Warhammer (with the models and everything)

Wow, is that starlight effect freehand?

That's stellar work dude

(hehe)

I've been a busy bee - had a whole weekend free for painting, and tried out the new Army Painter Speed Paint starter box over a zenithal highlight for this lot. A bit of dry brushing with a big make-up brush and a few spots of detail and done - really impressed with the paints so far. There is a bit of an issue with them 'reactivating' when painting other paints over the top of them, so it's not quite as straightforward as using Contrasts, but so far it's been worth the minimal extra effort to get stuff done. For me at least, YMMV as they say.

Going through a phase of trying out some of the more obscure minis games at the moment. Hit a couple of winners with Deadzone and Infinity and have now turned my eye towards the big stomp mechs of Adeptus Titanicus.

Anyone played it all and got any thoughts? Interested in comparisons with Battletech too, from any proper old skool players.

Yeah, it was thinking back to 40k Epic that got me looking at this. Man, me and a friend loved that game. I’m amazed GW haven’t looked to bring it back, but I suppose it would eat into the standard 40k money pit.

Hovering over the Titanicus starter set at the moment. It is inevitable.

I've not tried Adeptus Titanicus, as its Horus Heresy so no xenos or anything. I just pine for the days of Epic 40K/Armageddon coming back and getting my Eldar back out. Also with Warmaster and BFG probably GW's best rules sets.

The models for AT are lush though.

One of my great life regrets is not getting this box at the time:



Be still my beating heart.

I remember seeing all the Titan stuff as a kid in absolute awe, knowing I’d never be able to afford it. I miss that sense of wonder.

I did look at that, but ended up going in hard on the GW LoTR game as my fantasy option, which I forgot to mention and is also superb.

I was tempted but that one is soooo hard to get over here. None of my local stores have anything, even my official GW store.

Yeah I was thinking the same after I posted. The built in Rogue Trader scenario was a skirmish which was about 10 Marines against a similar number of orcs. I seem to remember the marine leader was Rogal Dorn or someone, but his stats were barely above the regular marines.

Since I basically only played games with 1-2 mates, we never worried too much about the letter of the rules, so we'd be pretty flexible about fielding wierd mixes of units that probably weren't allowed together.

I definitely had a Harlequins squad on my Marine side, because I wanted the Harlequins models. Maybe something in White Dwarf justified it.

This was the one I had. Which only came with Warlord titans (with a bunch of modular weapons) but I added a couple of Warhounds and some Eldar titans over the years.

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oh, and this Space Marine box set, though I added a bunch of Eldar tanks form somewhere, and some eldar knights. 




The cardboard buildings in this, and the astrogranite (polystyrene) ones in AT, were cool. Epic became a lot more about garrisoning in buildings or making sure you were *always* in cover behind a building when there were big ass titans stomping around. 

Nah. Don't like later editions. Of anything.
Newfangled stuff that's never as good!

I will say that the newer releases have really been a return to form. Dominion and Indomitus are superb. Lovely models, good rulebook full of lore, sensible changes to the rule sets. It’s just a shame it all went down in the middle of a pandemic so no one could play.