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[QUOTE=Psycoace2;36375947]Just got back into Heroscape with my brother for the first time since like 2006, only to find out they're pretty much all out of production. :'c Any other tabletop games worth getting into? I may do Warhammer, except it's so damn expensive.[/QUOTE] Flames of War is good and there are third-party companies producing cheaper miniatures for it. If you just want a game system and not a huge expensive hobby to go along with it, though, there are loads and loads of awesome board games available. My personal favorite would be Advanced Squad Leader, hands-down the best WW2 game I have ever played although very rules-heavy. What exactly are you looking for? Genre, complexity, scale, etc.
[QUOTE=catbarf;36376095]Flames of War is good and there are third-party companies producing cheaper miniatures for it. If you just want a game system and not a huge expensive hobby to go along with it, though, there are loads and loads of awesome board games available. My personal favorite would be Advanced Squad Leader, hands-down the best WW2 game I have ever played although very rules-heavy. What exactly are you looking for? Genre, complexity, scale, etc.[/QUOTE] I'm not looking for anything too serious or expensive, just something fun to do when I have a night with the guys. :v: I spent like 2 whole days playing Heroscape and learning Warhammer recently, and had all sorts of fun remembering how often I used to do things like that.
Stage collapsed at a Radiohead concert recently. Three injured and one dead. [video=youtube;pO007Bx1Uak]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO007Bx1Uak[/video] Maybe I will see him in the next life.
[QUOTE=Psycoace2;36376119]I'm not looking for anything too serious or expensive, just something fun to do when I have a night with the guys. :v: I spent like 2 whole days playing Heroscape and learning Warhammer recently, and had all sorts of fun remembering how often I used to do things like that.[/QUOTE] Sounds like a good board game would be better as a pick-up game than a complicate miniatures game. Would you prefer something tactical a la Warhammer, or a little more abstract/grand strategy/humorous?
[QUOTE=catbarf;36376358]Sounds like a good board game would be better as a pick-up game than a complicate miniatures game. Would you prefer something tactical a la Warhammer, or a little more abstract/grand strategy/humorous?[/QUOTE] Something along the lines of Warhammer would be nice, and I just prefer miniature games for the strategy/customization/etc. I know I'm not being very specific here, but I'm basing all of my wants on something similar to [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroscape]this.[/url]
If you do Warhammer, you should get the Forge World kits like the Death Korps of Krieg. They look sick as fuck
also money [editline]17th June 2012[/editline] proud owner of death korps demolisher turret.
imperial guard represent
[QUOTE=Psycoace2;36376391]Something along the lines of Warhammer would be nice, and I just prefer miniature games for the strategy/customization/etc. I know I'm not being very specific here, but I'm basing all of my wants on something similar to [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroscape]this.[/url][/QUOTE] Aha. So something with the tactical gameplay of Warhammer or Heroscape, the ability to change up your army composition instead of being locked into pre-made scenarios, and fairly rules-light. There are quite a few games that fit the profile, everything from fantasy to napoleonics to air combat. Is there any particular genre you're interested in?
[QUOTE=catbarf;36376505]Aha. So something with the tactical gameplay of Warhammer or Heroscape, the ability to change up your army composition instead of being locked into pre-made scenarios, and fairly rules-light. There are quite a few games that fit the profile, everything from fantasy to napoleonics to air combat. Is there any particular genre you're interested in?[/QUOTE] You hit it right on the head. And there's no particular genre at all, so long as it incorporates enough strategy I'm sold.
[QUOTE=Psycoace2;36376544]You hit it right on the head. And there's no particular genre at all, so long as it incorporates enough strategy I'm sold.[/QUOTE] Well, I have a number of suggestions then. -OGRE is an awesome game. It's a near-future setting in which advances in armor protection have required tactical nukes as the de facto armament of all military units. The original game premise is that an enormous AI cybertank, an Ogre MkIII, is heading towards a command post to destroy it and it's up to a combined-arms battalion to stop this from happening. Comes in a bunch of flavors, from a 'pocket-sized' board game to a miniatures form with shiny map, and there is an appropriately-named OGRE Miniatures sequel that adapts the game from hexes to free-form maps a la Warhammer, and is designed for conventional armies and/or Ogres on both sides. The latest version of the original game is called OGRE/GEV and incorporates rules for both the Ogres and conventional units so you can do the original scenario or one of your choosing. -Warmachine is a miniatures wargame, a little cheaper to get started with than Warhammer, and IMO has a much tighter and more streamlined rules system. I include it because it's very well done as a miniatures game, and has a pretty unique setting (steampunk, but medieval), and a companion game Hordes which is 100% compatible despite using some very different mechanics. This is the game where a ten-foot-tall steam-powered robot can, within the rules, body slam a similar sized angry werewolf, then pick it up and throw it through a wall, through the squad of infantry behind the wall, and into the commander controlling it. Then set them all on fire. It's a fun game. -Good old-fashioned Risk. It may not be very tactical, but there is a surprising amount of strategy. The same goes for Cosmic Encounter, which is much more abstract and card-based but is very detailed in the way the various races interact and is a lot of fun. Munchkin similarly is a light-hearted parody of Dungeons & Dragons, purely a card game but also easy to learn and play. -Downtown is a game of Vietnam War air combat over Hanoi. One player controls the US forces attempting a raid, constructing the mission plan for his forces and then directing air units, and the other controls the NVA, secretly placing AAA, SAMs, and radar installations, then using his intercept wings to stop the American raid from succeeding. It's a little rules-heavy but it really makes the player feel in charge. -Sky Galleons of Mars is a unique air combat game set in a steampunk 1889, where basically every single book by Jules Verne or HG Wells is true. The game revolves around air combat on Mars where the natives are using their traditionally-built airships made of a lift-providing wood to combat the flying gunboats of European colonial powers. You can buy the book combined with Cloudships & Gunboats, an expansion, very cheaply, but you'll need to find a board and counters elsewhere. Definitely gets points from me for its unique setting and gameplay. -Colonial Battlefleet. Most space games naturally make you play their setting. Colonial Battlefleet lets you design the ships of ANY setting, with an intuitive empire-building system that lets you define what your race is good at, then a free Excel program to stat out the ships themselves. If you prefer, it comes with its own generic setting, but an expansion called Man vs Machine is literally Battlestar Galactica without any copyrighted names (example, Cyborgs instead of Cylons) and is a very good space combat game. Very straightforward, very easy to play, some unique game mechanics, and a HUGE scope make it hands-down my favorite space game and one of my favorite board games ever. It's sold as a PDF only, but comes with an Excel program as mentioned and there are a ton of resources for printing out counters and boards. -Napoleonic wargaming in general, 15mm miniatures are extremely cheap and available for pretty much every major country, and there's a large number of rulesets available. Basically as cheap as it gets for large-scale miniature games so it's not a huge investment. If none of those appeal to you or there's something specific you're after I'm sure I've forgotten some. Edit: Oh yeah, I have a soft spot for Heavy Gear, which takes anime mecha and rams realism into them until the result is not too dissimilar from modern wars. The mechs themselves are mass-produced machines that function as a middle ground between tanks and infantry rather than towering death machines that kill everything, and the game itself applies modern concepts of electronic warfare and armor penetration. Its rules are very easy to play, but have a surprising amount of depth and use a couple of very well-executed mechanics I wish more games would copy. Edit 2: Oh, totally forgot about Sturmovik Commander. It's a free ruleset that, unlike Downtown where individual units are flights of aircraft, represents airplanes individually. The setting is WW2, so there are lots and lots of miniatures available, and it lets you pull off all kinds of cool aerial maneuvers in 3D without needing a lot of bookkeeping or rules knowledge (another easy-to-learn hard-to-master game). Rules-wise it's based on a game called Aeronautica Imperialis by Forge World, which is basically dogfighting in the 40k universe, so if you really like the Warhammer 40k setting you might enjoy that instead, but the models and hardback rulebook for AI are quite expensive and the variety of units it features is a bit limited.
[QUOTE=catbarf;36376989]Well, I have a number of suggestions then.[/QUOTE] Holy fuck, you're awesome. :v: Mind if I hit you up for some discussion about this later? I'd like to get back into it casually.
i want jambalaya for my birthday
Arkham Horror is a great game to play with friends, and since its just an expansive board game, its not too ridiculously expensive. Its set in H.P. Lovecraft's fictional town of Arkham and you slay monsters and go insane and stuff.
yeah but is it jambalaya
[QUOTE=Psycoace2;36377055]Holy fuck, you're awesome. :v: Mind if I hit you up for some discussion about this later? I'd like to get back into it casually.[/QUOTE] Sure, no problem. I also added a little note to my previous post, forgot one game. Whoops, forgot another, edited again.
Can someone suggest ways I can stop my step dad from raging at everyone in our house for no fucking reason?
[QUOTE=Taepodong-2;36377246]Can someone suggest ways I can stop my step dad from raging at everyone in our house for no fucking reason?[/QUOTE] Make jambalaya for him [editline]17th June 2012[/editline] but really just try to be nice to him, maybe he will return it.
god damn it why does this happen *weeks before summer starts* holy shit summer come faster i have all these games i need to beat *summer comes* ugh none of these games sound fun i dont i want to play games :|
rough life
[QUOTE=felix the cat;36377798]rough life[/QUOTE] yup gonna go kill myself now
I love jambalaya.
its so good
So my uncle shoots IPSC and I was at his house looking at all his race guns, and I look in the back of his safe after seeing only AR's and 1911's and I see something OD green so I asked what it was, and he pulls out a WWII M8 Combat Knife. It's got the leather rings, Camillus marking, U.S. Ordinance stamps, Fucking sharp blade and self sharpening sheath and the leg tie and he just gave it to me and I cannot even believe it.
My dad's friend once tried giving my mum an authentic WWII Japanese wartime code of conduct manual obviously she rejected it because she was 95% sure it was picked up off a dead person, then the next person who got it returned it to Japanese government apparantly
[QUOTE=/Vandy/;36378426]So my uncle shoots IPSC and I was at his house looking at all his race guns, and I look in the back of his safe after seeing only AR's and 1911's and I see something OD green so I asked what it was, and he pulls out a WWII M8 Combat Knife. It's got the leather rings, Camillus marking, U.S. Ordinance stamps, Fucking sharp blade and self sharpening sheath and the leg tie and he just gave it to me and I cannot even believe it.[/QUOTE] Self sharpening sheaths are literally the best thing
Fuck bitches [img]http://i.imgur.com/zaK99.jpg[/img]
clemoar was a p funny show iirc it was funny watching them bitches flap their arms at the speed of light and they randomly start gibbing because their opponents swords touch them at the speed of light it reminded me of gmod when I put a million thrusters on kleiner's arms and welded a crowbar on his ragdoll to see if it kills metrocops it did [editline]18th June 2012[/editline] and watching kleiner with rape face and flapping mutated arms was funny too
kyle how do you even get so strange like instantly
yea
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