trenches.
Hudson Flores
is there a Bolt Action list i can refer to for American Airborne troops? Thinking of running an 101st list just not sure how to make a functional company for 1000 points.
Austin Garcia
The Market Garden theater selector is a good outline, but it comes down to how accurate you want it to be.
Austin Harris
>Is there a WWI module for "Five Men in Normandy?"
No, but the Lardies have some great WW1 rules you can find in the OP.
Nathaniel Miller
I haven't played any of them, but isn't FMIN basically fivecore? He's released a fivecore trench warfare expansion and no one's seemed to talk about it or review it. I'm very curious myself.
Matthew Thomas
Also, if you're talking about trenches you've made, I'd love to see them.
Gavin Butler
Requesting Batailles de l'Ancien Regime (BAR)
Nicholas Taylor
Thanks mate, I'll have to check that out, I'm really digging the idea of opposing trench raids between French and Germans
And here's the trench, originally made for my Death Korps but honestly has basically sat around doing nothing for two years, I think I got two games in on it since construction.
Angel Evans
>sat around doing nothing for two years I feel like I remember you posting this in the wip thread. Time flies, doesn’t it?
Jeremiah Lopez
Breddy gud, could have used some more traverses but at least looks much better than most pre-fab trenches.
Wish I could join you user, we both want the same thing.
Austin Rodriguez
Could be, I know I've posted these before, but I couldn't recall the thread.
Thanks mate, there's a lot I'd change if I were to do it over, I think the wood in particular looks a bit overused, but I'm mostly pleased by them
And if you're ever on the west coast US I'm usually up for a game.
Brayden Thompson
Are there any good systems that work/could work with Airfix WWII planes?
Lucas Garcia
1/72 is pretty large for air combat, you could try Mustangs and Messerschmitts - seems to be aimed at that scale
Brayden Davis
Looks fascinating! You have to build trolleys? Could be a fun outdoor game maybe? Does anyone have a pdf of the rules?
Charles King
I've seen display games at cons based around strafing runs on bombers, played in 1/72 in a school all The bomber(s) would move across the room as players swooped in and out from either side trying to hit them By the same token I've seen something similar for ground runs too, although that was actually WW1 (where the slow speeds make this scale relatively workable; see "Canvas Eagles") I once thought that would be a cool way of gaming the air attacks on trains in the Desert War, or Stuka/Typhoon attack runs on armoured columns
Totally forgot this existed, I do remember reading about it in a magazine once Wargame Vault has a copy for $10
Easton Ramirez
>can't upload nice pictures of minis to bump thread because image uploading is borked
Dominic Clark
is it? huh so it is
David Scott
Yo user, iam tempted to buy some 6mm modern/cold war minis. Any good ruleset, iam not searching for a scenario based, some like the standard wargames, missions, objetives, slugfest. Thanks
Angel Wood
Fivecore expansions usually seem to say or FMIN so I’d say yeah, that. But besides that you already have scattered rules for grenades, cover, mines, and supporting field guns, so I’m not sure what it adds.
Ayden Baker
FFOT
Lincoln Sanchez
>6mm modern/cold war Fistful of Tows, Coldwar Commander, Saber Squadron, Modern Spearhead, Team Yankee, and pretty much any modern war ruleset could work.
Are you looking for big battles? Small skirmishes? 1:1 representation? Generic stats? Lots of details and special rules? Any specific era/region (WW3 in Europe, Arab-Isreali, etc)
Nolan Martin
Theoretically it could work for From Shako to Coal Scuttle.
Jack Wilson
thx user, but i cant find the rules on the mediafire folder in the OP. You know any site?
Nathan Williams
Just bought it earlier. Brief flick through gives: > 16-18 setting > New terrain- mud, wire, different trenches, gas aftermath, etc > Flavour for weapons, mainly in automatic types > Character types > WWI changes to tank rules > Some Company command stuff that I don’t understand > Squad types that I also don’t understand because I only have retro core rules >probably other bits
Mason Hill
search fft3, the designer has a introductory set of the rules out there that covers the core mechanics (troop quality, anti-vehicle + anti-infantry fire, suppression), and only requires some learning of fire support + spotting to bring you up to the full rules. FFoT is nice because it is rather fast-playing, has options for pretty much anything you could want in modern wars (engineering, air/amphibious/night operations, plus chemical and nuclear weapons) and it has an absolutely massive database of vehicle/weapon stats and TO&Es.
Hey, is there a good too for drawingl or resource for sourcing maps for Five Men at Normandy/No End In Sight sized games?
Like, I opened Map Drawer or whatitsname and it's neither easy to use, nor has a wealth of stuff in it.
Gabriel Morales
>images are back About bloody time
Gavin Lopez
What ruleset/expansion are you talking about?
Jeremiah Green
I believe it's a trench raiding expansion for Fivecore
William Williams
Sorry, that's FiveCore Trench Warfare
Hudson Jackson
Thank ye!
Unrelated question: should my brit uniforms be darker? I just received WG transfers for them and I don't want to waste the transfers if my dudes are still too light for late war Tommies.
Cameron Lewis
Another shitty picture.
Adrian Cook
To my eyes I'd go a touch darker, but you'd probably do best finding photos or ospreys and comparing for yourself.
Juan Smith
I would also suggest a shade darker, but as we've established in the past, field uniforms could range across a variety of hues
Andrew Parker
Any quick and fast way to do it without repainting the whole damn lot?
Ethan Parker
Seems reasonable to me, assuming it's representing faded uniforms.
If you do want to make things darker, I'd recommend a careful brown wash.
Juan Taylor
Give it a wash?
Brody Hughes
Using a wash of some kind perhaps?
Michael Ramirez
Will it work without highlights?
This is all an issue of me not having an access to the paints that WG recommends for the dude and having to convert it via a few charts to Italeri. Should have gone with GW, maybe.
Chase Morgan
>Will it work without highlights? Yes.
David Watson
Well then I'll just to give it the ol' collage try! Thank you!
Nicholas Thomas
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Adam Russell
Been busy prepping for some 54mm SDS. Anyone recommend any good figures for the scale, especially cavalry?
Angel Peterson
Holy shit I've been looking for a Panzer leader PDF forever. My uncle used to have it in a bookshelf and I always used to open it up and stare at it for hours (never actually played it though) Always thought it was the coolest looking boardgame ever. Now I can actually play it finally.
Adrian Sullivan
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Joseph Cook
Don't.
They are fine. Uniforms faded to shit anyway, and it's easier to see on the tabletop.
Asher Thompson
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Lucas Nelson
Have anyone tried using LOTR SBG Age of Trebuchet rules with Battle Companies?
No, he didn't. He's talking about a historical adaptation of the rules.
Aiden Hall
Oh ok, I didn't know that was a thing.
Dominic Torres
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Jose Rivera
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Josiah Gutierrez
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Angel Sanders
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Henry Bennett
'Scale effect' will tend to lighten the color as well. It usually comes down to what looks good to you since basically any earth-tone will be 'correct'
Eli Stewart
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Easton Flores
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Jacob Lopez
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Christopher Campbell
Vapnartak grows closers. How many grognards are making their way to historic york?
They do! That must be why they made me so uncomfortable, I did recognize them!
Jackson Walker
> Be me, simple Austrian Landwehr > Going into battle against perfidious Frankreich > Suddenly sound of drums getting closer > Another sound too, harder to identify > Gets even closer > youtube.com/watch?v=Daa8ZnxC-0Y
And that's when I routed.
Leo Brown
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Gavin Williams
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Zachary Cooper
Do we have any pdfs of late-war german AFV camouflage schemes? Nothing in the mediafire immediately jumps out at me
Lincoln Reyes
I have this photo saved for some reason. I think it came from an old /fowg/
Mason Butler
>edge highlight No. It doesn't look good on tanks. Put some chipping there with a sponge from a blister.
Also, enamel-based washes are better for AFVs and guns, just make sure to spray it with gloss varnish beforehand. And don't wash big empty areas like armor plates, or carefully remove the paint, or maybe make it look like streaks of mud, dirt, rust, whatever.
Camden Morris
>No. It doesn't look good on tanks. Put some chipping there with a sponge from a blister.
That depends entirely on scale and personal taste, while it doesn't look good on larger scale tanks, it can look good on smaller scale vehicles.
Elijah King
Whatever the case, the edge highlighting doesn't look great there. Makes it look like a paper model actually.
Nathaniel Phillips
BMP
Cooper Scott
Edge highlighting is supposed to give the impression of light falling on a mini. Light doesn't fall on a tank like that, too big and flat.
On the subject of tanks, I just got a Warlord Games Panzer IV and it's got pic related in a baggie. I assume the wool is for smoke, but there's nothing on the box or instruction to explain the little tokens. They're ridged on the edges. I thought they might be stands to put under the treads but there's only three.
What are they?
Elijah Roberts
to put the smoke/fire markers on. They can be used for destroyed vehicles, or to mark one that's on fire.
Nicholas Williams
Not the user that asked, but that's a neat little touch that they included that in the kits.
Juan Lewis
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Christopher Hill
Wargames General is a Veeky Forums focused Discord Server that sees a lot of HWG chat focused around WWII era games, but would love to see even more of it. Feel free to pop on over and check us out.
Is it a good idea to slap some primer onto smaller pieces? I haven't done anything of the sort just yet since i'm still new to modelling.
Wyatt Moore
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Xavier Sanchez
everything should be primed if you intend on painting it.
Luis Price
Absolutely if you mean models, terrain you can often get away with not priming (at least in the traditional sense, a lot of MDF stuff needs a coat of PVA so that it doesn't absorb the paint and go all grainy).
Nice once JaZZ. hopefully the usual Dec/Jan Osprey drought is now ending
The Anti-Tank Rifle (Osprey Weapon 60)
The emergence of the tank in World War I led to the development of the first infantry weapons to defend against tanks. Anti-tank rifles became commonplace in the inter-war years and in the early campaigns of World War II in Poland and the Battle of France, which saw renewed use in the form of the British .55in Boys anti-tank rifle - also used by the US Marine Corps in the Pacific. The French campaign made it clear that the day of the anti-tank rifle was ending due to the increasing thickness of tank armour. Nevertheless, anti-tank rifles continued to be used by the Soviets on the Eastern Front with two rifles, the 14.5mm PTRS and PTRD, and were still in widespread use in 1945. They served again with Korean and Chinese forces in the Korean War, and some have even appeared in Ukraine in 2014-15. Fully illustrated and drawing upon a range of sources, this is the absorbing story of the anti-tank rifle, the infantryman's anti-armour weapon during the world wars.
What's your favorite decade, /hwg/? For me it's the 1690s >dirty end of the pike-and-shot era >aftermath of the Glorious Revolution >major fighting in Britain, the Balkans, the Low Countries, the Caucasus >pirate's twilight in the Carribean, while the Barbary pirates are at their height >spasms of madness and mass hysteria with things like the Salem Witchhunts >colonization fully underway with exotic battles between various native empires and the West >bitchin' fashions >peculiar air of jaded seediness that seems to hang over everything
Hunter Richardson
For me probably 1980s >Falklands >Iran-Iraq war >South African Border War >Modern tech going head-to-head in crazy parts of the world
