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I would like to paint things in 54mm, but you do get way less stuff to work with. It mostly seems to be for vanity projects like special display figures and stuff. I don't think Inquisitor would have survived even if it was 28mm, but 54mm sure didn't help.
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Cities of Death and Zone Mortalis are some of the best ways to play hams, especially if you don't bring many/any of the "I just remove your poo poo" units. I do have to say that the new Planetary Onslaught book is shiiit and basically reduces Cityfight/Cities of Death to mission templates. God I hate that book.
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 07:43 |
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I just built the new Blood Bowl dwarf team and I've just got to say that these are probably some of the best dwarf models GW has ever made. There are some great details like the blitzer's gut hanging out of his shirt. Can't really tell behind the beard though. My one issue was that the bare-headed slayer head didn't quite fit right and needed some minor gap filling. That may have been on me, everything else was flawless.
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 09:37 |
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Ashcans posted:I would like to paint things in 54mm, but you do get way less stuff to work with. It mostly seems to be for vanity projects like special display figures and stuff. The ruleset was basically DoA unless you were determined to make it provide fun "galactic grimdark space detetive super agent" games. Really determined. Frankly Dark Heresy provides (provided?) a better alternative now anyway for that stuff, as do a few other options to lesser or greater degrees, although I've yet to see a true 1:1 replacement which actually does a good job of creating a game that is not poo poo, but captures the actual feel of being an intergalactic space cop that blows up planets every other tuesday. Plenty that come close now though, thankfully. 54mm is a nice scale to practice painting with and there are many non-GW sources (some of which are arguably better, some of which are absolutely clearly better) for stuff to build and paint (and convert, if you really want to).
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 09:48 |
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mcjomar posted:The ruleset was basically DoA unless you were determined to make it provide fun "galactic grimdark space detetive super agent" games. Really determined. TBH I would hardly say Inquisitor captured the feel of being a space cop who blows up planets as a matter of course.
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 11:20 |
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Inquisitor is about being rogue cops fighting other rogue cops.
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 11:23 |
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JcDent posted:Inquisitor is about being rogue cops fighting other rogue cops. ~a loose cannon, living on the edge~
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 11:38 |
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Specifically, it's Inquisitor-on-Inquisitor violence as they disagree on which ancient conspiracy on Emperor's fatr is correct. Someone might even be declared double heretic.
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 12:54 |
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To be fair you can also have admech dudes, genestealer cults, chaos cults, xenos cults, recidivists and revolutionaries, low level daemons, witches, mutants, arbites, the occasional space marine, titan crews, knight pilots, planetary leaders/governors, scum scoundrels rogues thieves gangers, rogue traders, starship crew, traitors, radicals, astropaths, navigators, guardsmen, navy troops, air crew, assassins, death cultists, and a shitload of other character types i haven't thought of or heard of yet. Just look at anything John Blanche does if you're lost for ideas or creativity. It's just that everyone wants to be eisenhorn or ravenor or whatever so that's pretty much all you see.
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 15:03 |
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I dunno, the fluff at the begining of the book and the title Inquisitor: Battle for the Emperor's Soul suggests an Inquisitorial bent. I have been reading Nu Ork and the sheer amount of specialties make me uneasy. Like, at least a few of them are just variations of a theme, and when you build a team from multiple races and specialties, poo poo should get out of hand.
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 15:22 |
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One of GWs many screwups in writing books. An inquisitor comes into conflict with an awful lot more than other space cops. You only need to read Abnett's work to see that in action. Or Ian Watson's inquisition war. There's a lot of sources for stories outside of just internecine conflicts. But you're totally right when you accuse GWs poor organisation and writing of sending the wrong message to the readers. A lack of clarity is one more issue with those rules. It needs an editor armed not just with shears or even a lawn mower. We're talking the use of an industrial grade combine harvester to clear out the junk.
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 16:30 |
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Safety Factor posted:I just built the new Blood Bowl dwarf team and I've just got to say that these are probably some of the best dwarf models GW has ever made. There are some great details like the blitzer's gut hanging out of his shirt. Can't really tell behind the beard though. My one issue was that the bare-headed slayer head didn't quite fit right and needed some minor gap filling. That may have been on me, everything else was flawless. My bare head slayer didn't fit as well as all the other models either - nothing really bad but it was noticeable. Do you have any idea whats going on with the runners face? One of the eyes in the helmet is covered up and the other isn't. Going by the painted team the covering is part of the helmet but it looks weird to me.
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 20:28 |
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JcDent posted:I have been reading Nu Ork and the sheer amount of specialties make me uneasy. Like, at least a few of them are just variations of a theme, and when you build a team from multiple races and specialties, poo poo should get out of hand. Yeah, this is definitely the main issue I have had with it. It helps if you keep to one or two races and don't feel compelled to give everyone different jobs. Making little Stat cards for each guy in your gang is ace.
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Safety Factor posted:I just built the new Blood Bowl dwarf team and I've just got to say that these are probably some of the best dwarf models GW has ever made. There are some great details like the blitzer's gut hanging out of his shirt. Can't really tell behind the beard though. My one issue was that the bare-headed slayer head didn't quite fit right and needed some minor gap filling. That may have been on me, everything else was flawless. +1 this. Just put them together today and while I have opinions about hoverbeard technology the slayers are using the sculpts are great and the cad design to make the parts is excellent. The bare slayer head version needs green stuffing though (can just make two helmeted versions to avoid this) but otherwise a really good box of dwarves. GW made something good
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# ? Feb 13, 2017 00:49 |
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Kore_Fero posted:GW made something good
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# ? Feb 13, 2017 00:55 |
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mcjomar posted:I thought Inq28 was literally just the core Inquisitor ruleset, but just with the ranges changed to account for the smaller scale? I guess Inquisimunda is more what I'm going for, since I'd rather play Necro with a lovely band of weirdos than go full-narrative and ditch gang values and points costs.
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# ? Feb 13, 2017 01:09 |
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I have a very important question/request: My GF is interested in learning Blood Bowl since I have been playing it a lot lately. What's the cutest range of miniatures I could base a BB team conversion on?
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# ? Feb 14, 2017 04:58 |
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El Estrago Bonito posted:I have a very important question/request:
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# ? Feb 14, 2017 05:36 |
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Black_Nexus posted:Looks like a new version of blood bowl 2 is coming out, was announced today. 8 New races. Those guys are fantastic
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# ? Feb 14, 2017 05:39 |
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Safety Factor posted:I mean, you could probably build a skaven team out of those mousling models, but they'd all die horribly what with being a skaven team and all. I considered this but the issue with swapping hands and cutting out weapons was too much effort. Also size wise they'd probably work much better as Dwarves.
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# ? Feb 14, 2017 05:39 |
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Safety Factor posted:I mean, you could probably build a skaven team out of those mousling models, but they'd all die horribly what with being a skaven team and all. Women like swarms of things, right?
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# ? Feb 14, 2017 06:35 |
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If you're looking for adorable, how about this line of various anthro-adventurers? http://www.darkswordminiatures.com/shop/index.php/miniatures/visions-in-fantasy-critters.html I have a couple lying around unpainted, they're the best.
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# ? Feb 14, 2017 06:40 |
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Atlas Hugged posted:Women like swarms of things, right? Blood Bowl has a max of 16 models and only 11 can be on the field at once. That's hardly a swarm.
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# ? Feb 14, 2017 06:50 |
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Safety Factor posted:What are you trying to say here? It's a Futurama quote. I just thought it was a good fit, meant nothing by it.
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# ? Feb 14, 2017 06:55 |
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Atlas Hugged posted:It's a Futurama quote. I just thought it was a good fit, meant nothing by it.
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# ? Feb 14, 2017 07:09 |
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Safety Factor posted:I had to look it up. Sorry. Not everyone can base their identity on TV quotes.
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# ? Feb 14, 2017 08:15 |
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I'd give an another vote for mouselings, they're super cute, oh my God. DnD 5e should have given me the option of being a cute anthropomorfic mouse instead of dragonborn or whatever.
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# ? Feb 14, 2017 08:24 |
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Eh, apparently she wants to play Wood Elves so zzzzz.
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# ? Feb 14, 2017 09:47 |
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Eh, apparently she wants to play Wood Elves so zzzzz. At least she has made a choice that she will be able to win with! War Dancers
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# ? Feb 14, 2017 10:11 |
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Lord_Hambrose posted:At least she has made a choice that she will be able to win with! I of course play Dark Elves stabstabstabstab
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# ? Feb 14, 2017 10:43 |
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Eh, apparently she wants to play Wood Elves so zzzzz. I used these for pro/wood elves Shadowforge miniatures Be aware that 95% of their stuff is awful and looks like blowup doll hookers (In fact they have a line of Blow-Up Doll Zombies). The helmets are what make these passable. You have been warned. Though if she has a really robust sense of humor she may find the [Playboy] Bunny team a funny option.
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# ? Feb 14, 2017 15:04 |
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Cross post!The Sex Cannon posted:I finished my first 6 Orc Blood Bowl Players! 6 down, 10 to go!
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# ? Feb 15, 2017 17:18 |
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Those are gorgeous. I love the yellow theme on orks.
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# ? Feb 15, 2017 17:25 |
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Been digging through Epic/Space Marine/etc at work, trying to get it all identified. Does anyone know what this is?
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# ? Feb 15, 2017 20:13 |
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Acolyte! posted:Been digging through Epic/Space Marine/etc at work, trying to get it all identified. Does anyone know what this is? It's an Ordinatus:
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# ? Feb 15, 2017 20:16 |
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Worth ~$40 on eBay. Nice find.
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# ? Feb 15, 2017 20:29 |
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What he meant to say was it's worth jack poo poo, but I'll give you $5 for it (nice find, jammy sod)
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# ? Feb 15, 2017 20:34 |
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Thanks for the quick response! Going through the Epic has been tough because there's so much of it and aside from the box bottoms/sides and a partial wiki it can be difficult to figure out what everything is since they're so small and often don't look like the contemporary 40k units (I also don't play 40k, so that's a stumbling block too).
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The Sex Cannon posted:Cross post! that bright yellow and the checker pattern is just mwah. bellissimo!
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