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Local peeps keep trying to get me into 40K. Smdh
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Reportage! http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-4107598/Fantasy-games-miniatures-maker-Games-Workshop-sudden-sales-surge.html I'm sure the company will unfreeze its employees salaries, hire some competent sculptors, ease up the abusive restrictions it places on independent stockists, expand its stores to include playing space, hire competent rules writers, begin playtesting its rules before release, lower prices on its most ridiculously expensive products, and restore the beloved setting that so many of its new license customers that bought Warhammer: Total War have just been introduced to. Right?
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Jan 11, 2017 19:31
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I went into a Warhammer store to sell some bitz and they almost sold me on a GSC box
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Leperflesh posted:Reportage! you know personally I don't think theyre going to do any of those things Leperflesh
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Jan 11, 2017 22:21
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Moola posted:you know personally I don't think theyre going to do any of those things Leperflesh but https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3802686&userid=101756&perpage=40&pagenumber=2#post468171180
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Jan 11, 2017 22:24
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they'll probably unfreeze employee salaries at some point. That doesn't seem like something a company can sustain forever
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Jan 11, 2017 22:37
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TheChirurgeon posted:they'll probably unfreeze employee salaries at some point. That doesn't seem like something a company can sustain forever I'm guessing you're european
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Jan 11, 2017 22:38
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Business Gorillas posted:I'm guessing you're european I should have said "that doesn't seem like something GW can sustain forever." Obviously Walmart and McDonald's can, but even they're subject to increases in the minimum wage* *will not apply for the next 8 years
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Jan 11, 2017 22:39
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Business Gorillas posted:I'm guessing you're european Cowboys fandom spreading to Europe? 
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Jan 12, 2017 03:34
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Yay, I just realised this thread had been remade! How goes the hams friends?
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Jan 12, 2017 06:52
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kingcom posted:Yay, I just realised this thread had been remade! Since moving apartments I mostly just play Deadzone. Carrying around a whole army is a hassle.
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Jan 12, 2017 09:08
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I read the last 20 pages of the 40k thread and now my head hurts. At least I can now identify as a Death Threader who makes sculptors feel bad by not liking over engineered models, making me basically Hitler
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Jan 12, 2017 09:34
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Thirsty Dog posted:I read the last 20 pages and now my head hurts. At least I can now identify as a Death Threader who makes sculptors feel bad by not liking over engineered models, making me basically Hitler Hitler loved him some overengineered models. See also: German tanks. if anything you're more like stalin is what i'm saying
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Jan 12, 2017 09:36
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That should have said the last 20 pages of the 40k thread. Stalin was poo poo at posting too
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Jan 12, 2017 09:46
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Atlas Hugged posted:Since moving apartments I mostly just play Deadzone. Carrying around a whole army is a hassle. Is it possible to start Deadzone without buying the box set full of scrunts
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Jan 12, 2017 10:59
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All of the Deadzone stuff is also available a la cart. Also the new box set is Enforcers and Plague, so no squats.
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Jan 12, 2017 11:11
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Cinnamon Bear posted:Is it possible to start Deadzone without buying the box set full of scrunts Yes, but why wouldn't you want a box full of scrunts?  You can separately buy the rulebook with tokens and command dice, then get a pack containing a playmat and a small amount of the latest terrain, with an expansion book for good measure, or just buy the mat and add your own choice of battlezone terrain bundles, and then finally pick up your choice of faction starter, though if your choice is Asterians I'd hold off a bit, because I believe it's due for an update to include some of the new hard plastic Marionettes that had to be sent to Warpath backers first. v You're right, I didn't even read it properly, hasn't been plague since the first box. Should really only be one power armour army in it though, they needed to make it one of them versus Veer'myn. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 13:19 on Jan 12, 2017 |
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Jan 12, 2017 11:44
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Is everyone crazy but me? Both Deadzone and Warpath are Enforcers vs Forge Fathers because Mantic realized that most people do not give a poo poo about their Alien/Genestealer/Body Horror knockoff.
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Jan 12, 2017 12:54
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Thirsty Dog posted:I read the last 20 pages of the 40k thread and now my head hurts. At least I can now identify as a Death Threader who makes sculptors feel bad by not liking over engineered models, making me basically Hitler I forgot how bad the 40k thread was It's EXTREMELY bad
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Jan 12, 2017 13:07
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I always thought they focused so much on Forge Fathers because they wanted to win the ex-GW player who sees Squats (and their squatting) as sort of a mascot for how GW is a bad company.
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Jan 12, 2017 13:08
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Drone posted:I always thought they focused so much on Forge Fathers because they wanted to win the ex-GW player who sees Squats (and their squatting) as sort of a mascot for how GW is a bad company. So basically squatting: bad, forging: good. Which is why gw tried to forge things with sigmar?
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Jan 12, 2017 13:20
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Drone posted:I always thought they focused so much on Forge Fathers because they wanted to win the ex-GW player who sees Squats (and their squatting) as sort of a mascot for how GW is a bad company. I'm sure that's it too, but the previous Deadzone edition put way more emphasis on the Plague and they feel like an afterthought in the fluff now rather than the main focus and I'm totally cool with that because the Plague are stupid.
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Jan 12, 2017 13:22
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Atlas Hugged posted:I'm sure that's it too, but the previous Deadzone edition put way more emphasis on the Plague and they feel like an afterthought in the fluff now rather than the main focus and I'm totally cool with that because the Plague are stupid. Give it time, they were sidelined only because the hard plastic basic troops were part of the Warpath KS not the Deadzone one. Mantic is gearing up for a heavy Plague push this year. That is, unless you decide to kickstart the next edition this year too.
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Jan 12, 2017 14:50
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Give it time, they were sidelined only because the hard plastic basic troops were part of the Warpath KS not the Deadzone one. Mantic is gearing up for a heavy Plague push this year. That is, unless you decide to kickstart the next edition this year too. Wait, a third Deadzone KS?
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Jan 12, 2017 14:54
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Cinnamon Bear posted:Wait, a third Deadzone KS? No, in the Mantic thread we've been weighing the odds of another Warpath kickstarter depending on how the retail release goes. My theory is that they're going to do a kickstarter either way to get some plastic Rebs and Marauder models made but if Warpath and Firefight tank at retail then like they did with the second Deadzone kickstarter it will morph from just Rebs and Marauders to a "revised" edition of Warpath that basically just turns the game into Firefight with "mass battles" as part of an optional rules section.
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Jan 12, 2017 15:04
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Marauders, Rebs (if they can figure out a way to do it) and Nameless will get hard plastic stuff to replace some restic, and go with some surviving restic and the newer board game plastic stuff (I wonder if the older restic moulds can simply be used with the new BGP material?). Probably also get the Lancer MBT, the missing Asterian drones (Narsa, Spectra, Hidden Strike), and either a replacement for the Raptor, or a Marauder conversion kit for the Mule and Pelican, and maybe even a Rebs one too, though that's really starting to stretch "everyone looks the same". Nameless are about to get an alpha list for Deadzone based on the minis coming in Star Saga, so they're definitely next.
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Jan 12, 2017 15:15
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90s Cringe Rock posted:So basically squatting: bad, forging: good. Which is why gw tried to forge things with sigmar? Therefore, GW should squat Sigmar.
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Jan 12, 2017 15:47
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GW only makes good products friend
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Jan 12, 2017 16:21
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Anyone for Snorks?
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Jan 12, 2017 18:29
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Oof, it's hard to tell if the Thuuls are good models, the paint job is pretty bad. The Gigas look like lumpy blobs of play dough. I like the tidal elementals, especially the sea creatures along for the ride.
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Jan 12, 2017 22:29
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Mantic's studio paint jobs are about at the level that I paint. Which is fine for tabletop use but totally unacceptably bad for use as photography models for product sales. Seriously it's embarrassing.
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Jan 12, 2017 23:53
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A lot about Mantic is, honestly, a bit embarrassing. Like they try for sure and they've made some apparently-good games that I have zero interest in, but they often seem like they're just kinda fumbling their way around. Of course, since they're basically "Bizarro GW" all they need to do is actually respect their customers to have the competitive edge...
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Jan 12, 2017 23:56
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mantic is a good but amateurish company. i don't think they were prepared for their level of success and they're having to work out moving from "dude-casting-minis-in-his-garage" to "holy-poo poo-our-game-took-half-the-warhammer-playerbase." i backed KoW2 for the rulebooks, dungeon saga, and warpath 2, and i've been mostly satisfied.
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Yeah, they're a company with their hearts in the right place, that is open to adapting to change, and engaging with the community, and a bunch of other things that are good to be. But they're also sort of sadly incompetent in several areas, showing some slow but promising improvement, and I think they have a bright future. But today, they're in this weird space where their competence as a commercial business is way behind compared to the scope of their sales and success.
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Jan 13, 2017 00:37
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Jan 13, 2017 01:02
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Is that... good? I can't even tell anymore.
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Jan 13, 2017 01:07
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Mantic needs to hire better painters real fast. How about some models with loads of detail you can't see because the entire armour's painted white, sure that sounds good. - some guy at mantic presumably
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spectralent posted:Mantic needs to hire better painters real fast. I seem to recall that they had a position available for an in-house studio painter a year or two ago and it seems like they hired whoever was willing to work for the lowest price they could legally get away with.
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Jan 13, 2017 02:01
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I'm actually totally fine giving Mantic the benefit of the doubt on sculpts. The vast majority of stuff I've gotten from them has looked good. But man is their studio painter trash.
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Mantic needs Angel Giraldez painting NMM and cel shaded minis for them. Their models are similar to Infinity's flat surfaces. Then everyone like me will be disappointed in our paint jobs because we're not as good at blending.
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