I keep telling myself I should. Keep looking at models, keep having thoughts. See there's a new edition out. If they expand Konflikt 47 I may definitely. But right now I just be a stereotypical guard fan who switches over to his natural state...
I might start soon. I have a friend who is wonderfully autistic about WWII and I’ve no doubt it would be easy to get him into it.
There's a bunch of WW2 naval games, Warlord themselves do two. Victory at Sea is focused on bigger ships + fleet battles. Cruel Seas is much smaller in scale focusing on stuff like MTB/patrol boats/individual aircraft etc.
I just dove in, going to collect Germans, Italians and Brits. A lot of the stuff belonging to smaller powers fascinates me, like Belgium and Hungary, hopefully I can mix it.
My birthday was like a weeks ago and one of my friends got me a like really expensive 3D printer I'm teaching myself modeling to make my own tabletop game with blackjack and hookers
Tbh I think what a good tabletop game and lore needs is a clear good vs evil with elements of faith and corruption and Lovecraftian horror. But the good is so mixed in its intent to survive or hang on or defeat evil at all costs you can make the case they’re also bad. Probably why Trench Crusade blew up too. You can play chaos as just oh we’re renegades and pirates pushing back against taxes and such, we just do this worship or action as rebellion not pure evil. Or just a simple “I like the art and playing the evil guy”.
Those kids would’ve grown up to be the following, guardsman fodder, broken labourers, servitors or tyranid chow. That was mercy.
Strongly disagree, heretic. The Emperor’s Light is the one true way for humanity to conquer the stars. I will, however, concede Khorne probably makes sense as a chaos god because he gives you hugs muscles even though you end up a drooling retard. Nurgle is displeasing as a God because you’re probably going to end up as a boil on the ass of some daemon named the ShitGobbler, Tzeentch just turns you into a smug Sargon snickering about how it’s all going according to the plan. And last thing I want is to become a troon under Slaanesh.
ffs... no shit it's trash and isn't playable. Brings up past edition rules about void shields and shit... no it still got its ass kicked in previous editions too. 8th ed void shields? Just allowed a save on mortals, while it had way fewer wounds. 9th ed void shields? Just added an extra 24 wounds that could have an invul against ranged. And 2000 points? Fuck off, even previously it was 6000 points. GW does not want these things on the table in anything resembling a normal game and for good reason. Even the damn warhound was only barely playable at 2000 points previously with zero support avaiable due to no points, and always got its ass kicked. At 1100 it gets the occasional laugh when someone shows up with one, and that's about it. 2000 point warlord also means cutting the points of the reaver and warbringer to fit between 1100 and 2000 points, and they'd still get just wrecked every time.
I thought about it for like, 2, maybe 3 minutes, and then decided against it because I would only really enjoy the German army but don't want to either endure stale history channel tier commentary about WW2 or get outed as a "heckin Nazi" and lose my job.
Thanks to private equity, everything is a pump and dump these days.
I mean sure, but that's probably not what's going on here. The simple reality is, someone looked at HOMM, looked at tabletop war games, and decided to come up with a proposal showing that for x amount of dollars they could slap together a product and make y amount of dollars back over the course of 1-2 years.
I maintain that the Warlord is the ultimate tax on stupid GW whales. It costs $2K+ in burger dollars, you're not gonna get to use it in a game 99 times out of a hundred, and on the off chance that you do get to use it, it's probably going to get shot off the table because of its shit rules and because your opponent will have brought something specifically meant to kill it. It's only good as a flex to show that you can blow that kind of money, and even then you could have built two or three full armies with that money.