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Stone giants got some love. I finished off the bases with some much needed foliage:
I don’t know why, but after 30 years these are still among my favourite mini’s, old Grenadier models from the 80’s. Unfortunately, these are from my ‘shiny phase’, when I was sealing mini’s with a gloss finish. Argh. Only some got flocked and I’ll be correcting that as well. They’re due for a makeover, but not a substantial one… maybe a bit of zenithal highlighting and shading.
well … I was wrong. Tripods & Triplanes will probably arrive at a later date.
This time it was one of those hex&counter thingies I backed “Nights of Fire” + the ‘Days of Ire” and an expansion pack of sorts:
Yeah … it gots minis, but it’s not that kind of game. Consider it an upgrade as the campaign included allows you to play both games as part of a campaign.
https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/236125/nights-fire-battle-budapest
So that’s modern war sorted … 😀
@limburger that looks an interesting game!
Anyway I just saw a ghost or two…
The blueish one I am not sure about but the green one fits the bill for me.
@cpauls1 those are some lovely old school minis! Thumbs up from here!
Got my Paras to the final stage before they’re based. Just need a wash and the Camo before I can go any further.
I also got sick of actually doing research for my YouTube Channel so I just finished recording a 50 Minute video of me randomly flipping through “Napoleon’s Campaign’s in Miniature” and talking off the cuff about the period. Although I did go on a few tangents (at one point I bought up Darkstar and it was 100% relevant). It’ll go up during the week so subscribe to “Grizzly Cave” if that sounds cool. After that a video about the OTHER Battle of Thermopylae is coming out later, trying to go a bit outside the box and not just repeat things other people have already covered.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuj_cx8x0DGoDC09XCI9zGw
Teaching a friend Sharp Practice tomorrow which should be fun especially since he’s French.
@cpauls1 it was the in thing to do back in the day, it seems almost every mini pre 2000 had a very thick gloss varnish coat. A DONGA is an African word that the Aussies picked up during the Boer War and brought home, now it’s a portable building that you se on construction site. It’s 6mx4m and perfect for me. They’re starting to catch on here in Australia since our construction industry is far bigger per capita than Europe and the US so we have a lot more old ones floating around.
@unclejimmy Without getting political Ayn Rand is the Father (Mother?) of Modern Libertarianism, she created the “Voluntarism” ideology where the idea that “Taxation is Theft” comes from and of course ANCAP’s gave us the “Recreational McNukes” meme which we can all agree is a great contribution to online culture. They’re also easily the most self deprecating/laugh at themselves group in the world which makes them pretty good memer’s.
You should defiantly give weekend wargaming a go @oriskany and his games are always great and open to anyone who wants a go. No pressure or anything and a lot of fun. I mean you can literally play a wargame with it’s creator on a weekly basis (Darkstar) or anything else that Jim can run via Excel. Our game on Sunday will probably be live streamed (9pm GMT, 6am AEST, 4pm Florida Time on Sitrep’s Twitch) but most of the time it’s just you and Jim or maybe one or two other people watching.
On the Music Front Forlorn Hope just launched their Debut Album today and it’s fantastic you can check it out on Spotify. Napoleonic Historical metal, my favourite so far is “War in the Shadow’s” about the Guerrilleros. It’s got a great Chorus “Fight for God and Ferdinand! Fight the War that no one knows War in the Shadows”. Die Hard is also great, about the Battle of Albuera which was a total slaughter fest, focuses on the 57th and their Colonel’s famous words as he lay wounded “Die Hard 57th” and they did taking about 80% Casualties, that’s what happens when an under strength Brigade tries to take on an entire Corps (and succeeds).
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@unclejimmy: Yep, fashionably late. That’s what happens when you live on this side of the water and have to go to work at an office making other people rich. 🙁
I have joined Twitch – my condolences. 😀
Do I have to do anything else. – Actually, no. So there are two things you can do …
1) I run these games via a web conference tool. All you really have to do is hit the link in that group e-mail that says “MEETING” – we’re aiming for 9PM (might be a little late) tomorrow your time.
2) Twitch works too. Same time. Just hit Sitrep Twitch Channel .
What bothers you? – I’d better not say. Just in a shitty mood. Hence the apology in advance.
If it isn’t original then it can’t be worthy of attention? I get it. – Nothing is original. Cracks me up when someone thinks something is.
Maybe that is why the “youth” are so useless? – Well, to their credit, they make me laugh. So they admittedly serve some purpose. 😀 And wistful nostalgia. *sigh …* I remember when I was that naive …
You are so autistic I can smell it! – Ha! Only about certain things, in my defense. For example, anything fantasy or sci-fi … I have no issues. Have fun, go for it. Historical, however, has an additional hurdle to clear, which most gamers don’t realize is even there. If they do, they’re don’t understand it. If they understand it, it intimidates them. It’s all fine.
And again, it’s not just “grognard preference” or “rivet counting.” The games … are broken.
Generic example: Tank platoon “A” has a range of 1000 yards. Infantry platoon “B” moves at 200 yards a turn (1 minute turns, and this is being generous). A bazooka / PIAT / panzerschreck has a range of 100-200 yards. So that infantry platoon has to cross through 5-6 fire phases of the tank platoon (once within 300 yards or so they’re also dealing with the tank’s MGs). That infantry platoon trying to assault that tank platoon is dog meat.
But in most recent “games” (and I use that term loosely) Tank A has something like a range of 24, Infantry has a range of 12, and a move of 6. So the Infantry Platoon moves once, maybe twice, and as the tank under fire.
No tactics. You can just walk up to a tank and blast it. No need for cover, suppressive fire, off-board support assets, smoke, terrain, fire and maneuver, triangulation …
BROKEN game. It fails to recreate the conditions and tactics it’s using as a cheap marketing gimmick, cloaking itself as “historical” in a sad, vain attempt to “culturally appropriate” the additional reality and gravitas that genre embodies (or is supposed to embody, in any event).
Now, INFANTRY-based games like FoF you mention (I assume Infinity as well, but I’m not familiar and in any event, it’s sci fi so it gets the carte blanche) I have no issue with, because just as most heavy weapons cover much MORE range than most people realize, infantry weapons and small arms are much SHORTER ranged than most people realize, at least in real combat conditions. So I find they “fit” on the table quite well.
Card Games – the only “real” card game I like is poker, mostly because I play it with my Dad.
Grouchy – in @doctorether ‘s defense, I think I was calling us grouchy, or at least myself. 😀
@cpauls1 – I like the LED mini. Is that a water elemental or blue magical flame? Objective marker? Hey, I know those other minis! Aren’t those some of the heavy infantry that shattered my right wing one time? 😀 😀 😀
Harpoon – Eh … I have mixed feelings on this game. I honestly see what you mean, and agree in large extent. I think the game found its footing when it moved to PC. As a table top game, or miniatures game, I agree it was very hard work to the point of being basically unplayable.
First of all, and I know we use this phrase to kid around a lot, but in Harpoon it was a literal truth … I have LITERALLY had to play that game on a tennis court. Not kidding about that. My Dad had a tennis court in our back yard growing up, and I seriously lost the USS Iowa out there once.
Harpoon gets a lot of things right. It drives home the point that weapons are nothing … SENSORS are all. And helicopters. I’ll trade in a squadron of Tomcats for one decent ASW SH-60 Seahawk launched off a humble frigate. Games that teach the TRUTH about military operations – never mind the “rool of kool” and “cinematic moments” – are the ones for me – at least for historical and moderns. Again, sci fi and fantasy … this totally doesn’t apply. 😀
Coming up with a better system … well, its is far </i>from perfect, but Rory Crabb’s Naval Command that I featured in the Falklands Series wasn’t bad. I feel the game needs a real “come to Jesus” moment with a copy editor and a serious fact-check with a copy of Janes, but the ground work is solid and it the game runs smooth. @elessar2590 and I ran a 20-ship game in five hours. Would have taken five days in Harpoon.
Sowed some grass this afternoon
The ammo crates don’t look too bad, I might just stick a couple of branches over them to camo them anyway.
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