38 replies to this topic

[Pasidon]

A Warhammer CARD GAME???  .... Yes.  I may invest.

[OmegaBolt]

Did they manage to double the price of models? I haven't bought anything since I was 16 or so and now I see squads at £40 or so... pretty sure a normal space marine squad was about £15 back then.

[Pasidon]

They figured out that they could keep raising the price, and people would still buy them.  Nintendo did the same thing with carriage games back in the 90's, and they discovered people were dumb enough to pay 60 bucks for games.  The legend continues.

[MattTheLegoman]

Double it again for Aussie prices. That and the miniatures have a lower quality than LEGO.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

That and the miniatures have a lower quality than LEGO. 

 

 

Not for all the models - Warhammer get some really good casts, but the new Hobbit ones are absolutely abysmally designed. If I were to get any new model from the Hobbit range, I'd only have Smaug as an option, simply because he's one of very few non-rushed looking models.

[MattTheLegoman]

The plastic and precision molding are inferior to LEGO. =p

 

Not a fair comparison:

* GW uses plastic/resin/metal that is for painting

* GW creates sculpts with more detail

 

Smaug was delayed for so long because either WETA or Warner Bros weren't impressed with something about Smaug. I don't know if they had to make an entirely new model?

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

I'm lost, what're you saying?

[MattTheLegoman]

Smaug was meant to be released earlier, but either the quality of the model or the size was not up to expectations so it was delayed.

[OmegaBolt]

Lego men cannot talk.

[Pasidon]

Sigmar's beard... LEGOs also aren't highly detailed molds of giant space tanks.

[MattTheLegoman]

Which is why we need LEGO Warhammer 40000K. =p


Nevertheless!
I have the most beautiful Moria goblins that I commissioned from The Dead Marshes, a British miniature painter. If I was to start a proper army I would want to (I can't) commission someone to paint it for me. Regardless of budget, painting yourself an army is unrealistic and I see too many bad paint jobs on great sculpts, or an army of entirely grey warriors.

I'm going to see how damaged my miniatures are and if they are worth photographing.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

Which is why we need LEGO Warhammer 40000K. =p

 

I cannot stress enough why this idea repulses me.

 

painting yourself an army is unrealistic

 

I cannot stress enough why this idea repulses me.

[OmegaBolt]

How is it "unrealistic"? Isn't it the whole point? When I did 40k I painted my own army. Might not be good but it was fun and satisfying. I still have my old Iron Warriors army resting in their case.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

And besides, aren't you an artist yourself MtL? I'd feel rather like I was playing with someone else's army if I didn't paint it myself.

[Mathijs]

I'm an artist, and a big reason for why I've never bothered to ever pick this sort of thing up is that I want to play with a good-looking army that I don't have the patience to paint myself. 

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

To be fair, I hate painting armies, which is why I like Tyranids: lot of monsters, so there's lots of variation in painting.

[OmegaBolt]

Lookin' sweet. I like the leveling up, loot and stuff. Slightly worried that the settlements are kinda hard to discern since they're so built into the terrain and there are all these extra bits sticking out and stuff, but things'll probably change a wee bit.

 

[OmegaBolt]

Topc bumps in the night.

 

The vampire city looks awesome.

 

 

Also a battle as the Empire.

 

Edited by OmegaBolt, 23 March 2016 - 09:44 PM.

[OmegaBolt]

Another, this one official, siege video of Vamp's vs Empire.