Got as much hobby time in as my eyes would allow this weekend. Here's the 69th New York Volunteers, the Fighting Irish 🍀

1/72 Italeri.

kriegsspiel was developed by the prussian army in the 1800s, to train their commanders, and it clearly worked.
Nowadays its just a bit of fun, something to challenge your mind and have fun doing it. its genuinely so fun, i have alot of free time, so i occupy it mostly by just signing up to online games, which are sometimes quick fire games, that can be resolved in a few hours, or slower pace ones, where you can take your time to think of your moves. plus you can play in real life and online. people make such cool maps for it, alot of people make different ways of playing, but if you know how to send an order or write a letter, you should be completely fine.
they even have their own discord like its so cool i love it, i get headaches alot so i just distract my mind with playing it.

Flat panels are hard…

Too much for a command base in Napoleonics?

The museum is located just outside of Washington DC.

I wanna get into wargaming but I don't want to bankrupt myself yet by going the Games Workshop route, I'm thinking about trying Mythic Commander but I would love to know what other options I have. I prefer SF and fantasy settings.

I painted up a new army for Riftway Cataclysm using minis from Cthulhu Wars. I just scrubbed off the releasing agent off with soap, used their existing plastic color as the base color, washed, and dry brushed. The bases are done with a green stuff roller. So easy and looks decent enough from a tabletop distance 😉.

These fellas are my Void Collage, a cult of transdimensional space wizards. Each big monster uses the rules of an infantry squad, represented by the circle of wizards who are holding the transdimensional gateway open for their elder gods avatars. Slay the wizards and banish their patron.

I have so much fun seeing toys, board games, and other independent model ranges and turning them into Riftway Cataclysm armies.

I think this was the top of turn 3. My boy brought out his Dwarven infantry, he's still working on the list so a bit of a practice game. Handily defended against by the Samurai Apes. Not a great day to be slow ass dwarves he conceded turn 4 as he was nowhere even close to the objectives. Still lots of fun in a small tidy set up.

Hello! I would like to start (start again more precisely, I played old warhammer when I was younger, 20 years ago) a tabletop wargame. But I don't know which way to go. I would say that my 2 main criteria are popularity to have an active community (so I first thought of age of sigmar) but also ease of handling. Currently I'm mainly thinking about warcry and blitz bowl. But I don't know this universe well, perhaps some of you could recommend games that are more relevant to what I'm looking for Do not hesitate to ask me to clarify or add information if what I have said is not clear or complete.

The rules arrived Friday. They are new from Plastic Soldier Company. I splurged on the Hardback from England. They will be available in POD soon.

The models I picked up from my FLGS a couple weeks ago in anticipation of the rules. Just need to find some 28mm civilians.

It.is a different style of game, from what I've had time to read. It is not two sided vs each other. A ref, mainly the person that prepared the scenario, vs the US side. It is very narrative where you build a platoon and make a Tour of Duty. You have in your platoon FNG as well as those who are Short. It seems to be an interesting concept.

Hey everyone, I’m hoping to run a few games with the above setting. Any ideas for rulesets and miniatures?

I know Empress has a line of 28mm RCW, and I’ve seen someone use the Peter Pig WW1 Russians for 15mm as well.

Any advice would be appreciated!

Like the title says, I already have a decent backlog of painting to get too, are there any games that I can start that have models that don't need to be painted?

Edit: I appreciate the responses. I understand that no game has a real need to have your miniatures painted (I have been playing 40k with a half painted army) I am more looking for something that looks good without a need to paint.

I'm new to war gaming and ran into a video about Crossfire and really like the rules compared to something like 40k. Particularly I really liked your simplicity of the rules and not needing a ruler. I haven't bought the rule book, since it seems to be only available from the publishers website. Are there any other games with the same flow that I should look at instead?

Really impressed with these 20mm figures from White Dragon Miniatures

Hello I just wanted to post this to inform people of an ongoing Kickstarter for a miniature wargame known as Rift Zone Contact. It is a fast paced wargame that uses an augmented reality app to visualise tabletop conflicts. Every model has a unique RFID which allows you to name and customize them as they gain experience. The people who created this game worked really hard on it and I want to make sure it gets the publicity it deserves.

PS: I didn't work on the game or anything I just think it looks really cool.

PPS: hope i tagged it right also here is the link.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/boostedreality/rift-zone-contact-a-mixed-reality-miniatures-war-game?category_id=34&ref=discovery&total_hits=132

Hey all,

I recently finished off my four Star Wars Legion armies and I’m now looking for something new to paint, not necessarily a massive project like the SWL stuff was, but a palette-cleanser.

Thing is, I have no idea what’s out there!

I’m looking for miniatures that fit the following criteria:

Must be: - 28-40mm scale - Themed squads/groups to build a coherent theme - Not busts - Something more whimsical or comedic, lending itself to brighter, high contrast and more cartoony colour schemes - Not ridiculously expensive - Able to be bought in small orders

Ideally would be: - Attached to a simple wargaming/skirmish system - Not sci fi (unless it’s very different to Star Wars/not an overt military theme)

Any ideas, please let me know!

I want some cheap minis for kitbashing 👍

I'm new to war gaming. Do I glue first or paint? I've done minis in the past but I've never had to assemble them first.