The Gamer's Quarter

Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:32 pm Post subject: Tabletop tomfooleries!

Derailing threads has gone on long enough, this is now the place to contain all your tabletop wargaming discussion and all the cool shit that comes associated with it. Well, cool when you are with your like-minded fellows that is. Mention it around someone of the opposite gender and you come off like the old bloke with no friends, in the basement with his trains. Oh dear, all the ones that got away ;_;

Never mind that jive, continue the discussioning.
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The Great Unwashed · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 11:03 pm Post subject:

Hi, my name is Tim, but you might know me as The Great Unwashed.

I bin' playing Warhammer, 40K and Fantasy for about ten years. I run Radical Daemonhunters, Orks and Tomb Kings. I also am a huge GW fanboy anyway, slavering as I am over Warhammer Online and wasting hours discussing how great a 40K MMO could be if they don't shaft it.

I own Hero Quest and I painted all the little figurines.

Yesterday I purchased the repackaged Talisman (link) and it is hands down the prettiest, shiniest and most well-put-together board game I have ever seen. I was holding a copy of the new leaked Codex: Orks PDF hours after it dropped. I printed it out and bound it and had games with it the next day. I look at the Games Workshop site and see they're planning to reduce the number of boyz in the Ork box so you'll get 10 for $50 instead of 16 for $50 and I ponder how many boxes I can afford to buy before they make this change.

I got problems, doc.

I got real problems.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Wow!

Who played Necromunda? Let's talk about Necromunda

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

I hear a Blood Bowl game is being made for XBLA, lads. Remember Mutant League Football?
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seryogin · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:01 am Post subject:

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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 1:12 am Post subject:

I remember Quake 40K: Chapter Honour. I remember it because I thought it was going to be like that RTS mod that someone did instead of the deathmatch with 40k models it turned out to be.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Never actually played it.

Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 1:40 am Post subject:

I once tried doing Space Hulk in DooM II but I never got further than changing the super shotgun into an autocannon in Dehacked.

Oh look, we talked about bloody Warhammer in the FPS thread and now we're on about bloody first person-shooters in the wargaming thread.
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wourme · . Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 362 Location: Maridia

Here are a few of my Warhammer 40K figures from quite a few years ago. I liked to paint (and otherwise customize) them, but I never had enough to really play the game.

The Great Unwashed · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:27 pm Post subject:

Wow! Impressive fins on the Dread. Those are old skool though, kicking it second-edition. Nice work!

Here's some of my stuff. There's some more recent WIPs, but this isn't a 40K forum, so, yep.

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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Neat!

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I use to paint miniatures for DnD... yeah. I wasn't anywhere near as good.
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

If they would just sell molds and really cheap "plasticlay", you could have some real fun with black powder and homemade napalm.

Too expensive otherwise.

I used to make cities out of construction paper, cereal boxes, etc. in a sandbox.

Then comes the fire.
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kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

Tabletop gaming seems to fall in the realm of "things I think would be better if a computer were managing all this detail crap". (Settlers of Catan, same thing)

I like (and still own) that one old Warhammer 40K reference guide, all the nihilistic and bellicose bon mots. ("every man is a spark in the darkness, a fading after image by the time its noticed", that kind of thing)
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ApM · Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:49 pm Post subject:

Whaaa? Kirk, you're crazy. Settlers of Catan is entirely about player interaction.

kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

Right now I'm a lot more fond of Who Stole My FIsh and Ave Caesar. Still a bit strategic but less involved.
I just hate juggling all these resource equivalences and crap needed to figure out what I can make.
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extrabastardformula · . Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 295

I''d like to take a moment to say that the guy responsible for the NPC scripting in Mercenaries and Mercenaries 2 comes from a tabletop gaming background and that he's got a new blog at http://www.squaremans.com/ His name is Matchews and he is a good sort of person.
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kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

extrabastardformula · . Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 295

To hear him say it, he was originally brought in as a freelancer just to write the lines of dialogue and he produced flowcharts of what they should say in various situations since Pandemic wanted it to be like Half-Life instead of having the talky bits in cutscenes. And he pretty much got drafted from punching up the dialogue to squad AI.

Pandemic didn't have a position for AI until he was put in it. It was kind of just something the programmers who didn't make the cut to do the physics stuff ended up doing before.
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