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>>96745548

>What is /awg/?
A thread to talk about minis and games which fall between the cracks, or peoples' homebrew wargames.
The >>>/tg/hwg thread doesn't entertain fantasy (for good reason) and the other threads are locked to more specific games.
This thread isn't tied to a game, a publisher, or a genre, let's just talk about fun wargames. Any scale, any company, any miniatures.

>Examples of games that qualify.
A Song of Ice and Fire, Argatoria, Batman Miniature Game, Carnevale, Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings,
Deadzone, Dropfleet and Dropzone Commander, Freebooter's Fate, Frostgrave, Gaslands, Judge Dredd, HeroClix,
Kings of War, Maelstrom's Edge, Malifaux, Marvel Crisis Protocol, Masters of the Universe: Battleground, Moonstone,
Billhooks: Fantasia, OnePageRules, RelicBlade, Rumbleslam, Stargrave, Sludge, Urban War, Void, Warcaster, Warmachine, Xenotactics, Xenos Rampant...
...and anything else that doesn't necessarily have a dedicated thread.

>Examples of companies providing rules and/or miniatures for alternative wargames.
Archon Studio, Atomic Mass Games, Black Site Studios, CMON, Mantic, North Star Military Figures,
OnePageRules, Osprey, Para Bellum, Seb Games, Spellcrow, TTCombat, Victrix, Wargames Atlantic, Warlord Games...
...and many other publishers.

>Places to get minis; Updates to the minis list are welcome.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D2DbNJ2mYAUxh5P9Pq9NZqS5tXHGn0i2JhZchEwbA2I/edit
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/373197.page

>Novice Troves, meant to serve as a sampler of available systems. Check out the Share Thread for up-to-date troves.
https://pastebin.com/MjtsC8AX
https://mega.nz/#F!zSYW0I4a!vXh8-UPi_tWXpJES_-p4zg

>Hobby Challenge theme for October
https://strawpoll.com/GPgVYBPYEna/results

>thread question:
No question, post a pic of your favorite army that you own

Warhost new dwarves reveal. I like them a lot, really looks like classic Tolkienesque dwarves instead of WoW dwarves

Is there a chance that mantic will give their old sculpts a digital stl send off?

I love they have slight Scandinavian influence

>>96771183 (OP)
I'm not sure if it's my favorite, compared to some of my malifaux crews, but I did enjoy painting them a lot more then I thought I would. And I'm rather proud I didn't butcher these infinity minis.
My all time favorite is probably my Ronin peasants buntai that I painted up in 15mm.

>>96771501
Show the buntai and name the maker. I'm moving from 28-32mm to 10-15mm and as a continental it's tough to find something affordable. Sengoku-wise there's the new Heiho box from WGA but everybody complains about the spears so the quest keep going.

>>96772171
It's more HWG but I sometimes post HWG related stuff here instead due to the community being better.
They are by SMOL miniatures on MMF. You may be able to get them printed by MMFs printing services though.
It was a small game size, just to demo it basically so it's not many guys.

Halo flashpoint is tempting me

>>96771204
I actually really like these sculpts. Like they were carved out of wood with nothing but a very sharp whittling knife. Soulful, for sore lack of a better term

>>96771204
Those are good, very kievan rus like.

>>96772250
>Mantic
Anon...

>>96772676

From what I heard mantic actually writes solid rules. Models are hit and miss, ones produced by archon in my experience are of decent quality.

>>96772676
Good Rules, and good miniatures. I know nothing about halo and never played the video games but I had fun the 3 times I played the game in our local store.
I can see how this game is amazing to people who actually like the halo games and also like skirmish games.
The respawn and the collection of better weapons on the map is super fun.

>>96772676
More like
>Halo
Anon...

>>96769680
As many as you need, there's plenty of hoods on the sprue.

>>96772687
>>96772701
they're fine. the last few years they've fallen in to the "keep relaunching to boost sales" spiral though, and that has ended well a grand total of zero times.
plus it's an IP game, which is usually a bad sign. if you want halo, you could always just print halo dudes at your desired scale, and it's generic enough that any damn scifi ruleset can handle it.

also tfw you think
>didn't spartan just do a halo ground game?
>oh, no that was like 15 years ago

So WGA are going to close?

>>96771204
Tolkien never described his Dwarfs but if anything they'd look like iron age Jews not Slavs

>>96773457
Nope.

>>96773462
Tolkien made LOTR as a sort of founding mythos for the British isles. Why would they look like iron age Jews, you twit

>>96773574
Chuds love inserting bullshit

>>96773061
Mantic rules are the best part. I would rate KOW over TOW any day and I'm lukewarm on the setting

>>96773582
>"Tolkiens dwarves where clearly semitic, my fellow white men"
>"uhhh.... why look, it was a CHUD who said that"

>>96773574
How do you explain the Haradrim?

>>96773654
Didn't say that. The whole Chudschaunung is built on misquoting people

>>96773655
The Hadadrim are Stinky smelly foreigners. The dwarves are not

>>96773462
>Tolkien never described his Dwarfs but if anything they'd look like iron age Jews not Slavs
Why would they look like jews if he never described them? Seems like your just pushing bullshit to rustle Jimmies. Fuck off with that shit, we have enough fucking spergs here that we dont need your faggotry added to it.

>>96773462
if anything they'd take after what inspired them, which is norse mythology. I mean elves, dwarves, trolls...it paints a pretty clear picture. Why the fuck would it be something so random?
>He never described them, but it would be this.
Anybody can make up random shit

Another preview interview for Starcraft came out where they higlighted the game flow, on event stage+preorder 23rd of October, with the alternate pose zeratul (cringe as it may be for Archon)
>hybrid activation
>3 phases per round - movement, shooting/charge and melee
>each phase is interchangeable activation
>the starting player for each phase is the one who finished previous one first (i guess start of movement is diceroll)
>1k/2k points, forced 60/40 field/reserve
>2/3 special cards per army that are either buildings or named strategies
>RPS balancing with extra dice if you hit vs what you're strong against
Personally I have some hope for the game but still bit cautious since it's Archon

>>96772701
>I can see how this game is amazing to people who actually like the halo games and also like skirmish games.
The main concern I'd have is that Mantic have a ton of different systems and factions, and will often leave their systems (let alone factions) to languish for a year or more while they update some other faction from some other system. If you want to get into Flashpoint I hope you like all the stuff in it right now and won't get annoyed with no updates.

>>96774087
>Another preview interview for Starcraft came out where they higlighted the game flow, on event stage+preorder 23rd of October, with the alternate pose zeratul (cringe as it may be for Archon)
Mind linking it?

>>96774256
https://www.wargamer.com/starcraft-tabletop-miniatures-game/interview

>>96774263
Cool, thanks. It sounds pretty cool, I'm tempted. I hope they throw a bone to SC1 boomers and don't just use SC2 designs, but I don't have much hope on that front.
>but still bit cautious since it's Archon
What else have they put out?

>>96774284
Warzone Resurrection before the name change from Prodos (and whatever they had in their repertoire) and still apparently are shaky on goal fulfilments but maybe MS/blizz have them on a leash. Idk if they can scale the production assuming that the game catches (relatively speaking) so they'd start working on racial subfactions for unit and rules variety

>>96774324
On the plus side, I feel like they're not overstretching their ambition in the same way Mantic does as mentioned earlier. It's just three factions, and within those factions it's a pretty limited range of the really iconic stuff but there's also room to expand the range if the game catches on.

What was the last game you played /awg/? I tried playing Xenos rampant with my son today, unfortunately his patience ran out after turn three, when more action started to happen, I suppose setting up the terrain and looking at the miniatures is still more exciting for him than measuring and rolling dice. I also need to buy some brown tablecloth for a better "table".

>>96774409
Is your son like 5yo?

>>96774431

Yeah, he'll be 6 next week. Can't expect him to play a full game of course, but he's expressed interest in my miniatures and often asks to play with them.

>>96773462
Have you even read his letters to C.S. Lewis? They would have been big booty Asians.
>>96774409
I played Bolt Action with my son last week, it was actually kind of interesting. He had better units but I had more dice in the bag and I won with a single officer left. Even just pushing guys around and making shooty noises is a good gateway drug, if you can keep pushing it without being an overbearing dick then you've (literally)made a lifetime opponent.

>>96771204
>>96771217
Warhost Dwarves and Elves
Ragnarok Miniatures Orcs and Trolls
Some Romano Britons from Victrix

That would make the coolest and most Tolkien accurate LOTR armies in my opinion.

>>96774191
>updates
Hello 40kuck.

>>96774409
>>96774431
I have played a simplified version of Heroscape with my 3.5 year old son and he absolutely loves it

>>96774324
Archon never really was prodos. It was the production unit of Prodos, but not the actual company who did the marketing and everything else. Do your research Anon

Anyone have the Warhost PDF?

>>96774409
I play with my 5yo as well, we use the Forbidden Psalm rules so it's quick and simple games. Sometimes he helps me out making terrain, like the pine cones and more serious stuff.

>>96773655
Welsh.

>>96774765
I really like hte idea of growing my own group to wargam in peace.

>>96774974
>growing my own *cult* to wargam in peace

>>96775252
Poteato potato. As long as I can play with my plastic crack with a captive via blood ties I'm happy.

>>96775328
>plastic
You can't build a proper cult on plastic, silly! You need metal for that.

What are the best non-coomer elf miniatures

>>96775504
tl;dr there are no good elf miniatures.
See https://community.the-ninth-age.com/lexicon/lexicon/1026-fantasy-battles-miniature-library/
In plastic at best you get Oathmark ones.
Individual models in metal / resin ? Dark Sword probably, as always. Other GOOD sculptors too like Ścibor.

>>96775504
Oathmark or GW I guess. Elves occupy a strange niche. Extremely popular but with very few full sets in plastic.

>>96775741
There are also Gamezone restic elves.
Though they are restic and the weapons are a bit too heroically scaled for my taste their poses are great and they form a nice looking units.

>>96775504
>non-coomer
Just use historical kits and paint them a different scheme. They have helmets so you don't see the pointy ears, meaning it's now all about the colors and symbols.

>>96776069
They have nothing elf-like in them. And you're suggesting they're the best. Have some standards, for goodness sake. I know faux-grogs play with literal pieces of shit and pretend it's good simply because it's cheap, but you don't have to stoop to that level.

>>96776119
Meanwhile all elf figures from any manufacturer ever are just "human body and armor but maybe we show their ears. Or are Mantic.

>>96775504
What about the Warcrow elves?

>>96775504
R/awg/rogs will hate me, but it's Eldar heads on literally any body. Or pic related

>>96775252
Kek incel libtard is mad his gf won't let him procreate (she aborted his spawn)

>>96775504
It's already been answered ITT by this guy and OP>>96774530
The Warhost ones are elite.
Oathmark ones are incredibly generic and mid, but they're relatively cheap and "they work."

>>96776365
The entire line is very mid.

>>96776365
Oathmark elves are in a weird place than they are too fantasy to work for something else, while looking to borig for being elves.

>>96776303
I don't think many would actually argue about the Ret elves. They are pretty kino, even for people that hate Warmachine.

>>96775504
Previously mentioned Warp Miniatures have kind of like "soft coom" elf line. As in you can call the coomer miniatures if you are into pretty basic boobplate.Otherwise they are pretty decent. Though the line itself is a small one - spears, bows, cavalry, commander and some sphinx-cow monster.

>>96775504
3D prints and Warhammer flavored, but Highlands Miniatures has a bunch.

>>96776718
>nothing sexualised
>only the bare minimum to indicate that these are women and not skinny guys
>soft coom
Has puritanism gone too far?

>>96776955
If its female someone will coom to it.

>>96776261
I think absolutely no anon here will ever recommend a Warcrow product out of the blue even if the game was to survive for a decade because of the absurd price policy.

>>96777040
That doesn't make everything softcore porn you retard. Turn off the computer and go outside.

>>96777040
A guy once coomed to his kitchen tiles. Does that make kitchen coomer core now?

>>96777146
Die Fliesen, tile, is feminine in german, yes.

>>96777078
Seriously, what the fuck were they thinking ?

>>96777078
I would have recommended them otherwise, but I knew the recident schizos would have an aneurysm. QED

>>96776185
Actually the platonicaly perfect elf. Too clever by half designs just make them look like ren fair cosplayers. No paulrons, no leather masks.

>>96776718
You might just be a coomer.

>>96777264
It's quite the premium for Siocast.

>>96777226
I think they got away with it for too long with Infinity. They don't understand (yet) that they stroke gold with this game, so they expect us to willingly throw ourselves captives of their pricing policy for a game with not much audience.

>>96777146
Yes. Women are thus forbidden.

>>96776718
>underhand instead of overhand
So close!

>>96775504
https://www.battlezone-miniatures.co.uk/shop/category/2316
https://forlornhopegames.co.uk/products/0572-wood-elf-x3

I hate when elves have weapons which look worse than IRL weapons. I can't think of any reason and elf works use a less practical/effective weapon than a human, when the are smarter than humans in every single setting

If you could only play for the rest of your life,
>one scifi battle game
>one fantasy battle game
>one small warband skirmish game (Mordheim, Stargrave)
What would they be?

>>96778411
I can pick any obscure game and somebody will be forced to play it?

I want to start a rebel army for Grimdark Future, any recommendations on cheaper plastic minis that are a good price per-miniature basis? I was thinking Les Grognards, Raumjager or GCPS from Mantic but I am open to recommendations and suggestions. Plastic is preferred, but resin works if cheap enough.

>>96778439
Yes

>>96778452
Look at getting a set of stargrave stuff for kitbashing maybe? I don't know how rag tag you want them to look but stargrave scavengers would be what I would personally choose.

>>96776718
Are these elves sold in plastic or am I doomed having to try to order it from some slavs 3d printer shack?

Working on some Turnip28 stuff

>>96778625
I have that same exact palette.....
Looks good even though I dont much care for the turnip28 style.

>>96774530
Oathmark Orcs and Goblin ranges and the Goblin Warband from WGA remind me of a lot of the old art, the Goblin Warband being a dead ringer for some of Angus McBride's art.

>>96778961
Yeah I like the 10mm orcs from WGA, it's a shame most of their 10mm lines have been absolute.shit so far with ridiculously bad quality control. The skellies are cool though

>>96779153
I meant their 28mm scale Goblin Warband, but they're both based off the same aesthetic.

>>96779182
Oh yeah I do like the Angus McBride style, even if it's shameless plagiarism. I hate that they made them all have that stupid wide squat pose because they were too lazy to make separate infantry and mounted sculpts

>>96778637
Happens to many turnips of a certain age, sadly

>>96778452
Stargrave has a decent selection of genericish kits with a lot of bits and options.
Maelstrom's Edge has a nice scavenger type kit as well. Used to be cheaper but still a nice kit with lots of parts and iirc a bit unusual because it has a lot of extra legs compared to torsos.
EM4 has a bunch of cheap as chips plastic doods, they're okay looking or even good if you want a specific retro vibe.
Tehnolog Robogear is a weird 90s chunky russian warhammer knockoff with a lot of neat stuff too.

Oathmark Heavy Human Infantry sprue.

>>96779725
And some of their new ogre sculpts.

>>96779729
The old heavy cav/inf maquette from 57 years ago.

>>96779725
On one hand this is perfect and exactly what I want.
On another the shields suck and the kit competes with Victrix Foot Knights, Fireforge historicals etc.
>>96779729
Its all ogre.

>>96778557
>>96779659
Thank you, Anons. Stargrave troopers and scavengers look good, however I feel like I might enjoy a more regular looking army with mostly identical gear instead. I will keep looking for now.

>>96779741
>On another the shields suck
WGA sells 63 round shields in a box, Victrix also has several shield packs usually 48 to a box (56 for their heater shields but they're in 2 sizes), both in hard plastic. Fireforge also sells a bunch is smaller packs, but they're resin and embossed with designs on them. Pretty easy to replace them.

>>96779747
Troopers do have identical gear, Mercenaries and Scavengers don't.

>>96779747
I don't know about the quality but there are the WGA deathfields sets you could look at as well. Something like their Canon fodder sets or their oohra set?

>>96779741
I dont like any of the oathmark shields besides the skeleton ones and have bought victrix shields to replace them.

>>96779771
Oh for sure its a minor gripe , it just stops this kit from being 10/10. Everyone has so many spare shields after a while you can just randomly slap them on terrain like it is a viking ship.

>>96778565
Warp does print on demand. Most of their stuff is like this. So either you order it from them or get STLs and go to vodka guys. Look at what will be cheaper for you.

>>96779153
Sadly even the skellies are a miss for me, them being all bones but still sporting the very same helmet. At this size and distance it had to be a skull for instant identification.
That plus switching from a one and done "host" box to a unit type box so we have to buy at least three boxes (infantry, archery, cavalry) to get a thematic warband. It was uncalled for and can only be explained by greed and anti-consumer policy.

It will forever live as a dramatic waste for me: the orc host is damn near perfect, but sadly I have nothing to oppose them to. The second and last host offer is the dwarves and they use tambourine for shield. Like, bro, someone should be fired for letting that shit slide through quality control.

>>96779800
Oh fugg. You made me realize one could absolutely swap the human and undead shields if you or some friends were to buy those two specific kits. The human shields are squary and embossed, really evocative of the early Bronze Age. The undead on the other hand have round shield, the Revenant even having kind of Celtic circle motif on them. It makes total sense to swap their shields.

I might have found myself my Christmas present.

>>96779725

Lovely helmets and for all models! Shields can be easily replaced and as many others pointed out, victrix and wga sell separate sprues of them.

I really like Oathmark plastics, it is a great shame I don't really have it in me to start another 28mm mass battle scale system. I already have enough on my plate, and with minis this big I only really allow myself skirmish/warband size armies things if at all.

>>96780027
A single box of 30 regular (not light or heavy) infantry is all you need for the minimum size game of 550pts, if that makes any difference. That gets you 29 soldiers and a captain.

>>96779725
>>96779734
>not a single head with the cool helmet designs from the maquette
That's disappointing. The helmet is the best thing about the model.

>>96780027
I bought the metal gobbos (1st gen) and built ~15 dudes to make Frostgrave warband. You don't have to go to mass battle scale system.
I bought the dwarf characters just to paint. I'll put them to my random assortment of DnD figures.

>>96780061
To be fair I think that maquette was specifically for heavy cavalry, so they might be saving that for their heavy cav box set whenever that comes out.

>>96780074
Yep its dismounted heavy cavalryman.

>>96780068
Yeah the dorf lords are pretty good.

>>96779725
Very nice, enough helmets with faceplate for everyone.

>>96775504
I like the OPR Wood Elves

>>96777078
I'm actually the guy you responded to but only have a passing familiarity with CB business practices, what do you mean by 'price policy'? They're too expensive?

>>96778452
Old ass Cadians

>>96780196
>shit pic

>>96778452
If you can wait a bit longer, WGAs "Damned" are probably exactly what you want?

Maybe oathmark elves with victrix hoplite heads (sold separately) could work?

>>96780350
more like the other way around, to create Gondolin era phalanx.

>>96780396
>the elves described as wearing ring maille and wielding tall spears "like a forest" at Dagor Nirnaeth Arnoediad
>linothorax

>>96780412
Use thorikitai then.

>>96780189
Anon it's 9€ per minis. That's x3 too expensive at the very least.

Thb I didn't even realize Warcrow ever made it past the idea stage. Seems like it's a fully fledged game now. The website has a tournament package even.
The minis look nice, but also kind of generic enough that you could get something similar form any 3d printing patreon these days, which makes the pricetag ridiculous.

The rulebook 300+ pages so it'll take a while to read, but I was wondering of any of the Anons here can give an overview? Infinity seems to be held in pretty high regard for it's rules by most people that managed to understand them.
Is it similar to that or something completely different?

>>96779729
These are cool
>>96779725
These are shit

>>96779788
>the quality
I can tell from the pic alone that it's pretty bad

>>96781268
I've got 60 and they are good plastic, have many spare parts and are easy to assemble.

>>96778452
>any recommendations on cheaper plastic minis that are a good price per-miniature basis?
>>96779747
>however I feel like I might enjoy a more regular looking army with mostly identical gear instead. I will keep looking for now.
You can always just get some historical kits. Cheapest you can get, with great quality sculpts these days. All you need to do to make them sci-fi is come up with a funky colors scheme, attach the odd bits here and there or do something like headswaps or exange the weapons. Technically you could sell any ww1/ww2 as Star Wars style blaster with the right paintjob though, imo. Depends on how much effort you want to put in.

>>96780240
>only three bodies
LMAO another high effort WGA kit! Thanks for all the donations, suckers!

>>96778452
>>96779747
Don't forget about fantasy kits either.
The Ghost Archipelago Crewmen or Fireforge Northmen Warriors could also work for something like that.

And you could also just use the unit builder from Anvil Industries or a similar company to come up with something completely different.

>>96781323
open your eyes, retard

>>96781237
I sure hope it's different because what made Infinity stand out was it's perfect (as in 40kek was stuck two decades in the past but Corvus Belli fixed it all at first try) reaction system/opportunity attack and gears loadout like throwing smoke grenades or using blank standees for camouflaged troops. Infinity gameplay would be out if place in a Fantasy setting.

>>96781463
Yeah that is why I'm wondering. But it seems they have big TAG looking things as well, but monsters or magical constructs, so I was wondering if they just swapped out sci-fi for magic and called it a day, but left the system underneath untouched.

>>96781537
>>96781463
It's a completely different system from what I've heard. Even uses the fucked up dice they made for their board games I think?

>>96781379
True, but he then would need either the sci-fi upgrade sprue from WGA, but i think its included weapons look kinda bad, or at least one box of any sci-fi models to get guns.

Anvil Industries, Victoria Minis, Puppetwars, Mad Robot, Kromlech etc, they all make nice resin guard proxies, but they are not really that cheap, if we are talking about their casted models. If printing is an option, it would look different.

>>96781633
>they all make nice resin guard proxies, but they are not really that cheap
You can get a set of ~6 heads, arms or guns for 5ish bucks. That is WAY better than buying another plastic box of sci-fi models just for the guns.
And 3d printing is an option. ANvil, Puppetswar and Victoria minis sell STLs. If 3d printing is an option you have access to untold numbers of bits anyway.

pewpew

>>96781663
>And 3d printing is an option.
If that Anon has a printer, then it is.

>You can get a set of ~6 heads, arms or guns for 5ish bucks.

So lets assume 25-35 for a box of 25 medieval bodies, and instead of +25 for a box of stargrave "guns", we add 5x 5 arms with guns for 5 each. I dont see how this is superior value.

>>96781323
Five bodies.
>>96781268
And the price per mini is rather unnapealing too for what is supposed to be disposable meatshield. At this point might just buy a regular box of infantry with better bits / poses / designs.
We seriously need a cheap as shit soft plastic minis for human wave style armies like e4m american civil war troops which are like 20 for 5£.

>>96781663
>bits to convert 6 models
>for 10 bucks (minimum lol)
>cost effective whatsoever
That ends up costing more than just buying a box of science fiction men to begin with. Are you retarded or something? Fuck you can buy entire sprues from resellers for less.

>>96781874
They are not even bad sculpts and there are ten unique ones

>>96781874
>We seriously need a cheap as shit soft plastic minis for human wave style armies

What the fuck are you talking about Anon? Why would you want to buy the cheapest dirt?

>>96782139
Because I want to field a very reasonable army of 300 orcs or skeletons (possibly both)

>>96778452
I made a couple of space arabs some months ago. Its Fireforge Berber bodies/heads and some Stargrave guns.

>>96782152
Then pay up. It's a pretty niche interest, most people don't want more than 100 28mm guys in their army.

>>96782152
At that point, you should either swallow the fact that a box costs you 35-ish euro, or invest in a printer.
In my experience, cheap (which often translates to bad quality) models are just not fun to work with.
But if you want masses, why not go smaller scale?

>>96780234
These are great.

>>96782155

>space
>arabs

Admiral Akbar!

>>96776303
Those are good suggestions anon I don’t hate you

>>96776303
The only issue would be to get big(ger) amounts of bare eldar/elf heads.

Is the abyssal dwarf who claimed that his sprues didn't have any mold slippage issues around? If so, did you have the time to look for your spare sprues?

>>96781789
>I dont see how this is superior value.
>>96781891
>Are you retarded or something?
both of you inferred that you should replace the contents of the entire box with alternate parts. I didn't say that. I said you just need a nice paintjob to turn the historical uniform into something else first and foremost. THEN if you want you can get heads with whatever flavor works for you to spruce it up. You can get any flavor you want like conquistador helmets, brodie helmets, stahlhelms, pickelhaube heads etc with asci-fi flavor. Just adding some crazy special weapons to a ww1 squad should already differentiate them enough. Not to mention I just pulled that number out of thin air. If you really wanted to go full hog with replacements you could look at West Wind Miniatures SHS system for example. They sell 20 heads for 7 pounds. But I didn't even suggest that.
I'm sure the Anon doing the project can figure out the details himself.

>>96782200
You could probably get a few from Oathmark players. Oathmark Elf and Light Elf kits have 5 bare heads each sprue.

>>96782269
>. I said you just need a nice paintjob to turn the historical uniform into something else first and foremost.

You did not.

>>96779771
>>96779788
>>96779792
>>96780196
>>96780234
>>96780240
>>96781301
>>96781379
>>96782155
I apologize for not replying until now, Anons. I fell asleep and only saw the new post replies icon when I just checked my PC. Thanks for all the info, suggestions and advice. I am thinking of either:

A: Straight Stargrave troopers boxes to make up the core of my army.
B: A mix of Les Grognards and WGA French WW1/2 infantry to be Recruits/Consctrips/Basic troopers and elites.
C: WW1/2 German infantry and Death Fields Raumjager for a more Helghan looking force.
D: Mantic GCPS, although even with the resin upgrade kits most of the soldiers and weapons all look incredibly samey.
E: Plastic and Metal Catachan Jungle Troopers and pay the GW tax.
F: Modern Cadian Shock Troops and suffer at GW Tax for ten man squad boxes.

Again, big thanks and my apologies for not replying sooner.

>>96782310
>>96781301
>All you need to do to make them sci-fi is come up with a funky colors scheme, attach the odd bits here and there or do something like headswaps or exange the weapons.
I did. You just didn't read before sperging out, anon.

I see Ral Partha USA has picked up the RAFM range. Nice

>>96782344
That's how you get a trench crusade.

>>96782364
Is that good ?

>>96782335
Dude don't pay GW, get recasters.

>>96782379
I guess - If you lean in the dark and gritty thing. If you paint the armor like laquered plastic or add some stripes to a pant leg or something like that you get some other flavors of sci-fi out of it. That's kind of the idea, you are not locked into a genre just because the packaging says so.

>>96782400
Maybe, with tariffs and international shipping. IWM's prices are pretty absurd, but paying tariffs is obscene.

>>96782364
Wait, isn't Ral owned by IW
and IW is owned by THE BEAST?

>>96782335
whatever you do, don't try and mix them unless you've checked their proportions/ scale.

I do not advise D,E or F.
never pay GW prices and honestly i have a number of the GCP and they could have updated them since deadzone but it just isn't a good mini. It's hard to describe but they feel both blobby an spindly.
I suggest Star-grave because they are cross compatible.
you can mix cultists, scavs and crew to make a lot of things.
WGA is far more detailed but might clash if you have other less proportioned minis around.

>>96782503
Sadly Catalyst Swindling Services bought out IWM earlier in the year. Cocksuckers.

>>96782155
>>96781670
Unironically, what is the deal with middle aged white men being obsessed with importing brown Muslims into their space fantasy?

>>96782768
If they don't then the WW2 have been for nothing. It's the sunken cost fallacy.

>>96782768
Dune made the Fremen too cool

>>96782768
Dune is kind of a fundational work of modern science fiction. Star wars also took place on desert planets a lot.

>>96782768
who the fuck said i was white?

>>96782797
Retard

>>96782808
The Fremen are blue eyed Aryans

>>96782832
Ew get out

>>96782872
This. The Fremen were white with blue eyes, one is explicitly described as having blonde hair, and they don't even wear towel heads and robes like arabs, in the novels they wore skin tight sci-fi looking stillsuits.

I'm new to wargaming in general, what's so bad about Catalyst?

>>96782768
Orientalism. It's a whole thing. Brits never got over it and and they're a huge part of miniature wagames.

>>96782912
All the mechs are chonk now

>>96782155
Now I got inspiration for a conversion project of my own.

>>96782974
Fuck off back to /trench/

>>96782872
I don't want to get into a retarded race conversation but
i want your sources and to point out a problem

there is very little time spent describing the characters but most of them are described as olive coloured. Leto, Harah, etc.
their eyes are the result of their spice use, being fully blue.

They're not something you could really equate to any modern race.

ARYAN is a particular population, originating from an indo-european language group. one that by definition includes a lot of fucking brown muslims, see persia, Pakistan, fucking india and just about every nation from ireland to china, seperated from africa only by the zagros mountains/folded zone.

this is so fucking retards.

>>96778411
INTERESTING question! The truth is I only need a game with a good foundation, and I can homebrew anything extra I need.
For sci-fi I would choose GATES OF ANTARES and homebrew some model agnostic generic teams

For fantasy I would use NEVERMIND THE BILLHOOKS. As a rank and flank system I have never found anything better. I would have to homebrew several things, I would add more monster profiles to the fantasy supplement, I would add some abilities for leaders, and would add a system for interior combat with buildings and castles.

For a warband game, that's a harder question. I have never found a game that really scratches the same it h as Mordheim, even if the mechanics are getting a bit dated

>>96783056
Wow that if the dumbest and most historically illiterate thing I've read all week, and it's not worth my time addressing

>>96782912
To start with CGL is the inheritor of Fasa, using many of it's IPs and falling into many of the same pitfalls.
CGL has general issues with book layout and when using it is a mess generally with fluff stories between chapters and glossary pages being wrong.
As a Mini providing company many people have pointed out how they have embezzled money from the company.
the fuckups when they run their kicksharter
Ilclan.
lots of issues there.
Like if you're a shadowrun fan you have reason to hate them a lot.

Yes, yes, nice meta drama, HOWEVER, I'm going to Essen Spiel next week and was wondering, is there anything on the horizon awg wise? I'll definitely stop by the Archon booth to pick up the new demon fella, if they have him. I'm also getting the Five Leagues compendium, maybe a battlemat.

>>96783056
>their eyes are the result of their spice use, being fully blue.
>cocaine that turns you white
shieeeeeeet

>>96783098
Very nice non-response
also saying "i don't have to address this" is addressing it.
Sorry about the brain parasite that causes you to hyper-fixate on racial minutia and ignore basic fucking descriptions of things.

>>96782768
>with importing brown Muslims into their space fantasy?

Shooting brown people is fun too. I have a large number of miniatures and armies, and bought those Berbers during a sale for like half the price, and since i dont play any "Crusade"-era historical game, i figured why not use them as hired thugs in two or three missions of Five Parsecs. And thats what i did.

Stop interpreting more into it than it is. And if you have to know, i'm far right, but not from the US, so spare me your retarded US-centric views on politics.

>>96783188
>US-centric
I'm Estonians

>>96783265
oh can you say hi to one of the most annoying disco Elysium writers?

>>96782768
It's British men specifically. They would willingly trade their own home and safety and honour of their daughter in exchange for a kebab shop on every corner... Oh wait

>>96776365
I’m not sure what it is but I look at this and don’t like it. there is no individual part that I can say is bad, it just doesn’t work

>>96783393
The proportions and pose are just not it.
This goes for the entire range. Orcs are particulary poor.
And its not even Tolkien approved since no chainmail on everything.

>>96783393
>>96783497
the head is particularly bad to my eyes as well

>>96783393
Okay

>>96782872
Thematically, Dune seems to be taking lot of Near Eastern cultures, particularly Persian and Afghani. It's literally a story about Great Powers going into a desert to extract a precious resource that powers their economy.

In-universe, of course, it's so far future that every race, culture, civilisation etc has merged, split and re-merged so many times it's probably impossible to link them to modern races. People practice Buddislam and read from the Orange-Catholic Bible. The senate has a Scandinavian name but the Emperor has a Persian title.

Also, the glowing blue eyes are due to Spice exposure - not genetics. That's basic Dune lore.

>>96782974
I'm pretty sure there's already a company that makes armoured space knights that go around doing crusades. Can't remember their name though...

>>96783056
Half of them are red heads and they are not-balkanites.

>>96783864
Washing your hair in camel urine gives it a red tint
Thus they must be arabs

>>96783188
>Everyone likes shooting Mexicans, even Mexicans.

>>96783864
name the characters.

>>96783992
Not gonna entertain you. Unlike you cretins I don't derive entertainment from arguing on 4 Chan

>>96784008
>argues on 4chan
>>hey can you provide a source?
>not going to argue on 4chan
uh bud, this is dune characters with red hair, i'm not asking you to break out FBI crime stats or something gay and retarded like that.
Chani, it's that simple, the mixxed freman love interest of paul.

£7.50 for like 33 dudes, can't complain

>>96783168
I think he didn't bother because you came up with a really Reddit-tier "AKSHUALLY" post while babbling way out of date 90s science. Educating you would be out of topic here but you can google "haplogroup" if you want to dig into this fascinating rabbit hole.

Saying it's an "Indo-European" language his a joke in itself since India was conquered by Aryans that cruelly enforced a caste system,still alive to this day, where the whiter you are the better for you. Talk to any Indians and they will aknowledge as much.

That being said, Dune is a really nice melting pot of religions and esoterical beliefs and while there's a lot of Jewish influence like messianism as a whole, Paul being the richest man in the world, his name having the power to kill, the Kwisatz Haderath itself, the Bene Gesserit being matrilinear... I believe Freemen are Freemen and we could claim just as much Arabian influence like the Jihad or the Muad'Dib title. Describing Freemen as Aryan or simply white is a wild claim indeed and I'll be curious to hear some serious arguments.

>>96784049
>still trying to argue
Feminine behavior

>>96783775
There's "pure" Jewish people by book 6 though. Rebecca and Rabbi Whatshisnameagainstein.

>>96782768
If you wanted my attention then your people should have invented jezzails 200 years ago, honky. But in all seriousness I think my problem began with a box of Perry ACW Zouaves I found at the thrift store.
>>96782200
My LGS sells old sprues for a buck with sometimes tons of shit left on them, I've gotten a lot of neat bits this way and I'm surprised not everywhere does this.

>>96784208
I can think of 0 (ZERO) sprue reseller in the whole of Western Europe. If I ever found one it's 50/50 the shipping cost will be a deal breaker (like the biggest German website trying to charge me 15€ for a 10€ map whem I live right by the border).

Uhh, testing testing

>>96784284
Noice. Warmachine deserved better than it got. I barely played but I look back fondly on that MK1 Remix rulebook, felt like they really had a solid world planned out

Even if it was for the overcompetitive freaks. Funny because every 40k and AoS table looks something like this now

>>96784254
Sprueshop ship to the continent?

>>96784390
I remember when these war machine tables were laughably bad, everyone cringed when they were posted. Nowadays the average tables posted in the Warhammer TOW general looks like this

>>96784430
TOW is slop

>X is slop
>Y is slop
>Z is slop
HOLY SHIT I DON'T CARE.

>>96784689
Slop enjoyer detected.

>>96782364
Well, its nice to hear they didn't just get tossed in the garbage.

And I think RAFM was a Battletech contractor at one point.

>>96784391
UK sales only.

Which manufacturer makes the best pirate ships?

I ordered a box of Les Grognards and some cheap FDM printed tanks. Wish me luck, please.

>>96785907
Dunno about best but these days you got choices. Ainsty has resin ones and Firelock Games have them as essential parts of their Blood and Plunder games.
You can also get mdf kits which can be cheaper, but don't really necessarily look as good. There are also some old scale model kits I've seen people use, but if you want something actual in scale with the minis those get huge and expensive quick. The smaller models are not really very playable.

If you dig around in an old White Dwarf archive you'll also find a couple of article about how to scratchbuild ships for various Middle Earth scenarios. Basically just making the body with foam and cladding the sides with cardboard iirc.

>>96785907
>>96786552
The more involved mdf are probably as expensive as resin, so it depends on what you are after.

If you need smaller boats give Freebooter's Fate a look. 3d printing makes a lot of this easier to get these days as well, obviously.

>>96784390
The battlefield of the far future sure is grim.

>>96784063
Half of it is the same two poses tho.

>>96784391
Even if they would do it, shipping cost and taxes would make it completely unattractive.
It's weird, but apparently there is not really a market for individual sprues in Europe.

>>96783152
Archon is supposed to show Starcraft minis there so be sure to take some pics of them.

>>96778411
Oathmark but under the condition that my opponents are as autistic about their kingdom building as me and take it deadly serious.

>>96785907
The easiest option is to find 1:100 plastic kits and play at 15mm using the old cm = inches hack.

The best cheap 28mm pirate ship is the Blood and Plunder plastic Bermuda sloop. $40 with lots of deck dressing and you can easily re-rig it as a ketch, barque, or brig with a bit of work. Works for about 20 crew. Firelock also sell blisters of guns, ship's fittings, and wheels among other things. Even have rigging kits for building out your own hull.
https://firelockgames.com/products/bermuda-sloop-ship-kit
Most MDF kits kinda look like shit, especially for the price. Only worth it if you can't scratch for the life of you and it's an uncommon subject.

Don't buy the Reaper ships. They're giant janky lumps of PVC. You have to pin and weld them with solvents and dowels, then slap on a base to hold it together, re-rig it, and build out new deck furniture to get it to look halfway decent. Guess how I found out.

>>96784658
>the Battle of Aquatic Ruin Zone

>>96787742
How many ships do you have ?

I'm building an old Revell ghost ship and I ordered some zombie pirates to crew it. What 20mm games can I play with the 35-40 undead pirates i'll have left over?

>>96788069
Combo Beverly and Scarlett for a Gaslands team. Ghost road pirates.

>>96788069
>>96790219
There is a Gaslands scenario where you hit pedestrian zombies for points. I have tons of leftover 20mm fellas cause they always come 40/box, I use them as bystanders on terrain.

>>96785959
Should've gotten some Meng World War Toon Char 1Bs, they go nicely with the Grognards and you the melta barrel fits perfectly in place of the coaxial LMG barrel

>>96791743
I still can and probably will. Thank you, Anon! I was looking for a good, plastic Char 1B to add to my army!

Where TF did all the posters go?
This general is getting like a dozen posts a day, like a year ago we went through an entire thread in a day

>>96792454
Well I spent all day with my brother and now I'm going to bed, so there's one poster that wasn't here.

>>96792454
It's not just us /tg/ is dying
proportionally I feel like we're actually less affected by this than the rest of the board

>>96791743
Interesting. I bought Meng ships...scharnhorst and hood

>>96788069
Neat

>>96787188
I appreciate sprue sellers, but mainly because my first dry run of 5 new models usually is me trying all kinds of dumb paint products and learning how the bits fit together so I always end up making a mud pie with those and need a replacement.

>>96786565
Hear me out: MDF sucks... I mean, I know people who turn MDF kits into amazing finished buildings but I hate working with it. Maybe if I had clamps like for pressed flowers to hold bits together

>>96792454
Weekends are for family, actually playing the damn games, etc.
Monday is for fucking around on /tg/ at work instead of working for most posters.

>>96792639
Damn what's the source of this graph? It's very sad to see, I'm 30 now and I've been on 4chan since I was a teen. 4chan has always been a part of my life and I have definitely felt the decline in real time, the slower discussions, the worse and worse quality of posts, noticing I'm replying to the same people over and over, but seeing the actual stats just hurts.
I feel like a man amongst the ruins. What do you think can possibly be done to save /tg/? I know what one of the major problems is, but obviously I'm not allowed to say it or they'd give me a 3 day ban for naming them

>>96792722
Man I would love to have a job. Would have to be wfh and part time because my health isn't the best but I'd have a lot more freedom with my hobby. I don't even mean by purchasing volume, I'd be less stressed.

It's funny because so many people know want to monetise this hobby and the pie seems so small. If everyone gets a new starter set nobody is buying one. People become really impersonal when they manage to as well, like they feel they are representing a company.

I was thinking about the recent >company drama< and a lot of it comes from people feeling like the company needs to be their friend, reflect their liestyle etc. I'm just happy there is more choice.
T. Navel gazer

>>96792796
>What do you think can possibly be done to save /tg/?

I would unironicalpy sa post models. The problem is I don't feel like I can relax anywhere online. I tried discord for a while and there is akways some simulationist pedant giving you a hrd time. On Youtube you're either 80 IQ #chudgang with a dwarf beard and shooting vest or some agender variant soft communist, you an't just be a person

>>96792814
Wow you sound like such a pathetic weakling. People like you weren't supposed to survive until adulthood, you only managed to make it this far because we live in a artificial post industrial society, a human zoo.

>>96792722
God I love posting at work. Playing pickleball/volleyball is probably 60% of my workday, the rest is spent sitting around bullshitting making homoerotic or racist jokes, phoneposting on 4chan, or playing Xbox

>>96792719
I like MDF for it's reasonably affordableness, and wide range of kits available, but painting it and preventing it from warping are a nightmare.

>>96792836
I have posted lots of models in the past and they are either 1.) completely ignored, 2.) made fun of
This website really isn't ideal for the average gamer to post his work unless he's in the top 1% of painters due to the negativity and rampant contrarianism

>>96792940
Wow you don't know anything about me, the reason I am like this is because I worked very hard in industry. I don't take a cent of taxpayer money, either and do everything I can to manage the very deep snd painful injuries I sustained making a failing department profitable and producing work that saved lives.

Unfortunately what is lacking in this world is justice. We've no shortage of mentally ill oxygen thieves clearly

>>96792979
Yeah too many dickheads here. I met a few gamers selling old metals but honestly half of them were really weird and really rude and tried to lowball everything. I'm happy painting models, playing solo and the playing board games with friends and family.

>>96793004
>don't know anything about me
I know you're
>unemployed
>not willing to get a job
>mentally weak
And that it more than enough to judge you on

>>96793041
I have made very vague references to my situation and every single time you trot out this routine. You did it when I said pain in my hands made ckeanup and assembly a challenge. You did it when I said my back is broken, making travel difficult.

I know you're reductive, deranged and not very bright. I don't know what you do for a living or how it entitles you to such largesse on the /awg/ thread.

Maybe you can enlighten us. I literally said "I would love to get a job." Lol.

I'd wish some kind of ghastly injury on you, but unfortunately I know what it's like and you already received the perfect punishment - you're you.

>>96793072
>largesse
Kek, made me smile for using a rare word not oft seen on 4chan or in general. No, I've never berated you before, that had to have been another anon.
What is the nature of injury? How did you fuck up your hands and back? Obesity related?

>>96793108
No, you fucken idiot. Seventy hour weeks in cramped conditions working with my hands. We've spent more time than it's worth on my problems. You word for word jumped on it as some kind of eugenics issue in the three or four timed I've mentioned it in years of posting. Tell us what you do or just talk about alternative wargames. The likelihood that you're one of the few threadshittinng denizens who post here daily to perform psychic attacks in compensation for nogina is nonzero. You're to be more pitied than despised

>>96793136
Uh oh he's having a meltie

>>96793136
My bad bro, I immediately regret posting that>>96793166 after I hit "Post." I'm trying to be more Christlike and I'm not showing the compassion I want to. I'm gonna go to confession tomorrow. God bless brother

Anyway, my personal problems aside... I just took receipt of the AK playmarkers.

If you are someone who struggles with neck, hand or back problems or chronic pain I think I know just about every hobby shortcut there is. My results vary, I'm a cook not a chef when it comes to painting. But I have to say playmarkers handle well for fiddly markings and the paint IS a little nicer than a Posca Pen or Gundam Marker. Coverage is good... will have to see how well they last though

The other thing i've been doing is when painting "sketch style," I just run a thinned Agrax or Dark Tone wash over a white undercoat. The final result is a bit cleaner and you don't have heaps of negative space on the model.

>>96771210
Has any company ever done this?

>>96793253
Mantic often does but I think the question is more "are those sculpts so old getting them as stls realistic."

>>96793261
>is

Can't brain today
Have the Foon

>hand cramp anon is having another meltie
Kek. Just paint some minatures anon.

Like I said, if you have obstalces hobbying because of injuries ama, I am only too happy to help.

>>96793380
Nigga just suffer in silence like a man and you won't get made fun of. I broke my hip on the job and even though it healed years ago I still get extremely painful flare-ups where every step I take is excruciating pain, and not a single person knows because I don't tell a soul. I don't even tell my wife, I just put on a stoic face and carry on because that's what men do. Quit your whining and be a man

>>96792796
The graph is from 4plebs
archive.4plebs.org/tg/statistics/activity
I don't think /tg/ can be fixed at this point, realistically.

>>96784390
Damn that shit is peak war machine, I'm so jealous I have to suffer with shit like this

>>96793555

It's both respectable and dumb. I've done similar things as well, but the jury is still out if it's a good way to act in a relationship.

>>96793555
>idiot possibly crippling himself for life because he dun fear no pain.
Kek. Have fun in a wheelchair when your older. Also hip problems in old age drastically reduce your life expectancy. Tell your doctor about the pains, they might be able to do something about it.

>>96793555
>>96793555
Once again
Anybody who needs help, I have been there and help them. Especially with technique, shortcuts etc. All I see so far is
>hurr durr I don't know anything about you but you're melting down
>you're actually weak because you mentioned something about yourself when talking about how you'd like to rejoin the workforce

I don't have anything else to stay. I stopped posting for months last time you did this, and it's not like I was soliciting your pity or validation then. If you're determined to make everywhere you go unpleasant and communication impossible, and gloat over yet another ruined thing in your lives, what can I do?

You cannot be helped. You want /awg/ to be as shit as possible, have at it. I get more done when I'm not interacting with you moronic pricks anyway.

The unfortunate thing is many ejoyable hobbies require fine motor skills and that can be challenging for the people who have made and mended the world. If only not being an absolute retard was also a requirement.

>>96794081
Complaining about musculo skeletal injuries is feminine. Complaining about gay Spiderman is high IQ

>>96792454
>Where TF did all the posters go?
stopped posting last year, because 4chan is mostly just angry losers looking to start fights over nothing. Even if you are trying to help someone, some random weirdo will spit bile at you every time. And of course the neverending negativity about everything is a drain as well.
I check in every couple of months at most now if I need feedback on something or need a second opinion on something. Overall 4chan is a giant waste of time and makes me feel worse about the hobby though. Painting minis is a better use of my hobby time.

>>96792639
Remember when /hwg/ did secret Santa's?

>>96794319
>Painting minis is a better use of my hobby time.

Amen. I started to hate the hobby because I couldn't shake the feeling that it just attracts angry whackos who for some weird reason want to drag everything down, better to rescue that now. Ultimately they won't have anyone to bait except themselves (their personal hell). Imagine how some of them live, and remember, they aren't actually doing the hobby.

>>96794451
I do, but it was barely 20 participants. And it was like 10 years ago.

>>96794319
I use /awg/ and /tg/ in general as my primary news source, so I lurk a lot, and occasionally post too if I spot something in a newsletter or a sale that is interesting. I actively try to ignore all the negativity. A few years ago, you could post something about an ongoing Warlord sprue sale, and people would discuss kitbashing potentials.. now all this would get is "warlord is garbage". Same with mentioning pretty much any other company.
It's only a matter of time until some retard will start to hate on the Perry brothers because they used to work for GW.

So yeah, it's a personal hell for some notorious shit posters and I fully believe they might be mentally ill.

>>96794529
My own theory is that it's a few individuals who have given up on their pile of shame, repelled irl gaming opportunities and generally engaged in the kind of autistic, self satisfied inaction (I can't possibly do x until I have y to enact my grand vision) that leads nowhere. Over time their minds have become rotted snd the resent the hobby and anybody who might retain some enthusiasm for it.

everyone shut up and ghost models

>>96794529
>I use /awg/ and /tg/ in general as my primary news source
same, I got into the hobby a year ago and all the people I personally know haven't taken a step outside of Warhammer, Warhammer, and another flavor of Warhammer
so for figuring out this hobby, what kind of games there are, scales, materials, terrain, everything, /awg/ and some other threads were my source, but nowadays I mostly stick to /awg/ and only go elsewhere for specific things like /grog/

>now all this would get is "warlord is garbage"
or get told to stop shilling

luckily there are still anons who are helpful and post interesting or useful things
that's how I found these cool ant dudes

>>96794680
Luv wraiths
Ghouls
Skelingtons
Zombies
Werewolves
Vampires
Mummies
Giant scorpion thingies
Simple as

>>96794686
Nice ant. For all my interna, posturing about imagination so many of my favourite monsters and fantasy races are "animal in a spacesuit." I really appreciate a good Lion Man.

>>96794126
Just so you know anon I'm the guy who made fun of you originally (and this is my first post this thread about you) for having a melty because you can't shut up about your injuries and how woe is you. You should probably take a minute and think about how every time you post totally different people come to the same conclusion about you. Some helpful advice I once received from my grandfather was that "If everyone met treated you like an asshole then maybe you are an asshole".
Now stop having a melty and just post minatures or talk about /awg/ related things please.

>>96794717
You're exaggerating me mentioning something about myself very few times, each time suggesting it was quite hard but that I had learned a lot sbout circumventing those difficulties and discussed methods for painting and modelling with people in similar situations and expressing a willingness to share it. I have no idea what you're like as a person but if this reaction is any indicator - combined with what has essentially been a pile in to try and reframe what I have been saying repeatedly, I'd say that you're in the very least not very honest.

If I say I would like to work but my capacity is limited because I'm ill, and the first response is that I must be some kind of genetic mistake enabled by technocracy my real error was in reacting emotionally and not pointing out the hilarious irony.

The truth is I didn't really want any sympathy or personal focus but you keep recasting what I'm saying.

>see? You're actually deranged and awful, not the person who told you you should die when you expressed an aspiration

As for every person you meet being an arsehole, you've even said the same before and again it didn't make any contextual sense. For what it's worth I only really meet two arseholes on a regular basis: the mentally unwell people who live in my area and who have spiked violent assaults by .8% in the last six months - and anonymous people who claim they are into tabletop.

>>96794717
>also: stacy hates you and becky hates you and marina hates you so kill yourself you fat bitch

Thank God for solo gaming.

>>96794757
>he can't stop.
K. I read none of that and I'm done interacting with you now about this subject.
What games, if any, have you played and enjoyed recently anon?

>>96794775
What about you?

>>96794775
All you do is snipe but you want a "good faith interaction." I'dcall you a cunt but you lack the warmth or the depth

>>96794784
>why don't you talk about traditional games
>only makes posts hanging shit on other people

I still can't believe there are people who don't post kobels

>>96794784
Last game I played was frostgrave with my friends a few months ago. Was pretty fun if a bit long and chaotic due to having six players.

>>96794828
Were you a prick to the guy with his arm in a cast?

>>96794828
I don't care because you're a bastard and I have a CT scan tomorrow.

>>96794828
I don't care because you're an utter bastard.

>>96794831
Literally what? No one was in a cast.

>>96792796
It can't be because we have the worse kind of people as the moderators, the same as reddit basically, so we are neither free to speak, you can't self regulate like the early times because thread length/time limit, half the board is just soft porn and that kills it for anyone than doesn't want to discuss with sub room temp gooners, people don't care about effor post, so no one has anything to say and weirdos than vulture around to star shit are in all the threads.
It's a great pity because with just a few rules this site could be the best part to discuss about RPGs, but it has too many drawbacks. I stoped posting in BTG because they had a faggot post his ass for months.

>>96794870
I'm just going to paint, like some Quasimodo in his bell tower lol

Hello lads, hope we all had a nice weekend. My hobby time has been somewhat limited as of late, but everything is swinging around.

Unfortunately I'm one of those people that needs everything to be perfect and tidy to then paint, I need to feel like there's an over-arching plan. Otherwise I paint one dude in a certain colourscheme and then a few months later I find his buddies (or miniatures from another company that fit the look) and I umm and ahh about starting over again or changing his basing or base size or whatever. It's silly really.

One day I'll find my perfect bone recipe and paint 200 Skeletons, from old Heroquest to Mantic to Warhammer Underworlds, in three months. But in the meantime I'm basically doom scrolling and twiddling my thumbs and it's gnawing at me.

Anyway, my current project is to actually have a photo backdrop. I've got a couple of sheets of thin plywood. Some people make them as small as 6 inches by like 4 inches, both the floor and backwall.

>>96794913
200 skeletons to paint
I envy you. Skeletons are by far the most fun painting I have had in this hobby.

>>96794913
>One day I'll find my perfect bone recipe and paint 200 Skeletons, from old Heroquest to Mantic to Warhammer Underworlds, in three months. But in the meantime I'm basically doom scrolling and twiddling my thumbs and it's gnawing at me.
Why not just paint some test skellies until you land on something that works instead of wasting yout time with doomscrolling and twiddling?

>>96794923
It's nothing coherent. Everything from GW's first Skeleton Hordes cream plastics, to D&D Boardgame rubbery ones with nets and tridents, to random Ral Partha metals picked up for pennies and the time I got 60 AoS Chainrasps for £6.

I've basically spent 10 years now hoovering up other people's cheap shit.

>>96794959
It's not my current project, based on events I will be attending in a couple of months.

And like I say it's the knowing anon. I need to actually sort my pile out to know what I have.

Maybe drop down to a 4 day work week.

>>96793555
Imagine living in the most dreadful globohomo society where the only single perk is openly seeking help for mental or physical injury and not playing this card. Sucks to suck I guess.

I don't even work and I get twice a week treatment for my back pain and my left leg. If I don't enjoy this free stuff you can be damn sure a fat nigger will.
The good values of old are of absolutely no value in the year of our Lord 2025. I have a wife and she's happier with me being a lazy loser than our neighbour is with her 50+hrs/week working hubby. You can tell one of them will have a lover before long and their young family explodes over it.

If we were wargaming you'll be the guy losing by score and thinking "yeah I totally destroyed his best units". A great feat but irrelevant.

Good on you for being a living artifact of White America but give this guy a break (lul). Life is tough enough for him without you jumping in.

>>96794081
>>96795272
Do you really think I didn't go to the doctor and rehabilitation for a broken hip? Lmfao
Having an old injury flare up occasionally is not going to put you in a wheelchair and I have been going to physical therapy for years

>>96795368
Get the hip replaced?

>>96795368
Yeah that's definitely comparable to being a spinal lol

Time for some five parsecs

>>96795511
>I'm a bigger victim than you!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO3wSAnqIOE
Looks like they are cooking something good. Are you guys interested in a Starcraft Wargame?

>>96795602
Not really the point. It's like saying "yeah man I lost my finger in Vietnam, those package holidays are really dangerous." When you view it as a competition, it says more about you.

Way back during MK2 days I played Cygnar in WMH very casually (I was broke and building multiple proper steamroller lists was out of reach). I fell off before the game completely imploded but I remember being disappointed that it did because I'd vaguely wanted to get back into it at some point.

I've been looking at the Mk4 models and think the Dusk House Kallyss vampire elf stuff looks pretty awesome, but I have to ask, does anyone actually play this again? Is anyone at stores that used to play WMH, is it active there again?

>>96796140
I hate this genre of fantasy where the models look like they come from an early 2010s Korean MMO

>>96794771
What are the best solo games?

>>96782768
>why do white people like dune
it is a cool book idk

>>96796781
They look like they are from Warcraft 3 to me desu, I like them

>>96796803
The best is the one you like the most.

>>96796831
This. Very strong (Wo)Warcraft vibes.
If they are painted more purple-green-ish, you would think its Blizzard Nightelves.

>>96782872
their blue eyes are not genetics so not sure how you think they are aryan

>>96796833
I’ve never played a solo game unless you count me playing with legos by myself and doing voices for all the characters

>>96796781
It's more warcraft, the koreans just copied it and added weebo faces to them.

>>96796140
Yeah, our local OPR tournament for example was also hosting Warmachine with sizable attendance and their massive events been having no issue with numbers (the only time they struggled was when Mk4 launched, as many people quit in protest of edition launch.)

>>96796878
You realize its impossible to recommend you anything specific with your complete lack of information? What good is it if i tell you that Fallout is great, when you hate Post-Apoc settings? Does it help you to know that Five Leagues gives you the opportunity to create your own worldmap, when you hate painting maps? Or if i would tell you that Five Parsecs is great, only for you to find out that it involves a ton of bookkeeping?

>>96795512
Enjoy anon, what's your crew's story

>>96794717
>Some helpful advice I once received from my grandfather was that "If everyone met treated you like an asshole then maybe you are an asshole"
It's kind of funny that there is a certain lack of self-awareness here. Judging by the posts it sounds like your grandfather had good reason to tell you that, but you didn't really receive the message.

>>96796140
It's growing again. It 'dying' and the shift back towards actual terrain use and campaign stuff, and some of the rule changes in MK4 has driven off some of the less savory elements of the player-base.

But like any /awg/, it comes down local area. I know the D.C. area has a strong community.

>>96799294
Honestly that doesn't sound like a bad thing, while I'm not a broke 20 year old anymore I'm a middle-aged dad now and have little enough free time that "active try hard tourney circuit" isn't a draw at all, I just wanna paint some models and lose some friendly games at a shop once or twice a month.

Would anyone happen to know how it there's a scene in the Louisville area again?

>>96794680
I'm always tempted to get some of those guys, cause who doesn't need ghosts? What are you going to do with them?

>>96794998
Oh hey! I have some of those from that cheap buzz lightyear ship I got to make into terrain.

They're basic but look surpisingly okay with even a simple paint up

I usually hate Oathmark figures aesthetically, but I really love these e

>>96779729
Where dod you find that nigger one? I looked on the Northstar website and can't find him. He's cool as hell

>>96800424
Their facebook page, it's not for sale just yet. They often have stuff first revealed on their facebook page for northstarmilitaryfigures

They, and the heavy human lads, and Surma, will be up for preorder for November. In the comments of that post they say that plans for Revenant Cav and Revenant Chariots are in the works.

>>96800129
Neat.

Head a good review of Clash on the Fringe from nordic weasel games?
anyone here played it to confirm-deny it?

>>96795981
A game not so much but I'll paint Raynor and a couple of marines if I can get my hands on them.

>>96794870
>I stoped posting in BTG because they had a faggot post his ass for months.
"Bottom anon" is a fucking narcissistic curse who wandered in from a lefty version of /soc/ and, by rights, should be permabanned.
He's been caught samefagging, replying to himself pretending to be other anons who love him, and sockpuppetting namefags names to either discredit them or make it seem they love and approve of him. And he goes after one anon whom actually posts models constantly because he does German themed minis, and us a better painter than the fag.
Fucking hate him. He's the defining reason why people start suggesting euthanasia as a solution to gays.

How are your Halloween projects going? Painted this Reaper Pumpkin demon, the other Halloween stuff needs more work.

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