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Moola posted:I dont even know you any more LON:GAW peaked recently. On January 18th, the stock closed at 868.5p, which is above its previous 5-year peak of 810p set back in July 2013. If you bought GW stock exactly 1 year ago, you have enjoyed a 76.61% return, which is phenomenal. The company has continued to pay its regular dividends, and although the stock is currently at 826 after sliding over the last week, there's no particular sign of weakness and it is actually just tracking a general market pullback across european markets. Age of Sigmar appears to have been helpful to GW's bottom line.
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Leperflesh posted:Age of Sigmar appears to have been helpful to GW's bottom line. If only it had not destroyed our souls.
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muggins posted:I actually noticed the new tzeentch demon is 70 pounds, or 115 usd, while the true exchange rate should be 87. I've noticed mantic and warlord do this as well. I can understand not wanting to have to change prices based on exchange rates all the time, but it's not even close. Is this even legal?
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So the Nova Open just opened for registration today. I saw this for the 40k GT: https://novaopenstore.com/NoVACart/Home/EventItem/1056 So, holy moly it's $70 just for the tournament. It cost me that much for the convention pass and x-wing tournament pass. But look at the schedule, which is insane: Price: $70.00 Instructor / Organizer: Phil Rodokanakis and Neil Gilstrap Max Attendees: 256 Date(s): Fri 9/01/2017 - (Round 1) 09:30 AM - 12:30 PM Fri 9/01/2017 - (Round 2) 01:30 PM - 04:30 PM Fri 9/01/2017 - (Round 3) 05:00 PM - 08:00 PM Sat 9/02/2017 - (Round 4) 09:30 AM - 12:30 PM Sat 9/02/2017 - (Round 5) 01:30 PM - 04:30 PM Sat 9/02/2017 - (Round 6) 05:00 PM - 08:00 PM Sun 9/03/2017 - (Round 7) 11:30 AM - 02:30 PM Sun 9/03/2017 - (Round 8) 03:00 PM - 06:00 PM  Looking at the primer is also a laugh, as always. It's 20 pages. e: lol just noticed on the bottom of page 16 is a link to an FAQ which is another 35 pages.
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Chill la Chill posted:So the Nova Open just opened for registration today. I saw this for the 40k GT: https://novaopenstore.com/NoVACart/Home/EventItem/1056 You need to relax dude. What part of this being a chance for cool casual dudes to bro down while chucking dice don't you get? Its about the people, not the high prices of admission, travel, and accommodation. It's about the good times not the punishing schedule, or the tidal wave of rules, or the busted games being played. Seriously, what's your problem?
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Moola posted:thats like paying for torture please don't kinkshame here
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Chill la Chill posted:So the Nova Open just opened for registration today. I saw this for the 40k GT: https://novaopenstore.com/NoVACart/Home/EventItem/1056 Eight rounds what the hell? Is that how these things run now? I can't remember playing in one more than five. I can't remember if NOVA was always like that since I was more familiar with the Fantasy side. It sounds exhausting. Tournaments trying to "fix" GW games are always the best since the games are so broken you really should just accept it outside of a few glaring issues. NOVA used to have a lot of house rules to patch up the holes in 40k which was its favorite child while the other games were all pushed into the other hall. I wonder if that's still the case. Eggplant Squire fucked around with this message at 14:20 on Feb 2, 2017 |
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Indolent Bastard posted:You need to relax dude. What part of this being a chance for cool casual dudes to bro down while chucking dice don't you get? Its about the people, not the high prices of admission, travel, and accommodation. It's about the good times not the punishing schedule, or the tidal wave of rules, or the busted games being played. Seriously, what's your problem? You're right. I forgot about the fly casual x-wing mantra: hang out with your wang out. I've been the grognard
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Radish posted:Eight rounds what the hell? Is that how these things run now? I can't remember playing in one more than five. I can't remember if NOVA was always like that since I was more familiar with the Fantasy side. It sounds exhausting. Fifty-plus pages of rules. As for love child, well, I think they've been using pictures from the big x-wing tournament on the front page the past couple years now.
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I mean once you have to put out 50 pages of un-official rules I just don't understand the point of playing that game competitively... It's like you have basically created a different game at that point and admitting it's badly designed at its core. Good for Xwing though. 
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A 40k thread poster posted:Just venting I guess, felt like a waste of three hours the second we deployed. GW.txt
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Not a viking posted:GW.txt Yeah that was me. Not a fun game.
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TKIY posted:Yeah that was me. Not a fun game. you played 40k what did you expect?
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Moola posted:you played 40k The sweet caress of death, and yet here I am.
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Not a viking posted:GW.txt To be fair that applies to 40K first and foremost (lumping in Apoc and 30K), followed by AoS. Other GW games aren't quite that bad. (Still not good, but not that bad).
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I will willingly, but begrudgingly, play forbidden stars as a 3-hour game. I don't like fiddly ameritrash games as much but here I am trying to plan out a campaign for north africa game with my friends. 
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TKIY posted:Yeah that was me. Not a fun game. Reading how that battle turned out (losing because all the objectives randomly ended up on your opponents side of the board) and how the other 40k posters responded (just play a completely different army next time to counter their skewed build) makes me wonder why you bother
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Not a viking posted:Reading how that battle turned out (losing because all the objectives randomly ended up on your opponents side of the board) and how the other 40k posters responded (just play a completely different army next time to counter their skewed build) makes me wonder why you bother Usually the answer is something like "it's the only game people play" which is still a lousy excuse. No gaming is better than bad gaming.
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Chill la Chill posted:So the Nova Open just opened for registration today. I saw this for the 40k GT: https://novaopenstore.com/NoVACart/Home/EventItem/1056 So when are you supposed to sleep? Never?
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Atlas Hugged posted:Usually the answer is something like "it's the only game people play" which is still a lousy excuse. No gaming is better than bad gaming.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Usually the answer is something like "it's the only game people play" which is still a lousy excuse. No gaming is better than bad gaming. 40k the Monopoly of table top wargaming. It makes alot of sense.
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For those of us that couldn't really tell one white dude in power armour apart from another white dude in power armour even when we did play this awful game; who is this, why should I be screaming like a teenage girl at a Beatles concert, how does this advance the game in new and exciting ways?
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Indolent Bastard posted:For those of us that couldn't really tell one white dude in power armour apart from another white dude in power armour even when we did play this awful game; who is this, why should I be screaming like a teenage girl at a Beatles concert, how does this advance the game in new and exciting ways? He's the plainest, most boring, most vanilla primarch, from the Ultramarines, and he's the guy half the Marine players hate because Matt Ward's fiction turned him into the 'liege lord' of every marine, more beloved than any other primarch, even their own sometimes.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Usually the answer is something like "it's the only game people play" which is still a lousy excuse. No gaming is better than bad gaming. Just buy Operation Ice Storm, paint the minis and pimp it like you have no shame like I did
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NTRabbit posted:He's the plainest, most boring, most vanilla primarch, from the Ultramarines, and he's the guy half the Marine players hate because Matt Ward's fiction turned him into the 'liege lord' of every marine, more beloved than any other primarch, even their own sometimes. Of loving course it is... It's bland white dude power fantasy all the way down isn't it?
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Not a viking posted:Just buy Operation Ice Storm, paint the minis and pimp it like you have no shame like I did
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When I played 40K in the 90's Robot Goldboat was "that guy who was kind of a stickler to regulations and wrote a huge bunch of rules that the other Space Marines agreed to follow to a varying degree while making jerk-off motions and rolling their eyes behind his back, and wait he's kinda Roman looking I guess because it's literally the Marian Reforms but in Space Future". Now he's "that guy who every space marine adores more than the Emperor himself, because some lovely recent GW writer had a real hard-on for Ultramarines and turned them from rules-lawyer party poopers to the best marines that every other marine wants to be". It's so lovely that only GW could pull it off. E: of course they're going to drag the Fallen into this mess and gently caress up their fluff to hell and back.
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lilljonas posted:When I played 40K in the 90's Robot Goldboat was "that guy who was kind of a stickler to regulations and wrote a huge bunch of rules that the other Space Marines agreed to follow to a varying degree while making jerk-off motions and rolling their eyes behind his back, and wait he's kinda Roman looking I guess because it's literally the Marian Reforms but in Space Future". I played Ultramarines in the 90's and liked that they were the austere fanatics of ancient dogma. They weren't actually better than other chapters, but believed that they were because their Primarch wrote the book. Basically they were the epitome of Imperial society being stuck in a rut trying to do the same thing over and over based solely on millenia old commands that don't really make sense anymore.
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I think it's interesting if you take the idea that the Space Marine codex that Ward wrote is a piece of Ultramarine propaganda, where they don't record any of their losses but fill warehouses with records of victories, and basically have a really efficient propaganda machine that they bombard everyone with. OTOH I think that argument is used too often as a crux for fanboys to hold up lovely writing. It also ends up in Shroedingers Troll situations, where good GW writing (lol) is held up as good writing but bad writing is "In universe imperial propaganda", so you cover all bases.
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Cypher returning and drawing his sword that he never draws because of universe ending implications is also fine and good and definitely nothing like the end times.
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 Here's an inside pic. And I guess they updated and changed cypher's model because GW isn't really bothered with little things like consistency.
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Flipswitch posted:buy both I recommend Deadzone 2E Starter, and then in a few months Operation Heracles
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NTRabbit posted:I recommend Deadzone 2E Starter, and then in a few months Operation Heracles
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