Newbie questions

[FierceKitty]

The Ring is to be approached when you're ready for it.

[FierceKitty]

I started with Puccini, la Traviata at the amphitheatre in Verona.
Would also explain a lot...

Puccini didn't write La Traviata.

[howayman]

With lubrication an optional extra.  
I tend to start with a period that attracts me, buy loads of figures, start painting them, then hunt out the rules i enjoy. Only to find that my friends have got some already but in a different scale, based for a different rule set or are on the same side as me.
So buy what you want, organise them as you see fit, paint them as well as you can be bothered, then put them in a box wait 5 to 6 years to find an opponent.
Buy loads and enjoy them.
Welcome aboard

[petercooman]

With lubrication an optional extra.  
I tend to start with a period that attracts me, buy loads of figures, start painting them, then hunt out the rules i enjoy. Only to find that my friends have got some already but in a different scale, based for a different rule set or are on the same side as me.
So buy what you want, organise them as you see fit, paint them as well as you can be bothered, then put them in a box wait 5 to 6 years to find an opponent.
Buy loads and enjoy them.
Welcome aboard

Wild guess here, but are you the "OOOO shiny" type? 

[mollinary]

The Ring is to be approached when you're ready for it.

Bit late to tell me that now!

Mollinary

[FierceKitty]

You didn't ask me!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Puccini didn't write La Traviata.

Vedi?

[FierceKitty]

Vedi?

Moe o less.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Sure it wasn't his younger, less well known cousins Vini and Vici?
There was no love lost in their later careers, but starting out in the mid 1800s they did collaborate as a trio?

[mollinary]

Sure it wasn't his younger, less well known cousins Vedi and Vici?
There was no love lost in their later careers, but starting out in the mid 1800s they did collaborate as a trio?

Not sure this is quite right.  Don't you vini and vici? 

[Ithoriel]

Wot? Vicky and her cousin Vinny? Vinny, Vedi and Vicky who wrote "La tragedia di Giulio Cesare" first produced in La Scalectrix in Mile End? 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Thanks Mollinary, those are the chaps (post changed to match)

Wasn't Vinnie and Vicky's second opera 'The Pirates of Plymouth', didn't really take off due to the ship being boarded in the first act by HM customs and excise?

[sebigboss79]

cheers both!

I will be playing a few games with my mates soon from different periods. I know they have recently bought and now play with Vietnam sets.

I understand what you are saying but Napoleonics still "float my boat" as i have a fair bit of knowledge thanks to my living history and i find the period really interesting and i just love the tactics, uniforms / style etc

Paul

As stated before. Join a club. Most clubs invite guest for an evening or two for free so you can get a feel.

10mm means you will be expanding fairly quickly to other eras than Napoleonics. Concerning Basing and painting I recommend to look at Nik's pages on how to paint small scales and how to prep minis. It helped me a lot. For practice I recomend getting various scales and settings (just a few samples) and work your way down from the largest to smallest.

Then you should visit Wargame shows (seeing the Pendrakens in person) and possibly look around.

Welcome to the forum, leave sanity at the doorstep and DO ask fsn about Centurions

[brummie76]

Thanks SEBIGBOSS79 for getting this topic back on track....i got lost there for a bit!

Roll on crimbo and hope to have some spare cash!

Asi i said before Naps is still calling me and possibly AWI. Both look awesome!

Time to read my Sharpe collection again!!

[Hertsblue]

To recap on another point, bear in mind that if you're not going to paint what your mates are using you will need to paint both sides. This is not such a problem in 10mm, cost-wise, but it does mean that you will not get them on the table as soon as you might like. I would also echo everyone else's advice to play the field (quite literally) as far as periods are concerned.

[Last Hussar]

I would say if you go Napoleonic DON'T do Brits.

I love Nap Brits - the facings, the flags the line of red...

However...

You are stuck in the Peninsula, and I am one of those who thinks that is a difficult period for rules to get right, because Wellington's tactics were so different, you end up with the dreaded "+2 for being British" to try and make things work (which it won't).  I'd say go Russian or Austrian

Have you thought about Seven Years War? (and I would like to take this opportunity to once again blame Sunjester for the reason I have hundreds of WSS in the garage, rather than SYW!)  There is a really good Wiki for it

http://www.kronoskaf.com/syw/index.php?title=Main_Page

I would second the suggestion you play a few games before you splash the cash.  Also don't fixated on shiny before you are happy - there are free rules on the web

http://www.freewargamesrules.co.uk/ for example

and you can use counters for the first few games- basicallly the bases without the figures

[fsn]

You could try the War of 1812?

[brummie76]

Last Hussar - Thanks for that....SYW could be an option, i will look into that too!

Cheers

[FierceKitty]

I started on Naps, but bless the day I switched to SYW. Much more important conflict in its global effects, there are more exciting personalities, and all the big five can field decent armies. And the standard was generally higher.

[Hertsblue]

SYW has many advantages - pretty uniforms with recognisable facings, linear tactics and no clouds of skirmishers (well relatively few, anyway) and all the information you would want, in print or on the net.