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Leperflesh posted:As an amateur woodworker, I could totally make that table, that chair, that cabinet, etc. Actually, I could make it out of real wood instead of particle board, and custom fit it to your specs. I already have invested in the tools necessary, and the time would be an enjoyable hobby for me so I wouldn't really keep track, you know? I'm also not really considering the time I've spent figuring out what tools to buy, and how to operate them safely, nor am I really considering the space I've dedicated to them, or the cost and effort of maintaining them, or the time I spent making mistakes and getting bad results, because when you do a hobby, those things are all just part of the package. I'm going to 3d print a Bland Raider and there's nothing you can do about it
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Virtual Russian posted:I'm going to a Net Epic Armageddon tournament next month. I'm toying around with 3k points lists. Here is what I'm tentatively taking: While it will not help with activations, I'd consider dropping the sentinel formation to give the storm troopers Valkyries, and switch the artillery to manticores for the disrupt.
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Moola posted:I'm going to 3d print a Bland Raider and there's nothing you can do about it Discovered by Arkhan Land's oft ignored sibling, Bobby Bland.
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Improbable Lobster posted:Welcome to femboyhammer, today I'll be 3d printing and assembling an ork fort while cosplaying as an eldar There is some girl making 100k a year pretending to be a dog so I wouldn’t be surprised if people would pay to watch you print stuff while cosplaying in your bare feet. Ropes4u fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Oct 10, 2021 |
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Ropes4u posted:There is some girl making 100k a year pretending to be a dog Lol try a week
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Bottom Liner posted:Lol try a week For a good percentage less I try being a good employee. You want give me a 100k to attempt to lick my own balls and piss on a houseplant I’m all game.
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Signal posted:While it will not help with activations, I'd consider dropping the sentinel formation to give the storm troopers Valkyries, and switch the artillery to manticores for the disrupt. While I agree disrupt is very powerful, I do find just 3 manticores really suffer from slow to reload. Also I absolutely love ignore cover on bombards, it just always seems to come in handy. Also I know in my heart stormtroopers are better in valks, but getting that extra activation felt mandatory. I was considering scraping them for regular infantry and upgrading the sentinels to thunderbolts.
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Ropes4u posted:There is some girl making 100k a year pretending to be a dog so I wouldn’t be surprised if people would pay to watch you print stuff while cosplaying in your bare feet. If I could make that money I'd be doing that right now instead of posting or possibly while posting
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Z the IVth posted:Discovered by Arkhan Land's oft ignored sibling, Bobby Bland. 
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Crab Dad posted:For a good percentage less I try being a good employee. You want give me a 100k to attempt to lick my own balls and piss on a houseplant I’m all game. Yeah I did more embarrassing stuff when I had a retail job for like 1/10th of that
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Does anyone know what the 4 status tokens in Kill Team actually are for? I'm making myself some custom tokens, and I can't figure out if I actually need these for anything.
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Virtual Russian posted:I'm going to a Net Epic Armageddon tournament next month. I'm toying around with 3k points lists. Here is what I'm tentatively taking: The warlord is a lot of points tied up into one model. Expect smart players to totally disregard it and just wear down your smaller units as they are easy targets.
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Ropes4u posted:There is some girl making 100k a year pretending to be a dog so I wouldn’t be surprised if people would pay to watch you print stuff while cosplaying in your bare feet. There is some talent agency making that money. The girl likely sees a small percentage. Anyways I would subscribe to femboyhammer.
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Electric Hobo posted:Does anyone know what the 4 status tokens in Kill Team actually are for? I'm making myself some custom tokens, and I can't figure out if I actually need these for anything. Concealed and Engaged, double sided to show if a unit has been activated or not Wounded Overwatch
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Speaking of, does anyone have a better graphic or reference sheet for teaching LoS/Cover? The rulebook's text and images are pretty awful.
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mllaneza posted:Concealed and Engaged, double sided to show if a unit has been activated or not It's the flame, crosshairs, !, and lightning bolt, that I don't know what means.
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Electric Hobo posted:I have Concealed and Engaged on 4 faces of the token, Injured and "Carrying an objective" on the other two. I think Crosshairs is for overwatch. As for flame and lightning bolt, I think they're just there to use if there model/faction abilities and you need something to represent?
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berzerkmonkey posted:IMO storm troopers in a chimera are kind of a waste. The valk is probably better, as potentially stated. If you're going to have a three model artillery unit, you'll want to add a hydra. Anyone with flyers is going to zip in and suppress at least one, if not break the unit in one fell swoop. The sentinels are good for ground screening though. I don't disagree with any of this. I have used Stormtroopers in chimera before (but mostly in minigeddon) and gotten a good days work out of them, but they are nowhere near as good as they are in valks. You are 100% correct about the warlord, but on the upside an unmolested BTS is not the worst thing, I just have to make sure every turn with it counts. Unless I've totally missed something I didn't think you could add company upgrades to support formations? If I'm wrong on that I'd 100% move a hydra to the battery.
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Floppychop posted:I think Crosshairs is for overwatch. It's handy to have something to mark when you've waved your icon or blown your horn, and there are some tac ops that require you to drop tokens on the board.
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That all makes sense. I'll make a token and print a couple to bring along when I play.
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Another call for aid, from your local Amazon (at present, anyway) BB2 player! SO, I managed to tie against Norse (2-2. Would've won, but sadly I caused a touchback in the last kick at the end of the game, then he JUST got a tiemaker TD) and won against one of the three ork teams in our league. However, now I'm up against dwarves... I think this is likely to be roughly as challenging as chaos dwarves, although this player takes more/less-sound risks than the chaos dwarf player, so I'm hoping I can force a tie. Are there any particular tactics that any of you recommend? I think I'm gonna have to just gum up the works as much as possible on his drive and hope I can hold out for eight turns. Then leg it past his guys (with my EIGHT movement thrower - two double-five level ups is hilarious hahah) on my drive and hold out for a quarter before getting a TD, then just pray there isn't an equaliser. How to actually ACHIEVE that however, is the problem! haha
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Virtual Russian posted:I don't disagree with any of this. I have used Stormtroopers in chimera before (but mostly in minigeddon) and gotten a good days work out of them, but they are nowhere near as good as they are in valks. You are 100% correct about the warlord, but on the upside an unmolested BTS is not the worst thing, I just have to make sure every turn with it counts. No, you're correct - I was thinking an Arty Co, and not a support battery.
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New Underworlds set Harrowdeep is up for pre-order soon and is priced at $95. I've been trying to decide on a set to start off with and then this one was announced which seems like a good spot to start but I don't know why the new one is $20 more than the Direchasm when it looks to contain basically the same stuff. Am I overlooking something here that is adding $20? The price increase is making me lean towards picking up an older set for less and waiting for Harrowdeep to be discounted by retailers. I just wish the starter set, Dreadfane, and Harrowdeep didn't all come with Stormcast Eternal warbands.
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Jolo posted:New Underworlds set Harrowdeep is up for pre-order soon and is priced at $95. SCE are the Space Marines of AOS, so they are going to be part of almost every starter that comes out. It blows, but it is what it is. The SCE are pretty boring to me and are even more samey than SMs, IMO. I kind of like the kruleboyz (at least more than the Dominion ones, which I dislike for the most part) but I'm tired of playing "catch the meta" in WHU, and the fact that I had almost two seasons of warbands that didn't get played has soured me on the game. I'm not a fan of rotating out stuff I spent a decent amount of money on - it's planned obsolescence at its worst. The price increase is likely due to a number of factors, including the fact that everything is more expensive now due to covid and the usual GW price increase to appease shareholders. I also think they are testing the limits on how high they can price starters and have people still buy - so far, we haven't hit that ceiling yet, even though they're pushing $200 on some things now. Just remember that if you buy an older set, it's going to rotate out sooner than the new season (assuming it hasn't already) and the Warbands very likely won't be as competitive. Also, the potential good news about this season is that decks are supposed to be more balanced and competitive out of the box - past seasons really required you to buy multiple warbands just to get a decent deck. Hopefully it won't be as pressing this season (though GW isn't giving up the opportunity to make more money, so I'm sure the need will still be there.)
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Just watched the Auronatica game on TT titans. Reminds me of X-wing with hidden tokens. Did GW just steal The X-wing concept? Hidden tokens and one shot missiles and all.
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MRLOLAST posted:Just watched the Auronatica game on TT titans. Reminds me of X-wing with hidden tokens. Did GW just steal The X-wing concept? Hidden tokens and one shot missiles and all. They wouldn't be the first. Remember WizKids' seminal classic games Star Trek Attack Wing and D&D Attack Wing? ... no? well they did sort of tank and the whole "aerial vector and momentum" thing did not map well onto Star Trek ships but Hell, X-wing wasn't even the first to use the flight template concept. I think that was Wings of Glory from Sinclair, but then I haven't had enough coffee yet to do a proper google on it.
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Dr. Gargunza posted:They wouldn't be the first. Remember WizKids' seminal classic games Star Trek Attack Wing and D&D Attack Wing? ... no? well they did sort of tank and the whole "aerial vector and momentum" thing did not map well onto Star Trek ships but Star Trek Attack Wing wasn't bad, just... the ship movements felt more like what you would get from smaller fighter ships (like X-Wing!) and not the larger ships that they have in Star Trek.
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MRLOLAST posted:Just watched the Auronatica game on TT titans. Reminds me of X-wing with hidden tokens. Did GW just steal The X-wing concept? Hidden tokens and one shot missiles and all. Aeronautica was originally released in 2007, and the current version is similar in many respects to the first version, so no, GW didn't steal the concept, though they may have borrowed a few things for the AI 2019 update. Thank god they didn't borrow the marketing strategy from X-Wing.
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What marketing strategy? Both games had a practically non-existent marketing presence. Or ae you talking about having a game be driven entirely on decades old nostalgia and pretty ship models? Because thats both of them.
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There were similar ww1 flight games (and ship games) before any of the games mentioned above, which they borrowed from. Nothing unusual in game design. Canvas Eagle is still more advanced and a better game as far as game design goes imho.
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Attack Wing's problem was, like, x-wings churn problem x10. There were like a dozen equipment cards called "photon torpedo" released through the run and I don't think any of them did the same thing.
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Dr. Gargunza posted:They wouldn't be the first. Remember WizKids' seminal classic games Star Trek Attack Wing and D&D Attack Wing? ... no? well they did sort of tank and the whole "aerial vector and momentum" thing did not map well onto Star Trek ships but I believe Wizkids actually licenced the engine from FFG for that though - same size templates and all. It's called the 'Flightpath System'.
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Floppychop posted:What marketing strategy? Both games had a practically non-existent marketing presence. More the way X-Wing was sold - individual models, special cards, $100+ models, etc. I mean, people would literally buy a ship, take the card out, and toss the model in the trash. IMO AI is pricey for what you get, but at least I don't have to buy a $15 just to get a specific card. Honestly, it probably works out to spending the same amount of money anyway, and I get the added "bonus" of having to assemble and paint the ships... I'm just not a fan of the collectable aspect of these types of games - it's part of why I've fallen out of love with WHU.
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berzerkmonkey posted:More the way X-Wing was sold - individual models, special cards, $100+ models, etc. I mean, people would literally buy a ship, take the card out, and toss the model in the trash. X-wing hasn't been that way for years, and ships are ~$20. It's pretty rough to compare a game that you can have a fully functional, competitive list for under $100 to GW's pricing standards.
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berzerkmonkey posted:I mean, people would literally buy a ship, take the card out, and toss the model in the trash. we call these people idiots
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moths posted:They still make x-wing? in a galaxy far, far away
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