#miniature wargame

[oldschoolfrp]

Elves and dwarves assault a castle of chaos, in a miniature battle scene from Casus Belli 44, April 1988

[jakestabletop]

1830s Mexican infantry in summer fatigues and shako covers; 28mm metals from Brigade Games' Boot Hill Miniatures line, individually based for Sharp Practice, Rebels and Patriots, etc

[kris-belleau]

UNBOXING Legions Imperialis Warhammer the Horus Heresy #boardgames

[grayrazor]

So apparently on twitter there's a whole thing going on where anti-woke Warhammer fans performatively stormed out by declaring that they were going to play the horror-themed WWI wargame Trench Crusade instead, only to be mass-banned from its discord because the moderators didn't want a bunch of paleocon trolls stinking up the place.

The thing that blows my mind isn't just that they thought the thoroughly subversive Trench Crusade was positive Christian rep, but that they thought Warhammer 40,000 was. The setting where the messiah is explicitly dead and rotting and was an anti-religion crusader in life. Meanwhile Warhammer Fantasy's Sigmar is much more Thor than Jesus. A lot of conservative evangelicals and tradcaths seem to fall into liking straight up pagan gods if they have a sufficiently macho and traditionalist (western European) aesthetic.

Honestly, this is beyond media illiteracy, it's just straight-up blindness. Obliviousness beyond even the people who think Robocop and Starship Troopers are gung-ho pro-American action movies. Now I'm left to wonder how many fans of the Blasphemous game series are passionate reactionary Christians who get the happy feelings from the aesthetics and totally ignore the story and themes.

Still, I am glad to have learned about Trench Crusade through this, looks like a cool game. Aesthetic and themes kind of remind me of the Trench Foot/Countrycide mod for Doom (which, granted, started off as a Warhammer 40K mod...).

[oldschoolfrp]

The classic Heroquest zombie fits right in with his two-handed meat cleaver

ZOMBIES! I painted a new zombie and did a bit of digital painting over the photo.

[the-god-of-hellfire]

Ever since seeing this meme...

...I haven't been able to get the idea out of my head.

So with much ado, behold:

My magnum opus of wargaming terrain.

[sympyl]

Warhammer fandom elsewhere on the internet: *nerd bros with memes from 2011 and vaguely weird vibes talking about which primarchs could beat up which*

Warhammer fans on Tumblr: Omg. my guy. My dude. My little humfus blumfus. My skroinky paloinky. My blorbo. Littlest of meow meows. *points towards Deathkiller Skullscream the Vile, Lord of the infamous warband the Boneflayers from Planet Murder, whose least significant warcrimes involve torturing civilians to distill hard drugs out of their neural tissue (its more potent if they die screaming) and owning an entire planet as his own personal torture chamber which he goes to to unwind after a hard day of orphan murdering and slave trading*

[princemolder]

HURRICANE RELIEF MUTUAL AID STREAM

Helene totally took out my local game store, Main Street Comics and Games. Tomorrow night (10/16/24, Wednesday) at 7 pm est I'll be running a Charity Stream raising money to help them get back to doing the wargame stuff that we love! We'll be painting minis, kit bashing, and helping rebuild my favorite LGS!

Main Street Comics was completely submerged in downtown Marshall, about 20 minutes away from Asheville NC. They are a small family business, and could really use your support. They're so close to their goal!

bit.ly/MainStreetRebuild will take you to their gofundme, it would be awesome if you donated!

I will be streaming tomorrow night at 7 on twitch.tv/PrinceMolder, which is my personal Twitch account.

[setsneedtofeed-hobbist]

Display mech done

[yodawgiheardyoulikemecha]

Mobile Frame Zero - TCH01 Quad-Legged Unit

[canopiancatboy]

A Locust, with my rethought out bases. I've been playing Helldivers lately and there are some really pretty pastel palette planets around and decided to emulate one of those

I still don't have a coherent color schemes for my mercs beyond mostly light neutrals with large color panels and decals, but I hate settling on these things, I always change my mind

Anyways happy early Halloween

[oldschoolfrp]

Princess Ryan's Space Marines, William Lindsay box art for Mark McLaughlin's game of squad combat in the 23rd century, East Wind Rain Co, 1986. This first edition of the game included 48 space marines and 4 vehicles in 1/285 microarmor scale, all cast in lead by SIMTAC.

[open-sketchbook]

tau fire warrior circa 1994

[porblegames]

junkyard crab

dang i need to get some backdrops

[maniakminis]

Chevens, Toady of the 13th Garlic Grenadiers. He may be small and incompetent, but his high pitched voice is loud and annoying enough that even the deafened cannon crews can hear his orders!

And here he is side by side with his Toff, General Stolka. Bonus points if you know who these two names are referencing, it's also who I headcannon their voices to sound like.

[fiendishneko]

"A trio of mecha advance into a small desert town, catching the local military presence off guard. Unbeknownst to them, enemy reinforcements are fast approaching..."

I maaay have found a new Mecha rpg system (The Mecha Hack, for those interested) and I maaay have been falling super hard for it and printing a ton of 6mm scale mechs and vehicles for it.

Somehow I keep forgetting how much I love 6mm scale. It can be detailed as all hell, but it's so small there's no pressure to make sure you get adsolutely everything right. You only do as much as you are comfortable with amd it always feels like a flex. :)