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I agree. Having 5-10 unique characters on the board, versus 50 faceless grunts is a lot more fun. I can easily justify spending an extra few hours painting each guy when there are a handful of them that all look different.

I have been a long time "skirmish" game player. I never really got into the large "army" sized games (save for some dabbling in micro-armor, a few games of 40k and 1 or 2 games of Warmachine). I think the reason that skirmish games have gotten a lot of attention lately is because there are more and more high-quality skirmish games being produced. Malifaux and Pulp City are two games that come to mind. They both have well written rules and good looking minis to boot. On the horizon there are several other games due out that will continue this trend (MERCS and Bounty come to mind). I think there is some burn-out with large army based games. Army games tend to have a power creep, making what ever the newest army (or codex) the most powerful. This encourages tournament players to spend more money, in hopes of winning the next tourney. Whereas skirmish games release new characters/ minis to encourage adding new "flavor" to your warband. IMO, skirmish games are, and have always been, the better gaming style. You can get into a game for a low cost (usually $100, or less, gets you a rulebook and 10 or so minis) and be playing relatively quickly. After the initial investment, you only need to buy 1 or 2 minis a month, if you so choose, to continue building your army. I think this is better than dropping $600 to build a competative army... only to scopp 10 minis that you spent 50 hours painting, after the first turn.

I don't understand the Canadian language either. So confusing. :blah:

For thos of you who have never experienced Snow, here you go: How's that for an obscure early 1990s reference?

Maybe with a resin mini? I agree looks awesome, but it may not translate well from the green to the finished product.

Very cool.

Why are the folks at Aberrant working harder on releasing terrain for Warlands and not doing much in the way of releasing minis? The game is fairly new (early 2009 if I remember correctly), yet there are virtually no minis for it. Other than the box set (and individual blisters of the vehicles from the box set) there are what, 1 or 2 "other" vehicles out? Yet here they are, releasing terrain... I am no business man, but this just seems like poor planning to me. That said, decent terrain.

Definite miss. What's with the penguin make-up on the girl? Did she learn to put on lipstick from Buffalo Bill (Silence of the Lambs) <It rubs the lotion on it's skin>

Good thing you didn't. You'd be getting a cease and desist letter in the mail for infringing on their IP... then they would require you to remove the skin their IP image was tat'd on.

I agree. They are nice and straight foward minis. I see no need to over-scuplt them, as they are not fantasy or sci-fi minis. Nice clean lines, straight forward and not overly "done". Just wish I had a use for them... beyond painting for the sake of having fun.

I am not normally an anime guy, but for some reason I really like the Soda Pop minis.

Another fantastic Pulp Figures creation. I likey.

The Samurai is friggin awesome. The rest are nice too, but wow, the Samurai is friggin awesome. (In case you couldn't tell, I really like the Samurai)

@Bugking, I didn't realize having your nickname tattoo'd was nerdy... cause I have had "Maple" tattoo'd on my arm since I was 17. Crap... I guess it is kind of nerdy.

I consider the first 5 years of my tattoo-ing to be geeky, cause I only got wall flash back then. So I have had to spend the last 10 years getting them covered up with stuff that I actually like.