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Mantic's Warpath pledges are now filtering down to their backers and tentative readings of the rulebook (for vanilla Warpath and for Warpath: Firefight) point to it being a good game. So it should do for 40k what KoW did for WHFB in terms of filling that niche.
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Dec 24, 2016 23:29
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Moving pictures on a screen don't always need to have some cutting social commentary in order to be good and enjoyable. GW is loving bad.
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Dec 31, 2016 19:53
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Avenging Dentist posted:Yes, a bland surface-level appropriation of another culture's belief system: high art. Literally nobody is arguing that Star Wars is high art.
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Irate Tree posted:Garak for President - 2020. Shame we got Dukat this time around instead. Okay no, Dukat would have been better.
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Jan 1, 2017 10:52
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Geisladisk posted:As a layman I can read through a German or Icelandic anatomy textbook with no problems and pretty much know what every thing mentioned is and roughly what it does, even with minimal context. In English, no loving way - Everything has a lovely, opaque, nonsensical latin name, and if I want to struggle through even a basic text, I need to constantly reference a dictionary. But German has a pretty high amount of latinization in the sciences and medicine as well though? 
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Jan 5, 2017 11:23
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If I ever get a GCPS army for Warpath/Deadzone, I'm gonna paint them up as soldiers of the star-spanning Frito-Lay macrocorporation. Originally was gonna do my Enforcers up in Mountain Dew livery but that doesn't fit their fluff at all.
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Jan 8, 2017 09:10
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Rumor is that GW stores are soon going to stop stocking Blood Bowl, and it will only be available via web order. That didn't last long.
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Jan 8, 2017 12:08
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Buy into AoS, which is a Very Good And Cool Game
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Jan 10, 2017 11:35
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TKIY posted:Plastic 30k is god drat meth on crack. They hit a goldmine with that, but they still have a chance to gently caress it all up if 8th comes out and makes 30k poo poo. Correct me if I'm wrong because I know jack poo poo about 30k, but doesn't it effectively squat several really popular factions (Tau, Necrons, Tyranids) by virtue of them not really existing in the year 30,000?
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Jan 10, 2017 21:09
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Thanks for shopping with us. We've received your order, which has very much excited our in-house Trolls, as the creatures love nothing more than being unshackled in order to carry your order information over to our warehouse. We're joking, of course - they hate the exercise. its funny because GW employees are pretty much already figuratively shackled and probably also hate exercise
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Jan 11, 2017 14:35
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Thirsty Dog posted:I read the last 20 pages and now my head hurts. At least I can now identify as a Death Threader who makes sculptors feel bad by not liking over engineered models, making me basically Hitler Hitler loved him some overengineered models. See also: German tanks. if anything you're more like stalin is what i'm saying
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Jan 12, 2017 09:36
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All of the Deadzone stuff is also available a la cart. Also the new box set is Enforcers and Plague, so no squats.
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Jan 12, 2017 11:11
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I always thought they focused so much on Forge Fathers because they wanted to win the ex-GW player who sees Squats (and their squatting) as sort of a mascot for how GW is a bad company.
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Jan 12, 2017 13:08
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So what are they going to rename the Tau, since that's just a Greek letter?
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Jan 17, 2017 11:26
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Geisladisk posted:I really like this guy, most of his videos are related to painting and modeling in general. He also has a really nice voice. I forgive him for Giving Money To Games Workshop. As a person on camera, he works really well and is extremely relaxing to watch because of his voice and overall mannerisms. But he had some epically bad white knighting videos right after AoS was released that were utter trash.
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Jan 18, 2017 15:12
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TheChirurgeon posted:Having two screens is nice, but it is completely unnecessary. Most of the time all you get on the second screen is a persistent menu. Works pretty well on a 16:10 display in portrait mode.
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Jan 18, 2017 15:48
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Atlas Hugged posted:Incorporating a touchscreen into console gaming is definitely here to stay though. I can't imagine what Mario Maker would be like without it. Except the Switch doesn't have touchscreen functionality when it serves as a console. Since it's confined to the dock.
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Jan 18, 2017 16:35
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It's almost like the Switch is an ultimately directionless and stale console from a company that has no idea what its non-Japanese market actually wants, and a futile attempt to capture lightning in a bottle like they did with the original Wii. Love my 3DS to bits though.
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Jan 18, 2017 16:47
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Wait, did they actually combine Eldar and Dark Eldar into one army now?
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Jan 22, 2017 21:22
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Asterians look pretty cool though.
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Jan 22, 2017 22:37
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Anyone who has the sheer lack of self-awareness that is required to unironically utter the word "Bloodsecrator" really needs to be committed to an institution.
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Jan 24, 2017 19:30
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Did GW actually completely stop localizing their product names? I know for 40k and WHFB there were quite a few things that were translated from English into the local market languages -- definitely not everything, but some (here in Germany, a Space Marine Librarian is a Scriptor, or a Dreadnought is a Cybot, and iirc a lot of Tau vehicles were translated). I ask because I just checked the GW website in Germany to see if they actually bothered translating lovely loving names like Bloodsecrators or Bloodbloods or whatever into other languages, and the answer is nope.
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Jan 24, 2017 19:57
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Joe_Richter posted:If any of you guys actually want one of those Rogue Trader reprints and can't get your hands on them, I've just been in Warhammer World and they have some for sale there. I assume you're not talking about the RPG?
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Jan 25, 2017 18:24
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gently caress Whitey posted:Is Mantic going to release models for Firefight There's still some Kickstarter product pending shipping, but the rumor I heard for the retail launch was April. But yes, there are tons of models for Firefight. Also Eldar and IG models slot pretty well into existing armies (GCPS and Asterians).
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Jan 26, 2017 18:04
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DO IT TO IT posted:I had never heard of Firefight before now, so I looked it up and it looks pretty dope! Has anyone actually played it? Is it fun? I could see all my fellow ex-40k buddies getting back together for this if so. Someone was posting in the Mantic thread a week or so ago about their first games of it, and they were very positive. The rulebooks themselves are also super, super well-made (like, physically), if that counts for anything. The fluff itself is pretty decent too, despite some weird editing decisions in the setting sourcebook that was included in the Kickstarter, Don't confuse Warpath: Firefight with vanilla Warpath though. Vanilla Warpath is a multibased game that seems to have been Ronnie Renton's pet project, while Firefight is the 40k-but-good style game that the fans really screamed about wanting. I haven't seen really anyone at all talking about vanilla, and Firefight has been getting the majority of the attention from consumers (rightly so). This isn't to say vanilla Warpath is bad necessarily, it's just that Firefight is what the market wants.
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Eandr posted:In other GW news, someone new has the license to WFRP. Weird and a little disappointing that it's just the WFRP license and not the 40k RPG line, but maybe that'll come further down the road. The One Ring is a pretty good RPG.
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Jan 28, 2017 08:44
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That new Roboute Guilliman looks like a knockoff model that Scibor would put out. Except somehow still not as good
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Feb 6, 2017 11:28
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Is Creative Assembly still sticking to their "this will be a trilogy of games" thing or are they just gonna lump everything into this one as overpriced DLC?
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Feb 6, 2017 18:17
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What was this good board game then
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Feb 12, 2017 18:13
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Atlas Hugged posted:I want to like Dropzone but I don't like the aesthetic. I'm sure the rules are great, but none of the factions appeal to me. I had the same problem with WarmaHordes. Same. I like some of the Dropzone stuff, but for some reason whenever I see the Dropzone tank and infantry models fighting in an urban setting I just think to myself "man, I'd really just rather play Battletech".
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Liquid Communism posted:Wait, I know it's been a long time since I played anything GW, but am I reading that right? Did they seriously put a mechanic into AoS that can generate double turns in a game where 4-5 turns takes six hours? It's possible to win the game without your opponent ever getting the opportunity to take a single turn. So yes.
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LordAbaddon posted:The setting sucks but at this point Im more interested if there is even the ghost of potential exists for it. Why would you not just play a different game that is actually... good? It's not like the market is lacking solid skirmish-size games.
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Feb 20, 2017 18:20
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Captain Rufus posted:I use them for Warmachine since you don't need lots of dice in it and they are large and visible Casino dice are pretty lovely for anything but casino games because they are designed with hard 90-degree edges that make them bounce far more when thrown down a felt-lined craps table. Throwing casino dice around on your kitchen table is going to give you really lovely randomization and also possibly chip your table.
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Liquid Communism posted:Yup. There's one here in the dying mall. Open ~40 hours a week, renting like 700 square feet in a shopping mall and closed Monday and Tuesday. I can already feel the general funk of that store. Like that feeling when you walk in the doors and the humidity is just slightly higher than normal while also being a few degrees cooler than the rest of the mall, and the place smells sorta like a mixture of high school gymnasium and Febreze. Though to be fair, that place looks way cleaner than most Warhammy places, so maybe my judgment is misplaced.
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NTRabbit posted:Perry's still kickin' goals post-GW Yeah that thing looks really cool and I sorta want it, despite having never played a historical before. Any word on how the rules are? I really only know Perry from the really well-priced models. Edit: gently caress you could just play Kings of War on there... Mantic wrote rules for smaller 8mm/10mm scale models, right?
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Corvus Belli apparently released a new Infinity miniature that is a fat dude chowing down on a box of takeaway Chinese fastfood, and it's pretty great.
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MikeCrotch posted:If you want to have an encounter with the absolute dregs of the geek community, try running an anime tabletop rpg like my friend did at our local university society. I think this is more a feature of anime groups in general. At my university, the anime club apparently had to rotate its meeting place among the various residence halls because no one hall would tolerate them for very long (because of the smell). Unfortunately my hall leadership decided they'd be the ones who ultimately welcomed them, and declared that the anime club could meet on my floor, in the floor kitchen (which was right across from my doorway). The smells that came out of there were... strong, and would take a few days to air out. When they met we even took to rolling up a towel and jamming it into the crack of our door to try to keep the smell out.
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Atlas Hugged posted:My roommate invited a friend from anime club over to our apartment one day in university. Our apartment was 3 stories and we had to sit on the 3rd floor while this guy lounged on the first for several hours. We informed the roommate that this friend was never to be invited back. The stench was loving ungodly. Oh, a good friend of mine had the most anime roommate in first year. We'll call him Harry. Harry was, at first glance, a pretty nice kid. Kinda short, pudgy but not obese or anything, with long shoulder-length hair that was (at first) well-groomed and washed. After talking with him for a few minutes, you'd get the impression that he was a doted upon and sheltered rich kid, but he wasn't at all an rear end in a top hat about it and was generally pretty humble about his upbringing. He had odd word choice, but that hinted more to his sheltered life than anything else (an inside joke among the rest of us who were the closest things to friends he had was that he would often ask if we wanted to go to dinner in the dining hall, and that he could go a minute or two before the rest of us to "requisition us a table"). Weird, but harmless. We didn't mind too overmuch, since Harry also was pleasantly introverted and often would smile and tell us no thanks, he didn't want to go out with us that day, he'd rather stay home and play Guilty Gear or something. One of the Chinese exchange students liked to watch people play video games, and apparently did it a lot with Harry. When Harry wasn't gaming, the exchange student would float around to other rooms and watch us. If I was playing Halo at the time, he'd plop down on our couch and demand "you play Harry game, I watch." Guess he didn't care for shooters. Fast-forward through to the end of the first semester. Both guys in the room (Harry and my friend) weren't exactly the cleanest, but Harry's half of the room was just... ungodly. Piles of trash everywhere (not really any food stuff as far as I can recall, mostly just books/mangas/wads of discarded paper from notes and coursework). I had no idea how he managed to even get to his desk -- until I found out that he at some point had given up trying to wade through the trash to get to his desk, and instead chose to do his work on the top bunk. The wall beside Harry's bunk was a boogerwall. Despite owning tissues, Harry seemed to have grown a collection of boogers that must have been intentionally placed or wiped on the wall next to his pillow. There were also... strange white specks on the window just next to his bunk. One night (I think it was during finals week), another friend in my group spotted Harry's laptop unattended and alone in the residence hall's study lounge. As many 19 year olds would do, he thought he'd hop on it and prank him with the old "take a screenshot of the desktop and set it as wallpaper, then hide all the icons" trick. That's when he discovered Harry's folder... of underaged furry porn. It was the end of the year, but Harry got an intervention. Not just about the porn, but about everything -- the trash heaps, the boogerwall, the white stains. I'm not really sure what became of him after that -- most of us moved out of the dorms after that year, and the group kinda split up around campus. Occasionally we'd see him on campus and make friendly but brief smalltalk, but that's it. I mention the story because Harry is the reason why the anime club set its crosshairs on our residence hall, as he was its treasurer or something. RagnarokAngel posted:I understand some people legit have medical problems that cause them to smell but when you don't shower daily that's like clinical depression level issues. I think a lot of it is just ignorance, honestly. We had another guy who was otherwise totally normal, except that he literally had no idea that you were supposed to watch your crotch. Had never soaped up down there, ever. Thankfully, he had a somewhat patient and well-groomed roommate who sorta explained to him how showers work. Drone fucked around with this message at 13:30 on May 1, 2017 |
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FrostyPox posted:Hey guys, when I woke up this morning I found a report on my desk, and it said "Games Workshop is bad". I won't lie though, watching DoW3 streams (regardless of whether or not it's a good game) has gotten me into a 40k mood again, something I didn't really think was possible. Is there a tl;dr on what stupid poo poo GW has put out fluff-wise during their whole push to move the 40k plot clock a minute closer to midnight? I know something about Gullyman coming back (somehow?) and there are apparently gonna be Bigmarines, but that's about it.
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