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Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

The OP is good for someone who already knows/plays WMH and looks for another faction, it's a bit unreadable at times for new people. What's an electro-leap and why is it important? Is Stormclad a unit, a buff or what? What's so awesome about Geomancy, is there anything or did you only point out a separate magic path?

Also, your Cryx description is lacking. :colbert:

# ¿ Feb 11, 2012 00:55

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# ¿ May 18, 2024 20:41

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Do you know any awesomely converted Warmachine armies, like scratchbuilt finely detailed warjacks, stuff like that (post links/pics)? The game seems interesting, but I'm turned off by the way stock warjacks look and I'm wondering how much can be done with that.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2012 19:48

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

I hate the aesthetics, not the kits. I have yet to see a Colossus(sp?) I'd like the look of.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2012 20:18

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Paper Kaiju posted:

Have you tried looking at Hordes instead of Warmachine? I ask because I had the exact same issue when I got into the game years back (this was before Retribution came out; I'm one of the freaks that actually likes the aesthetics of myrmidons). Over time, the other factions' warjacks have grown on me, but I still feel that the warbeasts have more impressive scuplts.

Yes and Hordes does have much better beasts, but I'm still hoping for a squad of giant steam-powered magic mechs

# ¿ Aug 26, 2012 21:05

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

So, I hear Warmachine actually has some decent-looking warjacks now. Any info about the new clockwork faction except that one video?

# ¿ Feb 14, 2013 01:08

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

dexefiend posted:

Example:

This has never been fielded, and I have never played my Menoth force.

What the gently caress compelled you to speedpaint a $100+ model? :psypop:

And speaking of too much disposable income, here is how some guy converted a Stormwall (? - the Cygnar colossal) to be fully articulated and LED-lighted. And he's done like 7 of them... 5 for his own collection :suicide:

Pierzak fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Mar 19, 2013

# ¿ Mar 19, 2013 20:48

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Excelsiortothemax posted:

Another fact, I might have to hunt down my local Facebook friends to harvest their organs to pay for the robot awesomeness.

Who the gently caress buys organs nowadays, clockwork is the new meat.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2013 11:17

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Welp, it seems PP's figured me out.

Let's see:
WHFB: Undead. Infinity: Nomads/CA. Malifaux: Ramos/Colette. And now Cyriss in WM. Why yes, I do prefer my armies mechanical. Organics are for command only. And the Art-Deco is just a cherry on top.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2013 00:04

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Feeple posted:

Pics as soon as I have appropriately large googly eyes attached.

Please post the whole army with googly eyes, I seem to have missed those

# ¿ Mar 29, 2013 23:28

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Welp, and I wanted to start CoC. It's not like I WANT ALL THE MODELS NOW or something, but I'm concerned about the possibility of them being a "secondary" faction, like the White Dwarf codexes of GW. Yes, I know that PP has much more common sense, but once burned, twice shy. Or something.

# ¿ Apr 6, 2013 10:38

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Paper Kaiju posted:

Eye of the beholder, man.

Definitely. For me they blow the standard warjacks away. Finally WM has some decent-looking warjacks :toot:

# ¿ Apr 11, 2013 23:57

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Serotonin posted:

See thats the historical grognard in me coming out. Yeah I guess I could paint them exactly how I please.

The fantasy gaming thread is over-...here. Carry on :v:

# ¿ Apr 21, 2013 19:38

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Why the hell is that thing embedded in a rock? Doesn't it have legs to stand on?

# ¿ May 23, 2013 00:00

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

I've seen people use metal ring templates. Are they for marking lasting effects so that no models have to be repositioned, or what?

# ¿ Jun 13, 2013 14:14

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

LeSquide posted:

It looks like it's made of delicious pink frosting. I mean that in the most complementary way possible.

It'd benefit greatly from a DO NOT LICK label. Think ahead and save yourself problems down the line :v:

_{(very nice paintjob though)}

# ¿ Jun 25, 2013 18:39

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Serotonin posted:

It was reduced, thats the excuse Im sticking too.

Add "I wanted something different to paint", that's what I've been telling myself. Of course, my Cryx are still unassembled and my backlog is like a thousand minis :suicide:

# ¿ Jul 21, 2013 12:37

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Alpha Phoenix posted:

Whoever designed the heavy vectors hates magnets, fun, and may be Hitler.

I just imagined magnetizing a real vector that immediately sticks all moving parts to the magnet and folds into a ball. Thank you for that mental image. :allears:

# ¿ Jul 22, 2013 19:15

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Who exactly are the Cephalyx, lore-wise?

# ¿ Jul 25, 2013 21:37

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

KingMob posted:

Image dump incoming

I was pretty :geno:

about them until I saw the angels :allears:

those are awesome, your Cyriss could use more gold.

VVV: First sealer, then grass. Never the other way around.

Pierzak fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Jul 29, 2013

# ¿ Jul 29, 2013 22:10

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Am I the only one who actually likes the Khador joyrneyman? He's got all the :3:

of a tzarist academy cadet. I don't like Khador aesthetic in general, but I'd get him for the mini alone (gently caress shipping though).

# ¿ Aug 1, 2013 17:28

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Serotonin posted:

I hate this thread and I hate Warmachine.

Im a dyed in the wool historical wargames grognard who researches authentic colours of druids snakes in pre Saxon Britain and gets concerned about facing colours on 6mm scale Napoleonic soldiers, and now Im playing with and painting steam powered robots and enjoying it (as well as spending too much on it).

FFFFF

I also have some holes in my fingers and am covered in glue from pinning while trying to repose a Scyrah Hydra to look like its firing lasers out of its Force Fists and I dont care.

If there's a single shade wrong on the painted myrmidon I'll have to demand a honorable suicide :colbert:

# ¿ Aug 6, 2013 23:12

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Is there any chance we'll get a new/alt 2-player Cygnar/Cryx battle box, riding on the popularity of the PC game?

# ¿ Aug 7, 2013 00:49

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Luebbi posted:

Only real men wear their bathrobes to battle and call themselves gunmages.

Bah, real men call themselves fistmages and don't need tools to fight their battles for them.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2013 21:51

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Gay Polymers posted:

Huge fan of that thread. Huge.

Link? I need some "stupid people" material :munch:

Flipswitch posted:

Painting is super important when people only play with casino dice that fly like god drat shurikens and slice metal limbs and paint jobs apart.

Next time I see a guy bringing casino dice because they're sooo more accurate and fair and poo poo and "roll" them by placing them because they're actually harder to roll or any surface they weren't meant for, I'm plucking out his eyes and putting the dice in the sockets :argh:

Pierzak fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Aug 21, 2013

# ¿ Aug 20, 2013 23:57

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Zhent posted:

Having played 40k for about 15 years now, I think the time has come to branch out into a game that doesn't require its own seatbelt when packed into my car.

I'm not sure you're in the right thread. Someone repost that Archangel transport photo please?

# ¿ Aug 21, 2013 12:13

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

xiw posted:

Where's that wreck marker from?

# ¿ Sep 1, 2013 15:08

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Vosenbergen posted:

Seriously, where the hell were you when I picked up this hobby a decade ago...I feel like a godsdamned idiot now because I never thought of that

Let me guess, no one told you about holding paint in medicine pill blisters either :v:

(just tape them over, they'll be good for a few days)

# ¿ Sep 12, 2013 02:00

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Gareth Gobulcoque posted:

Oath Thread Crosspost

man, that's the best Ret I've seen, including the studio one. Soooo clean. You do gundams or something? The style really suits it.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2013 13:15

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Is is the Awesome Ret Day or something? :confused:

# ¿ Sep 16, 2013 22:11

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

jodai posted:

everyone said that he was not the type to let people win, even in a teaching game so he might have been getting frustrated

First, if he's that victory-starved that he'd deliberately steamroll a newbie he's either a very poor player or qualifies for therapy. Also, a douche.
Second, who the gently caress cares if he's getting frustrated? You can get frustrated if you lose every single roll or something. Or if the new guy fails to grasp the simplest things. Again, this was a teaching game :psyduck:

Or wait... maybe he wanted to show you that WMH community sucks and get you out of this game RIGHT loving NOW? In that case, stop helping thread, you're undermining his honest efforts! :haw:

# ¿ Oct 10, 2013 10:39

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Love them, what are the others?

# ¿ Dec 14, 2013 20:45

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Mt. ORourke posted:

*awesome axiom*

I made a new stand because I hate the rock that the original model is beached on. Not 100% happy with it but better than nothing. If anyone has any ideas for how to make him look more floaty please let me know

Acrylic/plexi rod (so it isn't frosted and highly visible) and pin the legs to the base (is it floating right now?).

# ¿ Jan 13, 2014 04:13

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Speaking of broken models, has anyone here assembled the Cyriss floating heavy vectors? That flying stand looks as if it's waiting to snap at the first moment you don't have glue on hand.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2014 14:40

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Excelsiortothemax posted:

Pin, pin, pin. If need be I'll brass rod it up there asses and hid it via something on the base.

That's exactly what I'd like to avoid, I hate the way they did the Prime Axiom ("don't mind me, just making GBS threads out the biggest turd this side of the Iron Kingdoms"). Eh, if need be I can always stick them on thick acrylic rods.

The more important question is, Cyriss apparently being the synergy-oriented faction, is starting with them viable (I know next to nothing about WMH, but I like their aesthetics far beyond everything else), or am I setting myself up for slamming face-first at full speed into the learning curve?

# ¿ Jan 21, 2014 15:32

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

omnibobb posted:

I have a snow day today and about 20 models to prime. My priming station is in my cold rear end garage and I don't think i have anywhere inside to work on it. Any tips other than "don't"?

Airbrush. Or give the can a hot water bath beforehand, it might help and not even explode*.

_{*results not guaranteed, use at own risk}

# ¿ Jan 22, 2014 12:37

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

GEMorris posted:

Lord Of Texas, this is the reason gamers get poo poo products, because you accept them and then even defend the people that produced them.

So the whole situation should improve if we kill him? I'm gonna go assemble the torch-and-pitchfork mob. :v:

# ¿ Jan 24, 2014 09:21

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

After watching a few of these I'd like to say that any video batrep that does not have a list in the beginning/video description, does not pan over the army and introduce the units (like "I'm running eCaster, Jack A jack B, max randomgrunts with UA..." etc.), AND has a wonderful whole-table view only so I can watch random blobs of unpainted metal scurry around can gently caress right off.

Exinos posted:

I think I officially hate PP plastics. Cleaning mold lines off of bastions is hell while the seneschal was nearly perfect out of the pack in all of its metal glory.

Go paint an FFG boardgame or two, you'll start having problems like "how the fuc do you have 4 mold lines on a zombie's leg?", "I have to buy a special degreaser for this plastic" and "having pre-glued minis is very convenient, so is having to greenstuff 1.5 mm gaps in them". And don't even start about their metals.

# ¿ Jan 28, 2014 15:35

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

It was really weird for me to start paying attention to PP and see plastics after their screed in Prime about plastic being for childrens toys and how they were always going to only make metal.

"Play like you got a pair, or put down the metal and go play something made of plastic" :haw:

_{(we like to tease WMH players with this at the Infinity forums)}

And speaking of all-metal armies, I've decided to give the game a try. With Cyriss. I hate you all :doom:

# ¿ Jan 28, 2014 21:43

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Where can I read more on sneaky "this faction actually plays very differently to what it looks like" or unusable/bad iconic units? I've heard such things a few times and I'd like to avoid the nastier traps while I pick my faction.

(I have no intention of playing Cygnar; my current preference is Cyriss/Cryx/Everblight)

# ¿ Jan 29, 2014 12:18

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# ¿ May 18, 2024 20:41

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Actually, if I decide on Legion I'd like to run beast-heavy, the totally-not-dark-elves look of their infantry does nothing for me. I figure that if I wanted infantry I could play pretty much any other game.

Thanks for the answers, I'll check back once I play a game or two with each of them and decide on which one to start.

Pierzak fucked around with this message at 14:11 on Jan 29, 2014

# ¿ Jan 29, 2014 13:56

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