The GRcade Tabletop Gaming & Miniature Painting Thread (Warhammer etc)

PostRe: Which Warhammer army... by **Garth** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 3:12 pm

Lagamorph wrote:Oh, and updated the thread title

Hell yeah! :mrgreen:

I've been buying some Hordes minis recently (specifically Legion of the Everblight) as I've heard really good things about Warmahordes. In almost 20 years of wargaming it's my first non-GW miniatures game and so far I'm impressed! Great idea to have the unit rules come with the models (though I see this is pretty widespread outside of GW games), and the books are of a high standard. For now I'm just focusing on getting minis I really like the look of, as some of the older sculpts look a bit naff.

I'm also currently looking into Firestorm Armada by Spartan Games to scratch my spaceship battles itch (used to have a BFG Chaos fleet).

BTW, if any of you are interested in Ogre Kingdoms for Warhammer fantasy, be sure to stop by my website: http://www.ogrestronghold.com

Damageinc wrote:I got back into warhammer about 3-4 months ago. Currently got high elf and chaos warrior armies. While I like putting the models together and playing the games with them, I don't like painting them (probebly doesn't help that I'm really bad at it)

oh dear.

i sold 99% of mine on ebay or to kids in the store, who would pay more for painted stuff, lazy buggers.

tbh what put me off even more than the prices was the direction they have gone.

i mean, a campaign we would do, in store or at my old mates house (he was a GWS staff member, lost interest in GWS, lost interest in friend, all they play now days is battletech and i haven't the effort anymore).

gothic - for the battle in space before invasion of planet leading on to...
epic - for the early massive battles after planet fall to gain several objectives which would effect...
40k - for company sized games about indiviual objectives leading on to...
nercomunda - for squad on squad / plattoon sized actions which can lead on to....
inquisitor - character games.

now they've combined it all into 40k apocalypse which doesn't suit 40k, or epic imo and nercomunda, inquisitor and gothic have been forgotten.

ooooo 9 basilisks, thats a huge artillery section, then i think back to the epic days of 32 basilisks and walk out of the shop.

Boris

Necromunda was an awesome game. I'm tempted to get a version of it again to play with the bros.

I would literally kill a man for a turn-based Necromunda strategy game in the style of Valkyria Chronicles. Working your way up the Underhive, customising a sweet Delaque gang with individual traits, weapons and injuries...

strawberry floating DO IT somebody.

I had Necromunda years ago when I was a kid, my parents got it for me for christmas one year. I did have a lot of fun playing it with my brother and I very almost got into Games Workshop stuff back then, but at the time I didn't really have the patience for learning the rules and was more interested in video games than tabletop games.
It was a great game though, I particularly loved the included walls that you could assemble in pretty much whatever way you wanted, way better than those towers and plastic pre-built buildings they sell now.

Donk wrote:Necromunda was an awesome game. I'm tempted to get a version of it again to play with the bros.

oh yeah, short of being their best game imo, so open ended and the experience system led you have really customised gangs.

we had a necro campaign that ran for about 2 years, some insane exp characters running around.

i had dalaks and rat skins, the dalaks also in the campaign were a genestealer cult for added fun.

i wish i had taken more photos, i have soo few, but heres the ork army i ended up selling for £700 odd, some sisters, i sold the entire army to a dude in australia for shy of £400 (i got the entire army for weight order, cost me about £50) and i one photo i have of the first squad i painted for the valhallans.

i wish i had a photo of my epic orks, had about 12000 pts worth, 4 or 5 gargants, 2 mega gargants, 30 stompas and 100's of tanks and fast attack units and it was all painted!!!

Boris

Lagamorph wrote:I had Necromunda years ago when I was a kid, my parents got it for me for christmas one year. I did have a lot of fun playing it with my brother and I very almost got into Games Workshop stuff back then, but at the time I didn't really have the patience for learning the rules and was more interested in video games than tabletop games.
It was a great game though, I particularly loved the included walls that you could assemble in pretty much whatever way you wanted, way better than those towers and plastic pre-built buildings they sell now.

I remember that I had one member of my team, who was a las-rifle ace. Would take down any mofo easily.

One day, my opponent finally managed to take him down. In the post game injury roll, he died. :cry:

All this talk of Necromunda reminds me - a LOT of their out-of-print games are available to download as .pdfs from their website:

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/articleCategory.jsp?communityArticleCatId=1100014&articleCatId=1100014&catId=cat410008&section=

Everything from Necromunda, Gorkamorka, Inquisitor, Mordheim, through to their smaller one-off games or super-old stuff like Dark Future. A veritable gold-mine of gaming goodness.

To be honest, I just want to buy Necromunda again for the scenery. :shifty:

*goes to eBay*

I've got the Necromunda scenery in the form of the imperial refinery scenery set they released years ago.

Since this has turned into a picture thread here's some of mine. Spoilered for quantity.

Some great conversions there Iron Nan!

Man, I'd love to play a Necromunda campaign with you guys :wub:

Didn't realise this had become a general Warhammer thread. :wub:

I've not played for a while, it's rather annoying. Games just take so long and I don't often want to spend all my free time doing so. Need to get back to painting at least, my Khorne Berserkers are almost done.

My finest model has to be my Dreadnought conversion. It's just the standard crappy one you get with Black Reach, but I've made it look pretty bloody cool. Can't wait to paint that.

Thanks Garth, I'm really starting to get my enthusiasm for this back again thanks to this thread.

Just dug out my transport cases and took some more pictures.

Edit: Can't believe I forgot to photograph the finished Crispin!

Found an old pic. Got a Plasma Cannon to go on too.

Would making this "The Official Tabletop Gaming Thread" be too much of a stretch?

It'd be nice if there was somewhere on here I can talk M:TG without feeling like I'm veering way off topic.

pyxl-8 wrote:Would making this "The Official Tabletop Gaming Thread" be too much of a stretch?

It'd be nice if there was somewhere on here I can talk M:TG without feeling like I'm veering way off topic.

Well it's a good idea to call it tabletop gaming I suppose (Which I've done, that's the third thread name now..... :shifty:

) though I don't know if card games like Magic count as Tabletop games so much as card games.

I'm not sure if they would either, but I've been dying for us to have an MTG topic for far too long. Seems logical to stick stuff about it here,....

Lagamorph wrote:though I don't know if card games like Magic count as Tabletop games so much as card games.

Well, you're not going to like how much I'm actually stretching the definition due to it being MTGO that I play. :lol:

went to the GWS today for a nosey.

new grey knights are very nice, priced up a 1500pts army consisting of 13 models for the giggles and if i were to get back into it thats a fairly small army to tackle painting wise to east back into it maybe.

and the guy in the shop said end of this month or next a new sisters codex and possibly new sisters in plastic, could really suck me back into the hobby if that be the case.

still waiting for them to recover necromunda the way they did space hulk.

boris

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