Holy shit I can't believe GW finally did it.
Print on demand for people interested in the books with the better covers but not the signatures. Customers won't have to rely on scalpers and ebay, they can just buy what they want and it's only taken them a decade for someone at their HQ to figure this out.
They are also pushing "Armageddon" boxes hard. Not sure what those are. I assume new discount boxes. The ork one is tempted as my Dad loves trikes and the orks are riding some.
Yeah it's just the latest wave of discount boxes like the previous "eye of terror", "maelstrom", "500 worlds", and so on. They did similar at the end of 9th with the arks of omen boarding whatever boxes for that boarding action "game mode" they tried to introduce then.
There was a non-GW game, I forget the name. Some skirmish game set in a Venice like city. The game featured a lot of jumping around. So the terrain is all balconies and stairs.
Then there's Infinity. The game is more expensive than 40k (at least where I live) but some sets have a bunch of buildings with stairs meant for rooftop sniping.
It's expensive in the US too. $100-130 MSRP for an action pack to have a usable team of 9-10 minis, and if you want to mix things up the boxes of 2-6 minis run $35-$90 with some of the solo minis being $30-55(there's also some that run like $20), and maybe 10-15% off from an online retailer. At that rate you're going to be in for $150-200 for 15 minis just to have a couple options for one army and that's before terrain or anything else. The "essentials" box is cheap, but it also only has 6 minis in it and a couple pieces of terrain along with a few dice and rules. It's not so expensive I'd never consider it, but the game is definitely expensive for what you're getting especially if there isn't already a decent size community for it.
There was a non-GW game, I forget the name. Some skirmish game set in a Venice like city. The game featured a lot of jumping around. So the terrain is all balconies and stairs.
I get that Age of Sigmar is memed on, but it is kinda funny that my local community is tempting me to get it, a lot more people play Spearhead at my game store than they do 40k
For context I think only like 4 people actually play full sized 40k games, while the store has 12 people in a spearhead league.
Spearhead being a more fleshed out game than combat patrol is genuinely hilarious. I just wish the normal human faction didn't look so bad, because I don't like Ground Marines all that much
I get that Age of Sigmar is memed on, but it is kinda funny that my local community is tempting me to get it, a lot more people play Spearhead at my game store than they do 40k
For context I think only like 4 people actually play full sized 40k games, while the store has 12 people in a spearhead league.
Spearhead being a more fleshed out game than combat patrol is genuinely hilarious. I just wish the normal human faction didn't look so bad, because I don't like Ground Marines all that much
The Cities of Sigmar being fleshed out with their dopey human centric with fat people and generic fantasy armor when it used to be a dumping ground for all the pre-AOS shit is the biggest downgrade ive seen, could've atleast gotten that back now that you can buy the pre AOS minis, but i suppose that one bit about GW allegedly not wanting too much game cross compatibility is true
The Cities of Sigmar being fleshed out with their dopey human centric with fat people and generic fantasy armor when it used to be a dumping ground for all the pre-AOS shit is the biggest downgrade ive seen, could've atleast gotten that back now that you can buy the pre AOS minis, but i suppose that one bit about GW allegedly not wanting too much game cross compatibility is true
I get that Age of Sigmar is memed on, but it is kinda funny that my local community is tempting me to get it, a lot more people play Spearhead at my game store than they do 40k
For context I think only like 4 people actually play full sized 40k games, while the store has 12 people in a spearhead league.
Spearhead being a more fleshed out game than combat patrol is genuinely hilarious. I just wish the normal human faction didn't look so bad, because I don't like Ground Marines all that much
It's funny to laugh at Sigmar but it's overall okay and inoffensive. Some ideas are good and models can look really nice, and the jump from Fantasy allowed it to have a much better background than the average high fantasy series.
Shame the last two Gotrek books released were miserable to read, the first trilogy was pretty good.
It's funny to laugh at Sigmar but it's overall okay and inoffensive. Some ideas are good and models can look really nice, and the jump from Fantasy allowed it to have a much better background than the average high fantasy series.
Shame the last two Gotrek books released were miserable to read, the first trilogy was pretty good.
That might be my problem with it. It's safe "dark" Fantasy in a way that's similar to something like Trench Crusade. Where they are too afraid to really tackle dark shit like old Warhammer and old 40k were.
Modern 40k has started to suffer the same problem to be fair. But AOS started off watered down.
even better
proud unwashed peasants with crooked teeth proudly brandishing their AP2 halberds
oddly multicultural group of mutts with retarded shields, trinkets, and not a single pole-arm in sight. If anything the art makes them look cooler than they are
even better
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oddly multicultural group of mutts with retarded shields, trinkets, and not a single pole-arm in sight. If anything the art makes them look cooler than they are View attachment 9075624
Yeah if I do end up getting into spearhead and don't end up getting Stormcasts since I can put helmets on all of them, I'll end up getting Cities of Sigmar and painting all of them white.
@Mr Clark
TTCombat does a bunch of knock off MDF versions of other games terrain. Like this not-Necromunda set.
and the previously mentioned Carnevale stuff.
I can't find it, but I remember them doing the Mordhiem starter terrain, which is some ruined buildings with ladders and walkways between.
Here's the battle systems version of the same kit, which is printed carboard.
I have never bought from these companies, or played Mordhiem. I just heard repeatedly the terrain was fantastic, and it looks pretty vertical.
Iirc, the praise for Mordhiem and why it's terrain is recommended is, aside from value for money which doesn't apply, it was supposedly universal. Dense for a skirmish game, or spread it around for a full size game, and the generic farmhouse theme worked for virtually any setting. It was also modular without being annoying about it.
I don't mind cities much, though I prefer the guns. Nothing like bringing a cannon to a swordfight.
But, I see a lot of CoS kitbashes on youtube. The reason being you get your big centerpiece from GW (like the cannons) and then fill out the rank and file with historicals you can get for a fraction of the price*.
If you want GW proportions, Warlord are more heroic in scale (or their Bolt Action stuff is at least, I never played their other games), and I used to single the praises of Wargames Atlantic a lot, but most history buffs seem to like Perry and Victrix. Never used Perry. Victrix are super cheap, but I bought their late war German kit for Bolt Action K47 and hated it.
*If Spearhead is your game though, it's false economy to go third party.
Print on demand for people interested in the books with the better covers but not the signatures. Customers won't have to rely on scalpers and ebay, they can just buy what they want and it's only taken them a decade for someone at their HQ to figure this out.
They went to print on demand because not only was the standard edition (that I got, which showed up with the flimsy paper slipcase fucked, whatever but annoying) semi-impossible to get, but the god damn special edition apparently got shipped to a handful of physical stores only for release. Originally, you were going to have to travel to a GW store (potentially hours) to maybe get the 1 or 2 that store would have. Instead, some stores got 20 and some got 0.
Like, six or seven stores in Europe period and a few in America, essentially at random and accident. They realized it would be too expensive to have them shipped back so they had the stores trash them. Torn up and pitched.
Now they offered print to order because the original signed versions literally no longer exist because they fucked it up at every step of the way.
The standard hardback are.... fine quality wise at least, the 'slipcase' pisses me off when they market it with one though.
Hopefully the book is at least good, I heard positive things.
They went to print on demand because not only was the standard edition (that I got, which showed up with the flimsy paper slipcase fucked, whatever but annoying) semi-impossible to get, but the god damn special edition apparently got shipped to a handful of physical stores only for release. Originally, you were going to have to travel to a GW store (potentially hours) to maybe get the 1 or 2 that store would have. Instead, some stores got 20 and some got 0.
Like, six or seven stores in Europe period and a few in America, essentially at random and accident. They realized it would be too expensive to have them shipped back so they had the stores trash them. Torn up and pitched.
Now they offered print to order because the original signed versions literally no longer exist because they fucked it up at every step of the way.
The standard hardback are.... fine quality wise at least, the 'slipcase' pisses me off when they market it with one though.
Hopefully the book is at least good, I heard positive things.
f you want GW proportions, Warlord are more heroic in scale (or their Bolt Action stuff is at least, I never played their other games), and I used to single the praises of Wargames Atlantic a lot, but most history buffs seem to like Perry and Victrix. Never used Perry. Victrix are super cheap, but I bought their late war German kit for Bolt Action K47 and hated it.
Perry's is spot on since it was the same scupltors as the old Empire models, a little box of their mercs gets you 12 infantrymen with spears/pikes or halberds, 12 crossbowmen, 12 gunners and full command with some command figures you can use to kitbash characters (i think its 40 models total), Warlord's pike and shot line as mentioned are very much more smaller than Perry models and much more realisticly sculpted, not heroic scale at all, i got a little box of their greatsword fellas and they ended up being manlets compared to the perry figures, if you separate them they look fine, though.
Havent bought them but they also have War of the Roses French and English that could work well, id reckon you could have a box of those and get a pretty good Bretonnian force full of peasants and a couple foot knights, although id reckon that you could also get decent results with Oathmark dudes for Bretonnia as long as you do a shield swap. Its a shame 40k is so specific due to their consolidation of their IPs that you cant really get anything that even vaugely looks like a space marine or guardsman third party, at best the WGA shit for the obscure IG regiments, maybe Marcher will end up decent if they do more plastic kits
