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  5. 5 reasons why list rating does not work, #4 will shock you!

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    2 hours ago, Lord Hanaur said:

    I agree completely with the difficulties that were laid out in the original post by evil_bryan.  Not one point of disagreement

    I acknowledge that its difficult, but I think that you can go to any tournament and get the same spread of "okay that wasn't so bad" and the "Good lord, does that man have no SOUL" type lists that you get at OFCC when there is no rating.

    I valued the hard work people did on ratings.  We mostly shot for lower rated armies anyways and always had themes that were necessarily restrictive but, well, themed.  We did Rolling thunder where all things had to be on servos or in a transport.  We did hordes with no less than 120 models.  We did all Tau with Stealthsuits and Everyone had to feature Stingwings. And so on.  We knew it was hard work to grade these, but we were appreciative that they did.

    We didn't really consider going this year. or last year.  It wasn't a protest or anything dramatic like that.  It's just that the event sort of (by which I mean 100% exactly) turned into a painting contest the last year we went; and now list rating which was what made it special, is gone (and had in fact kind of been gone for all practical purposes before that because of the crazy stuff people wanted to allow).

    I for one definitely miss the spirit of the event.  The people have almost always been fun.  But that would have happened without OFCC.  What OFCC brought was a different set of rules that made the games more fun intrinsically, instead of simply relying on a great guy to continue to be a great guy which he was probably going to be anyways.

    I tell people about OFCC all the time, but now I just tell them "don't go if you aren't a world class painter.  The cost is pretty high and it's pretty much the lists you always see at any lower priced event."  Saying that makes me super sad.

    I’m confused, you basically say you want a friendly event where winning doesn’t matter but also upset that painted is scored so high?  If winning doesn’t matter why does the painting matter to you?

    not trolling curious

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  7. Nova Open news

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    3 hours ago, InfestedKerrigan said:

     

     

     

    Isn't Silvertower Warhammer Quest?

    So, if that is basically Necromunda Kill team IN SPHEREEEEESSS! 

    ugh.

    Well, anyway, if it ends up something like the FFG Fallout game, or the DnD co-op games, I think I can get my game group into it. ^_^

    I'm picturing Deathwatch RPG in a boardgame form, in a very basic sense.

    Sorry I thought you meant actual DnD brand games.

  8. Nova Open news

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    2 minutes ago, InfestedKerrigan said:

    We'r playing through Tomb of Annihilation boardgame in our gaming group. It's gotten one of the players interested in DnD, so we're getting ready for a Midgard campaign. 

    Is silvertower similar to the DnD boardgames?

    Haven’t played the DND board games so can’t say.

    but I do know it wound be like necromunda or Kill team

  9. Nova Open news

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    6 hours ago, InfestedKerrigan said:

    How is Blackstone not Killteam/Necromunda? How many [big bad swear word]ing rulesets do they expect to make........

     

    I like the diversity in Sisters of Battle noses.

    Hahaha! Of course they are getting another "pdf" dex 🤣😂🤣

    Umm because it’s nothing like those? 😝😜

    its a co op role playing game

  18. WHOA, that happened at OFCC

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    49 minutes ago, Nathanvoodoo said:

    My first game of doubles my Mortarion got shot off the table by the first shot of a knight Castellan, when I failed all four of my invulnerable saves.  I drank more and laughed.

     

    My first game the next day my Telemon Dreadnought did the exact same thing except he exploded spectacularly in the middle of my lines. Sometimes things go so wrong so fast you just have to laugh at your luck and make the game as silly as you can.

    You need a rape whistle good sir

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  19. WHOA, that happened at OFCC

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    Rolled snakeyes to hit with twin las Cannon, refilled them (re roll misses) got box cars.  Then to wound I rolled 1s again, LT was near by so re rolled and got 6’s again.

    the amazing part is the next round the exact same thing played out the exact same way.  I’m not one to calculate odds but that had to be up there.

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  20. So this is a thing....

    in Warhammer 40,000

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    On 8/27/2018 at 10:50 AM, paxmiles said:

    So the question is, does he/she have this in addition to an army, or instead of an army? Seems like with the time dedicated to such costume, you would lack time to spend painting a 40k army. 

    I would assume that one does not simply go this far into fandom with having ever painted an army

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