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Wilytank 
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 Topic: Traditional Role Playing Games (NOT cRPG!)Posted: 15 Apr 2013 at 12:24pm |
Bumping just to say that Tau just got a new codex. I've only played a small game with them so far, but according to my sources, they seem to be itching closer to being broken now. |
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 at 10:24pm |
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Speaking of 40k roleplaying, a guy at one of the clubs started up a Black Crusade game. I didn't join though because it was by invite only and fuck Chaos.
And I say there's plenty of atmosphere in the tabletop version. There's something satisfying in imagining those little moments during the game. Like during an Apocalypse game where the Necron character Anrakyr, The Traveler used his special ability to take control of an Eldar Titan to blow some shit up; and then, like something out of God of War, he assaulted it and basically climbed up and shoved his halberd into his head and 'sploded it.
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 at 5:05pm |
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Nothing can beat a good storytelling game session - with engaging plots, dramatic twists and atmosphere as good as in any gangster movie (we're playing in New York of the 20s, players are dealing with the mafia, corrupted cops, prohibition and obviously supernatural phenomena
 - and, what should be noted, they themselves are not humans). Personally, I can't see anything entertaining in miniature war games. Although I know people who enjoy it. I'm just more into interactive storytelling and good atmosphere than strategy, battles and collecting figurines that cost fortune.
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 at 3:56pm |
I hear ya! Yeah, the pen & paper games ala D&D (Dark Heresy) looked interesting to me. If you have a really good game master I could imagine it being loads of fun. The minature war game looked pretty cool too, but judging from a few videos I watched online, I don't know if I'd be able to get into it. I don't really want to take a gamble and spend a bunch of cash and not really dig it. At the same time I feel that the videos don't really do it justice and it's one of those things that you got to actually participate in to enjoy. |
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 at 2:50pm |
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You definitely should. I've been a game master since 1999 and I love this to this day (although I don't have enough time to play regularly, life is not that easy anymore once you graduated from school). I'm not doing it the way I used to when I was a kid, obviously - stories have become more complicated, multi-dimensional and cinematic but the fun is always the same. Try it out, sir!
By Warhammer 40K do you mean Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader?
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 at 12:21pm |
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I have always wanted to try out some tabletop rpgs but I doubt there's much of a following where I live. Warhammer 40K looks particularly interesting since I played a few of the strategy games out for PC.
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Posted: 19 Nov 2012 at 8:41pm |
I would like to point out now that that tactic doesn't work anymore because guess what: In 6th edition, You can't assault on the same turn you come in from outflank or deep strike!  |
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Posted: 25 Aug 2012 at 5:26pm |
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You should ask my brother about the time a lone remaining gaunt accidentally killed his HQ crisis suit. Hilarity ensued.
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Posted: 18 Aug 2012 at 12:43pm |
I had a rematch against the same guy last night. Put up a much better fight, but the store closed with him in the lead 4-3. He had some special Forge World Crisis Suit HQ with a couple of wing men in Crisis Suits and drones in a single unit. On the first game, he deepstriked with them as soon as he could and murdered my Long Fangs (Devastators). This game, they couldn't get in until turn three and the Long Fangs made all their armor saves, though my Rune Priest wasn't as lucky. But I had a better idea of how to win against him. Long Fangs bring lotsa firepower on his Fire Warriors along with my Grey Hunter's rapid fire bolters before assaulting to finish them off (wiped out his Stealth Suits and one of his Fire Warrior squads with minimal casualties this way, though my Blood Claw squad were reduced to 1 and their Wolf Guard). I tried using my Wolf Scouts with a meltagun against his Devilfish and destroyed a weapon before they (the scouts) all got killed.
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Posted: 11 Aug 2012 at 6:16pm |
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Overwatch really made rapid fire weapons really frustrating for those on the receiving end for this edition. I'm going to need more Long Fangs (Devastators) and complete my Wolf Scouts. Wolf Scouts can do better than Outflank; they've got Behind Enemy Lines so that I can deploy them from reserves on any table edge on a 3+ including the enemy's side (1 is automatically left side, 2 is right) and Space Wolves have Acute Senses. Now that I got my meltaguns in, I can finish my five scouts.
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 at 10:48pm |
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Against tau you just have to outflank and deepstrike like mad... and they can't even touch you.
2 weaponskill because lole Just be glad he wasn't running a rail-centric army, those are the worst Edited by Triceratopsoil - 10 Aug 2012 at 10:49pm |
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 at 9:54pm |
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I played two games of 40k tonight. First was a Crusade with four objectives against another Space Wolf player, so we had some Wolf on Wolf action. I ended up winning, which I felt good for having only been my first full game (second actual game). The second game was Purge the Alien against a Tau player and I lost. Miserably. Every single one of my Space Wolves was killed, and the Tau player didn't lose a single unit (all of seven of his models died). Tau are fucking obnoxious when they fire Overwatch with rapid fire weapons. Almost all of my assaults got shut down because of them.
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Posted: 28 Jul 2012 at 1:42am |
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I love playing against Imperial Guard with my nids. Just outflank with my genestealers and deepstrike all my monstrous creatures right on the opponents tanks, and he can't do a damn thing.
The above applies double so to Tau, which is my brother's army |
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Posted: 27 Jul 2012 at 10:45pm |
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Played my first ever 40k game tonight with the 6th edition rules. My Wolves were outnumbered (teammate had an armored Imperial Guard team taking up the majority of the points), but we managed to kill things quicker than him (2 Chaos Marines dead from Bolter fire before he killed anything with his tanks' guns) and my Blood Claws wiped out an entire squad in close combat and sweeping advance earning my team the First Blood victory point. Store closed before the game officially ended since the Imp. Guard guy took so damn long shooting things with his tanks, but it was close.
I picked up that Rune Priest Terminator that you see in the above post and have already assembled it. Next time the Wolves fight, that thing is going to kick ass.
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Posted: 10 Jul 2012 at 9:42pm |
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Actually, by now I can safely say that I am swept up by Space Wolves and 40k lore. I've got most of my basic paint (blue-grey, red, yellow, black, gun metal, and flesh paint) on five Grey Hunters and five Blood Claws. I haven't put an excessive amount of time into detail and I don't know if the local game shop guy will let me play (at least team up with another guy's larger army) without flocking them, but I am really eager to start playing.
There are so many other things I want to do already, but I need to have restraint. I have three Wolf Guard and some Wolf Scouts that I haven't painted yet and plenty of parts I haven't assembled yet. But, I've already have my sights set on Lukas the Trickster, Wolf Guard Terminators, Space Marine Bikers to convert into Swift Claws, Space Marine Devastators to convert into Long Fangs, and this badass:  Rune Priest in Terminator armor. You may have also noticed my avatar is now Ragnar Blackmane's company marking.
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Posted: 16 Jun 2012 at 7:26am |
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Posted: 10 Jun 2012 at 8:10pm |
What's the matter? Are you a Tau player?
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Posted: 10 Jun 2012 at 7:27pm |
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Posted: 10 Jun 2012 at 7:05pm |
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I hear that they're releasing a new rule book in a couple of weeks. Which is fine because I still don't have an army.
I think I will pick up a Space Wolf battleforce this Friday though. I got to New Jersey the following week, and I could glue them together when I'm there.
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Posted: 28 May 2012 at 10:06pm |
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I've watched a Tyranid vs. Tau fights. They're fucking scary. Once the Nids swarmed the Tau, the Tau were fucked and done.
 I saw them lose to the Orks though, so the Orks must not be the worst army.
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