GrimmT wrote: This rhetoric is so tiring. If you want to doompost, go on reddit.
Come back when you've actually played the version of the game you're preemptively criticizing.
And then come back after the FAQ! And after the next journal! And after the next edition! In fact you're not allowed to have an opinion that upsets me!
So I decided on a mega project. I don't post much. Photography is not my strong suit, but the new phone helps. I need to look for a good lighting solution at home.
The accumulation of four baneblade kits, a Kratos turret, Lego bricks, non-Lego bricks, Plastic cart, bases and a whole lot of bits.
The idea was to create a tank that could fulfill both the role of mobile fortress, Titan and Titan killer. The result was a turret that would normally be mounted on a spaceship be given tracks multiple small support turrets, limited transport capacity and a main turret with a 360 degrees of field fire. A whole load of tech heresy for using xeno technology. Perfect if you want to secede from the Imperium and do your own thing Rogue trader style. Just wait for your lost Primarch to return first to smooth things over with his two loyalist brothers.
He was plenty contactable through Hasslefree's business channels, he just couldn't be bothered. There were loads of comments on Facebook and on their site from customers frustrated with the complete lack of response to their messages. Most of them just wanted an update on orders that were months overdue.
This was my experience. Missing mini from my order. Just a small amount of money, really, but I paid for what I didn't receive and then got ghosted for 3 years - including during those "Send an email with the header in all caps, and I'll make it right!" drives that seem to come around the Halloween sales. There was zero response, acknowledgement, or even indication the emails were ever read. No action was taken until I popped into this very thread years ago to warn people about my experience during the pre-Kickstarter hype phase. Then I got told I'd sent my complaint to the wrong email, but silence when I pointed out we were responding to an initial complaint email that went to the email he listed as the right one (as well as every other Hasslefree email I could dig up.) I posted here about what it too to get the issue resolved and tried to warn people as graciously as I could that it was too much effort and required the notice from waving red flags about the Kickstarter to even get a hint of motion on my issue. I regret not having been less gracious and more direct, now.
There's a cycle with Hasslefree - there's an announcement, a sale, a Kickstarter...something...and people come out to warn about not getting orders/minis and no customer service responses. Then others come out to say that well, I've never had an issue, and they're such nice people! This encourages people to try orders during this event, and one or two come back to post they got their stuff, no issues, and they are nice people! Then a month or two later, there's a few posts from people saying they never got something and no response to emails - what should they do to get in touch with someone at Hasslefree? But the event's long over and the thread doesn't get much engagement for these folks.
No matter how lovely the people at Hasslefree are, and yes, they were nice and polite when they could be arsed to respond at all...but it doesn't matter how nice people behind a business are if you're playing get-my-stuff roulette. The prizes are great! But you're not supposed to be gambling for them, you're supposed to be buying them! And frankly, from what I'm seeing online, the game is getting stacked worse and worse against the player, with the Kickstarter being the worst example to date, by far.
The minis are great, absolutely. The people are great, absolutely. I got no personal beef with them. But as a purely practical matter, the business is untrustworthy and appears to be increasingly getting worse. Caveat emptor. Buyer beware.
Bob Lorgar wrote: Seems to me if you put two of those smaller benches facing each other and put a table in between, you have yourself a booth at a TGI40K's. You just need a waiter-servitor.
McGrimdark's. I'll order the GrimQuarterPounder, GrimNuggets, and a side of GrimFries.
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Campaign Update: Empty Workbench, and Quarkian Lathe Workbench.
Hi Backers & Watchers,
Today's Update adds the Empty Workbench and Quarkian Lathe Workbench.
Tomorrow's Update will bring... probably not another lathe. But, you never know...
Psychopomp wrote: The minis are great, absolutely. The people are great, absolutely.
Two kickstarters ago I had a really bad run in with Sally. Basically that KS was way behind, and orders were gone. Had to email Artemis, who told me he'd get back to me and didn't so I reached out to Sally on FB. She got back to me then nothing. Rinse and repeat for six months. This was when a second kickstarter was launched, by Kev, so it was a separate account but Sally was running it. I brought up on that one the delays and was dogpiled by HF loyalists, including Sally appearing to say how thankful she was for their defence.
The Kev KS started running behind as Sally was running it and she injured herself. Since the first KS was being ignored, emails went unreplied, and complaints and questions were deleted on FB, I got gakky in the Kev KS about it. Sally then made a big update about how she was injured and vagued about how I was a bully and all that. I countered that I was wondering where Artemis was in his KS, and why Kev wasn't doing anything for the KS under his name?
Got dogpiled again called entitled (yeah I gave them a few hundred bucks if you can't fulfil explain why not), they're doing their best etc etc. My order eventually arrived, like two years late, but plenty of others received nothing. So since I could post in the Kev KS, where the Whites were active, I figured I should do what I could to help those people and point out that the first KS was being ignored.
Sally came in and talked gak about me, saying that I got my order so why was I causing trouble and various insults. In the end she posted my full name and address in the public comments to prove I had got my order and was a trouble maker. Lots of other backers supported her and she was thanking them for their kind words. Also blocked me on FB after deleting all the negative comments and people wondering where their orders are. KS deleted all her comments for obvious reasons. Still never resolved the people in the first KS.
When the current KS was launched I pledged $1 and put a warning about the previous ones. Got told I was a hater, they were great, "well I got *my* order on time" and all that.
I don't think they're scammers, but they (Kev and Sally) are not good at running a business and have been deleting and blocking anyone who doesn't kiss their asses for years. Their shutting down comes as no surprise to me tbh.
First the comparisons to Archon are... no. Just no on so many levels. Archon pulled a Defiance Games, with less racism, and some how became a success... it utterly baffles me.
Archon did a grift and funded the second largest wargaming grade plastics factory in the world.
Hasslefree is just British garage entrepreneur boomers which by default means they run on pure entitlement and zero accountability, hence they have nothing to show at the end of their stint. I don't know what it is about this demographic that makes them feel like they have God by the balls as soon as people start giving them money. File taxes? Nah we'll just wing it. Deliver product? Nah we'll just wing it.
Gomezaddams wrote: People seem to be taking going silent as a bad thing. I would point out that at the moment, none of you think your getting anything; if radio silence lets them focus on clearing orders, and getting things ready... thats a good thing. As in, I think you'd all rather they were packing orders/getting to a place where they could fulfil orders then just... spending all day dealing with angry and frustrated customers.
one minute earlier...
I'm sure somewhere in one of the live streams he will have talked about it, even if in passing, but I don't have... 17 hours to watch Mondays stream to work out if he did.
Easy E wrote: I first heard about this on the 20-sided Gamified Podcast, where Alessio Cavatore and others were interviewed about the game and art show related to it. However, I was surprised to later see an article about it online.....
I Attended the Show Where People Reenact Jan. 6. It Played Out Very Differently.
It is the hottest day of the year and I am standing in a converted chapel in central London chugging a can of Budweiser, for freedom. Or rather, a Jan. 6 rioter is. I am one of 20 people who have bought tickets to tonight’s edition of a tabletop role-playing-game event based on the attack on the U.S. Capitol, and I have been cast as Eduardo Nicolas Alvear Gonzalez, a QAnon acolyte and real person whose stated aim on the day was to smoke a joint in the Capitol building.
Chugging the beer gains me an extra card to deploy in the game: a so-called Second Amendment bonus, which lets me pull a concealed firearm at a moment of my choosing. Other participants gain their cards in other ways: singing “We Are the World” on a microphone, as the player assigned the role of Ohio school therapist Christine Priola does, or reciting an oath of office to protect the United States, like the half of the participants assigned to be the members of law enforcement tasked with defending the Capitol from invaders.
The game, which is running for a month over this summer in the heart of London’s theater district, is called Fight for America!, and was designed by the much-revered tabletop RPG developer Alessio Cavatore, the man behind Warhammer as well as The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game. In Warhammer style, every one of the roughly 7,000 figurines that make up units for the red team (the insurgents) and the blue team (law enforcement) has been hand-painted, as well as, in this case, given tiny little riot shields or Trump 2020 flags. And in the center of the room stands a 1:64 scale model of the U.S. Capitol, complete with grounds taking up a space of just over 500 square feet.
LOL.
I really hope this annoys all the dumbasses here in the USA.
Necromunda is as close to a modern day Rogue Trader as we’re likely to get.
It’s the fine toothed comb exposing the Nits Of Absurdity that exist upon a single Imperial scalp.
And by being such a tiny scale? It’s blown the galaxy wide open. Just knowing simple stuff, like Governors being left pretty much be as long as they meet the tithe really opens it all up.
Gomezaddams wrote: Not after the first kickstarter - the successful one. Not do it properly and disappear completely.. keep the website open, stay contactable... to what exactly?
Well, if personal involvement weren't clouding your judgement, you'd have registered my original reply to you:
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
You keep strawmanning about them "doing a runner" which I don't think anybody has said. Certainly not I. I don't think they took in a bunch of orders and fled to Hawaii.
What I'm saying is they don't feel beholden to their customers, which in my experience is a common attitude in British garage companies. A side gig is a hobby and like a hobby you can drop it whenever you want, or something. So they took in a bunch of orders and aren't fulfilling them because they don't feel like doing it and they don't see anything wrong with that, morally or legally.
MajorWesJanson wrote: Market stalls and cashier stands. Worker office cubicles. Water coolers. Conference table with chairs. Projector and/or television on wheeled cart. Integrated school chairs with desks.
Specifically one that could be painted blue, for those remedial orbital strategy students.
Perhaps also a pneumatic tube system for sending scrolls off to management (or accounts payable) for blessing before being sent out.
Big station-style flicky sign which shows which stops transports will be making, and whether they are cancelled, delayed or on time.
It's supposed to draw on Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow, a series that opened (IIRC) with Supergirl getting drunk on her 21st birthday in a dive bar under a red sun. She then went on an interstellar odyssey with an orphan girl to hunt down a space pirate or something.
It's been a few years but my memory is it was pretty good and not as transgressive as it sounds.
I believe Woman of Tomorrow was the working subtitle as well. I was also just reminded that Jason Mamoa is set show up in this film as... Lobo instead of returning as Aquaman, which honestly sounds perfect.
The_Pilot wrote: It’s pretty interesting how kinda removed the participants were, given they were in the UK and not the USA, and it was a game, and at the end they played real footage and were told the real consequences to make them realize it was a serious event with people dead and having literal empathy cards that were disregarded to complete the objective.
I’d be interested to see what the participants actually answered to the question posed by the game makers of “what about America is worth fighting for” since we see their reactions to the horrible irl events, but not actual answers.
It's pretty much what historical wargaming is. It's just that this particular history is within a few years. But there are desert storm wargames, afghan etc. That they had you question your morals is interesting, given that people playing the 3rd reich in wargames aren't asked to navel gaze about their morality when they do so...
Handiwork Games signs license with Factory Fortress Inc for official Trench Crusade Backdrop Books!
We’re delighted to hare that we have completed contracts with Factory Fortress to make a new range of Backdrop Books for the smash-hit Trench Crusade.
Handiwork Games already produces a range of backdrop books in A4 and A3 sizes for miniature enthusiasts to put behind their miniatures, aimed at levelling-up their mini photography. These were awarded third place in the On TableTop Accessory of the Year 2024, and have seen two successful kickstarters.
And now Backdrop Books are heading into the world of Trench Crusade! With rumours of two initial books, in two sizes, we will be bringing this new range to crowdfunding later in this year.
Jon Hodgson, Handiwork’s Managing Director and one of the artists behind Backdrop Books said:
“As a fan of Mike Franchina’s art for two decades, I’ve been following Trench Crusade with keen interest. It’s been amazing to see it coalesce into his juggernaut of a setting, and I’ve been so delighted to see it reach so many gamers. Such an imaginative and well realised setting, with such great minis, and a culture of modelling and kit-bashing is a perfect fit for what we do!
I’m super excited to see what people create with our Trench Crusade backdrops!”
About Trench Crusade Trench Crusade is a skirmish-scale tabletop miniatures game that plunges players deep into a horrifying alternate timeline. During the Crusades a heretical band of Templars dared defy the Almighty, unleashing the forces of Hell upon the Earth. Over 800 years later, in the Year of Our Lord 1914, this merciless war between the forces of Heaven and Hell rages on in a cataclysmic struggle that will decide the very fate of humanity’s soul.
About Handiwork Games Founded in 2019 by industry veteran Jon Hodgson, Handiwork Games is a game design and publishing company based in Scotland. They produce various game products, including a|state second edition, BEOWULF Age of Heroes, Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland, the award-winning The Forest Dragon card game and a range of unique gaming accessories.
I first heard about this on the 20-sided Gamified Podcast, where Alessio Cavatore and others were interviewed about the game and art show related to it. However, I was surprised to later see an article about it online.....
I Attended the Show Where People Reenact Jan. 6. It Played Out Very Differently.
It is the hottest day of the year and I am standing in a converted chapel in central London chugging a can of Budweiser, for freedom. Or rather, a Jan. 6 rioter is. I am one of 20 people who have bought tickets to tonight’s edition of a tabletop role-playing-game event based on the attack on the U.S. Capitol, and I have been cast as Eduardo Nicolas Alvear Gonzalez, a QAnon acolyte and real person whose stated aim on the day was to smoke a joint in the Capitol building.
Chugging the beer gains me an extra card to deploy in the game: a so-called Second Amendment bonus, which lets me pull a concealed firearm at a moment of my choosing. Other participants gain their cards in other ways: singing “We Are the World” on a microphone, as the player assigned the role of Ohio school therapist Christine Priola does, or reciting an oath of office to protect the United States, like the half of the participants assigned to be the members of law enforcement tasked with defending the Capitol from invaders.
The game, which is running for a month over this summer in the heart of London’s theater district, is called Fight for America!, and was designed by the much-revered tabletop RPG developer Alessio Cavatore, the man behind Warhammer as well as The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game. In Warhammer style, every one of the roughly 7,000 figurines that make up units for the red team (the insurgents) and the blue team (law enforcement) has been hand-painted, as well as, in this case, given tiny little riot shields or Trump 2020 flags. And in the center of the room stands a 1:64 scale model of the U.S. Capitol, complete with grounds taking up a space of just over 500 square feet.
I care as much about my opponent's paint scheme as I do about their homebrew fluff: Not one tiny bit. I just have one line: Don't do it to be deliberately offensive
Orange ultramarines? Go for it.
Day-glo neon Tyranids who are an escaped Cawl experiment? Don't care, as long as the rules are the same you can have whatever story behind your army as you want.
Pride flag colours? Sure, go for it, they make for some interesting pastel schemes
Facist iconography? well if we're playing Flames of War and you have an appropriate force then that's fine. Otherwise you're doing it to be a dick. It's not the iconography or colour scheme that offends me, it's what it says about you as a person that I do not want to spend my time around you, and I don't want to contribute to you having fun.
Painting your army sprue grey? sure man, your models, ruin them however you want
Aesthetics don't matter, the character of the people involved matters
I'd make a joke but fething hell, the man can stream almost daily grinding away at Call of Duty, but is too poor of health to do updates on anything store or KS related?
The smile emote is a nice touch though, it feels so insultingly out of touch in terms of ignoring just how fethed everything is beyond the point of recovery.
I was interested until I noticed that the 27th decorative wriggly line at around 7 o'clock on the Chaos Warrior's shield doesn't match Mr. Miller's original art at all.
Seriously, I'm in. I love the sculptor's work. I have not enjoyed working with Siocast so far - it is, in my experience, very prone to fraying when you try to clean the mold lines, and some Siocast I've encountered had a consistency that reminds me of a bar of soap. However, this iteration of Siocast is supposed to be harder than earlier types, and I've decided to put my trust in the sculptor and give it a try.
That said, if I'm not happy with the final product, then this is the last Siocast product I'll be buying, from this sculptor or anyone else.
mattl wrote: No problem. I have a bunch of terrain from you coming soon with my Epic Warpath stuff
That's awesome - FYI I also sculpted 95% of the EWP vehicles.
I'm looking forwards to painting some up myself!
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Campaign Update: Austere Bunk Bed!
Hi Backers and Watchers,
Today's Campaign Update adds an austere bunk bed to the Grimdark scenery set:
Unlike the posh beds in the scenery set at the moment, these beds are far more depressing, as befits their intended use by low level scribes, troops, and depressed Grimdark civilians.
Thanks for your support and interest so far everyone, keep those suggestions coming!
