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Aside from all of the BS of the past week, how about some good news in your neck of the woods as far as gaming is going?

This week, I gave some extra terraign to the local club, painted up Cpt. Mcbride for Cutlass, and read the rulebook. I'm finishing off a squad of Dark Angels, a mob of boyz, and finishing off painting the villian set from Pulp City. Aside from getting ready to move, I'm trying to shore up some last minute projects, and get my stuff packed up for the move.

General news is good as well, but basicly put this up there, because every time I'm seeing more and more of GW's BS, I'm really starting to dread reading some of the posts, and seeing some of the really carzy !@#$ that is coming out of left field from of all things, a gaming compnay.

I'm a curmudgion, but !@#$ me running, we're taking a beating like a government mule...


Lets hear your good stories, or something other then !@#$ you GW.

I purchased the Malifaux rulebook, as well as two boxes of miniatures. Got one for a friend and one for myself. Decided to invest a little of my mini-money into another game. I'm excited to get started.

I was able to get a hold on some sought after pieces. I just have to pick them up next weekend.

Got started on putting together my Malifaux stuff which I'm really digging (still haven't read through the rulebook though).

I found out that I didn't paint my riders to their bikes so painting certain details should be easier.

I save a but load of money on car insurance for my CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORT. (yes... I went there)

I haven't painted a single mini in over 3 months.

But I hope to get back to it soon.

I'm giving KoW a try for the first time this Wednesday and my bro has given me a load of RTB01's to strip and repaint.

So yeah, none too shabby really.

It also means that I now don't have to dirty my hands with buying GW stuff!!

My FLGS has rearanged their floor to make more space for tables.

I also got around to starting a P&M blog.

My group started up WHFB again, so I'm in the middle of painting through IoB, some Orcs, and other fun mess.

Prepping up some Dwarfs for a tournament, and trying to get my hands on some PP Searforge =p

I'm excited to be painting my WoC project that I got in a trade with MDS, and I'm plotting Dragon Ogre conversions.
Depending on my financial situation in the next couple of months I'm going to get some mantic skeletons and expand a bit into historicals I think.

Also been eyeing the WGF greatcoats but I want some post apocalyptic mutants to go with them.

LOL, +1 to this thread.

Sure, all the GW stuff is kinda crappy. I don't want higher prices, I don't like their business practices... but in the end how important is it, really?? I care more that my property taxes went up., That my insurance on 2 cars went up. That gas prices went up. That costs for cell phones and satellite are going up. That... well... everything ACTUALLY IMPORTANT is getting more expensive. GW is just falling in line with the rest of this expensive world.

My good news? I am continuing to paint and playing lots of fun games lately! That's all that is important in this hobby.

Well I finally beat a Space Marine army with my Orks.
I've been playing for 15 months and while I've beat Marines using Space Wolves, that really didn't count. I want to win with my Orks. So in a Combat Patrol games this week at the games club I finally beat Chaos Space Marines (Plague Marines). Yay! Yeah I lost a couple of game to other armies, I don't care, I beat Chaos Space Marines!

On the modelling front I've just started painting some old Harlequin Doctor Who minis. They're not that bad actually for old figures.

I realised that I have enough parts to complete my Space Wolves foot slogging army - I'm sticking at one crappy Land raider for my WG termies - I ain't buying any more Rhinos or 'backs. But I have discovered a source of use containers that with a bit of converting will make useable Drop Pods!

I also have plenty of Valhallans and Mordians to paint up for a small veteran army I am working on - Troops supporting Leman Russ tank advances. It's fluffy and I don't care if the meta takes it to the cleaners

Once these projects are complete I can get onto finishing my Ironclad Steam tank(ette) and tweak afew Steam tank conversions I have worked on for GASLIGHT rules.

I am also play testing a new skirmish ruleset, its proper do or die stuff with games complete in about an hour so I am happy.

Oh, I am also dipping my toe in the water with Cutlass stuff, I have some Orc and Undead pirates on order, just because they look cool!

hmm good news is subjective a bit but, PP announced they are delaying their august releases and spending the month to catch up with their supply shortage. This is good for me as it gives my wallet a rest from the barrage of new releases.
There was also a leaked release schedule for Anima Tactics posted to their forums, as well as painted photos of their largest model so far. This is welcome since the line was put on hold 3 months for the Hell Dorado release.

My store wasn't visited by the TFK* and his persistent high pitched voice when the 40k campaign here reached its epic climax apoc event.

It was a good day to get my brother back into wargaming it was.

I have a few nice ideas on how to convert a Talos into a Nurgle model, though I'm not sure to what end.

I dropped 180$ on Hordes - Legion of Everblight, to get caught up on my army that I haven't updated in over a year earlier in the week.

I also dropped 160$ on two Hardcover Rules books and two starter sets for Infinity - HaqqIslam and Yu Jing, and waiting to get them in the mail.

Today I got back from spending 90$ at Michaels for materials to make a table top scenery for Infinity. Went to Toys R Us and spent 54$ on items to use as scenery for Infinity. I also ordered 63$ in paper model scenery .PDFs from WorldWorks Games for Infinity.

That is almost 550 bucks that GW pissed away by pissing on me.

If I LOVE the company I am buying from, I have no problem dropping cash for their product regardless of price. I know when I play Hordes/Infinity almost anywhere, everyone is playing by the same, tight rules. I don't have to worry about if I can use my Reavers how I want to when I go to various places. It really pisses me off knowing that I paid 180$ on Reavers, only to not be able to play them "one way" because the rules are written and proof read by idiots.

I am glad I never got in Tyranids, that is all I can say.

Basically, I am paying for peace of mind. And that makes me happy and brings great good news to my black, broken heart.

I wish there was some good, for me anyway :/. EXAMS EXAMS EXAMS! but i do get to play my first tabletop game on sunday, just hope all of the other ~@!% dont mess it up, OH the joys of life!

Umm, I have Tuesday off for the first time in forever, so I may be able to get a game in!

Small victories....

Bought the mercenaries book for PP, working on some tankbuster conversions out of plastic I have lying around instead of the metals, made a trade or two on bartertown, and just looking for deals that dont involve GW.

Griever wrote:Umm, I have Tuesday off for the first time in forever, so I may be able to get a game in!

Small victories....

Do you work all the time?

Walls wrote:LOL, +1 to this thread.

Sure, all the GW stuff is kinda crappy. I don't want higher prices, I don't like their business practices... but in the end how important is it, really?? I care more that my property taxes went up., That my insurance on 2 cars went up. That gas prices went up. That costs for cell phones and satellite are going up. That... well... everything ACTUALLY IMPORTANT is getting more expensive. GW is just falling in line with the rest of this expensive world.

My good news? I am continuing to paint and playing lots of fun games lately! That's all that is important in this hobby.

Agreed that GW is not important, in the grand scheme of things. However, it's almost vital to have a hobby that you can escape into for a few hours a week. For me, it's important. I have a fairly high pressure job ( I'm a nurse in A&E) and for me to be able to escape from all the blood and gak that I see on a regular basis is pretty fething important.....

And for the part about GW coming into line with the rest of the expensive world? Did your car insurance go up by 17-20%?. Did your property tax go up by 17-20%?.

I hope it didn't.

Peace.

I decided that i'd look into Kings of War and found out that a reasonable 1000pts army costs me all of £70 for 103 models.

I'm crossing my fingers and I'm going to order some wargames factory skeles along with a box of immortal classical greeks in an attempt to jump start my greek tomb kings

Really having fun with the new TK rules

Playing Necromunda two evenings a week. Feels good man.

I realised that I have a ton of unbuilt stuff that I should probably get round to building....18 THousand Sons, 1 x CSM Predator, 1 x Defiler, 1 x Stompa, 6 x Kans, 1 x Deff Dread, 1 x FW Night Lord Dreadnought, 30 Grots, Ork Battleforce, Ork Truck, 20 Nightlords, 2 Rhinos, and 2 partially completed FW mega dreads lol

I'm getting better at painting faces, finishing off a pair of speeders that took me 3 days to complete (a record for me) and waiting on a pair of commissions to arrive. I also hear I won't have the kits I need affected by the rise coming out of GW. Don't care about metal vs. resin as I have so little experience in either its all the same to me. Started checking out Infinity and liking the models I see. All seems well in Lucoland.

BuFFo wrote:

Griever wrote:Umm, I have Tuesday off for the first time in forever, so I may be able to get a game in!

Small victories....

Do you work all the time?

I wish! Then I could afford to buy more models :(

The only days for gaming in my area (Buffalo, NY) @ at FLGSs are Tuesday and Friday. For some reason, I've managed to work both days almost all the time, even over multiple jobs. I don't know anybody that plays 40k personally, just whoever shows up at the clubs, so playing at somebodies home is also not an option.

Since my exams finished on Wednesday, I've gotten a Retribution class battleship, and a few cruisers and escaorts painted. We've got a big game coming up on Friday, and I've got two Chimera chassis I want to finish painting by then....busy painting week ahead of me!

The Maryland Battle Bunker is pretty sweet, had 2 good games there.

Just primed my huge pile of stuff to be primed.

Figured out a cheap and cheerful way to do Death Cult Assassins.

Hosted my local once a month 40k tournament at the FLGS, and had a great turnout for one of the months we're not giving away a large guaranteed prize. Had enough that we ended up having to turn a couple of people away who arrived close to last minute, because we literally ran out of tables. It was a dry run of switching over to a battle points style system using individual points for Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary objectives, and everyone seemed to like it, so that was a plus. So was seeing a lot of people that we normally only see drive down once a year for our mini GT in the fall. Good day for gaming in Kansas City.

My friend found the O&G army I bought him. It was lost for 7 months. It was in his closet.