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Author Topic: Raglan's Modern Conflicts (Hollywood Style)  (Read 79012 times)

Offline carlos marighela

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Re: Raglan's Modern Conflicts (Hollywood Style)
« Reply #570 on: January 21, 2025, 08:46:24 PM »
Four pound mallet held at arms lenth over the selected AFV and then released from two feet or more would do the trick.

The modern equivalent of the old parachutist mechanism where you place a series of paper chits representing the paras onto a steel ruler, turn it over at a pre-determined height allowing them to float down, thereby simulating dispersion.

I will admit my suggestion for a four pound hammer would provide a more definitive and visually alarming outcome than that probably required. :D
« Last Edit: January 21, 2025, 08:48:11 PM by carlos marighela »
Em dezembro de '81
Botou os ingleses na roda
3 a 0 no Liverpool
Ficou marcado na história
E no Rio não tem outro igual
Só o Flamengo é campeão mundial
E agora seu povo
Pede o mundo de novo

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Re: Raglan's Modern Conflicts (Hollywood Style)
« Reply #571 on: January 21, 2025, 09:32:19 PM »
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The modern equivalent of the old parachutist mechanism where you place a series of paper chits representing the paras onto a steel ruler, turn it over at a pre-determined height allowing them to float down, thereby simulating dispersion.

My first Wargaming oppo, Steven O'Leary used this against his younger brother. The game had his Germans against his brother's British.
The Brits defended a river which was crossed by an Airfix Pontoon Bridge. The attack stalled, so Steve (aka Oscar) unleashed his Fallschirmjäger
(All conversions as Airfix had yet to release theirs  lol) Squares of paper were duly cut up & dropped. Pandemonium! Paratroopers went everywhere!
Behind the other German troops, on the bridge, in the river and two VERY unlucky souls right in front  of a British trench.   Much fun. :D

Offline carlos marighela

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Re: Raglan's Modern Conflicts (Hollywood Style)
« Reply #572 on: January 21, 2025, 10:50:22 PM »
I recall it from one of the Frank Chadwick games, probably Command (in)Decision. The height of the drop was determined by the training level of the transport crews. The better the training level, the lower the drop and thus the less dispersion. The bits of paper that landed face down (they were all marked with type and unit ID) were given a penalty of a hit chit or some such thing. It always struck me as a fun and fairly cool mechanic to influence such things.

It was pointed out somewhere that the use of aircon or fans by an opponent to artificially influence matters was decidedly unsporting. lol

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Re: Raglan's Modern Conflicts (Hollywood Style)
« Reply #573 on: January 22, 2025, 04:32:38 PM »
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It was pointed out somewhere that the use of aircon or fans by an opponent to artificially influence matters was decidedly unsporting. lol

 lol lol lol
Or Coughing, sneezing or opening doors.

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Re: Raglan's Modern Conflicts (Hollywood Style)
« Reply #574 on: January 22, 2025, 04:54:16 PM »
I remember a WW I trench game that some friends from Toledo, OH, ran. To simulate the inaccuracy of the pre-attack bombardment, the attackers were given a handful of cotton balls. They could throw them, one at a time, at the enemy trenches from a certain distance.  lol

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Re: Raglan's Modern Conflicts (Hollywood Style)
« Reply #575 on: January 22, 2025, 07:27:39 PM »
That does sound a lot like the Jane's naval Warfare rules.

I have a modern copy somewhere.

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Re: Raglan's Modern Conflicts (Hollywood Style)
« Reply #576 on: January 22, 2025, 08:15:04 PM »
I remember a WW I trench game that some friends from Toledo, OH, ran. To simulate the inaccuracy of the pre-attack bombardment, the attackers were given a handful of cotton balls. They could throw them, one at a time, at the enemy trenches from a certain distance.  lol

Mike Demana

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Hard of head and hard of heart.
If shells fall on our lines or the Huns'
It matters little to the guns.'


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I once served under a bloke who had formerly been in charge of a divisional location battery (counter battery radars). The prick couldn't find his own way to the officers' mess without assistance, which was odd as that's where he was most frequently to be found.

Offline Lord Raglan

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Re: Raglan's Modern Conflicts (Hollywood Style)
« Reply #577 on: January 23, 2025, 10:46:45 AM »
Cold War Gets Hotter 1999 - More WIP photos of the new terrain project. Its starting to take shape now with the base colours down and coloured washes next.







« Last Edit: February 04, 2025, 07:38:24 PM by Lord Raglan »

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Re: Raglan's Modern Conflicts (Hollywood Style)
« Reply #578 on: January 23, 2025, 10:50:37 AM »
Cold War Gets Hotter 1999 - More WIP photos







« Last Edit: February 04, 2025, 07:38:43 PM by Lord Raglan »

Offline Digits

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Re: Raglan's Modern Conflicts (Hollywood Style)
« Reply #579 on: January 23, 2025, 11:00:46 AM »
Superb collection of scenery.   I do want to steal your grey roofed farm barn(?) with the various storage tanks and silo?   I love it!

Offline Tom Dulski

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Re: Raglan's Modern Conflicts (Hollywood Style)
« Reply #580 on: January 23, 2025, 12:40:39 PM »

 Fantastic work on that terrain!

Offline CapnJim

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Re: Raglan's Modern Conflicts (Hollywood Style)
« Reply #581 on: January 23, 2025, 03:34:35 PM »
Lookin' good there.  Your progress appears to be satisfactory.  That's gonna be another great-looking table...
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Re: Raglan's Modern Conflicts (Hollywood Style)
« Reply #582 on: January 23, 2025, 03:55:34 PM »
More up-dates tomorrow boys and then the final product next week sometime.

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Re: Raglan's Modern Conflicts (Hollywood Style)
« Reply #583 on: January 23, 2025, 03:56:27 PM »
Amazing collection Gareth. That stone barn is brilliant. Is it a 3D print?

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Re: Raglan's Modern Conflicts (Hollywood Style)
« Reply #584 on: January 23, 2025, 05:13:15 PM »
Amazing collection Gareth. That stone barn is brilliant. Is it a 3D print?

Yes Richard, I have become a big fan of 3D printed scenery over the last few years.

 

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