Miniatures Unspiration: I have nipples, Greg, can you paint me?

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NTRabbit: Aug 15, 2012; i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches

signalnoise posted:

Someone tell me where I can sell my sense of ethics

You're too late, nominations closed and the primaries already started

# ? Feb 11, 2016 09:42

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# ? May 9, 2024 23:57

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

Wargaming Terrain Board : Lava Lake Warhammer/ D&D/ LOTR
$75 starting / $100 Buy It Now / $30 shipping

LAVA LAKE! :supaburn:

# ? Feb 11, 2016 15:20

Moola: Aug 16, 2006

signalnoise posted:

Someone tell me where I can sell my sense of ethics

*unzips pants*

# ? Feb 11, 2016 15:34

Cat Face Joe: Feb 20, 2005; goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes

berzerkmonkey posted:

Wargaming Terrain Board : Lava Lake Warhammer/ D&D/ LOTR
$75 starting / $100 Buy It Now / $30 shipping

LAVA LAKE!

It's like I'm there!

# ? Feb 11, 2016 16:29

Len: Jan 21, 2008; Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!

berzerkmonkey posted:

Wargaming Terrain Board : Lava Lake Warhammer/ D&D/ LOTR
$75 starting / $100 Buy It Now / $30 shipping

LAVA LAKE!

There's nothing inherently wrong with that terrain. Except goddamn there's no way there's $75 worth of time/materials there. Dude bought some foam squares from Five Below and dropped some foam chunks on it.

# ? Feb 11, 2016 16:34

Nebalebadingdong: Jun 30, 2005; i made a video game.
why not give it a try!?

berzerkmonkey posted:

Wargaming Terrain Board : Lava Lake Warhammer/ D&D/ LOTR
$75 starting / $100 Buy It Now / $30 shipping

LAVA LAKE!

sorry my dog crapped on your gaming table

# ? Feb 11, 2016 16:35

Fathis Munk: Feb 23, 2013; ??? ?

Len posted:

There's nothing inherently wrong with that terrain. Except goddamn there's no way there's $75 worth of time/materials there. Dude bought some foam squares from Five Below and dropped some foam chunks on it.

I think that's what's wrong.

Also what are you supposed to do with lovely square lava lake?

# ? Feb 11, 2016 16:40

Moola: Aug 16, 2006

using those snap together foam floor things as a table is a good idea though

# ? Feb 11, 2016 16:46

spectralent: Oct 1, 2014; Me and the boys poppin' down to the shops

Moola posted:

using those snap together foam floor things as a table is a good idea though

It actually is, I just went to see how cheap they'd be and there's a pack of 8 2x2 ones for �20 which gives you a board pretty easy. All you'd have to do is spray it down or something and maybe flock it up or you could go dramatic and build modular pre-sculpted boards.

# ? Feb 11, 2016 17:12

Cat Face Joe: Feb 20, 2005; goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes

The big issue with separate board pieces is they give away distance.

# ? Feb 11, 2016 17:13

spectralent: Oct 1, 2014; Me and the boys poppin' down to the shops

Cat Face Joe posted:

The big issue with separate board pieces is they give away distance.

This is only really an issue if you use games where you can't premeasure stuff.

# ? Feb 11, 2016 17:19

Squibsy: Dec 3, 2005; Not suited, just booted.; College Slice

spectralent posted:

It actually is, I just went to see how cheap they'd be and there's a pack of 8 2x2 ones for �20 which gives you a board pretty easy. All you'd have to do is spray it down or something and maybe flock it up or you could go dramatic and build modular pre-sculpted boards.

Someone, I think in the terrain thread, tried this and it didn't work as well as they hoped. The toothed joining bits were problematic when flocked/textured or something like that.

# ? Feb 11, 2016 18:03

Cat Face Joe: Feb 20, 2005; goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes

spectralent posted:

This is only really an issue if you use games where you can't premeasure stuff.

Right, a game that the board is advertised as being good for.

# ? Feb 11, 2016 18:04

spectralent: Oct 1, 2014; Me and the boys poppin' down to the shops

ineptmule posted:

Someone, I think in the terrain thread, tried this and it didn't work as well as they hoped. The toothed joining bits were problematic when flocked/textured or something like that.

I can see there being a lot of stress on those, yeah.

Cat Face Joe posted:

Right, a game that the board is advertised as being good for.

Premeasuring is generally fine for most games and having a 1ft or 2ft square is only going to give you a ballpark estimate which you can already get from things like models, terrain sizes, finger-widths, etc. The only game I'm aware of being better for not permitting free measuring is X-Wing and that's kind of a unique case because you don't want to add a dumb bluffing element to the dials phase to slow everything down.

Also they're childrens playmats, so they're not actually advertised for being for any sort of game.

# ? Feb 11, 2016 18:08

jodai: Mar 2, 2010; Banging with all due hardness.

Walking Dead/Deadzone/Mars Attacks play smaller games on 2x2 boards and lots of indie skirmish games like Ronin or Relic Blade use a 2x2 board so a pack of 8 might be nice to have if you were getting into any or all of those.

# ? Feb 11, 2016 18:24

MasterSlowPoke: Oct 9, 2005; Our courage will pull us through

I think the foam would be too bouncy for models.

What games don't allow premeasuring nowadays? Only one I can think of is Dropzone.

# ? Feb 11, 2016 18:41

darnon: Nov 8, 2009

MasterSlowPoke posted:

What games don't allow premeasuring nowadays? Only one I can think of is Dropzone.

Warmahordes.

# ? Feb 11, 2016 18:43

spectralent: Oct 1, 2014; Me and the boys poppin' down to the shops

There's also bolt action but as far as I can tell there's basically no reason for that rule.

# ? Feb 11, 2016 18:48

Not a viking: Aug 2, 2008; Feels like I just got laid

Infinity as well

# ? Feb 11, 2016 19:02

spectralent: Oct 1, 2014; Me and the boys poppin' down to the shops

Not a viking posted:

Infinity as well

Really? We measured stuff in that when we played. I really can't imagine it changes a hell of a lot given that all weapons have ranges that can be boiled down to "If you can see it, you can shoot it", with the change being the modifier.

# ? Feb 11, 2016 19:26

Hra Mormo: Mar 6, 2008; The Internet Man

Also X-Wing.

# ? Feb 11, 2016 19:30

Not a viking: Aug 2, 2008; Feels like I just got laid

spectralent posted:

Really? We measured stuff in that when we played. I really can't imagine it changes a hell of a lot given that all weapons have ranges that can be boiled down to "If you can see it, you can shoot it", with the change being the modifier.

Eh, depends what you are measuring. Pre-measuring movement and weapon ranges are a no-no since, with the order mechanic, it would slow down the game when one player insists on planning all ten orders spent ramboing up the field.

# ? Feb 11, 2016 19:58

Ugleb: Nov 19, 2014; ASK ME ABOUT HOW SCOTLAND'S PROPOSED TRANS LEGISLATION IS DIVISIVE AS HELL BECAUSE IT IS SO SWEEPING THAT IT COULD BE POTENTIALLY ABUSED AT A TIME WHERE THE LACK OF SAFETY FOR WOMEN HAS BEEN SO GLARING

MasterSlowPoke posted:

I think the foam would be too bouncy for models.

What games don't allow premeasuring nowadays? Only one I can think of is Dropzone.

You actually can premeasure shooting in Dropzone.

# ? Feb 11, 2016 20:12

spectralent: Oct 1, 2014; Me and the boys poppin' down to the shops

Not a viking posted:

Eh, depends what you are measuring. Pre-measuring movement and weapon ranges are a no-no since, with the order mechanic, it would slow down the game when one player insists on planning all ten orders spent ramboing up the field.

Oh, yeah. We just went "I'll move... *measures things nearby* over here and take a shot at them", kinda like. I agree it'd probably be obnoxious if before you started you went to measure out the distances between literally everything and go.

EDIT: "No premeasuring" games are ones I think of as being like old warhammer where you have to go "I'm moving towards this" and then you get to see you hosed up because it was actually five inches :smuggo:

spectralent fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Feb 11, 2016

# ? Feb 11, 2016 20:18

JcDent: May 13, 2013; Give me a rifle, one round, and point me at Berlin!

spectralent posted:

EDIT: "No premeasuring" games are ones I think of as being like old warhammer where you have to go "I'm moving towards this" and then you get to see you hosed up because it was actually five inches

So Infinity, as we play them. Also, we play in Inches since that's more elegant, and I still have no clue how much an inch is in normal

I have to stop myself from trying to premeasure distances all the time.

Now, the real stupid movement mechanic are random charge/run distances, which are found in HAMS, as well as No End In Sight and similar games, I guess.

# ? Feb 11, 2016 20:45

spectralent: Oct 1, 2014; Me and the boys poppin' down to the shops

JcDent posted:

So Infinity, as we play them. Also, we play in Inches since that's more elegant, and I still have no clue how much an inch is in normal

I have to stop myself from trying to premeasure distances all the time.

Now, the real stupid movement mechanic are random charge/run distances, which are found in HAMS, as well as No End In Sight and similar games, I guess.

In infinity, as I say, we typically check where we can move quickly before we settle on where we're going. It's possible we've done this wrong but I've never found the game to be weakened for it.

Also an inch is about 2.5cm. I remember it with the handy (???) mental shorthand of a .50 cal MG being half an inch and 12.7mm.

# ? Feb 11, 2016 20:52

Ugleb: Nov 19, 2014; ASK ME ABOUT HOW SCOTLAND'S PROPOSED TRANS LEGISLATION IS DIVISIVE AS HELL BECAUSE IT IS SO SWEEPING THAT IT COULD BE POTENTIALLY ABUSED AT A TIME WHERE THE LACK OF SAFETY FOR WOMEN HAS BEEN SO GLARING

spectralent posted:

Also an inch is about 2.5cm. I remember it with the handy (???) mental shorthand of a .50 cal MG being half an inch and 12.7mm.

Your frame of reference for measuring distance is munitions. Interesting....

# ? Feb 12, 2016 00:24

spectralent: Oct 1, 2014; Me and the boys poppin' down to the shops

Ugleb posted:

Your frame of reference for measuring distance is munitions. Interesting....

I like tanks too much I am so sorry.

# ? Feb 12, 2016 01:52

Karl Rove: Feb 26, 2006; Oh man, the Elders are really lovely guys. Their astral projection seminars are literally off the fucking planet, and highly recommended.