Darthweasel

thanks, I will go that route. Happy gaming gents (and ladies should any be present)

Weird question here. Through the years I have played 40k long enough ago that I remember one-shotting my poor brothers' Imperial Guard tank with a handful of dice including several that were not 6-siders...took a bunch of years off, came back and there were all sorts of new armies like Tau, Tyranids, Dark Eldar and what have you, amassed a collection but then we started a remodel and the edition changed. Getting set to start back up but it will be very casual play...I will be supplying armies for any and all who play, the games will be in my living room or music room and be based on models I have. Over the years I have picked up: a decent number of Space Marines Smurf Blue Space Wolves enough whichever Angel army is Green and Bone White Eldar Tau Chaos Space Marines to have decent size armies, and smaller amounts of randomly colored marines, Necrons, Orks that they could play small games. When it comes to the fluff, really don't care all that much, I am not as enamored of it as the truly hardcore. At the risk of losing all credibility, I just like the game system and playing with toy soldiers and vastly prefer this to any of the alternatives I have played. So with the background out of the way, here is the question: Knowing the games will be casual, rare enough we will probably spend time looking up rules too often, is it worthwhile to get the codexes as they come out or is something like this best done by just getting the "total reset" books they released?

I have a NIB unopened Sunshark Bomber, NIB but opened Hammerhead, NIB unopened crisis team, NIB uonopened riptide, NIP unopened Cadre Fireblade and a variety of painted other stuff (4 Hammerheads in a green and brown camo pattern (painted by someone else, pretty well painted in my opinion), 27 fire warriors in 3 color patterns, dubious quality painted by me, and the book of course. Somewhere. If there is the seed of a deal there I would be interested. I can text pictures of the painted stuff if you want. No worries either way thanks Drew

Looking for a casual gaming -partner in Beaverton area for preferably some of the ECG/LCG/Deckbuilding games out there. I own some of all mentioned above and obviously am not against trying some others. Played maybe 20-30 games of Doomtown, 20-30 of LoTR, zero of Conquest, a handful of Star Wars... I tend much more toward the casual. If you are looking to hone your deck for a tournament I am probably not your preferred opponent. If you want to try a bunch of different decks, play a different deck every game or even rotate games, crush some pizza, just relax and play for the fun of playing, I'm your huckleberry. I have enough Doomtown to supply all the decks if need be, just the starter for Conquest and Star Wars, a couple expansions for LoTr...hit me up if interested

So a buddy took on the DoC as a painting project to try out some strategies before painting his "real" army, the High Elfs. As a result, he is keeping his DoC army small and we have been playing a series of 750 point games. Beings as how I despise the hobby aspects of the game...the only thing worse than building a list is assembling the models. Painting is drudgery but I get it done...anyway, I tend to Battlescribe my lists and, since I don't spend hours in the books, I seldom remember what the magic items do. As a result, in something like 6 games I have taken 1 magic item...an Ogre Blade. And I am thinking I should change that. His typical list is a Herald, Lvl 1, in a block of daemonettes giving them ASF, a skillcannon and 3 Skullcrushers (Bloodcrushers? I play WoC and always mix up the names). Occasionally he mixes in Bloodletters. When we play 1250 points he mixes in a D-Prince. So far I have used WoC, Brets, Goblins only, Orcs only, and beastmen. As you may gather, I like to rotate who I play...I will be bringing Dwarf and High Elf armies in the near future. I like a variety of playstyles so mix it up. A combination of things have led to some weird results: unit of 5 Chaos Knights whiffed 70% of their attacks, got whittled down and his Herald + 1 daemonette ran off my last 2 knights...or having his 'Nettes pinned down with Knights of the Realm, getting the flank charge with Grail Knights and having a combined zero hits in the two rounds of combat before all my guys ran off the table...that was awesome...or almost the entire the goblin army running off the table after his first shot of the game. It was pretty funny. Anyway, seeings as how it is highly unlikely I will spend more than 5 minutes building a list for games at this points level, and with the understanding I will only be playing 8th edition rules (we rejected the end times character percentage increase, the extra lore abilities, etc), are there any items that should be considered staples for the following: WoC O&G Beastmen High Elves Bretonnians for a small game? Typical lists: WoC small block of Warriors, block of Knights, exalted to lead them. O&G Block of savage orcs and boar riders, maybe goblins with fanatic(s), Mangler Squig, doom diver catapult, occasionally squig hoppers (varies more than any other list) Beastmen Gor, Minotaurs High Elf Have not built one yet but I tend more towards swordmasters than White Lions. Big proponent of putting out large numbers of attacks. Bretonians Work in progress; the Knights of the Realm, Knights Errant, Grail KNight, Paladin on Pegasus combo did a combined 8 wounds while getting tabled. Admittedly, he rolled better (it was turn 3 before he failed to hit on a single attack, I had zero hits in 2 rounds from my Grail Knights...). Not a big fan of Men at Arms, particularly WS2 v WS5 ASF...does not end well... Appreciate your thougts

I am thinking of going with a pro-painted Gorger army for the next tournament. I practically have it in the bag. For an early look at my pro-painted soon to be best-painted army award win, have a look at the current "It Still Cracks me Up" thread. Writhe in jealousy, mere mortals. When I have that in hand, for you to win a painting competition will be amazing, for me it will be Tuesday

Recently picked up the core, shortly thereafter Kharad Dum and Hunt for Gollum. Showed it to the Starving Crazed Weasels today and they loved it, hoping to expand the collection inexpensively...or trade for it. Let me know what you have and what you are looking for

sadder yet...it is repost. In a previous effort he referred to it as "pro painted" and discussed the level of detail in the gore...I might gently argue when he says "pro" his definition differs slightly from mine. Perhaps he meant "I am pro painting all models, anti playing with primed models, even if the painted models look worse than unprimed models stomped on by a toddler."

as an outsider with very little of value to contribute, I would say this; threads like this, which seem to pop up every year, do serve as somewhat as a disincentive to those of us who have never attended one to attend. On the one side when it is first over people crow about how every game was awesomesauce, the coolest people they have ever met, the type of people they want their daughters to marry. Then a month or two later it feels like there is a lengthy thread about all the travesties of justice that occurred, how unfun/antifun/against the spirit it was, etc. Again, this is as a disinterested, casual observer. I am not big on tournaments at this stage in my life, really dislike tournament settings with any sort of comp* and am not a target audience for the OFCC. However, the promise of a casual, laid back tournament is intriguing enough to make me consider it. But then I read these threads and I get the sense the much-promised "spirit of the OFCC" and the reality are vastly different. I am not saying it IS that way. I have never been. I am saying that the impression given off by these threads to a casual observer with no axe to grind, they can be interpreted that way. Hope it is helpful. * especially hypocritical in light of my current preferred 40k style game: small points, single codex, no allies and no forge world...but I would want to play all those things in a tournament, which is much different than wanting to learn the game well enough to play in a tournament should I so desire. I differentiate between what I CURRENTLY want in a casual game and what I want when either I know the game better or play a tournament

if they would drop those three books and if 9th has the changes rumored (including the 50% lord nonsense and everyone having lore of undeath, etc) I would not care...because with those 3 books we would have a complete edition I really love and me and my group can keep playing while ignoring the retrograde release. not wrong...you are 99.9% right (cause there are some people out there liking these changes and books. And even though they are wrong they have the right to enjoy being wrong :-) )

I have found it massively underpowered. My desire for magic to play a real role is doubtless part of it...but so too is the experience I have had where in the dozens of games played, there has not been one time it had a game deciding impact. Closest it came was in a 5500 point WoC v Skaven game where he dreaded 13th'd my Chaos Warriors with sorcerer and exalted off the table, replacing them with his rats who my extra units of knights instantly rampaged through...cost me a few points, making it only a 2000 point victory instead of a 3400 point...so not really any meaningful impact. so yeah, probably the only person in the history of Warhammer 8th to say this, but in games ranging from 500 points to 5500 points with most in the 2500-3000 range...magic is stupidly underpowered. Your experience probably will vary but someone has to be the exception

My brothers live in St Helens, we and a couple friends primarily play fantasy, but I roll out there few times a month and would be willing to play smaller 40k games. I vastly prefer single codex, small game type stuff so may not be your cup of tea but the thought is out there

I was just starting to play 40k and the new Space Wolf codex dropped. I had been building my list around Logan and Terminators as troops...it was not and would not be competitive, but it was legal. New codex landed...and now I have to buy a SECOND codex to play the same list. I have not played a game since. If they did something like the bundled codex I would be all over it. As it stands, I ignore the fluff, don't look at the pictures...all that content they are so proud of is just wasted space to me. And needing to buy 2 codexes to play the army I have built, plus numerous dataslates, extra codexes for every other army just to know what the other guy can or cannot do? Eh, until End Times is the way everyone plays I still have Warhammer. After that, I still have Doomtown...

you laugh...but the better half really wants to hit the Great Wolf Lodge and I smurfing near did come up there to see the Cowboy game...we hit Seattle a few times a year, and I think are planning to come up there when the Last Comis Standing peeps are at some casino or other up there, so I may hit you up depending on what part of the metropolis you are in

Warhammer Forum (English site and scarily slanted towards A) tournaments and B) ETC tournaments, so take it with a salt-shaker...but it is a sizable community with a stout U.S. representation) came to the opposite conclusion, that these are current official rules....not saying I agree, I don't, just pointing out there is a very sizable minority that sees it differently. From my meanderings I would say the split is closer to 55-45 or 51-49 on whether it is the new rules or just an optional supplement...