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i recently got back into warhammer 40k last year against my better judgement but its been a fun experience. the general system is unwieldy af but i got super into the arts and crafts side over this past year. it all started when my friend handed me a 3d printer and i went ham making GBS threads out terrain. i havent tried to print actual minis on my ender3 but this poo poo slaps for bigger stuff  my friend has a better one and does tons of minis with it but im pretty pleased with everything my entry level one has done. but like i said i got hard into the artsy side of this despite having no visual art experience and its been wild. youtube is an outstanding resource for painting tutorials and after like 50 hours of videos i ended up painting up a tau army in fun mardi gras colors because i dont give a gently caress about canon and it was super cool to learn about the physics and mechanics of painting this poo poo.  some of this poo poo slaps, some of it looks awful but its cool to see the progression of even a year into this. i got into battletech recently as well and its been cool being old and having access to resources and money vs when i played these games at 15. like as a kid it was just so much harder at every step vs this go around and ive been surprised at how much fun i was having with so much less effort. i have been obsessed with learning how to paint metallics and last month i painted up my battletech dudes in some lovely jewel tones to practice for making my giant tau mechs glittery and majestic af.  i gotta detail these lil guys but im pleased as punch with how much sparkle these guys have in good lighting idk i think 3d printers radically change the accessibility of this kind of stuff and its really fuckin cool to see all these roadblocks i had as a kid removed. 40k models are still expensive af but every other step of this process has been made so much easier, especially with 10th ed 40k hitting soon. anyways i figured yospos statistically had to have a bunch of tabletop nerds and the tg forum is loving awful and i like all the threads i read here so why not add some white noise? idk i do d&d and like talking about world of darkness poo poo too and im not the posting cops so just come hang out namaste and god bless
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you know, i think i might still have my old battletech boxed set with all the unseen mechs in it
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Jun 17, 2023 22:56
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I was tyranids but I never had enough units to play properly and they said I couldn’t make a paper cutout of a carnifex in order to play and then I realised the whole thing is a scam
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Jun 17, 2023 22:58
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yeah i do still have it, actually:    p neat huh? i think that rubber band on the marauder is all that's holding it together; i'm not sure tho as it's been literal decades since i even thought about these
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Jun 17, 2023 23:07
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Foo Diddley posted:yeah i do still have it, actually: this is rad af
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Jun 17, 2023 23:17
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oh holy poo poo, i was looking it up and they're all unseen mechs. every one of 'em. wow i thought, the locust and the marauder for sure, but which others? had no idea
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Jun 17, 2023 23:26
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40k 10th edition just dropped and the rules are available for free here mostly it seems like things are getting simplified by moving a ton of stratagems and army rules to individual units and models. makes it way easier to handle if you have a unit card with everything on it. the psychic phase is gone and psychic bullshit has been moved into either weapons or abilities. They also massively changed how characters/elites work with units of other models. Instead of the elites just being separate they are now leaders that attach to a unit and make one combined unit that gets effects from the leader. looks pretty good so far imo
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Jun 17, 2023 23:32
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i played a 2k 9th game last night with my tau babies vs my friends blood angels. i lost but it was pretty fun except for how much of a slog 2k games are melee tau went about as well as you’d think  also i got owned by deep strike  my friend is an art teacher so he kinda has my rear end beat on painting but its cool to see my army get colored in a little more every time we play 
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Jun 17, 2023 23:53
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Jumping in to 5 though i don't do tabletops, i'm not cool or smart enough or have enough friends to play them. will read with interest tho
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Jonny 290 posted:Jumping in to 5 though i don't do tabletops, i'm not cool or smart enough or have enough friends to play them. will read with interest tho
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Jun 18, 2023 00:14
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i dont actually own an army, but i have a buddy who has all the armies and loves playing so he let me use his admech in a crusade and its a blast.
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Jun 18, 2023 00:23
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just going through my box of old tabletop games now   y'all should come over and play some car wars
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Not sure if I want to go all in on a whole army, but I've been wanting to collect some minis and give the painting a shot, seems like a pretty chill downtime activity.
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painting is chill af. legit all you need is a wet palate (parchment paper over a wet paper towel on a plastic takeout lid) some brushes, and a couple paint colors. games workshop sells paint at like $3-8 a pot but nerds recommend army painter brand tbis is idk 30 bucks and a good start. the only other thing you need is primer so this paint sticks. im like 99% sure home depot primer is fine but i use hobby ones. all my metallics in the op are because i used a light silver primer and tinted it down with drops of jewel tone colors. but yeah a light coat of primer and youre off to the races https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4JAFJglhWU and then its just a matter of picking a goal and smoking some w̨͌ͯ̈́̅͢͏͇̬̺̤͚̜ ̳͈͓̼̼͊̿͑̍̄̋̑ę̷̶̞͚̙̻̹̺̙̠̲̐̋͗͌̀̎ͤ̚ ̖̪̹͕̳̺̪̖͕̋̃͑ͨ̊̓̏͡ȩ̵̛̘͈͕͈̭̄ͮͥ͋͑ ͚̰̘͆̾́ͭ̓̃ͨ̆̈́̀d̓̿̾ͩ͏̧͖̭̳͇̞̗̘. bingo bango chillest night ever. ive even thrown paint parties where i have all my friends paint terrain and gently caress around. idk the art side of this is fun as hell
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Foo Diddley posted:yeah i do still have it, actually: hell yeah that rules
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space crusade
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Foo Diddley posted:just going through my box of old tabletop games now my greatest car wars feat was hitting a curve way to fast on my first turn and spending the next 8 turns of the game rolling off the map
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i would not mind painting some of my favorite models again like stumpy 2nd edition space marines, gorka morka orks, 3rd edition khorne berserkers, this fantastic model (on the right): 
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a model kit and few vallejo paints probably would not cost more than 50 euro... if i brought some tools from my parents when i visit them next. files etc.
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42,50e for a box of ork boyz when they were 30e i last looked is little rough
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:my greatest car wars feat was hitting a curve way to fast on my first turn and spending the next 8 turns of the game rolling off the map this rules
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:my greatest car wars feat was hitting a curve way to fast on my first turn and spending the next 8 turns of the game rolling off the map under the old 10-phases-per-turn rules, resolving this could take upward of an hour of real time
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Foo Diddley posted:under the old 10-phases-per-turn rules, resolving this could take upward of an hour of real time i remember one game it took 5 of us 2-3 hours to play 8 seconds of game time, by which point 2 of us were rolling and 1 was on fire car wars was the poo poo tho
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those are cool colors, and i love the beads on the tank Casual Encountess posted:
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so a new version drop is this week and theve slowly put out all the necessary parts but this is one of the lovely but i think honestly inescapable parts about tabletop wargaming. theyre streamlining a ton of parts of the game, but theres a bunch of awkward poo poo because of so many complex system interactions. the nerds are chugging away at the math already which is great but like any balance patch, nerds on the internet are mad about it. they made army composition not loving awful 9th  10th  and they changed how many points every unit costs so that all the optional stuff is free instead of point costed so if you wanted the giant gun you had to add on 20 points to the cost of that dude. so it takes a lot of stress off building armies for typical games using 1000 or 2000 points. and nerds Hate It
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i havent played a ton of 40k but my vague feeling is that there will be far more rules lawyering around unit and weapon keywords than anything else.
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matti posted:i would not mind painting some of my favorite models again I want to be a guy who paints these lil fellas but doesn’t play the games
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i'll be the guy that doesn't play or paint them but looks at them and goes "huh that must have taken a lot of time and patience"
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polyester concept posted:i'll be the guy that doesn't play or paint them but looks at them and goes "huh that must have taken a lot of time and patience" yeah same
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polyester concept posted:i'll be the guy that doesn't play or paint them but looks at them and goes "huh that must have taken a lot of time and patience" epic same
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I enjoyed reading the rule books what does that mean
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yeah i hope its ok im just blasting poo poo out i think this stuff would be interesting to yall abstracted out so you dont have to interact with the gross nerd layer of things. but for those of you reading along at home this is the document all the nerds are stressing about. its the brand new core rules for 10th which is releasing with the box set this saturday. https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/dLZIlatQJ3qOkGP7.pdf or specifically this one https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/oF1iWIkNsvlUHByM.pdf but that one is boring and out of context. one of the cool things for new players is a more standardized “combat patrol” mode. it existed before with retail boxes but it wasnt particularly balanced so some factions combat patrols were insane while others sucked. from what theyve revealed, for this go around combat patrol games are like an hour and a half tops and are simplified and very beer league. sucks that its $160 for the box still but its something my friends could go out and buy today and play today and it seems like theyre actually making an effort at getting new players onboarded in a structured way instead of “good luck lol”
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Casual Encountess posted:the tg forum is loving awful it's truly incredible how an entire subforum can be completely devoid of humor
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anyway, im the war corespondent (community organizer) for infinity in my area. we recently finished up our big annual tournament. 54 players from all over the us and almost $2,000 raised for a local food bank
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whoa whats goin on with that game?
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200 years in the future, we've largely got things figured out but we all still snipe at each other plus there's some aliens who're gonna kill us. 15ish models per side, each one produces an activation that can be used on anyone else (with some exceptions). any enemy model that sees one of your models do something gets to react to it, be it shooting or dodging or hacking. d20 based, price is right rules. most people get into it because of the models or the wild tables it's played on. it's the biggest it's ever been and on the fourth edition but still fairly boutique
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that sounds cool as gently caress. idk with my jump into 3d printing im excited to hear about new systems and games and im hoping this space goes nuts with lots of fun and weird poo poo
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like you get extra points off the bat because i have an option to play as space muslims. i would try that game off that alone lmao.quote:
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this isn’t the freshest news but one of my favorite books is being turned into a ttrpg: https://www.yoonhalee.com/?p=1202 its a sci-fantasy setting with space magic called “calendrical warfare” - get enough people to follow your special calendar and you can travel faster than light, call down weather storms, erect powerful shields etc. but if you’re somewhere with a different calendar, your space magic might act weird or not at all! the galaxy is ruled by six major factions (formerly seven) that are ostensibly part of a single government, but in practice politics are wrought with intrigue and suspicion. will you reject the system and fight it? try to change it from within? or will you just become another cog in the wheel… that’s my pitch idk it’s gonna be  for the ebook
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