#miniature wargame

[oldschoolfrp]

"Medieval battle scene," for a certain value of medieval that includes flying monsters -- diorama with Citadel miniatures, from Heroes for Wargames by Stewart Parkinson, Paper Tiger/Dragon’s World Ltd, 1986. There are many small details in this that I could see only after scanning and zooming in the image.

[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

[trve-grimdark]

Peter Cushing with his toy soldiers

[porblegames]

interesting discovery: a 6mm scale pea car is about the size of a 1680mm scale pea.

[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...).

[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.

[wujczak]

Battlefleet gothic proxies - Emperor class battleship and three Sword class frigates

[a-wa-c]

Lord knows I don't need any more miniatures games, though that still doesn't stop me, but I see a game that has a unit called "Artillery Witch" and has this art for them:

...then I may not be able to control myself.

Trench Crusade is the game it's from and I believe they have a few models out for it, but it's still just in playtesting at the moment.

[oldschoolfrp]

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

[setsneedtofeed-hobbist]

Display mech done

[trollbite]

i'm a plastic surgeon now!

[hypothetical-colors]

My sorcerer for my court warband. This was quite the ordeal to finish. Especially since I printed the miniature at only half the intended scale .. Al the details were super small

[porblegames]

6mm pea car: "i'm walking here!"