It's been said many times over the past few months here, and elsewhere. It's not a coincidence that so many people come to that conclusion, and as someone else mentioned the art doesn't translate well to 3d models and definitely not with the "muh grimdark streaking grime" smeared up paintjobs.
I don't think the people creating TC would give a shit, the problem is their mods for discord/reddit/facebook/bluesky(lol), and the community itself. Privateer Press had a weirdly large Russian scene a few years back, including recasters that began selling for warmahordes when mk3 started its death spiral.
It's kind of amazing how you can browse through FB groups and subreddits for basically any other game and quickly see plenty of good to incredible paintjobs for minis. But it just doesn't seem to happen for TC because damn near everyone just does basecoats, an oil wash over the whole model to wipe some off with makeup sponges or whatever, and then maybe smear some blood effect paint on it. Yet for other games and miniature ranges you can find well done gritty/dirty/whatever models that actually look good.
Because it's barely a game system that can be adapted to damn near anything by tweaking the playbooks, and the system boils down to "mother may I" anyway.
Yeah I got somewhat excited by the thought of an RPG system where you could plug in an TCG for combat but alas...
Print a new module every few months with a themed deck and it would just fly off the shelves. Make it some kind of arch enemy style build for the end of each campaign since plenty card game anime have the main villain fighting multiple characters at once. You could even drop a module where the villains fight Bakura vs Marik style. How could they not see this?
that require people to have any actual vision and juggle both TTRPG and TCG mechanics, even if just going halfises on the latter
It's a system you can just yank right out of the box without thinking, meaning you can spend more time just coming up with ideas. Same with Blades in the Dark to be honest; it's the easiest shit in the world to copy since they are totally fine with you doing that so long as you attribute the system.
I understood this reference and that conclusion was absolutely masterful.
Sheesh, i was eyeing some of his models because i dig some of the faggy neo 40k romans he has done but i think ill just stick with Wargames Atlantic's take on them Nfeyma also has cooler guard-esque vehicles
What's really funny is Universus just released a critical role set WHICH came with NPC co-op boss modes. So like... just 2 steps away from your idea.
All is faggot.
I remember the first time I read the Warning:Not suitable for Wussies and physically cringing.
It was definitely cringe at the time. Not to mention the metal vs plastic model bit... yeah I can lug around a case full of metal models, doesn't mean I fucking want to though. Also the claim that other games drag out when they had Khador as a faction...
You can already do it with MTG decks if you want. There hasn't been a lot of cross overs since the MTG PC game in the 90s. It's hard to balance player decks against your villain decks but the idea is really good.
Warmachine is growing again in my area. I want to get into MKIV but where do you start? I'm repairing old models from storage to use as Legacy armies before I buy into the new stuff. How do MKI and MKII armies play in the new edition?
Are you the guy who ruined /tg/'s warmachine threads for years? Any time a thread was made you would see the same image and green text spammed. That anon acted like he was bullied by Warmachine players and would not let the grudge go. Mods didn't deal with him so Warmachine got pushed into /awg/ and until recently sat idle. SFG's prices are too high to buy in so the 3D printing options are a good way to get costs down for new or returning players.
No? Never even seen that particular image before, it was just the first thing I found that showed what the average table looked like toward the end of mk 3(without having to jump on their discord or something more annoying). My grudge is with privateer press being terminally incompetent regarding how they handled basically everything from the game, their IPs, business decisions, community interactions, staff(their test lead flipping their shit on FB at the end of mk 3 proclaiming he hadn't even played warmahordes in a year was a pretty funny way to show just had rotten the company had gotten), losing their building to eminent domain and not doing the smart thing and moving to a cheaper area(and then not checking zoning for the new building and getting fucked in that regard too), and on and on... when they were the one company in the best position to actually keep a significant portion of the marketshare from GW once upon a time.
