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A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

teos40k — GMT

Hail and greetings, fellow warhammer players!

I am hailing from a warhammer gaming club in Beijing. We are a friendly and cheerful bunch. If you are in Beijing and looking for some W40k/WFB fun, feel free to contact us! (And we don't talk about any political propaganda crap.. So please leave those outside the door, thanks.. This gaming club is for fun only.)

Due to lack of resources and experience, the Beijing gaming club might not be on par as the regular clubs you fellas have visited before, but we are trying pretty hard to improve it! So far we own a ping-pong table, and we have ordered some scenarie pieces from GW. Things will get better eventually so please bear with us. Any comments and words of wisdom are most welcome!

/Bow

Your humble friend Teos the lazy cat

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

Kid_Kyoto — GMT

email sent

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

Mannahnin — GMT

Welcome! Glad to hear from another wargaming outpost!

Do you have access to a store that sells home improvement/building supplies? In the US we typically find that these are amazing sources of inexpensive materials for making terrain. If you are able to find 1”-2” thick pink (or blue) foam insulation, you can cut it into enough hills and ruins to equip multiple tables. Something like this:

http://www.ebuild.com/product-detail/insulation--moisture-air--pest-barriers/building-insulation--rigid-foam-board/368117.hwx

At my local Home Depot store, I can buy a 1” x 24” x 96” sheet of this material for around $8 US.

It’s best cut and shaped using a hot wire foam cutter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot-wire_foam_cutter
http://www.amazon.com/Styro-Wonder-Cutter-Tool-Electric/dp/B000XASIO2
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXKT85&P=FR
http://wolfstone.halloweenhost.com/HalloweenTech/fotbuy_CommercialFoamTools.html#WonderCutter

I bought a cheap one like the one in the last link above. Cutting and shaping the foam is a breeze with one of these things. You can make smooth or rough curves and shapes almost as easily as moving your hand, while cutting foam with a regular knife (even a very sharp one) tends to take a lot of effort, and tears and misshapes the foam.

Model trees may be a little more complicated. Here in the states the easiest place to find them is usually in a model train shop. I’m not sure what issues exist shipping to China, but there are certainly lots of online retailers as well:

http://www.miniaturetree.com/

Let me know if you're unable to view any of the links. Always glad to help a fellow hobbyist!

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

Kid_Kyoto — GMT

Beijing has homedepo and equivlents. I'll see what we can do when I meet up with them.

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

teos40k — GMT

[quote=Mannahnin]Welcome! Glad to hear from another wargaming outpost!

Do you have access to a store that sells home improvement/building supplies? In the US we typically find that these are amazing sources of inexpensive materials for making terrain. If you are able to find 1”-2” thick pink (or blue) foam insulation, you can cut it into enough hills and ruins to equip multiple tables. Something like this:

http://www.ebuild.com/product-detail/insulation--moisture-air--pest-barriers/building-insulation--rigid-foam-board/368117.hwx

At my local Home Depot store, I can buy a 1” x 24” x 96” sheet of this material for around $8 US.

It’s best cut and shaped using a hot wire foam cutter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot-wire_foam_cutter
http://www.amazon.com/Styro-Wonder-Cutter-Tool-Electric/dp/B000XASIO2
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXKT85&P=FR
http://wolfstone.halloweenhost.com/HalloweenTech/fotbuy_CommercialFoamTools.html#WonderCutter

I bought a cheap one like the one in the last link above. Cutting and shaping the foam is a breeze with one of these things. You can make smooth or rough curves and shapes almost as easily as moving your hand, while cutting foam with a regular knife (even a very sharp one) tends to take a lot of effort, and tears and misshapes the foam.

Model trees may be a little more complicated. Here in the states the easiest place to find them is usually in a model train shop. I’m not sure what issues exist shipping to China, but there are certainly lots of online retailers as well:

http://www.miniaturetree.com/

Let me know if you're unable to view any of the links. Always glad to help a fellow hobbyist!
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Thanks for the great tips, we will certainly try those out!

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

teos40k — GMT

[quote=Kid_Kyoto]Beijing has homedepo and equivlents. I'll see what we can do when I meet up with them.[/quote]

Yeah we are looking forward to meet you too. Oh btw, are you going to be bringing any army with you?

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

JohnHwangDD — GMT

For terrain tables, we have found that a big sheet of colored felt cloth is a good and compact alternative to foam for the base, although it isn't as pretty.

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

teos40k — GMT

Cool..
Well we've ordered a grass battlement from GW as well. It's official link is here http://uk.games-workshop.com/storefront/store.uk?do=Individual&code=99229999026&orignav=300810

But it won't arrive until May.. A shame.. really..

Re:A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

Kid_Kyoto — GMT

Well I had my first game and it was a blast.

After clearing up some confusion, for some odd reason everyone expected me to be Japanese, I met the group. Teos is Canadian-Chinese but the rest of the group are all Chinese with varying degrees of English.

And I have to say I was really, really impressed. The rules and codex do not have an official Chinese translation, but everyone was consulting English rulebooks. When I took out my Bezerkers to show off someone said 'Oh World Eaters in their original colors!'. As it happens they're Space Wolves but wow... that's a seriously intense knowlege of the game and fluff from players whose first language is not English.

And needless to say (since I've played all of 3, now 4, games of 4th Edition) people were correcting me on the rules, citing them in both English and Chinese.

So as a former English teacher and current Chinese student I was just blown away.

On to the game. As stated terrain and tables are in the starting phase, I'll work with them on that.

In the spirit of international cooperation I brought the most useless army possible. Grey Knights. I think I had like 35 models on the table, including 13 GK termis and 2 squads of 5 storm troops as my mandatory troop choices.

I played Teos' tao and fought to tie in a cleanse mission. Once the termis got to his gun line it was pretty ugly. Fun fun game.

Here's my pics:

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

malfred — GMT

Wow, they let you put the church on the table?

What's the custom sculpt being used for?

Re:A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

Kid_Kyoto — GMT

That was just playing around with blue-tac.

As for the church, come on, you must have seen Cathedralsaurus Rex and his blood brother Pagodatron before.

Or did you mean the first church of Dakka, my LR crusader?

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

malfred — GMT

I meant the First Church of Dakka, of course.

Re:A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

legoburner — GMT

Thinking about it, I would be very interested to hear what their opinions are on the existing terrain options for 40k. 40k has a very heavy european influence for structures and I am curious to see if anyone there will be tempted to start making some more eastern-style adaptations of the baroque/gothic architecture that we know and love already.

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

teos40k — GMT

It was a great game! The fellas were very pleased to meet you in person! Kid_kyoto's innovating conversions wrought awe upon everyone present!

My cadre learned a lot from the imperium's finest with much loss and suffering! However, next time I'll make sure it's more challenging for you, Kid_kyoto!

Good game!

Btw did you get the address of Zark's store in Shanghai?

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

Kid_Kyoto — GMT

Good question.

My friend here (American) who does historical gaming has a fantastic collection of eastern terrain, including southern chinese-style mountains and 5mm villages. He's aided by China's existing market for small diaramas (you see them sometimes outside Chinese restaurants).

There are quite a few laser-cut wood kits here with pagodas, tiananmen gate (with a little Chairman Mao on it) and temples. I've thought of them for terrain.

for now they only have some Battle for McDonalds and Pegasus terrain.

Teos I got the address thanks, I'll check this weekend when I'm in Shanghai.

Re:A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

teos40k — GMT

[quote=legoburner]Thinking about it, I would be very interested to hear what their opinions are on the existing terrain options for 40k. 40k has a very heavy european influence for structures and I am curious to see if anyone there will be tempted to start making some more eastern-style adaptations of the baroque/gothic architecture that we know and love already. [/quote]

We love the gothic style, but who knows? We might make some oriental style fortresses in the future just for kicks and giggles.. heh

Re:A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

ED209 — GMT

haha ,so you guys finally meet each other ,pleased to see that

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

malfred — GMT

[quote=Kid_Kyoto]Good question.

My friend here (American) who does historical gaming has a fantastic collection of eastern terrain, including southern chinese-style mountains and 5mm villages. He's aided by China's existing market for small diaramas (you see them sometimes outside Chinese restaurants).

There are quite a few laser-cut wood kits here with pagodas, tiananmen gate (with a little Chairman Mao on it) and temples. I've thought of them for terrain.

for now they only have some Battle for McDonalds and Pegasus terrain.

Teos I got the address thanks, I'll check this weekend when I'm in Shanghai.

[/quote]

I'd love to see a Pagoda Land Raider Crusader. Make it happen!

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

Kilkrazy — GMT

It's great to hear about this international club. Good luck and good gaming to all of you.

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

mray01 — GMT

Does anybody know of any gaming clubs in Shanghai?

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

Kid_Kyoto — GMT

[quote=mray01]Does anybody know of any gaming clubs in Shanghai?[/quote]

Funny you should ask. There's a store down there called Zarks that I'm going to check out this weekend:

Zark's Cell phone number: 13801883030

Direction: 地铁1号线延长路站下，4号口出，沿路一直走，大宁广场里的大润发超市四楼
Subway route #1, disembark at Yan chang road station & exit via exit #4. Follow the road straight ahead of you, then enter the Da-run-fa Supermarket. Zark's world sits on the 4th floor.

Address of the da run fa supermarket:
大宁国际商业广场上海上海闸北区共和新路1868-2008号大宁路
Da-ning international plaza. Shanghai city, Zha-bei district, #1868-2008 gong he xin road, daning road.

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

Blackheart666 — GMT

[quote=teos40k]Hail and greetings, fellow warhammer players!

I am hailing from a warhammer gaming club in Beijing. We are a friendly and cheerful bunch. If you are in Beijing and looking for some W40k/WFB fun, feel free to contact us! (And we don't talk about any political propaganda crap.. So please leave those outside the door, thanks.. This gaming club is for fun only.)

[/quote]

so.. you guys don't have any house rules on whether or not the Dalai Lhama is only available as a Chaos Cultist character?

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

Kid_Kyoto — GMT

[quote=Blackheart666]

so.. you guys don't have any house rules on whether or not the Dalai Lhama is only available as a Chaos Cultist character?[/quote]

Man, there just ain't nothing good going to come from going there.

I mean how much do you like it when foreigners put you on the spot to defend everything your country does?

I'm an American overseas and get $%^& all the time for it. And y'know what, it just makes me dig in my heels and salute the flag, cause while I might say the same thing with other Americans I don't want to hear someone from outside say it.

So anyway if you can't be polite to a poster who wants to talk about his club here in Beijing just stay quiet.

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

stonefox — GMT

[quote]And y'know what, it just makes me dig in my heels and salute the flag, cause while I might say the same thing with other Americans I don't want to hear someone from outside say it.
[/quote]

So do you wear an "I <3 NY" shirt?

Re:A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

legoburner — GMT

he he kid_kyoto, you have made me glad I went to the effort of adding support for non-latin text to the forums now, hurrah!

and Blackheart666, your comment was not appropriate for this thread and forum. Keep politics in the off-topic forum please.

Re:A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

malfred — GMT

[quote=legoburner]he he kid_kyoto, you have made me glad I went to the effort of adding support for non-latin text to the forums now, hurrah!

and Blackheart666, your comment was not appropriate for this thread and forum. Keep politics in the off-topic forum please.[/quote]

"Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!"

Re:A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

Kid_Kyoto — GMT

[quote=legoburner]he he kid_kyoto, you have made me glad I went to the effort of adding support for non-latin text to the forums now, hurrah!
[/quote]

Horray for unicode!

イイェエー！

谢谢。

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

two_heads_talking — GMT

[quote=Blackheart666][quote=teos40k]Hail and greetings, fellow warhammer players!

I am hailing from a warhammer gaming club in Beijing. We are a friendly and cheerful bunch. If you are in Beijing and looking for some W40k/WFB fun, feel free to contact us! (And we don't talk about any political propaganda crap.. So please leave those outside the door, thanks.. This gaming club is for fun only.)

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so.. you guys don't have any house rules on whether or not the Dalai Lhama is only available as a Chaos Cultist character?[/quote]

hahahahhah... yeah, that's about as funny as a funeral. take it outside and sit on it..

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

Kid_Kyoto — GMT

Oh and since the Great Firewall of China works on keywords throwing certain hot topics into this message board can result in me losing access to it.

I still can't see Amazon at home since I tried to order a certain book on certain stuff that happened 18 years back or so.

I wouldn't expect anyone outside China to know that but I thought I'd share.

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

teos40k — GMT

[quote=Blackheart666][quote=teos40k]Hail and greetings, fellow warhammer players!

I am hailing from a warhammer gaming club in Beijing. We are a friendly and cheerful bunch. If you are in Beijing and looking for some W40k/WFB fun, feel free to contact us! (And we don't talk about any political propaganda crap.. So please leave those outside the door, thanks.. This gaming club is for fun only.)

[/quote]

so.. you guys don't have any house rules on whether or not the Dalai Lhama is only available as a Chaos Cultist character?[/quote]

If something absurd like that happens, which chaos god would he be worshiping then..? That's too much trouble, my friends can't be bothered with such madness... heh

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

teos40k — GMT

[quote=Kid_Kyoto]Oh and since the Great Firewall of China works on keywords throwing certain hot topics into this message board can result in me losing access to it.

I still can't see Amazon at home since I tried to order a certain book on certain stuff that happened 18 years back or so.

I wouldn't expect anyone outside China to know that but I thought I'd share.[/quote]

Knowledge is power, guard it well.

Re:A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

legoburner — GMT

Yeah I've been to china a few times and have got to enjoy the awful net access there. Download and use T.O.R. to get around the firewall and use the free internet if dakka ends up getting blocked for whatever reason. I have US and UK based proxy servers that I use when in censored countries so that I can still get to the bbc website with all the UK benefits.

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

Kilkrazy — GMT

Kyoto's one of our best members. Let's not get him locked away because of continually repeating a particular post.

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

Relapse — GMT

Wicked cool, knowing that there's a crew in China playing the games. Pleased to meet you.

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

teos40k — GMT

[quote=Relapse] Wicked cool, knowing that there's a crew in China playing the games. Pleased to meet you.[/quote]

Well met~

Re:A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

Onnotangu — GMT

Do you guys over in China suffer from a glut of bad casts of knockoff GW products or is there not really that large of a market for warhammer over there?

also is there a GW official store in China or is it something that has to be special ordered from the Australian GW?

have you found any good modeling paints over there that might coat better than the current gw paints or do you guys just use GW paints?

And finally do you use metric for determining distance or stick to the western inches?

Re:A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

Kid_Kyoto — GMT

[quote=Onnotangu]Do you guys over in China suffer from a glut of bad casts of knockoff GW products or is there not really that large of a market for warhammer over there?[/quote]

I've not seen anything. AFAK there is one, maybe two shops in Shanghai that carry it (I visited one this weekend) one or more in HK and another one or two in Taiwan (which is like, totally part of China!). So yeah, no market. I'm sure there would be knock offs so good we couldn't detect them, if there was a market.

[quote]also is there a GW official store in China or is it something that has to be special ordered from the Australian GW?[/quote]

I do the warstore, Teos mentioned there's a GW rep here but I don't know the details and my Chinese is nowhere near good enough to ask the store clerks in Shanghai about their wholesale distributors. I was pretty happy to get out 'me play warhammer'.

I did notice that prices were about on par with the US which surprised me. In Japan (possibly due to taxes) they're almost 50% more.

[quote]have you found any good modeling paints over there that might coat better than the current gw paints or do you guys just use GW paints?[/quote]

I've been using my GW paint stockpile and some tamiya which is available here. Again I'll defer to Teos on this.

[quote]And finally do you use metric for determining distance or stick to the western inches?[/quote]

Inches, but again since the rules are not translated that might change. I brought a tape measure from the US, I'll have to check if Chinese stores have measures marked in inches or not.

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

teos40k — GMT

How's your trip to Shanghai, Kid_kyoto? I hope you had fun there(And I hope my direction actually helped, instead of leading you in circles.. heh) Please share your experience with us.

To Onootangu:

1. The market in China for miniature war games is almost non-existant by comparing with the markets in USA/UK.

2. We have a GW rep here that can offer us a pretty good discount(10% off the official GW-UK price with free shipping to Beijing) for miniatures. However, you have to join our club's membership to get it...

3. Aside from GW, Tamiya, we've also tried the Spanish AV paints. They dry up way faster than their GW counter parts. Aside from that, they are pretty much identitical. GW metal paints are by far the best I've used so far though. Thumbs up.

4. They do sell tape measures marked in inches in China, so fear not!

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

Kid_Kyoto — GMT

Played again yesterday. We did a 4 way combat patrol using the Star Wars Galaxy tiles I reviewed a while back.

I had a mixed Inquisition force, other players had Khorne Bezerkers, Dark Angels and Tau.

The winner was the Emperor's Crack Monkey (aka Eversore assassin). After killing off the Khorne Bezerkers and a squad or two of tau and a DA chappy he ended up facing a lone DA with a heavy bolter.

Three hits, two wounds, two dodge saves and he runs up inflicting 4 or 5 wounds on the last DA.

I love the Emperor's Crack Monkey.

A hail coming from warhammer players' club in Beijing:

teos40k — GMT

[quote=Kid_Kyoto]Played again yesterday. We did a 4 way combat patrol using the Star Wars Galaxy tiles I reviewed a while back.

I had a mixed Inquisition force, other players had Khorne Bezerkers, Dark Angels and Tau.

The winner was the Emperor's Crack Monkey (aka Eversore assassin). After killing off the Khorne Bezerkers and a squad or two of tau and a DA chappy he ended up facing a lone DA with a heavy bolter.

Three hits, two wounds, two dodge saves and he runs up inflicting 4 or 5 wounds on the last DA.

I love the Emperor's Crack Monkey.[/quote]

That's one mad crack monkey... But hell yeah it was fun to see him dashing through corridors, dodging bullets ala Neo-de-Matrix style & wrecking havocs!