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2014/07/18 20:40:42
Subject: New Realm of Battleboard is about as gaudy as you might expect (+Dark Vengeance news + Ork Bundles)
Clang wrote: Some of those grots look familiar - I'm sure I've seen them in metal a few years back. If this is just a Finecast rerelease of those same models, I'm not interested, but would buy several kits if they're in plastic.
From the description on GW’s site:
Description
Kaptin Badrukk is a notorious Freebooter and the greatest Flash Git there ever was. Together with his motley krew of like-minded Flash Gitz, he travels the galaxy as a git for hire (as long as you can afford his outrageous fees).
This set contains: 1 Kaptin Badrukk made in Citadel Finecast, 10 multi-part plastic Flash Gitz and 6 Citadel Finecast Ammo Runts, four of which are brand new to this set.
I've got to hand it to GW at least a little. The Dark Vengeance repackage is a genuinely good thing to have done. - And the Aspiring champion redresses the chaos balance a little too (though I can't help but think that a chaos sorcerer would have been a better move).
In any case, it's a reasonable price (I can't help but think that Infinity: Operation Icestorm may need to worry about that...), especially compared to Stormclaw.
It brings that vital 11-12 year old never-assembled-a-model-in-their-life market back in. - When Stormclaw was the only release out there it seemed the writing was on the wall for GW.
However, that new gaming board is insane and completely lazy. Not only that, having uneven numbers of designs just looks stupid. That random eagle of to the sidejust looks completely out of place. - A third design would have avoided that I think.
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2014/07/18 22:14:22
Subject: Re:New Realm of Battleboard is about as gaudy as you might expect (+Dark Vengeance news + Ork Bundles)
Yeah,
It's growing on me.
Not paying £200 - fact
Hoping for amazing discount via darksphere etc...
If/when I get one I'll have to cut the three cathedrals tiles out and at least one of the eagles...
This is a bit much thou...
As if we all didn't have access to a nice urban game boards before this??
And my dream urban board isn't the same two tiles repeated!
Panic....
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Clang wrote: Some of those grots look familiar - I'm sure I've seen them in metal a few years back. If this is just a Finecast rerelease of those same models, I'm not interested, but would buy several kits if they're in plastic.
From the description on GW’s site:
Description
Kaptin Badrukk is a notorious Freebooter and the greatest Flash Git there ever was. Together with his motley krew of like-minded Flash Gitz, he travels the galaxy as a git for hire (as long as you can afford his outrageous fees).
This set contains: 1 Kaptin Badrukk made in Citadel Finecast, 10 multi-part plastic Flash Gitz and 6 Citadel Finecast Ammo Runts, four of which are brand new to this set.
Oh, they are Finecast. Nevermind then :(
2014/07/18 22:35:01
Subject: New Realm of Battleboard is about as gaudy as you might expect (+Dark Vengeance news + Ork Bundles)
I think it's interesting that they're actually labelling the new ammo runts as 'Finecast' as I thought they'd given up admitting new stuff was being made in it
(preferring to just call it resin or not saying anything)
2014/07/18 22:36:19
Subject: Re:New Realm of Battleboard is about as gaudy as you might expect (+Dark Vengeance news + Ork Bundles)
This is a bit much thou...
As if we all didn't have access to a nice urban game boards before this??
And my dream urban board isn't the same two tiles repeated!
Panic....
The nerve! GW sending an advertisement to their mailing list of existing customers with the assumption that they are fans of 40k and might dream of a proper 40k themed urban game board.
So, a question for you:
Where could I get a Hive City board prior to this product's release that fit perfectly with my existing Cities of Death terrain?
2014/07/18 22:51:57
Subject: New Realm of Battleboard is about as gaudy as you might expect (+Dark Vengeance news + Ork Bundles)
The centre of a massive brood chamber, heaving and pulsating.
Everybody knows that real hobbyists make their own boards.
Still, I eagerly await seeing what people do with this new board. Some of the Realm of Battle conversions I see at FLGWs and Warhammer World are pretty impressive.
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Squigsquasher, resident ban magnet, White Knight, and general fethwit.
buddha wrote: I've decided that these GW is dead/dying threads that pop up every-week must be followers and cultists of nurgle perpetuating the need for decay. I therefore declare that that such threads are heresy and subject to exterminatus. So says the Inquisition!
2014/07/18 22:56:59
Subject: Re:New Realm of Battleboard is about as gaudy as you might expect (+Dark Vengeance news + Ork Bundles)
The centre of a massive brood chamber, heaving and pulsating.
DarkTraveler777 wrote: Not only do real hobbyists make their own boards, they sculpt their own miniatures out of rocks, mud and blood.
Spoken like a true believer. You'll go far.
Squigsquasher, resident ban magnet, White Knight, and general fethwit.
buddha wrote: I've decided that these GW is dead/dying threads that pop up every-week must be followers and cultists of nurgle perpetuating the need for decay. I therefore declare that that such threads are heresy and subject to exterminatus. So says the Inquisition!
2014/07/18 23:08:39
Subject: Re:New Realm of Battleboard is about as gaudy as you might expect (+Dark Vengeance news + Ork Bundles)
DarkTraveler777 wrote: The nerve! GW sending an advertisement to their mailing list of existing customers with the assumption that they are fans of 40k and might dream of a proper 40k themed urban game board.
So, a question for you:
Where could I get a Hive City board prior to this product's release that fit perfectly with my existing Cities of Death terrain?
Yeah... "proper" ... """"proper"""... ack I've burned out my sarcastic air quotes.
I'm a Necromunda fanatic and lover of city boards but I think this thing is very, very ugly, and looks nothing like a city street. When a Lego 40k board looks more natural and less obviously repetitive than the official board... you might have problems. But to each their own.
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2014/07/18 23:21:29
Subject: New Realm of Battleboard is about as gaudy as you might expect (+Dark Vengeance news + Ork Bundles)
Malkaven wrote: So is the new dark vengeance box set the same as the old besides the updates rules?
And the addition of the Aspiring Champion model.
BlaxicanX wrote: A young business man named Tom Kirby, who was a pupil of mine until he turned greedy, helped the capitalists hunt down and destroy the wargamers. He betrayed and murdered Games Workshop.
2014/07/18 23:23:30
Subject: New Realm of Battleboard is about as gaudy as you might expect (+Dark Vengeance news + Ork Bundles)
It's £5 more expensive but comes with the plastic Chaos Aspiring Champion too (Who I think is around £15 solo, normally) - It also looks like they've put a new cover on the Dark Vengeance book too.
2014/07/18 23:24:32
Subject: New Realm of Battleboard is about as gaudy as you might expect (+Dark Vengeance news + Ork Bundles)
Yeah... "proper" ... """"proper"""... ack I've burned out my sarcastic air quotes.
I'm a Necromunda fanatic and lover of city boards but I think this thing is very, very ugly, and looks nothing like a city street. When a Lego 40k board looks more natural and less obviously repetitive than the official board... you might have problems. But to each their own.
What is wrong? The use of the term proper? As in, "these boards properly fit with the established aesthetic of 40k?" Which they do. The cluttered, gaudy, over-the-top, Gothic aesthetic of 40k is perfectly represented by these boards. There is nothing natural about 40k's setting or the aesthetic. Everything is absurdly grand and needlessly ornate in the Imperium, why would the cities be different?
2014/07/18 23:51:08
Subject: Re:New Realm of Battleboard is about as gaudy as you might expect (+Dark Vengeance news + Ork Bundles)
This is a bit much thou...
As if we all didn't have access to a nice urban game boards before this??
And my dream urban board isn't the same two tiles repeated!
Panic....
The nerve! GW sending an advertisement to their mailing list of existing customers with the assumption that they are fans of 40k and might dream of a proper 40k themed urban game board. So, a question for you:
Where could I get a Hive City board prior to this product's release that fit perfectly with my existing Cities of Death terrain?
Well I'm gonna guess that your not counting the one time GW sold a paper urbanmat 'fit perfectly with your existing Cities of Death terrain' for one day doesn't count, because despite everyone wanting one they refused to make more.
Sadly my dreams were not fulfilled that day GW bromley sold out before I managed to fulfill my dreams...
Since then my dreams have not been fulfilled. I've tried..
GW's email has basically just informed me that my homemade boring grey board has not fulfilled my dreams.
And GW told me that WarSmiths ultra flat cardboard warboard has not fulfilled my dreams...
GW have decided that G&G's urban board can't fulfil my dreams while it's still in china...
But my dreams can be fulfilled by GW right now!
by their email 'Time to retire the kitchen table!'
oh my poor kitchen table hasn't ever been used for gaming, but Gw demands me I must pay them £200 and sacrifice the kitchen table.
Kitchen tables for the Tables gods!
A small price for my dreams to be fulfilled!
I just remembered an accessory product that might make the basing kit into a good value.
I wonder if they could possibly be used together?
Balance in pick up games? Two people, each with their own goals for the game, design half a board game on their own without knowing the layout of the board and hope it all works out. Good luck with that. The faster you can find like minded individuals who want the same things from the game as you, the better.
2014/07/18 23:58:33
Subject: New Realm of Battleboard is about as gaudy as you might expect (+Dark Vengeance news + Ork Bundles)
with the city of death building, this board is actually rather cool, Playing necromunda or inq28 on this board would be awesome. Only 2 designs is lame though.
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http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/519978.page#6525039
2014/07/19 00:01:10
Subject: New Realm of Battleboard is about as gaudy as you might expect (+Dark Vengeance news + Ork Bundles)
I don't get the marketing of the Badrukk and Zagstrukk bundles.
Flash gits are 10 models max, correct (no book on me at the moment)? I already bought 5. I would buy this if it was cheaper and had 5 Gitz, but it has 5 more gits than I can use in one unit. If it had come out with the Gits, I would have bought it then.
They increased the unit size of Stormboys from 20 to 30. This bundle has 15. I had 20, and I would have bought this bundle if it was cheaper and had 10, but it comes with 5 more boyz than I can use in one unit.
I can't be the only person who is taking a stormboys unit from old maximum size to new maximum size. I can't be the only person who wanted a single unit of the new gits. It seems like a better size (or more sensible release time) would have captured more sales for them pretty easily. As it is, I'm just hoping that the ammo runts show up somewhere so I can get those. Sigh.
2014/07/19 02:58:20
Subject: New Realm of Battleboard is about as gaudy as you might expect (+Dark Vengeance news + Ork Bundles)
Da Butcha wrote: Flash gits are 10 models max, correct (no book on me at the moment)? I already bought 5. I would buy this if it was cheaper and had 5 Gitz, but it has 5 more gits than I can use in one unit. If it had come out with the Gits, I would have bought it then.
You mean GW didn't check with you first to see if you'd already bought some Flash Gitz? Outrageous!!!
i'll pipe in saying that the new city board looks awesome, the imperium is always shown to be impractical and over the top, and this board fits this. But the price tag though......
"We do no demographic research, we have no focus groups, we do not ask the market what it wants." - Tom Kirby, 2014
2014/07/19 03:43:50
Subject: New Realm of Battleboard is about as gaudy as you might expect (+Dark Vengeance news + Ork Bundles)
Just a note but the Flash Gitz formation might be part of "Hour of the Wolf". There's a notation in the fluff about Sanctus Reach(I want to say in the 7th edition book's background section) that Kaptin Badrukk is fighting the Space Wolves in the Sanctus Reach in the employ of some "unknown benefactor".
2014/07/19 05:18:02
Subject: Re:New Realm of Battleboard is about as gaudy as you might expect (+Dark Vengeance news + Ork Bundles)
Panic wrote: Well I'm gonna guess that your not counting the one time GW sold a paper urbanmat 'fit perfectly with your existing Cities of Death terrain' for one day doesn't count, because despite everyone wanting one they refused to make more.
Nope, that isn't a game board. That is a mat. I asked about game boards. And yeah, the streets look different on that mat. That doesn't look like a hive city, but rather a more modern urban center with a bit of 40k imagery added. The upcoming game board looks much closer to the artwork of hive cities than your mat.
Panic wrote: But my dreams can be fulfilled by GW right now!
by their email 'Time to retire the kitchen table!'
oh my poor kitchen table hasn't ever been used for gaming, but Gw demands me I must pay them £200 and sacrifice the kitchen table.
Kitchen tables for the Tables gods!
A small price for my dreams to be fulfilled!
Panic...
You realize you are acting hysterical over advertising copy, right? That game board isn't your dream set up, but for many it kinda is. It is the culmination of years of GW terrain releases. You can see what? 5-7 years worth of terrain releases in that advertisement all melding flawlessly with the new urban board. That is pretty cool if you ask me. Finally all the random terrain kits that GW has had on offer make sense and can be set up on compatible game board. A lot of people are excited about this even if you aren't. It is entirely understandable that you are disappointed but I personally think you are acting a bit childish and hyperbolic.
2014/07/19 05:31:47
Subject: Re:New Realm of Battleboard is about as gaudy as you might expect (+Dark Vengeance news + Ork Bundles)
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