[unofficial weekender] War!

[sundancer 44380xp 1]

Music from the elder!

[grantinvanman 9718xp 0]

One of the great ironies is that I am in fact getting two 40k armies right now as a result of my commission (it’s been fun to paint!) and Trench Crusade, which makes me nostalgic for what 40k was when I played it last (some years ago).

As for ease of GW… models are somewhat hard to come by. I use SIX stores now to source my minis:

1. GW itself

2. Sentry Box, Calgary, Alberta

3. Kingdom Titans, Quebec

4. Imiginaire, Quebec

5. Tistaminis, Ontario

6. Mission Games, St. Albert, Alberta

 

And between all of those, I STILL can’t find everything at once.

The supply chain is a certified mess.

[limburger 22437xp 1]

the GW supply chain isn’t a mess.

It’s focused on creating as much FOMO as possible so the things they got sell out the moment they are up for pre-order.

I also noticed that anything that isn’t part of the primary poster boy army lists won’t ever be available. Gloomspite Gitz had spiders as part of their army lists in AoS, but all the releases they ever got were for the bouncy squigs. Sure, it made them more unique, but I would have loved to field spider cavalry with a few of the really big spiders that GW used to make.

I had soo many great ideas. .. only to never ever get them off the ground, because unless you buy at launch you’re never going to get anything in the quantities the game needs.

(and the less said about the rules bloat the better)

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@sundancer which is kind of why I said that there’s no competing with GW. Xwing got really lucky because they hit that perfect combo of a game that was fun to play straight out of the box and a brand that everyone recognised. There’s no way in heck Trenchcrusade (or any other game) could capture that.

Halo is one that could be a threat, but it still needs a perfect combo of opportunities and luck to get there (as well as a presence in regular shops like Xwing had).

[sundancer 44380xp 1]

Wednesday my dudes.

I really shouldn’t be staying on the internet after streams. Gettin’ to old for “all nighters” even if they only go a wee bit past midnight.

Hang in there lads, weekend is in sight!

[grantinvanman 9718xp 0]

It is Wednesday. As a Canadian, it’s been a long and tiring week. Long, and tiring. Cancelled Netflix, Disney+. I’m considering taking my two made in USA Gibsons back to get a made in Japan ESP instead.

On the plus side, my Eldar pre-order stuff along with a bunch of stuff that I found from scouring the web should start showing up soon. I even managed to find a 2nd edition Eldar codex for nostalgia’s sake. Fun!

 

@limburger it’s not even the core stuff – simple things are weirdly out of stock. They genuinely do have a supply chain issue. But luckily there are lots of online sources for hunting.

[horati0nosebl0wer]

Plah! OK, back for a brainbreak away from model building and painting.

The thing I’ve seen in sitting and looking over the TC buildup with the hype train is what makes it tick. I think it was good to have The Doomed brought in as well because I think these things are very much related. Both are kitbash heavy and dig into the weird and grotesque. Perhaps it touches on something innate in the deep seated psychology of gamers, modelers or men in general to make these games popular in the niche corners that they inhabit. The horror elements are far removed from the blase slop the majority of the minigaming industry offers. To touch on music, from the note @grantinvanman put up, “The Filth and the Fury” as a title comes to mind. The title alone gets my head into what makes those games interesting. The subject matter the film documenting The Sex Pistols latches onto what subconsciously might be where GW has fallen off. There is a ‘spiritual vitality’ that is primal and residing in the core of the matter which we’re literally playing with.

Having a set of Blanche inspired paints makes me think that the timing really has come that the roots of GW are pushing back from their sanitized present state. In a way it seems the fluff of the Eldar is coming to roost on the company and it’s present competition for the grimdark crown.  is trying to live out in its Craftworld while the challenger of Player 2 revels in the things that first made 40k appealing. The lame attempt at reclaiming that glory with the latest release of Slaanesh inspired minis doesn’t quite do justice to what the ideas used to be. The Edgiest Boy no longer resides in Nottingham.

Er.. yeah.. brain break to break brains I think. Sorry for the long post.

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Dear Mr. @horati0nosebl0wer

1. Never apologize for writing long text. This is a forum. It’s sole purpose is to be stuffed with words. To have your insights and ideas be kept for the following readers.
2. G’Wullu being sanitized is an interesting take. I have, for some time not looked at their releases for both AoS and 40k and thought to myself “they are way to clean!” I think their method of “please the biggest audience with the least amount of friction is what’s driven some of the older folk away. Gone are the days of Wizard with a machine gun and similar silly items. WHFB (The Old World as they now call it) never was dirty. It always looked clean and neat. Mordheim was the exception.

Let your inspirations run wild and do awesome shit! I’m trying to!

[limburger 22437xp 1]

There were most definitely something rotten in Kislev (pun most definitely intended 😀 ).

Initial version of the rpg (or at least the one I got way back when) definitely was not full of happy little princesses looking for prince charming. It was closer to ‘Call of Cthulluh’ with a lot of nasty business going on behind the facade of civilisation. Life was dirty, brutal, lethal and short.

I think part of the charm of the initial versions is that GW itself didn’t know what it wanted those settings to be.
It was merely a set of rules to sell minis … and it kind of has remained that way.

These days they’re trying to give it direction and make it acceptable to teenagers as well as mom and dad.
The only dirty these days is Nurgle and his allies. Everything else has been made acceptable for display at Walmart next to the LEGO toys.

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Weird music …

Speaking of hobby.
I’ve got kickstarters incoming. One is Talislanta … which I remember as this really really odd RPG with lizards. The art was odd.

Talislanta – The Epic Tabletop Roleplaying Game – Final Edition (6th Ed)

The other package ? I don’t have a clue. No info on who or what is sending it. I will see that when it arrives.
I think it’s minis, but that’s me guessing.

[pagan8th 14454xp 1]

Warhammer RPG was definitely a tainted world of mutations and chaos. Survival was hard.

As @limburger said… it had the smell of Cthulhu.

I enjoyed that world. It felt lived in.

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It was merely a set of rules to sell minis … and it kind of has remained that way.

Hasn’t that been the case since Warhammer 3rd Edition?

The other package ? I don’t have a clue. No info on who or what is sending it. I will see that when it arrives.

Never have that happen to me. Parcels with unknown sender tend to be either a) NAF dice and coin (that comes from new elected persons every years) or b) gifts from the community. KS stuff is almost always very clearly tracked. Unless it’s Squadron 42 or Battletech Mercs.

 

[limburger 22437xp 1]

I’m not talking about the likes of HappyShops who will send an email with details about the package or at the very least which company they’re working for.

I’ve had that happen with several packages (mostly kickstarters, but recently Warlord too).

The website for the local post office even says that they won’t have any info about origin for any ‘foreign’ packages… 🙁

What makes it even worse is that they will hold your package hostage until you pay your custom duties, tax and ‘handling fee’.
As there is no name attached it’s a bit of a gamble and scamming folk would be ridiculously easy.

 

[sundancer 44380xp 1]

If there is no name attached to it I do not accept it. But that never happened yet. XD

 

Friday!

 

Coffee!

[grantinvanman 9718xp 0]

Friday!

Almost done project Necrons, part one.

That’s pretty much it, actually. Brutally cold here.

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In my job I see quite a few items with no name on them. Sometimes it’s even important stuff like travel money, or passports.

Still have to attempt delivery.

[limburger]

@sundancer

It’s not that there is no name attached, because there is.
It’s that there is not even a clue as to what it could be, except a name of some mid-level logistics company, because for whatever reason when the likes of FedEx ship stuff … they don’t always handle everything themselves.

I’ve had stuff from Warlord (currently a second package) that’s being handled by the local postal company, despite the fact that FedEx does indeed do deliveries themselves.

And as I said … the message (from the official app) is like “pay us *now*” or they will simply return it to sender after 14 days.
If they do hold it at a pickup location … you get less than a week to collect it and you better pray they gave you the correct location. Did I tell you that happened to me once ? Fckers managed to deliver to the wrong location, but didn’t mention the actual location in the ‘not at home’ note. Contacting the pick-up locations doesn’t work, because they can’t/won’t help you either. They are also not safer than just dropping a package of on the street, because apparently they have no legal obligation to actually keep them save or  anything related to being a responsble person temporarily holding on to something for you.

// — update —

Mystery solved.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ragnarok8-trollheim/ragnarok-8-trollheim/description

The odd bit is that the covering documents on the package did mention the source.

 

 

• This reply was modified 1 year ago by limburger.

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