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S.J. posted:So it seems kind of odd to me that Van Zant has AD: Tactical jump but there aren't any rangers that do. I'm assuming they're coming out with new units at a decent clip? It's probably so he can jump off buildings to axe a loving dragon only to miss and fall right down the fucker's gullet.
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Ashcans posted:Not sure if this is the right thread for it, but I was wondering if anyone has experience or seen stuff from HeroForge. The premise is very interesting and the site/interface looks pretty slick, but I am wondering how well it actually comes out. I'm not sure I'm ready to spring $20-$30 on a custom miniature, but that is a really reasonable rate if you want something specific that you're not going to find in a conventional lineup. Certainly better than retaining a custom sculpt, although you would get more latitude with that as well. I'm actually working on a mini a got from Hero Forge at the moment. Phone-posting at work right now but I can write something up later. Tl;Dr is print quality on the Premium Plastic was pretty good with only some print lines visible if you look closely, nowhere near as detailed as something from GW or Reaper, but having a completely custom mini might be worth it to you?
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I'll get some when I get home - I got GW, P3, Reaper (metal and Bones), and some D&D pre-primed ones to compare
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I think they changed their materials at some point - at the very least I had no issue with just using a hit of my usual spray primer - Rustolem 2x coverage. Anyway, come with me on a magical journey while I do this review-ish thing. Here's the final render of the mini I ordered:  I ordered it on January 5th and it shipped on the 16th, arriving on the 19th from New York (the original shipping estimate on the site when I placed the order was the 18th). I got the Premium Plastic which is black so here it is after a hit of primer:  There's some faint print lines you can see on his shoulder, and the planks on the base have 'em too. But with primer, paint, and not looking so dang close at it because you're painting the thing makes them less noticeable. And now for some comparisons, so witness a tiny sample of my backlog! Partially-painted P3, Partially-painted Heroforge, primed GW:  Reaper Bones, Heroforge, Reaper metal:  Warlord Pike & Shotte, Herofroge, Pre-primed D&D:  That's hopefully a good spread for you to compare the detailing. My biggest complaints are: -Some of the gear options are kinda oddly proportioned (compare the HF rapier to the Warlord guy's sword in the last pic), but that's probably a consequence of 3D printing the mini instead of injection-molding. - Detail is a bit light, but again, probably the consequence of needing to have a customizing interface and then a minimum resolution for the printers. - The base. I started with it in a Citadel handle, but the base started warping visibly, so I switched to sticky-tac and a plastic cup. One of the base options is a tab that you can use in regular slotted bases so if I get any more, I'll probably go that route. I actually probably WILL get more, but if I'm looking for a certain character archetype, I'll probably always check Reaper first, then converting a GW, then Hero Forge. The D&D ones... Are at least cheap, I guess? This dude did a video review too, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOWzYuBLD4k. I somehow doubt I'll ever get a bronze one because LOL. If you have your own printer (I guess it's probably have to be an SLA? I dunno, I haven't looked too hard at printers for minis lately), you can get the STL file from them for  so you can always do-it-yourself kinda.
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Got my Half-orc bard from Heroforge done. I'll probably revisit him to redo the bottles, hat and feather, but over all, I'm happy with how he turned out, even if his original 'cocky MFer' expressions turned into "mildly distressed' like most of my faces do...
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Bistromatic posted:well if you go by the chinese rules preview... "Take a dice and label it lightning bolt, triangular glyph, 3, 4, 6, Hurricane. The object of the game is to find the 5."
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Arquinsiel posted:What are people using for Zona Alfa miniatures these days? It seems that the Lead Adventure webstore is dead now and everyone is running out of stock of their cool minis from the rulebooks. I've got some Ariadna faction (The 'lower tech" colonists with Russian/American/French/Scottish ancestry or whatever) miniatures from Infinity I was thinking about making a team out of. Anvil Industries just released some more post-apocalypse bits/
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Z the IVth posted:Has anyone tried SLUDGE? Saw it on GMG and it looked interesting, particularly the grimdark Napoleonic style. I haven't tried Sludge, but Joseph A. McCullough (The Frost/Stargrave guy) a Napoleonic Gothic Horror skirmish game called The Silver Bayonet coming out next month it looks like.
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Lumbermouth posted:Reading that this is going to be less swingy than Frostgrave is making me very excited. Found a flipthrough of the book here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc3Ne12JGlY Looks like it uses d10s instead of d20s.
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istewart posted:Just curious, has anyone gotten A Billion Suns to the table? Search turns up some discussion about a year ago. My friend and I are going to give Gaslands by the same author a trial run sometime this month, but our first love is space games. We were trying to get into Star Wars Armada pre-pandemic, but it looks like development on that one has been suspended, and it has often had availability issues. Billion Suns obviously won't have availability issues, and it seems more flexible with an easier learning curve. That table is just a suggestion: http://abillionsuns.space/what-size-spaceships/ The author says the ship sizes are just an average of what he had on hand and can vary with no issues. I'd say if you go the Lego route, use the suggested base sizes and build whatever fits the base. I bought a couple fleets off My Mini Factory but haven't had a chance to print, paint, and set up a game yet, but IIRC the "ship" is assumed to be the dead center of the base.
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Arquinsiel posted:The thread reminded me to actually go buy A Billion Suns and I have it now. Is it just me or did Osprey change to a less sturdy cover material? The book feels marginally floppier somehow. Be sure to grab the Pay-What-You-Want Warzone Expansion
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Len posted:Anyone have any recommendations for 3d printed space ships for A Billion Suns? I'm using ships from this fleet with a few shops replaced with ones I like better from this set. He's got several others for a game that was on Kickstarter, I guess? But most if not all of the ones on this page also come with a document with suggestions for what ships to use for wat Billion Suns classes. There's also ones from this store, but I grabbed one of the sample packs and the battleship in it is only like 45mm, and doesn't look too good scaled up to be closer to ABS suggestions.
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If Stargrave minis are anything like Frostgrave minis, that is probably the way to go. I don't have any Stargrave ones, but I bought one box of Fristgrave Knights and Lady Soldiers and I probably have more than enough minis for any warband I try to make. If you have a 3d printer, consider Anvil Industry's patreon - I've subscribed for four months and gotten sets with enough variety for about 2-3 Stargrave crews and this month they're releasing some alien mercenaries. I haven't bought through the Digital Forge on their website - it's much more expensive than the patreon, but also way cheaper than shipping their resin bits from the UK.
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Started getting around to doing up some warbands for some games. First up is a Silver Bayonet British unit. I don't have any Napoleonics, but I do have Anvil Industry's Vampire Hunters. So first up is the unit's officer, Lady Wheeler.
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Len posted:i've been fuckin' around with a 3d printer lately and want to start getting into things with detail. can someone point me towards a company that makes decent looking scifi models? I've found a bunch on thingiverse but they kind of look bad What kind of sci-fi models? If you want human figures, I signed up for Anvil Industry's Digital Forge and have liked most of what they put out through it. You can also check for stuff on My Mini Factory.
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Len posted:A friend and I just took up Kill Team so something that would fit in as terrain would be great I've only bought some of his spaceship fleets, but EC3D also does a bunch of sci-fi scatter terrain things. For buildings and larger pieces, I dunno, my gut says MDF kits like what Death Ray Designs does instead of printing - unless you have an FDM printer, in which case printing bigger stuff might be fine.
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EdsTeioh posted:What's good out there for cyberpunk style skirmish games? I really *want* to like Infinity but don't like metal models (esp with how spindly their are). Osprey has Reality's Edge. My main take away from the rulebook is that there's a mission where both teams have to escort a ramen truck and protect it from people with extreme munchies.
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Arquinsiel posted:I really need to finish reading that rulebook OK, so now that I have the book in front of me again, you're actually protecting the ramen truck from poison roaches, gangers, rabid dogs, criminal thugs, "Sprawl rats", and "Hallucinating junkies". But the scenario says that any of those that make base contact with the ramen truck are removed from the board as they "Scamper off with their ill-gotten noodles." Edit: as a related side note, Anvil Industry posted a preview of their Cyberpunk Corporates bundle they're dropping on Patreon next month and... They got robo doggos. 
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EdsTeioh posted:Thing is that I like most of the aesthetics of Infinity with all the Ghost in the Shell type poo poo, but man, I assembled those things ONE time and decided I'd never do it again. This was around the time that GW had gone completely plastic and Privateer was about to head in that direction as well and that really brought out how much I don't like messing with metal minis. I love hearing Infinity fans go on about "oh you'll like THESE metal minis" bitch no I won't. I really like metal minis... When the only glue you need for them is to glue them to the base. If they're multipart, then fuuuuuuuuuuck thaaaaaaaaat
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Unfortunately only one of the modules is good for solo play unlike Five Parsecs. I think that swinginess is why he switched from the d20 for Rangers of Shadow Deep, Frostgrave, and Stargrave, to 2d10 with a re-roll pool for Silver Bayonet. I wonder if it's possible to implement Silver Bayonet's dice system for the other games, but it's late and the rule books are across the room. EDIT: I guess could probably ask here - anyone know good sources for medieval anthropomorphic animal minis in the US? I just picked up Burrows & Badgers on a whim, and while I know Oathsworn does the minis for the game, I'm hoping I can avoid paying for shipping from the UK if possible. Cthulu Carl fucked around with this message at 04:51 on Aug 20, 2022 |
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I don't play reality-based miniature games so if silver bayonet is a wargame with like muskets and like 1612 battles I'll never know. It's reality-based in that it's set in the Napoleonic wars, but instead of vast armies marching in lock step, it's small expert bands of skirmishers taking potshots at one another while also trying to not get shredded by werewolves, stabbed by goblins, or drained by vampires. I think living scarecrows are also a possible enemy. Nancy posted:They're kind of scattered around the website, but Reaper has a few in their newer plastics: Yeah, Reaper and Dark Sword are kind of my fallbacks if I don't find anything else. I might just suck up the shipping costs because the warbands are so small, and yeah, Oathswron does very good adorable woodland creatures about to viscously murder one another.
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Lumpy posted:Vince and Adam made another minis-agnostic game, this time in space! https://www.snarlingbadger.com/spacestationzero Solo / co-op or head to head play. Just what I need: More rulesets to make me buy more minis to make me go "Oh, I bet I have minis for that" when the NEXT ruleset comes out...
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Southern Heel posted:So, my wife and I have had a kid and as much as I enjoyed Infinity and Battletech, my sleep deprived brain is craving much more simple pastimes. It's also why my complicated boardgames are all on the shelf. North Star's minis for Stargrave? https://www.northstarfigures.com/list.php?man=295&page=1
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Helical Nightmares posted:I don't know why Adam Loper and Vincent Venturella went the d12 route. Between Space Station Zero and the initiative system for Reign in Hell, it's clear Vince and Adam lust in their hearts for d12s. I won't kinkshame, though.
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I got my hardback copy of Five Leagues from the Borderlands, so I should probably get on starting a game of that.
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Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, but ducks.
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The 47 Ronin, but ducks.
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grassy gnoll posted:Reply of the Quackorozhian Cossacks, surely. Counter point: Zaporozhian Cosquacks.
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w00tmonger posted:Tons of systems are mini agnostic and frankly it's kinda the way things are going more often . The Forbidden Psalm guy also has a few other games in different settings but similar setups - The Last War for WW1 and Kill Sample Process for cyberpunk. A few months ago he did a Kickstarter for Mork Boll, his version of a sports wargame.
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Because I'm a sucker for collecting rulesets, I pre-ordered Demon Ship from Black Site Studios. Something about "Alien/Event Horizon/Dead Space mixed with Zelda-style dungeon-crawling" is appealing to me, so I'm excited to give it a try.
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Len posted:It lists digital rules, I assumed the cards were in the PDF but they might not be That's the bundle I grabbed. It doesn't list the tokens that are in the physical set, but I got plenty of things to use as tokens anyway.
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Southern Heel posted:Speaking of old man (37) I somehow have just dropped £80 at Brigade Models for Neo-Soviet and Yenpalo Spaceship Fleet plus satellite objectives, a freighter, flight stands, fighters, etc.: I've been buying stl sets of ships for A Billion Suns. On the topic of naval games, has anyone tried Castles in the Sky? Pre-dreadnought skyships sounds fun as hell.
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moths posted:If you've got a 3d printer, absolutely get on their MMF tribe subscription. They've been releasing an absurd amount of content, and it's absolutely marvelous. You ain't kiddin'
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Got my files for Demonship, so I guess I'll be printing this weekend Good news for the STLs: They look way more detailed than the MDF version. They have holes so you can magnetize them. The floor is on 3"x3" file, so you can print it even on smaller SLA printers. Bad news for the STLs: Looks like they didn't include a way to connect the floor panels so keeping them aligned and together will take some care. The rules also have a "LAN mode" (where several people play their own setups of the game that impact the other games) and a "Savior mode" that adds in NPC crew the player has to save. This should be interesting!
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Adam and Vince just announced their newest Snarling Badger Game: Majestic 13 https://www.snarlingbadger.com/majestic13 Remarkably, unlike Reign in Hell and Space Station 13, this one only uses a couple d20s and some d6s instead of handfuls of d12s Vince's BatRep/tutorial (Minus the editing fuckup): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iArxerB7KCw Cthulu Carl fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Jun 2, 2023 |
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Indolent Bastard posted:Most scenarios being a five man human team vs. one alien doesn't seem overly interesting to me. Skimming the rules, there's a pretty wide variety of those aliens - hopefully they do each play differently enough. There also special missions that come into to play when you level up your squad three times that looks to involve more enemies on the table. I guess their thinking was that since it's mainly solo/co-op, less baddies, but more powerful helps with the flow? I dunno, I'm not a game designer. I'm barely a game player.
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moths posted:I'm pretty stoked to make weird aliens out of Dollar Tree toys and then watch them defeat my collection. Yeah, if nothing else, the game will be a good one to try the Bill Making Stuff Method of kit-bashing
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w00tmonger posted:
I'm running one final print job for my set - I realized the bases I was using were just a bit too big to fit the grid, so I'm reprinting those. Terrain is printed and magnetized. All the pig pieces have a little bit a warping on the side that the supports were on (The rest of each piece printed mostly fine) So I'm just gonna add some Green Stuff feet to make sure everything's level and call it Good Enough.
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moths posted:Does black site sell Demon Ship STLs? I only found the terrain/board in their store. Then the game first released, they offered a bundle that was the rule pdf, and STLS for the terrain and minis.
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