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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:They're releasing a grimdark train set. In the grim future of the fortieth millenium, there is only chugga chugga choo choos.
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Broken Record Talk posted:It is my well researched, and unbiased opinion that GW, and everything it touches, are objectively BAD. Well GW is headquartered in the UK and Brexit happened, so this seems to check out.
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berzerkmonkey posted:Are they, or was that just the crane kit conversion? Let's not split hairs. CHOO CHOO.
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Someone I used to play Fantasy with finally bought up all my leftover models and books. I'm free, after 14 years.
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I think the only thing that could really and truly deal a serious blow to GW is an honest to god Star Wars minis game sold at Perry/WGF/DreamForge prices. Especially if they were DUST style pre-assembled kits or kits with very limited/easy assembly. If you did it in an intermediate scale where the game was built on a Bolt Action style scale of 25-65 models and priced them not insanely you could easily carve into GW. The problem is that miniatures wargames are such a small niche market that no company with the resources or licenses that could shake things up wants to because it's just not worth it. It's a tiny market, the returns are poor, and retailers don't like them because they eat up a ton of shelf space and don't move fast enough. I think your average boardgame player who might consider miniatures games as a hobby is going to be a crazy hard sell when just buying the rulebook and your codex for 40k could buy you a huge chunk of product for something like Summoner Wars, Tash-Kalar, or a number of other games about tactical army battling.
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Honestly I still really wish FFG had done pre-paints for Runewars. I get that there's economic reasons why it probably wasn't feasible but I think only pre-painted models would allow a new game to really compete. There's something nice about going in, buying the new wave of Armada stuff and not being like 'ok cool, in 5 months when I have the perfect convergence of time and desire I will get these ready to go onto the table.' I know a lot of people who see the hobby requirements for Warmahordes or KoW and their eyes glaze over and they buy another booster box of MTG cards or more X-wing models instead.
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fnordcircle posted:Honestly I still really wish FFG had done pre-paints for Runewars. I get that there's economic reasons why it probably wasn't feasible but I think only pre-painted models would allow a new game to really compete. Aren't they at least pre-assembled? That goes a long ways.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:I think the only thing that could really and truly deal a serious blow to GW is an honest to god Star Wars minis game sold at Perry/WGF/DreamForge prices. Especially if they were DUST style pre-assembled kits or kits with very limited/easy assembly. If you did it in an intermediate scale where the game was built on a Bolt Action style scale of 25-65 models and priced them not insanely you could easily carve into GW. The problem is that miniatures wargames are such a small niche market that no company with the resources or licenses that could shake things up wants to because it's just not worth it. It's a tiny market, the returns are poor, and retailers don't like them because they eat up a ton of shelf space and don't move fast enough. I think your average boardgame player who might consider miniatures games as a hobby is going to be a crazy hard sell when just buying the rulebook and your codex for 40k could buy you a huge chunk of product for something like Summoner Wars, Tash-Kalar, or a number of other games about tactical army battling. gw is too big and too entrenched in the hobby to actually worry about competition. the only thing that could feasibly cause them to close shop would be a collapse of the hobby itself
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LordAba posted:Aren't they at least pre-assembled? That goes a long ways. They do take some assembly, but they're close to being snap fit in that they all push together well enough to stay put without glue. It is definitely playable out of the box without any sort of tools or glue at the very least.
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fnordcircle posted:Honestly I still really wish FFG had done pre-paints for Runewars. I get that there's economic reasons why it probably wasn't feasible but I think only pre-painted models would allow a new game to really compete. A lot of this is culture, though. If Runewars does start to take off and people don't broadly expect the painting and behave like jerks about it, that'll be less of a barrier. It's not like most people paint their Imperial Assault figures or Risk mans or whatever.
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Ultiville posted:A lot of this is culture, though. If Runewars does start to take off and people don't broadly expect the painting and behave like jerks about it, that'll be less of a barrier. It's not like most people paint their Imperial Assault figures or Risk mans or whatever. It will come down to organized play. If they insist on a three color minimum or table top standard, then it will have the same painting culture as every other game on the market. But if that's not enforced at official events it may not be so toxic.
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This guy's converted Imperial Grot army is loving amazing and adorable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86igT9cx44U
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Someone I used to play Fantasy with finally bought up all my leftover models and books. Do they want mine? Runewars has hit the ground running at my local game shop (Element Games in Stockport) with about 6/12 people playing which is good. I'm waiting for the proper release a bit later down the line but at least people are playing!
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Mantic open day today   Nameless  Non-white people? On a minis table? The woman doesn't even have tit plate, they can't be legit minis     
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Those are the first Mantic minis I've actually been impressed with.
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Mantic learned to sculpt?!?0
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Bad Moon posted:Mantic learned to sculpt?!?0 And paint!
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It'd be funny to learn that they're using Angel Giraldez for their display pieces too. FFG did that with Runewars:
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May 6, 2017 18:23
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My god! Those minis! They're... competent!! They actually look pretty rad but I have more than enough Dark Age mans to work on already.
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WTF is Star Saga and how do I get an angry crab man?
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Star Saga is Mantic space Descent.
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Iceclaw posted:Are those minis for one of their existing games? Yes and no - they're being made for Star Saga, which is a new game due out later this year, but they'll also be usable in Deadzone as mercs/faction additions, and the tentacle crab guys will be getting their own faction with an alpha and beta list due pretty soon with a 'live' pdf release in Q4, which will extended into a full Warpath faction later on. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 21:02 on May 6, 2017 |
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Atlas Hugged posted:Star Saga is Mantic space Descent. You might also call it their space Dungeon Saga, hence the name. I really like that there are a lot of different looking aliens, like in their Dreadball game.
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40k getting good rules. Mantic making good models. 2017 is weird.
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Not a viking posted:You might also call it their space Dungeon Saga, hence the name. I think there's a good three dozen different alien species with minis across the 5 games in the Warpath universe, from full factions down to one off mercs/mvps
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Bad Moon posted:Mantic learned to sculpt?!?0 It's amazing what wonders a decent paintjob will work.
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Drone posted:It's amazing what wonders a decent paintjob will work. Reminder that a lot of infinity models are really flat and uninteresting. Angel adds all the texture and depth.
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Chill la Chill posted:Reminder that a lot of infinity models are really flat and uninteresting. Angel adds all the texture and depth. Too bad he doesn't work for GW I guess?  
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TTerrible posted:Those are the first Mantic minis I've actually been impressed with. Yeah,  That crab monster is legit good
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Soulfucker posted:This one is really cute 9/10 would field I like to imagine him at an optometrist with a phoropter in front of him.
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Iceclaw posted:Too bad he doesn't work for GW I guess? Ayy lmao. I love the infinity stuff but they are pretty flat, basic, and need a lot of painted effects. At least then you can add detail, which I prefer, o GW's modern overdesigned stuff. Removing that detail is a lot harder.
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Chill la Chill posted:Ayy lmao. I love the infinity stuff but they are pretty flat, basic, and need a lot of painted effects. At least then you can add detail, which I prefer, o GW's modern overdesigned stuff. Removing that detail is a lot harder.
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I'm looking at this plastic, cheap detailed warlord games samurai I just assembled and like infinity, it's more properly proportioned without giant hulk hands and only slightly larger heads. I'm going to have to paint a diamond pattern on this 1mm wide katana scabbard somehow. 
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Chill la Chill posted:Kum Bikers Yeah, it gets worse. There's a pair of lady bikers called Kum Enforcers.
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