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2015/10/14 20:16:23
Subject: Anyone else play KOW without movement trays?
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Much to my horror, I am out of movement trays. I have been multi-basing my armies as I continue my mass assemblage, but with somewhere in the realm of 12 mega-army bundles, not counting miniatures from other companies which I have absorbed into KOW, I have finally run out of movement trays, and find myself wavering on wanting to spend a small fortune on more of them.
So, a question. Does anyone play without movement trays and find it to be viable, and not TOO cumbersome? Since so much is measured from the front-center model anyway, I figured I could always just pick them up, move said model when needed, and then rank up everyone else as needed, but I am already picturing the awkwardness of then rebounding 1" from non-routed units, etc...
Should I just bite the bullet and throw $100 at mdf movement trays for the rest of this, pardon the pun, horde?
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 4980pts Total (4980pts painted)
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2015/10/14 21:33:32
Subject: Anyone else play KOW without movement trays?
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Tail-spinning Tomb Blade Pilot
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You could use improvised trays and add the final ones slowly. Just put models on some cardboard with folded edges, use some plasticcard, whatever youve got available. Not quite as good as real trays, but certainly beats moving models one by one. 
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2015/10/15 16:37:42
Subject: Anyone else play KOW without movement trays?
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Disguised Speculo
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^This. Moving models one at a time will be hell.
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2015/10/14 22:48:40
Subject: Anyone else play KOW without movement trays?
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Posts with Authority
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Hmmm, I hate 'I agree!' posts, but...
I agree!
Do some temporary movement trays, and replace them with more permanent trays as time and money permits.
The Auld Grump
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Kilkrazy wrote:When I was a young boy all my wargames were narratively based because I played with my toy soldiers and vehicles without the use of any rules.
The reason I bought rules and became a real wargamer was because I wanted a properly thought out structure to govern the action instead of just making things up as I went along.
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2015/10/14 23:39:51
Subject: Anyone else play KOW without movement trays?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Thanks guys. Will do. I went through a mountain of the nice, and relatively cheap mdf ones from the Kickstarter, but I grossly underestimated how much I would need.
Anyone know of any decent, affordable movement trays in the correct sizes which I could also use, hot-swapping models/armies, until I give them all permanent basing?
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2015/10/14 23:53:58
Subject: Anyone else play KOW without movement trays?
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Monstrous Master Moulder
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2015/10/15 08:16:12
Subject: Anyone else play KOW without movement trays?
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Crazed Spirit of the Defiler
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mantic sells them for cheap
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2015/10/15 08:37:23
Subject: Anyone else play KOW without movement trays?
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Screaming Shining Spear
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Just about any MDF lasercut terrain place should make movement trays, easy enough to find one in the US and avoid international postage. Litko, f.ex.
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2015/10/15 19:35:08
Subject: Re:Anyone else play KOW without movement trays?
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Painting Within the Lines
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I just bought a sheet of 1.5mm MDF from a craft shop for a couple of quid and some A4 double sided adhesive sheets off ebay. Cut the MDF to the desired size with an xacto knife and stick the minis to it with the adhesive sheet. They hold in place well and can be levered off again without too much trouble if you want to rebase at a different unit size or use them in another game.
Hence my old experiment-in-dipping Ogre Kingdoms stuff is now a based KoW army.
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2015/10/15 20:12:04
Subject: Anyone else play KOW without movement trays?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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That post just reminded me what a delight "dipping" has been as I try to paint up mass-battles games. What a weird, disproportionately attractive technique it ended up being. I always feel like I was cheating when people compliment my dipped models. :-p
BTW... that looks a lot like my Ogre army... however I glued extra Ogre heads onto Sigmarines to bulk out their numbers. :-p
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11527pts Total (7400pts painted)
4980pts Total (4980pts painted)
3730 Total (210pts painted) |
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2015/10/15 20:53:38
Subject: Anyone else play KOW without movement trays?
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Krazed Killa Kan
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Nice Hippo!
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A.V.P.D.W.: W-0, L-2, T-0
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2015/10/15 20:58:04
Subject: Anyone else play KOW without movement trays?
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Painting Within the Lines
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NewTruthNeomaxim wrote:That post just reminded me what a delight "dipping" has been as I try to paint up mass-battles games. What a weird, disproportionately attractive technique it ended up being. I always feel like I was cheating when people compliment my dipped models. :-p
BTW... that looks a lot like my Ogre army... however I glued extra Ogre heads onto Sigmarines to bulk out their numbers. :-p
I definitely didn't make a unit filler out of a pile of gunpowder barrels. That didn't happen. And my war mammoth isn't a plastic toy hippo. Move along, nothing to see here.
I did this back in the incredibly messy dip-and-spin days before buying cheap nylon brushes and just painting the stuff on became a thing. Yes, I really did dip and spin an entire GW giant, all in one go. I heartily recommend never, ever trying this.
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2015/10/15 21:05:35
Subject: Anyone else play KOW without movement trays?
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Posts with Authority
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 larva_uk wrote:NewTruthNeomaxim wrote:That post just reminded me what a delight "dipping" has been as I try to paint up mass-battles games. What a weird, disproportionately attractive technique it ended up being. I always feel like I was cheating when people compliment my dipped models. :-p
BTW... that looks a lot like my Ogre army... however I glued extra Ogre heads onto Sigmarines to bulk out their numbers. :-p
I definitely didn't make a unit filler out of a pile of gunpowder barrels. That didn't happen. And my war mammoth isn't a plastic toy hippo. Move along, nothing to see here.
I did this back in the incredibly messy dip-and-spin days before buying cheap nylon brushes and just painting the stuff on became a thing. Yes, I really did dip and spin an entire GW giant, all in one go. I heartily recommend never, ever trying this.
Unless you are Jackson Pollock....
The Auld Grump
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Kilkrazy wrote:When I was a young boy all my wargames were narratively based because I played with my toy soldiers and vehicles without the use of any rules.
The reason I bought rules and became a real wargamer was because I wanted a properly thought out structure to govern the action instead of just making things up as I went along.
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