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TKIY: Nov 6, 2012; Grimey Drawer

KoW is an infinitely better game but if there is only one person willing to play it...

The only reason I'm investing any time or money into it is because there is a GW in town and I can get a game whenever I want :/

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Lord_Hambrose: Nov 21, 2008; *a foul hooting fills the air*

Everyone should play Blood Bowl.

# ? Mar 12, 2017 00:32

Moola: Aug 16, 2006

TKIY posted:

The only reason I'm investing any time or money into it is because there is a GW in town and I can get a game whenever I want :/

no wargaming is better than bad wargaming

# ? Mar 12, 2017 00:39

TKIY: Nov 6, 2012; Grimey Drawer

Moola posted:

no wargaming is better than bad wargaming

Honestly this is a bridge too far for me. I already own most of this poo poo so whatever.

The Sylvaneth I bought are financed by store credit and selling off my NIB Tomb Kings for unreasonable prices.

They also bought me a new set of golf clubs. Tomb King prices are insane.

# ? Mar 12, 2017 00:41

LordAba: Oct 22, 2012; by FactsAreUseless

Lord_Hambrose posted:

Everyone should play Blood Bowl.

Counter argument: Everyone should play Aetherium.

# ? Mar 12, 2017 00:42

Avenging Dentist: Oct 1, 2005; oh my god is that a circular saw that does not go in my mouth aaaaagh

Lord_Hambrose posted:

Everyone should play Blood Bowl.

Don't you think you're jumping the gun a little? April 1st is still weeks away.

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I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008; Can't post for 20 hours!

# ? Mar 12, 2017 00:49

Jeb Bush 2012: Apr 4, 2007; A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

all I know about blood bowl it sounds like a bad game even when described by people who obviously like it

# ? Mar 12, 2017 00:50

Avenging Dentist: Oct 1, 2005; oh my god is that a circular saw that does not go in my mouth aaaaagh

Jeb Bush 2012 posted:

all I know about blood bowl it sounds like a bad game even when described by people who obviously like it

Pretty much.

# ? Mar 12, 2017 00:52

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

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

...Is that the new marines? Are the new gullimarines just the old marines but not hosed-up scalewise? :psyduck:

# ? Mar 12, 2017 01:11

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008; Can't post for 20 hours!

Yep

# ? Mar 12, 2017 01:26

Lord_Hambrose: Nov 21, 2008; *a foul hooting fills the air*

I love Blood Bowl, but it is definitely not for everyone.

I play Vampires and Ogres so I also hate being a winner. (One of the reasons I play Xenos too)

# ? Mar 12, 2017 01:58

Skinty McEdger: Mar 9, 2008; I have NEVER received the respect I deserve as the leader and founder of The Masterflock, the internet's largest and oldest Christopher Masterpiece fan group in all of history, and I DEMAND that changes. From now on, you will respect Skinty McEdger!

I play Dwarves, because I like winning and also hate the idea of anyone else having fun or cool stuff happening in a game I am playing.

# ? Mar 12, 2017 02:18

Rulebook Heavily: Sep 18, 2010; by FactsAreUseless

Guy Goodbody posted:

Are you accusing China of making AoS popular?

AoS started to pick up the very second I saw Chinese recasters start to produce models for it.

Yeah I'm going there

# ? Mar 12, 2017 10:38

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

bitches

Rulebook Heavily posted:

Chinese recasters

We... we did this, it's our fault :negative:

# ? Mar 12, 2017 10:48

Rulebook Heavily: Sep 18, 2010; by FactsAreUseless

Relatedly, if all they're doing with the "new marines" is "fix" the scale of Space Marines then they should stop listening to people who think the scale of Space Marines is super bad. Like, look at a person in a motorcycle helmet. Of course the "scale" of their body looks wrong. Now put them in a suit of body armor which is as ridiculously padded as a motorcycle helmet and it makes more sense, even if you don't account for the necessities of scale in miniatures and making them look good on a tabletop or shelf.

About the only real issue is how small they are compared to guardsmen but going by that promotion they had a while back where you could win a stack of models "as big" as a space marine and it was 180 centimetres tall, they don't think Space Marines are all that tall anyway - that's slightly above average in a lot of Europe and exactly average in my own country. Who cares if guardsmen, often the cream of humanity, manage to be slightly smaller than some countries' average size at that point.

Also the story reason of "a Primarch woke up and magically discovered how to make Space Marines a bit bigger" is silly to begin with given what we know of the heresy and the 40k Guilliman looks like Mike Pence.

# ? Mar 12, 2017 10:48

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

bitches

Perry's still kickin' goals post-GW

This looks neato

quote:

TravelBattle is a complete table top miniatures game in a box.
It is intended for gamers who have limited space, or those who are traveling on a long journey or holiday and need a gaming fix!
All the playing pieces are made of coloured plastic, and include two 3 dimensional green terrain boards with separate woods, grey buildings and red and blue armies. The size of the miniatures is 8mm.
The two terrain boards are designed to be placed together on any edge, giving the potential for 16 different battlefields. The 1" grid marked on the boards excludes the need for rulers to be used in the game.
The simple rules system should allow a game to played within an hour.
The two armies are generic Napoleonic forces of equal size and composition which make up three brigades for each side. There is a simple painting guide in case you which to enhance your armies and terrain boards.

Contents:
160 x Infantry
24 x Cavalry
4 x Guns and 12 crew
6 x Brigadiers
2 x 10" 3D Terrain boards
6 x Buildings
4 x Dice
1 x Set of rules

�50.00

Minis, terrain, and boards manufactured by Renedra, available to buy in person at Salute

https://www.perry-miniatures.com/product_info.php?products_id=3637

# ? Mar 12, 2017 14:06

Southern Heel: Jul 2, 2004

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

gotta be a shop, the base is fractionally higher than the guardsmen - AFAIK base height doesn't vary does it?

# ? Mar 12, 2017 14:20

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:

...Is that the new marines? Are the new gullimarines just the old marines but not hosed-up scalewise?

It had not occurred to me this was a new marine. I just thought it was a GW marine next to some other 28mm dude with a funny surprised look on his face.

The big reimagining of marines is simply scale creep then. Should have seen that coming.

# ? Mar 12, 2017 14:23

Zark the Damned: Mar 9, 2013

Southern Heel posted:

gotta be a shop, the base is fractionally higher than the guardsmen - AFAIK base height doesn't vary does it?

I just checked and the new 32mm bases are slightly taller than 25mm ones.

Still, props to GW for attempting to invalidate all those 'truescale' Marine armies out there...

# ? Mar 12, 2017 14:25

Ilor: Feb 2, 2008; That's a crit.

LordAba posted:

Counter argument: Everyone should play Aetherium.

Aetherium is cool and good. We played our first game with a House Ikaru force a while back; they are bizarre and cool and some of the unit interactions were intriguing in unexpected ways.

# ? Mar 12, 2017 14:37

90s Cringe Rock: Nov 29, 2006

Zark the Damned posted:

Still, props to GW for attempting to invalidate all those 'truescale' Marine armies out there...

People have been asking for truescale Marines for decades, putting hours of work into converting them from dozens of kits. And now they're happening, except they're not normal Marines, they're new super Marines so your lovingly-built "truescale Marines" aren't canon, fucker.

I love you Games Workshop.

# ? Mar 12, 2017 17:06

Crackbone: May 23, 2003; Vlaada is my co-pilot.

Upscaling Marines also means nearly all of the third party stuff is now useless for their new product line.

# ? Mar 12, 2017 17:09

Drone: Aug 22, 2003; Incredible machine

NTRabbit posted:

Perry's still kickin' goals post-GW

This looks neato

Minis, terrain, and boards manufactured by Renedra, available to buy in person at Salute

https://www.perry-miniatures.com/product_info.php?products_id=3637

Yeah that thing looks really cool and I sorta want it, despite having never played a historical before.

Any word on how the rules are? I really only know Perry from the really well-priced models.

Edit: gently caress you could just play Kings of War on there... Mantic wrote rules for smaller 8mm/10mm scale models, right?

# ? Mar 12, 2017 17:16

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

bitches

Drone posted:

Yeah that thing looks really cool and I sorta want it, despite having never played a historical before.

Any word on how the rules are? I really only know Perry from the really well-priced models.

Edit: gently caress you could just play Kings of War on there... Mantic wrote rules for smaller 8mm/10mm scale models, right?

They didn't need to, you just take the same rules and scale down the measurements accordingly, or for a full sized table you just put lots of tiny minis in the regular sized bases.

Don't think anyone has seen the Parry rules yet.

# ? Mar 12, 2017 17:56

Thundercloud: Mar 28, 2010; To boldly be eaten where no grot has been eaten before!

Crackbone posted:

Upscaling Marines also means nearly all of the third party stuff is now useless for their new product line.

All the third party producers will have new stuff available in weeks.

Also the shoulder pads and heads appear a similar size and that is the majority of 3rd party bits.

# ? Mar 12, 2017 18:44

Sir Teabag: Oct 26, 2007

Thundercloud posted:

All the third party producers will have new stuff available in weeks.

Also the shoulder pads and heads appear a similar size and that is the majority of 3rd party bits.

If true this just furthers how little GW understand their own market and copy right laws. lol

# ? Mar 12, 2017 18:51

Thundercloud: Mar 28, 2010; To boldly be eaten where no grot has been eaten before!

Sir Teabag posted:

If true this just furthers how little GW understand their own market and copy right laws. lol

Keeping them compatible means the current plastic space marine upgrade sprues and all forgeworld shoulder pad sets stay useable.

This isn't going to be about screwing people selling 3rd party not bolters with drum mags.

It will be about bigger, easier to assemble marines to appeal to kids combined with a new streamlined rules set.

# ? Mar 12, 2017 18:55

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

Ilor posted:

Aetherium is cool and good. We played our first game with a House Ikaru force a while back; they are bizarre and cool and some of the unit interactions were intriguing in unexpected ways.

Aetherium also looks dope but nobody plays it either.

# ? Mar 12, 2017 19:01

Dandywalken: Feb 11, 2014

I would buy and paint a single truescale Ork Kommando. Welp, see ya!

# ? Mar 12, 2017 19:28

Avenging Dentist: Oct 1, 2005; oh my god is that a circular saw that does not go in my mouth aaaaagh

Thundercloud posted:

It will be about bigger, easier to assemble marines to appeal to kids combined with a new streamlined rules set.

Don't forget: it's also about making Space Marine players buy an entirely new army instead of just grabbing one or two new units. No one's going to want to use their old baby Marines next to the new big Marines.

# ? Mar 12, 2017 19:56

Sir Teabag: Oct 26, 2007

Some of us are fine with the size of our marines. It's all about how you use them. Tactically you see.

# ? Mar 12, 2017 19:58

LordAba: Oct 22, 2012; by FactsAreUseless

spectralent posted:

Aetherium also looks dope but nobody plays it either.

The difference with Aetherium is that it can be treated as a wargame (buy your army, blah blah) or a boardgame (one guy has a copy that you all play). Given that the box set basically comes with two full armies it can be very easy to introduce.

# ? Mar 12, 2017 19:59

Avenging Dentist: Oct 1, 2005; oh my god is that a circular saw that does not go in my mouth aaaaagh

One day (read: when I stop playing so much Overwatch and work on my little guys again) I will do basically that with Dark Age. I have all the Kukulkani figures and a handful of CORE, so I'll have two armies. Maybe I'll even do Prevailers so I can change things up.

All in all, I like meeting cool people and then playing games with them a lot more than trying to play games hoping I meet cool people.

# ? Mar 12, 2017 20:03

Rockman Reserve: Oct 2, 2007; "Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

LordAba posted:

The difference with Aetherium is that it can be treated as a wargame (buy your army, blah blah) or a boardgame (one guy has a copy that you all play). Given that the box set basically comes with two full armies it can be very easy to introduce.

Your avatar is killer, where do you even find sweet Strange Journey art like that?

# ? Mar 12, 2017 22:47

Captain Rufus: Sep 16, 2005; CAPTAIN WORD SALAD

OFF MY MEDS AGAIN PLEASE DON'T USE BIG WORDS

UNNECESSARY LINE BREAK

Sir Teabag posted:

Some of us are fine with the size of our marines. It's all about how you use them. Tactically you see.

I have RTB01 plastics in my armies. Idgaf how much scale creep GW does. Imma using my old stuff for as long as I play with plastic spacemans.

# ? Mar 13, 2017 00:31

Drone: Aug 22, 2003; Incredible machine

Corvus Belli apparently released a new Infinity miniature that is a fat dude chowing down on a box of takeaway Chinese fastfood, and it's pretty great.

# ? Mar 13, 2017 16:10