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ijyt posted:Read his two must recent blog posts and now in just sad. What a lovely thing to go through and have nothing to show for it. Makes me reconsider my life. serious gaylord posted:It's just sad. The comments littered through the dragon blog post show someone who seems to be rather terrible with planning, who made a continuous series of poor decisions while not realising everything he did was sinking him faster. The proverbial tearing the bottom out the boat to patch the sides. Just read the guy's latest couple of blog posts after seeing on several Facebook groups about his appeal that he literally can't afford food, and fans of his are suggesting people place orders with him to help him out. I'm not reconsidering my life or anything because of him but I am glad I'm keeping things very slow with building up my side business. I mean, drat, dude, he should have just declared bankruptcy or something.
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LingcodKilla posted:Xwings is cool though. I look at it as a warm up to good game of 40k. this is like drinking a bottle of Champagne as a warm up to a can of bud light, a warm can
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krushgroove posted:Just read the guy's latest couple of blog posts after seeing on several Facebook groups about his appeal that he literally can't afford food, and fans of his are suggesting people place orders with him to help him out. I'm not reconsidering my life or anything because of him but I am glad I'm keeping things very slow with building up my side business. I mean, drat, dude, he should have just declared bankruptcy or something. Or stop chasing the dragon.
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T.G. Xarbala posted:From what I gather, I guess the 30K thread was gassed because it could pretty easily be folded into the 40K thread and there's already at least four Games Workshop-related threads strewn throughout the forums. Since the 40K thread was already getting to the point where they could close the thread and make a new one, they could make it a new combined 30K and 40K thread. You're probably right, but it would be neat if a mod said the reason, instead of relying on guesses
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That said, while I sympathize with the 40K thread regulars for having the 30K thread gassed out from under them, I think they're a little too salty about it. It probably should've just been closed rather than gassed, but the fact that the first couple of pages were basically dedicated to making GBS threads on one person in inter-thread drama didn't help.boom boom boom posted:You're probably right, but it would be neat if a mod said the reason, instead of relying on guesses Yeah, probably.
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potentiallycool posted:I feel kind of bad posting this but I kinda wish this was Kirby writing this. If nothing else it's a pretty sweet dragon.
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T.G. Xarbala posted:That said, while I sympathize with the 40K thread regulars for having the 30K thread gassed out from under them, I think they're a little too salty about it. It probably should've just been closed rather than gassed, but the fact that the first couple of pages were basically dedicated to making GBS threads on one person in inter-thread drama didn't help.. It was done as a metaphor for the Warhammer -> Age of Sigmar process
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krushgroove posted:Just read the guy's latest couple of blog posts after seeing on several Facebook groups about his appeal that he literally can't afford food, and fans of his are suggesting people place orders with him to help him out. I'm not reconsidering my life or anything because of him but I am glad I'm keeping things very slow with building up my side business. I mean, drat, dude, he should have just declared bankruptcy or something. No-one should be placing orders with him. His posts make it sound like he's about to be visited by the bailiffs and at that point, all his stock, all his tools and moulds and anything valuable will go to service his debts. They'd just be throwing good money at bad. The man needs to declare bankruptcy and start again.
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Not a viking posted:I just read "that" blog update. The guy literally sold his house so he could produce and sell dragons at a loss. Dude seems bad at time management. I don't doubt that the scales took hours per square inch to sculpt, but stuff like spending a solid 3 months out of every year doing nothing but preparing for one convention???
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I don't know how many models you can spincast in a day, but yeah that does seem like a long time to produce stuff for one show. I've seen a video of a guy explaining metal model spincasting and it looks like you could make hundreds of models in a day, including packaging them. I'm not sure you could sell thousands and thousands of models in a single day, even at the UK's largest gaming show. Salute is a single day show in London, next year it's only April, and from what this guy is saying it's his equivalent to Christmas sales. But I have been to other gaming shows on the UK and haven't seen him there (he actually lives not far from me), where he could be making sales. krushgroove fucked around with this message at 01:12 on Nov 5, 2015 |
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Arivia posted:I'm not a man, so gently caress you. FUUUUUUCK.
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Remember he had a staff member for much of that time helping him with the casting and packaging. It genuinely seems like his inability to commit to what the dragon looked like at the start came back to haunt him. Then once he'd worked out how to get them cast, instead of keeping that system going and taking more orders at a price point he could make a profit at, and using those orders to prop up the pre order fulfillment. Instead he kept changing methods, resulting in months (years) of downtime between batches. Always looking for the silver bullet that would fix everything in one go. Considering the amounts that bloody dragon goes for on ebay, he must be kicking himself.
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Sorry to derail the derail, but when is the next GW financial statement or any official document that might present it in bad light to its shareholders due?
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The Supreme Court posted:It was done as a metaphor for the Warhammer -> Age of Sigmar process 
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Pierzak posted:Sorry to derail the derail, but when is the next GW financial statement or any official document that might present it in bad light to its shareholders due? January
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Okay, somebody tell me right now, in absolutely clear and not at all evasive terms: What is the difference between the games of 30k and 40k? The games. Not the setting, not the models, not the stats of the models. The games. I was led to believe that 30k was literally just new army lists for 40k and that they used the same base game rules.
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Something something larger army sizes?
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Units are more expensive up front so MSU is less of a thing, which also means the game works better at higher points amounts. Other than that its base 40k mechanically really.
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SynthOrange posted:Something something larger army sizes? That's not a game difference, unless you mean something like Epic. I'm going to be very clear and say that for the purposes of this discussion, Hordes counts as a collection of new army lists for Warmachine. While Hordes has some unique mechanics, it is absolutely the same game system to the point of full compatibility, allying units from the other half of the system (I myself used to play Cygnar with Minions), and allowing players at a high level to generally just refer to factions of both sub-systems equally on a macro level without qualifiers (to the point where they have a single thread with no problems).
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Broken Loose posted:Okay, somebody tell me right now, in absolutely clear and not at all evasive terms: Well for one the boxed set that's coming out for it is a completely new game. As in tiles and all others little things. But why do you care? Did a 30k game pee on your parade?
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DO IT TO IT posted:Units are more expensive up front so MSU is less of a thing, which also means the game works better at higher points amounts. Other than that its base 40k mechanically really. Do you not know how to read?
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LingcodKilla posted:Well for one the boxed set that's coming out for it is a completely new game. As in tiles and all others little things. Because people not leashed to Tom Kirby's dick actually care about game design.
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LingcodKilla posted:Well for one the boxed set that's coming out for it is a completely new game. As in tiles and all others little things. I'm honestly kind of curious, what sort of game is the boxed set anyway? You tend to hear stuff like that people are just going to buy them to get models cheaper and use them in "real" 30K and that the boxed game is sort of a throwaway thing.
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Arivia posted:Because people not leashed to Tom Kirby's dick actually care about game design. That's not even an answer. That's just your weird sexual fantasies bubbling to the surface. T.G. Xarbala posted:I'm honestly kind of curious, what sort of game is the boxed set anyway? You tend to hear stuff like that people are just going to buy them to get models cheaper and use them in "real" 30K and that the boxed game is sort of a throwaway thing. That's basically the gist of it. Nobody actually cares about the game but the models look great and are certainly usable. I mean somebody might. Who knows.
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Broken Loose posted:Okay, somebody tell me right now, in absolutely clear and not at all evasive terms: As far as the Forge World game, what I gleaned from the 30K thread OP is that there is no difference. You still require the 40K rulebook to play it, there are no factions other than Space Marines and friends (this is how it is balanced), and it costs more. The new box set comes with some miniatures to use in the 30K game, and come packaged with some cards and hexes that will be thrown in the trash because people are buying two to three sets at a go. Even if they wanted to play the board game, they don't need the extra 2 two tile sets. Or maybe they will because it will be poo poo quality like Dread Fleet?
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T.G. Xarbala posted:I'm honestly kind of curious, what sort of game is the boxed set anyway? You tend to hear stuff like that people are just going to buy them to get models cheaper and use them in "real" 30K and that the boxed game is sort of a throwaway thing. No one knows yet since it's not out and GW never tells anyone anything ahead of time. Looks like some sort of hex-grid probably based on a boarding action or underground war since both featured during the event it's named after. It's a fair bet it'll be garbage though.
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LingcodKilla posted:That's not even an answer. That's just your weird sexual fantasies bubbling to the surface. Have you figured out how people are magically able to paint pre-painted miniatures yet?
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Broken Loose posted:Okay, somebody tell me right now, in absolutely clear and not at all evasive terms: game wise as in, the rolly dicey part, it plays exactly like (6.5?) 40k
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Safety Factor posted:No one knows yet since it's not out and GW never tells anyone anything ahead of time. Looks like some sort of hex-grid probably based on a boarding action or underground war since both featured during the event it's named after. It's a fair bet it'll be garbage though. Sir Teabag posted:The new box set comes with some miniatures to use in the 30K game, and come packaged with some cards and hexes that will be thrown in the trash because people are buying two to three sets at a go. Even if they wanted to play the board game, they don't need the extra 2 two tile sets. Or maybe they will because it will be poo poo quality like Dread Fleet? High five.
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Well that answers that. The only reason I'm even asking is because I honestly didn't know a lot about 30K and that it's considered a different game line by GW. I figured this was just a rebranding/campaign setting thing and not, like, LotR compared to Warhammer. Bulbasaur explained in the 40K thread that the differences between the two are about equal to a change in editions, and now I'm reading up that the idea is for 30K to be a "test bed" for streamlined rules for later introduction into 40K. Not going to lie, I think Contemptors look neat. And a drat sight better than the GK babycarrier and the standard boxy dread.
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kingcom posted:Have you figured out how people are magically able to paint pre-painted miniatures yet? By wasting their time? Is this a trick question?
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LingcodKilla posted:By wasting their time? Is this a trick question? So its a waste of time to paint minis if they are already painted? Why is it not a waste of time to paint minis which are not pre-painted?
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kingcom posted:So its a waste of time to paint minis if they are already painted? Why is it not a waste of time to paint minis which are not pre-painted? Dude I don't care how you waste your time. You ain't on my clock.
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Hey Rulebook Heavily are you the same guy who did a Let's Play write up of Limbo of the Lost a few years back on a different site? That was one of the most amazing things I'd ever read on the internet. Which is worse, GW or Limbo of the Lost
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Broken Loose posted:Do you not know how to read? He answered your question, dude. You asked what was different, he told you - Effectively nothing but the internal balance of unit and upgrade costs is different. Also there are no Xenos.
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Good god is this true?quote:Apprently, the system goes like this: http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2015/11/gw-loyalty-program-on-the-way.html
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Leperflesh posted:It's impossible to spam the report function. Once one person reports a thread, subsequent attempts to use the report button just generate a message that the thread's already been reported. I think it gets reset by the mod/admin after they address the first report, but since that generally takes a while, there's really no way to just spam reports. Merge all Assassin's Creed threads into one IMO
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If it's true, well...good for GW for finally doing something resembling marketing? But since it's GW it smacks of desperation to me.
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Word on the street is that this HH boxed game will be some dumb new heresy game... Which will be entirely separate from what forgeworld is doing. For how long? Who knows.Broken Loose posted:Okay, somebody tell me right now, in absolutely clear and not at all evasive terms: It's like a total conversion to 7th edition that makes it more like 6.5. It's technically based on 7th but it's different enough that it plays very differently down to it's own standard mission types, detachment rules, and the way allies work. It's more than army lists, but less than a completely new thing. BULBASAUR fucked around with this message at 02:43 on Nov 5, 2015 |
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potentiallycool posted:Good god is this true? The free dice have a seven on one side, so you know, you don't even have to cheat for the Fateweaver/Screaming Bell interaction
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