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berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

Shadin posted:

Also if people know of good resources for any of the games, current or discontinued, just post it and I'll add to the OP. I'll dig through the old thread to find more as well, off the top of my head I just know Tom's Boring Mordheim Forum and The NAF for Blood Bowl.

EDIT: Also, if people want to type up any of their own reviews for the games, post in the thread and I'll link to the post under the game's information.

No Epic in the OP? You cad.

I'll see if I can get something together for that, and possibly a few other games.

berzerkmonkey fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Jan 10, 2017

# ¿ Jan 10, 2017 14:36

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 19:44

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

Shadin posted:

My heresy has been rectified. Thanks for all the work sending me updates, too!

No problem. This OP poo poo is hard - I'm glad you're doing most of the heavy lifting!

# ¿ Jan 10, 2017 16:54

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

Leperflesh posted:

Have they got Warhammer Quest for a device that isn't Apple, yet? No?

Welp.

It's on Steam. And it's like $2 when on sale.

Drowning Rabbit posted:

As for Space Hulk, at least I don't need to worry about updating my stuff, didn't realize it had digital expansions and all, that's kind of neat, but I barely get to play it as is right now that they aren't worth the expense for me, since they are fully digital and don't add models or tiles.

They don't add physical models, but there are a couple of Terminator types available (Cyclones, etc.) Plus, you can play as Ultras, SWs, or DAs - the expansions are geared to existing collections in that they use Terminators from one of the base sets (DV, AoBR, or a box of Termies) and one of the retail boxes (Wolf Guard, DA Command, SM Terminators).

What is lame is that GW only put them out on iOS, so unless you have an Apple device, you are forced to seek alternate delivery systems.

January 2017 Blood Bowl FAQ/Errata is available.

berzerkmonkey fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Jan 10, 2017

# ¿ Jan 10, 2017 19:36

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

Shadin, you've got the Epic image posted for Warmaster.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2017 20:31

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

Shadin posted:

God please tell me that's not the real reason.

Sadly, I think it is the real reason.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2017 14:08

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

Speaking of Forbidden Stars, out of curiosity, I can get a copy for $60. I know the game is now OOP, and will only likely go up from there, but is it worth it?

EDIT: Amazon prices on all of the FFG stuff is pretty good, considering they are OOP. Get them before they are gone!:
Space Hulk: Death Angel is $17.50 (37% off)
Relic is $35.80 (40% off)
Warhammer Quest Card Game is $28.95 (28% off)
Warhammer Diskwars Core is $22.95 (43% off)

and the phenomenal deal of the day:
Warhammer Diskwars Core for the low, low price of $563 + $10 shipping (1400% markup!)

berzerkmonkey fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Jan 11, 2017

# ¿ Jan 11, 2017 16:38

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

Kaza42 posted:

In Warmaster, should I take the rulebook rules or the army book rules? For instance, the Empire Hellblaster Volley Gun has different rules in the main Living Rulebook (6-3-1 firing, a different misfire table) than in the Army List section (8-4-2, different misfire table).

On a different note, is the Hail of Stones spell from the High Elves just awful? 6+ to cast and causes 1d3 attacks, so probably 1 hit per enemy unit and doesn't drive back

Use the Warmaster Armies book or the Army Selector lists. They are the updated versions.

As for magic, yeah, WM is not a game of Wizards or special characters. Very few spells really do much of anything worthwhile.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2017 19:25

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

Whew.

After years of contemplating on whether or not I wanted to rebase the Marines, I finally broke down and removed the Space Hulk models from the sprues. I really think GW dropped the ball regarding the Terminator basing, but I think I'll just deal with the lack of detail and leave them as-is.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2017 19:36

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

JcDent posted:

40K stuff

Hey now, this is the SG thread. We don't need any cross-pollination here...

Shadin posted:

I like that foam core, did you make it or is it sold somewhere?

As SRM stated, it's the Battlefoam SH set. There is another layer for the boards that is available (though you can purchase the layers separately), but I haven't punched them out yet. It's a good solution for minis that are only ever going to be used with this game. It keeps everything self contained, while still protecting the models.

I had my first game of Blood Bowl in about a century this weekend - hot Orc on Orc action. It didn't start off well, as I wound up burning three rerolls quickly, and my opponent scored twice on me, one time due to me causing an immediate turnover right after a kickoff. He just picked up the ball and got a touchdown.

The second half went better for me though - I killed two opposing players and scored twice, ending the game in a tie. This was an exhibition game, so there were no lasting effects to the players.

Also, I declared myself commissioner for our group and figure we'll do an annual tourney with no league requirements, as it's too hard to get our group together for anything regular. Now I just need to do some research on one-off BB tourneys...

# ¿ Jan 16, 2017 19:23

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

Umm, just play now? The rules are available online, and there are plenty of product lines out there you can use for gangers. You don't need the OOP tower terrain to play the game.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2017 14:55

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

glitchkrieg posted:

Somebody in my club's FB group said they looked forward to "Age of Necromunda".

That can gently caress off and all.

You've mentioned this before, but I don't see how it'd work without the DZ scenery/mat without slowing everything down.

Plus the lack of progression. Who plays one-off Necromunda except for intro games?

You use the NM rules with the DZ stuff.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2017 15:36

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

glitchkrieg posted:

Yaktribe already has a great roster builder for that.

Seconding this.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2017 17:34

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

Kaza42 posted:

Siege

If you don't get an answer here, you may want to try the Specialist Games forum. Those guys can probably answer any WM question you might have.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2017 18:11

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

ineptmule posted:

Of course Necro is random in its progression but if it wasn't everyone would only ever select Ballistic Skill and shooting abilities. (I'm aware that this points to another inherent imbalance in the game.)

One thing people tend to forge is that if your H2H guy all of a sudden becomes a Sniper, just trade weapons with someone else in the gang and change roles.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2017 21:36

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

Slimnoid posted:

It's still kind of naff

I agree, but you gotta do what you gotta do.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2017 21:54

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

I just finished clipping all of my BB Skaven from the sprue, and didn't have a problem with a single tail breaking. I saw some complaints regarding the tails snapping when people were taking the models off the sprue, but apparently, they were using butter knives to do the job. Using my clippers, I was able to pop them right of with no problem.

Of course, transporting will be a different story, as those tails are spindly as all hell, especially the thrower. I fully imagine that, at some point, I will have a transport tray full of tiny tail ends.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2017 19:35

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

Duncan has tips on a Orc Pitch themed base for BB. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN0fhFcIyBo

EDIT: Never mind - the Chaos player is a conversion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAG7G910q6Y

berzerkmonkey fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Jan 19, 2017

# ¿ Jan 19, 2017 20:02

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

This year's Horus Heresy Weekender is going to have an Adeptus Titanicus game using 40K scale titans.

And can someone have the old SG thread locked?

# ¿ Jan 24, 2017 17:37

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

SRM posted:

Sewers are more grounded

More undergrounded, perhaps? :rimshot:

# ¿ Jan 24, 2017 20:43

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

I stayed up way too late watching Fury Road last night and had multiple Ork-gasms. I really need to finish up my Gorkamorka vehicles.

In BB news, the Mighty Zug is available for preorder (18 GBP/$22.50):

I kind of like this model - it has the character the normal Human sculpts are lacking.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2017 14:42

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

Zark the Damned posted:

While it looks pretty good, god drat that pricing is absurd. �18 can almost get you a full team of regular players.

FW need to stop buying into their own hype, resin is not the 'premium' material is was once seen as and certainly isn't worth paying a large markup for the inevitable issues of having to get replacement parts or bending bits back into the right shape due to FW's lousy QC.

It's probably less the material and more the labor involved. Resin takes time to pour, cure, and dry, much more so than metal or plastics.

But yeah, they are still overpriced.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2017 19:20

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

Leperflesh posted:

One more thing to note: "finecast" was an innovation to permit GW to use molds made for pewter models, to produce resin models. That allowed them to use a cheaper material than the tin-based pewter without having to recreate their molds.

I thought the same thing until I saw some Finecast still on the sprue (Settra, to be precise). Having done my own metal centrifugal casting, there is no way they could have recut a metal mold to add the sprue sections they needed in that layout. I'm not sure what GW did, but they sure did not repurpose the old metal molds,

As an aside, the rubber you'd use for a resin casting is very different than that which you'd use for metal. A metal mold is a hard, vulcanized rubber, similar to what you'd find with an automobile tire. Resin molds, on the other hand, are much softer, and have a lot more give when removing a fragile resin model.

JcDent posted:

Chinese are doing good plastics? Of what? Because every chinese ham poo poo I ever ordered feels like resin and smells like cancer.

At least one of them is doing Rhinos and Knights in plastic, but they aren't 1:1 copies. Also, like the new GW bases, the detail isn't as sharp as it should be. I'm sure they will improve the process though.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2017 21:23

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

You can spend $15 shipped and get 6 additional Orc players from Ebay. You'll be set at that point, minus the Troll.

# ¿ Jan 31, 2017 15:10

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

This is actually what Blanche and those other guys are using: Pilgrym. It is apparently based more on NM, but points values are kind of fluid, and story and look are more important than anything else. It's really got nothing to do with Inquisitor, other than using Inquisitorial-like warbands.

# ¿ Feb 2, 2017 13:53

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

SRM posted:

Oh, I didn't know that was the rules they were using. That's really cool! I know Inquisitor was his baby though, so it's good to see he's still bearing that torch.

Yeah, GW never really said what they were using for the system, so I decided to look up "Pilgrym's Progress" the other day and found the "rules" at the bottom of the rabbit hole. It sounds really cool, but you'd need a dedicated GM for something like that.

# ¿ Feb 2, 2017 17:58

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

JcDent posted:

Mayhaps you have a collected PDF? I don't want to be reading document after document.
It's not that important, I'm not gonna get the chance to play it anyways.

It's on the downloads page.

Unrelated, I just started a secret project involving mohawks and sweaty muscle men.

berzerkmonkey fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Feb 3, 2017

# ¿ Feb 2, 2017 21:02

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

JcDent posted:

I meant the MK2 rules as a single pdf. As far as I understand, only MK1 comes as a collected PDF.

There aren't any mk2 rules - those are wip playtest rules, and as such, haven't been collected into one doc yet.

# ¿ Feb 3, 2017 12:05

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

GW's whole "leaping/floating models are cool!" thing is really offputting. I don't think I've seen one yet that I like the look of.

# ¿ Feb 3, 2017 16:55

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

Shadin posted:

I'm usually with you, though I did like those Exalted Sorcerers they made for the new Thousand Sons lineup in 40k.

The guy on the disc is ok, but the "stick up my butt" guy is posed weird.

Ashcans posted:

There are a handful that are decent; I like the Swooping Hawk models, for example, because they do look like they're skimming the ground or just lifting off,

Yeah, they're fine, but they are touching the ground. I think the problem is that GW tends to pose their floating/jumping models in a weird, splayed leg position that just looks like they took a standard CAD pose and stuck a rod through the bottom to support it. I think the new Avatar model looks pretty good in the pose because they used the leg to actually look like it's the supporting structure of the figure (though I think it's really that swirly thing.)

# ¿ Feb 3, 2017 19:21

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

Recoome posted:

Ughhhhh where's BFG??????

On Steam.

# ¿ Feb 5, 2017 18:41

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

working mom posted:

I'm so confused

Sexually?

News regarding the AT release: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/716640.page

# ¿ Feb 6, 2017 19:23

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

Shadin posted:

I haven't even heard of Adeptus Titanicus... is this like GW Does BattleTech?

Kind of? It's far less intensive though, and the titans are of a larger scale than piddling Mechs. It was essentially the precursor to Epic.

# ¿ Feb 6, 2017 21:31

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

Sharks Dont Sleep posted:

I still have my AT box set I got in '88. A little bummed they moved the scale from 6mm to 8mm so I can't as easily drop in all my old figures - but oh well, at least I can bust out some sweet sweet 30 year old styrofoam buildings.

The scale difference itself shouldn't be a major issue, though anything larger than Epic troops were incorrectly scaled. All of the titans are now going to be one class larger in size (Knights > Warhounds > Reavers > Warlords > Imperators) and while I don't think it will be a big issue regarding ranges and movement, it might come into play if there are LOS rules.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2017 16:26

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

Mordheim is on Steam for $12 right now - I think this is the cheapest it's ever been?

# ¿ Feb 8, 2017 21:23

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

fozzy fosbourne posted:

They are also adding a GM. From what I can tell based on the reported sales response to the app for Descent and the various fan made automation solutions for Imperial Assault, I think that might reduce its appeal.

Yeah, this will hurt it significantly. Co-op is where it's at.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2017 14:18

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

Shadin posted:

My only regret not having children is I never got to basically farm raise my own captive D&D group.

There's always adoption or fostering.

"Mr. Shadin, can you tell me why the foster situation didn't work out?"
"He said he wanted to play a Paladin, but would never actually role play as true Lawful-Good! Oh, and he touched my dice. You never touch another man's dice."

But, in seriousness, I'm in the same boat. I've got nobody to force my nerdy stuff upon.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2017 19:37

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

Morg N' Thorg is up for pre-order - 20 GBP / 25 USD.

I wasn't a fan of the face, but the bare resin looks fine to me, so there is something about the paint job that isn't working for me, though I'm not sure what that might be. Definitely has the old-school GW Ogre look though, which I appreciate. I do not like the current "fat Mongolian" Ogre Kingdoms line.

Oh, and 20 pieces, so I assume each armor plate and spike is a different bit.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2017 20:11

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

Hopefully the ball is a separate piece from the hand. They looks rough, like he's dribbling it or something.

If you look at the closeups, it looks like he has magnetic fingertips or something. Zug came with the hand options, so hopefully all of the star players will as well.

Speaking of star players, if anyone has access to Warhammer World, I'd really like to get the Grak & Crumbleberry duo...

berzerkmonkey fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Feb 17, 2017

# ¿ Feb 17, 2017 21:48

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

BB releases next week:
Blood Bowl Ogre: $18
Blood Bowl Team � Reikland Reavers: $35

# ¿ Feb 21, 2017 22:00

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 19:44

berzerkmonkey: Jul 23, 2003

What are the thoughts on BFG Armada on Steam? It's 50% off for the next few days, but reviews are saying it's a buggy mess that crashes often. I'm not in it for the multiplayer (which appears to be dead anyway) and only care about the single player aspects. Is it worth the $20? Or $30 with the DLC?

# ¿ Mar 1, 2017 19:13

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