The Hobby That Dare's Not Speak Its Name Aka Wargaming

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The rules have changed a lot since I used to play... 20 years ago!

Nice to see fully painted armies instead of the usual sea of grey.

Painted makes a hell of a difference. I put in a hard rule amongst my group that "not painted, not on the table", and it really made things better. Doesn't have to be beautiful, as when its in context on the table and amongst the other armies, then it pulls everything else up.

I dunno - remember the old Strategy cards? Virus Outbreak FTW! (except not in real life please, had quite enough of that recently)

remember the old Strategy cards?

Nope. To be honest I never played that much 40k - I was more into my night goblins, loved unleashing fanatics on a charging cavalry unit - but did have a Space Wolves army at one point. Think my parents still have a lot of it buried away somewhere, might dig it out after being inspired by this thread.

10 points out of 100 for having your army "battle ready"

Great pics!

didn't realise there were lfgss hobby gaming folks. got back into the hobby during one of the lockdowns last year. Been playing in a 40k narrative crusade campaign at HATE, definitely recommend the crusade system, really fun.

Learning Kill Team next, but played a game of Frostgrave over tabletop simulator with a friend the other day and that was fun. I've got the starter set from warhammer fantasy 6th ed so will try making a frostgrave warband out of the empire from that.

Up for smaller 40k games or kill team learning games if anyone fancies.

ft some pics of things what I have painted.

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Woah. They're impressive

Remembered to take a photo of the last game. 3 player Warcry - Splintered Fangs, Untamed Beasts and Cypher Lords.

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Also got some games of the new Kill Team, Tyranids vs Thousand Sons.

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thanks! I think a healthy fascination with rust (probs inspired by my now long gone clear lacquered ESB) has helped.

What are these guys? Great painting.

cheers! Iron golems from warcry / Age of Sigmar. I just liked the models and fancied painting for the sake of it on these ones, not played either game.

yeah they're cool. Necromunda has some great models too but I've no idea how to play it and don't really have time to learn.

Had my first game of Warcry Catacombs last night. It was ogors defending their treasure from attacking savage orcs - turned out to be a very bloody game. The ogor leader was cornered first turn after aggressively moving forward to capture the treasure, was surrounded and cut down.

By the end of turn 5 there was more treasure tokens than there were bodies on the board. Both teams only had 2 models remaining each, but the orcs won as it was 2 victory points for each piece of treasure the attacker had vs 1 point for the defender.

The catacombs rules were fun, especially being able to push fighters into the lava pits!

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So Warcry's a bit like old-style D&D?

I did enjoy passing the shop in Tottenham Court Road the other day, which is merely called 'WARHAMMER'. Out with all this confusing Games Workshop nonsense, eh? :)

For the non-miniatures/comsim wargamers, I watched an interesting seminar yesterday with Nick Bradbeer of UCL, talking about how they use wargames to teach naval architecture students about the tradeoffs in ship design. A lot of interesting discussion about how to make it engaging, and about the 8 types of fun (which I'd not previously encountered). It's now up on YouTube; the rest of the channel should also be of interest to fellow nerds: https://youtu.be/cP6HzLB0DZI

Superb. Thank you.

I think so, possibly has a reference to Heroquest but that's before my time.

The original version of Warcry has a lot of dynamic movement, you can climb, run and jump most things which encourages tall terrain.

Catacombs as the name suggests takes place underground and the board is 2D - there's no vertical movement. There are solid walls and doors that can be opened as well as pits to push people in and bridges that can collapse.

I like the freedom of the regular board but the odd dungeon crawl is fun. One of the guys I play with likened it to Dungeon Bowl which is coming back - https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/10/30/warhammer-day-2021-dungeon-bowl-is-back-and-its-bloodier-than-ever/

I'm guessing the renaming was all part of the 'how can we copyright everything' movement that took place after they lost a court case...

Hehe, next they're all going to start fantasy role playing ... #trollolol :)

All your stuff is really nice. Good work and welcome back to the fold!

Had my first proper game of 40K in about ten years. Not bad!

Iron warriors attacking an airfield, initially held by a small garrison of Guard, who were reinforced by a much larger division of Imperial Fists mid game

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Cheers! Appreciate it. The game of 40k you have there looks great - table you're playing on looks very good.

Did the guard hold out? That's a neat aircraft - what is it?

Cheers! That’s my table, as I usually host the games