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John Cook

20 August 2022, 04:48:13 PM #40
Quote from: Orcs on 19 August 2022, 09:07:48 AMI agree you can spend loads on this hobby   

Particularly if you are into 28mm.  Everything is more expensive.  I have no idea how kids manage to fund their Games Workshop habits. 
Economics is one reason for going down the 10mm route, but there are others.

Orcs

20 August 2022, 06:32:49 PM #41
Quote from: John Cook on 20 August 2022, 04:48:13 PMParticularly if you are into 28mm.  Everything is more expensive.  I have no idea how kids manage to fund their Games Workshop habits. 
Economics is one reason for going down the 10mm route, but there are others.

Games Workshop is fundable as an "Army" is 20 figures. And Mum and Dad pay for it.
The cynics are right nine times out of ten. -Mencken, H. L.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Last Hussar

22 August 2022, 06:49:26 PM #42
The differences between Orcs, Sunjester and myself.

Orcs will happily acquire more figures.
Sunjester and I will agree we already have enough.
2 weeks later Sj will buy a new army...
I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain why you are wrong.

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
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sunjester

23 August 2022, 06:07:13 AM #43
Quote from: Last Hussar on 22 August 2022, 06:49:26 PMThe differences between Orcs, Sunjester and myself.

Orcs will happily acquire more figures.
Sunjester and I will agree we already have enough.
2 weeks later Sj will buy a new army...
Guilty as charged, yer 'onour! :d

Orcs

23 August 2022, 08:21:19 AM #44
Quote from: Last Hussar on 22 August 2022, 06:49:26 PMThe differences between Orcs, Sunjester and myself.

Orcs will happily acquire more figures.
Sunjester and I will agree we already have enough.
2 weeks later Sj will buy a new army...

Sir, you are telling outrageous Porkies  :^o  :^o  :^o

See your quote below from Yesterday!


QuoteBavarian infantry finished. Need 6 cavalry stands, 1 per base, and 9 (YES 9!); 1 per base, then 3 for the artillery base.

The Bavarians had a LOT of artillery!

Looking at Saxony next. 3 Infantry, 1 Cavalry, 1 Artillery. Will need to buy men in bicorns, as just found out didn't have Shako until 1810. That's 2 packs infantry, 1 cavalry (enough for 2 bases in Blucher, and 1 canon. With the cuirassier I need to complete the Imperial Guard, that's a tenner, plus I want some stands.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten. -Mencken, H. L.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Last Hussar

23 August 2022, 06:00:51 PM #45
They don't count! They are part of the planned completion of my 1809 army.



However I was looking at OOB for British Peninsular at lunch. BUT I HAVEN'T BOUGHT ANY.
I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain why you are wrong.

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
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Orcs

23 August 2022, 10:39:29 PM #46
Quote from: Last Hussar on 23 August 2022, 06:00:51 PMThey don't count! They are part of the planned completion of my 1809 army.


They are another complete army.
Other wise I could claim that any ancient army I purchased was part of my Early Imperial Roman army. I could go on like this

Early Imperial Roman
Parthians
Dacians
Middle imperial Romans
Late Imperial Roman
Pictish
Saxon
Danish
Anglo Saxon
Norman

See they are are linked one to another- I could go on to WW2 linking one army to the next as part of the same Project" if needed.





 
The cynics are right nine times out of ten. -Mencken, H. L.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Last Hussar

23 August 2022, 11:03:11 PM #47
You think the Normans were in the same army as the Dacians?

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I mean, it's a bold assertion.

May I be so forward as to draw your attention to the Order Of Battle of the French "Grand Army" in 1809?
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I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain why you are wrong.

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Orcs

24 August 2022, 07:56:23 AM #48
Quote from: Last Hussar on 23 August 2022, 11:03:11 PMYou think the Normans were in the same army as the Dacians?


No I just progressed from Army A to one opponent , say Army B and then to an opponent to Army B... say Army C. etc.
The cynics are right nine times out of ten. -Mencken, H. L.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Last Hussar

24 August 2022, 04:36:31 PM #49
Where as mine are part of them same army.

If I were to buy Peninsular British then I would have started a new army, even though the opponent and the year are the same.
I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain why you are wrong.

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

GNU PTerry

Macsen Wledig

01 September 2022, 06:03:26 PM #50
just paint. The more you do it the better you become. Also put some time into the bases as they can make poor or average paint jobs looks quite acceptable (and vice versa!). Try not to be too anal and self critical with the neatness. This is 10mm and no you will not achieve the standard of some figures you see on the internet so trying too hard is the path to madness
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