28mm Miniature Tabletop Wargaming Thread

Fyff said:

50 people for AoS is more then they had the last couple of years for fantasy.

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I had to fly to do it, but I could have played in a 50 man plus fantasy event every month of the calendar year if I wanted to, even when end times shit was being fed to us in Fantasy. The last year Fantasy was a thing here was my schedule:
January- Waaghpaca in Wisconsin(100+ always sold out within two weeks of sales on tickets in Auguest)
February- Masters (80ish, but this admittedly sucked since it brought out the worst in the community)
March- Broadside Bash in SD, 50+ every year until End times killed it. Bragging Rights Team event in Massive Two Shits was around this time, I believe.
April- Take a pick here: Lone Wolf GT in TX (100+), Adepticon (varied by event), or West Coast GT in Socal (70ish)
May- SAWS in Sacremento (70+) or Slobbernocker in TX (not sure on numbers)
June- Quake City Rumble (always sold out instantly six months in advance with 112 capacity)
July- A month off, but I think North Star in MN was around here and maybe Buckeye Battles with around 60ish.
August- Bayou Battles with 50, in Houston TX.
September- West Coast got moved to here to avoid conflicting with Lonewolf its last two years at 70ish.
October- Yay a month off!
November- Alamo GT (capped at 68, always sold out)
December- Yay another month off!

That's just the shit I did fairly regularly. East coast fell off before End Times buttfucked the scene, but that probably has more to do with their massive urge to suck Eurodick to be involved in the ETC style tournaments. Even then I managed to go to some 70+ event at Atomic Empire in SC the last year or so of Fantasy, purely to say I played a GT in each time zone that year.

The scene was actually doing well, before GW decided to take a shovel to it. It was certainly doing better than AoS _ever_ has as a tournament game. I think GW freaked out when FFG knocked them off of their eternal perch with X-Wing.

Looking good. Loving the base colors on the cultists, especially. Nurgle is so much fun to paint.

Sludig said:

Been amazing watching real world extreme left/sjw type politics inject itself into many of the 40k facebook groups. Big demands for black/women guard/space marines (dont you have sisters already?) One guy got banned because he was defending someone else say a books writing was "spastic" (offensive to cerebral palsy, and someone with it also spoke up in defence of using the word....)

Someone did something silly like this and also resulted in mass moderation etc.

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Not to derail, but yeah the UK cuck SJW crowd has been doing shit like this in the KoW forums. They wanted people tossed from events and possibly pre-emptively banned if they had suggestive female miniatures. When I pointed out that its fantasy escapism, posted examples of the big dong plague demon my wife won a painting award with, and that the women who actually played in these events do not give a shit, they made up some bullshit about women complaining about racy armies at Texas events. The problem is that there are two women who play in Texas events; one is my wife and the other one and her husband are long time friends of ours. Neither women gives a shit and agreed that women simply are not as interested in miniatures games the same way men are not as often interested in certain hobbies. Dude doubled down and then both women called him on it directly. He slinked back to the Mantic FB page (which bans people for disagreeing with the same UK group) and has not tried to bring it up since.

The issue mini gaming has is that it really is (unlike video games) an art form at times and there is not the easy anonymity in the community. Ultimately it is always some white knight dude who never has an answer about how the men are just as sexualized and unrealistic because its escapism. I mean, what kind of pathetic self hating droog fantasizes about being Milton from Office Space as a barbarian? Aside from my stance on SJW issues, I am also pissed because many of my armies are female dominated and not pure titillation crap. Seductive demons should look seductive. Nature nymphs are going to look a certain way. And so on. I mean, I love a good set of tits as much as any normal dude, but when there is a set of them out on the table, its either thematic or a nod to classical art and not entirely limited to female models in my collection. Fuck those assholes for trying to tell me what I can paint and play with.

Some examples of stuff I have that I use in tournaments, but would offend the pearl clutching UK Cucks:

Palum said:

Anyone have a more recent version of whfb material or Army builder that's not gay AoS since last one I played was 4th and 5th ed?

I need like strength value on an empire great cannon and toughness and wound count on a regular giant (hill, I guess).

This TW Warhammer game pisses me off, pretty sure two hits at most with no scatter would plaster any giant.

I'm pretty sure great cannons were like S10 D6 wounds...

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All cannons were made S10 and D6 wounds from 7th edition forward. Giants were always T6 with 6 wounds and have been since 6th edition. Sad I still remember that shit.