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I was just distracted by the fact that the Aquilla that makes up the front of the podium has the incorrect number of eyes for a post-Heresy design. 

I haven’t read the new rules, but are Canonesses still not allowed jump packs? 
 

GW’s whole “not in the box, not in the rules” design ethos these last couple years has been incredibly annoying.

Back in Michigan, a guy at my FLGS did a whole Dark Eldar army that really played up their pirate imagery, he used conventional conversion tricks like using lots of WHFB Dark Elf corsair bitz, but he also used real lichen, moss, and seashells.

Had a really cool look, like the Flying Dutchman from Pirates of the Carribean crossed with Hellraiser cenobites.

2 hours ago, InfestedKerrigan said:

Was that when he was entering the smithy?

Pretty sure.

Combined with the resurgence of Battletech and Shadowrun, rewatching The Rocketeer does now suddenly make me nostalgic for Crimson Skies...

Jodo Kast, confirmed.

Just rebase all your gobbos to look like they’re standing on soap boxes and small kegs, then green-stuff some trench coats on ‘em.

The Rocketeer was a favorite of mine as a kid, but I don’t think I’ve rewatched in in a least 20 years. Gave it a re-watch last night and it’s still great.

Okay, sure, Billy Campbell is a bit wooden (Brendan Fraser, Brandon Routh, and Nathan Fillion are so much better at playing this sort of Square-Jawed, All-American Hero) but he’s not terrible. He’s mostly just upstaged by Alan Akron, Jennifer Connelly, and Paul Sorvino stealing the show... and Timothy Dalton is clearly relishing every bite of the set, gleefully scenery chewing his way through the whole film. Since he basically gets to play an Errol Flynn type swashbuckler, a dashing debonair romantic lead, and a Bond Villain simultaneously, you can’t help but enjoy watching him enjoy the part.

Special effects are, well, they’re thirty years old. The flying scenes are quite as seamless as I remember, which might rob the movie of some of its magic... But everything else holds up great.

Rumors of a sequel or remake have swirled around forever, but I don’t think it will ever happen.

If you’ve never seen The Rocketeer or just haven’t seen it this century, give it a whirl.

Four stars.

Warhammer Siege was always my favorite way to play WHFB. 

I’ve really enjoyed this siege scenario for Saga: Age of Crusades. It would work for Age of Magic too.

How about that, GW finally seems to have come up with an Acts of Faith mechanic that doesn’t stink on ice.

Ignorant question from someone whose never so much as skimmed The 9th Age rules, but, well... Couldn’t you use the siege towers as siege towers? 
 

4 minutes ago, Dark Trainer said:

I still haven't signed up for Disney+. I don't see the value outside the Mandelorian. Needs more that I want to consume.

I was interested due to the service having Marvel Studios and the back-catalogue for Twentieth Century Fox and Fox Searchlight. My kids were interested because they’d have Marvel, Pixar and Disney. So I was going to bite the bullet and sign up... 

But then my cellphone company (Verizon) gave us a free year.

We “cut the cord” back in 2002-03. At first with just DVDs and Netflix-by-mail. We switched to Netflix streaming when that became a thing... We also have had Amazon Prime forever as well, mostly just for the free shipping, so the streaming service is mostly a nice side-effect.

I’ve tried Hulu, off and on, over the years but was never impressed. Gave CBS’s service a go when it was free for a month, binged Star Trek Discovery’s first season (and loathed everything it stood for). Also dabbled with a few others here and there.

In all my years of streaming services, the only two I’ve ever seen fit to keep have been Netflix and Amazon... and I’m not really keeping Amazon because of the streaming video. 

Disney might be worth keeping. I’ve got it free for a year, so it’s definitely going to have a long enough chance to impress me.

2 hours ago, TheBeninator said:

When I do the heavy infantry ill come up with something that you don't have a name for!

Challenge accepted.

Running late. Might not make it before 6:00-6:30...

When nine-hundred years old you reach, many baby mamas you will have, hrmm?

Holy [big bad swear word]! A third member of Yoda’s species!

First episode of ‘The Mandolorian’ was pretty good.  Great set design, costuming, special effects, and CGI; great performances from all the principle actors; and a very well-paced plot that keeps you interested in the events of the moment whilst slowly setting the hook(s) for the rest.

Plot is a pretty by the numbers “bounty hunter drifter rolls into town, gets a job no one else can handle, and things go sideways” that was used in countless dime novels, western b-movies, and every other episode of ‘Have Gun Will Travel’ or ‘The Rifleman’. But the classics are classics for a reason and the show does it very well.

I’ll admit I was skeptical and this was only the first episode. But I’m official moving myself all the way from from “watching out of morbid curiosity” to “eagerly awaiting the next episode.”

Four stars out of five.

First episode of ‘The Mandolorian’ was pretty good.  Great set design, costuming, special effects, and CGI; great performances from all the principle actors; and a very well-paced plot that keeps you interested in the events of the moment whilst slowly setting the hook(s) for the rest.

Plot is a pretty by the numbers “bounty hunter drifter rolls into town, gets a job no one else can handle, and things go sideways” that was used in countless dime novels, western b-movies, and every other episode of ‘Have Gun Will Travel’ or ‘The Rifleman’. But the classics are classics for a reason and the show does it very well.

I’ll admit I was skeptical and this was only the first episode. But I’m official moving myself all the way from from “watching out of morbid curiosity” to “eagerly awaiting the next episode.”

Four stars out of five.

I wonder if Contrast paint can be used in an airbrush...? 

1 hour ago, Koyote said:

The last wild wolf in Ireland was killed in the late 18th century...

Irony was what befell the Great Wolf, understand? He choked upon the very last potato in the land! 

1 hour ago, TheBeninator said:

 

What do you get when you combine a ten-hour graveyard shift and nothing much else to do during it?

• First Row (L-R)
  •  Per pale argent and azure
  • Barry of twelve azure and vert fimbriated sable 
  • Argent a cross gules
  • Argent a pale vert
  • Argent a cross tenné 
  • Per pale vert and tenné
  • Vert a cross gules fimbriated sable 
  • Tenné a pale gules fimbriated sable 
  • Quarterly azure and tenné
  • Azure two palet gules fimbriated sable 
• Second Row (L-R)
  • Azure a bend argent
  • Vert a cross azure fimbriated sable 
  • Quarterly gules and argent
  • Quarterly argent and vert
  • Argent a bend tenné
  • Quarterly vert and tenné fimbriated sable 
  • Vert two bend sinister gules fimbriated sable 
  • Tenné a chevron gules fimbriated sable 
  • Tenné a chevron azure fimbriated sable 
  • Azure a chevron gules fimbriated sable 
• Third Row (L-R)
  • Argent a pale azure fimbriated sable
  • Per pale vert and azure
  • Gules two chevrons inverted argent fimbriated sable
  • Argent a bend vert
  • Tenné a pale argent
  • Vert two chevrons inverted tenné fimbriated sable
  • Gules two chevrons vert fimbriated sable
  • Barry of seven gules and tenné fimbriated sable 
  • Tenné a triangle voided azure fimbriated sable 
  • Gules a pale azure fimbriated sable 
• Fourth Row (L-R)
  • Argent a cross azure
  • Per bend azure and vert 
  • Gules three bars argent fimbriated sable
  • Vert a chevron argent fimbriated sable
  • Tenné a cross argent fimbriated sable
  • Tenné a cross argent fimbriated sable
  • Tenné a cross vert fimbriated sable
  • Per fess gules and vert
  • Gules a saltire tenné fimbriated sable
  • Azure a pale tenné fimbriated sable
  • Gules three bars azure fimbriated sable

It should be noted that tenné (sometimes "tawny" or "tenny," spelling wasn't standardized until fairly recently) is a pretty unusual tincture. It comes from the Medieval Latin word tannare, meaning "to tan leather" and is supposed to be a light brownish color of a tanned hide... It wasn't used much as a field color, mostly just for wood and skin on charges, but it makes sense for peasantry that are pretenders to armigerous station. 

Now they just need a standard bearer, even peasants can't march to war without a flag! No flag, no country!

 

All gave some, some gave all. Some are dogs.

I always liked Frateris Militia, Preachers, Missionaries, and other parts of the Ecclesiarchy being part of the army. That dates all the way back to their original Second Edition codex... the problem was that the codices you mentioned made them better than the Battle Sisters at doing the Battle Sisters’ jobs! 

Frateris Militia should be cannon fodder chaff, Preachers should be squishy force multipliers that buff the Militia, etc. They should be useful, but limited to very specific roles.

(Or just drop them altogether and encourage people to make nifty conversions of the Imperial Guard blob detachments they’ll inevitably add.)