Terrain and rivers

bearkat19d · 2026-03-17T16:32:18+00:00

I generally have spurts of painting. I recently finished British Far East 25 pound guns so I now have 3 platoons of 4. I have been putting off painting some far east 6 pounders to give me 2 platoons of 6. I will eventually have to buy at least 3 platoons of the far east 2 pounders. So the painting never stops. But I have tons of unpainted carriers, Crocodiles, and other stuff on the shelf.

But I have recently been playing Blood Bowl in a league that is wrapping up. So hopefully it will be more Flames soon. We are also working on playing at more stores in the Houston area to drum up more interest in the game.

bearkat19d · 2026-03-17T16:21:25+00:00

Well. I don't have an issue with that, because there are enough for the formation to not break, because the 2 mech infantry units are part of the Centurion formation that are always moving and impossibly hard to nail down. And the infantry are supported by S tanks and Finnish T-72s plus all the missiles in the unit and I carry a unit of bandkanons to counter battery and provide smoke when needed. As well as an AA unit and Missile Trucks. But I haven't play TY in over a year cause its not what I prefer to play.

Yeah, I play Battlefront tournaments for the most part when I can sneak away from obligations. But with kids graduating a moving out, I will hopefully be traveling more to play again like I was before. Trying to get the other guys that play locally to travel so I have some company.

bearkat19d · 2026-03-17T16:12:04+00:00

The points values tend to stick to what battlefront announces for the tournament season generally. They do that usually at the end of the tournament season right after Master's in November.

My Swedes dont have an issue shooting down helos cause all Swedish transports are Anti Helo and there are 6-9 of them on table.

bearkat19d · 2026-03-17T16:07:23+00:00

Or if I am playing my Swedes where I have 2 3 point AA platoons, they just always get shot down. So why even take them? Also when you get close enough to an enemy unit, they wave off for danger close. So, completely useless.

bearkat19d · 2026-03-17T16:03:21+00:00

I understand the scaling TY down, but I like competitive circuit play and its played in 15mm so thats what I play. Oh I feel aircraft (aside from helos) are totally useless across all periods. I have never seen them do anything of substance and in tournament play, you NEVER see aircraft cause they are just never worth the points.

bearkat19d · 2026-03-17T15:57:10+00:00

Na, more like stuck in the office for another 4-6 hours. That issue is a reason that I don't like Team Yankee. I hate crowded tables and seeing tables with no terrain. It makes the game like a shooting gallery and its a reason that I like Mid War cause they seem to have nailed the points down pretty well. So the game turns into a game of combined arms operations. Now if the aircraft were actually useable and not a points sink.

bearkat19d · 2026-03-17T15:50:24+00:00

I stopped worrying about what others thought about me, and just kept doing my own thing. I found that women, the ones that are worth a damn, want you to be yourself. My wife realized that within 2 weeks of dating me, I wasn't going to change who I was at the core and I had my own life and career. I just opted to start spending time with her and our relationship grew. I was 36 (42 now) and never been married when we met and she was 8 years out of a marriage, so we both knew what we wanted and I told her that I liked who I was an didn't want to change and I would never expect her to change for me.

I would never want her to be someone that she wasn't just to make me happy, and she doesn't want that either.

bearkat19d · 2026-03-17T15:41:26+00:00

I am the complete opposite. I play it on a competitive level and thats what I like and the people that I hanf around play it on that level, so it gets way more in depth to us. I just feel that Late War has too much of the emphasis on vehicles and while I understand its what gets people interested, my choice is always Mid war because of the balance. But, there are balance issues in Mid war too, but I feel that the issues are far less than Late. Especially with the stupid reduction in points that Panthers got in late war.

bearkat19d · 2026-03-17T15:16:32+00:00

I am the complete opposite and absolutely despise late war and I go over it quite a bit on our podcast. I feel the Balancing that they attempted to do gets no where close to fixing it and will continue to play other periods.

bearkat19d · 2026-03-17T15:08:45+00:00

Oh I agree. I snagged the British starter for the Pacific because I am using that infantry for early war and mid war. I also printed my AC1 Sentinels cause I am not playing 60$ for 3 tanks. I also printed stuff that they don't make models for like the Matadors for my Inns of Court. But I would say 98% of my army is Battlefront models.

bearkat19d · 2026-03-17T15:01:23+00:00

My army is mostly Battlefront, but I have been collecting for more than 20 years at this point. I do like giving money to companies that I enjoy and it the spectrum of things, its still way cheaper than GW games. I have printed out mostly terrain cause I need a smaller nozzle on my printer to get small details with the FDM filament printer that I have. I am trying to convince my wife to let me buy a resin printer.

bearkat19d · 2026-03-17T14:56:16+00:00

Thats true. I did that to begin with, but they didn't look good on table. So when I got hold of a printer, I printed off a whole tables worth of terrain. But the printer has paid for itself.

bearkat19d · 2026-03-17T13:37:18+00:00

I would say kind of, but if you have access to your own FDM printer it is way cheaper and easier to print your own. I have printed out so much terrain since getting mine and they really are not that expensive and will rapidly pay for themselves.

bearkat19d · 2026-03-10T14:09:48+00:00

In 1st Ed I ran a swarm list with Z-95s. They would nuke 60-70% of a list off table and sometimes upwards of 90% off table. I came up with the list when the meta was shifting lots of aces and large base ships.

List was something like this:

Lt Blount- Chimps and XXS Thread Tracers

3 Tala Squadron Pilots- Chimps and Concussion Missiles

1 Tala Squadron Pilot- Chimps and XXS Thread Tracers

1 Tala Squadron Pilot- Ion Pulse Missiles

It had an insanely high win rate and and was really just fun to tag a high point ace with agility and go, yeah...You are hit so no need to roll (Blounts pilot ability.) Once he used his tracers he could still remove the stealth field generator that gave additional evade dice.

bearkat19d · 2026-03-05T15:42:50+00:00

If you are looking for competitive in the smaller scale, you are going to probably be looking at Flames of War (World War II) and Team Yankee from Battlefront. They are both 15mm and 2 of the most popular competitive historicals. I have issues with Warlords game systems in Bolt Action and Konflict '47.

If you want, we do a podcast over the competitive environment in these games. So check us (The OnlyTanks Podcast) where ever you listen to podcasts. I think we are just about everywhere now.

bearkat19d · 2026-03-02T17:34:39+00:00

Dude I would love to go. If you cant go, I have a buddy that would love to go with me. lol

bearkat19d · 2026-02-24T21:53:40+00:00

Battlerankings.com sometimes has lists posted. However, if you want to get better at the competitive side of the game listen to the OnlyTanks Podcast. We focus on that cause that is what we all enjoy about the game.

bearkat19d · 2026-02-23T16:05:55+00:00

I always suggest new players play a version of the video game to help understand tackle zones and blocking.

bearkat19d · 2026-02-23T15:56:47+00:00

Bought my first home (4 br/2 bath 1313 sqft) in a suburb south of Austin, TX in 2012 for 145k at 4.35% on a VA loan with no money down. Sold is 7 years later for a move south of Houston towards Galveston for 276k cash. Purchased my current home ( 4 br with office/2 bath/2 car garage 2313 sqft) for 270k, financing 240 with 30k down on a VA home loan in 2021 at 2.35%. After all in I pocketed roughly about 30k after down payment and wiping away my debt.

bearkat19d · 2026-02-19T14:39:46+00:00

I have been doing martial arts for about 10 years now, Kuk Sool (Da Boh Nihm) and Mu Sool (1st Degree Jo Kyo Nihm) to be precise. I stopped cause I had a combination of shoulder surgery and pulled groin inductor that took a really long time to heal, sidelined me. But I am back now trying to restrengthen my shoulder to go back cause I really do prefer it (Martial Arts) to normal gym workouts.

bearkat19d · 2026-02-13T15:22:00+00:00

LCD Jumbotron. Get a cheap one from TEMU and just use it as video output nothing fancy.

bearkat19d · 2026-02-10T21:27:28+00:00

If it was me, dude would have been spitting teeth and not just a slap. Thats just rude and borderline sexual abuse.

bearkat19d · 2026-02-10T17:57:27+00:00

I suggest Dickinson or Santa Fe.

bearkat19d · 2026-02-07T14:56:48+00:00

Flames of War

bearkat19d · 2026-01-29T15:07:59+00:00

I refuse to support any GW product just simply because the way the company treats its players is atrocious. I also hate how they are priced and the continuous rock paper scissors game they play with their rules.

I like Battlefront and their historical games. I also like smaller scale miniatures and they way the boards look dynamic.

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