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@shayott A bad movie addition that you could check out for 7TV that touches on the rollerblade/skating theme “Solarbabies”. The only redeeming thing of that film, if I rememeber, was the inclusion of music from Nine Inch Nails.
A note on the Frogfoot, look to early footage of attacks by Russia in Ukraine for real time flights of the aircraft.
@brennon Your garden gnome game idea is great and might even work as a tower defense like Plants vs. Zombies. Good luck with your mobile slaughter sarcophogi.
@dignity With the weather getting chillier will we expect to hear more exploits of airsoft or is that done for the season? With spooky season almost gone and winding up for the New Year, do you have anything set up for Terrainfest or plans for the Spring Clean Challenge?
I have been tinkering away this week on something garden battle based haha
Carving missiles from wood? That’s what they used to suggest in 1960s issues of Airfix Magazine. The old advice was to seal the wooden parts with a mixture of talcum powder and the cellulose dope used to seal the tissue paper coverings for flying model aircraft to give a surface you could sand down to give a smooth surface for paint.
Shay breaking out the classics then
That Noo Yoik accent went a bit Saville at the end
Now then, now then…
Happy Sunday……then goblins at the beginning are perfect for pathfinder…
They do have perfectly Pathfinder-ish heads that’s for sure
The logistics side of war is quite interesting especially when you start to think about what is required to keep a force of 10K troops in the field. Just to contemplate water alone, if you say a soldier requires 1-2 litres a day, then just in drinking water you’re going to need to deliver 10-20k litres every day, then add water requirements for vehicles. The you’re probably looking at around 20-30K litres every day.
A modern ground war at the same scale as WW2 wouldn’t last as long these days. The reason being the amount of rare earth minerals required in modern military equipment and armaments. The largest producer of rare earth in relation to processing/manufacturing is China. No one else can process to scale like them. So if you were an enemy of the Chinese there’s no chance you’re going to get a regular supply at scale from anyone else. Plus most countries would have to build a manufacturing base from scratch. Look at how many countries have had to be involved in keeping Ukraine in the war with Russia. They’ve struggled including the US to keep up with demand. Likewise Russia has also struggled to replace damaged and destroyed equipment. Then there’s getting hands on fuel such as petrol and diseal to keep the military moving.
It really is crazy when you think about the logistics of it all even at this stage
Happy Sunday!
No long format from me this week, I have a cat in my lap.
@shayott YOU MAD BOY!
And I forgot the rest I wanted to say.
HAPPY SUNDAY!
Your outburst at Shay will suffice
@dignity when you spoke about going up to the cutey goblins and getting spikey teeth, I was immediately reminded of Galaxy Quest and the rock worshipping munchkins.
@shayott re. rotor blur. This might be a bit of a faff, but the results look good when done. Take a look at this blog which takes you through the steps. Rather than printing this onto plastic, which might be an issue, I would suggest printing it onto some blank decal sheets and then applying them to some clear plastic.
https://oikofuge.com/how-to-model-rotating-propeller-discs/
I’ve had a look Into that post and I may be able to get the same sort of effect in a similar way using Photoshop. Thanks for bringing that post to my attention it’ll more than likely be what I use to get my rotor effects!
@shayott I’ve been thinking about your spy mechanic for your campaign.
Perhaps something like each side gets 4 spies. You can use them to defend a friendly sector or spy in an enemy sector. Whoever has the most has in the area wins the intel.
Defenders just deny the enemy any information and the only thing the attacking spy learns is he didn’t have enough spies in the area to penetrate the defenses.
If the attacker wins the intel, the defender gives them one true piece of information from a list. This could range from, this one specific unit is here, but you don’t know how if they’re at full strength or not, or you know there are 70 tanks, but you don’t know what types, or you know there are X number of railroad cars.
You could even let the defenders choose from an adjacent area a true fact so they can engage in deception operations to make it look like the main advance is coming from a different sector than the one the attacker successfully spied on.
I really like that you did such a deep dive on logistics but also made it very simple from the player’s viewpoint.
Ooh yeah I like that idea for spies. I’m still trying to think of which direction to go with it but that idea will definitely be added to the list. Logistics on such a large scale has always fascinated me so it’s been really fun diving into old records and files trying to figure out what countries really had and what was propaganda (not easy when you’re dealing with the USSR 😂)
Wish I’d watched this in full on Sunday, then I’d have had a heads up 🙂 Thanks for the golden button, shout out the Painting Comp more often. Great episode as always
Yes Ben with King’s Bill & Ben in the flower castle 🤔
Time for a Shan/Gerry can 👍🤔👍