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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/02/16 15:09:34
Subject: How has internet/technology advances made wargaming better?
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Fresh-Faced New User
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To be more exact: How do you think that the technology has made some good influences on wargaming?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/02/16 15:39:26
Subject: How has internet/technology advances made wargaming better?
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Thinking of Joining a Davinite Loge
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I feel that technology has both positively influenced and negatively influenced wargaming. To start off, the negative. I feel that everywhere I go to game I see the same armies and lists. This is due to the widespread cookie cutter lists that spread rapidly due to the internet. This makes me want to quit gaming at many times due to the fact that it is becoming so competitive for even a lot of friendly games. On the flip side, It has become a lot easier to find games due to sites like this. I have met a few people on dakka in person and played games with them. Sites like this also give people inspiration to actually do the hobby aspect of gaming and stimulate their artistic side.
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Jidmah wrote:That's why I keep my enemies close and my AOBR rulebook closer.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/02/16 15:50:36
Subject: How has internet/technology advances made wargaming better?
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Crazed Spirit of the Defiler
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Our little hobby is not something you can just go talk to any random person on the street about. So its great having an online community that is always around and ready to talk about any hobby related stuff.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/02/16 16:07:33
Subject: How has internet/technology advances made wargaming better?
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Bounding Dark Angels Assault Marine
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I agree with the above, it has made it easier to talk to similarly minded people about games, modeling, and fluff-i particularly like seeing peoples fluff,etc.
But on the flip side I would say that the internet was a large factor in quitting the hobby. I am fed up of early teens ruining forums.
Also as above the fact that the same lists do the rounds, and much of the hobby has become the same
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/02/16 16:10:52
Subject: How has internet/technology advances made wargaming better?
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Widowmaker
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Net lists suck as well as the general negativity about...everything. I also feel that the internet takes the excitement out of new releases as you know everything about them well before they hit the shelves.
The good things are that you can get a rules answer pretty quick and buying stuff is cheaper than in the stores.
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2012- stopped caring
Nova Open 2011- Orks 8th Seed---(I see a trend)
Adepticon 2011- Mike H. Orks 8th Seed (This was the WTF list of the Final 16)
Adepticon 2011- Combat Patrol Best General |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/02/16 16:27:08
Subject: How has internet/technology advances made wargaming better?
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Infiltrating Broodlord
Lake County, Illinois
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The main benefit is being exposed to the general miniature gaming hobby, as opposed to strictly GW stuff or things I was introduced to by people I knew. I can look at and order miniatures and rules on the internet that I would have never seen in a local store. I can find out a lot about different games and miniatures from different blogs and message boards. I can get all kinds of new ideas for hobby projects, scenery construction, painting techniques, new types of games and historical periods. I can find reviews and battle reports for different games. I can learn about historical periods for historical gaming. It has really broadened the scope of what is possible. Whether people take advantage of that, or whether they use the resource to just find out what army list everyone else is using, is another matter.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/02/16 17:41:12
Subject: How has internet/technology advances made wargaming better?
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Flashy Flashgitz
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It brings people together, before the net your only chance to met other players was at the local shop, problem is lots of players dont play at the shops, internet can bring those home players together.
Another example would be that my normal shop closed down a month ago, within a week though I had found a new place with new people to play threw dakkadakka, its a unifying thing.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/02/16 21:31:46
Subject: How has internet/technology advances made wargaming better?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Technology has allowed smaller companies to create high quality models that serve a niche interest.. Companies like Mantic are a great way to add some competition to the monopoly machine.. The internet allows them to reach people
Also, technology in general as in better machines has allowed the pewter slag that passed for models in the RTT era to really look amazing with plastic moulding technology.
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Keeper of the DomBox
Warhammer Armies - Click to see galleries of fully painted armies
32,000, 19,000, Renegades - 10,000 , 7,500, |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/02/16 23:52:23
Subject: How has internet/technology advances made wargaming better?
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Swift Swooping Hawk
Canberra, Australia
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If it wasnt for the Internet, I wouldnt be in this hobbie. Its far too expensive in Australia to buy from the shops.
I dont play the actual game though so no real comments there. However with all the negative stuff I hear about 40k I have no drive to play it, ever. Just paint.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/02/17 00:05:43
Subject: How has internet/technology advances made wargaming better?
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Dwarf Runelord Banging an Anvil
Way on back in the deep caves
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Corey85 wrote:Our little hobby is not something you can just go talk to any random person on the street about. So its great having an online community that is always around and ready to talk about any hobby related stuff.
This. Where I work there is no one who has any idea what wargaming is, but I can always find something interesting being discussed here.
The net has made collecting figures much easier than it used to be. Its also great for finding obscure new products that would be unheard of without it.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/02/17 00:20:47
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Lord Commander in a Plush Chair
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It's really helped the coverage of the smaller companies. For years you had to rely upon finding them at wargaming events in order to see the figures, and often you'd have to go months or another year before seeing them at another show. If the figures you wanted weren't available at a show or you could only see them in the small ads of some niche magazines you'd have to fill out a form and post a cheque off to get the goods. Now even the smallest companies have a website full of photos, you order exactly what you want online, put your details in and they arrive in the post. It's excellent. And there are databases full of listings of companies to be found on places like The Miniatures Page. Word of mouth is so much more effective online, if a model of something exists it's not that hard to find, and purchasing has never been easier.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/02/17 04:43:32
Subject: How has internet/technology advances made wargaming better?
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Adolescent Youth with Potential
ECU, NC
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In terms of general technological advances, there certainly has been a huge impact on miniature gaming. The plastics and resin models we take for granted today are lightyears beyond what was around 20+ years ago. And the personal technology we all have lets us take photos and post them online, and find tutorials on places like youtube, among countless other applications.
As far as the community goes, I know that people complain about "internet lists" and all that... But the fact that people have already done a lot of research and compiled it about various individual units and army builds makes starting an army much easier. I normally take what I read on forums about specific units with a grain of salt, but I've found lots of tactics for units, which I never would have thought of on my own, online.
Maybe that takes some of the fun or challenge out of the game, but its saved me a lot of frustration and in some cases money.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/02/17 05:27:23
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Thinking of Joining a Davinite Loge
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The problem I have with the "internet lists" is not they are winning games against me. Most of the cookie cutter lists I play against are usually noobs that do not know how the list plays and just assume the list plays itselft. The problem is I do not get to see a lot of variety. I don't care that most of my games are against MEQ's, I just would like to see a variety builds.
But as you said snazzy, there are some tactics online for units that some of us just would not think of.
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Jidmah wrote:That's why I keep my enemies close and my AOBR rulebook closer.
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