completely unmetal things that you enjoy

Evil? said:
Vampire Counts FTW :kickass:


(I am hoping we are talking about the same game....)
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Yes, I play Warhammer Fantasy Battles and have since fifth eddition. I mostly play High Elves, but I also play Lizardmen and (used to, like four years ago) play Orcs. I have rather sizeable armies and can field many other armies I dont play... I guess you can say I have accumulated a lot of it.

I used to play Guard and Eldar, but neither since around Eye of terror in 3rd eddition, I dont like 40k much.

I also have played every one of the fanatic games at one point or another, Inquisitor is my favourite but very hard to get people involved in, set up terrain etc. but other then that Battlefleet Gothic and Necromunda more then the others.
 
Ender Rises said:
One of my life's goals is to find a secluded-ish surfing beach and buy a house on it, and learn to surf. All year, I would never work, just surf and do other shit like playing guitar. I would live there for a year or so.
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It's a good plan. I have a few mates who recently moved to a country town in the south-west corner of Australia. There's a stretch of coastline where there's always a wave, and aside from a few tourist towns, it's fairly sparsely populated. They work in the wineries down there and go surfing every day before and after work.
 
Sabin Frost said:
Yes, I play Warhammer Fantasy Battles and have since fifth eddition. I mostly play High Elves, but I also play Lizardmen and (used to, like four years ago) play Orcs. I have rather sizeable armies and can field many other armies I dont play... I guess you can say I have accumulated a lot of it.

I used to play Guard and Eldar, but neither since around Eye of terror in 3rd eddition, I dont like 40k much.

I also have played every one of the fanatic games at one point or another, Inquisitor is my favourite but very hard to get people involved in, set up terrain etc. but other then that Battlefleet Gothic and Necromunda more then the others.
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Never fuckin heard of anything in this post, but that sounds very interesting. Can you explain what these games are like?
 
Ender Rises said:
Never fuckin heard of anything in this post, but that sounds very interesting. Can you explain what these games are like?
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Plastic and metal to scale miniatures organised into units, you assemble and model them and the terrain and complete competitive scenarios against other players. It can range from set piece battles to much more complex things. It works on a system vaguely similar to d&d in that it has profiles, dice, measuring. There have been a few derivitive computer games in recent times, World of Warcraft borrows heavily from the company behind its Intellectual property (Blizzard have always done that, since Warcraft 1 and Starcraft) but endorsed titles include things like Dawn of War.

There are lots of different systems and armies, most commonly dark high fantasy and 40k which is grim sci-fi set in the 41st millenium after a dark age. Without going too much into it, there is a lot of religious references and the bad guys are generally the forces allied with demon demi-gods, its nerdy alright. Other games systems include gang warfare in either a sci-fi or fantasy setting, american football, with blood and chainsaws, spaceship combat, roleplaying with unrestrictive 1-4 man warbands, just lots of different variations, most of them are only flightingly popular though.
 
Sabin Frost said:
Plastic and metal to scale miniatures organised into units, you assemble and model them and the terrain and complete competitive scenarios against other players. It can range from set piece battles to much more complex things. It works on a system vaguely similar to d&d in that it has profiles, dice, measuring. There have been a few derivitive computer games in recent times, World of Warcraft borrows heavily from the company behind its Intellectual property (Blizzard have always done that, since Warcraft 1 and Starcraft) but endorsed titles include things like Dawn of War.

There are lots of different systems and armies, most commonly dark high fantasy and 40k which is grim sci-fi set in the 41st millenium after a dark age. Without going too much into it, there is a lot of religious references and the bad guys are generally the forces allied with demon demi-gods, its nerdy alright. Other games systems include gang warfare in either a sci-fi or fantasy setting, american football, with blood and chainsaws, spaceship combat, roleplaying with unrestrictive 1-4 man warbands, just lots of different variations, most of them are only flightingly popular though.
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It reminded me of Starcraft and Warcraft, and I am big fans of both, which is why I asked. Although half the time they fuck shit up (They only really got shit right in Warcraft 3 and that had way too much RPG to it. I am looking forward to Starcraft 2 which I think should be a purer RTS with less RPG elements to it and it will have an excellent story.) but Blizzard puts out some good shit, IMO.

The comparison between Warcraft and this seems to me to be the comparison of Baldur's Gate or even World of Warcraft to D&D. Sounds fun as hell.
 
Sabin Frost said:
Yes, I play Warhammer Fantasy Battles and have since fifth eddition. I mostly play High Elves, but I also play Lizardmen and (used to, like four years ago) play Orcs. I have rather sizeable armies and can field many other armies I dont play... I guess you can say I have accumulated a lot of it.

I used to play Guard and Eldar, but neither since around Eye of terror in 3rd eddition, I dont like 40k much.

I also have played every one of the fanatic games at one point or another, Inquisitor is my favourite but very hard to get people involved in, set up terrain etc. but other then that Battlefleet Gothic and Necromunda more then the others.
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Sweet.

I started with 40k but eventually got into fantasy and never looked back.

I primarily played Chaos Marines in 40k and Vamps in Fantasy, but I have tons of stuff form other armies sitting around the house.

Gothic is fucking great. We had a big ongoing Gothic league at a shop around here where myself and another chaos player dominated the forces of good.

Games Workshop has driven me away with their terrible business practices. They continually jack up prices and take FOREVER to get anything released. And they are so horny for space marines that they re-do a million different ways while neglecting everything else. GW ruined great games with bad business.
 
Ender Rises said:
It reminded me of Starcraft and Warcraft, and I am big fans of both, which is why I asked. Although half the time they fuck shit up (They only really got shit right in Warcraft 3 and that had way too much RPG to it. I am looking forward to Starcraft 2 which I think should be a purer RTS with less RPG elements to it and it will have an excellent story.) but Blizzard puts out some good shit, IMO.

The comparison between Warcraft and this seems to me to be the comparison of Baldur's Gate or even World of Warcraft to D&D. Sounds fun as hell.
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The Zerg are dirrectly based on the Tyranids of Warhammer 40k, Terrans Guard and Protoss Eldar. There was a lawsuit and out of court settlement over it. WoW practically is warhammer... A lot of people will argue that Warhammer Online copied WoW when it is released but that is far from the case.

It is a fun game, it is just expensive, kits used to cost $35 for a unit but they have steadily gone up to $50-70 Australian and depending on how many points the game is it can be massively expensive to collect an army, in the thousands of dollars.

As a footnote, this is all done by the same corporate giant, Games-Workshop, that is behind a series of card games and the Lord of the Rings strategy table-top game.
 
I'll stick with 16 bucks a month for WoW and 35ish for a Blizzard Battle Chest special that will last me 2 years and has infinite re-play value. I would be playing Warcraft 2 right now but it isn't fucking compatible with Vista, so I am replaying Starcraft. That lawsuit is interesting though, was it more for the gameplay style or for the storyline/races?
 
Evil? said:
Sweet.

I started with 40k but eventually got into fantasy and never looked back.

I primarily played Chaos Marines in 40k and Vamps in Fantasy, but I have tons of stuff form other armies sitting around the house.

Gothic is fucking great. We had a big ongoing Gothic league at a shop around here where myself and another chaos player dominated the forces of good.

Games Workshop has driven me away with their terrible business practices. They continually jack up prices and take FOREVER to get anything released. And they are so horny for space marines that they re-do a million different ways while neglecting everything else. GW ruined great games with bad business.
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I wrote an essay on games-workshops marketting practices which included interviews with some old managers. I am well aware that they are indeed corporate whores. They have a monopoly on the wargaming industry, they are the microsoft of battlegames and they abuse it and push every possible avenue to sell their products. Tell me when a campaign has not revolved around the latest armies or a release not co-incided with the new army winning their battle report or having some edge given to them which makes them superior. The company is honestly becoming like Wizards of the coast.
 
I'm glad Blizzard goes for balance between the races, although Starcraft is rather unbalanced. It's pretty much Zerg or die when it comes to multiplayer, for me at least, the Terrans are too weak and difficult to build up, and the Protoss take fucking massive amounts of resources. Warcraft 3 is pretty balanced.
 
Ender Rises said:
I'll stick with 16 bucks a month for WoW and 35ish for a Blizzard Battle Chest special that will last me 2 years and has infinite re-play value. I would be playing Warcraft 2 right now but it isn't fucking compatible with Vista, so I am replaying Starcraft. That lawsuit is interesting though, was it more for the gameplay style or for the storyline/races?
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IP plagurism. There is inspired and there is blatant copying. It happened around the time Warcraft 3 came out, I think it resparked slightly over a few uninformed criticisms of an in production Warhammer Online. Neither company was really correct as Games-Workshop's IP is highly derivitive anyway, they base most events and places off of historical ones.

It is a hobby more then a game, armies look beautiful when painted well, it is kind of a long-term commitment.

www.games-workshop.com

For anyone that is really interested in finding out about it, seeing pictures etc.
 
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