@Steven StGeorges Yeah, sorry I didn't follow what you were getting at, but you're 100% on the money with the Spartan analogue. I'm just using Bolsheviks as a shorthand for the Russian revolu...

@Alex M  Let me summarize a bit: a caste system depending of a very strong agrarian sector (cotton and subsistence-oriented agriculture; so technically a minority (here The Whites) depending ...

@Bill Thomas After a look at a game sescion photos and small review I took the decision to order the rules deliver Friday, 15 in stock this morning I got the last one 8 mins ago lucky. Let you know...

The preorder e-mail made my day!! Got three boxes coming to me, for a combination of my own Cannon Fodder army, as well as for general sci-fi/solo wargaming use. Can't wait!!

@Steven StGeorges Russians go east exactly, the Bolsheviks fled to and control Russian America(Alaska) and have established their own communist state, though it's not recognised by many. I ima...

@Steven StGeorges Spartans? Man, I don't know. If you take an unglamourised look at the Spartans as a society, then the CSA is probably their full on spiritual successor in setting. In re...

@Alex M  ..But the very idea of a Go-East Russia is quite interesting a twist 😁

@Steven StGeorges oh man, I shouldn't have written anything referencing Ayn Rand. I think you're correct that there's going to be a strong New England influence(women getting the vote so early...

@Alex M  So some kind of modern avatar of Spartian Regime? 

@Steven StGeorges Native Americans uniting to carve out their own territory would make for an interesting campaign.  So the CSA is definitely not our Confederacy, they had to develop a b...

Preorders open! Just pre-ordered my box. :)

@Alex M  ⚠️ I do remember that Any Rand left Russia with her family following the October Revolution. In your setting only February Revolution did happen, since Wilhem II never used Lenin as ...

@Grumpy Gnome Exactly, the US is some kind of Randian State, where the rich get richer and the poor have "freedom". 

@Caratacus not to get too pedantic, but Hawaii was an recognised independent kingdom, from 1795-1893 when it was annexed by the US. Feel free to check the Hawaiian Kingdom entry on ol'Wikipedi...

And what if.... Natives decided to gather together (as in Castle Falkenstein sourcebook for Northern America Six-guns & Sorcery) into a Twenty Nations Confederation allied to Britain to resist ...

@Alex M Hawaii was under British sovereignty before it was sold to the Americans as the newest state to join the United States to this day in our universe - even now it still has the Union Jack on ...

An interesting take, having Lincoln captured and women getting the vote so early. Are you thinking hypercapitalist, anti-Union Rockefeller dominated economics for your dystopian libertarian US? 

So just a quick note on the ACW or American War of Secession as it's know. The southern part of Maryland joined the confederacy leaving Washington D.C. completely surrounded by enemy states. The Un...

@Mark Dewis hmm, that's good enough for me. The US really needs something like a group of motivated industrialists, whose work keeps the country competitive when surrounded by so many unfriend...

Historically he was brought to the US by the Edison company in 1884 when their European manager Charles Bachelor moved back. Even with a smaller USA, it's still quite likely to have happened.

@William Ings It's important to remember that part of the core concept for this setting is that the Nazi party and the socioeconomic situation that brought it about wouldn't really exist,...

If I'm reading Alex's description right, Nazis haven't happened. Fascism was basically a post-WW1 movement, so if WW1 is still being fought into the 1920's there's no reason for it to have arisen (...

Tesla seemed to be opposed to the Nazi annexation of his homeland and didn't like that European powers let it happen. I'm not sure what he thought of pre-Nazi Germany, but I can't imagine he would ...

@Steven StGeorges Yeah, Nikola Tesla is such a mainstay of the genre, I've been wondering about what to do with him, in our world he went to the US. The question is, if the US isn't such an at...

@Alex M  Just for the fun.. and what's about Telsa and his inventions especially his famed Death Ray? 😉  

Some thoughts on possible units. Apache mercenaries, the Apache fighters cemented their fearsome reputation fighting in conflicts throughout the Americas. I think this would be an interesting unit...

@Bill Thomas Its on Amazon for just £16 can you tell me its combat system what Dice used, love the Black and White Alien space ship photos,  only 4 pages shown but looks tempting. Got a ...

@Bill Thomas God  could these be my default "Falling Skies" rules, never understand with all the wierd and unusual  IP`s this was never seized upon. I mean come on, with the resistance, t...

@lauregami @William Redford You know what, both of you, I think that our hobby lives in flowing waves. Sometimes building, sometime reading, painting, lost in design, what ever we do, trick I`ve fo...

When it's hot enough to dry paint on the brush it's time to pack the models away and head to the water... especially if you have a surf-loving hound 🤣

@William Redford Sorry for your loss Bill, it`s never a good time to lose them, the feelings never go away only dull. As I type this I`m surrounded by the ashes of our animals in photo frames. Six ...

@Geoff Maybury sorry, was rushing about earlier and should have mentioned this; it's Patrick's new ruleset and it's awesome! I've known about this for some time but it's now available from the usua...

So the US doesn't have a pacific presence like it did in our timeline. Hawaii for example is an "independent kingdom" though is host to a large Japanese naval base. The Philippines are still part o...

@Brian Van De Walker If the US had sided with Germany earlier on in WWI, how would that have allowed Germany to develop tanks first, given that you already say Britain had blocked American shipping...

@lauregami I agree with @GreenScorpion . The tile looks really good already. With my own games I have never really gotten in to terrain building. For wargames I have always played at other peoples ...

@Geoff Maybury Zona Alfa, now you're talking... if you're at all into cyberpunk then check out Patricks other games... he's a mate of mine and I love his games 😍

I got my order of stargrave and frostgrave boxes delivered yesterday and I have to say the details of the minis are great and the kits seem to have a large amount of options. I had seen people in o...

@William Redford @William Ings  if we are talking more realistic hist scale proportion miniature set which I assume we are😅, given what we have seen it better just be females on that sprue and...

@lauregami  It is often hard to understand whether something we are building is going to look nice or not until it is finished and it can often be demoralizing, but the important thing is to k...

@Grumpy Gnome Well, that by itself would actually be interesting and a more likely setting in some respects than one with a divided America that still has a Southern half practicing slavery (which...

@Caratacus That doesn't mean they sculpted them from step 1, just as likely (more so given what I know of them, even their Golden boy didn't start out as their sculpting🙄) that they just got the m...

@B Scobe Well beyond what’s on the release schedule, no idea when they are coming out. As to firearm use, they are both Gunpowder Empires so I can see why you ask. At the timeframe your loo...

Thank you for the advice on the banners! I think that'll look a lot more convincing than trying to do them in milliput. It was still a fun experiment! The bad news is I still haven't done much cra...

Love the Doggos. My Bella passed this past February. A week after my birthday. :( she was only 7... but that is not unusual for an English Bull Dog. My Bulldog before her, Winston, passed when he w...

@Caratacus So for starters, I'm definitely not a game publisher or anything like that. I was just putting this together for myself and thought I would share, a hack-able setting that lets you ...

@Davey C. Looks really good. :)

@William Redford that reminds me! I shamelessly ripped off one the models from your conquistador thread.

Please all stay safe and "Hydrate" CYBER ROUND to the whole forum. Cheers to all of you.

You read it right folks 98% F , egg frying time, so I`m here indoors pestering you lot, when I childishly wanted to paint. Bl**dy stuff would be dry on the brush, before it got to the figure. I kne...

Then here`s the temp at my spot.