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=ChrisCobraA$$a$$in=
27-12-2000, 03:36
Now i have a life :)
:tongue:
Scarylion
27-12-2000, 11:33
Me to, haha now i dont have to spend my money on piees of metal!
The Arbitrator
27-12-2000, 14:21
*yawn*
Well done, commendable effort here.
Yes, Games workshop seems to be something that almost everyone has tried for some brief period. I am the same. I don't have anything to do with it now but I used to collect Choas stuff. Got a well painted Abaddon somewhere. Looks the biz.
I like to paint models now, but I can't be arsed.
Originally posted by Diablos
I like to paint models now, but I can't be arsed.
What dedication!!!
Missingo
28-12-2000, 23:30
yeah this guy wants to be a mod aswell!
he probabally "can't be arsed" to do that either!!
:eek:
Games workshop seems to be something that almost everyone has tried for some brief period.
Try 10 years (1985-1995). What...a...waste...of...time :)
(And money)
Ah those were the days. I've still got my copy of Warhammer 2nd Edition :)
Unlike CCA I still don't have a life :E
=ChrisCobraA$$a$$in=
31-12-2000, 12:24
rofl
i still got Blood Bowl :)
Warhammer 40 K
and a sh!t load of Eldar squads all painted and look wikked.
and i got that eldar speeder bike :)
Ah lets see what I've got in my cupboard.
MMMmm
Warhammer 2nd, 3rd and 4th Edition (+ most army books)
Warhammer 40k 1st and 2nd Edition (+ some supplements)
Man 'O' War (+ supplements)
Mighty Empires
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (+ sh!t load of supplements :))
Minatures?
3000pt Empire WFB Army
2000pt Eldar 40k Army (fully painted)
3000pt Epic Eldar Army
1000pt Empire, Dwarf, Orc and Norse Fleets for Man 'O' War (all painted)
White Dwarf Issues 86 - 195
Citadel Journal 1-12
What a total waste of money :E
=ChrisCobraA$$a$$in=
01-01-2001, 02:31
lol i remember that
Man o WAR
that the ships?
Yep the best game GW ever made. It was playable and fun (although the ship balance was a bit off in some fleets).
Best of all it was cheap, you could put together a fleet for around £30 - £50 so most of my m8s joined in and we had some cracking games.
GW could learn a lot from the success of Man 'O' War. It's a shame it was discontinued.
=ChrisCobraA$$a$$in=
02-01-2001, 02:12
lol
i like my Eldar Swooping Hawks
the are so l337 :)
Have you seen the price of the games now though, FIFTY QUID for 40k, I mean wtf?!
TWENTY FIVE QUID FOR A FRIGGING DREADNOUGHT!!!!!!!
And GW blame pokemon for its troubles, uh no it's your frigging prices you chimps!!!!
That and the fact you get complete retards to make your computer games.
I mean COME ON, was it soo hard to do a DECENT RTS based on epic or 40k?
Apparently it was IMPOSSIBLE! :laugh:
=ChrisCobraA$$a$$in=
02-01-2001, 02:18
*jerry springer crowd*
W00f w00f w00f w00f!
w00f w00f! :laugh:
I found painting little metal figures too dificult so I moved on to painting inflatables..."BAAA BAAAAAAAA!!!"...who said that? :cheese:
*sigh*
Please stop dissing GW, don't make me take unnecessary action against you, so just stop now, you really are begining to bore me.
I have every right to dis GW mate 800 pounds (MINIMUM) worth of reasons. Space marine 1, 2 , adeptus titanicus, titan legion, epic 40k, warhammer 3, warhammer fantasy battle, 40k, 40k + rogue trader, 40k + battlemanual, + vehicle manual, codex orks, + freebooterz (that couldve been fitted in something the size of ONE issue of WD but nooooo 60 quid to play orks), 40k 3, death bowl, blood bowl.
Those are just the rule books, I've got about 700 quids worth of miniatures.
I know why GW are going down the pan, they arent treating the public with ANY respect, and this realease a new game then dont support it, then cancel it, then release a slightly different version , then dont support it, etc, routine is getting old.
soulessminion oforthadoxy
03-01-2001, 18:28
my name is souless....and i have a problem :laugh:
god damn this thread is like an AA meeting isnt it.
been there myself guys, got quite a large warhammer high elf
army (largely unpainted cause i never got round to it)
i stop playing before i attained the rank of 5th lvl grand master at sitting around a green velvet table in a darkened attic with saddo's in my pants ;)
i used to play too.
dont anymore, i have a bomb load of games a minatures, and i still have.
but they hiked the prices up so much, and when you've been playing a while you notice how they put a dreadnaught up from £15 to a penny short of a £25.
its just the little things!
oh and they scrapped my favourite game.
necromunda, i had spyrers and a van saar gang.
i modded one so he had a space marine rocket launcher too, that was a mean ass weapon in the hive
WeaselFierce
21-01-2001, 14:21
Here's a question for the old men on this forum -- anyone remember the Judge Dredd role-playing game from Games Workshop back in the eighties?
Great game which provided many an excuse for drunken get-togethers with friends over weekends. Ahhh, happy days... :)
I was but a wee nipper back then.
Ok since we are all getting very confessional here i must admit that GW have drained a scary amount of money from me( 40k 2nd+3rd edt, warhammaer edition before present(i got it for a £10 so it's not too bad), necromunda, gorka morka, BFG, spacemarine, titan legions and epic 40k and loads of books(inc wd 164-present) unfortuneatly i am now being influenced by battletech(the horror) but at least you can play that with a few bits of card(although the minis are quite nice).
Anyway enough of my sadness, about the JD roleplaying game i do remeber vague referances to it from very old WDs(about the time they began introducing blue pics on text pages) but i never knew much about it but i do have a really old GW Judge dredd board game that is good fun(but the system for generating crimes and perps is a bit strange when you have to arrest judge death for jaywalking etc).
At last, more peeps here. How many of you still do GW stuff?
WeaselFierce
21-01-2001, 22:24
Haven't played anything for years. Last game I participated in was Necromunda 'cause I could buy one box of miniatures (Escher), paint 'em up nice, and play.
I've been catching up to some old friends over Xmas so hopefully we might hook up for some semi-regular RPG sessions soon. Been trying to get hold of some Castle Falkenstein stuff but it's all out of print now. Bugger my luck! :(
warbossdimmy
22-01-2001, 11:32
u know its good people like u are out of the hobby. u guys spoil it for others. rant over
WeaselFierce
26-01-2001, 20:17
Um... People like who...?
Originally posted by warbossdimmy
u know its good people like u are out of the hobby. u guys spoil it for others. rant over
Hey, chill, he's just more of a casual GW gamer, not as willing to spend as much.
Necromunda was V good though, but I prefered GorkaMorka.
WeaselFierce
26-01-2001, 22:37
Historically I used to be a big fan of Games Workshop stuff. They used to be one of the few UK outlets developing any RPG or Wargame stuff and their miniatures were of a generally great quality.
Over the years though, they became more corporate rather than artistically biased and much of their output seemed garnered to selling bland, samey miniature ranges. Their rulebooks became excessivly over-indulgent, filled with a million and one rule's subsections which only seemed, in my games playing opinion, to confuse the issue rather than streamline the game.
Because, in the end, the reason I played the games or collected the miniatures was because I enjoyed them. I enjoyed getting together with friends, shooting the sh!t and having a good game.
Necromunda was the first game in a long while which re-kindled those fun afternoon gaming sessions and Jes Goodwin's miniatures were superbly detailed and worth collecting. So I bought them. And I enjoyed painting them (and am still proud of the result), and I enjoyed playing the game.
Now, where exactly does any of this 'spoil it for others'? I play or don't play GW (or anyone else's games for that matter) to socialise with my friends. Just because I didn't like most of what GW was doing didn't mean I wished them to fall into the 7th pit of hell. They simply didn't cater to my tastes any more so I stopped buying their stuff. Again, sorry if my lack of market support spoiled it for others but I've got my own life to lead and, to be honest, there were better games and minatures out there (notably GZG's 'Dirtside' and Mark Copplestone's 'Future Warriors') for me to spend my time and money on.
End of counter-rant.
Well, I'll always prefer GW, but you can have ur opinion.
=ChrisCobraA$$a$$in=
28-01-2001, 11:59
:laugh: My Blood Bowl undead team is still undefeated to this day.
Played 60 games won 60 :)
No1 could stop them.
Specially Morgth N Throg (<ahem, we'll have none of that> know how spell it) coz he mashes up the opposition..
And i spent ages paintin them :)
was fun while it lasted :)
[Edited by Diablos on 28-01-2001 at 08:44 PM]
WeaselFierce
28-01-2001, 13:18
My Dark Elf team played a mean throwing game. I tended to win on points but the injury toll on my players was incredible. I kept getting the crap kicked out of my star players :{
AS an alternative to 40k i quite like battletech but it doesn't have quite the same special feel to it, but void and Vor:the malstrom look fairly good.
Battletech was cool, especially when both sides cripple each others Mechs and you end up with both sides lancements battered to bits on the floor firing the one or two guns they have left at each other, or that odd occasion you manage to blow a huge nasty mechs head off before its done anything :laugh: Then there trying to figure out the heat x,y, and z will produce as to weather your mech will explode.
LOl it is that sort of thing that got me into btech(well it was playing mech3 for ages that did it but never mind) in my first game i got very luvky early into the game i mamanged to take out my opponent's awesome with a single shot from my hunbacks ac20, not as spectacular as a ppc or gaus shot but still fun.
I think the game was designed by perverts though, the best tactical position is waist deep in cold water.. need I say more :naughty:
Arachnamus
31-01-2001, 20:46
Shows your mind if you pick that out...
Do not explain, well, not here anywayz.
LordKhaine
05-02-2001, 13:23
Been there, done that, heh
WH40K (1st and 2nd edition, with ALL the add on packs), Warhammer (2nd edition with Battle Magic), Epic and Adeptus Titanicus, Gorka Morka, Necrumunda (with add on pack), Blow Bowl (with add on pack), Space Hulk (with add on pack), Space Crusade (with one add on pack), Warhammer quest. I have White Dwarf's from 153+ to about 240 odd.
As for armys, I had an ork, chaos, and squat army in Epic, An ork, space marine and Imperial Guard army in WH40K, A human and orc team in Blood Bowl, In Warhammer I had an Empire and orc army. In Necromunda I had an Escher gang, a goliath gang, a band of scavvies. In Gorka Morka I had about 3 mobs.
Wonder how much money that totals to :eek:
Stopped it all a few years back, when it just got simplifyed too much (and I got a computer:))
The changes to W40K are a mixed bag, it makes the game pritty fast, possible to have a very large battle in a matter of hours, but I do miss modifiers... So I started playing whf :)
Which do you prefer then?
LordKhaine
06-02-2001, 03:05
The later period of WH40K 1st edition was cool, but I think WH40K 2nd edition was the best mix.
I prefer 40K, with the addition rules and changes it has become quite varied, besides characters are still good, but dont single handedly win battles. Also the from what I know of the Tarranid and Tau codexes its gonna get a whole load better :E
They sure do, I plan to buy a 'Nid army.
Karandras
15-02-2001, 00:31
the nids are cool, I already have a 5000 points.
OMG, that many already? Nice! Like to see a pic soon if pos.
Second edition was the best incarnation of WH40k, less of the obscurity of the 1st edition while still maintaining enough rules for the development of surprising and cunning strats.
The new version is pants, its designed for kids who cant add up dice & modifiers, hell I was 12 when I won the local GW shop wh40k 1500-point tournies every month, why cant other kids learn the rules!
Another reason why GW sucks now - they care more about the cash they can rip from fickle kids than the enjoyment of their hardcore players.
<If you hate it so much now, why are you here?>
[Edited by Diablos on 20-02-2001 at 11:46 AM]
Originally posted by J Z A
Second edition was the best incarnation of WH40k, less of the obscurity of the 1st edition while still maintaining enough rules for the development of surprising and cunning strats.
The new version is pants, its designed for kids who cant add up dice & modifiers, hell I was 12 when I won the local GW shop wh40k 1500-point tournies every month, why cant other kids learn the rules!
Another reason why GW sucks now - they care more about the cash they can rip from fickle kids than the enjoyment of their hardcore players.
The combat rules of 2nd edition were not suited for large battle, they were more suited to scirmish games, like Necromunda.
I agree the new game is damn fast, large game possible in a matter of hours. Having started playing during v2, the fact you cant have 20 refractor field saves etc. is also great, but many things have been over simplified. A few modifiers wouldnt go a miss.
I like Warhammer V2 & 40K V3 best.
Which one was warhammer v2? was that the one with the goblins and elves in the box or is it earlier?
Originally posted by cammey
Which one was warhammer v2? was that the one with the goblins and elves in the box or is it earlier?
I mean the one with Lizardmen & Brettonians with it.
that would be 4th or 5th edt, i can never keep track of them properly.
I didn't know there were that many before it?
I've only been doing GW for the last 4 years, so I'm not too familiar with some of the older stuff.
Well wfb hasn't changed all that much since the release of the first full boxed set(around about wd 152/154 my first copies) the latest version has had the most changes of any release.
Most of the changes are pritty clever and balanced. It is good that for the first time they have designed all the army books at the same time, so the 'making each new army list more unstoppable' thing doesnt happen.
/me thinks of Vampier Counts list and shudders.
Alough the Empier army seems sick, the ditachement rules and all...
I had Vampire Counts, my Vampire Lord won me a battle in on turn, here is how:
My opponent, a Brettonian player, march moves all his cavalry forwards.
I charged his leader who was part of a unit with his sorceress & battle standard, lost badly in combat, but in magic I drew the total power card, & did curse of years on his leader & co, his leader died, as did the battle standard, & over 2/3 of his army flad due to failed panic tests.
BTW this was in old rules.
I once faced Britonians with my Tz Demon army, he charged forwards, I charged his general with my demon Prince, challenged him. Being a cheased up super character he accepted, and died before he do anything. The rest of the army ran as fast as their hoves/legs could and I won turn 1 :E
Rogue Null
25-02-2001, 15:49
Brettonians certainly have mixed fortune :)
I once took out an entire khornate army (complete with knights manticore 2 lords and lots of evil pointy halberd wielding chaos armour guys) in about 3 turns.. It started by my general and his grail knights (fully vamped up) charging the main retinue of the manticore lord.. wipeout in one turn :) the core charge my spearmen and got defeated by the champion despite the unit being reduced to half strength..battle ended with final enemy retinue and lord surrounded completely by knights and commoners.
Of course there was another instance where I fought undead and used the virtue of the lance to good effect (sometimes i am so damn lucky). Took out the only vampire.. rest of his army was essentialy troops and a good 75% of it returned to the grave...
I always give my Vamp the Carstein Ring.
I have an almost invincible Lizardman army. The Slann Lord was in a unit & the unit had an auto dispel, & some other good stuff.
Hmm, yummy, can anyone tell me where I can buy pirate copies of WH40K boxed games? :o)
I collect Chaos Marines, but i've never actually played the darn game...i'd love to! But i'm in a arsehole, and the nearest GW is about 60 miles, besides that i'm not forking-out £50 for it y'know? I just find getting the odd miniature and paintin'-up a never-used army is a nice hobby for any spare spare spare time I might have. Oh yeah, I got Space Hulk about 2 years ago, that was fun for a week or two!
<just had to edit a bit there m8>
[Edited by Diablos on 20-03-2001 at 09:33 PM]
You don't need to buy the whole boxed set(although the land speeder and marines in it are very nice and when mixed with random bits from the bezerker box and other chaos bits and bobs are very cool) GW are seeling the rules books for each main game seperatly nowadays for about £20 still expensive but they are weighty tomes these days, also you can avoid buying the codex books by getting the army biulder software(which works for almost all point based games) and the correct data files, the software costs about £20 and the data files are free(if you can find them) while this software isn't as nice as gw's new spacemarine software it gets the job done, i'll see if i can dig up a link in the mean time you could try looking for someing on the warp.com.
[TSQN] Fu11
21-03-2001, 15:29
Like Asis, I focused on modelling and painting.
Very rarely played the game (properly) other than a few times at a WarGames club I used to attend.
:)
lol, Diablos, what did you have to edit? I can't remember what i posted....
Thanks a lot for that cammey! I heard about them selling the rulebooks seperately a while ago, but I forgot to follow it-up! hehe, the chaos codex is cool, got that a while ago, i just like to ogle over the artwork and read the cool stories. :o) Actually now that I tink on it, no-one else in my area plays WH or WH40K.... I think one or 2 other kids at school play it, but i don't know them, so there wouldn't be much point of me trying to actually play it...and besides, it's not fitting a 5th year lad playin' that stuff when the town's riddled with druggies and alcoholics, i may lose my non-existent street-cred. :oD And game clubs, LOL! There's probably one.......60 miles away!
lol your not as bad as me, here i sit with all the books and minis i need(barely enoguh actually painted but thats my pc's fault), i could join a gamesclub in town, if i knew where to find one but it is impossible to get anywhere except the city centre from where i live, i know there are a few peps who play around here but they all appear to be 5 year olds with the double the amount of money to throw at the hooby that i do.
The Chaos Codex was the worst out of all the 40K ones. The daemon part was a travesty. I also know they are ashamed of it according to the games designers. Thats why its gonna be one of the first realeased for v4 40K. If you wanna read more on Chaos get the WHF Relms of Chaos book. Oh and I'm doing something about the daemon thing.... :)))) Have been for months.
Wow, the Chaos Codex was a sham? I thought it was quite good, hehe.....what made it bad??
I thought the Imp Guard Codex was boring, too human, but that's just me.
Isn't the broing and human part of the imp gaurd the whole point of it?
=ChrisCobraA$$a$$in=
14-04-2001, 03:38
get out my post cam :)
cant beleive this is still running :)
My blood bowl team r0><0rs u all :)
f3ar the und3ad :P
Now that is what we need for mech4, mechbowl!!!!
" and there goes the htor passing along shot down the out side to the cougar but , oh may god the cougar just ran into an atlass and there appears to be an awsome or 2 bearing down on them!!"
Image bood bowl played in battletech :)))))
And the bushwacker goes to pick up the ball!!!
but nooooo the archer just blew its arms off, and one of the cheer leaders just went into melt down. :laugh:
Kamikaze-Duck
30-04-2001, 21:07
GorkaMorka was immense :D
I had out of box brit army, hunting party, 16 men at arms and some *ahem* stolen stuff which I won't say.
I was about 11 and couldn't afford a £12 blister pack, k?
:cheese:
Bugstomper
04-05-2001, 18:03
ooo another forum for me to spam on :)
kami, if you'd paid for it like everyone else then they wouldn't be so expensive in the first place as we wouldn't be paying for your free stuff :/
anyhoo ..
i have shed loads of this stuff ... been playing it since before wh40k (the original rogue trader) even came out (yes i know i shouldn't be playing with toys anymore yadda yadda yadda)... about 15 years or so give or take,
I don't play it so much anymore as no one to play it with :cry: .. most of my mates that used to play it either can't afford to or just can't be arsed to :E
i have ..ermm... pretty much everything :) .. i'm mainly a 40k player at heart, got around 12,000 point (yes i did say that much) Blood Angel army most of it in at least base colours (i hate painting normal marines), got about 3000 of eldar, 2000+ Khorne, 6000 imperial guard (like i said ... been collecting for a long time :) ) 1000 point sisters of battle and a load of miscellaneus stuff with no rules anymore :cry:
warhammer, got a 2500 empire army, 3000 high elve, 1000 khorne, some brets but i use them as allies and not as an army.
Got nearly all the games, except blood bowl because it's pap, and gorkamorka as thats worse :)
got an orlock necromunda team and some other odd figures (i like to paint the more interesting models so i used to buy them just to paint)
haven't played any of the games really for about a year or so mores the pity ... trouble is games workshop is designed for little kiddies now, i used to go down on sundays and join in the big barnies that they had but now instead of 16-40 year olds it's 6-14 year olds and all the little scrotes prod at your figures and break them .. or steal them :angry:
Still .. my mates buying that new inquistor game so we might give that a bit of a bash :)
btw, my blood angels rule ! ... never been defeated in 15 odd years :)
Bugstomper
04-05-2001, 18:25
incase anyones bored and wants to look ... on my website (i use that term loosely) there is some pictures of my troops and some small army lists, they look better in real life (won £50 worth of gift vouchers for my blood thirster :) ,although to look at the photo you'd have to wonder why ..it looks a million times better in real life honest :E )
what ever you do don't read any of the crap on there, i made that site when i was doing my degree and had no idea how to make websites .. luckily geocities comes with an html drop and paste editor.. just click on the links to the army lists, the pictures are with the armies.
http://www.geocities.com/bugstomper1/gamesworkshop.html
please bare in mind that this is a few years old and untouched by a loving hand (or any form of sentence structure) for a while now ... just look at the pictures on the army lists link and ignore the other pap :)
Nice site, couldn't find any army lists tho.
Got a link to em?
Bugstomper
04-05-2001, 19:15
umm .. it's an awful collection of typing and pictures (calling it a site insults real sites tbh :E )
but .. the link you're after is in the PS. bit .. the underlined words, click on them..
here,
http://www.geocities.com/bugstomper1/armylist.html
should have just found that in the first place, like i said .. not used the site in about a year or so ... and just noticed reading it that being a lazy arse when i did update it i never changed any of the wording so it's all jumbled up (although dig those colours :P ), best just look at the pictures i think :E
Bugstomper
04-05-2001, 19:18
when you click on the individual lists, they have the photos of my armys by the side of each entry ... again i remember them as being slightly better photos than that ...seems my memories fading :)
they were taken with the unis digital camera which i "liberated" for the weekend, have to say that they were taken with the utmost proffesionalism and the lighting is spot on (yeah yeah ok .. they were taken in the back garden on a piece of A4 paper as a background sat on top of the barbeque... bah )... ah well, it's the thought that counts :E
=ChrisCobraA$$a$$in=
11-05-2001, 23:09
fs my post still here :)
ok ummmmmmm
my eldar jet bike melted coz i used too much glue on it lol :)
-=Punisher=-
12-05-2001, 22:57
Hey all.
Haven't read the rest of the post.
But is it about just losing interest?
Coa you wil, every one of tou! too much ash, too much time. when u mature there are things like gorls and stuff.
wicked game tho. whadt edition has 40k reached?
jetbikes are coo. i have some on my window lege thieng/
cya.s
sorry bout spelling, been out y'know :E
don't ever say no to cannabis.
Bugstomper
13-05-2001, 16:09
could you be more patronising ?
i am mature, and i have a g/f aswell... so thats that pearl of wisdom of yours gone wrong .
Just as some people like playing computer games, others like tabletop games ... now if it was toy soldiers then fair enough, but we play a battle with rules and die, not peown noises and hissy fits.
The games are becoming more and more "childish" with the dumbing down of all the rules, which is why i'm glad they made inquisitor as it's back to the old rogue trader rules.
They didnt even mention vehicals though, but coming up with rules on the spot for things is fun, my daemon has been flying about twatting people like no ones buisiness, and I came up with its stalines and rules in 10 minutes.
Whoa bugs - nice models :D shame about the dodgy photography :P
I should probably do something about my GW stuff - I've got about 200 quids worth of models sitting around somewhere half of which are unpainted and being an old skool warhammer fan there's no way I'd ever adapt to the new rules (plus you have to shell out 50 quid for the game!).
I shudder to think how much money I spent on the GW over the years.
It has slowly become more and more childish though which seems to be the way that all rpgs etc progress - why? They just lose established players.
I mean I was tempted to buy 3rd ed Ad&d just to read but I learnt that wotc had dumbed it down just like they did with magic when they introduced portal
If anyone wants to buy a large Brettonian army, with a rediculously overpowered Central line up featuring
20 elite cavalry
10 Ogres or so
Dragon mounted lord
then I'll take offers :)
Soory if this sounds a bit stuck up but shurely a 10 orge regiment in a brentonian army is slighty iffy *must not say the b word hhhnnnggggghhhhhh* from what i gather about the brentonians they make elves seem like rabid multiculturalists (is that a word?).
Bugstomper
23-05-2001, 11:03
leady = beardy :P
aye skunk .. we went as far as the lizardmen/brettonian boxed set but thats as far as we go.. i think that was the best balanced version, magic was still good, but not totally over the top like it was in the goblins/elves one.
we made a hooge castle once for warhammer, had a massive siege.
we don't tend to play very often so we have like 1 or 2 massive battles a year with like 20,000 odd points on each side sort of thing ... basically any models we can get hold of and then fight it out to the death :E
We had a great summer campaign when we were all at uni, summer holidays we setup a 8by4 table in my garage and left it all set up for the whole summer .. couple of nights a week we'd each have a turn :E .. 40k battle in a massive ruined city, inspired by "a bridge too far" .. i've always been more of a modeller than a gamer so i tend to make all the scenery for our games, made a huge city scape and a big river with a bridge over it that we both fought over.
Lasted for about 8 weeks as we played it so that when stuff died it was out of action for a set amount of turns then came back on .. so the idea was to push the enemy off the table as past a certain point on the table you weren't allowed to bring on reinforcements, so the battle sort of swung backwards and forwards across this bridge as one side got further into the enemy side of the board but further away from all their reinforcements so they'd get pushed back and the same would happen.
In the end we bought a load of assault marines and seraphims with jump packs, painted them all up (there were no points values .. none of us ever paint our models so we used the game as an excuse to paint stuff .. if it was painted, you could have it .. so the more you painted .. the more stuff you had :E . worked a treat as we now have about 40,000 points of painted imperial guard, dark angels, blood angels, sisters of battle and space wolves)
then assaulted over the river on the flanks of the bridge, took out all his heavy stuff so that we could get our tanks over the bridge without them being blown to bits.
got a load of photos of it all, but they're normal photos and i don't have a scanner.
Those photos on the website were all taken with the univeristies digi-cam .. which is why they're all fuzzy as they looked fine in the view finder on the back :)
Hey the Ogres were valid mercenaries under the warhammer armies supplement! they provided a very necessary foot backbone.
Brettonians have no regard for foot troops so it fits in well.
Oh god I'm relapsing...
Mama|D'MenTo
02-06-2001, 14:26
I bought a Tyranids Box set and the codex, the Codex RoxX0rD, i Just like all the 'History and story' better then actually buying the Toys ;)
Originally posted by Mama|D'MenTo
'History and story'
Thats called fluff, and there was some good stuff in there. Theres more in White Dwarf though, a big section on 'nids each week...
=ChrisCobraA$$a$$in=
11-06-2001, 22:05
rofl
its still alive i see :)
hmm
found me blood bowl stuff :)
kewl :E
Ok they giving custom titles out like pop corn now :(
They are giving titles out to moderators & lucky gits.
insect-man
17-06-2001, 14:10
:eek: I spent a stupid amount of money on WH40k when I was younger. Was a total waste of cash. I remember goin to one of them tour date things once and had to shout out stuff to see who go the first turn. Grown men shouting and grunting and stuff as loud as they could just to see who gets the first go on a board game.
Also whats the relation between GamesWorkshop and spots and beards.
Allways made me think that one :)
Bugstomper
17-06-2001, 15:10
I remember when the bournemouth store opened, when new stores opened in the good old days (before they turned into a finance company rather than a gamers company) they'd have a massive sale on the first day with a load of bargain bins and discount vouchers.... so we got there early :E :student:
But in order for them to let us in when the doors opened at 10am on a saturday, they insisted everyone in the quee, that stretched down the road, gave out a massive ork WAAAAHH thingy, and saddly enough the staff were all in fancy dress warhammer style and got all the people in the quee to give out a massive shout, in a bournemouth highstreet, with loads of people looking at us thinking we're mad (me and my mate did not join in the waaah and just tried to hide in the middle of the quee in stony silence ..luckily no one we knew saw us :E )
they're a strange bunch that hang out and work in the shops ....
Lol i remeber when they used to have the opening and refurbishment sales, the great thing was that in central scotland most are fairly close to each other and if you are desparate enough you could go to any of them.
Oh and have you ver noticed the people who spend more time in the stores than the staff? now they are nuts but good fun and a lot better than the ill educated hordes that populate the stores on a saterday or bankholiday(ie when gameswrokshop becomes a creche so that parents can go shopping in peace), thank god i'm a student and can go in a t odd times :)
Bugstomper
18-06-2001, 11:23
yeah when i was at college in southampton i always went into the store at lunch times and stuff to do some painting .. with none of the kiddies in there (all at school) you get a decent enough bunch in there ... not the gimps and chimps but just normal non-smelly people
GW stores really have to sort out their ventalation .. i never go in on weekends when they have newbie days as it's full of little kiddies and the place reaks of sweaty people :/
PyscoFalcon
19-06-2001, 13:11
I played alot of Man O War before I started collecting High Elves for Warhammer :E
The stores own, I am good m8s with all the SLough current/ex staff, just getting to know the brighton crowd now.
D MONSTER
21-06-2001, 19:32
I've been into GW stuff for over ten years now. I got pretty much everything.... <sheepish grin>. I still enjoy it, people slag it for having too many kids involved but this hobby is what YOU make it. Don't like playing kids? Well don;'t play kids - sheeeesh some people.... ;)
Heres a VERY rough list of the stuff i've got:
WFB
Orc & Goblin army
Chaos Warrior army
Brettonnian army
Vampire Counts army
WH40k
Dark Angels army (HUGE!)
Eldar
Dark Eldar
Chaos marines
Imperial guard
EPIC 40k
Imperial army (guard & marines)
Small ork army
BFG
Imperial fleet
Space marine fleet
Eldar fleet
Chaos fleet
Necromunda
Orlocks
Goliaths
Spyrers
Ratskins
Mordheim
Skaven
Sisters of sigmar
human mercenaries
And LOADS of other assorted stuff.
In all i reckon they're must be about £2000ish worth of stuff sitting upstairs now...
Bloody hell!
Never thought about it like that before. Think i need a lie down....
;)
lol for bfg i have a huge ork fllet(like 5/6 kroozers some of each) and lots of escorts thanks to the GW clearout, oh and does anyone need chaos despoiler grand criusers i have about 4(the down side of grabbags).
I use up all meh grab bag stuff, some how, some day. Pritty l33t at it now. Any unteccie bits normally become chaos spawn for my daemon army, tech bits find their way onto my vehicals, and soo inquistor band :D So many of the ods and ends of guns and vehicals can own on larger models.
D MONSTER
22-06-2001, 06:58
Hey cammey, how much you willing to sell the despoilers for?
how much are you offering and how much would the postage etc be?
oh ps does anyone else here subscribe to WD? and if so did you get an extra copy this month? i did and i'm not shure what to do with it(too lazy to phone them).
I got just the one coppy this month.
Ur just lucky methinks.
My subscription ran out and too poor to get another one....
Gotta renew mine 2moro.
Gonna get a 2year one, £25 vouchers.
Hmmmmm.
= 2 Juggernauts!
lol my 2 year one will be up in novemeber i think(maybe sooner i hope they will remind me) ah well i just took out a 3 year subscription to pcgamer so wd shouldn't be a prob.
Kamikaze-Duck
01-07-2001, 13:11
Heheh, I once phoned up mail order and asked for a copy of the free troll which contained newly released models. They insisted I span around 3 times and screamed I want troll. I put the phone down and stopped playing Warhammer. :|
D MONSTER
01-07-2001, 15:49
lol
That's pretty funny. I went for a job interview at GW glasgow once. it was great fun. They took a group of us downstairs and set up a flip chart with 20 questions on it. You had to stand up in front of everybody and answer them. But the questions werew pretty daft. Things like "Who's your favourite female and why?" and other daft stuff. Then we all had to show off our models which was pretty smart then we all played this daft Squig Hopper racing game.
Best job interview i've been to. Didn't get the job though... :(
Lol i did think about applying to GW for a job then i realised that i can't paint and thought about how many hundreds of others play GW stuff in the city(glasgow now more or less has 3 stores if you include east kilbride, not quite london's 6 or so but almost there) bah maybe one of thse days i'll reply to I-Kore's emails and see about a job with them in edinbourgh.
D MONSTER
02-07-2001, 20:34
You get those e-mails too? I considered applying, I'm currently looking for a new job. The only prob is - I don't play Void...
It looks pretty good and all, just that i'd have a hard time trying to find opponents (even harder than trying to find Warhammer opponents).
Methinks that'sd pretty much scupper all chances of a job with I-Kore. Damn shame, if i got a job with them i wouldn't even have to move...
I don't actually play it and have never bought anything(very tempted) i just got the free rule book, but if they are so desperate for staff i am shure we could fool them :)
Now if there was just a local gamesclub of any discription around here(be it historical, GW, void, HG fasa, or steve jackson games)
Kamikaze-Duck
04-07-2001, 12:59
But do you really want to become one of them...
these mad obsessed ork fans. tis rather weird.
D MONSTER
04-07-2001, 18:40
lol @ cammey
Yeah i just got the free rules as well. Seeing as i'm gonna be made redundant in a couple of weeks :( I might actually try and blag that job with I-Kore. Hell, what's the worst that could happen?
BTW what did you think of Void? The rules looked okay (nothing spesh but not bad). The initial figure range shown in the rulebook was pretty good but limited in my opinion. However i just took a gander at some of the newer models on the I-Kore website and i gotta say that some of the figs are SWEEET!
Hey cammey, you live in Scotland somewhere right? We should meet up for a game sometime in a GW store or somewhere. Pretty much EVERYBODY in Scotland can get to Glasgow or Edinburgh without too much hassle! <grin>
i quite liked the void rules i gave them a cvouple of shots using standin GW models and they seemed OK and a bit better than the VOR rules in my opinion. It would be cool to meet up for a game it might even give me the prompt i need to finish painting my bezerkers :)
D MONSTER
07-07-2001, 01:06
hehehe....
Finish painting berzerkers? I've got two BOXES of them that aren't even opened yet. Not to mention a Chaos lord and a load of Bloodletters all still in their blisters....
Actually i like putting the bezerkers together but when ever i buy a box of them i have to buy a box of other marines(tactical marines or blood claws) so i have about 3 big bezerk squads needing done and lots of "basic" chaos marines of course some of the models are still inj bits after the great crash of last year where my little sister accidentially knocked about 4 large GW cardboard boxes off my shelf most bits are repairable but putting my aramgeddon sentinals together is annoying(the metal roof bits make them a bit too top heavy).
jimmygriff
27-07-2001, 19:06
I know wot u mean guys, I used to buy ****-loads for a few years, until I realised I was only interested in the painting, so why not just buy airfix models? much cheaper!
although I must say, Blood bowl is still a great game!
Nah the games pwn, Im addicted to all things Inquisitor atm.
Bugstomper
28-07-2001, 11:56
i've finally stuck my inquisitor Artemis model together !!
going to go spray it today, although i'm painting some tyranids at the moment as we're going to have a big invasion game sometime once we have enough models painted up (ie 10 years time :) )
TheFlaminSheep
28-07-2001, 17:14
inquisitor is great you should se my bro's 3 deatwatch marine conversions, librarian, and 2 regular troopers(one really cool salamander chapter) i have a cool desperado based o slick so it dont look ****, a daemon host i aint done yet, a coo inqusitor like Lichenstien in last months white dwarf, a really spiff rouge trader and his alien bounty hunter friend(predator-esque)
Aardvark
28-07-2001, 20:17
Oo blimey, my scruffy past in GW :) And then I got a computer, ho hum :E
At last someone else who remembers 'old' GW bug, I still have Rogue Trader on my bookshelf and can see it from here :) /me writes list of all GW gubbins:
Rogue Trader
WHFB 3rd Ed
WH40K 2nd Ed
Space Marine (Epic 2nd Ed I think?)
Titan Legions (*sob*)
Blood Bowl 2nd Ed
Necromunda
Codices Orks, Imp Guard, Space Wolves, Ultramarines, Eldar, Chaos, Tyranids
WH Armies Orcs & Goblins, Empire, High Elves, Undead, Chaos, Dwarfs
And many MANY amounts of armies for all of those, as well as Necro and BBowl gangs/teams.
Still have it all, mostly unused. I shudder to think at the cost of it all. And I stopped collecting when I was 15! I of course blame the parents :)
Ah dear titan legions it never got the support it deserved(ie it is only now that we get the warmonger titan that is mentioned in the rule book(including it's reactor rules)).
I finished my alien creature last week, its more sculpting than convertion, its big hairy, and is suppose to hunt tyranids :E I may try an get a picture of it on the web eventually. Oh working on meh Squatt atm.
[ ]\\[ ]oodles
30-07-2001, 18:48
I used to love that game i had the coolest space wolf army with a converted commander blokey from some special char an some lightning claws but thats the past
i gave up because the ppl who decide prices at games workshhop r retards i mean 12 fricking quid for a box of 10 models?
thats almost a pound each
and the less said about dread noughts and big things the better.
then i got a comp......ah well :D
happy days were those of space wolf and ork then i knocked the commanders over...sod
\me looks for super glue
:/
Depends if you think its worht the price.
I do. :D
[ ]\\[ ]oodles
30-07-2001, 21:37
I thought so too until i realised just how much other stuff i could buy for the same price its ridiculous
if u all uprise and leave games workshop until they lower prices ill come back
but until then i might go buy a white dwarf
sod....here we go again methinks
\me kisses money goodbye
Its depends I see it as an investment aswell, with a fair degree of painting and convertions an army can be worth 2/3 times it shop brought value. If you use a gaming club then you can probably get to know what sorta of trading goes on. There is also Friday adds etc.
Hey Cobra!!! long time no c m8. It be me, TrIg :P
contact me on icq or msn if ya got em...
<I really think you'd be better off emailing him, as I don't think he's posted here in a while - Diab>
[Edited by Diablos on 12-08-2001 at 10:34 PM]
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