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Recently, I've started getting more into the games offered by Specialist Games. It's all because I've finally found a serious gaming group out of Austin. I've always been into what SG has offered, but never had opponents who were as well. Now that I've got so many games with opponents just waiting for me to get an army or warband together, it's hard to not dive head first into all of them!

And it's really got me thinking about how much more we as a community could help put together some fun rules and scenarios, akin to what Bell of Lost Souls has done with 40k. (Great guys btw!)

So my question is What games do folks here on Dakka play or own armies/warbands for? Or have always wanted to play, but never finished assembling that $50 Warmaster Box you bought?

Multiple Answers in the poll are allowed!

The thing with Necromunda is that there's already a full
campaign developed for it on the Eastern Fringe site, and
so far I like how it plays.

malfred wrote:The thing with Necromunda is that there's already a full
campaign developed for it on the Eastern Fringe site, and
so far I like how it plays.

Got a link ^_^? I'd love to check it out. Even though I don't play x.x...

http://easternfringe.com/wiki/index.php?Mapped%20Campaign%20Rules

No gorkamorka?

3 Inquisitor Minis played last year.
4 Mordheim warbands Chaos,Beastmen, Humans, Skaven but they are catching dust.
Blood Bowl Humans

theHandofGork wrote:No gorkamorka?

Good call! Added ^_-

You left out the "nothing" option. It's worth knowing how many keen GW players do not play any specialist games.

By Warmaster do you mean the fantasy or historical rules? Do you consider any of the historical rules to be part of specialist games?

Kilkrazy wrote:You left out the "nothing" option. It's worth knowing how many keen GW players do not play any specialist games.

By Warmaster do you mean the fantasy or historical rules? Do you consider any of the historical rules to be part of specialist games?

I'll add Warhammer and Warmaster Historicals, as well as the Nothing option!

Added Space Hulk as well. I think I'm going to cut the options at this point x.x..it's quickly getting out of hand! ^_^

Well that puts me in a quandary, since I would play Space Hulk if my games weren't locked in a warehouse in Tokyo, but I don't consider it a specialist game.

Surely it's an OOP game. If you include Space Hulk you should include games like Talisman and Judge Dredd, and then where does it all end?

It may seem I am trying to be difficult. I'm not. I'm trying to help you get a good survey question list.

Hrm, you have a point there, it is a boxed set stand alone type game.

I'm just going to leave it on there, but it'll be the last option added.

I play Space Hulk and I have played Mordheim before but not for a couple years. I'm intrested in both GorkaMorka and Necromunda, but getting a league together here has been hard.

Also, I've been playing Aeronautica Imperialis, not a Specialist game but in the same genre. AI is a fantastic game with simple rules but complicated tactics.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

Ozymandias wrote:I play Space Hulk and I have played Mordheim before but not for a couple years. I'm intrested in both GorkaMorka and Necromunda, but getting a league together here has been hard.

Also, I've been playing Aeronautica Imperialis, not a Specialist game but in the same genre. AI is a fantastic game with simple rules but complicated tactics.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

AI is becoming more and more popular down in Austin. A bunch of folks got fleets and have been playin it up. The only issue I have with AI is that the models are FW only. Which sort of limits my interest. Though I haven't really bothered to see just how much the planes are going for.

They aren't that bad. The Imperial fighters (and other basic planes) are about $12 each and you can play lots of games with just 4 of them.

They are fairly easy to paint and assemble, though the usual caveats regarding resin models still apply.

And you don't have to use Forgeworld models. You can use the Epic models for things like Thunderbolts and Fighta-Bombas, etc. You just need to record the altitude and speed each turn.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

I liked Mordheim quite a bit, but I found that the game broke down rather quickly into shooting cross bows at the enemy warband leader and very little else. The more crossbows you could pack into your band, the better. The game also rewarded playing like a complete wuss. If you lost 2 guys before your opponent did, it was much more adventageous to just run rather than risk losing more heroes and thus gimping your income. The critical hit system also made armor useless. House rules needed to be implemented to fix these problems.

Several early GW games were crippled by basic flaws like that.

Yeah, Mordheim is fun but flawed. Blood Bowl rules all!

Mannahnin wrote:Yeah, Mordheim is fun but flawed. Blood Bowl rules all!

How about some Dakka Approved "Fixes" ^_-?

I play Mordheim: My usual warband is Marienburger Mercenaries, and I also play Possessed and Beastmen.

Epic: I have Space Marine, Imperial Guard, Titan Legion, and Squat armies.

I also play a heavily-modified version of Necromunda with the following "gangs:" Genestealer Cult, Space Marine Tactical Squad, Ordo Xenos Inquisitor's Retinue, Squat Reavers.

Lots of people in my area still play Blood Bowl, in fact, it has been hard to find someone to play WHFB with recently, as almost everyone was playing in the BB league.

We usually set aside about 6 weeks a year for a Mordheim campaign, which usually culminates in a big, scripted free-for-all battle.

I got one of my buddies to drag out his warmaster army about a year ago, we played a couple of games and got our fix for the next little while.

About every two years or so there will be a burst of enthusiasm for BFG, and I get very happy with my Eldar, but then TFG shows up with his Necron fleet and everyone puts their ships away.

Me at the moment, I don't anything, But I am interested in Inquisitor, whats it about? The GW web site doesnt say alot about what it is? is it like 40k just bigger?

Inquisitor is/was a role-playing game based on action RPG
western stuff that was made for the 54mm scale.

Dark Heresy removes the actual Inquisitor from the
equation and gives everything a progression table. You
didn't get one in Inquisitor as it was all about "The Scene"
and character and other stuff.

Necromunda - Delaques, Escher, Orlocks, Goliaths, Redemptionists, Scavvies, Arbites, Wyrd Gathering.

Blood Bowl - ORCS!

Space Hulk.

Warhammer Quest.

BYE

I have played Mordheim and BFG. I loved both systems but my gaming group just kinda stopped playing Mordheim, and no one else wanted to play BFG.

I'd be interested in playing Epic and Necromunda at some point. I have a bunch of Squat and Space Marine stuff for Epic, I just never got a chance to use it.

Love the Inquisitor models, but never got into the game. Bought a boatload of them when gdub tanked the game but haven't got around to them yet.

I always thought that Inquisitor was a neat idea. I just didn't really understand the need for a new model line for it. I've always thought that 28mm =I= would be just as fun.

In fact some folks I talk to on another forum have started playing what they're calling =I=munda, a mix of the two systems.

It sounds like it would be a blast to play, but as always, it's all about getting a gaming group willing to give it a go.

Just Inquisitor for me, and I'm actually running a few intro games of it this Saturday

Otherwise I've played and own Mordheim, GorkaMorka and BFG, but considering I don't currently play them or really intend to - the desire comes and goes with Mordheim and GM - I didn't check the box.

- Salvage

grey_death wrote:I always thought that Inquisitor was a neat idea. I just didn't really understand the need for a new model line for it. I've always thought that 28mm =I= would be just as fun.

In fact some folks I talk to on another forum have started playing what they're calling =I=munda, a mix of the two systems.

It sounds like it would be a blast to play, but as always, it's all about getting a gaming group willing to give it a go.

To sell another line of models. GW makes its money from selling models. Rules are created to sell models.

Kilkrazy wrote:To sell another line of models. GW makes its money from selling models. Rules are created to sell models.

Well, yeah ^_-. That's always sort of a given. Heh.