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2015/02/05 11:55:26
Subject: Re:OK, fine, here's a 2015 Reaper thread!
Yep, would definitely be a huge hit in the New Zealand market...
"All GW will gain is my increased contempt for their business practices." - AesSedai
"Its terrible the way that conversion kit is causing him to buy 2 GW kits... " - Mad4Minis
"GW are hard to parody, as they are sometimes so stupid that the best in comedy couldn't beat them at their own game..." - Paradigm
It distresses me that that's the first thing that comes to your mind when faced with the noble sheep. I know someone who would fix you with a disapproving stare.
Yep, but New Zealand is the Wales of the Southern Hemisphere and the sheep thing is as true there as it is in the principality (that's Wales for those not up on the classification of the UK's constituent parts).
Vermis wrote: It distresses me that that's the first thing that comes to your mind when faced with the noble sheep. I know someone who would fix you with a disapproving stare.
Spoiler:
That the Welsh herd sheep? How is that distressing?
Your avatar, from Wallace and Gromit?
Anyway, you can see that Reaper does indeed make a sheep mini. Now if only they would make a vicuña mini. Finest wool in the world, vicuña wool.
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2015/02/05 14:24:08
Subject: Re:OK, fine, here's a 2015 Reaper thread!
Vermis wrote: Joking aside, that's some bloody fine livestock. They actually look like what they're supposed to represent, which as HeartSerenade says is rare enough in 28mm animals that aren't horses. (and even then some horses can look a bit... mutatey)
Of course the ockers are only upset with New Zealand because we are able to boast about the number of sheep we have to the acre, rather than the other way around
2015/02/06 00:05:59
Subject: Re:OK, fine, here's a 2015 Reaper thread!
Vermis wrote: It distresses me that that's the first thing that comes to your mind when faced with the noble sheep. I know someone who would fix you with a disapproving stare.
Spoiler:
At least there has been no mention of Velcro gloves...
2015/02/06 01:19:52
Subject: Re:OK, fine, here's a 2015 Reaper thread!
Sean_OBrien wrote: At least there has been no mention of Velcro gloves...
Well, only because I hadn't gotten to it yet...
And I'm not xenophobic, I just know a heap of kiwis...and the jokes are true!!!
"All GW will gain is my increased contempt for their business practices." - AesSedai
"Its terrible the way that conversion kit is causing him to buy 2 GW kits... " - Mad4Minis
"GW are hard to parody, as they are sometimes so stupid that the best in comedy couldn't beat them at their own game..." - Paradigm
Vermis wrote: Red Harvest: It was directed more at Padre, and the tired old (even mildly xenophobic) jokes about what goes on with sheep in Wales and New Zealand.
Ah, I missed that. I was thinking about something I heard years ago, that the Welsh has such fine longbowmen because they would practice while they were out with their flocks in the higher altitude pastures. Can't say that I've heard anything about New Zealanders and sheep.
I thought so. It has been years since I saw "A Close Shave" Brilliant stuff, but then so were the earlier works.
And back on topic... The one thing I note about the Reaper minis I have -- mostly Pathfinder Iconics-- is that the sculpting quality can be quite variable. Although this recent batch of releases appear to be pretty good.
Red Harvest wrote: I thought so. It has been years since I saw "A Close Shave" Brilliant stuff, but then so were the earlier works.
And back on topic... The one thing I note about the Reaper minis I have -- mostly Pathfinder Iconics-- is that the sculpting quality can be quite variable. Although this recent batch of releases appear to be pretty good.
One of the reasons for the variable sculpting goes to one of the things I really like about Reaper - they are willing to give new artists a shot.
Every now and again, I like to look at the progress the sculptor has made over the years. Search by the sculptors name, sort by SKU (up or down, depending on if you want to go forward or backward through time). You can watch most of them improve (even old hands like Julie Guthrie).
He spends much more time on the other end of things...
Although some people have called me crazy for thinking as much, if you take a look at Werner and take a look at the faces he sculpts - I see a lot of his face in a lot of the miniatures he does. One of those things where if you practice using the most readily available model (yourself) it can to be hard to get away from it.
Zed wrote: *All statements reflect my opinion at this moment. if some sort of pretty new model gets released (or if I change my mind at random) I reserve the right to jump on any bandwagon at will.
Sinful Hero wrote: Bones are basically like any pre-painted plastic models you would get, but not painted. Kinda rubbery, so they never break. If you have kids, or friends with butter-fingers, they are a godsend.
Spoiler:
My view was always that Bones has a perfect place in the market for limited use miniatures, primarily for people running table top RPGs or dungeon crawlers. If you need 10 gnolls for an encounter and want some models, but have no conceivable further use for gnolls, Bones puts them at a price point that suddenly makes it reasonable to buy models for such a limited purpose.
Anyway as promised some last previews from their site.
First off Reaper is expanding their line of Gargantuan Creatures for 6mm games such as Robotech Tactics, Epic and Battletech.
I feel weird saying this, but that is a lovely cow. As a man with lots of cow models, that particular cow has both nice detail and some great cow personality. Not too much personality to make it seem less than cow-like, but just enough personality to really sell being the family milk cow. If I needed a cow with a name, like Bessie, or Moolinda, that would be the cow I would use. That's not a cow you stick in a fenced pen for background farm ambiance. That is the Bart the Bamboo Harvester Bear of cows.
Edit: I am buying that cow. I am naming her Moolinda. I am designing an entire day of Wild West gaming around lovely Moolinda. She'll have to go in the case with the people miniatures. She would make all of my other cows jealous.
Edit Edit: Now my dead cow miniatures from the Johnny Borg Roadkill set will have so much more emotional impact. Alas, poor Moolinda, I knew her Wyat: a bovine of infinite cud, of most excellent udders...
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Kirasu: Have we fallen so far that we are excited that GW is giving us the opportunity to spend 58$ for JUST the rules? Surprised it's not "Dataslate: Assault Phase"
AlexHolker: "The power loader is a forklift. The public doesn't complain about a forklift not having frontal armour protecting the crew compartment because the only enemy it is designed to face is the OHSA violation."
AlexHolker: "Allow me to put it this way: Paramount is Skynet, reboots are termination attempts, and your childhood is John Connor."
Cavalcade has some excellent animals as well, alas - no sheep, or regular cows - but oxen, and llamas and emus...not enough emu representation in gaming.
I bought them when they were owned by a friend up in Seattle - but the prices at Forlorn are pretty good too.
Cavalcade has some excellent animals as well, alas - no sheep, or regular cows - but oxen, and llamas and emus...not enough emu representation in gaming.
I bought them when they were owned by a friend up in Seattle - but the prices at Forlorn are pretty good too.
That there is an okay cow Sean, but it sure isn't a Moolinda.
I've got the outline of my Moolinda game all worked out, by the way. Now I just need that cow!
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Kirasu: Have we fallen so far that we are excited that GW is giving us the opportunity to spend 58$ for JUST the rules? Surprised it's not "Dataslate: Assault Phase"
AlexHolker: "The power loader is a forklift. The public doesn't complain about a forklift not having frontal armour protecting the crew compartment because the only enemy it is designed to face is the OHSA violation."
AlexHolker: "Allow me to put it this way: Paramount is Skynet, reboots are termination attempts, and your childhood is John Connor."
Cavalcade has some excellent animals as well, alas - no sheep, or regular cows - but oxen, and llamas and emus...not enough emu representation in gaming.
I bought them when they were owned by a friend up in Seattle - but the prices at Forlorn are pretty good too.
That there is an okay cow Sean, but it sure isn't a Moolinda.
I've got the outline of my Moolinda game all worked out, by the way. Now I just need that cow!
I am strangely intrigued. If I lived in Louisiana I'd be all up for that Moolinda game.
I may pick up the cow to serve as Cowzilla in a Robotech Tactics game.
Vermis wrote: Though you stray from the path of pure ovinity, Weeble, have you ever seen this?
No, I haven't seen that, but it looks very fun.
I happen to have lots of cows because I got some cows for a farm, then I got some more cows for a cattle ranch, then I needed even more cows to properly do stampedes and such. Sometimes you can't do your scenario properly unless you've got 40 cow miniatures.
I've also got some decent rules for handling herds that have worked out pretty well so far.
@ KK - If you are in Louisiana, you are welcome to come join the fun. I think that the game will have to be sometime in late March. Moolinda, of course, will need to be released first.
Spoiler:
First I thought that maybe some bandits had been smuggling gold in Moolinda's gut, but I've done lots of bandits lately. There also needs to be a small child, sick or injured or some such. I thought maybe he was sick and needed Moolinda's milk or something. I also wanted some Walburns (like super hillbillies) to be involved.
It all fell into place with a little bit of a supernatural back story. You see, a thousand years ago or something, off in the 'Far East' or what-have-you, the spirit of some horrible demon or evil god was trapped within the mortal flesh of a sacred cow. The cow, of course, was made helpfully ageless in the process, and curiously resistant to disease, etc. and so forth. Otherwise it's a normal cow, only with the accumulated wisdom of several hundred cow lifetimes.
So at some point or another our sacred cow makes it to the Territories of the Republic (that's essentially the US). Various secret societies and whatnot have kept careful watch on the cow over the years, of course, lest the cow be killed and the evil subsequently released. Currently, the Spiral Cult (basically good guys), represented in Devil's Perch (the local town) by Mr. Aloisius Reems, in the guise of a faro dealer, has been keeping tabs on the sacred cow, amongst his long list of evils and supernatural time bombs to keep an eye on.
Now, the cow has for a long time been in relatively 'safe' keeping as the "stock wife" of Hezekiah, 'Hez', Walburn, who calls her by the name of Hephzibab. Hephzibab has enough experience and good sense to know that she doesn't relish being "wed" to a Walburn, so the trouble begins to start when Hephzibab takes it upon herself one day to up and wonder off. Hephzibab ultimately wanders to Devil's Perch where the good natured bovine is witness to a particularly bad wagon accident. Little Billy Williams is trapped beneath an overturned wagon, gasp! Hephzibab, in her ageless wisdom, takes it upon herself to lift the wagon and drag little Billy to safety.
Of course, Hephzibab, named Moolinda by Billy, garners instant fame and recognition. The story spreads across the territory like wildfire, and even makes it into the columns of papers in the big cities back East. The story gets so big that the Governor of Loughton Territory, Montgomery Cole, is pressured into awarding Moolinda with a medal of valor or some such ridiculous award. The corpulent Governor assigns this menial task to one of his aides (we'll call him Quincy Poole), and the ceremony is scheduled to take place at the upcoming County Fair.
Now, as it happens, all of this publicity has brought Moolinda to the attention of the evil cultists who have worshiped our demon or evil god imprisoned within the worldly flesh of Moolinda, and have searched for her with the aim of one day slaying the good natured beast and freeing their dark master. Naturally, these folks show up to the County Fair.
Also quite naturally, Hez Walburn and plenty of his kin also show up to the County Fair, on purely normal business (they don't read the papers), but Hez instantly recognizes his "stock wife" up on the platform getting her medal of valor!
Mr. Poole can't let it be known that the cow the Governor just gave a ridiculous medal to is in some marriage to a filthy Walburn in contravention of all laws human and natural. At the same time, Mr. Reems can't allow this precious cow to be slain by cultists, lest a great evil be set loose on the world again! Enter the player characters, good friends of Mr. Reems and happy to get paid by Mr. Poole to keep them Walburns away from Moolinda.
So we have a chase scenario, of course. I think there's also a scenario in a hotel with Moolinda wondering up stairs and refusing to walk back down. Ultimately, the PCs have to resolve the situation by faking Moolinda's death, likely taking place in a stockyard by the train station. That way Hez can go get hisself another "stock wife", and the cultists can figure they were after the wrong cow and continue their quest elsewhere in the world.
I still have to work out the particulars of the specific scenarios, and engineer some fun, humorous rules, but that's the gist.
Kirasu: Have we fallen so far that we are excited that GW is giving us the opportunity to spend 58$ for JUST the rules? Surprised it's not "Dataslate: Assault Phase"
AlexHolker: "The power loader is a forklift. The public doesn't complain about a forklift not having frontal armour protecting the crew compartment because the only enemy it is designed to face is the OHSA violation."
AlexHolker: "Allow me to put it this way: Paramount is Skynet, reboots are termination attempts, and your childhood is John Connor."
Vermis wrote: Though you stray from the path of pure ovinity, Weeble, have you ever seen this?
No, I haven't seen that, but it looks very fun.
I happen to have lots of cows because I got some cows for a farm, then I got some more cows for a cattle ranch, then I needed even more cows to properly do stampedes and such. Sometimes you can't do your scenario properly unless you've got 40 cow miniatures.
I've also got some decent rules for handling herds that have worked out pretty well so far.
@ KK - If you are in Louisiana, you are welcome to come join the fun. I think that the game will have to be sometime in late March. Moolinda, of course, will need to be released first.
Spoiler:
First I thought that maybe some bandits had been smuggling gold in Moolinda's gut, but I've done lots of bandits lately. There also needs to be a small child, sick or injured or some such. I thought maybe he was sick and needed Moolinda's milk or something. I also wanted some Walburns (like super hillbillies) to be involved.
It all fell into place with a little bit of a supernatural back story. You see, a thousand years ago or something, off in the 'Far East' or what-have-you, the spirit of some horrible demon or evil god was trapped within the mortal flesh of a sacred cow. The cow, of course, was made helpfully ageless in the process, and curiously resistant to disease, etc. and so forth. Otherwise it's a normal cow, only with the accumulated wisdom of several hundred cow lifetimes.
So at some point or another our sacred cow makes it to the Territories of the Republic (that's essentially the US). Various secret societies and whatnot have kept careful watch on the cow over the years, of course, lest the cow be killed and the evil subsequently released. Currently, the Spiral Cult (basically good guys), represented in Devil's Perch (the local town) by Mr. Aloisius Reems, in the guise of a faro dealer, has been keeping tabs on the sacred cow, amongst his long list of evils and supernatural time bombs to keep an eye on.
Now, the cow has for a long time been in relatively 'safe' keeping as the "stock wife" of Hezekiah, 'Hez', Walburn, who calls her by the name of Hephzibab. Hephzibab has enough experience and good sense to know that she doesn't relish being "wed" to a Walburn, so the trouble begins to start when Hephzibab takes it upon herself one day to up and wonder off. Hephzibab ultimately wanders to Devil's Perch where the good natured bovine is witness to a particularly bad wagon accident. Little Billy Williams is trapped beneath an overturned wagon, gasp! Hephzibab, in her ageless wisdom, takes it upon herself to lift the wagon and drag little Billy to safety.
Of course, Hephzibab, named Moolinda by Billy, garners instant fame and recognition. The story spreads across the territory like wildfire, and even makes it into the columns of papers in the big cities back East. The story gets so big that the Governor of Loughton Territory, Montgomery Cole, is pressured into awarding Moolinda with a medal of valor or some such ridiculous award. The corpulent Governor assigns this menial task to one of his aides (we'll call him Quincy Poole), and the ceremony is scheduled to take place at the upcoming County Fair.
Now, as it happens, all of this publicity has brought Moolinda to the attention of the evil cultists who have worshiped our demon or evil god imprisoned within the worldly flesh of Moolinda, and have searched for her with the aim of one day slaying the good natured beast and freeing their dark master. Naturally, these folks show up to the County Fair.
Also quite naturally, Hez Walburn and plenty of his kin also show up to the County Fair, on purely normal business (they don't read the papers), but Hez instantly recognizes his "stock wife" up on the platform getting her medal of valor!
Mr. Poole can't let it be known that the cow the Governor just gave a ridiculous medal to is in some marriage to a filthy Walburn in contravention of all laws human and natural. At the same time, Mr. Reems can't allow this precious cow to be slain by cultists, lest a great evil be set loose on the world again! Enter the player characters, good friends of Mr. Reems and happy to get paid by Mr. Poole to keep them Walburns away from Moolinda.
So we have a chase scenario, of course. I think there's also a scenario in a hotel with Moolinda wondering up stairs and refusing to walk back down. Ultimately, the PCs have to resolve the situation by faking Moolinda's death, likely taking place in a stockyard by the train station. That way Hez can go get hisself another "stock wife", and the cultists can figure they were after the wrong cow and continue their quest elsewhere in the world.
I still have to work out the particulars of the specific scenarios, and engineer some fun, humorous rules, but that's the gist.
Posts like these are why I come to Dakka. You will not find a finer post on any other wargaming foum. I have mashed the Exalt button until it is a flaming, smoking, digital crater.
@ KK - If you are in Louisiana, you are welcome to come join the fun. I think that the game will have to be sometime in late March. Moolinda, of course, will need to be released first.
Spoiler:
First I thought that maybe some bandits had been smuggling gold in Moolinda's gut, but I've done lots of bandits lately. There also needs to be a small child, sick or injured or some such. I thought maybe he was sick and needed Moolinda's milk or something. I also wanted some Walburns (like super hillbillies) to be involved.
It all fell into place with a little bit of a supernatural back story. You see, a thousand years ago or something, off in the 'Far East' or what-have-you, the spirit of some horrible demon or evil god was trapped within the mortal flesh of a sacred cow. The cow, of course, was made helpfully ageless in the process, and curiously resistant to disease, etc. and so forth. Otherwise it's a normal cow, only with the accumulated wisdom of several hundred cow lifetimes.
So at some point or another our sacred cow makes it to the Territories of the Republic (that's essentially the US). Various secret societies and whatnot have kept careful watch on the cow over the years, of course, lest the cow be killed and the evil subsequently released. Currently, the Spiral Cult (basically good guys), represented in Devil's Perch (the local town) by Mr. Aloisius Reems, in the guise of a faro dealer, has been keeping tabs on the sacred cow, amongst his long list of evils and supernatural time bombs to keep an eye on.
Now, the cow has for a long time been in relatively 'safe' keeping as the "stock wife" of Hezekiah, 'Hez', Walburn, who calls her by the name of Hephzibab. Hephzibab has enough experience and good sense to know that she doesn't relish being "wed" to a Walburn, so the trouble begins to start when Hephzibab takes it upon herself one day to up and wonder off. Hephzibab ultimately wanders to Devil's Perch where the good natured bovine is witness to a particularly bad wagon accident. Little Billy Williams is trapped beneath an overturned wagon, gasp! Hephzibab, in her ageless wisdom, takes it upon herself to lift the wagon and drag little Billy to safety.
Of course, Hephzibab, named Moolinda by Billy, garners instant fame and recognition. The story spreads across the territory like wildfire, and even makes it into the columns of papers in the big cities back East. The story gets so big that the Governor of Loughton Territory, Montgomery Cole, is pressured into awarding Moolinda with a medal of valor or some such ridiculous award. The corpulent Governor assigns this menial task to one of his aides (we'll call him Quincy Poole), and the ceremony is scheduled to take place at the upcoming County Fair.
Now, as it happens, all of this publicity has brought Moolinda to the attention of the evil cultists who have worshiped our demon or evil god imprisoned within the worldly flesh of Moolinda, and have searched for her with the aim of one day slaying the good natured beast and freeing their dark master. Naturally, these folks show up to the County Fair.
Also quite naturally, Hez Walburn and plenty of his kin also show up to the County Fair, on purely normal business (they don't read the papers), but Hez instantly recognizes his "stock wife" up on the platform getting her medal of valor!
Mr. Poole can't let it be known that the cow the Governor just gave a ridiculous medal to is in some marriage to a filthy Walburn in contravention of all laws human and natural. At the same time, Mr. Reems can't allow this precious cow to be slain by cultists, lest a great evil be set loose on the world again! Enter the player characters, good friends of Mr. Reems and happy to get paid by Mr. Poole to keep them Walburns away from Moolinda.
So we have a chase scenario, of course. I think there's also a scenario in a hotel with Moolinda wondering up stairs and refusing to walk back down. Ultimately, the PCs have to resolve the situation by faking Moolinda's death, likely taking place in a stockyard by the train station. That way Hez can go get hisself another "stock wife", and the cultists can figure they were after the wrong cow and continue their quest elsewhere in the world.
I still have to work out the particulars of the specific scenarios, and engineer some fun, humorous rules, but that's the gist.
I like it. But you should pick up this guy too in case your PCs mess up.
Course once you do you'll basically be rooting for them to mess up.
