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Post by schlendrian on Jun 17, 2020 20:40:40 GMT
The "I blame ff" thread showed quite some players of whfb and wh40k players on the board (which probably isn't all that surprising ) yet there's no thread for it here. What armies do you play? Favourite editions? I have empire and orks for fb, started with 6th edition, which remains my favourite. They're stashed away as I transitioned to historical tabletop years ago.
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jun 22, 2020 14:26:47 GMT
Played WH40K Rogue Trader back when it came out for some years. Traitor Marines, Chaos Renegades [from the Army List that came out for free in White Dwarf 107 (nov 1988)], brother had Genestealer Cult, and I also had [and still have] 40-odd of the old metal Orks. Plus plastic Imperial Guard and various other figures.
Still play the 1989 'Space Marine' game - the 6mm figures for the Horus Heresy
WFB - Fantasy Battle 2nd and 3rd edition and i was Chaotics again (what does that say about me, I wonder?).
More recently my sons have been playing WH40K and I've sometimes got involved in the games. Youngest goes for Dark Angels and those massive Knights, oldest boy like his father plays Chaos Space Marines.
I never played the game competitively, always with a Gamesmaster/Umpire.
I still very much like the Warhammer 'lore' both 40k and fantasy and still read the books.
Like you, I have transitioned to historical games, for me it's mainly Ancients, Medieval and WW2 in scales from 10mm to 28mm.
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Post by schlendrian on Jun 25, 2020 16:33:16 GMT
That's quite the history! I never collected any 40k stuff, but like you I got involved in some games and I do still like the lore as well - it's a pity they scrapped it in fb.
I never went as small as 10mm, prefer 15 and 20mm - mostly Bronze Age and WW1
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jun 26, 2020 8:39:12 GMT
.... it's a pity they scrapped it in fb. Yeah. To be honest I pay no attention to what they’ve now done with the lore, Age of Sigmar etc. I’ve nothing against it, but for me Warhammer Fantasy is always going to be what it was in the mid 1980’s to the early 90’s. That’s to say a world parallel to our own Earth. A Holy Roman Empire on the face of it strong but being eaten away from the inside with intrigue and corruption and under pressure from the exterior by waves of barbarians whether they be orc tribes or chaos incursions. And the New World is a ‘what if’ of conquistador-style exploration of the jungles and buildings of an empire long in decline, with Norse and Amazons and Slann fighting it out. They never did expand fully on the rest of the Warhammer World – I mean Araby, Nippon, Tilea, the Southlands [Africa]. The beauty of the whole thing is that you could fill those gaps with your own imaginings and if you are wargaming it you can have Samurai 28mm figures for Nippon; Saracens, Mameluks and Ottomans for Araby and so on. I never went as small as 10mm, prefer 15 and 20mm - mostly Bronze Age and WW1
There are some good 10mm manufacturers out there like Pendraken and the models are easy to paint to a decent standard. You are not going to get the variety you get from 15mm though. A question: What part of WW1 and at what scale? (By that I mean skirmishes like trench raiding or recreating The Battle of Verdun?) Also for the Bronze Age – what do you focus on there?
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Post by schlendrian on Jun 29, 2020 19:38:06 GMT
That's precisely what made the made the Warhammer World so much fun, all those parallels to to our history, you had your Luther and your Columbus and it was always fun seeing what they did with well known stories (the Ork King Arthur for example) or coming up with your own interpretations - there existed fan made army lists for all those realms you mention.
Yeah, the variety is very important to me, as I like to mix different manufacturers. If I ever go smaller than 15mm, it's probably gonna be 6mm.
My WWI is mostly centered around the Austro-Hungarians and their direct enemies. I have Austrians and Italians for more skirmish style battles in the alps (both sides have their own unique take on German stormtrooper tactics) and Austrians and Russians for small battles with 1 unit = 1 company, which gives that mixture of old timey and modern warfare I like about this conflict - cavalry and armoured cars, planes and all that. I just read "And quiet flows the Don", so now I'm producing a Don cossack regiment.
My bronze age is very typical - New Kingdom Egyptians versus Hittites, though I'm also working on a Sea peoples Raiding force.
So, what's your take on the periods you game -
Ancients: Hellenistic, Punic, Early Imperial Roman?
Medieval: War of the Roses? WW2: Probably 1944 Brits versus Germans, if I may venture a guess... or something different?
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jul 1, 2020 17:56:08 GMT
My bronze age is very typical - New Kingdom Egyptians versus Hittites, though I'm also working on a Sea peoples Raiding force. I've got a soft spot for the Hittites. Their chariots outmatched those of the Egyptians, it's just a pity their footsoldiers didn't make much of an impact at Kadesh. The Sea Peoples are an interesting mystery and I see scholars still seem not to agree on who they were or where they came from. Ancients: Hellenistic, Punic, Early Imperial Roman? Medieval: War of the Roses? WW2: Probably 1944 Brits versus Germans, if I may venture a guess... or something different? Spot on. War of the Roses where soldiers with skills learned over many years of wars against France are turned on each other as the Plantagenet dynasty goes down in flames. Sometimes play Hundred Year's War but for that the scenarios need careful balancing or else the poor French just get mown down like grass. Crusades too. For WW2 the father-in-law and the wider group has the Brits [and pretty much everything else to be honest, and in gigantic numbers] in all sorts of scales and for throughout Europe. I've got quite a few US Army and US Paratroops (10mm) in addition to Germans. At the moment I am taking part in a sort of moderated play-by-[e]mail game set on D Day+1. That's precisely what made the made the Warhammer World so much fun, all those parallels to to our history..
That's right. Parallels to our history and geography. It's one of the reasons why I like Martin Noutch's Steam Highwayman gamebooks so much - it is set in a steampunk England with places closely based on real locations. Wargaming, like other games based on a specific theme, often encourages research and further reading on the subject. Playing the first version of Sid Meier's Civilisation computer game years ago in the early 90's had me reading all sorts of stuff connected to it, from Aztecs to Zulus. Being interested in ancient history had me wandering through the Teutoburg Forest a few years ago. I think the only WW1-related game we play is Wings of War - an entertaining game of dogfighting with those characterful planes of the period.
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