Brother Jim Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 The hex map dealies are for generating maps for a campaign and/or a large scale game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristof65 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 For those of us who still play the old Mighty Empires game, the hex tiles are something we're looking forward to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lars Porsenna Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 Depending on how much the hex tiles are, I'm considering buying them for strategic level wargaming (like in our D&D campaign where the threat of war has been ongoing for the last 7 real-world years!). The houses, however, I'm not so keen on: too fantasy (IMHO, even for fantasy games) and so I hear hela expensive (like $125 to start, for the set). I'd rather just scratchbuild in styrene... Damon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanite Posted June 2, 2007 Author Share Posted June 2, 2007 Still like the trees, hopefully they show up discounted: http://store.us.games-workshop.com/storefr...1&GameNav=9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanite Posted June 25, 2007 Author Share Posted June 25, 2007 Unless this is super dinky/really expensive, I'll be buying the heck out of it for my CAV table: http://www.falloutgaming.com/gallery2/main...;g2_itemId=2148 Also, new BFG ships! http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/?p=8380 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintRigger Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 ForgeWorld stuff makes me cry, wail and gnash my teeth. Almost everything they put out is superb, but it is so EXPENSIVE that it makes me cry. My friend bought me one of the Games Day Ork Fighta Pilots and an Imperial Thunderbolt Pilot which are simply stunning. I was *THIS* close to starting my Death Korp force, but I finally broke and didn't spend the money. I was going to pick up two squads, but the $120 made me sad. Also, the Imperial Armor books are stunning, and this latest one is a rather fun read. Once you suspend the disbelief that trench warfare could still exist in the way it did in WWI, in a day of heavy ordinance and air power - it is an exciting read, and chock full of rules, fluff and beautiful pictures. Honestly - why would men line up shoulder to shoulder and still march across no-man's-land in an age of automatic weapons and ordinance. Even the British learned quickly enough that if troops left most of their gear behind and ran in a non-linear line to the nearest trench, they were more prone to survive and take the trench. WWI trench fighters were brutal, as well as using a flame thrower or shotgun to clean out sections of the enemy trench. Makes for good gaming, actually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristof65 Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 I think the Forgeworld stuff is beautiful, but I won't ever buy any of it. Ever. I had just started picking up the Armorcast versions of the Imperial Tanks when GW yanked the license from Armorcast. I paid $30-40 for my Shadowsword, and sure, it's not as detailed as the Forgeworld one, but it's playable - and frankly, I don't particularly worry about it. But if I were to buy the FW version, I wind up paying 4-6 times more for the same tank - and I'd be reluctant to put it on the battlefield. Thank god I had my Eldar Titan and Falcon from Armorcast before GW did that. My other reason is that I've played games with Tim Dupertis and the other guys from ArmorCast at some of the various SF Bay Area conventions. Tim and his crew practically built that market for the larger scale tanks and titans for GW - at least in California - and not only does GW yank the license from them, but then the stuff they release to replace it through FW is so out of the average gamers price range, it isn't funny. So I won't give FW a red cent out of respect for Tim and his old crew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanite Posted June 25, 2007 Author Share Posted June 25, 2007 I kinda hate working with resin, so there's that too. I'd love a Ramillies Star Fort though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lars Porsenna Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 I don't mind working in resin. In fact, with good casts and masters, resin is fun to work with. I have a WWII German FH18 in 1/48 scale on my deskt right now, and it looks fabulous. I only ever bought a pair of Eldar Light Cruisers from Forgeworld. They weren't terrebly expensive, but expensive enough that I was a little dissappointed in the mold line/mold shift I had to deal with (if I pay a premium price for something, I expect a premium product). Damon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokingwreckage Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 I just paid $18 for a Kryomek resin tank. It's small, it's rather odd, and it's a 1992 model at the latest, but the casting is perfect! I got a massive amount of joy out of that. A $500 tank would just give me an ulcer. Also, I have this soft spot for odd, old miniature lines. It's all the stuff I couldn't afford when I was a teenager. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanite Posted July 3, 2007 Author Share Posted July 3, 2007 Gah! How many limbs do I need to sell to get one of these? Also, there are rumors of big-huge, short run, hilariously low-priced boxes of plastics to be released with Armageddon. I may have to get in line for an IG one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintRigger Posted July 3, 2007 Share Posted July 3, 2007 Depends. If you like spending $6-7 a figure, it is right in your price range. If you want an army of hundreds of them.. well.. Space Frenchies. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanite Posted July 3, 2007 Author Share Posted July 3, 2007 Depends. If you like spending $6-7 a figure, it is right in your price range. If you want an army of hundreds of them.. well.. Space Frenchies. :D I already spend that on the occasional Infinity miniature, so sign me up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanite Posted July 5, 2007 Author Share Posted July 5, 2007 So 40K's style is just so lame and over the top, there's no way anyone would build buildings with big statues or gothic... ... Never mind. More detail here: http://www.lileks.com/bleats/archive/07/0707/070507.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristof65 Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 Whoa - where the heck is that thing - the link didn't really say. There is a building here in Denver that just screams 40k to me - I'll try and remember to take a picture of it the next time I drive past it - not as gothic, but a few statues added would make it so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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