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1 minute ago, fluger said:

Heck, even basic biker marines now shoot 4 times at 12" range.

And I know what I am painting up special for this version.

well the extra fiddly math things aside I am liking what I see so far.

The WS BS stats are interesting. They just flat out say what you need to roll rather than having to check a chart. I wonder how that will work out for Assault?

1 hour ago, blackvigil said:

I really do like the 90 minute goal, for games. If I want a 3-4 hour game,

That was a big plus for 3rd though it didn't play quite that fast... 4 hour games got really tedious in 2nd edition.

Just now, Sugarlessllama said:

I mean, all you would have to do is play the games you already own but haven't gotten around to playing yet. 

Those are from the stated humble bundles which I bought when I had a lot more disposable income and only wanted about 3 of the 10+ games. Everything I have purchased direct from Steam I have at least put in an hour or so on.

And at $34/year that is not even one codex. That is not even a squad of anything. Sure let me not buy anything on steam for 2 YEARS to get ONE CODEX. Never mind the models I need to play.

When the codexes were soft bound and $20ish to $30ish I could afford it for more than just my army. My disposable income however has not kept up with the price increases from GW. Then them changing editions quickly making at $70 rule book and a $60 codex useless when I can get out to play once a month at best... it was time for a break and I have been playing since Rogue Trader.

3 minutes ago, Sugarlessllama said:

If it is more than $50 of Steam games

Over 7 years...

$1244 Current account value

$240 Total cost with sales So that's about $34/year. So less than a marine squad a year.

21 Steam level

$12.32 Average price

$7.18 Average price per hour

119 Games owned (a bunch of these are from humble indie bundles that I imported)

5,988h Hours on record ( I have one idle game that umm yeah I make no excuses but I like it )

73.0h Average playtime

37 Games not played

And to further derail to disappoint self this will calculate those numbers up there for you  https://steamdb.info/calculator/

13 minutes ago, WestRider said:

There have definitely been some changes made,

That looks like some of the rumored advancement of story that never happened between 2nd and 3rd...

13 minutes ago, pretre said:

I know most new video games are that price, as are a lot of hobbies.

Steam sales are my life.

39 minutes ago, pretre said:

Even if they only last 2 years, $50 isn't that much compared to all the other crap you can spend money on that you get less enjoyment out of .

Other than nice meals out on occasion $50 is a price point that I can not drop regularly anymore. The books were damn nice I will give them that but not something I could pick up on a whim.

3 minutes ago, InfestedKerrigan said:

 

Also, I'm so glad I haven't dropped money on a codex since early 6th.

 

You are not the only one.

2 hours ago, WestRider said:

I feel like the core rules of 6th could work really well for something more on the scale of 2nd

2nd edition rules I found really worked well at 1000 points or less (which would probably be about 500-700 points now)

Heck they really rocked in Necromunda and Gorkamorka were you had less than 20 models per player. They were not awful rules but just worked for small scale skirmish and once you started getting above that they got too fiddly and time consuming.

Which is why I really liked 3rd... every time someone would gripe to me about all the detail lost I was like I can play more turns with more toys in half the time, why is this a bad thing...

ETA also I am now too damn old to want to deal with all that fiddly stuff with that many models on the table.

5 minutes ago, fluger said:

2nd edition was the LEAST balanced edition and every edition has had several REALLY broken units/coders.

Pretty much every special character to my recall was broken in one way or another. Oh and assault that really really was a chore.

While I miss some of the silliness of it I don't miss the gameplay at all. I think I really liked 3rd and 4th the best.

I guess I can unlurk... well with the mess at the end of the previous edition and then this edition out so quickly I had a real bad feeling about the game overall then add in the cost of the current books and I haven't played since.

This at least interests me. Looks like it could easily scale things from small to large. I dunno about save modifiers again. It was neat but was also one of those things that dragged the game down in 2nd but I am willing to deal with it.

On 2/1/2017 at 9:19 PM, WestRider said:

 

Howard the Duck.

 

I paid money to see that in the theater opening night.

In movies I have actually seen lately.

I finally got about to seeing John Wick. Formulaic but a good take on it with excellent gunfight choreography and good cinematography and Keanu was good in the role.

What We Do In The Shadows was way more fun that I expected it to be.

And finally The H-Man. Nuclear mutant slime people are attacking the Tokyo underworld (not sure why they are only attacking one gang but hey go with it) directed by Inshiro Honda. What is not to love about this.

It's a fun board game. The minis are worth the price alone. If tense close quarter combat in corridors is your thing you will probably enjoy it.

House of Wax: Pretty mediocre run of the mill slasher flick. The setting of the House itself was pretty cool, tho. The true horror is in the soundtrack. 2005 was not a good year for musical taste.

You should see the Vincent Price one. Much better film even with the few 3D gimmick scenes. Also the original with Lionel Atwill is good stuff.

That is awesome! Not really my thing but that is great work.

Descent or Shadows Of Brimstone?

The weird west calls to me more than bog standard fantasy.

Any of you geeks played both?

http://www.solegends.com/citle1990/lert/lexmasmarines/index.htm

though no beards... there there was space santa...

http://www.solegends.com/citrt2/le/index.htm

and now I feel old cause I remember seeing this on the minis rack at the store.

Tried the free to play option on Pinball Arcade. It is actually a really sweet emulator of commercial tables.

I broke down and got the season with The Addams Family, Cyclone, and Earthshaker as it was on sale for the holiday and those 3 are tables I happily dropped many a quarter into in my younger days.

interesting at least on a quick scan of the rules.

This makes better sense than never printing again like the previous times. The molds and printing set ups are a big investment and may as well get all the use you can out of them.

Still the 2nd ed close combat rules.  Those rules do and always have sucked

Well they sucked for 40k, I thought they worked quite okay for the small games like Necromunda. This was the game where I thought the 2nd edition mechanics and fiddly details worked well.

That Guy Dick Miller : 9/10 : Documentary about veteran character actor Dick Miller. Wonderful interview footage with Dick, his wife, Roger Corman who got him started in acting and many directors and writers who saw him on the screen when they were still kids and love having him in their work.

edit I can't read what thread I am in...