Duckman

So hot women are the rarity? Now I am sorry for you.

If I never will be free, can I still be easy?

Now my brain hurts... Christopher Walken as anybody... Foghorn Leghorn - "I... Suh, suh, say... Whater'ya doin' with... That there dog... Boy?" Braveheart - "They can take our... Lives, but they will... Never take our freedom." For God's sake... Anyone working on this project, please stop now!

Sadness is signing up for a Cambridge Analytica account to find hobby gamers. No problems finding the Fanatics and the NE Masters groups. Not seeing anything for Pittsburgh that is not related to the musical group. If you should happen to see this, Kremmet, hit me with a link to the Pittsburgh page if you still have it.

I started looking at KoW while I was in Lexington and there were abundant opponents. I've moved on to Pittsburgh and while there is a fantastic shop here with more tables and players than I have seen in one place in my life (and that includes tournaments). The problem is that there is not a square-baser to be seen. There was lots of Flames of War and lots of 30k or 40k but nothing fantasy going on at all (not even AoS which the staff said was not uncommon). Based on tournament notes that I have seen there have got to be at least a few players but I am at a loss for how to find them.

Pass *phrase* or mnemonic. Pick something memorable like "2nd edition is still better than anything WotC ever thought up and Dave Arneson is a god!" Write it down if you need to. 2eisbtaWotCetuaDAiag!

Don't go with Space Master for playable. Good crunch but unplayable. Follows that SFB model of rules... Way too much crunch and too many tables to play at a reasonable pace. Firefly is solid. Traveller has more crunch but has some odd quirks (like who is going for captain to get you a ship?).

Thanks for the thoughts, in particular that last insight, BroG. I was torn between an MSU type build like gilgamesh's 7-regiment list and something with a few hordes or legions. I had also wanted to build a dwarf list in Warhammer but didn't like the gunline style that served them so well. In KoW they seem to have better survivability than the Varangur between the bulwarkers and the ironguard. That makes a dwarf list built around an iron wall formation kinda tempting too.

I figure we're in for this but I will lose respect for them if the just call king's X. I'm hoping they'll actually write something reasonable involving actually using the infinity stones instead of just saying "and it was all a dream so let's go on about our business".

I have not played a mass-battle game since early in 8th Ed. Warhammer Fantasy. I'm in an area now that is supportive of KoW and have an interest in learning the game and experimenting with some of the different armies to figure out how the different armies play. I no longer have any models (will be borrowing armies from a guy locally to fiddle with until I decide on a force) but I used to play Warriors of Chaos which appear to be the Varangur. I also had Skaven, now Ratkin, and Lizards, now Salamanders. My preferred army was the Warriors with light units based around a couple of blocks of sticky/fighty Chosen which I gather means something like a couple of blocks of Sons of Korgaan with Horse Raiders, a Chieftain and then flavor to fill out the army. The main crux of my question is about playstyle in KoW and what makes a complete army. If I am putting 2 Regiments of Sons, a Regiment of Mounted Sons, 2 troops of Horse Raiders and a Chieftain on a Mount on the table I am at about half my army there and have almost no shooting, no monsters and no war machines. Do my Sons Regiments have the survivability to stick around in combat for a while? Do I have enough movement if I add Troops of Reavers and Night Raiders to hunt my enemies down? Is there a good rule of thumb for how many sticky units like Sons Regiments I want at 2250 points or how much shooting I should expect to see? I don't know enough about what to expect to see on a table to even begin thinking about how to build a list and so I am wondering what a typical 2250 army might look like for any list (what would I see in an opponent list?). Bonus question: Has anyone played with the Night-Stalkers and can you characterize how they play?

Pralines and Cream? Pralines go in lots of desserts and salads. They can be used in other dishes as well (basically anywhere you might use a candied nut). https://www.seriouseats.com/talk/2009/12/what-to-do-with-leftover-pralines.html#comments-395841

I would think you could come out under $3k depending on what your workload needs are. You don't need graphics unless I misunderstand and for most work machines a $500 box is going to be enough. Licenses depend on growth expectations. If you expect to need lots of machines and licenses in the future there are economies of scale but again it sounds like that is not this year so maybe hold off and do it as individuals right now. At that level office365 for all four should be about $500 give or take. IT support is so worth it... Dunno that market though so I can't tell you what price to expect but definitely look at your cost for SLA options. Romans hit that on the head.

So Metro got some rave reviews back in the day. It was remastered and rereleased in 2014 and has gotten (and is still getting) better than 10-to-1 positive reviews. It's supposed to be dark, gritty and spooky. Looking forward to trying to whole campaign for all of $6.

This is the US. The only snakes you really have to be afraid of are baby rattlers. Everything else is both interested in and smart enough to stay away from you. The problem with baby rattlers is that first, they are not smart enough to avoid you and second, they haven't figured out how to control the venom they hit with so you actually get more venom from them than an adult. That said, this is not Australia. It's not like frickin' everything thinks you are food. If you just make noise, even normal rustling around, everything in nature is going to decide you are a lousy neighbor and head away from you.

Rather than post the codes, the thing to do is post the name of the game and who has the key. Then you avoid the issue Dark mentions and you still are able to put everyone in touch.

Did anything ever come of this? I have a number of codes which are available and was looking for a place to post them.

Yeah, by it's very nature Mordheim can be unforgiving. What is hard to tell is whether or not the negative reviews are justified (I only barely tolerated the change to the BloodBowl RNG where the distribution was 1,1,2,3,4,5,6,6 because extremes are more interesting) or if they're just people who don't get that "you have a 1-in-6 chance of dying" really is a common theme in Games Workshop games. Appreciate the comments, VonRuger.

Mordheim: City of the Damned is on sale for 75% off on Steam this weekend. This is the Rogue Factor game published by Focus Home Interactive. All six DLCs are also on sale as are the bundles. Initial reviews were positive but more recently they are mixed... In a nutshell it sounds like the RNG was modified as a means of balance control for poor AI (but then again, that could just be people frustrated that something in their last play-through went wrong). Anyone got experience with this one?

You did a fine cut of some of the slate chips when you put them on your hill... What did you use for that cut (since it was so clean and sharp-edged where slate doesn't normally like that)? (Normally I just fracture, not worrying about clean edges but a clean cut like that would also allow placement on a table edge easily.)

I'm looking for someone who lives in the Longview/Kelso or Castle Rock area (or east/west of that area) to field some questions. If you are such a person, please shoot me a PM.

Some of them needed help from Esher though....

(Not related to Romans or anything) The old adage that if you have to explain a joke it is not funny applies whether you are the one who told the joke originally or not.

That's been the basis of dystopian fiction for years. Of more interest is to note that sales of dystopian fiction have dropped like a rock (because more and more of the middle class feel like they are living it and it is no longer escapist fiction or just can't afford books in general?). I'll stop there because this has a way of turning random thoughts into Realm of Chaos fodder.