#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...).

[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.

[canopiancatboy]

Helldivers 2 is pretty great. I'm a really big fan of (Verhoevan) Starship Troopers, and I feel like I could write a whole essay about how "seen" I feel with this game. I do love that this game has resurrected the old discourse about the film, some things never change

My friend got me the game after he found out I hadn't been on it yet, declaring it "made for me" and "wtf are you doing", and yeah he's right. Thanks Gman

Yada Yada for Democracy, feet first into hell, c'mon you apes, all that jazz

[setsneedtofeed-hobbist]

Display mech done

[open-sketchbook]

tau fire warrior circa 1994

[porblegames]

junkyard crab

dang i need to get some backdrops

[oldschoolfrp]

Medieval miniature scenes from the pages of Wargames Illustrated, including Essex and Citadel miniatures already considered "old" by the late 1980s.

Top 2 from back cover of issue 9, May 1988; editor Duncan Mcfarlane noted:

Back cover photos: Two shots of Essex Miniature 25mm Medievals. Top: Borrowed overnight from the 'Bring & Buy' at the Sheffield Triples. You could have snapped these up for £2.50 each. The ruin: Hales Models. The tent: Battleground. Bottom: Borrowed from Gamers in Exile -- now in the collection of London wargamer Richard Wood. These mounted figures were painted by Steve Skinner. House and fences by Hales Models. Thatched building by Ian Weekley of Battlements. And, yes, that's an old Citadel Miniatures adventurer lurking in the background, painted by John Redley.

3rd is from issue 10, June 1988:

Medieval baggage train from the collections of London wargamers Tim Hall & Roger Needham. 25mm figures including old Citadel and Essex. Buildings from the editor's collection including the 'butter market' that launched the Hovels range.

[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.

[yodawgiheardyoulikemecha]

[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.

[randomtechpriest]

Inner Sphere Heavy Battle Lance for my mercs