28mm Miniature Tabletop Wargaming Thread

Especially the drinking.

I worked at a game store for awhile, last year, and we carried WMH, so I also got into playing it. We had asked the local players which they wanted us to carry, WH40k or WMH, and the vast majority said WMH. Even the 40k players told us it made more sense for the store to get into warmachine/hordes, as many of them kept playing only because they had invested so much time/money/energy into the game. It was pretty common to hear them say that GW was just constantly screwing up left and right, and that WMH was a much more affordable game in relation.

I have read the lore of 40k and it's pretty cool, and I can certainly understand why people like playing the game, but the company making the game seems to be doing everything they can to alienate their playerbase for the last 5-10 years. In contrast, Privateer Press (Warmachine/hordes guys) are pretty universally admired among minis gamers as a company. When they changed up the entire ruleset from MarkI to MarkII, they released stat cards for each faction for like $25 that let you use all your old figures with the new game rules. Pretty reasonable, all things considered.

I wish other companies hired good sculptors.

We've been selling the shit out of infinity last month or 2. Going to have to get deeper into it myself so I can sell even more.

Painted this Slaughterpriest today, I'm not a pro painter but liked how it turned out.




Age of Sigmar is really taking off at my local GW store here in Vegas. The guy that runs the store has found some pretty good ways to run balanced tournaments/campaigns and I was surprised to see how many people were showing up to the AoS stuff. The WH40k stuff is still more popular overall at the store. I don't play the game and never have, but I read all the books and will watch some of the games from time to time. I think GW is getting themselves back in the right direction.

So, Warmachine is getting a MkIII. Pre-measuring is coming into the game, which I think is a very good change. Also some good changes for Warjack focus, and huge base balancing.

I am excited for it. The newfags are all up in arms over change. Everything sounds positive to me.

Yea, they haven't release too many details, but everything they have released sounds AWESOME to me.. when you first learn WMH, you expect warjacks/beasts to be a large portion of your army, but for most factions, if you want to be competitive, that is not the case. The MK3 rules are trying to change that by increasing the focus generated and rebalancing points of models. They said 75 will be the new 50 points, but the warjack points your warcaster has is almost doubling (so a 50% increase compared to old point values). Having a warjack start in the control area of your warcaster automatically gives it a focus, and convergence can now induct all focus a vector spend to another one, so the same 3 focus can travel through all your vectors (jacks) if they are positioned correctly. For warlocks, dead beasts still generate fury for you, so late game when all your beasts are dead, you still have some fury coming in.

Basically, all the 'quality of life' issues people have had with the game are being addressed, and it will be more about giant robots/beasts fighting other giant robots/beasts.

They are also going to redo all the models, so you have to buy a new faction deck with new stat cards for like $20, but again no one is upset with this price model. Other games would require you to rebuy most of your models whenever they'd revamp the game like this. $20 seems more then reasonable to update your entire faction.

Has anyone checked outGuild Ball? Their booth was packed at Adepticon and it's exploded in my area over the last few weeks. It feels like Warmachine mixed with Bloodbowl to me.
My starting line-up for the Brewers Guild:

No one here stuck with KoW and the new fantasy rules look good from what I understand. Our last 40k event had 52ish people.

Guildball is getting big here. I tried and it wasn't for me but the models are nice and the rules are pretty tight.

My Morticians attached, im a Pundit for the game so if anyone has any questions I'd be more than happy to answer.

I am REALLY excited for Warmachine MK3 i've been playing since the game was released in Prime Mk1 and i think every iteration of the game has gotten better. Unfortunately i wont make it to Lock and Load this year since its on my wife's birthday but hopefully my ninja shoppers come through.

I'm looking for suggestions for a new game to get into. It's probably just going to be my brother and I playing unless we can convince some friends to play as well. We're both veterans of Warhammer fantasy but we got tired of the convoluted rules and pricey models. So naturally a good rule system and reasonably priced models are a must. Good looking models would also be nice since we like to paint.

I had never heard of Infiniti of KoW before looking at this thread so I think I'm in the right place. Both look interesting with a nod towards Infiniti due to model count. Any other ideas?

sumdain x_sl said:

My Morticians attached, im a Pundit for the game so if anyone has any questions I'd be more than happy to answer.

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I used to play Warmachine right when it became Mark II, I'm thinking about getting into it again. How is the scene these days? I remember when i left it was getting bigger and bigger every day. After stopping by a few LGS's around here it seemed like Warmahordes Kind of fizzled out or stalled since I was playing. It seems like increasing costs/some weird decisions drove some people away from it? Colossals being one of those. Have you been noticing more or less people at Warmachine Weekend/Lock and Load etc etc?

Chersk_sl said:

I'm looking for suggestions for a new game to get into. It's probably just going to be my brother and I playing unless we can convince some friends to play as well. We're both veterans of Warhammer fantasy but we got tired of the convoluted rules and pricey models. So naturally a good rule system and reasonably priced models are a must. Good looking models would also be nice since we like to paint.

I had never heard of Infiniti of KoW before looking at this thread so I think I'm in the right place. Both look interesting with a nod towards Infiniti due to model count. Any other ideas?

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What are you looking for?
Sci-Fi or Fantasy?
Theme important?
High model count or low model count?

Zastlyn_sl said:

I used to play Warmachine right when it became Mark II, I'm thinking about getting into it again. How is the scene these days? I remember when i left it was getting bigger and bigger every day. After stopping by a few LGS's around here it seemed like Warmahordes Kind of fizzled out or stalled since I was playing. It seems like increasing costs/some weird decisions drove some people away from it? Colossals being one of those. Have you been noticing more or less people at Warmachine Weekend/Lock and Load etc etc?

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Warmachine is still growing on the convention scene. I don't get out to the mid-west much but all around the East Coast each convention breaks it's previous year's attendance record. So dar this year Crucible, Captaincon, Las Vegas Open and Adepticon all saw larger numbers then previous years.

Locally for me many people are taking a break on it for Guildball. All the nuthuggers who worship the WTC players (note: I'm not saying Guildball is a bad game, I'm just saying if the only reason you play a game is because you wanna suck Jaime P's dick then that's an issue ). One of the local stores gets 10+ for it's Warmachine night. Everyone is is down to 5 or less.

sumdain x_sl said:

My Morticians attached, im a Pundit for the game so if anyone has any questions I'd be more than happy to answer.

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Those look really good. Here are my crappily painted teams. I love the game. It is very easy to teach new players, while at the same time having layers and layers of depth. Once I get done painting Rage I have a full Engineers team to get started on.