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 Lathe Biosas wrote:

 Overread wrote:
OPR is the biggest Patreon in the 3D printing market and its interest has grown beyond that since they opened up their rules for other creators to use to make rules for their own armies.

Sure its not "GW BIG", no one else is GW big. However OPR has grown a huge amount over the last few years to the point where most people have now heard of it even if they've not played. Plus because you can use GW models you can more easily gather local interest because people don't have to buy a new army ;they can jump right in with their existing 40K/AoS/OW models.

Wow. Any good resources for learning more on OPR?

Their website https://www.onepagerules.com

Also their army builder https://army-forge.onepagerules.com

in that if you click on a game format and then along the top bar click "creators" it will show names and details of all the 3rd parties involved as well;

Thanks I'll go check it out...

Do you recommend it?

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
Thanks I'll go check it out...

Do you recommend it?

The games I've played I've enjoyed. It's a system that very much feels like you win/lose based on the choices you make; rather than say the random element unbalancing things too far or overpowered models simply winning the game.
I also enjoy it because I collect and print other ranges of models; so being able to play with models form Dragon Trappers Lodge or Arch Villain Games and such is a massive boon.

Otherwise many of those smaller creators would be hard work to get local games as you'd have to provide both forces and all.

yikes I wonder how this thread still going... discussing 3d printing and 3d companies etc on a Warhammer preview show.

 NAVARRO wrote:
yikes I wonder how this thread still going... discussing 3d printing and 3d companies etc on a Warhammer preview show.

Then let's steer it back....Has anyone been watching the rest of the Warhammer World Championships?

There's been some interesting builds... like the 6 C'tan necron list.

 NAVARRO wrote:
yikes I wonder how this thread still going... discussing 3d printing and 3d companies etc on a Warhammer preview show.

Well, if you have any new news about the Warhammer preview show please, go ahead...

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 NAVARRO wrote:
yikes I wonder how this thread still going... discussing 3d printing and 3d companies etc on a Warhammer preview show.

Well, if you have any new news about the Warhammer preview show please, go ahead...

You should know better.

 NAVARRO wrote:
yikes I wonder how this thread still going... discussing 3d printing and 3d companies etc on a Warhammer preview show.

If you think the thread has gone off-topic, use the little yellow triangle - don't try and police it yourself.

 Dysartes wrote:

 NAVARRO wrote:
yikes I wonder how this thread still going... discussing 3d printing and 3d companies etc on a Warhammer preview show.

If you think the thread has gone off-topic, use the little yellow triangle - don't try and police it yourself.

Or be nice about it and just post a chilled comment to see if the thread can carry on without being closed.

 Lathe Biosas wrote:


Then let's steer it back....Has anyone been watching the rest of the Warhammer World Championships?

There's been some interesting builds... like the 6 C'tan necron list.

I have watched occasional bat reps, but I've never really gotten the whole sports/ esports/ watch instead of do cult.

Like don't get me wrong... If it's your bag of chips, I'm not gonna tell you you're doing warhammer wrong- you do you.

But for me personally? The only batreps I've watched have been very special interest... Like the narrative one that was based on WH+ Blood Angels, and a Red Gobbo Christmas battle. I watched Scaredcast's Crusade battles (I think there were three or four of these). I'd watch an ongoing Crusade saga of batreps, but I haven't found many of them to my liking. I wanted to make one, but I'm just a slow mediocre painter.

But I find the whole concept of "influencers" (warhammer or otherwise) to be absolutely bizarre. I tend to let people I meet face to face influence me more than those who are trying to make money on the internet, and I'd rather play a game than watch one. I'll watch people play video games if we're hanging out in person, but I'd never watch someone do that on the internet either.

Finally, the tournament method is not how I've ever engaged with Warhammer; I've ALWAYS built from a combination of "rule of cool" and Narrative. If a campaign's storyline takes me in a direction where a certain unit would fit, I'll add it to my army whether it's a good unit or not, though perhaps only for the battle. After the preview, I know I'm buying a plastic Arvus and some Valkyrie escorts so that reinforcements can make grand entrances when they are added to my campaign roster. I'd probably build a scenario around it.

That's the kind of stuff I MIGHT be inclined to watch as a batrep, but I haven't found a lot of it. That's what I was looking for in the Scaredcast Crusade series... But there weren't enough episodes and there wasn't enough connection between battle and narrative. He told us what upgrades his units got and talked a bit about their rules, and I think he might have claimed territory... But he never really told you where the battle was taking place and how it fit the ongoing story.

The one part of the Championship I had thought about checking in with was the grand narrative, but I figured that once again, it would focus on the things I was least interested in... the Cosplay and the game play, as opposed to the connection between game and ongoing story. I'm not even sure that there's any kind of campaign progression or escalation rules in effect for the event.

I'm not too clear on the grand narrative. What exactly is it supposed to be?

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
I'm not too clear on the grand narrative. What exactly is it supposed to be?

So it is a narrative campaign that takes place in tandem with the grand tournament. They create NPCs from different factions to represent faction leaders who make campaign decisions for factions at the macro-level. The idea is that all the player armies are fighting under the command or influence of these NPCs. All missions are narrative in nature, meaning that victory conditions may be a little less about standing on objectives placed symmetrically on a board of L-shaped ruins and more about story objectives- escort a dignitary, hold the line against superior fire power so that you army has time to exit via a particular board edge, etc.

The results of all of the first round battles are delivered, and based on those, the NPCs (game masters in cosplay essentially) determine the missions to be fought in the next round... And so on, until the story concludes and the fate of the subsector is added to the GW canon. It think players vote for "winners" in various categories- like Bloodthirsty for best melee, Eagle Eye for best shooty, etc.

I think they could incorporate aspects of escalation and/ or progression as the story proceeds, but I'm not sure they do? I think army construction does allow for some side-boarding (ie. extra models that can be swapped in if they are needed for a particular scenario), but I could be wrong about that too. The most important point is that all the players are there to tell a combined story rather than "win" in a balanced test of skill.

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

 NAVARRO wrote:
yikes I wonder how this thread still going... discussing 3d printing and 3d companies etc on a Warhammer preview show.

Then let's steer it back....Has anyone been watching the rest of the Warhammer World Championships?

There's been some interesting builds... like the 6 C'tan necron list.

aren't all of the C'Tan unique? how does that work?

 StudentOfEtherium wrote:

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

 NAVARRO wrote:
yikes I wonder how this thread still going... discussing 3d printing and 3d companies etc on a Warhammer preview show.

Then let's steer it back....Has anyone been watching the rest of the Warhammer World Championships?

There's been some interesting builds... like the 6 C'tan necron list.

aren't all of the C'Tan unique? how does that work?

The Transcendent CTan aren't unique.

ccs wrote:

 StudentOfEtherium wrote:

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

 NAVARRO wrote:
yikes I wonder how this thread still going... discussing 3d printing and 3d companies etc on a Warhammer preview show.

Then let's steer it back....Has anyone been watching the rest of the Warhammer World Championships?

There's been some interesting builds... like the 6 C'tan necron list.

aren't all of the C'Tan unique? how does that work?

The Transcendent CTan aren't unique.

ah! that'll do it

I thought imperial knights were nasty... I can't figure out how I'd o er ome that list.