Nanite Posted July 15, 2009 Author Share Posted July 15, 2009 Last game I really tried to play Infinity. The player base just evaporated one day though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lars Porsenna Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Ugh! DBA! If we mix in historicals, I have a WotR Yorkist army up on cinder blocks (cause Lancastrians are usurpers!), a bunch of mid-13th C Germans, the core of a Late Republican Romans, and if someone doesn't stop me, I'm gonna buy the core of a Gothic army, as well as expand my Palmyrans (all in 15mm). I should note these are NOT for DBA... Damon. EDIT: How could I forget my beloved Seleucids. Cleaned up a bunch of Cataphracts today at work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erion Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 I do have some infinity figures, but mostly to paint. I don't hold any hope of Actually playing a game of it. Like, ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanite Posted July 15, 2009 Author Share Posted July 15, 2009 Gah, and how could I forget all my spaceships. Fleets and fleets of ships. When the zombies come, I'm building barricades with my lead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warlordgarou Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Ugh! DBA! If we mix in historicals, I have a WotR Yorkist army up on cinder blocks (cause Lancastrians are usurpers!), a bunch of mid-13th C Germans, the core of a Late Republican Romans, and if someone doesn't stop me, I'm gonna buy the core of a Gothic army, as well as expand my Palmyrans (all in 15mm). I should note these are NOT for DBA... Damon. EDIT: How could I forget my beloved Seleucids. Cleaned up a bunch of Cataphracts today at work... I'm not going to claim any great affinity for DBA, but Michigan has more historical cons than anything else. And a couple DBA armies will give me an even odds chance of actually being able to play a game, instead of having to have armies for 25mm Vietnam, 15mm ACW Skirmish, 25mm home-brewed zombies, 1/1200 Napoleonic naval, 1/285 WW II microarmor homebrew, etc. Edit - and I forgot Silent Death. Was looking into a couple other space systems as well, and have contemplated Heavy Gear for something like 2-3 years. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanite Posted July 17, 2009 Author Share Posted July 17, 2009 So I had a Blastscape set on order, and apparently, it's awful. It's probably sitting at my doorstep right now. I ordered it because I liked the Moonscape craters quite a bit, but these sound like they're not up to par at all: http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/2009/07/16/28371 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erion Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 A Buddy of mine reports that the ones he received are steaming piles of something not terribly pleasant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warlordgarou Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 Wow. I'm kind of ambivalent to the GW terrain, but those are really, really bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damn Lucky Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 Anyone in their right mind has those gothic ruins assembled and in use, nanite. For what it's worth, I built a Tau-themed Bastion in about three hours using an overturned plant pot, hammerhead tank bits I had laying around, and some odd-shaped plastic containers I had saved in my terrain building box. It's very much inspired by the Tau Listening Posts from the Dawn of War: Dark Crusade Video Game, but everyone who has seen it has been raving. I don't have access to the pictures here at work, but I'll try and post some later tonight. By The Time I replace certain hammerhead parts by getting them from The Warstore, It'll probably end up costing me about $15 to build each one, and I plan to do three. I've got an idea for a Landing Pad, too, but that comes later and probably won't cost nearly as much. Just to add. I'm working on jungle terriean at the moment by cutting up take aquirem plants and glueing them to 6x6 bases for planet strike. Since I play Tyranids and I want to use the hyper tropic flora Statagem. =3 Sadly it looks like I will other have the buckle down and get GW trees, or order cheeper trees off the internet. (but once you put in shipping. Not really saving that much...) =/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erion Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 Just to add. I'm working on jungle terriean at the moment by cutting up take aquirem plants and glueing them to 6x6 bases for planet strike. Since I play Tyranids and I want to use the hyper tropic flora Statagem. =3 Sadly it looks like I will other have the buckle down and get GW trees, or order cheeper trees off the internet. (but once you put in shipping. Not really saving that much...) =/ Look into Woodland Scenics Tree Kits. Much more real-looking than GW's $25-for-three trees. You can get a bags of them in varying heights for $15-$20. Build some foamcore or plasticard bases and you're in business. The 36-count bag at the top of the page is great. I bought one three years ago or so and just used the last trunks a few weeks back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokingwreckage Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 Woodland scenics trees: The trunks without foliage are great dead or blighted trees, really really great. I spent about $150 AUD on trees, foliage and glue, and got enough to completely cover two big tables with medium density forest (not that I've gotten around to finishing that project yet). Tip: hobby-tack glue is not good for gaming terrain. Use a gel superglue. Also, do not attempt highlights with different-shade foliage. Also the super-cool super-detailed foliage is not worth the extra effort, clump foliage is more than adequate. Overall the tree armatures plus clump foliage are totally gorgeous, super fast to assemble, and cheap as dirt. They come in three or four shades of green plus vivid autumn colours. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanite Posted July 24, 2009 Author Share Posted July 24, 2009 GW posted pictures of the production blastscape painted up: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/...odId=prod20010a Pathetically, I probably still would have bought them. More pathetically, I don't get home until after 6:00pm, and it's too late to pickup packages, so I still haven't gotten mine. Also sounds like the Imperial Strongpoint set (two bastions, three defense lines), got turned into a splash release, and they're sold out for independants. Nice of GW to tell us that in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erion Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 I'm in a 40k funk right now anyway. I built that first Tau bastion and haven't done anything since. People are talking about Warmachine and Uncharted Seas and I am getting distracted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristof65 Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 I've been following that whole Dakka Dakka thread about the Blastscape, and man - there are some really unreasonable GW bashers there. I'm not a GW fan by any means, but come on - anyone who's spent any time at all in a manufacturing business should be able to at least understand that sometimes crap like this happens, and it's very rarely because a company is out to scam it's customers. I do think GW f'd up in using pre-production masters, but hey, they aren't the first gaming company to make that mistake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 GW posted pictures of the production blastscape painted up: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/...odId=prod20010a Actually, from the photos of real production blastscapes that people have been recieving, the photos on the GW website are probably the original masters painted up and looking nice. The actual production blascape pieces have no where near the level of detail present in those photos. There was a long discussion of this on one of the 40K boards and just about everyone who had ordered these things was returning them they were so bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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