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Playing a lot of shadespire these days and absolutely loving it. Want to get in some kill team as well.

Slowly plugging away at 40k stuff as well, but for small, small-scale games.

Doing some warlord 'historicals' (not really 'fantasy wargames' but included for completion).

Sadly, more or less dropped out of warmachine/hordes, and I was a dedicated follower throughout mk2. Keeping my tharn and khador, but really, not interested in the new releases or getting back into the game. privateer press, at the time of the mk3 launch (and since then) have done far too many things to hack me off and disillusion me with their game, handling of game, and company to the point where, right now, I really can't be bothered with them.

 JoshInJapan wrote:

dyndraig wrote:
Kings of War and Vanguard for me. I can't go back to individual basing in a army-sized game, KoW has ruined me for other wargames

All my KoW stuff is individually based, and has been since the late 80's when I started. They are, however, magnetized to stick to their movement trays.

My old Warhammer armies are also individually based, but any new army I do gets multibased. So much more convenient

It’s not listed, but the A Song of Ice And Fire game by CMON is really good and deserves more attention. Really satisfying ranked-combat, and the tactics cards add a nice amount of depth to the gameplay.

My feel of Song and Ice and Fire is its too close to a board game for my liking.

I remember a time when we were talking about KOW's doom somewhere (this comes up from time to time) and there was a lurking dread that ASOI&F would be its demise. Hasn't turned out to be in the least, and I've actually never heard of people playing CMON's game once it delivered. Looks good and all but of minimal interest to me - not fantastical enough, which is my same opinion of most of the goings on below the Wall in the books of the same name

WM/H seems to have consolidated down to the more competitive elements and lost a lot of the "casual player". At least in my neck of the woods. PP has made lots of effort to rebalance the game after the awful Mk3 launch and keeps adding new mini factions. But its not doing anything to address the things that keeps a community healthy. Price, attractiveness to casual players, working with sellers to keep their product on the shelves in physical stores.

Still love the game. But I'm burning out on the constant churn in the community, CiD's producing one or two OTT items that people argue over for months and the fact that quite often, cost of the new models in ££'s.

I'm really excited for the launch of Malifaux M3E. Will probably make that my main game for a while continuing to paint and play the odd game of WM/H to keep my hand in and hopefully the company and the community can sort itself out.

For me with regards to WM/H, the combination of the steady bloat within factions combined with the slightly larger army size and the way themes work in 3e has driven me from the game. I have nearly one of every unit for RoS, but with themes I feel like I can’t make any half-decent lists without going out and buying some multiples. For a new player, I can imagine how overwhelming it would be to try to figure out what to buy when factions have 20+ units and 20+ jacks to choose from, not to mention solos and casters.

6th Ed. WFB. No reason to play anything else, honestly.

Warlords of Erewhon has proven popular down the club recently

Any good reviews or summaries for Warlords of Nowhere/Erewhon? Preferably not a video...

Not that I've seen but its basically Hammers of Antares tweaked to emphasise close combat slightly more. Bolt Action with farmore variable profiles is another way to look at it.

 pancakeonions wrote:
Any good reviews or summaries for Warlords of Nowhere/Erewhon? Preferably not a video...

I posted one in the others forum here.

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/770868.page

I'm not very much into fantasy, so I play only Mordheim as it was a back-up game that everybody had in my group.

After house-ruling some of the biggest issues (club/dagger spam), it's a funny and very enjoyable game.

I play Dwarves and plan on getting the Pirates, along with a sailing ship.

9th Age.

I've played a bit of 9th age and KoW.

The problem with T9a (as they refer to it) locally is that the key players are ALL ETC players, and they'd rather spend more time playing each other to keep their ranking up than "grow" the game so it's rather stagnant. They don't have GW behind their game, pushing it for them, so that's now THEIR job.

KoW - the locals only play in a handful of places and again are rather insular.

AoS- these are the evangelicals of fantasy around me. ALWAYS trying to get people to play "THEIR" game, because it's got better figures (if I wanted to play with action figures, I'd do that instead). Their game is the only true game.

So my high elf army has stayed in the cupboard for the last couple of years.

 chromedog wrote:
I've played a bit of 9th age and KoW.

The problem with T9a (as they refer to it) locally is that the key players are ALL ETC players, and they'd rather spend more time playing each other to keep their ranking up than "grow" the game so it's rather stagnant. They don't have GW behind their game, pushing it for them, so that's now THEIR job.

KoW - the locals only play in a handful of places and again are rather insular.

AoS- these are the evangelicals of fantasy around me. ALWAYS trying to get people to play "THEIR" game, because it's got better figures (if I wanted to play with action figures, I'd do that instead). Their game is the only true game.

So my high elf army has stayed in the cupboard for the last couple of years.

That mirrors my experiences too. T9A isn't too popular and is basically a hardcore tournament game, with not much done to try to bring in new players. TBH, the rules don't help much with this - they're a mess of overly complex systems and legalistic impenetrability for the new player so having experienced players to help newbies is pretty much required. I can see T9A really starting to fall away quite severely in the UK once the original players start to drift away.

KoW isn't too popular but seems to have a small, dedicated following. It's at least company supported and has active development and new products coming out, which is quite important for keeping interest going. I personally found it a little clunky as a system, and army selection a little annoying but it's quick and easy to learn and is a true rank-and-flank game.

AoS never recovered from its awful start for me personally and does absolutely nothing to scratch the Fantasy gaming itch.

I've seen other systems on the table about 2-3 times total, with Dragon Rampant being at least 2 of those occasions. Seems like a good system - streamlined, easy to learn. Can't say if it's got the depth to make it a long-term solution though.

What has proved popular is more skirmish games like Frostgrave, with smaller model counts and often fairly detailed rules. Given that GW got out of rank-and-flank gaming it seems likely the reason we don't see a lot of them out there right now is it's not what the market as a whole wants.

auticus wrote:

 pancakeonions wrote:
Any good reviews or summaries for Warlords of Nowhere/Erewhon? Preferably not a video...

I posted one in the others forum here.

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/770868.page

Ta for that. Looks like a nice ruleset to scratch my long standing Warhammer itch...

 chromedog wrote:
I've played a bit of 9th age and KoW.

The problem with T9a (as they refer to it) locally is that the key players are ALL ETC players, and they'd rather spend more time playing each other to keep their ranking up than "grow" the game so it's rather stagnant. They don't have GW behind their game, pushing it for them, so that's now THEIR job.

So my high elf army has stayed in the cupboard for the last couple of years.

9th Age
I did various demo games in the past year on a more or less regular basis and this was my experience:

Blood Bowl: I got a few people interested and they delved into the sport of violent football.

Necromunda: "Geez, only a dozen guys without any sort of tanks?" A lot of people preferred to play 40K.

Freebooter´s Fate: "Nice game but I am already committed to play Infinity."

Rumbleslam: "You say all I need is a single mini and a match takes just ten minutes? Nope, too expensive and time-consuming for me."

9th Age: I didn´t even try to sell them this game because of obvious reasons. The majority of my audience could be described by these attributes:

Poor, lazy and a short attention span. Just the notion of them picking up 9th Age or any sort of vintage WHFB edition is so outlandish that it would be more likely for GW to bring back the Old World in all
it´s glory.


High Elves
Why don´t you play any vintage edition of WHFB? I even play 2nd 40K once in a while.



@Slipspace

That mirrors my experiences too. T9A isn't too popular and is basically a hardcore tournament game, with not much done to try to bring in new players. TBH, the rules don't help much with this - they're a mess of overly complex systems and legalistic impenetrability for the new player so having experienced players to help newbies is pretty much required. I can see T9A really starting to fall away quite severely in the UK once the original players start to drift away.

 Strg Alt wrote:


@Slipspace

That mirrors my experiences too. T9A isn't too popular and is basically a hardcore tournament game, with not much done to try to bring in new players. TBH, the rules don't help much with this - they're a mess of overly complex systems and legalistic impenetrability for the new player so having experienced players to help newbies is pretty much required. I can see T9A really starting to fall away quite severely in the UK once the original players start to drift away.

"Not much done to bring in new players."

That´s just wrong. I want to see you trying to sell an audience a tabletop game. It´s not a walk in a park by any means. A lot people nowadays shy away from games that take a lot of commitment like 9th Age requires and prefer games with just a bunch of minis. And if you target even the latter predominantly then you are not seldom in for a surprise as even a task of painting a few plastic dudes or reading the rules is beyond them.

 Nate668 wrote:
For me with regards to WM/H, the combination of the steady bloat within factions combined with the slightly larger army size and the way themes work in 3e has driven me from the game. I have nearly one of every unit for RoS, but with themes I feel like I can’t make any half-decent lists without going out and buying some multiples. For a new player, I can imagine how overwhelming it would be to try to figure out what to buy when factions have 20+ units and 20+ jacks to choose from, not to mention solos and casters.

This is part of the issue that I had with the game when I tried to get into it. When I bought the two-player box initially, I was under the impression that Warmachine was played with maybe a dozen models at the maximum. Then I found out that it was much, much more than that. Add in the fact that I rarely find a theme that has enough of the models of the faction for me to be interested in playing it, and I lost all interest in the game within a month of research. I'm going to use the models as painting fodder and as proxies for other games with friends.

The other issue I had was that the starter boxes have some of the worst plastic minis I have ever encountered. I was glad that I built my Star Wars Legion box before attempting to build my Warmachine two-player box because most of those minis were so bad that I nearly gave up on them. I recently bought a Menoth battlegroup box because my younger brother liked the look of them, and I told him I would build and paint them for him. Those Menoth minis are the absolute worse I have ever built. There are large moldlines over a lot of the tiny details, and many of the parts require so much cleanup that just removing moldlines and fixing some mold slip (minor enough that it isn't noticeable, but bad enough that parts don't fit together) from one mini took as long as the same process for an entire squad of my Fyreslayers for AoS. IMO, you should put some of of the best quality minis in a starter box to get people interested, not the worst quality.

Lately, I've been playing more Blood Bowl than anything else on this list.

I guess Monsterpocalypse is too science fictiony for the list, right?