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Vic stopped posting...

He's posted more relevant hobby stuff than I have lately...

^what he said

Well there's the secret I suppose. I update nearly everyday and it goes pretty slow, seems you have to starve them.

 AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:

dsteingass wrote:holy crap! it is approaching 400! How the hell did I overtake your thread Vik?

Because everyone knows they can come here and hang out, and speak utter gak

Plus you let RW in... how the hell do you think I've managed to get over 100 pages myself

n0t_u wrote:I always thought this one was in the lead...

It used to be Vik... then something happened, god knows what

Note to self, stay away from childes threads

This seems like a good place as any to ask, but Malifaux? what exactly is it? and what kind of % are plastic models? I saw some on a website i kinda liked the look of but wanted to see what it's all about from the horses mouth so to speak :-) seeing as how Dave has some sweet miners etc. a few pages back...... quite a few now...... apparently because of Rogue Wolves ;-)

Malifaux is a city between alternate dimensions where winds of magic are harnessed and souls of people can be used to power steampunk stuff. Imagine anything from old West type buildings, to Victorian castles. There are several factions present, The Guild are the relentless Capitalists hell-bent on mining and exporting soulstones to Earth, The Arcanists (my faction of choice) are the Steampunkiest, they also control the Miners and Steamfitter's Union, which is the arch-nemesis for the greedy Guild. The Guild is often responsible for unexplained cave-ins, mysterious deaths, and other nefarious typical Robber-Baron-type behavior towards the workers who make them rich.

Malifaux is a skirmish game, but uses a deck of 52 standard cards called a "Fate Deck", instead of dice, where you can literally use the card suites as ways to "cheat fate" of combat and actions.

Wyrd originally cast everything in metal, but now they are going digital like all modern mini-makers, so their new plastics are able to look exactly like their concept art (since they use the same files), they are the cleanest plastic miniature casts I have ever seen.

The only bad thing about the game is Wyrd's partnership with Terraclips for their "official" terrain, it's crappy card-based terrain, not fit for any self-respecting gamer's table IMHO

 dsteingass wrote:
Malifaux is a city between alternate dimensions where winds of magic are harnessed and souls of people can be used to power steampunk stuff.

Oh, like Milton Keynes then

AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:^what he said

i totally not agree with that statement... dave´s output and specially finished outputs exceeds my own many times... well known fact

monkeytroll wrote:

 dsteingass wrote:
Malifaux is a city between alternate dimensions where winds of magic are harnessed and souls of people can be used to power steampunk stuff.

Oh, like Milton Keynes then

this is very funny tho i still don´t kow about milton keynes...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Keynes

yeah ok... but where is the funy part? why does it sound a bit like a british bermuda triangle whe brits talk about that city?

monkeytroll wrote:

 dsteingass wrote:
Malifaux is a city between alternate dimensions where winds of magic are harnessed and souls of people can be used to power steampunk stuff.

Oh, like Milton Keynes then

Funny 'coz its true!

Viktor von Domm wrote:yeah ok... but where is the funy part? why does it sound a bit like a british bermuda triangle whe brits talk about that city?

It makes more sense if you had been there

its a british thing

its a british thing

see?! that´s the thing i want to discover... i think i´ve read in some of terry pratchetts books some hints to that theme...

It's something to do with anomolies in the space-time continuum caused by an unprecedented number of roundabouts compresed into such a smal area.

 AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:

monkeytroll wrote:

 dsteingass wrote:
Malifaux is a city between alternate dimensions where winds of magic are harnessed and souls of people can be used to power steampunk stuff.

Oh, like Milton Keynes then

Funny 'coz its true!

Viktor von Domm wrote:yeah ok... but where is the funy part? why does it sound a bit like a british bermuda triangle whe brits talk about that city?

It makes more sense if you had been there

its a british thing

I thought it was iverness...

Viktor von Domm wrote:

its a british thing

see?! that´s the thing i want to discover... i think i´ve read in some of terry pratchetts books some hints to that theme...

its hard to describe or get unless your British as well... its a sense of humour and irony that only exists in the UK... it's an anomaly tbh.

monkeytroll wrote:It's something to do with anomolies in the space-time continuum caused by an unprecedented number of roundabouts compresed into such a smal area.

Well its either that, or Oxfords one-way system

oh, and I am sad to report that Dishonored is not the game I thought it was going to be. Still a good game, but it's more like Assasains Creed I think, If you like that sort of game. Or perhaps I am just completely jaded by the Awesome Open-world of Fallout, I dunno. For some reason I played it for a couple of hours , but it just made me want to fire up New Vegas.

 dsteingass wrote:
oh, and I am sad to report that Dishonored is not the game I thought it was going to be. Still a good game, but it's more like Assasains Creed I think, If you like that sort of game. Or perhaps I am just completely jaded by the Awesome Open-world of Fallout, I dunno. For some reason I played it for a couple of hours , but it just made me want to fire up New Vegas.

FO and AC are too different to be compared tbh. FO is FPS with a large slice of plot, whereas AC is a humongous peice of plot with an RPG side to it.

having said that, AC:3 is supposed to be a lot more free roaming than previous games, and is set outside New York circa American war of Independence.


I looked at Dishonoured for the first time the other day, and it smacked of steampunk-esque AC... which was a let down tbh. Especially for a Bethesda game...

AC just isn't the type of game I enjoy personally,(I have not played any of the AC series)...too much subterfuge involved, I prefer a Straight-up fight, preferably at medium to close range wielding shotguns, especially shotguns.


>And yes, Dishonored is all about plot. You sneak over a fence, and you need to listen to long, slow conversation dialog..all the damn time. And if you miss something, you can't replay the holotape, so I don't have any idea what to do. Basically, you were framed for the murder of the Empress, so you want to get even, I understand that part. However, it has a morality engine, I need all the runes I can get, because those buy spells, but to get one of those runes, I had to infect a still of bootleg Plague Elixer with the very Rat Plague that is responsible for the corpses that are EVERYWHERE, no place for the dead, they are filling river barges full of corpses, but they are just everywhere. You can play the game completely non-lethally, but I don't want to.

 dsteingass wrote:
AC just isn't the type of game I enjoy personally,(I have not played any of the AC series)...too much subterfuge involved, I prefer a Straight-up fight, preferably at medium to close range wielding shotguns, especially shotguns.


>And yes, Dishonored is all about plot. You sneak over a fence, and you need to listen to long, slow conversation dialog..all the damn time. And if you miss something, you can't replay the holotape, so I don't have any idea what to do. Basically, you were framed for the murder of the Empress, so you want to get even, I understand that part. However, it has a morality engine, I need all the runes I can get, because those buy spells, but to get one of those runes, I had to infect a still of bootleg Plague Elixer with the very Rat Plague that is responsible for the corpses that are EVERYWHERE, no place for the dead, they are filling river barges full of corpses, but they are just everywhere. You can play the game completely non-lethally, but I don't want to.

You see I like the subterfuge tbh, I loved MGS because of that, and I'm a historical nut so AC makes the nice transition of both worlds.

You make Dishonoured sound better than it first looked tbh... I might pick it up eventually when its cheap or on pre-owned then. I like the idea of the non lethal approach, too many games where murder is key these days, so it makes a nice change imo.

I work in IT, I need electronic murder.

hahahahaha yeah, makes sense... I have clynical depression, paranoia and anxiety... If I keep killing things in games, I'm afraid I'd do it in real life lols

er... that is so stereotypical... like hitting your mum with a frying pan after watching tom & jerry...

OK fell in late but Milton Keynes is built on a grid system (new concept to the UK ) hence every few yards you come to a round about, basically once you get in to it you cant get back out

I have relatives that live their …….. well survive their at least

Also Dave thought I would post these they turned up today and well they were better than I hoped they would be, they are also a hard plastic so converting should be fun

Might look good in a FO setting what do you think

basically once you get in to it you cant get back out

and these cars look very good...!

Yes, they have potential don't they

Its a TRAP!!!!! OK I said it …….

d´oh...

Doooode niice!

The cars seem to be Juuuuuuust right!

Oh Cool! Those Marx cars look great LDD! Not much need for conversion at all! Maybe just some dents and broken glass/missing trim, etc.


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