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moths posted:I kind of see it falling into the trap where they will only release only space marines and Imperial titans to gauge its popularity, but it won't get popular because they've only released one faction and a palette-swap. 30K is popular, and one faction is exactly what that is. Lord_Hambrose posted:I really hope that the new Adeptus Titanicus game (or whatever they are calling Epic 3) is good. It is a little weird that it is just Titans and not just straight up Epic, but it is a step in the right direction. Specialist Games are a niche of a niche, and it makes zero economic sense for GW to go all out on one of those games.
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berzerkmonkey posted:30K is popular, and one faction is exactly what that is. Yeah I wouldn't worry about it--people never seem to get tired of space marines
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Epic got started in the first place with Adeptus Titanicus, right?
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Leperflesh posted:Epic got started in the first place with Adeptus Titanicus, right? Yep. The entire HH was created to justify the fact that GW only had enough money allocated to the project to cover the design of one force.
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Leperflesh posted:Epic got started in the first place with Adeptus Titanicus, right? And sadly the new AT is a different scale so my original '88 box can't just be swapped in.
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The Heresy era is a lot more fleshed out today than it was when AT launched, and the newer titans look amazing compared to the originals. (Although beetle-carapace Warlords will always have a place in my heart.) So it's totally possible that the new game can thrive on Imperial Civil War. I think most of my fear is rooted in the Warmaster problem, where everybody waited for their faction to trickle out, and nobody played by the time it did.
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moths posted:I'm kind of amazed that the Epic Eldar stayed tiny when everyone else got bigger in E40k:Armageddon. The only real change on the sprue was guardians going from lasguns to shuricats. Well regardless I have one box of the old Eldar with the Falcons that look more like Wave Serpensts, so they're as old as can be.
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Those old Falcons are really cool models. I saw an upscaled armourcast one on eBay the other day and realized that the mid 90s is basically my peak warham.
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moths posted:Those old Falcons are really cool models. I saw an upscaled armourcast one on eBay the other day and realized that the mid 90s is basically my peak warham. Same. It's the best combination of well painted promos, highly detailed sculpts that aren't overdone, and battlefield practicality.
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moths posted:I kind of see it falling into the trap where they will only release only space marines and Imperial titans to gauge its popularity, but it won't get popular because they've only released one faction and a palette-swap. That's how HH started. But the Legions are different now, especially Spess Woofs and 1K Sons, and Blackshields are also a think (that nobody plays, I guess). Mechanicus is a popular faction, I guess, and Solar Auxilia... are there. Great sculpts, tho.
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Which is a shame because Warmaster was a really good game.
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Angry Lobster posted:Which is a shame because Warmaster was a really good game. Still is.
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Say what you will about Mantic's addiction to Kickstarters but at least they get multiple factions released at the same time.
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Uh, have you guys had any experience with Games-Workshop stores not allowing blood bowl to be played in-store? My local manager wanted to set up a Friday night league, but he got word that it's not allowed in store.
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Zuul the Cat posted:Uh, have you guys had any experience with Games-Workshop stores not allowing blood bowl to be played in-store? Apparently there's some dumb policy laid down from head-office that stores aren't allowed to run leagues. We can run one day events or play exhibition games but no leagues. Yeah I don't get it either.
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Doesn't sell enough models.
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That's lame as poo poo. Blood Bowl is literally only good when played in a league context
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No, he also specifically said we aren't allowed to play it in store. Not even pick up games. How weird! I mean, that's fine. I bought it to play with friends, it just seemed bizarre that I cant use a GW product in a GW store.
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Zuul the Cat posted:No, he also specifically said we aren't allowed to play it in store. Not even pick up games. Yeah like... that's weird. Ultimately it's down to the manager but every regional manager I know would smack him for not allowing a currently supported game to be played in store.
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Do they do a lot of in-store games? He might just be a gently caress.
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goatface posted:Do they do a lot of in-store games? He might just be a gently caress. A likely reason!
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Here's something fun: I got this team in like 2003 and have recently been repainting or touching up models.       
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JcDent posted:A likely reason! That sounds like the solid reason, yeah. Now I’m curious though. The manager of my local GW is a really cool guy, I’ll ask him when I go in for my monthly Support My Local Store White Dwarf purchase.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Here's something fun: I got this team in like 2003 and have recently been repainting or touching up models. Old GW models own, haha. What team is that?
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Shadin posted:Old GW models own, haha. What team is that? Chaos Dwarves.
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I always love those chaos dwarves. Their old blunderbuss unit in WFB was hilarious
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Beerdeer posted:I always love those chaos dwarves. Their old blunderbuss unit in WFB was hilarious The character really comes across well. The repainted guys on the left are some of my favorites I've done.
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Beerdeer posted:I always love those chaos dwarves. Their old blunderbuss unit in WFB was hilarious Having a Star Player that shoots the ball out of a Blunderbuss is one of the greatest things in Blood Bowl.
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Lord_Hambrose posted:Having a Star Player that shoots the ball out of a Blunderbuss is one of the greatest things in Blood Bowl. Agreed. On that note, I wish the Skaven throwers had used the arm canon model from the PC version of BB2. My friend that played Skaven in our first league was disappointed he couldn't accurately model Toss-Toss and Lob-Lob.
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Bought the Blood Bowl boxed game...without the models. Thinking of buying the human and skaven models box. Do I need anything else to start playing with my friends?
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radlum posted:Bought the Blood Bowl boxed game...without the models. Thinking of buying the human and skaven models box. Do I need anything else to start playing with my friends? You may want to eBay some extra models, especially for the humans. The starter isn't fully balanced out
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FW should be doing booster packs, but I think they've only released Goblin and Skaven ones so far.
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The starting teams are not optimal*  , but are definitely playable. FW has made a couple of booster packs to expand the skaven and goblin teams and should be releasing a human one *Except dwarfs. The starter set has basically their best starting line-up possible and all of their positionals are included. They're only missing the deathroller which isn't really needed, but looks loving awesome and is available from Forge World. Unfortunately, playing dwarfs in Blood Bowl instantly makes you history's greatest monster.
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Dwarves truly are the worst. Played a game with my orks against some Skaven today. He had 300,000 in inducements and took a re-roll and Hakflem Skuttlespike. I got greedy in the first half and blitzed my safety, allowing him to drop Skuttlespike just out of reach and fling him the ball, cementing my loss. Always keep your safety (or two) back when playing Skaven. The good news is that now I have a MA 7 ork blitzer. So that's cool.
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Personally I think Big Guys are super gimmicky and awkward in Blood Bowl so not having one is no big deal at all but you're gonna want those extra blitzers or whatever. For now you're stuck buying another human team box, but at least you don't have to buy another starter box. Hopefully they'll get human boosters out soon yeah.
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I think my last game against dorfs went 0-2 or 0-1. Deffo could have gotten more points had my goblin not failed two go-for-its (one of them due to blizzard) in a row. On the flip side, I blackmailed one of his players to taking out his ball carrier, who got badly hurt. Said treasonous player gained SPP for the take out, scored a touch down and got either the MVP or level up, or both. E: Elf players with frenzy can go take a hike.
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radlum posted:Are the Death Zone books necessary? Do you want league rules or more than the teams in the main book?
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Humans need an ogre to do the classy no lineman, prositional team. Linemen are scrubs.
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Human lineman: ABF (always be fouling)
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