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Post by captpanama on Apr 21, 2019 1:48:14 GMT
If you are going the 15mm range and dont you dont want to spend much time painting terrain. Plastcraftgames and 4Ground terrain you only assemble and glue and ready to play.
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Post by walt on Apr 21, 2019 3:33:11 GMT
The games often are resolved so quickly, that I suggest taking the 'Combat" approach, and prepare a few 'sets' that get recycled regularly....The Street, The Hill, The Farmhouse, The Bridge......just drop the module into your generic countryside, and yell "Action!" ....This game system is a load of fun, and a real eye opener. I see what you mean and likely will build a light set quickly to get up and running! I’ll be downloading the 4th edition rules tomorrow (hoping thru Sunday discount means Sunday as well!)
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Post by orangejello on Apr 21, 2019 8:38:03 GMT
Welcome to miniature WW2 gaming Walt! This company has deeply discounted 15mm US & Ger plastic soldiers on sprues. Also bargain pricing on 28mm US, German & Russian plastic soldiers. Plus awesome near-future minis. Hope this helps. dreamforge-games.com/collections/everything
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Post by walt on Apr 21, 2019 15:01:17 GMT
Quick question: With regard to map building and scale, I guess a inch = roughly 5'?
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Post by Ed the Two Hour Wargames Guy on Apr 21, 2019 16:39:47 GMT
Close, 2 yards per inch in 28mm.
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Post by captpanama on Apr 21, 2019 16:41:16 GMT
Those prices on Dreamforge stuff are great
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Post by walt on Apr 22, 2019 14:08:32 GMT
Thanks everyone for the help in getting started!
I've watched wargamingaddic's YouTube videos. Does anyone know of any other videos or walk throughs? I find videos a great supplement along with the rule book.
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Post by daveh66 on Apr 22, 2019 19:00:49 GMT
Welcome to the world of miniatures wargaming.
I'd endorse a lot of the comments in the thread as modular terrain is far more useful than specific boards, particularly if you use the random terrain generation in the Nuts! rules.
I have played a lot of Squad Leader back in the day, but like a lot of Brits started with boxes of Airfix figures. I personally use 20mm figures for WWII as the plastic figure sets are cheap and give some good variety. For Nuts cost is not a big issue with larger scales as you are not often fielding more than a couple of squads and a few vehicles, so 28mm figures can work for that.
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Post by walt on Apr 22, 2019 19:16:15 GMT
Hey Dave.. Thanks, excited to get started. I'm thinking 20mm which is 1/72?
Totally understand the notion of modular building and definitely will. I think I will start with a 4x4 board as I already have it from another build. In the interest of speed and found it looks pretty good previously will be starting with a generic Google earth image of a French landscape.. On top of that I'll implement 3-d objects.. (hedge rows, trees, walls ect.)
That way it should prove easy to change up.
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Post by Ed the Two Hour Wargames Guy on Apr 22, 2019 22:46:07 GMT
Hey Dave.. Thanks, excited to get started. I'm thinking 20mm which is 1/72? Totally understand the notion of modular building and definitely will. I think I will start with a 4x4 board as I already have it from another build. In the interest of speed and found it looks pretty good previously will be starting with a generic Google earth image of a French landscape.. On top of that I'll implement 3-d objects.. (hedge rows, trees, walls ect.) That way it should prove easy to change up. 4x4 is great . Juist divide it into 9 sections and it will be fine.
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Post by whiteface on Apr 30, 2019 6:55:29 GMT
No, no, you want the 4th edition. The 4th edition came out after the final edition - turns out the final edition wasn't final! Oh, I think I‘ve missed Nuts! 4th Edition...this wouldn‘t have happened if it had been called „Nuts! Final Final“ or „Nuts! really really final“ 😄 Does Nuts! 4th use the Battle Board rules?
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Post by walt on Apr 30, 2019 16:13:59 GMT
Another one..
The only YouTube Tutorial is 2nd edition rules.. How far off is this compared to 4th?
Ty
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Post by infierno on Apr 30, 2019 17:26:34 GMT
No, no, you want the 4th edition. The 4th edition came out after the final edition - turns out the final edition wasn't final! Oh, I think I‘ve missed Nuts! 4th Edition...this wouldn‘t have happened if it had been called „Nuts! Final Final“ or „Nuts! really really final“ 😄 Does Nuts! 4th use the Battle Board rules? If you mean the streamlined tabletop Battle Board rules of recent THW games, no. Nuts! 4e still uses movement measurements and the full shooting table.
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Post by Ed the Two Hour Wargames Guy on May 1, 2019 1:09:17 GMT
No, no, you want the 4th edition. The 4th edition came out after the final edition - turns out the final edition wasn't final! Oh, I think I‘ve missed Nuts! 4th Edition...this wouldn‘t have happened if it had been called „Nuts! Final Final“ or „Nuts! really really final“ 😄 Does Nuts! 4th use the Battle Board rules? Yeah, Final edition was supposed to be the final edition. But players wanted move speed of play with streamlined mechanics yet the same results, so that's what happened.
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Post by Ed the Two Hour Wargames Guy on May 1, 2019 1:18:52 GMT
Another one.. The only YouTube Tutorial is 2nd edition rules.. How far off is this compared to 4th? Ty Some things are the same but the Shooting, Melee and Reaction Tests are different. Much quicker but same results. One big change is in shooting where if you miss, the other guy immediately returns fire. If he misses and you fire back again and miss, he ducks back. Lot less Reaction Tests. Also 4th Edition gives you rules of smaller Missions with fewer guys. Also a section called Chocolate and Cigarettes which allows you some new Missions as well as dealing with Civilians.
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