[unofficial weekender] And they are off!

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yikes … just saw the XLBS and the boxed version of Degenisis that Gerry got.
Bloody hell … that’s huge.

Must resist … must not be tempted.

Anyways … on to shadow and pain.
Still no peep from GW, so not sure when I will get the new rules. However I think I got all I need to build my new army (or at least 90%).
So let’s crack on, right ?

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@demonsub LoTR the card game is fantastic. There are a lot of the bones for the Arkham Horror card game in there but I prefer the LOTR theme. It can be hard as nails though.

@danlee great idea for a pick-me-up project. One of my favourite youtuber artists uses gold leaf and it is something that fascinated and scares me at the same time. Looking forward to following your progress.

Managed to get through these five today. Don’t have bases and one of them doesn’t have a backpack thing but that’s something for another day. It’s very strange painting to someone else’s scheme. There are things I’d have painted different colours etc but it’s quite fun to just follow instructions. It also never ceases to amaze me that, despite not playing 40k for years and not painting a marine army in even longer, just how comforting it is to go back to the muscle memory painting style of the form.

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Stickmarines! XD

 

And again my mojo is… well, nowhere to be found… I may start looking for the assembly instructions for the Warhammer 40k Conquest magazine terrain I got….

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@ninjilly I’m enjoying the Lord of the Rings Card game. I’ve played 5 or 6 games now and have the rules down fairly well. I only really have to look up weird card interactions now and then. I’ve kept it simple so far by playing the starting scenario and just using the basic decks in the core game, seeing how each type of deck works and interacts. It’s a good way of learning the cards.

Because of this I haven’t done a lot of painting. I’m about have way through painting both my old citadel wizard and my Peter Cushing miniature. Hopefully I’ll get them both finished tomorrow. I really need to push on and paint more as I have quite a lot to do. I really want to get to the next mission in Rangers of Shadow deep but I need those minis painted first and I’m already collecting minis for the large mission after that as well.

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@ninjilly :

marines on a stick … 😀

They do look good.

If there’s anything that I find difficult then it has to be inventing your own paint schemes.
At least spacemarines can be easy … just pick one or two random colours and presto done.
Well … unless you pick a colour that really is a shade so it doesn’t work as a base colour ( grrrr … )
The real tricky part are civillians and any group that doesn’t have ‘official’ uniforms (like pirates and most of the factions in Fire&blood).

Maybe that’s why I have found it so hard to get to the painting stage ?
I don’t like the official uniforms (blergh space smurfs), but at the same time I can’t think of a scheme that would be both fun and good looking.

I really must resist getting into this Degenisis thing, there is soo much lovely artwork to look at on the official site.
And then you stumble into fan sites as well :

https://www.degenesis-cluster.com/en

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@limburger yeah I’m not a fan of the smurfs either but the Fists look pretty good right now. I love the pop you get from the yellow but I’d not want to do it without an airbrush.

It was really nice to see Degensis getting some love on OTT. A couple of friends and myself have dreams of running it but it’s just not something the rest of our group are into. The new website is incredible, it makes the world so much more accessible than it used to be. The books are out of my price range but as a luxury item, they are beautiful.

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Monday moaning…. well, that was a weird Sunday evening for me. I did some hobby and I wanted to film that for my YouTube channel… So I setup my camera, put on a movie in the background and started building the Sector Mechanicus Galvanic Servohaulers from the Warhammer 40k Conquest magazine. Then problems arose:

1. Since I share the conquest with two others (one gets the Space Marines, the other on the Chaos and I the terrain) I was missing the assembly guide. Finding that wasn’t to hard but still took a lot of time.
2. After 32 minutes my smartphone decided, for what ever reason to stop recording. And I didn’t notice. So I lost a lot of footage
3. Somewhere after an hour I managed to miss an assembly step which lead to frantic and hectic glueing of parts. Thanks to #2 there is no evidence of that
4. When I finished the building part the movie was still on. Warcraft. Yeah, that one…

So now I have 30’ish minutes of (more or less) useless video footage and a ready build Sector Mechanicus Galvanic Servohaulers set. Now what to do? XD

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Go outside and read a book?

😉

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@ninjilly – nice work on those Space Marines. I painted a squad of about six “smurfs” a few years ago and they  still take pride of place on my “shelf of done things” (it has less on it than you’d expect). I grew up with Space Crusade, so Blood Angels were always my personal favourite – but I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for the yellow dudes.

I might have to get a few Space Marines and paint up a few, just for the fun of it…..

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@blinky465 I am actually reading Philip K. Dick “Do Androids Dream of electric sheep” for the first time… that is a weird text it is…

[limburger 21668xp 0]

yeah … definitely not related to Bladerunner in any shape or form.

The weird bit are those ’emotion’ / mood dispensers they have in their home (not sure what they were called exactly, ) .
And then there’s the fact that this is written before computers (and the internet) were a thing, which is probably why they talk about ‘electric sheep’.  It’s kind of fun to read ‘ancient’ sciencefiction, because they barely knew about valves back then.

Evil Genius 2 distracted me. Brian Blessed doing the voice over for the ‘Red Ivan’ evil genius is great. I think they’ve streamlined the gameplay and user interface quite a bit since release. Definitely better and more fun than the original. The only ‘negative’ is that traps are effectively useless as a defense (even low level enemies disable them so they rarely have an effect).

While reading the Daughters of Khaine codex I was once again reminded that GW really don’t know how to match lore with their army lists. Or if it matches then only if you follow the one army build they had in mind when writing the story/lore.
It also shows how minimal the support is for this faction (only 3 unit types, one big ass vehicle thing with no obvious means of propulsion). Compare that to the Sigmarites who have all sorts …
At least now there’s only one unit that is ‘web only’ and it isn’t a critical part (male warloks on horseback), so it doesn’t feel as bad as the Gloomspite codex where the spiders were a non-option (web-only and ancient models to boot) despite having a lot of options within the book.

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@sundancer I read that years ago and loved it. It’s a totally different beast to Blade Runner and I remember Ridley Scott saying that he never read the book.

@limburger I believe there’s a term known as fluff armies in which people have selected a force to closely match the background. Generally these aren’t competitive at all. Since before lockdown I grew quite board with playing 40k in even a semi competitive way so I’ve redeveloped my Chaos Marines as a true World Eater force. Even if I loose I’m now genuinely excited to play, once we start playing again that is.

I got stuck in finishing painting those miniatures. I even got started painting a third mini but I’ve yet to finish that.

Peter Cushing as Frankenstein.

A very old Citadel Wizard.

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@demonsub I think that happens in any game. What works in the fluff (or happened in the real world) doesn’t always play nice on the tabletop.

However I do think that it ought to be possible to have a system that does a better job of matching fluff with tabletop mechanics.

// — edit —
Tinkering with my Daughters of Khaine made me think of things that made me want to reconsider playing them in AoS.
Maybe a different system would suit them better ?
And if wargaming is ‘make believe’ … then why not find a set of rules that is better than the original in the box ?
Mining books for interesting bits of fluff and rules was one of the reasons I started collecting all sorts of RPG books so many moons ago.

A good alternative to Age of Sigmar ?

 

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However I do think that it ought to be possible to have a system that does a better job of matching fluff with tabletop mechanics.

*cough*

😉

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LOL 😀
yeah … should think of that

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