Anyone play?
I bought White Dwarf this month* after some guys at work talking about it and fancying a trip down memory lane.......i now find myself scoping the net for Space Marines.
*most likely a midlife crisis
Had a box of it brought up by my parents the other week, ultramarines. Haven't touched them since moving out 20 years ago.
Also included a blood bowl beast team and an empire army. Wouldn't be surprised if the metal empire stuff was worth a few quid now.
Used to play (even won a major tournament 8) ). Got loads and loads of stuff in my parents loft. Untold hours spent writing army lists
Every now and again i think about getting back into it, but then i see the price of it and remember how time consuming it could be. If i won the lottery so had time and money to burn then yes, i'd have a room in the house specifically for it.
Ive got a bunch if unpainted pewter figures for sale...
I gave away tons of the stuff a few years ago. My abiding memories are spending hours and hours painting miniatures, and attempting to play the game about twice in five years! 😀
Also had Bloodbowl and lots of the add-on packs etc. I do still have some of the fiction books published as part of the world building by some pretty surprisingly well regarded authors.
I 'think' all my old stuff is safely packed in my parents loft somewhere.
Much as above - I had a couple of Blood Bowl teams, a bunch of Space Marine stuff and lots and lots of various Warhammer odds and sods. And accompanying issues of White Dwarf, books etc.
Christ. Had completely forgotten about it all...
Ha!
I have neither the time or inclination to play anymore, but I learned this Monday that Roboute Guilliman is alive once more and the eye of terror is now a rift splitting the Imperium in two.
GW is planning some big shakeups I reckon.
I was more a fantasy Warhammer than 40K painter myself, and recently found a mutant rat general in my parent's attic that was my pride and joy. Also discovered that almost none of the miniatures are pewter anymore!
Definitely was more into the painting badly, and probably actually played a battle twice.
I don't play but I am pretty obsessed with the novels, especially anything by Dan Abnett.
Yes, and I'm loving it.
I originally played the game 15/16 years ago and I decided to start again last December.
I bought a few new miniatures, joined the local club ((Newbury) and haven't looked back....seriously addictive. Especially as the 8th edition rules have only just come out.
Perhaps midlife crisis for me too but I just thought, what the hell, why not just give it a go. Some amount of money later I have a cool 90% painted army......ultramarines.
There's lots of cool online gaming videos. Check out tabletop tactics TV as they do some freeview stuff that's great to watch and help you get up to speed.
As many others, I used to play - more Space Marine (giant robits!!) but a smattering of WH40K, Bloodbowl, Man O'War...
Still have a pile of models and manuals in my parents attic. I don't play anymore but have been enjoying the recent GW madness, and the fluff is still great. I used to genuinely enjoy the fluff as a teenager; as an adult it's hilarious.
SKULLS EVERYWHERE! Who are the goodies? Who are the baddies? Who knows! The "goodies" spaceships have giant 1-mile high skulls on the front of them. Every image in the codexes involves some sort of "battle pile" of spacemans shooting off-camera, almost certainly NOT in the direction they're looking.
It's bananas and I love it 😀
Used to play several years ago, around 4th and 5th edition. I think I had around 8000 points of blood angels in the end!
Gave up when the prices for models got silly expensive, which also coincided with starting mtb and having less time and far less money for the game.
I've always kept up with the lore though and still read a lot of black library stuff (the reddit forums are great for filtering out the rubbish). Very tempted to get back into it with the 8th ed rules and the new lore.
On an aside, you'd have made a tidy profit if you bought shares in GW a couple of years ago, which I think coincided with the new chairmain and a more open business model and actual storyline advancements bringing a lot of fans back.
Used to work for GW, left, sold all my stuff (acquired with staff 50% discount), then got back into it about a year ago and instantly regretted getting rid of my stuff. Currently working on the contents of the new 40k starter box (painting the Space Marines up as Flesh Tearers), and on Tuesday played my first game of the new season of Blood Bowl in the league I play in. Blood Bowl is great as you can easily meet up in a pub to play a match over a couple of beers.
goddamn, I was kinda hoping to be talked out of it, now i'm even more interested
Seriously considering getting back into it again. Bromley appears to have a pretty active shop and be good to try some battles again instead of just painting. Also my trusty Nids appear to be actually pretty good in the new edition. Also Genestealer cults are back woop woop. Pretty sure I have some dodgy old metal cast cultist from when the first appeared.
Best not look at the Forgeworld stuff then
Is Epic still going? I had tons (given the lead they're made from, probably actually as well as metaphorically) of titans, gargants and the like thanks to several toy shops going bust about the same time as I got my first holiday/Saturday job. All still at my parents somewhere.
Epic will be coming back at some point, albeit at a different scale and will be primarily based around titans.
I had a game based on the original rules against a guy from the local club.....I was a great laugh.
Some of the original epic stuff is worth quite a bit
There is no need for epic any more - thanks to Forgeworld you can have 40k scale titans!Is Epic still going?
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used to play a long time ago, gave away small blood angel army some years ago.
Bloodbowl is a really fun game if there is a bunch of you and you run a tournament, won ours a few times with a Dark elf team.
Have the original WH40k Rogue Trader book.
We used to take over a friends parents big lounge and had massive tank battles. and local club would also stage even bigger battles that often took 12-18 hours to play out.
Sat here 5 min walk from GQ HQ and tempted to run over there and spend some money right now lol
I'd love a warlord titan for 40k; but at £1000.....you could buy a bike for that
I just bought the new white dwarf on a whim, purely because of the cover- sent me right back to getting the rogue trader book. I'm never going to get back into it (Thank mork) but I still love the ridiculousness of it. I get my fix from the computer games if I want it, or reading ID4chan (which is genius)
But there's a new Necromunda, now [i]that's[/i] a danger.
Really should drag out all the old books and minis and see what's worth anything
I'm occasionally tempted by the painting, but a colleague plays and regularly complains about the lack of personal hygiene exhibited by the other players 🙄
Which is about as indicative of the community as cyclists jump red lights. Yeah, true of some, but plenty are normal people who care about their hygiene...
Damn Nurgle cultists giving everyone else a bad name as usual.I'm occasionally tempted by the painting, but a colleague plays and regularly complains about the lack of personal hygiene exhibited by the other players
So the whiff you get when walking into Games Workshop in Leeds isn't representative of the community in general?
No, I’ve not played since I was about 15 when 40k just started.
Pssst! I’d probably give it a go for a laugh. 😐
I have a pretty effective rule for that- I only go into GW or model stores when I'm on holiday. That way, there's no risk of me buying anything or rejoining the cult.
Just remembered, my little brother got himself blood bowl for christmas, we've still never played!
You really should, it's one of the few GW games than actually has a decent game at the core. Great fun, genuinely tense when you strictly enforce the time limit!Just remembered, my little brother got himself blood bowl for christmas, we've still never played!
Oh yeah, we played it a shitload back in the day, I've still got the foam boards somewhere, and dungeon bowl and all that. We've just not played the shiny new one. In which I will be the orcs, of course, because orcs. And I will totally cheat on the skills rolls to get strength upgrades.
I paint miniatures in winter only. Long dark nights here in Scotland.
However I read am unhealthy amount of novels. Quite scary how many I can get through.
I've still got a partially built Dark Vengeance... Like others here I was early teens when 40k came out and got sucked in again by the memories/ no riding for a bit due to injury! Anyone in Surrey area fancy a game then shout!
Can anyone tell me who these two sets of fellas are?
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They look like old Eldar models, top batch possibly dire avengers with an exarch? Not really my area, not enough claws.
Dire Avengers... nup, thems are the ones with the pointy hats, damn
Top are Dark Reapers, Bottom are Eldar Warlocks.
I had a reasonable size Skaven army for WFB and an Ultramarine and Imperial Guard Armies for 40k. By the Emperor the price of the things nowadays, particularly made from plastic! Over 20 years since I last played!
I mean 22.50 for one figure WTF! [url= https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Primaris-Space-Marines-Librarian-Epistolary ]Primaris Librarian[/url]
Sweet, cheers Benji.
For sale if anyone wants them
There are more expensive addictions in life - coke, hookers, wives.....mountain biking.
I mean 22.50 for one figure WTF! Primaris Librarian
I have to say, the price is utterly shocking for some of the stuff. I fancied one of these, just really for show, till I saw that it retails for about 80 quid:
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There are more expensive addictions in life - coke, hookers, wives.....mountain biking.
We'll see! I might just knock up a 300 point force and see how much it would cost. Then chuck in the cost of paint and glue! 🙂
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I don't play but I am pretty obsessed with the novels, especially anything by Dan Abnett.POSTED 19 HOURS AGO # REPORT-POST
Agreed. I have neither the time nor money for the game any more, but thoroughly enjoy the books.
I have two armies from my teens:
An elder Jet Bike army (70+ jet bikes, vipers and Falcon grab tanks)
And a Night Lords / Alpha Legion chaos army. Tanks, terminators, a Golden daemon runner-up dreadnaught. All metal, none of this plastic rubbish.
The jet bikes are mostly plastic.
Battle fleet Gothic for the win!
I got back in to it a couple of years ago, a few friends had been back in to it a bit longer and had a big gaming weekend a few times a year which usually invoked a keg of ale and a good laugh. One of my mates is a ridiculously good painter and has had several of his armies featured in White Dwarf and on show at Warhammer world.
I find the painting is a good winter activity when it's cold and wet. It's quite stress relieving (provides you don't make painting a chore and get worked up when it doesn't go well) as its hard to think about other rubbish when you are concentrating on painting, I usually stick some background noise on, a film or a series I have seen before or an audiobook that I can just listen to without need to watch and just crack on with the brush.
The level of detail on the new plastic models is ridiculous. Direct from GW they are expensive but there are plenty of third party retailers doing 15-25% off retail. Old lead / white metal miniatures have character but I think a bit more of a pain to paint. They will be some plastic bargains from 7th edition 40k on eBay at present as the yoof off load it to buy the 'latest and greatest' 8th Ed. stuff. Also those who do the 'each new edition rage quit before getting sucked back in' offload. Also if you want Forgeworld stuff there are a LOT of fake recasts on eBay some poor quality. Though there are some Chinese recasters who some how manage to make stuff that's almost better quality than the originals...
My current project is re-creating my army of youth - a early 90's Marauder Dwarf army.
If anyone has any old metal - particularly Dwarfs, Skaven, orcs & goblins or wood elves then let me know, I'll take it off your hands without the hassle of dealing with the unscrupulous miniature dealers that seem to be rife on eBay!
@Redsox - I have a couple of unbuilt knights (unboxed) for £50esch if you change your mind. I built a four knight army for a tournament earlier this year - it was good to have a goal to aim to have stuff built / painted by:
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The one good thing about being an 'adult' is that I can now afford, or at least just buy, the cool models I couldn't when I was a kid 20 years ago!
Yup I generally buy from Element Games in Stockport as they're local, and they tend to be 20-25% cheaper than GW direct. Occasionally make a purchase from a GW store but only on the rare occasion I can manage to browse without the attempted hard sell. Went in with £100 burning a hole in my pocket yesterday and the guy managed to put me off spending it. Might send some of it Forgeworld's way and order the new stuff for the Chaos Renegades Blood Bowl team...
No one play Necromunda? Much preferred it to 40k at the time. You could play it in a smaller space, in less time, and your squad picked up experience points to boost skills.
I think the last rule change to 40k I bothered to pick up a rule book for was in 1998(?) when it moved to smaller armies/faster playing. Played one game with those rules in GW in Edinburgh and never since. Got a 10,000pt Ultramarine army gathering dust in our attic!
Apparently there is s new version of Necromunda coming out next year.
There's been an interim version call Shadow Wars which is similar and good fun for a quick game.
I've just reconciled myself to the fact I need to buy Necromunda: Underhive when it comes out. Might never play it, don't care, Necromunda was amazing. The new flat box set is dull compared to the old 3D set though
@wysiwyg let me know what metal you have as I might be interested cheers.
Eldar Farseer OOP unpainted
10 striking scorpions OOP unpainted inc exarch
6 Howling banshees unpainted inc exarch
then the warlocks and the reapers on the previous page.
Y'know, this thread might actually be the impetus required to finally go through my stuff in my parents' loft next time I'm in the UK. My dads only been on about it for the past ten years!
Given the number of Epic Titans I know I had, there's probably well over 100,000 points of assorted sides up there somewhere.