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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:what do you mean area movement? like squares or hexes? if so you might check out dust tactics Bistromatic posted:No idea about their exact scale butthe Conan boardgame and Mythic Battles both use area movement and are pretty cool from the demo games i played. I can ask a friend about the scale if youre interested. Leperflesh posted:Yeah I hesitated to mention the conan boardgame. It's area movement skirmish, but it uses boards, not terrain on a tabletop. I mean, you could make terrain on a tabletop and define some areas and make your own scenario and play it I guess, but that's putting a lot of work on you. Yes, sorry, was indeed talking about stuff like Conan (or Bonaparte at Marengo), but done with normal miniature wargame terrain rather than as pre-printed boardgames. Guess it hasn't been done? Irate Tree posted:This guy's converted Imperial Grot army is loving amazing and adorable. That's the kind of poo poo GW should be encouraging. People actually engaging with the setting rather than just the rules. There's a reason Bandai Namco (IIRC) calls themselves a character licencor rather than an animation and games producer. Have an of the rules previews mentioned anything about making it easier for players to ~forge~ their narratives? IG doctrines, Chapter traits, Tyranid mutations, Vehicle construction rules... Actually, heck, have they said yet how army construction is going to work at all? Edit: I guess "Open play is the most flexible, and easiest to get started with, allowing you to use any miniatures you like." sounds pretty flexible... Edit 2: just noticed the "Explore the Factions" page lists Craftworlds, Harlequins, Dark Eldar and the, uh, Ynnari as separate factions. Surely they wouldn't do that if they were planning on consolidating them? PoontifexMacksimus fucked around with this message at 13:17 on May 7, 2017 |
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Hra Mormo posted:Yeah, it gets worse. There's a pair of lady bikers called Kum Enforcers. That's what I do on the weekends.
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Hra Mormo posted:Yeah, it gets worse. There's a pair of lady bikers called Kum Enforcers. is a strangely appropriate smiley, and I never thought I'd ever say that
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# ? May 7, 2017 13:29 |
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You missed the point entirely. Warhammer (which I should have specified to be 40k) isn't just played as a tournement game. Narrative games and campaigns are extremely popular, and are this most common way to play in an organized format. In these formats, it places more emphasis on fun then wining, and the tiers lists mostly disappear. Not everyone hounds Tournement reporters for lists so they can try them on Saturday. It sad that Warmahoards fosters such a system.
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# ? May 7, 2017 13:34 |
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You could literally smear poop on a book and it'd be a good rulebook for the "forge the narrative" crowd.
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Terrible Opinions posted:You missed the point entirely. Warhammer (which I should have specified to be 40k) isn't just played as a tournement game. Narrative games and campaigns are extremely popular, and are this most common way to play in an organized format. In these formats, it places more emphasis on fun then wining, and the tiers lists mostly disappear. Not everyone hounds Tournement reporters for lists so they can try them on Saturday. It sad that Warmahoards fosters such a system. Dakka?
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Icon Of Sin posted:is a strangely appropriate smiley, and I never thought I'd ever say that I'm making a Kum robbery with my gang Moola and scalded schlong. ...turns out moola already stole all of it. It's all gone.
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Panzeh posted:You could literally smear poop on a book and it'd be a good rulebook for the "forge the narrative" crowd. What do you have against people playing games they like to have fun?
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Hixson posted:What do you have against people playing games they like to have fun? You mean, besides the horrendous odour driving everyone else out of the store?
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Soulfucker posted:Dakka? Hixson posted:What do you have against people playing games they like to have fun?
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Please do not defame Ulillillia by equating him with Warhammer players.
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Panzeh posted:You could literally smear poop on a book and it'd be a good rulebook for the "forge the narrative" crowd. A sustainable and profitable business model; GW is making all the right decisions! PoontifexMacksimus fucked around with this message at 21:56 on May 7, 2017 |
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I flipped through the Osprey Ronin ruleset and it had rolling for turn priority, the same thing AOS has but written in 2013. Guess I'll have to see if test of honour is any better.
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Chill la Chill posted:I flipped through the Osprey Ronin ruleset and it had rolling for turn priority, the same thing AOS has but written in 2013. Guess I'll have to see if test of honour is any better. Well it still has alternating activations. It's not like you get two whole turns in a row without a player responding to you. It's really not that big of a deal.
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Yeah rolling for initiative with alternating activations is fine. That mechanic is even a key part of Guild Ball's momentum mechanic.
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Have you found the morale rules to be good? I'm looking at the leadership scores and modifiers and it looks like it's fast and brutal and leads to routing massacres, which it should, but suffering an unlucky critical to get to wavering seems to be easy and the morale rolls are harsh.
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Chill la Chill posted:Have you found the morale rules to be good? I'm looking at the leadership scores and modifiers and it looks like it's fast and brutal and leads to routing massacres, which it should, but suffering an unlucky critical to get to wavering seems to be easy and the morale rolls are harsh. I haven't played it. I've just played Test of Honour which is very "light". We intend to play Ronin in the near future, but we intend to play a lot of games.
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# ? May 8, 2017 15:53 |
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Crossposting because who doesn't love dinos?
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Chill la Chill posted:I flipped through the Osprey Ronin ruleset and it had rolling for turn priority, the same thing AOS has but written in 2013. Guess I'll have to see if test of honour is any better. Context in system rules matter, and a mechanism that works for one game might not be good in another.
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Tekopo posted:Context in system rules matter, and a mechanism that works for one game might not be good in another.
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Hra Mormo posted:Yeah, it gets worse. There's a pair of lady bikers called Kum Enforcers. Don't kink shame tia
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So my friend and I were at our local game store for warmachine tonight. As we are setting up our game some guy walks up to us and asks what we are playing. This is a fairly common occurrence so we think nothing of it and give him a brief run down. He says he plays 40k and then for some reason starts getting into technical terms about the size of our game (rather than talking just like skirmish or something hes trying to get into like if its a platoon or whatever). This sprawls into him talking about military organizations and such. We mostly ignore him and continue setting up. Out of no where and with no provocation he suddenly calls Native Americans savages (although he tried to deflect this comment by saying he does not view them that way but that's how they were viewed at the time...) before starting to talk about the right of conquest making things okay... My friend just basically turned to him and said, you can go now, and the guy eventually leaves. I turned to my friend and said that I was pretty sure we were like a couple minutes from this random guy saying that Hitler did nothing wrong... Anyway, it was an odd day at the game store, thought the death thread should know. I'm really glad the random guy doing an ethnography for his highschool on our group was not there for that conversation...
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Pash posted:I'm really glad the random guy doing an ethnography for his highschool on our group was not there for that conversation... way to bury the lede, drat
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Ok I haven't been paying attention, did they seriously reverse the shopping cart thing finally? Meeplemart slowly put up like a thousand warhammer products on their webstore. And man, these prices are bad. Mostly. Is Burning of Prospero out of print?
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Spiderdrake posted:Ok I haven't been paying attention, did they seriously reverse the shopping cart thing finally? They did!
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Gorefiend posted:Yeah rolling for initiative with alternating activations is fine. That mechanic is even a key part of Guild Ball's momentum mechanic. Same thing with malifaux. You can even spend limited resources to try to help you on a key turn.
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Hra Mormo posted:Yeah, it gets worse. There's a pair of lady bikers called Kum Enforcers. You can call me the Kum Chieftain:
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# ? May 9, 2017 08:08 |
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Wanna head-swap those troops and make 'em greenskins.
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Kum Enforce, My Lord
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Pash posted:So my friend and I were at our local game store for warmachine tonight. As we are setting up our game some guy walks up to us and asks what we are playing. This is a fairly common occurrence so we think nothing of it and give him a brief run down. He says he plays 40k and then for some reason starts getting into technical terms about the size of our game (rather than talking just like skirmish or something hes trying to get into like if its a platoon or whatever). This sprawls into him talking about military organizations and such. We mostly ignore him and continue setting up. Out of no where and with no provocation he suddenly calls Native Americans savages (although he tried to deflect this comment by saying he does not view them that way but that's how they were viewed at the time...) before starting to talk about the right of conquest making things okay... Historicals are really bad for this. At one game some friends were at, there was a guy in a scooter that targeted a Chinese character because "I hate Chinamen." And then there was the Legends of the Old West game I played in - "Let's shoot some redskins!" Seriously, guys? Its two thousand loving seventeen.
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berzerkmonkey posted:Historicals are really bad for this. At one game some friends were at, there was a guy in a scooter that targeted a Chinese character because "I hate Chinamen." And then there was the Legends of the Old West game I played in - "Let's shoot some redskins!" Seriously, guys? Its two thousand loving seventeen. Yeah man, you can't just go around shooting athletes from a professional football team
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On the other hand I had a pickup game of Not-40k with a cool asian-american dude who had a lovingly converted Shinto themed White Scars army. He got to use them in a game that didn't take 6 hours to play and he really liked it. But yeah gently caress most historicals. I've never had outright racism (and I live in Florida!) but the amount of Wehraboos that were steaming at my brother's neon-pink German army was hilarious.
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Does your bro have a colorful Stug too? The one sad thing about world of tanks was not having a crossover with GUP. At least they had that for world of warships so you can play with colorful cruisers and destroyers and cause all sorts of rage.
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# ? May 9, 2017 16:01 |
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Yep, Runewars is going to do great. 8 infantry models for $25.
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berzerkmonkey posted:Yep, Runewars is going to do great. 8 infantry models for $25. Yeah after getting the starter box, my friend and I realized that just like Descent, it's just a testing platform for a future L5R game which we'd rather play instead. The game is still better than AOS so i don't know what you're on about
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Chill la Chill posted:Does your bro have a colorful Stug too? that M3 is kawaii as gently caress
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# ? May 9, 2017 17:40 |
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it's the day before 8th edition launches A video comes up on Warhammer TV it's Duncan, he's staring at you he takes out a large brush dips it in paint, doesn't thin it smears it over his face video fades https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gYBXRwsDjY
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Chill la Chill posted:Does your bro have a colorful Stug too? why does the big one at the bottom only have one childe solider? or is she actually a 10000 year old demon who can create copies of herself to pilot it?
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Chill la Chill posted:Yeah after getting the starter box, my friend and I realized that just like Descent, it's just a testing platform for a future L5R game which we'd rather play instead. Cost. Considering that, from what I've heard, it takes two base boxes to make "playable" units for the game, you're looking at a similar army cost to AoS/WFB. Also, I didn't mention AoS, so there was no need to bring it up.
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Chill la Chill posted:Yeah after getting the starter box, my friend and I realized that just like Descent, it's just a testing platform for a future L5R game which we'd rather play instead. L5R?
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