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Panzeh posted:I've read the rulebook for Warpath and it really feels like a 15mm multibase game like Flames of War rather than a 28mm game. It would probably be better at that scale. This is true (though most people say 10mm rather than 15mm), which is why we pushed hard to ensure Warpath: Firefight existed, a skirmish game of a similar size to Bolt Action, and that it received enough attention to be good - we knew better than Mantic that Firefight would be the vastly more played and popular game going forward, so it needed to not be treated like a red headed step child next to the management favourite of "mass battles".
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Not a viking posted:Link? I'm not on Twitter https://twitter.com/HamillHimself/status/813816434073579521
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Panzeh posted:Unfortunately, from what i've read of the rules it feels like a very slapdash adaptation of Warpath. We'll see if it improves. Deadzone is actually a really solid game for what it is and had a lot more care put into it than either Warpath or Firefight. So they have a beta list up for the GCPS in Deadzone, to the assured delight of anyone who has or likes Imperial Guard or just the common human soldier, and they're going to release GCPS starters/bosters for Deadzone in the northern summer, but now on top of that "For Star Saga we’ll be producing a number of new Nameless minions, alongside some big bosses. Just like we’ve recently done with the GCPS beta lists, we’ll be working with the Deadzone Rules Committee to produce a list for a Nameless Deadzone faction. The exact date is TBA but we’ll keep you updated throughout 2017." Nameless are the squid crab nightmares from under da sea.    
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Giant Isopod posted:Except for chaos dwarves. I think you'll find the correct name is Abyssal Dwarves
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One of my favorite scenes is the one where Dukat is explaining why you occupy a defeated foe, and his disappointment in the Bajorans, and Weyoun finally understands that Dukat is and always has been totally nuts
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Drone posted:Shame we got Dukat this time around instead. Dukat was the one that lost, the Tal Shiar plant won
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fnordcircle posted:What's peak DS9? Like which season? Season 6
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Not a viking posted:I had to look scrutable up because I'm not a native english speaker and I still don't know what you mean. "Inscrutable asians/orientals" is a common racist trope in western literature
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It's the second half of season 5 (ep 13) through to the end of season 6; you get a lot of the dominion war, and hence a lot of Weyoun, Dukat, Martok, etc, there's a Benny Russell episode in there, lots of character building with Garak including Empok Nor the excellent In the Pale Moonlight, you get the Star Trek: Klingon episode, the introduction of Section 31 and Vic Fontaine, just the right (small) amount of Bajoran Emissary stuff, and a bare minimum of 'standard episodic trek' fare, though even a couple of those are good.
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Just an fyi to the death thread goons, I'm going to spend the next 6 months painting up my scrunt army; will be about 150 varying scrunt infantry, 8 biker scrunts, 3 halftracks, 3 tanks, 6 gun platforms, 4 big scrunt walkers, and a couple of scrunt lords
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TKIY posted:
Moola posted:feck yeah! I'll do my best not to let you down  I just need to remember where I put my metal drop scrunt character, and I'll have everything ready to begin
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Uncontroversial opinion: By the standard of today no edition of 40k has ever been good
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Formations came in 7th
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I remember that Necron Decurion being the first harbinger, and that came out after the 7th rulebook dropped. Also the Necron code was in 7th, not 6th. Also i'm pretty sure Orks were the first 7th codex, like 8 months before Necrons e: Internet says Orks (6/14) was the first 7th codex, followed by Space Wolves (8/14), Grey Knights (9/14), Dark Eldar (10/14), Blood Angels (12/14), and then Necrons (2/15); Sanctus Reach came out after the Ork codex, in support of it. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Jan 8, 2017 |
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Jan 8, 2017 21:29
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Kings of War summer campaign runs from July to August, time to get those armies ready to change the map and impact the lore. Also, until Jan 31st, one randomly drawn person a week buying a starter army of any race from the Mantic store will have it upgraded to a Mega Army for free.
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MikeCrotch posted:I thought the profits boost was almost entirely due to licensing revenue, and that model sales were still not doing very well? ALL IS WELL CITIZEN, MOVE ALONG
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Cinnamon Bear posted:Is it possible to start Deadzone without buying the box set full of scrunts Yes, but why wouldn't you want a box full of scrunts?  You can separately buy the rulebook with tokens and command dice, then get a pack containing a playmat and a small amount of the latest terrain, with an expansion book for good measure, or just buy the mat and add your own choice of battlezone terrain bundles, and then finally pick up your choice of faction starter, though if your choice is Asterians I'd hold off a bit, because I believe it's due for an update to include some of the new hard plastic Marionettes that had to be sent to Warpath backers first. v You're right, I didn't even read it properly, hasn't been plague since the first box. Should really only be one power armour army in it though, they needed to make it one of them versus Veer'myn. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 13:19 on Jan 12, 2017 |
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Marauders, Rebs (if they can figure out a way to do it) and Nameless will get hard plastic stuff to replace some restic, and go with some surviving restic and the newer board game plastic stuff (I wonder if the older restic moulds can simply be used with the new BGP material?). Probably also get the Lancer MBT, the missing Asterian drones (Narsa, Spectra, Hidden Strike), and either a replacement for the Raptor, or a Marauder conversion kit for the Mule and Pelican, and maybe even a Rebs one too, though that's really starting to stretch "everyone looks the same". Nameless are about to get an alpha list for Deadzone based on the minis coming in Star Saga, so they're definitely next.
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Anyone for Snorks?
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OMG sriracha pudding! posted:are you sure that wasn't a warscroll rule? Fisticuffs, Brettonian warscroll
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TheChirurgeon posted:I'm not convinced VR will amount to anything more than 3D did, as it only really has applications in gaming and pornography to begin with. On the gaming side, the experiences you can actually create in VR are very limited, based on both the restrictions of space (you don't want people wandering around their living rooms, tripping over poo poo) and potential motion sickness issues--moving and looking can cause disorientation and motion sickness. Racing games and flight games are fine, because you have a fixed position, but something simple like walking around a house causes issues when you don't move how your body expects. This is why a lot of the VR games we've seen so far resemble on-rails experiences or roller coasters, to mitigate this (Interesting story: A friend of mine was working on a VR game where you play as a person in a wheelchair, to mitigate this effect). While this can likely be fixed over time (and there are workarounds I've seen with zero-gravity movement), there's a real question as to whether or not you want to pay $600 for a device that has these limitations. Actually, VR has educational and industrial uses that 3D never did. I know a guy who worked on VR software for industrial processes, that they then successfully adapted into teaching software for developmentally challenged children, and this was before Rift even had a devkit headset out for backers.
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Cinnamon Bear posted:So is this just further confirmation that Eldar are getting the elf treatment with everyone joining up to be friends? Will it follow the same path where it turns out the Dark Eldar had the right idea all along? Aeldari 
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Moola posted:It's impossible to tell the difference between joke and real names with GW sooooo... A reminder: the number of lines beginning with "If, in your hero phase" that sound like incredibly bad internet jokes, but aren't, is non-zero
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Terrible Opinions posted:What is the source on the messed up knight firing arcs? TKIY posted:This is the direct image and text from the Knight FAQ:
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KingFisher posted:Who is the anointed goon army painting service provider? Try asking in the painting thread
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All three are bad minis. Toe ring sleeve lady with the fetish topknot is probably the last offensive, and yet still terrible.Avenging Dentist posted:e: Also I just realized that this means Slaanesh is gonna be dead/captured/whatever in both AoS and Age of Emperor. Slaanesh isn't family friendly, after all. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Jan 22, 2017 |
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To me they just don't fit the Eldar aesthetic in any way. I think it's telling they seem to appeal more to Marine players than actual Eldar players.
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Avenging Dentist posted:The Eldar aesthetic is bad though. What's-her-face looks like a Malifaux knock-off, which is a definite step up. We're talking about a range with models like these: Except I like the Eldar, and I like the Eldar aesthetic. Saying that you didn't like the existing aesthetic, and presumably didn't buy any, and instead you like the new one, is just pissing in the cereal of all the people who actually like and bought Eldar, ever. Might as well gently caress off from calling them Eldar and label them as a new army, because they've got nothing in common.
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Irate Tree posted:The sad thing too is that, their spiel has them as the scouts of the army and that they have "less bulky armour" than the others. How are they? It's the exact same armour, you just gave them larger capes and some poo poo on the front! I think you'll find their armour only contains 1% ur-gold, rather than the 20% in the armour that regular stormcasters wear
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Saint Drogo posted:it's not actual gold it's bits of grimnir (née gotrek) they get high off of Basicall ur-gold is poppers for the gay bear dwarves, that they take before dousing themselves in lubricant, and entering a mosh pit to the sound of pounding techno
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:It's a real life mystic thing. Ur was one of the very first cities in recorded human history so Ur-"object" tends to be used to denote its status as a primal or original form. Also the cities of ancient Sumer are the ones that built Ziggurats, ever a favourite thing of fantasy fans, and the one in the ruins of Ur is quite well preserved thanks to Saddam Hussein
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Irate Tree posted:Also, thanks for that insight on the term Ur The British Museum is a hell of a place to go if you want to learn more about the first human cities and civilisations. Especially since Mesopotamia is now Iraq, Syria, and the southern edge of Turkey, and anything that hasn't been destroyed is basically impossible to visit right now if you value your health and life.
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gently caress Whitey posted:Is Mantic going to release models for Firefight Well there's some already out, and some to hit retail in probably February, but also more coming in Q2 or so
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potentiallycool posted:All I want is to be able to use my Dark Eldar aka Drukhari (yes that is what they are being called now) and I will be happy. My Orks love Warpath already. You can use them as Asterians easily enough, though whether they end up making an army list closer in aesthetic and motivation to the Dark Eldar is less certain NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Jan 26, 2017 |
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gently caress Whitey posted:Are they different models from Warpath or what No, Warpath and Firefight use exactly the same models, Firefight just uses less of them, and Deadzone also shares exactly the same models, except less again, and minus the large vehicles. A current Deadzone starter force has more minis than you need to play, and is actually a pretty good Firefight starter, just add a tank. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Jan 26, 2017 |
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Terrible Opinions posted:I kinda like the demigryph thing, but boy howdy is that an ugly sigmarine. Too bad it probably costs like 30 bucks for a single model. Guess I'm waiting on recasters. The sigmarine riding the similarly sized dragon dog is $110 dollarydoos, so I expect the sigmarine on demigryph will also cost $110 dollarydoos, or maybe more, since the demigryph is a little bigger Also, I went to look and see if it was already on sale, and using the filters there are 8 different sigmarine units, and 11 different sigmarine heroes.
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The Star Drake costs $240 dollarydoos, I can get a KoW mega army and tack on another starter army for $249 dollarydoos
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Chill la Chill posted:What the heck, serious gaylord can take some serious abuse. serious gaylord posted:Reminder that I was told, to my face, by the person they hired to market AOS, that they would never be getting rid of any army.
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