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Old Man Ultramarine wrote:I pre ordered one last month before the price hike. I have been going back and forth about getting it. As of yesterday I was not getting, BUT today is different. I heard it came in my FLGS

I have no choice now. Price $275. I have preferred customer discount that will kick in making the girlfriend happier about it.

I will update when I have my hands on it.

You can still cancel. Stores got their sample copy this week, if they ordered one. The actual tables for sale haven't been shipped yet.

LOL

I actually want one. I have several friends who want to play, but never have table or place to play (aka Mom's basement is too full of junk).

I'm not struggling for money so I can afford to get one.

JohnHwangDD wrote:I don't understand the shock. This is 40k, so of *course* there are skulls. Be thankful the board doesn't have sockets to add screaming bald heads.

Because a screaming skull (TM) with a full head of hair is the new black.

Eric

Old Man Ultramarine wrote:
I actually want one. I have several friends who want to play, but never have table or place to play (aka Mom's basement is too full of junk).

I'm not struggling for money so I can afford to get one.

Unfortunately, however....



We don't all live with our Mom.


Eric

captain.gordino wrote:I wish GW sold a sprue of skulls, I always want more of them, and I can't seem to make a good one with GS.

Some other company must make spare skulls. People need such a lot of them for fantasy games.

Old Man Ultramarine wrote:LOL

I actually want one. I have several friends who want to play, but never have table or place to play (aka Mom's basement is too full of junk).

I'm not struggling for money so I can afford to get one.

Do your mom a favour and buy some 2x4' sections of insulation foam for a few bucks. Make said friends help you build terrain.

Kilkrazy wrote:

captain.gordino wrote:I wish GW sold a sprue of skulls, I always want more of them, and I can't seem to make a good one with GS.

Some other company must make spare skulls. People need such a lot of them for fantasy games.

There you go.

http://www.blackcatbases.com/product.asp?P_ID=542

Bloody GW. Their terrain is gorgeous, except for all the fecking skulls. My housemate could not believe how many were in the citadel wood, before you even added any of the optional skulls. So I got out the new ruins and counted the skulls on them. I don't even have one of them, because it had a whole feckin' wall of skulls. I'm not in the least bit suprised by all the skulls on this board.
Even with LOTR, you can see it. Most of the models were based on the designs from the film, but they added a couple of extra things like shamans, and they stick out like sore thumbs because they are skulltastic too.
I wonder if there is some sort of ratio of skulls to profit, the way there is with monkeys on comic book covers.

Funnikly enough I saved the skulls I trimmed off all my Space Marines, in case they were needed for an appropriate project one day.

If they made a sprue with a ton of skulls, not just human, I think they'd sell a boatload of them.

This thread needs MORE SKULLS!
- GW sculptor

Here we see, dear viewers, the lush plains of Gorzak. This place is home to tribes of roaming bipeds known as "Orcs." What's queer is that they manage to survive in this inhospitable environment. For you see on the ground here are the beginnings of tiny patches of skulls. You can see them over there too - there's a well-formed one next to that hut. Nobody knows how these skulls grow, but they grow like weeds, devouring everything and becoming the base for human wizards seeking a new ashtray or pen-holder.

Clearly they are not skulls they are magic mushrooms.

yeah,

Panic...

I don't live with my mom. I'm 37 years old. Kids (19-21 year olds) who want to play live with their mom's.

I got the table today. Impressive. I have pics of the underside of table to show why it weighs 30 lbs.

I'm having trouble believing flock will stay on with board rubbing inside bag during storage.

It seems pretty well designed, with those ribs for rigidity.

If you put cloth in between each piece it will help prevent flock loss. In my experience you can't 100% prevent flock coming off anything that gets used and handled.

I think GW outdid themselves with that release of the chaos character with...a cloak of skulls. Called the skulltaker I think, perhaps he does a range in skull clothing.

Don't mind the skulls.

Board is nice, clips together tightly and easily, and is very sturdy when placed with a smaller table under it. Seems to do well on a kitchen table of close to the right size. It can take a bit of overhang all around.

I really think I might pick one up for around the house. Probably use the railroad textured paint for it. Probably stick a little better. For around here it would be useful as I just don't have the space to get a board to where I can play and back easily. This is a lot better and easier. About the same weight packed up as my backpack full of books. Not bad if you are willing to pay.

In the dark future there is only a nice soft imaginary reality with no real violence or disgusting stuff. There exists a war without bullets, where you can lose an entire army but all your models stay in pristene condition.

in the dark future there are no skull pits
there is no consequence to conflict and suffering...
there is only....profit for GW lawers.

*end of poem*

While it has SOME skulls, it is not quite GRIMDARK enough yet! I need some one near me to get one to see If I want one, so I can make it grimdark enough.

Local GW stores should have a demo table. Your FLGS could have one, too.

For 150GBP I want a whole table covered in skulls with giant skull hills and pits cut into the skulls, filled with skulls, and rivers of skulls (flowing in BLOOD! ), and trees that are skulls with skull leaves and skulls as buildings with doors whose handles are skulls.

THEN it would = grimdark...

Sooo, how many skull pits does that thing have in total?

Two board sections have multiple skull pits on them, one section has broken terrain with skulls in the cracks. The other three have dotted skulls here and there, with the odd skull filled crack.

None of the boards are skull free, though the amount of work to fillin cover over or remove skulls will vary from piece to piece.

Crrrrap, so much for using the board for other games then.

A bit of self-levelling compound would fill up the skulls pretty easily, I should think.

It looks like the crust of that planet floats on a sea of skullz.
Dear lord. Someone needs to stop this madness.

All this skullduggery, it must end. no more puns from me though, no way. i'm not a skullhead. my skullastic career gave me top grades.

in the grim darkness of the far future...there is only darkness...and grimness. and its too dark to see the skulls.

Old Man Ultramarine wrote:Local GW stores should have a demo table. Your FLGS could have one, too.

I live in North Las Vegas, NV, the nearest GW is 300+ miles (LA Bunker if I remember right). I don't drive and live about 2 hours (or more) from any game stores (all 4 of the ones I have been in are very friendly and I would support in a minute if any were "local" ). Ironically, because of the way the buses and freeway run, the one furthest from me is the one I could get to the fastest.