Not all tournaments used the crappy cardstock. They do make real terrain, just in the concept and space of the crappy stuff.

GW tournament win-at-all-cost gamers don’t care though. Three fast colours, minimal basing, card terrain, it’s the game within the game that matters to them – like they’ll win a big medal or something. Hard pass. I take…[Read more]

The best Starwars song :

Have a sample of my pasta

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Whoever thought that assembly instructions should be digital needs to be assigned his own circle of hell.
A big stack of plastic sprues is intimidating if you don’t know which bits are for…[Read more]

Pledge – My paint comp entry is still in the thought stage; I need to get started with that. ‘Magical Explosion’ is testing my imagination skills; no printing a way out this month, so we shall see. Id like to make some progress on my greenskins, maybe the Deffcoptas.

Solo Play – I think it’s nice to have the option in a game for those who enjoy…[Read more]

It’s even worse than I thought : it is an official standard …

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/bwP2Tf1T/metawatch-warhammer-40000-building-beautiful-balanced-battlefields-for-grand-tournament-play/

I simply cannot understand why you would want to play a game on a table like that, but then I can’t understand why in videogames…[Read more]

That cardstock with defined area terrain just looks crap. 40K has so much more to offer.

@sundancer

I see the same crappy style … and yes, I agree 100%.
Only one of them makes me want to join a tournament and it’s not the 40k one.

While I was watching two players set up their game one of them commented on how the previous players had not taken care of the terrain.

I’m tempted to say that this sort of ‘terrain’ pretty much invites…[Read more]