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1169 – Saladin becomes the emir of Egypt. 1344 – The Siege of Algeciras, one of the first European military engagements where gunpowder was used, comes to an end. 1351 – Combat of the Thirty : Thirty Breton Knights call out and defeat thirty English Knights. 1885 – The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada. 1913 – Balkan Wars: Bulgarian forces capture Adrianople. 1917 – World War I: First Battle of Gaza – British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance. 1939 – Spanish Civil War: Nationalists begin their final offensive of the war. 1945 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces. 1954 – Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons. 1971 – East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form the People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Liberation War begins. 1975 – The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force. 1982 – A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C. 2010 – The South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan is torpedoed, killing 46 sailors. After an international investigation, the President of the United Nations Security Council blames North Korea.
Chivalry’s finest military expression in contemporary eyes was the famous Combat of the Thirty, which occured on 26th March 1351. An action of the perennial conflict in Brittany [part of the Hundred Years War], it began with a challenge issued by Jean de Beaumanoir, a captain of Charles of Blois supported by the King of France, to Robert Bemborough, a captain of Jean de Montfort supported by the King of England. When their partisans clamored to join, a combat of thirty on each side was agreed upon. Terms were arranged, the site was chosen, and after participants heard mass and exchanged courtesies, the fight commenced.
With swords, bear-spears, daggers, and axes, they fought savagely until four on the French side and two on the English were slain and a recess was called. Bleeding and exhausted, Beaumanoir called for a drink, eliciting the era’s most memorable reply: “Drink thy blood, Beaumanoir, and thy thirst will pass!” Resuming, the combatants fought until the French side prevailed and every one of the survivors on either side was wounded. Bramborough and eight of his party were killed, the rest taken prisoner and held for ransom. In the wide discussion the affair aroused, ‘some held it as a very poor thing and others as a very swaggering business,’ with the admirers dominating.
The motivation for the combat is unclear. The earliest written sources present it as a purely chivalric exercise, undertaken to honour the ladies for whom the knights were fighting: referring to Joan, Duchess of Brittany (House of Blois) and Joanna of Flanders (House of Montfort). These women were leading the two factions at the time, as Joan's husband was in captivity and Joanna's was dead (her son was a young child at the time). This is the account given by the contemporary chroniclers Jean le Bel and Jean Froissart, both of whom present the conflict as purely a matter of honour with no personal animosity involved.
While the combat did not have any effect on the outcome of the Breton war of succession, it was considered by contemporaries to be an example of the finest chivalry. It was sung by trouvères, retold in the chronicles of Froissart and largely admired, and honoured in verse and the visual arts. A commemorative stone was placed at the site of the combat situated between Josselin and Ploermel and king Charles V of France commissioned a tapestry depicting it. The renown attached to those who participated was such that twenty years later, Jean Froissart noticed a scarred survivor, Yves Charruel, at the table of Charles V, where he was honoured above all others due to having been one of the Thirty.
According to historian Steven Muhlberger, this chivalric version concentrates on "how the deed was done and not on who won. The willingness of all concerned to agree to rules and to actually observe them, to fight their best and not to run when injured or in danger of capture are the focus – and both sides are shown as equally worthy in that respect." Later, the combat came to be seen in very different terms, influenced by the most famous of the contemporary popular ballads on the topic. In this version the English knights are villains, and the Blois faction are loyal and worthy local warriors.
Tall plano boxes are Napoleonic boats. The rest is WWII. The short plano boxes are IJN that I opened and assembled, more done in the hardware box. Unopend 1 box is German, 2 Brit (1 GHQ, 1 C in C), the remaing 2 and the bigger tub is US. The hardware boxes are 3/4 full of finished ship. Have some French that he bought off someone years ago but they need redone. The glue failed on his old labels so I did relabel some but holding off on the rest for when the trey gets a boat buddy assigned to it.
To the chch user. Woolston is doing quite well for itself because the other mayor club imploded. And the new president, though I don't often agree with everything he does, Is doing some much needed changes to the place. You play anything? Could potentially meet up? Is that even a good idea?
Michael Peterson
To make this hwg relevant. Bolt is played quite often there. At one point it was being played as much as 40k. Other games as dba, fog, adlg as well as the odd Naval and 6mm moderns and Saga
Blake Fisher
Im only in ChCh like 3 months of the year, and I play some stuff but like last time I was there the only historicals was those 2 polite old grogs who play FoW, and those other older grogs who play Ancients. Neither of which I play unfortunately.
Bolt Action being played there is news to me which is pretty cool, honestly when I stopped going was when the Fantasy players were leaving and 40k was nearing death too, it was a sad 6 months.
Cameron King
>buy five men at kursk >it lists FG42 as autorifle >ok that makes sense >auto rifles have "heavy" rule >FG42 is the same weight at a kar98k
Ivan pls, Im just gonna house rule them as semi auto rifles because thats dumb
Gavin Carter
I tend to play Bolt Action or Saga. Have Warmachime also but might drop it unfortunately. Both seem to be played more in recent years.
Nolan Russell
Kind of a dumb question. Can anyone tell me a make/model or lead on a metric only ascending centimeter metal retractable tape measures? Preferably 12m x 10cm. Hard mode in Burger land for sale US domestically and would like to not pay for them to cross an ocean. I find myself in need and grow tired off searching after searching a few days.
I've got a small metric stick rule I use for my metric needs. Still might not fit yours, but check out Wiha's folding rules on Amazon.
Daniel Williams
I've just checked ebay. You can get something like >pic related $10 dollars free int shipping. comes in metric
searching for something like: 10m-50m Wear-Resistant Measure Tape Metric Ruler Pocket Size Measuring Tool will get you longer things. Building supplies etc.
50m seems a bit excessive, I’ve never played a game needs more than 3.
Mason Walker
recently I have been feeling kinda nostalgic and have been looking to get back into 40k, its been over 10 years since I switched to historicals. do you guys have similar experiences with nostalgia and 40k?
yes but only because I havent actually played a wargame against an opponent since I stopped playing 40k 6 years ago, closest I have is xwing but i stopped that 2 years ago
Connor Long
Yeah, and the I look at GW and see everything has changed so my nostalgia counts for nothing...
I have a mostly unbuilt Ork army for 40k, but the amount of work getting that on a table probably isn't worth it.
Gavin Cruz
Do tape measures in burgerland really only come with either metric or imperial units on them?
Every one I've ever had in Blighty has had both.
Justin Wilson
To be fair over here in the former soviet republic of britfagistan, we constantly mix imperial and metric measurements in an insane mess brought on by only a half-arsed conversion to metric that's still slowly going, and the older generations still think in Imperial for everyday stuff like weights when cooking so that's not helping.
Xavier Cook
Getting back into the actual game? Not really, because from lurking Veeky Forums i know that the rules are nothing like they were back in the day.
Getting back to paint some space marines or demons once in a while? sure.
Wyatt Reed
No, I quit 40k in 3rd edition because it was bland as fuck and moved to warhammer proper because it was a more interesting game tactically. Then I quit warhammer at the end of 6th edition because 7th fixed very few of the problems I had with 6th edition and fuck it, was already getting into historicals at that point anyway.
I'm a fairly mechanics-focused gamer; not in the how to use them to win but in how they really gotta give a good 'feel' for what they're portraying without being too frustrating or caught up in method focused rather than results focused simulation. Epic, BF:G, Necromunda, Warmaster... all of that did that better than the mainline GW games for matching mechanics to setting their settings for me so I've followed that kind of... thing. And historicals has a lot of good options for that and interesting time periods/armies to do it with.
Adrian Smith
Im from a country that is almost exclusively metric but I think Imperial Measurements for wargames distances and for human height is better than metric
Lucas Gutierrez
Playing against anyone would be nice, but I get anxious about meeting up. Plus stuff like vassal has a learning curve I have no time for, and anxiety about meeting randoms online. Got Kill team. Painted the figs. Never played the game.
I'm on here and the discord, but I don't speak in person because...well. user is better. The one guy I could play against I'd have to use vassal or tabletop or something and he's a bit of a luddite. Has trouble using alternative browsers stuff like that. I've given up.
Landon Morales
Unless youre over 45 theres no reason to be a tech illiterate grog. Grogs are meant to be at least remotely intelligent, especially historicals.
Luis Foster
He's hitting that slowly! I'm just lazy in making time to get off my ass and learn a new tool.
Jack Gray
I use 5m metric tapes e’rry day at work. My personal favorite are the Ace Hardware store brand tapes. Stanley makes a pretty good one too. I’ve got a 25’ Komelon at home that’s my favorite overall but it doesn’t have metric but I assume they make one. Work only buys cheap tapes because they wear out pretty fast.
Burger tape measures are either Imperial only or mixed. Metric only is a bit of a unicorn here.
The thing that gets me about metric countries is they seem to forget about decimeters (10's). You either have a tiny number (meters) or a huge number (cm) while ignoring the inbetween.
The reason I asked about metric tape measures is that I'm back to working on my boats. General Quarters 3rd went from inch to cm for measurement which the new system really cleaned up measuring while not throwing things off. Pure metric tapes would be nice and clean for gameplay. We normally play on a 8' x 8' table. Tradition was our old salt water grog would provide everything for the game. He passed a year ago and willed his naval stuff to me so now I get to provide.
It's more like over 50ish. I'm 41 and people in their 40 grew up in the dawn of the computer age. It was the new thing and school tried to beat it into your head.
>over 70 I wish I had a dime each time my mom calls me with questions like "now how do you make a new folder again".
Blake Brown
Just going through the vassal tutorial. My god. It is a thing of beauty. NEVER grokked it before.
As for the tapes, Japan does purely metric tape. I got well irate when I bought one over there for wargaming and found no inches on it. Really threw me. >captcha: Select all images with boats heh!
Kayden Thomas
>Metric only is a bit of a unicorn here.
Odd, I've never seen one that wasn't mixed.
Juan Jones
Like I said, I use a stick rule (in this case, for Naval War which is also in CM). The one I have is metric only on one face, and imperial only on one face. The segments also lock at 90 degree angles, so the double as a square if you need one for laying out areas on the board.
Dylan Cruz
We have to special order them at work but it can be done.
How do I keep games and campaigns of low-intensity conflict actually intense?
Watching documentaries where things get tense but nothing happens or reading news reports where a couple of people get injured in a suicide car bomb aren't inspiring the project to get going. When I imagine a heating up of the conflict it feels like Tom Clancy's amateur hour.
that reminds me - must paint and base those 4 goats on my paint table. Thay can be crucial scenario objectives
Adam Wilson
IV-user here with another Impetus for VASSAL mod update! 0.5.154 is a go, with more armies and more features than before.
After having a good look at the 40k VASSAL module and how they managed to get it to work so flawlessly, I managed to add a minimap, a range-measuring thread, some boards you can pull up for deployment and to keep better track of dead units, and a notes window for keeping better track of VDT/Morale.
With 154/275 armies, we've passed the half-way point and slowly moving towards finishing different eras one by one. As always, if you want to play or learn Impetus, we have a small discord here; discord.gg/Z6N47p6
FoW has its own general, they get asspained when we steal anything of theirs.
BA is DMCA'd regularly
Christian Cox
>friend who has only ever played and painted 28mm heroic GW games tells me my 1/72 figures look terrible >Offer him one to paint >he backtracks and says something that small is impossible to paint so no matter what itd look like shit
okay man
Christian Torres
Flames has its own general BA has a massive folder linked in the second post of this thread
>BA is DMCA'd regularly No it isn't, don't spread mistruths like that
Carter Harris
That's because decimetres are fucking useless for everyday measurement tbqh, range bands for wargaming are the first practical use I'd ever have for them
Nice table, not sure if that's the rear of a garage or a wild west outfitters' sneaking in though
Jordan Wood
Are there places irl with blue tile roofs? It looks nice but I don't imagine blue clay exists and painting tiles sounds too expensive to make it common.
>Northern Mali Interesting user, can you tell us a bit about the tactics and units being used? I know nothing of the war
Thomas Rodriguez
I actually live in France and have tried to track down the location of the Combat. I found an area and apparently there's a marker but it's not near the actual site. Can /hwg/ help me find it?
Benjamin Martinez
>FC Barcelona glove I swear Barça is as much part of the uniform of third-world combattants as old AKs and Toyota pickups.
Jeremiah Thompson
>youtu.be/MCdKgd2tgp8 here is a video of the Bundeswehr practicing for their Malian deployment. If you're interested in tactics, its a good video for what happens when a patrol is attacked.
>youtu.be/H4SUypWjfYY This video gives a brief explanation of the origins of the conflict. It's a little dull but it gives a good idea of typical, everyday operations. Daily patrols seem to be the norm.
Don't just think it's the Germans in Mali, they fall under the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (or MINUSMA for short) which is a United Nations operation. There are a staggering amount of nations involved in the conflict, Nepalese, Swedes, Chinese, Cambodians, Canadians, Bangladeshis. It has however proven quite a deadly conflict for them as they're more suited for peace-keeping missions than fighting an insurgency. Check out they're youtube channel if you want.
If you really want to look there's footage of American Special forces being ambushed and killed in Niger which is related to the conflict in Northern Mali.
I just watched a short documentary on it and it seemed just the French were there (Mali being an ex french colony), no mention of Germans. Thanks for the links though, will have a look.
Lincoln Morris
Yeah French are still there in a large capacity but nowhere near their role in 2013. Here's quite a long video from this year about a French convoy. Ignore the title and some of the editing, there's no conflict and the documentary-maker hurts his back. youtu.be/R76fU5THN84
Brody Baker
I'm sure the exact spot has probably been forgotten now user, or maybe moved around a bit I found the marker you were talking about while googlemapping (I love that); I see there's a go-kart track across the road! I would try and ask some locals in either Josselin or Ploermel, perhaps at the local library or with a local history club; I bet someone around there has investigated it in the past Old maps of the area could be really useful, again they're probably stashed in local archives
Any one have experience using sand on canvas as a battle field? There was a link a few threads ago. I bought a few kilograms of sand for being and had a bright idea. But it might just end up looking crap and failing of in my house etc.
Or I believe Calico works well too according to Silverwhistle.
Spread decorators caulk (brown is better for obvious reasons though white may be OK) over the dust sheet/calico, use a spatula or a wallpaper smoother to spread the caulk. Then scatter the sand over the caulk. You can use the caulk tube as a roller to push the sand into the caulk. I also sprayed watered down white glue over to assist in it sticking. I tried it on a small piece to start with and was surprised how effective it was.
One thing to note the caulk will seep through the cloth when applying it so don't do this on anything that you don't mind marking. And there will be some excess sand/flock so be aware of this.
The finished sheet is quite heavy but still reasonably flexible. I believe you can roll them up and transport them in capped plastic waste pipes but I've not tried that yet.
Lucas Bell
>what is slate?
Blake Sanders
the North Africa table I'm playing on lately was done that way. you will have sand falling of a 100% but not to an extend where half the mat is lying on your floor.
Do those suffer from the same fate GW's hobbit suffers from where the low model number means a handful of key dice rolls have more impact on the game than your tactics?
Lincoln Taylor
Vice also has some pretty good footage on YouTube
Ethan Taylor
Making a VASSAL module is a lot of work. It depends on what you want to do with it. You could knock together something that is 99% imagination in about a day, but making a full mod for Gloire would take a whiiiiile.
Just learn to play Impetus, they're pretty similar
Brayden Hall
Sup guys, I got a bunch of greenstuff for christmas but none of the imagination or skill that comes with it. What are some good projects for first time sculptors?
The best way to get the hang of sculpting is to modify existing models.
Get a few cheap mooks (so if you fuck them up it's not a big deal) and maybe try converting one into a champion, or giving one a cape or something.
Gabriel Collins
Consider getting some plasticine or other non-drying modeling clay and practice how to make fabric folds etc.
If you get a low sulfur clay you can use it later for making two-part RTV rubber molds
Elijah Turner
As a sometimes-sculptor, the best tip I can give is superglue.
Greenstuff loves superglue, the easiest way to sculpt is cut the shape you want on an oil coated surface, touch a dab of superglue to the piece you're attaching to and then it'll adhere very tightly. You'll then be able to sculpt anything without it slipping off.
Jason Martinez
How compatible are Peter Pig and Battlefront miniatures? Infantry, not vehicles. Very? Barely?
Eli Kelly
>want to get into tabletop wargames with mini's >Only have a tiny table with no space for a larger one. Ahhhh
Band of Brothers looked ok but God damn where would I even store the terrains.
Nolan Sanchez
Either play a low-model skirmish game, or try something in a lower scale like 6 or 3mm?
Austin Johnson
Here is a video (in german) with comparisons between various 15mm vehicles/miniature makers.
