tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356241226024929790.post3807549407265646674..comments2023-05-13T05:56:33.773-05:00Comments on World of Wonder: SinSynn: OMG, GW...WTF?....smh...Loquacioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01667591498679385934noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356241226024929790.post-79129271057477628122012-01-31T16:32:29.083-06:002012-01-31T16:32:29.083-06:00gold paints are always awful.gold paints are always awful.Laubyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14110879813356318288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356241226024929790.post-81933846538103887642012-01-31T16:02:47.675-06:002012-01-31T16:02:47.675-06:00I gotta say I hate GW's gold paints, Shining a...I gotta say I hate GW's gold paints, Shining and Burnished Gold.<br />Tin Bitz is great, thoughSinSynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12352693991857976930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356241226024929790.post-67157755110493707272012-01-31T16:01:34.707-06:002012-01-31T16:01:34.707-06:00Thank you, Frontline...
This will be my last GW &#...Thank you, Frontline...<br />This will be my last GW 'rant' for a while.<br />I just needed to get it outta my system.SinSynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12352693991857976930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356241226024929790.post-24179869435879156802012-01-31T06:22:05.736-06:002012-01-31T06:22:05.736-06:00No I can believe it hasn't. GW metallics offer...No I can believe it hasn't. GW metallics offer really quick and easy coverage, that's something all painters can agree on. Most metallic paints from other companies require some extra work and finessing to get them to where you want. but GW's do just cover nice and easy. I do think they're a bit more glittertastic though than many of the other metallic paints I use.Frontline Gamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09110901356802705087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356241226024929790.post-5611793146918588862012-01-30T23:45:21.988-06:002012-01-30T23:45:21.988-06:00I'll drink to all that! Especially pissing on...I'll drink to all that! Especially pissing on what made the system charming by trying to turn it into a conventional points-buy pitched-battle fest. I don't play it like that, don't see the attraction in it. That does make it (yet more) difficult to find opponents though... that's why the Uruks were the first things to take the fall.Vonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12583821960347555993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356241226024929790.post-36317588553740270442012-01-30T15:55:01.540-06:002012-01-30T15:55:01.540-06:00"An awful lot of profesional miniature painte..."An awful lot of profesional miniature painters don't like GW metallics actually as the metallic flakes are a little too big for some actually Lauby. Most I know actually use Vallejo metallics because the opposite is true"<br /><br />This has, honestly, not been my experience.Laubyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14110879813356318288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356241226024929790.post-44146267694011778312012-01-30T03:41:16.968-06:002012-01-30T03:41:16.968-06:00Yeesh, if you're going to call something unedu...Yeesh, if you're going to call something uneducated drivel the least you could do is spell it properly. lol. :P<br /><br />Besides, if it is uneducated that's fine. As not everything has to be well thought out discursive essay's. Sometimes, and I know this might seem odd to some people, Blog's can be about opinions. Nothing wrong with a rant every now and then or a party political broadcast. IF they're about communicating some sense of passion about the hobby. I don't read all of SinSynn's or others articles to be 'challenged' or 'informed'. I read them because I know there's a love for the hobby that these people have and they might express that in extreme ways sometimes. I don't always agree with them, BUT you do get a raw emotional honesty from them. That's got to be worth something.Frontline Gamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09110901356802705087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356241226024929790.post-89479340013492114862012-01-30T03:32:50.986-06:002012-01-30T03:32:50.986-06:00An awful lot of profesional miniature painters don...An awful lot of profesional miniature painters don't like GW metallics actually as the metallic flakes are a little too big for some actually Lauby. Most I know actually use Vallejo metallics because the opposite is true, they would also use the Vallejo metallics in alcohol base too. However, as for surface coverage they're (GW) pretty good, if a bit glittertastic for my own personal tastes. But I've never been truly happy honestly with any metallic paint range. Although the one good thing I've heard from North America buddies consistently about Reaper paints is that their metallic paints are quite nice.<br /><br />The issue that you have with GW changing their paint range is what are they changing it into? Currently their paint range is actually quite a nice mix of quick and easy coverage for painting lots of stuff, with foundation paints, good coverage of primary colours in the standard range and their washes... and being able to achieve quite good almost professional effects. It's a half way house if you will between the Army Painters very rapid approach with their dips and say a more professional range of paints like those offered by Vallejo or others. It's where they then lean with their paint range. I hear tell of dropper bottles and a slight formula change. I've not heard about price hikes though. For me I'm in wait and see mode, Like I am with the Army Painters new range of colours.Frontline Gamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09110901356802705087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356241226024929790.post-88427464072984739322012-01-30T03:22:03.583-06:002012-01-30T03:22:03.583-06:00I worked at GW when LotR's first hit. The sale...I worked at GW when LotR's first hit. The sales were phenomenal of that product. No question. What wasn't mentioned quite as often was the amount of parents who brought plastic miniatures back because they were 'broken'. Now let me clarify. They weren't. They had mould lines, now some parents you could convince this was part of the product and the process. Others you could not and you'd end up having to take shed loads of stock back. What will a similar demographic think of having to resculpt bits of Finecast? Honestly I don't know, I'm just asking.<br /><br />As for LotR's the game. Well the first game was OK if played as narrative missions with the forces and challenge set accordingly. What ruined the game were points levels and GW's insistence that it was a wargame. When the Mines of Moria box set came out they kept the story based missions and they worked. But rather than create more scenarios for people in white Dwarf they totally dropped the idea and got people playing pitched battles. It's an utterly lame system for that, and wasn't designed for it. The core rules then started to warp into something else and I lost all respect and interest for it as a product. Despite a nice range of realistically proportioned miniatures.<br /><br />As for War of the ring? Good lord that was a dire system. And again it was a game system designed around selling you more rubbish you didn't actually want. It wasn't just a case of taking existing models and playing in a slightly different way. Nope you had to buy loads more miniatures than you did before. Thus nullifying the ranges one USP over their other product lines. Then you had to buy movement bases that were priced stupidly... and to top it all off the game was poor.<br /><br />Rebooting LotR's? Not a good idea. They are not under any obligation to sell the game and actually never were. They could've stepped away from it at any time if they chose to. They could have chosen to go a completely different direction with the range, but they didn't. They chose to do the exact same things again and again just in a different setting. What will the Hobbit bring? Not anywhere near as much attention as the LotR movies did in my opinion. The hype just doesn't feel the same. 2 years before the first movie was released we were hearing all sorts of exciting stuff in magazines that had nothing to show us. With the Hobbit those same magazines are like 'meh, not interested'.Frontline Gamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09110901356802705087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356241226024929790.post-76952729053753642482012-01-29T18:30:03.439-06:002012-01-29T18:30:03.439-06:00I've never tried them but this is the first di...I've never tried them but this is the first dissenting opinion I remember hearing - that said, I've never been unhappy with GW metals myself, especially the lovely lovely Tin Bitz.<br /><br />Mithril Silver is also easy to mix for different, new metallics. Snot Green + Mithril Silver is a cool colour for Ork Walkers.TheKing Elessarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04981821487098781957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356241226024929790.post-29530763830857570322012-01-29T17:58:29.418-06:002012-01-29T17:58:29.418-06:00those are the three. The metal flakes in the vall...those are the three. The metal flakes in the vallejo paints are too large and make for an almost comical metal.Laubyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14110879813356318288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356241226024929790.post-43679556935491734952012-01-29T16:39:37.339-06:002012-01-29T16:39:37.339-06:00Boltgun Metal
Mithril Silver...
is the third one C...Boltgun Metal<br />Mithril Silver...<br />is the third one Chainmail?<br /><br />I've never used that one.SinSynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12352693991857976930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356241226024929790.post-23584197669607408452012-01-29T16:37:49.174-06:002012-01-29T16:37:49.174-06:00There's a card?!?
Apologies for the rantiness...There's a card?!?<br /><br />Apologies for the rantiness....it was a bad day.SinSynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12352693991857976930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356241226024929790.post-31855590649666472962012-01-29T13:25:04.629-06:002012-01-29T13:25:04.629-06:00"Smart Grey Knights players prolly use Vellej..."Smart Grey Knights players prolly use Vellejo paints anyway, since their metallics are way better, so I can't hope for relief there..."<br /><br />No. The three shades of silver GW have are, simply put, the finest metallic paints I have yet used.Laubyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14110879813356318288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356241226024929790.post-4603141131536004172012-01-29T05:21:33.487-06:002012-01-29T05:21:33.487-06:00Oh, hate away, I'm used to it. :p And in you...Oh, hate away, I'm used to it. :p And in your defence, War of the Ring? That's bloody awful, and really does overlap with WFB to an embarrassing extent. If we're going to talk about false starts, then let's start there...<br /><br />I too wish death upon Hobbits - but I do like a game that provides opportunites to have my Uruks stamp on the malodorous runts. My opinions of LotR vary somewhat depending on whether we're talking about the books/films/games/franchisable properties/deep gnarly roots of the fantasy genre and I wouldn't lose enormous amounts of sleep if the same game system were to be used for other tie-ins. It's a very heroic, very cinematic little game and I could see it working for a Game of Thrones SBG, as it were...Vonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12583821960347555993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356241226024929790.post-91283889551970323522012-01-28T18:39:03.576-06:002012-01-28T18:39:03.576-06:00Yeesh, this is uneducated drivle. One would think ...Yeesh, this is uneducated drivle. One would think one should know what they were talking about before they threw up all over the place with words.<br /><br />Blog card revoked.BThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00130885596569505778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356241226024929790.post-49348865055282110372012-01-28T13:08:19.464-06:002012-01-28T13:08:19.464-06:00Sigh...
It causes me great pain to do this, y'...Sigh...<br />It causes me great pain to do this, y'know.<br /><br />Confident Trained list-<br /><br />HQ- 2 Shermans<br />5 Shermans<br />5 Shermans<br />5 Shermans w/76 mm's<br />Tank Hunters w/2 M10's<br />Armored Rifle Platoon (I call them clown cars, cuz so many dudes get out of 'em...15 stands, I think)<br />Mortar Halftracks<br /><br />1750 points.<br /><br />I play Tau- the Codex released in 2005.<br />Eldar are only slightly newer, having released in 2006.<br />I think the Eldar Codex has that same 'generic' feel that Dark Angels and Chaos both have.<br />The Tau Codex may have a buncha poor units (Vespid, Stealth Suits), but the core is more solid than Eldar, I believe.SinSynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12352693991857976930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356241226024929790.post-77577689858290620082012-01-28T13:01:36.498-06:002012-01-28T13:01:36.498-06:00Stupid...lack of a comment editing feature....
Ah...Stupid...lack of a comment editing feature....<br /><br />Ah Von...you never fail to give me a laff...<br />It figures you would actually play this game.<br />Now I feel bad for hating on it.<br /><br />Despite the fact that the game may have merit (and if you play it I will give it the benefit of the doubt), I still think it's a waste of GW's resources.<br />As Farmpunk points out below, it overlaps with Fantasy.<br />Yes, I realize Fantasy is pretty awful right now, but still...<br /><br />GW certainly renewed the license for the forthcoming Hobbit films.<br />I'm sorry, I think Hobbits, and Middle Earth as a whole, is too corny for words.<br />Game of Thrones, or even Tad William's Dragonbone Chair series are far more interesting (and fresher) swords and sorcery series.<br />I wish death upon Hobbits.<br /><br />Seriously, though- anything is better than another Dreadfleet.<br />How outta the blue WAS that?SinSynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12352693991857976930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356241226024929790.post-66337084790615000512012-01-28T12:43:47.213-06:002012-01-28T12:43:47.213-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.SinSynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12352693991857976930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356241226024929790.post-23029167500488178452012-01-28T09:14:53.991-06:002012-01-28T09:14:53.991-06:00You'll have to put up Ultimate Rival's US ...You'll have to put up Ultimate Rival's US Armor list sometime, see if it's similar to the mid-war AC I've been using, and giving SandWyrm fits.<br />(of course, we're still learning all the special rules. like protected ammo helps mid-war tigers be even BETTER)<br /><br />I'd actually heard War of the Ring was one of the few decent game systems GW made. (outside Blood Bowl and Necromunda, which probably don't really count anyway) <br /><br />so the Eldar 'dex is 7 yrs old? it came out about 9 mo (I think) after I started.<br /><br />unfortunately, War of the Ring overlaps terribly with GW's pride and joy of stink-ti-tude... Fantasy.<br />War of the Ring is probably what they should have done FIRST.Farmpunkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09622091234212120598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356241226024929790.post-83772749675809158452012-01-28T08:46:19.550-06:002012-01-28T08:46:19.550-06:00I, ah, like the Lord of the Rings game? Have play...I, ah, like the Lord of the Rings game? Have played it, more than once? Only sold my Uruk-Hai because (all together now) I needed the money?<br /><br />They're pretty much obliged to keep selling it, I believe, so reinvigorating it rather than having a dead line taking up shop space does sort of make sense to me.<br /><br />Rather that than another Dreadfleet anyway.Vonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12583821960347555993noreply@blogger.com