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Hi,

I have a rulebook and Aquan fleet on Order for Firestorm: Armada and just picked up the Warmachine Prime Mk 2 book and am thinking of starting Cryx.

I am also interested in Infinity as well

I like Nacho Chips, I love them so much I bought a bunch, and I refuse to try any other food because I bought a bunch.

People tell me I should try different foods, but I ask why when I am perfectly happy with my nacho chips.

Since getting involved in reading dakka I've expanded my knowledge of alot of mini games out there.

I've only made a plunge into one non-GW though. I put together a FOW american airborne army. Themodels are okay, as are the rules. I don't really get the opportunity to play it much.

I really don't have the time to play 40k as much as I'd like and that may be the biggest problem with me wanting to invest into other games. Over the last few years I've said good-bye to my warhammer fantasy armies for lack of time to play. As well as my BFG and epic armies. My bloodbowl teams and game went the way of the buffalo as well.

Besides taking the plunge into FoW, I've got out of more games systems than I got into during my dakka years. It's not that bad a thing, as I have more 40k stuff on my plate than I have time for anyway.

No.

Almost everything from PP is either hideous (Warmachine) or cool-looking yet overpriced (Hordes). Same goes for Infinity.

FoW....I'm not starting a new scale (15mm), no matter how cool WW2 is.

I *might* start buying some Mantic Games stuff, but until they put out a decent rules set their products will just expand my WHFB armies.

Really, I have yet to see a good, affordable, well-written, semi-popular alternative to WHFB.

If had hadn't been on dakka I would barely be aware of other ranges, and since I'm now assembling a necromunda gang made solely of non-GW product, I'm gonna go with a resounding yes.

No. In fact, the exact opposite. Dakka's sheer negativity and cynicism stopped me from buying into Infinity, Malifaux, Hell Dorado and FOW.

Are you sure that's Dakka's negativity and cynicism?

Not realy goten into any thign new.Im going stick to GW. Pp just aint my cup of tea sort of speak

Yes warmachine and infinity. In fact just like Aggy but in the other direction, the negitivity towards GW has left a sour taste concering the GW product. I still play GW but i dont buy it anymore.

Warmachine and infinity, mostly, with some burgeoning interest in flames of war.
While I like warhammer and 40k, I tend to prefer skirmish scale games and it's been quite nice to discover some new ones.

Da Boss wrote:Has reading Dakka spurred you to collect a new system or miniatures range?

In a manner of speaking yes.

MDG posted a a thread a little less than a year ago called "Why you should give War of the Ring a chance". It was quickly and soundly battered down by the LOTR haters, myself included.

BUT, it gave me the seed to sit down and read through the rules at the FLGS and see what was going on. From there I was pretty mad. Not at MDG or anyone person, but at GW for showing me that they actually can write rules competently and willfully make crap rules for the sake of selling the latest and greatest thing. The willfully stupid being 40K and WHFB.

Nowadays, besides the occasional foray into Hordes or AT-43 or axis and allies minis, WotR is the only miniatures wargame I play.

40K and WHFB can suck enormously engorged donkey balls as far as I am concerned.

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I would like to expplain that my expressing displeasure at 40K and WHFB is due to many long years of involvement in them, struggling to find a good common ground to share with strangers in order to play a simple pick up game. 40K being the most horrendous offender (4th/5th ed). After leading me on for nearly 20 years, I am through with that IP. If it didnt hurt game shops so much to lose sales in that regard, I would actually wish that those games would just die a lonely forgotten death.

Not to mention that the vasy majority of 40K players that I have ever met are simply no fun to play against, and the ones that are fun to play against simply arent enough to keep me interested in such a mechanically bankrupt game.

Since I've been lurking in Dakka, I've started Infinity. I'm also tempted by Flames of War, but I haven't bought anything. I'm not very interested in other systems at the moment (because of the minis, I haven't read any rulebook of other games as Warmachine or AT-43).

Infinity deserves the effort. And in a not very long future, I hope FoW will deserve it too.

Dakka somehow caused me to switch from 40k to WHFB. I'm not sure how, since there seems to be more 40k players here, but it's true

Cheers Dakka!

I used to play both WHFB and 40k back, when you got ALL the army lists for WHFB in ONE book. (warhammer armies I think it was called)

As I discovered the existence of beer/women, I "grew out" of both games (and gaming in general, the exception being Blood Bowl) just as GW started to release Codex/army books.

Thus, for some 16 years all my gaming stuff has been sitting in the basement collecting dust, and I haven't kept up with what was happening in the GW world at all.

I recently met a couple of guys at about my own age, that had started playing war games again, and I started listening to the D6 generation and checking up on forums etc wondering if I should start playing again as well.

Well... I think most of this has been said here many times before but still... :

To be honest, from what I have read here, the only reason why I would play the GW games again would be the lack of alternatives!.
I am surprised to find that GW has become "what it is" today. Sure there were signs of "power creep" way back then, but to see how everything has been changed time and time again to get people to buy more stuff is just ridiculous, and can't (in my mind) be put down to anything other than the extreme greed I think is evident in every thing GW.

Also... remembering how things were back in the early 90'es, I find the examples of GW "protecting" its IP down right laughable! (seriously guys I am amazed that GW hasn't sued George Lucas because the imperial storm troopers look "too much" like Spacemarines(tm).. In fact could they please change the ordinary imperial troops as well.. they look too much like Imperial guard)
And "Terminators"?.. really? C'mon.. were they stealing EVERYTHING James Cameron made back then?... sure it took a while to get the T-101 series just right (necron). But they lifted Tyrannids and Spacehulk straight out of Aliens, while the Tau miniatures are a mere a Copy/Paste of the first Manga magazines they happened to come across,

My rant could go on. but my point is that we all knew where the inspiration came from.. but we didn't care because it was so obvious.
But now GW is claiming everything as their own and defend it by acting like the bullies in a school yard.

So to answer the question.. .. YES! reading Dakka HAS made me collect a different system.

I bought the rules for both Gutshot and Firestorm armada. While I seriously consider FOW. rather than starting up 40k (Tiger tanks are just so much cooler than the old ww1 stuff (land raider) )

Some Hordes Trollbloods, and I've started collecting some Gamezone minis. Primarily the vampires.