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Re: Self-isolation is feeding my Warhammer addiction

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Post by tibbydudeza »

russellbeattie wrote: post #26
tibbydudeza wrote: post #12

The Emperor protects. But it is simply amazing to see the amount of work being output by The Gaming Workshop in this Universe. The amount of audio books and novels and depth of world building is simply mind boggling and here I thought Lord of the Rings/Wheel Of Time was huge.

I actually started reading some of these novels for this exact reason. I figured that if I liked them, I'll have plenty to keep me occupied for the next several years. Didn't like the Inquisitor novels, so I stopped that series. The Horus Heresy got a little bogged down in the second book, so I read a summary online and decided to skip the other 50 books (LITERALLY). But the first book in the Gaunt's Ghost series has…

Well they finally got to Horus and his legions attacking Terra in circa 2019 ... the first book in the series was published in 2006.

I normally just check out the author (Dan Abnett) or the particular storyline of the plotl (Emperor/Custodes/Alpha Legion/Mechanicus/Titans) before committing myself to listen to the audiobook as they are very well done.

Re: Self-isolation is feeding my Warhammer addiction

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Post by lososos »

InitialLastName wrote: post #36
fwn wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On Tuesday afternoon Lichess (a popular free and open source chess service) showed a notification that they're "dealing with connection issues due to peak online users". The live stats panel showed around 60k players in around 25k games.

Is it just rounding, or is there some way for more than two players to participate in a game?

Likely people are observing games.

Re: Self-isolation is feeding my Warhammer addiction

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Post by bsharitt »

larzang wrote: post #39
Symbiote wrote: post #10

I haven't played the game since about 2001, when my friends decided it wasn't cool any more. They (we) moved on to Magic: the Gathering instead, which was a problem as I was the teenager with by far the least money in our group. My parents had just about accepted that Warhammer was expensive but intricate and time-consuming (equivalent to my dad's train set in the 1950s), but 15 cards for £$€ ? No way. I more-or-less…

Being an adult warham is kind of a mixed blessing, at 19 I had no money and all the time in the world, at 36 I have no problem affording my plastic addiction but little free painting time. At least now with the virus I'm 100% work from home, which gives me an extra 90 free minutes a day from not commuting.

Yeah, I've the problem that I can afford what ever I want, though I think I've done a pretty good of keeping the majority of it painted. Probably got about 20,000 points of Age of Sigmar painted. Oddly I think my time spent painting has gone down since I started working from home a year and a half ago. Probably because I now work at the same desk where I hobby, so I don't want to sit there after work.

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Post by Fnoord »

Symbiote wrote: post #10

I haven't played the game since about 2001, when my friends decided it wasn't cool any more. They (we) moved on to Magic: the Gathering instead, which was a problem as I was the teenager with by far the least money in our group. My parents had just about accepted that Warhammer was expensive but intricate and time-consuming (equivalent to my dad's train set in the 1950s), but 15 cards for £$€ ? No way. I more-or-less…

Magic, yawn. I played it back in the 90s. The pinnacle of P2W, no matter the format. If you play Type I you face the very expensive power nine cards. If you play Type II every time a new expansion comes out, all your old cards are a goner. If you play something in between, its a hybrid between these two. Hearthstone successfully copied it.

Total War: Warhammer II is a great game which you can play solo and coop. Same for Borderlands 3, a steampunkish FPS (on sale for 50% on Steam until the 20th).

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Post by Fjolsvith »

bencollier49 wrote: post #33
noelwelsh wrote: post #32

I never really got into the miniature / battle side of Warhammer. It just doesn't appeal to me for some reason. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, on the other hand, I greatly enjoyed. It's a fantastic world in which to create stories and it's also a heck of a lot cheaper. The mechanics are bit clunky compared to modern roleplaying systems, but it is easy to adapt modern systems to the setting if you so desire. The battle g…

I thought the career / profession mechanics in WFRP were very clever. Never bought it myself, just coveted my friends' copies back in 1991 or something.

Character development in WFRP was so attractive coming from D&D, but dammit, gameplay was so deadly and lethal.

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Post by beedyg »

thebouv wrote: post #48
beedyg wrote: post #28

"A friend who plays more tabletop games than I do tells me that — in terms of the mechanics — as tabletop games go, it’s middling" absolutely, just played my first few games of Infinity recently (yes plural each game took around an hour) and was blown away by how much more fun it was to play. The next day we were trying to organise the next session. That never happened with 40K because the games were exhausting and m…

My whole group was in on Infinity for a long time. But eventually the intricacies of Infinity rules gets to you. It is a dense DENSE ruleset that requires constant referral to the rulebook. It is fun. It is a great setting. But I know it wears on some people due to its complexity. After a week of work where I'm heavy on the brain-stuff, I've decided I want my games dumber than Infinity.

Since we were only playing the most basic rules (it was our first time) I did wonder if it would be as much fun playing with more of the rulebook. There is a new simplified version coming out so I'm hoping that maintains the fun/complexity balance we found.

Re: Self-isolation is feeding my Warhammer addiction

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Post by Fjolsvith »

simonh wrote: post #2

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2020/03/04/primarch

My favorite RPG theme comics:

Order of the Stick: https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0001.html

Keep on the Borderlands: http://thekeepontheborderlands.thecomicseries.com/comics/fir...

Both are SFW.

Re: Self-isolation is feeding my Warhammer addiction

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Post by crankylinuxuser »

Fnoord wrote: post #54
Symbiote wrote: post #10

I haven't played the game since about 2001, when my friends decided it wasn't cool any more. They (we) moved on to Magic: the Gathering instead, which was a problem as I was the teenager with by far the least money in our group. My parents had just about accepted that Warhammer was expensive but intricate and time-consuming (equivalent to my dad's train set in the 1950s), but 15 cards for £$€ ? No way. I more-or-less…

Magic, yawn. I played it back in the 90s. The pinnacle of P2W, no matter the format. If you play Type I you face the very expensive power nine cards. If you play Type II every time a new expansion comes out, all your old cards are a goner. If you play something in between, its a hybrid between these two. Hearthstone successfully copied it. Total War: Warhammer II is a great game which you can play solo and coop. Same…

A few of us have did successfully a Non-play2win format, called "Commoner decks". All cards have to be commons.

Also, commander games in groups also defeat the P2W ideal - if one person grows too fast and is too big a threat, everybody else will smash them. I've played games with 11 people before. The nail that sticks high gets the hammer.

Re: Self-isolation is feeding my Warhammer addiction

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Post by ssully »

thickbill wrote: post #11

I'm curious how video game sales will be affected by COVID-19. Anecdotally, I've noticed all my friends who were never previously interested are now messaging me about setting up group matches in Age of Empire, Fortnite, Civilization.

Similar anecdote from me; it's been much easier to get friends together for an online game night.
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