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Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

JerryLee posted:

I wonder if, when they go to remake the specialist games, they'll rename everything to hilarious word salad in the belief that it acts as a talisman against anyone trying to sell generic sci-fi punk or "fantasy football" miniatures.

Realizing this is going to happen is just the best darn thing

# ¿ Nov 13, 2015 15:40

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 12:41

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

Terrible Opinions posted:

Which Cryx blister is that?

The all in one. Looks like this: http://privateerpress.com/warmachine/gallery/starter-products/all-in-one-army-boxes/warmachine-all-in-one-army-box-cryx

# ¿ Nov 13, 2015 21:11

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

Is there actually some magic ingredient to GW washes or is it just that people who are willing to painstaking file, pin, glue and paint models of irritating levels of details can't grok pouring ink plus thinning into dropper bottles? it just seems like the dumbest thing to get stuck on. I'm a poo poo tier painter and most of the stuff posted in the miniatures thread is way better than me, but making washes was about as hard as making a pizza pocket.

or is it just that weird sperg thing about matching colors

# ¿ Nov 15, 2015 04:27

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

I think that's one of the most confident KSes you could back. Returns was decent (although maybe more a decent tutorial), and then the next two releases were even better. I think they hit all their deadlines, too? Not sure. BattleTech has generally adapted well to computer games as well.

I didn't back because my heart only beats for the clans.

# ¿ Nov 16, 2015 03:25

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

Chill la Chill posted:

The dumb clan stories, what little I know of them, are worse than the Karen Traviss honor-bound Mandalorian fanfic crap in the Star Wars EU. Only thing is that the Madcat just looks so cool.

The clans are cool as invaders and kinda cool around the time Comstar beats them by exploiting their hubris and the social mechanisms the Clans use to keep from going into open warfare. Everything after the Wolf breaks off or whatever is horrible bad. I imagine people liked the story beat with Comstar so they just keep replicating it while they probably had an edition war or something.

The IS is a bunch of like ww2 era caricatures coupled with the goofy stagnation of 40k so it's kinda eh? and then later defeats the clans via the harnessed power of elite mary sues or something so that's horrible bad too. Then something about wizkids and dark ages of infantry blobs?

But yes i mostly just like the Timberwolf, Mad Dog and other stuff that looked cool in CCG art or in Mechwarrior 2.

edit: an iconic IS design

Spiderdrake fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Nov 16, 2015

# ¿ Nov 16, 2015 04:34

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

Pierzak posted:

Speaking of space marines:

what is this

# ¿ Nov 17, 2015 02:34

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

Moola posted:

you guys were talking about BFG a few pages back

reminds me of that time I threw two entire BFG fleets in the rubbish bin

did you throw them on top of each other so they could battle each other in the landfill for all time

that would be the most 40k thing

# ¿ Nov 17, 2015 06:23

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

I just realized space marines aren't boy power fantasies. They're loving grandpa fantasies.

Old men who no longer need women in their life obsessed with how good things were back in the day and refusing to change

boom boom boom posted:

They aren't gonna do that any time soon either. And you end up with the exact same thing as Warpath, where there's almost no female miniatures in the game because "it could be anything under the armor so it's fine hurr"

So what exactly should they do

is it heels and power armor titties, maybe a lil bit of the ol' zettai ryouiki

Agreed on Grey Knights anyway. They're loving creepy.

# ¿ Nov 19, 2015 16:58

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

JerryLee posted:

I assume it's more of a question of what happens when you've got the less fully armored models. Like, the fact that Enforcers can hypothetically be women inside the armor isn't an excuse for the units in different armies with less armor, bare faces or heads, etc. to not have an equal representation of feminine sculpts.

Warpath seems like a pretty specific example to throw that out on, given there aren't many new sculpts known and there was a big backlash in the backer comments when they confirmed you'd have feminine heads on the GCPS trooper sprues.

# ¿ Nov 19, 2015 18:24

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

Bistromatic posted:

People got upset about the option to have women in their armies? Do you have any samples or links? I want to drink their tears.

No.

They got upset about the fact a female head on the sprue meant they weren't doing "real" female sculpts for GCPS, you know, big ol' titties and heels and big butts or whatever the gently caress.

It's in the backer comments if you want to look for it, but it was basically just whining in that regard and probably on other stupid forums given the backer comments are mostly tip of the iceberg.

# ¿ Nov 19, 2015 18:35

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

You'd think Chaos Space Marines would be liked, though. People like them in 30k and I can get behind the idea of "gone too far" crazy republican space grandpa.

Maybe GW needs to re-focus on making CSM more marine, less goopy chaos turds.

# ¿ Nov 19, 2015 19:00

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

Pierzak posted:

I loved the guy arguing that Victoria's guardswomen were not defined enough, they need more pronounced boobs and hips and their figure isn't feminine, seriously watch some movies if you want to see how females look. He told all that to a female sculptor

That guy was awesome, but the best part of that was him implying she should look at magazines for references.

Just, goddamn it space grandpa, no one under thirty knows what you're talking about!

# ¿ Nov 19, 2015 22:04

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

The image you present, this tiny one man story with the "manager" hunched behind a desk with a little tiny playing table in front of him and then a GW branded 3D printer that probably spews smoke in his face and sounds like gnomes loving behind him that poops out the figures instead of having to bother making boxes or shipping anything? Yeah, that is absolutely their wet dream.

Well except maybe in their dream they teach a monkey or dog to work the store. And the monkey has a top hat.

# ¿ Nov 21, 2015 02:06

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

I keep picturing this poor monkey, with his little Games Workshop vest and his golden (spray) top hat with a little machine spirit button on it. They trained him to pull the switch by fooling him with a machine that plopped out a banana whenever someone ran their credit card through the little pad, and he still drools every time even though a banana never comes out of the printer. "Stupid monkey," thinks the ham as the monkey wipes away a tear. And then the ham begins drooling as his little space marine pops out of the machine. "Come to papa, Brother-chancellor maximo adepticus Atpekarius!"

JerryLee posted:

Actually, one of the benefits of employing a monkey or dog is that they will have no compunctions about urinating and defecating in front of customers. The smell is a potential issue, but at that point GW will have winnowed its customer base down to those for whom that isn't a deal-breaker either.

Oh so now I'm picturing the monkey has a little Games Workshop diaper for when he's forging his own personal narrative

# ¿ Nov 21, 2015 03:04

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

Jonny Nox posted:

People who don't like Vallejo paints need to switch to their Model Air line and never look back again. Vallejo Game Color is not actually much better than Citadel.

What's the difference?

I just have some random Vallejo from all of their lines and some random reaper, so I'm not an expert.

# ¿ Nov 22, 2015 22:01

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

That's very useful to know, if it makes for a less lovely experience with yellow.

The only VGC I've had trouble with is my parasite brown, which likes to clump at the top and then poo poo out all over the palette.

# ¿ Nov 22, 2015 23:28

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

I like how the three heads gets buried in the too busy outline. It took me a bit to even see the third one.

I wonder how it compares size-wise to the PP Colossus models, which are sort of vaguely in the same price point.

# ¿ Nov 23, 2015 22:30

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

Leperflesh posted:

You're entitled to your opinion of course, but to everyone else in the thread, it sure seems either bizarre or at best uninformed.

People can be trolling or simply have drank the kool-aid. You probably know more about the power of branding than I do.

Pot lid to palette is a transfer using the brush, isn't it? That's a great way to destroy brushes. Sneaky, that.

# ¿ Nov 23, 2015 23:48

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

I am tempted to post Transformers customs, because those chaps drybrush so hard their skin flakes off.

SynthOrange posted:

What are you talking about, drybrushing is a perfectly fine technique for all sorts of surfaces.

Is that actually drybrushing

I started painting some models last week and found they looked like that from bad priming, maybe here or there

# ¿ Nov 25, 2015 02:52

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

Doctor Borris posted:

One sad thing is even the new Sigmarines are totally unbalanced. According to GW A Lord Celestant Primus is the same model value as a sigmarine, who is the same value as an elite heavy boltercaster Sigmarine. There is no balance even in the basic factions the game came with.

I disagree, they are all equally gloriously worthless.

# ¿ Nov 27, 2015 04:23

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

Much like everything else they run with, it isn't something the GW community came up with. 'poo poo casual spews excuses' has been common in gaming for 20~ years of my experiences with gamers. But like all turds, it is something they grasped and squeeze to their chest like a mythical orb of wonder.

# ¿ Nov 28, 2015 01:00

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

Meanwhile Mantic seems aimed to fulfill a kickstarter by switching materials on several minis to board game plastic!

wait, what

# ¿ Nov 28, 2015 05:15

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

Soulfucker posted:

It's almost as if nerds are garbage human beings regardless of circumstances???

Yeah I'm sure mainstream male dominated hobbies are just slapping their balls together as they welcome all colors and creed from across the land.

# ¿ Nov 28, 2015 20:09

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

Moola loves anime, he isn't quiet about that

Drone posted:

Wait, which KS are they doing this with? I backed Warpath and there hasn't been an update on that one since like the day after the project ended, which is sadly disappointing.

Apparently they're moving some of the metal/resin stuff in DZ:I into "dust tactics plastic" whatever that means. They haven't said much.

The total lack of communication is approaching GW levels.

# ¿ Nov 28, 2015 22:46

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

JerryLee posted:

Am I reading posts from a parallel universe in which a given mini being plastic instead of metal or resin is a bad thing?

"Plastic" is such a shamefully vague term. Resin too. I've read posts from people claiming resin is the "best" material and others claiming it is the worst.

I'd rather have HIPS than bendy board game plastic, but I've read lots of back and forth over what 'bendy board game plastic' means in the context of "dust tactics produced"

Supposedly dust made the dungeon saga stuff so if you own that let us know (I'd rather have something a little softer for bigger stuff whatever happens though, the paint chipping on PP restic on heavy warbeasts is like AAAAA)

LordAba posted:

13 is the best since 6.

8 owns

# ¿ Nov 28, 2015 23:37

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

They changed talking to like, their best Squall impression, and that's bad.

# ¿ Nov 29, 2015 03:54

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

Bad Moon posted:

Disgraceful nobody mentioned any of the Infinity Engine Bioware dnd games.

Much like Final Fantasy those are overrated anyway blah blah let me edge u bb

I kinda want to pick up some modern jrpgs on steam but the current sale is fucktarded so not sure what to do. Thanks batman.

# ¿ Nov 29, 2015 22:46

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

I don't have my glasses on. Does the guy on the left have a topknot on his horse or his hand?

just kidding even with my glasses on I can't gently caress tell what is going on

# ¿ Nov 30, 2015 19:34

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

To be honest, that's the truth.

Is "Wrath of Kings" plastic good? Mantic has updated claiming they're shifting to that from metal and resin, as well as confessing they're having tons of problem with resin for their dungeon saga KS.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2015 20:45

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

LordAba posted:

Wrath of Kings plastic is the best plastic that isn't actual plastic.

You mean isn't like, HIPS? Because it's all plastic.

But I am really glad to hear that. I keep forgetting this poo poo is getting shipped from the UK, so stuff going to a softer, lighter plastic is probably a net benefit.

Even though I do like metal. Even as my paint job flakes off and my furniture collapses under the weight.

I'm gonna go buy some spikey PP metal stuff. Can't wait to watch primer flake off a Teraph.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2015 23:48

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

Moola posted:

I've got something hard you can measure

Is it dried up GW paint you bought in a moment of weakness

# ¿ Dec 1, 2015 00:59

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

Otisburg posted:

Final Fantasy II (american 2, whatever they called it in the glorious land of nippon for you weeaboos) on SNES was the best one because it's the only one I ever played when I was like 13 and it had a good soundtrack and great mode 7 graphics and I could still be excited about a game that was "do a menu combat, then press x a bunch of times to scroll through dialogue-heavy melodrama"

That game was a huge letdown replaying it when I got a DS.

"My memories of the plot are kinda vague, but I bet it's good!"

Turns out my memories weren't that vague.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2015 03:50

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

LordAba posted:

I want a cat, but can't have one in the apartment. So I just have friends who have cats. I will go over to their house to play with the cat. "Let's play some games" I will say to them over the phone. Little do they know...

gif of a tiny paw crushing a sigmarine's head over and over goes here

I want cats too, but between the allergies and the fact I grew up with two outdoor cats we got incredibly lucky with I doubt I'm cut out for it.

# ¿ Dec 3, 2015 00:25

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

wdarkk posted:

Ugh, hobby shop I went to has only GW primer. NOPE.

Guess I'll have to call in advance next time to see if they have Army Painter or something.

Just go to the hardware store?

Most of the primers are just re-branded hardware primer supposedly

# ¿ Dec 4, 2015 21:07

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

Rulebook Heavily posted:

I wonder if Mantic is happy they managed to hit on a poo poo-formulaic GW CopyRightName style for one of their factions now.

Which one, what, what's going on

I assume Mantic is happy nonstop as they throw boxes around the office and fail to answer emails or update the loving warpath kickstarter though yes

# ¿ Dec 5, 2015 21:48

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

I hate that name too since it sounds like the viking words through the filter of a dick in your mouth the one wow expansion did

but that's a subjective experience

nopantsjack posted:

Aren't the slaanesh guys called something super lovely and lazy like the Pleasurebound?

real talk what hasn't gotten a lovely and lazy name?

# ¿ Dec 5, 2015 23:03

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

El Estrago Bonito posted:

I love odd and dead CCGs.

I really wish I could get high resolution images of the art assets for the 95~ Lord of the Rings game, which was fantastic and I'm a little sad I'll never get to play it again, especially its wacky expansions. The fact it was competitive without going head to head like Legolas vs Gimli style was awesome.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2015 12:10

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

Jonny Nox posted:

The Battletech CCG from Wizards was actually pretty awesome though. I still use the flavour text If brute force isn't working you're not using enough of it in day to day life.

That's from Saturation bombing. Lovely simple art. And yeah that game owned, it's weird how later systems brainfart on the resource system (mana is random so hurrr) when the battletech system worked really well.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2015 21:44

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

Ilor posted:

I had a friend whose maxim was, "If you can't play to win, play to annoy."

On a related note, I detest Settlers of Catan with the fire of a thousand flaming suns. My wife loves the game, but she and her friends play a pretty hosed-up version where they ignore a bunch of rules.

Settlers of EDH, ugh

# ¿ Dec 8, 2015 00:13

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 12:41

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

moths posted:

It would be hilarious if AoS actually became a good game after installing the $70USD scenarios nobody will ever buy.

It would be so sad if the one remaining good GW employee, the one talented designer, is banging out these awesome scenarios and he has no idea why everyone keeps slagging on his work. He'd never know and we'll never know.

# ¿ Dec 8, 2015 14:14

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