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ph34r wrote:

Cheese Elemental wrote:

chromedog wrote:Full Thrust

What.
I'm not even going to ask.

Yea i no rite games that are not warhammer, ew

Don't worry cheese. I got the joke.

And I get ph34r's joke, too.

40k
Fantasy
Battlefleet Gothic (probably my overall favorite game)
Bloodbowl
RPG's (D&D 4th, and the original Top Secret from the 80's)
Star Fleet Battles (when I get the chance)
various board games (Zombies!, Betrayal at house on the hill, Axis and Allies, ect.)
Seriously thinking about investing in some Battlestar Galactica models for one or more of the many game systems released for the TV show.
Also, I'm considering collecting some of the classic Avalon hill games...Air Force, Thunder at Casino, Battle of the bulge, ect.

Fire and Fury, and Johnny Reb, are the two most popular ACW rulesets.

There are a zillion Napoleonic rulesets and no one leading the pack. It partly depends on what size of battle you want to play. I like very large battles, so I use 6mm figures and the Polemos Marechal de l'Empire rules.

In Ancients, Field of Glory, De Bellis Antiquitatis, De Bellis Multitudinis, and Impetus all have followings.

DBA is a good starter game for Ancients because the armies are quite small. You need to dowload the WADBAG guide to the rules, though, because they are difficult to understand.

Warhammer Ancient Battles and Warmaster Ancients are the rules to pick if you want a GW set.

Kil: Do you play Hordes of the Things? I was wondering about that ruleset.

Thats pretty amazin i never kwew there was so many games out there! i really got to move to a city where i can find people to play these with!!

malfred wrote:Kil: Do you play Hordes of the Things? I was wondering about that ruleset.

I've got it. I haven't played it, owing to lack of opportunities.

It reads well. It uses the tried and trusted mechanisms of DBA. It has quite a following among fantasy battle gamers.

MAGIC: the gathering....?
dnd 4th edition
carcassonne
twilight imperium
descent: journeys into the dark
talisman
runebound
BATTLELORE!
WARMACHINE! (so effin' sweet)
Hordes (also amazing)

Deadshane1 wrote:40k

Seriously thinking about investing in some Battlestar Galactica models for one or more of the many game systems released for the TV show.

I've got a couple of old 3" long Galactica (original series) models and a dozen squadrons of vipers for playing FT with. The Battlestar looks VERY similar, and the vipers are 3mm long, consisting of a slender fuselage and 3 wings (equilateral) pretty generic but close enough. The minis were made back in the 80s (and there were a bunch of 'classic' SF ships including the C-57-D (forbidden planet), and the Seaview, a basestar and a few others.). Seriously cool. Wish I'd bought more.

I'll see if I can dig up a label from the packaging.

Kilkrazy wrote:

malfred wrote:Kil: Do you play Hordes of the Things? I was wondering about that ruleset.

I've got it. I haven't played it, owing to lack of opportunities.

It reads well. It uses the tried and trusted mechanisms of DBA. It has quite a following among fantasy battle gamers.

Cool.

Yeah, I have the book, but can't find an opportunity to use it. Don't have minis to play, either.

Is still own 40k armies so I guess I count too.

I play Flames of War, Warmachine, Hordes and I have a small Uncharted Seas fleet. I'm contemplating doing some sort of Wierd War II game but I'm not sure which yet.

my dad wanted me to play a fast play world war 2 game with him. I take it werid war 2 is the same as world war 2? or is that just me being stupid?

I'll be a Battletech player for longer than a 40K or Fantasy player.

I also play:

Hordes
Various RPGs
Mechwarrior (Click Version)
AT-43 (Getting out)
More Battletech (Because it is awesome)

acullen626 wrote:my dad wanted me to play a fast play world war 2 game with him. I take it werid war 2 is the same as world war 2? or is that just me being stupid?

Sort of it's World War II with zombies, werewolves and mechs (Secrets of the third reich etc.) Does this genre have a name?

malfred wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:

malfred wrote:Kil: Do you play Hordes of the Things? I was wondering about that ruleset.

I've got it. I haven't played it, owing to lack of opportunities.

It reads well. It uses the tried and trusted mechanisms of DBA. It has quite a following among fantasy battle gamers.

Cool.

Yeah, I have the book, but can't find an opportunity to use it. Don't have minis to play, either.

you can use any Ancient/Mediaeval army and add a couple of special elements for wizards or heroes or whatever.

You only need fantasy figures if you want something like a Dwarf army.

If you don't want to spend a lot on figures just use 15mm, they are much cheaper.

George Spiggott wrote:

acullen626 wrote:my dad wanted me to play a fast play world war 2 game with him. I take it werid war 2 is the same as world war 2? or is that just me being stupid?

Sort of it's World War II with zombies, werewolves and mechs (Secrets of the third reich etc.) Does this genre have a name?

im not really sure the only WW2 game i no of is Rapid Fire. not much help!

I really just play 40K on the tabletop at the moment. I've played Bloodowl on FUMMBL a bit and I do Palladoum RPG's on occasion (though 40K is partially supplanting that in that it's more of a pick-up game).

I'm looking toward doing a fantasy type army once my Orks and Witch Hunters are done, but that's off a way.

Lets see...

BFG
Babylon 5 ACTA
Bloodbowl
I had some confrontation, but that game is dead...

I USED to play heroclix, Dungeons and Dragons, and Star Wars: they were the reason I got into 40k in the first place. I got sick and tired of getting my ass kicked by snot nosed brats whose parents willingly dropped hundreds of dollars so snookums could finally get that completely unbalanced superman fig and not lose. Folks whine about how unbalanced 40k is, try heroclix.
I then went on to play DnD, but there were so many god-awful clunky rules that made little to no sense.... But what got me is the poor production quality of the minis. I mean, you pay 25$ to not know what the hell you're getting, and then that random something looks like someone dipped it in successive layers of house paint, weapons look like they REALLY need a dose of viagra, any to get the ones you want, you either end up with a couple hundred crappy skeleton spearmen, or beckett scrye or inquest tells you that you need to shell out 70$ to get it out of the local shops glass case.
And to those complaining about how expensive a 40k army is, its actually cheaper to play 40k and WHFB than it is to play the disposable clix games.
But yeah, I got sick of crappy looking figs, and lots of them, I figure that if I'm going to play a minis game I have a better excuse than a multimillion dollar corporation as to why my stuff looks like a tard painted it.
As for other games, not interested in warmachine or whatever the hell it is: just not impressed with the fluff, not impressed with the models. In the DMI area, there's not a lot of choice between mass produced crap, GW and Privateer press.

Cheese Elemental wrote:

chromedog wrote:Full Thrust

What.
I'm not even going to ask.

I lol'd. srsly.
(By the way, they actually have a race called, "Rim Pirates". No lie.)
Plus, wtf is this ship supposed to be:




Yeah... I know...

chromedog wrote:Full thrust is a spaceship game (like BFG, but with a superior vector based movement system). Easy to learn and has more pleasing models.

Sorry dude. I think you're crazy. Full Thrust has better-looking models than BFG???


Full Thrust






BFG







Sorry, man. I disagree.






Anyway, on topic...
Games other than G-Dubbs, huh?

Desperado III (25mm Wild West)
Charlie Company (20mm Vietnam)
Battleground WWII (20mm WWII)
Fairy Meat (1:1)
GWAR: Rumble in Anarctica
Squadrons/Blue Sky (1:300 WWII Arial Combat)
Superfigs (25-28mm Superheroes)



Probably more that escape me at the moment. Sad thing is, I don't get to play any of these other games much, if at all, because everyone in the LGS's around here play G-Dubbs stuff exclusively.



Ghidorah

Primary tabletop game (GW):
- Apocalypse 40k (massive armies)

Other GW tabletop games I play from time to time:
- BFG (yay, fun!)
- Mordheim (good stuff)
- Fantasy (not excited over this anymore)

Other non-GW tabletop I've played & own:
- OGRE (good-sized Paneuro force)
- Warmachine (tiny little Cryx force)
- Flames of War (small Panzerkompanie)

In general, I try not to start other games, as I can barely keep up with what I already own!

Aside from 40k and WHFB, I also play Star Wars Miniatures (without the current Initiative rule), Warmachines, and Hordes. I might be getting into Infinity soon.

Oh I forgot, I have played FT, SG2 & DS 2.

@Chrome Dog: AT One time I had a pretty big FSE fleet all together between 20 to 25 models.

@Gidorah: It is all a matter of taste. BFG ships to me are too gaudy and grim dark looking. FT is in hard sci-fi military setting, and there ships and rules reflect that.

Oh and that snail looking ship belongs to a race know as the Phalons. They are one big running penis joke. Saint John tends to have a twisted sense of humor.

@Ghidorah: Feel free to disagree.

I've never really liked the gothic/baroque flying castles ethic of 40k. Your tastes may differ. I like the lines of the NSL ships over the overly spiky and skull encrusted BFG line (excepting the tau stuff, which looks quite nice). I like my ships to look more like the LEONOV than Mad Ludwig's shack.

@Evil Eli: I also have a fleet of around 20 ships for the NSL (aka "the chickenship outfit" - their bigger ships have an eagle on their prows) - not counting fighter stands. It's just fun to pull out the Galactica and Atlantia and Rycon for games. Helps with demo games at tourneys - everyone knows the ships. We also use the Star Wars fleet battles minis (not the card ones). Point is, you don't have to use the GW stuff to play it, or even the GZG stuff.

And phaelons, yeah, one long-running knob gag. The local supplier (and caster - he's licenced and all) always makes knob jokes about them. Nic's English, too.

Anyone played Flames of War? if so what you think?

see above. Flames is a fine game, great way to do WW2-style wargaming without being forced into unnecessary minutiae.

cool! the models seem very resonably priced to!

For my sins I used to play Magic the gathering but it all got a bit too serious, the problem with myself and being in Northern Ireland like yourself there's not much happening so I will list what I can actually play

Blood bowl
Warhammer
40K.
memoirs 44
Magic the gathering
risk
Monopoly with a few beers it's such a laugh
hero quest
space Hulk
chess

The trouble is finding other people to play with Well it's not quite that bad it's just a few friends aren't uni at the moment

I was a Battletech player far before I had ever even heard of GW.

And when I did, I played Space Hulk, Adeptus Titanicus, and Epic Space Marine before I even played my first 40K (Rogue Trader) game.

In college, I dabbled in Magic the Gathering, though it was something I eventually quit.

I guess I would say that I play:

Battletech
40K
Necromunda
BFG
AT-43

Well...more like I bought a couple of AT-43 armies and never really played a game.

I own a couple of Heroscape sets for the tiles to use in Battletech (never played Heroscape) and I have a lot of clicky Mechwarrior Miniatures that I also used for Battletech (never played that game either).

And I am eagerly chomping at the bit to find out more about the rumored rerelease of Space Hulk coming out later this year.

I also enjoy other games like:

Carcassonne
Settlers of Catan
Puerto Rico

Though they don't count as Table Top Wargames.

pombe wrote:I was a Battletech player far before I had ever even heard of GW.

Me too, but that was 1983..? I think Oh my.

I also play:

Flames of War

...and thats it. I have dabbled in all kinds of things, but in my experience, doing that just means you have a great collection of unfinished stuff for multiple games. So now I just build 40k armies.

Augustus wrote:I have dabbled in all kinds of things, but in my experience, doing that just means you have a great collection of unfinished stuff for multiple games.

So now I just build 40k armies.

Indeed, and that is my experience as well.

So now, you just have a great collection of unfinished stuff for just one game?