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I am uptight about the WYSIWYG of my own miniatures but I wouldn’t wish my raging neuroses on anyone else and it’s foreign to me when people are like that. I am fortunate enough to have a good enough memory to remember when someone says “these are swords over here”, but I also see no problem with just using squad markers or markings of some kind.
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Would it be Kosher to just have Color Coded Stands when it comes to infantry blocks to make it easier to not which units are which?
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Feb 9, 2023 06:58
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Annointed posted:Would it be Kosher to just have Color Coded Stands when it comes to infantry blocks to make it easier to not which units are which? Absolutely. I like anything that makes the game easier to read and you've gone to the effort. I prefer WYSIWYG and try to do it, but I'm not going to magnetise 40 witch elves (lmao) or paint 80 of them so they can use a buckler in one game and knives in the next.
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Feb 9, 2023 10:30
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Expect a price raise next month. https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/02/09/pricing-update/ quote:The average change for plastic kits is about 6%. As an example of what you can expect, a Battle Sisters Squad goes up £1.50 from £36 to £37.50. quote:What is changing:
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Feb 9, 2023 17:34
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GW this hobby makes me poor enough
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Feb 9, 2023 18:04
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Lucinice posted:GW this hobby makes me poor enough I know it's another hobby but moving to 3d printing has been such a money saver for me. There's a model for almost anything out there. Not everyone has the time and space of course. Edit: I'm half awake, you probably weren't being literal lol
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Feb 9, 2023 18:36
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Harvey Mantaco posted:I know it's another hobby but moving to 3d printing has been such a money saver for me. There's a model for almost anything out there. I want to get a 3d printer some day for terrain. I don't know if I'll get one for minis because one of the only places around me I can play is an official GW store.
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Feb 9, 2023 18:41
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I did mix of GW and 3d printing for soulblight - it does cheapen quite an expensive army and there is truckload of great alternative sculpts (especialy for old garbage). For SCE its an issue as there is not a lot of that. I do have to outsource printing itself to another guy so it does not come that much cheaper in the end
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Feb 9, 2023 18:43
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3d printing is a separate hobby, I gave up on it because I just don't have the free time to invest in it
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Lucinice posted:I want to get a 3d printer some day for terrain. I don't know if I'll get one for minis because one of the only places around me I can play is an official GW store. the 3D printers that are good for terrain are a lot safer and easier to use than the ones that do minis. Especially if you have kids/pets, a spool of rolled up plastic is less of a concern than a dangerous liquid that can easily spill.
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Feb 9, 2023 18:49
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Just realized that half of the factions in AOS were "born on a mountain, raised in a cave"
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Feb 11, 2023 03:42
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But how are they on the trucking and loving scales though?
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Feb 11, 2023 03:57
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Kharadron Overlords do a bit of trucking. Not sure about the loving.
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Feb 11, 2023 04:12
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Well outside of the usual suspects I suppose.
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Feb 11, 2023 04:34
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Nobody in AoS (or 40k for that matter) fucks. It's so absent it becomes a glaring omission.
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Feb 11, 2023 06:22
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Everything about Skaven with their "breeders" is the worst. I go out of my way to ignore it. I just prefer my Skaven to be a healthy mix of male and female psychotic, vaguely competent ratfolk. Besides this gives me more opportunity for good rat puns with one of my Grey Seers being Mrs. BrisBANE from Secret of NiMH.
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Feb 11, 2023 06:33
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Surpraisingly two instances of loving I've come across in AoS books were a) stormcast eternals b) avengori vampires
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Feb 11, 2023 06:46
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MinistryofLard posted:Nobody in AoS (or 40k for that matter) fucks. It's so absent it becomes a glaring omission. 40K at least has the same excuse as Japan, 80 hour work weeks
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Feb 11, 2023 06:48
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In the grimdark future there is only Crunch Culture
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Feb 11, 2023 07:10
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They don't have that Sigmar grindset
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I'm not even talking about slaaneshi bullshit or weird skaven stuff because obviously a tabletop game setting doesn't need that, but AoS has a glaring lack of any kind of romantic or even familial attachment whatsoever in a way that even Warhammer fantasy didn't. Love and attraction just doesn't exist in the Mortal Realms. Sigmar is incredibly desexed in ways that rule out a core driver in almost all fiction.
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Feb 11, 2023 07:59
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I don't see how that is true since various sexual/romantic relationships pop up across novels (storm golem, covens of blood, dynasty of monsters, tainted heart of the top of my mind and I haven't even read that many). Bah even lumineth battletome had one story blurb point to relationship between two soldiers (i think it was even same sex)
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Feb 11, 2023 08:06
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MinistryofLard posted:Nobody in AoS (or 40k for that matter) fucks. It's so absent it becomes a glaring omission. Morathi fucks (over everyone in the setting and gets away with it).
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Feb 11, 2023 09:33
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War and Pieces posted:40K at least has the same excuse as Japan, 80 hour work weeks Funny enough I can't think of at least two instances of loving in 40k books.
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Feb 11, 2023 12:03
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I can think of one reference to a space marine having a massive hog, but nothing about loving.
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Feb 11, 2023 13:04
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Count Thrashula posted:I can think of one reference to a space marine having a massive hog, but nothing about loving. lol that the chemically castrated space marines gently caress more than the "Hedonites"
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Feb 11, 2023 14:02
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Count Thrashula posted:I can think of one reference to a space marine having a massive hog, but nothing about loving. Should be noted that when someone made a lewd comment at him, he got massively confused about it. And when his squad leader explained the joke to him, he still didn't get it.
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Worth of note is that at least one fyreslayer story has reference to foot fetish. Also apperently deepkin gently caress a lot but that is mostly to pop out healthy babies
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Crazy Ferret posted:Everything about Skaven with their "breeders" is the worst. I go out of my way to ignore it. One Page Rules has all their Ratfolk available as both male or female, and I think their sculpts are nice as well. The difference between their male and female rat-folk is just the heads, making it a little hard to tell the difference, but that seems reasonable given that they are rats, and it is nice to see a company do female figures without slapping on boobs as the defining feature.
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Feb 11, 2023 16:32
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Yeah, their male rats have slightly larger cheek tufts.
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Do the new books even talk about where skaven come from? I thought the whole breeder thing was the old world. I always thought that if conditions allowed for it in the mortal realms, skaven just appear.
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If they're mentioned, it's as a one off sentence. I can't recall any real discussion of where Skaven come from other than "they live in the literal Realm of Chaos."
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Cooked Auto posted:Funny enough I can't think of at least two instances of loving in 40k books. Any of the Ciaphas Cain stories will fix that.
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Robert Facepalmer posted:Any of the Ciaphas Cain stories will fix that. Oh yeah, I forgot about those. I was actually thinking of Necropolis and Draco in this case.
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IncredibleIgloo posted:One Page Rules has all their Ratfolk available as both male or female, and I think their sculpts are nice as well. The difference between their male and female rat-folk is just the heads, making it a little hard to tell the difference, but that seems reasonable given that they are rats, and it is nice to see a company do female figures without slapping on boobs as the defining feature. Yeah, I have a friend following their roll out closely and I've already offered to buy the materials to print out all their rats. Even if they tend to be a bit high fantasy than the grungy Skaven, I think their sculpts are fantastic. I may not use them all in my army as some of them look a bit too Redwall to integrate, I still want them as a fun painting project. I'm glad to hear they have both genders as I do think its the way to go. I've done a bunch of head swaps with my Guard to have more female characters and I got a bunch of heads for my 30k Dark Angels to do in time (because gently caress the gender divide). But yeah, One Page has been shown off some incredible stuff. The Warlord on the Fox mount was awesome.
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Crazy Ferret posted:Yeah, I have a friend following their roll out closely and I've already offered to buy the materials to print out all their rats. Even if they tend to be a bit high fantasy than the grungy Skaven, I think their sculpts are fantastic. I may not use them all in my army as some of them look a bit too Redwall to integrate, I still want them as a fun painting project. I'm glad to hear they have both genders as I do think its the way to go. I've done a bunch of head swaps with my Guard to have more female characters and I got a bunch of heads for my 30k Dark Angels to do in time (because gently caress the gender divide). Yeah the OPR rats are baller as hell, I'm working on their "Deathmaster" model right now 
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Crazy Ferret posted:Yeah, I have a friend following their roll out closely and I've already offered to buy the materials to print out all their rats. Even if they tend to be a bit high fantasy than the grungy Skaven, I think their sculpts are fantastic. I may not use them all in my army as some of them look a bit too Redwall to integrate, I still want them as a fun painting project. I'm glad to hear they have both genders as I do think its the way to go. I've done a bunch of head swaps with my Guard to have more female characters and I got a bunch of heads for my 30k Dark Angels to do in time (because gently caress the gender divide). I particularly like the heavy weapons team for the ratmen because they these cute little regular rat assistants helping them load the mortar, or hold the hose, or whatever. I have collected GW's product lines for like 30 years now and have always enjoyed them, but never really cared for some of the over the top aesthetic choices. They seem to ask "Will this model look better with a skull? No? OK, add 2 anyway". "Would this model look better with a skull? Yes, ok, add 10". It is so over the top for me in some of the armies that I enjoy that there now exists some alternative sculpts that are a little angsty. I do think that AoS/WHFB suffers less from this aesthetic than 40k though. But I used to have Brettonians so I am probably not the typical GW enthusiasts.
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    I hope this answers any outstanding questions.
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GIRL BRAINS posted:Do the new books even talk about where skaven come from? I thought the whole breeder thing was the old world. I always thought that if conditions allowed for it in the mortal realms, skaven just appear.
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Count Thrashula posted:Yeah the OPR rats are baller as hell, I'm working on their "Deathmaster" model right now This owns. Nicely done
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