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TKIY posted:This is worth money: I like the Carrie hand popping out of the ground.
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TKIY posted:This is worth money: But is it worth the money that GW will charge for it, that is the question.
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Apr 13, 2017 15:32
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Yvonmukluk posted:But is it worth the money that GW will charge for it, that is the question. Trick question. GW products are always worth the money
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Apr 13, 2017 15:42
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That is seriously a cool skelly.
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Apr 13, 2017 15:49
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 I like this The paint job is not super, but I mean the model e. shown off a bit better: 
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Apr 13, 2017 16:20
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Apr 13, 2017 16:24
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Yeah, I'm super excited for Runewars since I'd gladly have played WHFB except that terrible game design is a real turn-off for me. Several people who wandered into the store while I was assembling the demo copy seemed excited so I'm optimistic, but it is in a weird spot as a product, so we'll see how it ends up doing. The good news is I like the rules so if no one buys my copies I'll just have a bunch to game with myself.
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Apr 13, 2017 16:26
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You could probably mash the Runewars and new GW skellies together. Maybe throw some mantic ones in. Bonus: Really confuse the poo poo out of people who don't want their tables tainted with off-brand plastic dolls.
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Apr 13, 2017 16:28
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spectralent posted:You could probably mash the Runewars and new GW skellies together. Maybe throw some mantic ones in. Bonus: Really confuse the poo poo out of people who don't want their tables tainted with off-brand plastic dolls. Runewars is definitely designed so this is unlikely to confuse anyone; you can already embed heroes and giant monsters in your unit by buying the appropriate upgrade cards, so a few off-brand skellies wouldn't matter. I'd say it might bother GW purists but GW doesn't have a unit-based ranked battles game so welp.
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Apr 13, 2017 16:30
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Hixson posted:Trick question. GW products are always worth the money  £80
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Apr 13, 2017 16:31
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TKIY posted:This is worth money: I cannot find fault with anything on this model there good skeletons Bront
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Apr 13, 2017 16:33
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I'm guessing it comes in one piece or maybe the shield arm and/or head can be swapped but basically it's one piece, which is the huge improvement that makes skellies look so much better. Individually. Since there's no rank and file game that GW makes any more, so there's no need to make a skeleton kit that produces a very wide variety of skeletons to use in a block.
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Apr 13, 2017 16:38
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Moola posted:I cannot find fault with anything on this model Probably the price tag.
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Apr 13, 2017 16:40
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Game of Thrones in space exists, it's called Legend of the Galactic Heroes and it's rad. eh, it's very mixed in quality. major plot points hinge on people making implausible stupid decisions, and both the prussian aristocratic pastiche and the democratic pastiche are bland as hell ilmucche posted:As a game with secret objectives it would be rad. Do I kill this easy to kill guy, or is that what they want me to do? malifaux already does this. one of the objectives is exactly that, in fact!
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Apr 13, 2017 16:41
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Chill la Chill posted:Yeah, I got to try it out last weekend and it was great. However, it really is too "gamey" for grognards and too deep into the rabbit hole for people who'd otherwise be drawn to stuff like x-wing. If it fails, it'll fail like D&D 4e because of that. I'm planning to split the starter with a friend and use our other fantasy stuff for the rest like people do for KOW. You'd need to write down your dials for everything else but that's not bad for a casual game. I really enjoy the Runebound setting and I don't know if I'll bother getting it even so. I really hate painting.
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Apr 13, 2017 16:47
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Agreed. Rad terrain for a fair price
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Apr 13, 2017 16:53
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Taear posted:I really enjoy the Runebound setting and I don't know if I'll bother getting it even so. I really hate painting. I'm just not gonna paint mine, even the rulebook explicitly says it's fine. I mean, I might decide to paint it at some point because sometimes I forget that I'm bad at it and hate it, but I'm certainly not planning on it.
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Apr 13, 2017 16:54
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spectralent posted:Probably the price tag.
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Apr 13, 2017 17:02
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Leperflesh posted:I'm guessing it comes in one piece or maybe the shield arm and/or head can be swapped but basically it's one piece, which is the huge improvement that makes skellies look so much better. Lots of recent GW stuff comes in one peice or snaps into a single pose, its probably the real reason I don't buy their stuff anymore. I think that basically means I'm insane because the exact moment I fell out with GW was buying the updated clanrats and them being beautiful single part models instead of six part hideous monkey dogs. Whats the loving point of the hobby if I'm not individually posing my toys?
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by.a.teammate posted:The book of short stories that this is based on is amazing, well worth a read What is it called?
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Apr 13, 2017 18:21
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Hixson posted:Agreed. Rad terrain for a fair price Your gimmick is really hilarious, I hope you keep it up forever.
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Hixson posted:Agreed. Rad terrain for a fair price
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Isn't the issue with non humanoid armies that no one wants to play them cause most people are naturally turned off by being represented by something that doesn't look like them?
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Apr 13, 2017 18:42
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Leperflesh posted:Yeah I'm really just asking for either the admission that 40k is a parody setting where laser elfs and football hooligan orks belong, or, just some minor concessions to realism to make aliens a little bit less just sexy slender humans with pointy ears and a little bit more like recognizably people but with motives and behaviors that humanity can't recognize in itself.. 40k does have some really cool aliens, but only if you look outside the mainstream parts of it. They have the Slaugth, which are swarms of worms that imitate human bodies by hiding inside robes. They also have the Umbra, which is a sphere of something or other that lives in shadows. They have the Enslavers, which live in the warp and look like fleas or something. There's others, but those are the ones I remember. Of course, they aren't enough of a presence in the 40k universe to warrant being on the tabletop, but they are drat cool.
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Apr 13, 2017 18:44
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Leperflesh posted:Your gimmick is really hilarious, I hope you keep it up forever. "Anybody who disagrees with me is trolling" -Leperflesh probably
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Apr 13, 2017 18:46
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Leperflesh posted:Your gimmick is really hilarious, I hope you keep it up forever. same but unironically
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Apr 13, 2017 18:48
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Cat Face Joe posted:Isn't the issue with non humanoid armies that no one wants to play them cause most people are naturally turned off by being represented by something that doesn't look like them? In 40ks case its because anything that isn't human gets poo poo rules.
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Edit: ^^^ Yea, that too. I think Tyranids were a pretty popular army when they landed, but they've been eroded by years of being the NPC faction and getting shat on constantly in updates.The Skeleton King posted:40k does have some really cool aliens, but only if you look outside the mainstream parts of it. They have the Slaugth, which are swarms of worms that imitate human bodies by hiding inside robes. They also have the Umbra, which is a sphere of something or other that lives in shadows. They have the Enslavers, which live in the warp and look like fleas or something. There's others, but those are the ones I remember. Of course, they aren't enough of a presence in the 40k universe to warrant being on the tabletop, but they are drat cool. I was pretty bummed that they didn't play more into the Confederation of Species thing for the Tau; we basically just got Kroot and Vespids. It would have been pretty cool to have seen more variety so that it actually seemed like a bunch of different species working together, maybe mix a couple other humanoids into the regular squads or something too.
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Go ahead and give GW money for those sick new skellies, we all know you were never committed to the don't-buy-gw shtick/are repressed fanboys.
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Ashcans posted:Edit: ^^^ Yea, that too. I think Tyranids were a pretty popular army when they landed, but they've been eroded by years of being the NPC faction and getting shat on constantly in updates. I think a major contributing factor was that for like 99% of Tau players, the appeal was the battlesuits and so why the gently caress would you bother with Kroot and Vespids. The Confederation of Species thing was a fine idea, it just unfortunately needed to be a different faction from the one with the mechs. But even then the Confederation faction would struggle without something more compelling around it.
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Mango Polo posted:Go ahead and give GW money for those sick new skellies, we all know you were never committed to the don't-buy-gw shtick/are repressed fanboys. I've never given GW money for anything ever and it seems unlikely I ever will.
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Leperflesh how's Crash doing?
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Oh boy the gimmick posting GW fans are back to troll us about the super hot takes such as "cool model but probably pass at that price point" and " cool model but GW burned me in the past so pass"
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Those skeletons are baller. I'd pay a decent amount just to put those bad boys on my desk. Or I would if I still did this hobby anymore. They are drat good skeletons anyway, by far the best work GW has done in a long while. TTerrible posted:In 40ks case its because anything that isn't human gets poo poo rules. Bingo.
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Bad Moon posted:Oh boy the gimmick posting GW fans are back to troll us about the super hot takes such as "cool model but probably pass at that price point" and " cool model but GW burned me in the past so pass" what price point? The Skeleton King posted:Those skeletons are baller. Tau, Eldar, Daemons
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TheChirurgeon posted:Tau, Eldar, Daemons I was talking about Tyranids, which are the only non-humanoids.
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Bad Moon posted:Oh boy the gimmick posting GW fans are back to troll us about the super hot takes such as "cool model but probably pass at that price point" and " cool model but GW burned me in the past so pass" It's not a gimmick to say that GW has released a number of cost-effective and high quality products in the past year or so.
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Too bad they are usually only either one of those. But yeah, those skeletons look nice.
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TheChirurgeon posted:I think a major contributing factor was that for like 99% of Tau players, the appeal was the battlesuits and so why the gently caress would you bother with Kroot and Vespids. The Confederation of Species thing was a fine idea, it just unfortunately needed to be a different faction from the one with the mechs. But even then the Confederation faction would struggle without something more compelling around it. Yea, that's pretty much where it landed and of course it was easier/better for GW to make more battlsuits and tanks/robots than to come up with entirely new races to fill a battlefield role. I always wanted someone to take those artillery support gorillas from AT-43 with their huge guns and use those instead of the Tau battlesuits as an alternative model, because they were pretty cool models and it would have been a nice nod in that direction.
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tallkidwithglasses posted:It's not a gimmick to say that GW has released a number of cost-effective and high quality products in the past year or so. But is it a sign of GW changing their way of business, or just a halfhearted gesture? And besides, GW still has plenty of problems beyond just cost.
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