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I painted a salamander for my girlfriends D&D game. Pretty nice figure, but it's obvious that it's intended for a bigger unit.
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Electric Hobo posted:I painted a salamander for my girlfriends D&D game. Pretty nice figure, but it's obvious that it's intended for a bigger unit. It's a good model. I used him as a hero in a game of Warlords of Erehwon last week. Oh hey it's a snow troll from the Land Down Under.   
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Jun 12, 2019 00:55
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 CAN'T YOU HEAR, CAN'T YOU HEAR THE THUNDER? YOU BETTER RUN, YOU BETTER TAKE COVER
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NTRabbit posted:
True story, I've listened to that song more times in more bars in Bangkok than I ever did in the west, including the time I lived in Perth.
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Jun 12, 2019 05:44
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The same place I lose Kings of War at just now announced they're trying to organise an informal Deadzone day for July 6 to see what the player numbers are like in this city, I'm busy in the afternoon but gonna go play up until lunch. Also, big errata for Warpath today
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Jun 25, 2019 11:31
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Have some Hellboy bosses Mantic thread! Also, I just picked up a copy of Star Saga for 20 quid off Amazon, which was too cheap not to tbh. I gather the contents is a viable Deadzone squad these days? quote:Oath Complete!
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Jun 27, 2019 22:58
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So I ended up with a Dreadball team somehow. It's the shark people. How do I get into the game if I have the one team? I understand I need cards and such, but I'm not super familiar with the game and how those systems work.
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Jun 28, 2019 10:27
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The Deleter posted:So I ended up with a Dreadball team somehow. It's the shark people. How do I get into the game if I have the one team? I understand I need cards and such, but I'm not super familiar with the game and how those systems work. If you're quick, there is a copy of the game on sale for £18 on amazon UK right now. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079Q99Y67/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_uaZfDbGWMR59H
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Jun 29, 2019 10:33
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Ugleb posted:Also, I just picked up a copy of Star Saga for 20 quid off Amazon, which was too cheap not to tbh. I gather the contents is a viable Deadzone squad these days? The npc minis in the core set were given their own Deadzone list, called Mazon Labs, and the player character minis are Deadzone mercs The pdf version of the Deadzone 2.0 rules are currently on sale for free, for anyone who wants them https://www.manticdigital.com/product/deadzone-rulebook-enhanced/ NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 11:02 on Jun 29, 2019 |
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Jun 29, 2019 10:57
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Ugleb posted:If you're quick, there is a copy of the game on sale for £18 on amazon UK right now. Do I need the core set?
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The Deleter posted:Do I need the core set? The rules are free here There's an alternative purchase called the Veteran Bundle which just has the rulebook and the card deck, but it costs more than picking up the base set on sale for that price, plus having two more teams you can get someone else to play you with can't hurt NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 11:52 on Jun 29, 2019 |
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Jun 29, 2019 11:48
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Hm, I might pick it up later. I'm really tight on space at home for games as it is. Edit: gently caress it, I got it cos my brother wants a go as well. The Deleter fucked around with this message at 14:06 on Jun 29, 2019 |
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Jun 29, 2019 12:24
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The Deleter posted:Do I need the core set? What I linked is the core set for a really low price. I see it is now £24 so I guess a bunch of people looked at it?
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Ugleb posted:What I linked is the core set for a really low price. I see it is now £24 so I guess a bunch of people looked at it? I bought it! Hopefully I'll find a way to store it properly.
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NTRabbit posted:The npc minis in the core set were given their own Deadzone list, called Mazon Labs, and the player character minis are Deadzone mercs Am I right in thinking that the latest rules for Mazon Labs are in the new escalation book and Outbreak is out dated now?
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Ugleb posted:Am I right in thinking that the latest rules for Mazon Labs are in the new escalation book and Outbreak is out dated now? Yes, it works just like Clash of Kings for KoW except without the consistent naming scheme
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Welp, it's real and confirmed nowquote:KINGS OF WAR THIRD EDITION DUE FOR RELEASE THIS OCTOBER quote:It’s Ronnie here and I have something very important to talk about. The planets have aligned, the Celestians have spoken… it is time for Kings of War Third Edition.
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Interesting. I wonder how this edition will do without a kickstarter giving people a good deal on new Miniatures. Based on backing one of their kickstarters in the past people probably already have a ton more models than they can really justify anyway so it is probably fine. Now to see if retailers bite.
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I just hope it stays with a streamlined ruleset. The strength of KoW is how easy it is to play and build armies. At 380 pages, it better be mostly lore and not rules because I ain't about that life anymore.
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This thread and mantics presence online see to be dead. Does anyone care about mantic anymore now that age of sigmar unfucked itself? The thread title now seems super smug like some 30 year old bragging about some chick he rooted in high school.
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The hype seems to have abated, but I still see way more KoW and WHFB played than AoS. Unfortunately it's WHFB8. 
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Big Willy Style posted:This thread and mantics presence online see to be dead. Does anyone care about mantic anymore now that age of sigmar unfucked itself? The thread title now seems super smug like some 30 year old bragging about some chick he rooted in high school. The facebook groups are all plenty active
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Big Willy Style posted:This thread and mantics presence online see to be dead. Does anyone care about mantic anymore now that age of sigmar unfucked itself? The thread title now seems super smug like some 30 year old bragging about some chick he rooted in high school. As NT said, there are FB groups for every game they make and they are really popular. They also did very well this year at AdeptiCon in terms of tournament attendance and Mantic Night attendance. I have no doubt its been harder with GW actually trying again, but they seem to be doing fine.
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Went out to the club for a few hours (got to be the first guest signed into the book for the financial year), and got two games of Deadzone in, first time with 2E and first game at all in a few years. Didn't take long to learn the changes, and still remembered enough of the things that didn't change. Played a quick pick Brokkr force against a Steel Warrior force at 150 points and what was looking like a whitewash against me early nearly turned into a win. Second game I was running low on time so I borrowed the other guy's Enforcers for a premade list vs his Steel Warriors again at 100 points and managed to crank out a VP win with 1 model left each. Game still just as fun, fast, and tactical as I remembered    
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Big Willy Style posted:This thread and mantics presence online see to be dead. Does anyone care about mantic anymore now that age of sigmar unfucked itself? The thread title now seems super smug like some 30 year old bragging about some chick he rooted in high school. I was into Mantic for a while. Really seemed to me like GW was spiraling the drain and on the way out. AoS was the punch line of every joke, and 40k was a gigantic mess. I started seeing KoW stuff in multiple stores. Even after moving several time, I saw KoW product at each LGS. However, it was never really getting played in an organized way. Occasionally you'd see two friends playing it, but none of the stores I frequented had a KoW day or a Deadzone day where a bunch of people came to play it. They all had a 40k day, a WMH day, an Xwing day, etc. Some of them even had 9th age day, but not KoW. Fast forward a few years, most of the places selling KoW have stopped. The few that still carrying it have them in the clearance section, sitting next to CMON and PP stuff that will never sell. Even though I don't care for it personally, 40k is stronger than ever (still a gigantic mess). AoS has surpassed old fantasy in everything but lore and world-building. I see 40k being played literally all the time now. AoS isn't as popular, but it seems to be growing slowly every month. Personally, I've no interest in the Mantic product line anymore. Their game design is so vanilla. There is nothing super compelling about it to me, other than it being "clean". That *is* important, I'm sick of needing to have 14 books to play a game. However, you need to pack some fun in there too. This is purely my opinion, but seems like a fair amount of people expect all the fun to come from the social aspects of the game and the minis themselves. It is an excuse to show off their minis and hang out.That's all good and fine to me, but I want a game that's actually fun to play as well. Only positive I've seen for Mantic in the past couple years is that their sculpt quality has drastically improved. I don't think they're GW level yet, but they used to be quite ugly and many of the newer sculpts are actually quite nice.
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Yeah in a way Warlords of Erehwon has completely replaced Kings of War at my FLGS. People prefer the lower model count and order dice to igougo. And people have a lot of flexibility in what they can field. I think Kings of War is the better game, but if no one is playing it it's a moot point. I'll still pick up third edition though.
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Thirsty Dog posted:So they've completely rewritten AOS to be not a shallow random shitshow of a game? It's been drastically improved. They've also got feeder products in place with Underworlds and the forthcoming Warcry.
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As a Kings of War player, there's a lot to love...
There's a lot of be frustrated about, too...
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The big issue I had is that all of the supplements kept trying to cram optional Warhammer rules like formations into the game.
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I wonder if 3rd will keep up the theme of dwarves just being better because it is the owners pet army.
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Oh hey I have a game of Kings of War scheduled for the weekend.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Oh hey I have a game of Kings of War scheduled for the weekend. Have fun! Take pictures! (Seriously, though, if you think of it, I'd love to see a decent photo album batrep of Kings of War. They're pretty rare next to all the 40k/AoS stuff that gets posted.)
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Dr. Gargunza posted:Have fun! Take pictures! Here a couple shots of a deadzone game I played a while back. Next time I'll try to get an actual series of shots that shows the game. (All these pics did was point out that I had smeared blue paint on one of my Steel Warriors guns)   
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I played 2000 points of Kings of War today. Pillage, my Salamanders versus my opponent's Brotherhood. It was a complete blood bath.      That's my deployment. The plan was for the cavalry to hold the left flank against his pegasus knights with the battle captain providing some support (inspiring talisman or whatever) and backup if needed. My center was propped up by a unit of salamander primes and a unit of ceremonial guard supported by a hero with inspiring. Then on the right flank I had a bunch of ghekkotah units and a hero with more salamander primes, a unit of ancients, and a fair number of monsters. The overall story is that the Brotherhood took minor damage from my limited shooting coming in and then got the first round of charges. My line held (snake eyes came up more than once on nerve rolls) and on the counter charges I made him pay. Without thunderous charge, we were basically evenly matched and I had the numbers. In turn 6, I claimed most of the objectives, and he was basically tabled in turn 7. Despite me carefully naming the files, imgur just put them in a random order and I don't feel like curating them. Enjoy.                     
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I've been getting games of Dreadball in with my brother and it's been really fun! I'm slowly painting up the Oceanics as well so they'll get some pitch time soon.
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Having Kickstarted it way back when, I also had my first Dreadball games in years this weekend. Second edition does fix a few problems and it remains a very easy to pick up game. I have no idea how to play it well, though.
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I should really take Dreadball down to the board games club and try to convert some people.
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Seldom Posts posted:Here a couple shots of a deadzone game I played a while back. Next time I'll try to get an actual series of shots that shows the game. (All these pics did was point out that I had smeared blue paint on one of my Steel Warriors guns) Really pretty stuff there. ...Well, pretty for a wrecked industrial hellhole, but good pics. That is...a lot of terrain, much more than I expected for a KoW game. Looks like you had a good time!
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