On a quest to give my Bretonnians a particular look, but am shorter on quiver (among other things) than I would like and haven't had luck dredging up spares online. I know Empire has archers that use them, so I figured I'd ask here in case someone has unused ones laying about. I am US based but can buy international.
They were meant for some 17th century pike and shot, but we're on fantasy land: https://chainlinkandconcrete.blogspot.com/2024/07/after-action-report-13-july-2024-tpl.html
I have them locked up in storage since my last move and almost forgot about them - I figure the thatched ones probably still fit, though maybe it's all a little too Empire.
Looking around online seems to dredge up mostly copies of the old How to make Wargames Terrain book style with those awfully huge stone blocks but little in the way of official art or anything.
My first thought was some dark age hovels!
Bought at a local Bodega almost a year ago but we never did anything with it - the tub of berbere I.got at the same time is best by end of this month but I don't see anything on this package.
Be it your local meta making the Hatchetman HCT-6S a particularly prime choice, your groups combinations of special rules making things with "Fine Manipulators" crucial for pulling off wins, unusual campaign setups where taking a cluster of Silverfin a good idea, or just an undying love of "Bug Mechs" in all their forms, what profiles have you found yourself fielding more often than others and what do you think drives that choice?
Working on my Brets again, this time gussying them all up with extra bits of kit. I've the notion to give my archers mostly axes and hammers (stakes don't sharpen and drive themselves) but also figured the little knives you see on the command sprue would be a nice addition as well. Unfortunately these don't seem to be up on any of the usual bit sources I have (ebay, etsy).
Same with quivers - weirdly few of them on the archer sprues, and I'd like more.
Anyone happen to have these laying about unused, preferably US based?
Working on my Brets again, this time gussying them all up with extra bits of kit. I've the notion to give my archers mostly axes and hammers (stakes don't sharpen and drive themselves) but also figured the little knives you see on the command sprue would be a nice addition as well. Unfortunately these don't seem to be up on any of the usual bit sources I have (ebay, etsy).
Same with quivers - weirdly few of them on the archer sprues, and I'd like more.
Anyone happen to have these laying about unused, preferably US based?
What's on the sprues not withstanding, are there any lore-written limits on what weapons a peasant can have? Given how rigid their society is, I'd imagine they probably don't allow the whole rank and file to have swords if they can get them, for example. Plus I'd imagine knightly styled swords would be out completely!
Of course we can do what we want (and I'm going to use swords as one of the ways to mark "Unit Leader") but it did get me thinking. Alas bit of a bummer we don't get spears even though our polearms can still fill that function at least.
Shields to - the big pavis style shield is cool, but I'm wondering if bucklers, knightly heaters, or even enemy shields captured during campaign (Empire, orc, even elven) would be derided or accepted.
Been painting again, and looking at my Battletech backlog (to which I just added yet more things to today). I've got my mech scheme worked out, but I'm thinking about my tanks and choppers, and how my pattern might translate to them or not.
Part of me is thinking just simplify it because they're lesser folk, the other part says maybe go full conventional (and pattern it after military vehicles from Neon Genesis like the mechs), but I'm not decided.
When you did your tanks, planes, even infantry, how did you work it into the scheme you had for your mechs? Or if you didn't, what made you go that route instead?
So I bought the starter box almost a year ago but I'm just starting to see an opening in my queue for it. It has got me thinking though, what comes next? I don't really play so I don't know anything about local meta, and would be collecting in a vacuum.
From what I can tell a Damsel and more Pegasus Knights are probably the best bet. However, I remember that the game now has an allied army mechanic which has me thinking about picking up the other army I'm nostalgic for - Empire.
So if one were going pure Bretonnians, what's the good first step out now? Pegasus and maybe some Men At Arms?
If I wanted to splash Empire (even if I still don't like those 7th edition sculpts much), what's plausible? I thought about knights just for a laugh, but more realistically we'd pretty much have to start with state troops right?
Some are Allied Universal, some don't seem to have any corporate logos, but they're definitely not the cops (though I have seen those). There's usually one or two in Cross Street itself so I assume they've got contracts with Atlas, but on Friday/Saturday nights I see several more sort of spread around Charles St. in the vicinity where everyone's out and about.
Are they also still working at the Market, does the city hire them on to keep the peace in the general, or who is behind these guys?
I got some guidance on how to write this up on this sub a while ago, and I finally got around to finishing it. An astonishingly large amount of digital ink wasted on a piddly NPC-grade character from a campaign world that'll never see the table BUT I had fun writing it.
Feel free to hack at it - judge the story, the mechanics, point out errors. Maybe praise something you like about it! If it's worth a fig maybe I'll finish some more, or share stuff about my setting (not that there's any shortage of those online these days).
That was fun. I don't think I ever actually interacted with these in Tib Dawn so it's based on what I could dredge up online plus or minus how I felt like making them for that RPG I never ran.
My last couple seemed to be fairly popular so I think I'll drip these out every two weeks or so (unless everyone thinks I should step it up - not that you can't just read everything on the blog anyway hah).
TL;DNR I unpacked my Haqqs because I might actually have an opponent now. How do I make my collection N5-relevant?
I have not played Infinity in years (since August 2023 actually) and have not really followed the game since N5 was getting teased a bit. Years on and a move to an actual city, however, I've started to make contact with some local players and pulled my guys out of storage to see what's survived and get a handle on what part of the embarrassingly large bin of unpainted Infinity stuff I should tackle first...because that's more fun to think about than cracking open the N5 rulebook and figure out how to play all over again.
Originally I was going to go with Libertos and Krakots because they're colorful and my eyes need a break from earthtones but it looks like we don't get those in Haqq anymore (alongside a variety of mercs that look like they got a general purge of - RIP my corporate security goons!).
I'm not sure how much our general meta changed, but prodding about a few posts in the last year it seems like we're still big on Irregulars (Daylami, Kum, Gazi still seem "in"), and Saladin has apparently gained increasing importance between the editions than I remember (guess I'll finally be painting him soon). Much of my collection was never "meta", unfortunately, but maybe some of it has gotten more useful?
Anyway, digging through the rubble and pulling out my hair I did find a few things that were on abandoned N4 to-do list that I'm curious about: Kaplans, Khawarij, and the Odalisques. Are any of these suddenly worth taking now? Generally it was a no in N4, but Kaplan and Odalisques would be an interesting palette shift in my horde, while I've always liked the "First Gen Super Soldier" theme that the Khawarij had in earlier editions (which ironically made them bad takes since they were not very specialized).
Has anything particularly salient emerged for Haqq between editions? Should I secretly be mainlining Yuan-Yuan and Ragiks, spamming Muyib and Zahyedan, or dropping everything and getting those helicopters that were apparently added to the game while I wasn't looking?
MOAR GUNZ, AIMED HIGH!
I am starting to use this tool again after a couple of years in roles that didn't require it. Format and layout seem to be a touch different now than what I remember having in the past but no matter.
One thing about STIGs and eMASSter/POAM tools is tripping me up though!
In eMASSter I took the existing Test Results and existing POAM (which was a WIP thing I did not personally create, I got dropped into this task midstream), plus the single STIG checklist and ingested them into eAMSSter.
All good there, after which I took that emassteroutput file and copied the columns from the output format into the actual POAM template for upload (since for whatever reason eMASSter puts out a file you can't simply turn around and upload).
All good, STIGs show up. However, the "Finding Details" box the analyst filled out in the checklist itself doesn't seem to populate anywhere.
Isn't there supposed to be a column - maybe "Comments" - on the POAM that incorporates the STIG Finding Details? Else how do they ever show up in the POAM / Test Results in eMASS? It has been a couple years, am I just misremembering?
Adding some love to the Artillery platoon!
Captures that old and new mix I appreciate about Downtown.
I have a Daimler Armored Car I picked up ages ago in my backlog that I recently realized might actually fit into my Airborne theme (6th Airborne had Dutch forces attached and they used Daimler Armored Cars - that's my flimsy excuse, not that I need one).
The kit doesn't have a Littlejohn Adapter, but I'd like to have that turret as well as the normal light AT gun without buying a second kit (saves a bit of space). I did something similar to my Autoblinda back in 2e, so I'm wondering if anyone's found a turret that interfaces with the Warlord kit?
Found it this morning over on E Lexington, by the court house. Very nice lady runs the place, and service is quick.
Well, one version of it, anyway.
I had plans for their other "light tank" to be more like what we saw in the cut scenes and unit sidebar icon - Bradley chassis, but with a larger caliber gun (I imagined it mated up to something like the 75mm ARES or similar, just slowed down for reliability). I also paid a nod (heh) to the one we saw in Renegade, but I made that something for elite units that never reached numbers enough to matter during the war.
I was very silly back in those days I suppose.