Etna's Vassal

I can't help it, I DETEST plastic. Yet I play Monsterpocalypse (as pre-painted plastic as it gets), so I'm a total hypocrite. Then again, I consider Monpoc to be a collectible boardgame, so that's my excuse and I'm stickin' to it. When I pick up a centerpiece model (giant, dreadnought, warjack), I want it to have some heft to it! A plastic mini going *thwip* as it's hitting the table as it moves in nowhere near as pleasing as the mild *thunk* you get from a metal mini. I have a Forgeworld Death Guard army, and I actually feel let down every time I pick up their cases, not because the army was so ungodly expensive (dumb investment there), or the fact the army book is awful (and it does suck really badly)- but because the cases are so damn light. It doesn't feel like a billion dollars worth of minis, it feels like an empty case! My 15mm armies are more satisfying to move around because you can FEEL the mini in your hands. I'm ranting now, so I'll let this train of rage-filled thought go. Suffice it to say, even if it is more expensive, metal all the way. If plastic costs the same as or is more expensive than metal (*coughgamesworkshopcough*) I quit buying the product.

Yeah, but where's the Legacy of Solomon? That thing looks terrifying.

I love the game myself, but I'm waiting for Anima Studio to finish sculpting all the stuff for Saga I & II before I touch Saga III. Where are the Gears?!?!?! Also, I still need to stop forgetting to buy "XII". He's Bad@$$.

Well, I'm a big fan of Etna (the main character's second in command) from the tactical RPG "Disgaea: Hour of Darkness". There's a line one of the Prinnies (serial killers' souls sewn into stuffed penguin bodies) throws out at Laharl (The demon "overlord")- "We're not Laharl's vassals, we're Etna's vassals!", to which Laharl replies "Etna's vassals ARE my vassals!". That exchange stuck with me, so I'm Etna's Vassal now.

Heh. I just sold all my armies on eBay, and re-invested the money into MalifauX and other toys. A great way to stock up on crews, I must say!:laugh: All that remains of my G.W. stuff are my Daemons and my Wood Elves. It really cuts down on the temptation to play those games.

Sorry, I guess I did... I tend to not consider a thread dead until it falls off the first page. Whoops.

Well, I still play WHFB on Mondays, and I have a friend I can get a regular game of WARMACHINE in with. I also run bi-weekly Monsterpocalypse tournaments, but as soon as I can get a freakin' game in I'm positive MalifauX will be a top contender for my time. My FLGS does have a group, I just need to not get jerked around by my friend next Tuesday in order to stsrt playing. :vb_mad2:

This is indeed a beautiful rulebook, but in terms of beauty, it ranks a solid third, in my opinion. #1, by a vast margin over any rulebook I have EVER seen is the Anima: Tactics Saga 1 & 2 book. It just plain blows everything else out of the water. Quick, simple rules, fluff on every character and generic model's page, followed by the game mechanics of how the given models' abilities function in-game. Every rulebook designer could learn something from this book. Oh, and the art is beyond top-notch. #2 is any HORDES / WARMACHINE book after Prime Mk.1. Take your pick, they all look very, very nice and are very well organized. Mk. 2 takes it to a new level. #3 is our beloved MalifauX. The only place this book loses out th the other two is in the art and layout department. This, however, is just personal taste, so you could sort of consider #2 & 3 interchangeable based on your own preferences. ...But that's just my opinion, and I could be wrong.

Don't forget hedges in the more well-to-do areas. You can just fold over a strip of green scouring pad and then either flock it of drybrush it with a lighter shade of green. I suggest flock, as the drybrushing only seems to turn out acceptable at 15mm scale. This guy shows the drybrushed results, so just double the thickness, adjust the height, and coat with glue and flock instead of paint. There you have it, and for only pennies a hedge!

Gotcha. Water + paper, no matter how nice, = Very Bad News. Now, do you have any advice on repelling ferrets?

*Best Dr. Evil voice* Are you... Ill tempered? Someone had to say it. Seriously though, welcome aboard from a fellow noob!

Welcome to the site and the game! :wavey:

I grab cheap little cross charms from craft stores, snip off the loop up top, and sink them into some "green stuff" to make my grave markers. After a bit of primer and paint, they look like lovingly carved wood. I'll see if I can post some images of my corpse markers (made using this system) at some point, probably around the time I finish my "total package" (universally usable) board gets finished in a week or two... I may not be able to paint toy soldiers, but terrain on the other hand, I know kung-fu.

I'd say have it teleport from one place where LoS can't be drawn to another place LoS can't. Either that, or severely limit it's teleportation range. I'm very strongly for it not being able to move, and being pretty much stapled to the ground (no propping him up in buildings, his stake has to be driven into the ground. It's an area denial piece, so make it cheap (1 or 2ss). It shouldn't be a severely game-altering mini, but a thematic, useful model to burn that last 1 or 2 stones you don't really need in your cache. All that having been said, he should have a BRUTAL defensive trigger. It'd just make failing to hit a sitting duck all the more hilarious!

As far as I'm concerned, if the model isn't painted it looks weird on a fully painted and flocked table. To me, if a model isn't painted, it isn't done. Especially in a small skirmish game like this, Song of Blades and Heroes, or Anima: Tactics, there's no reason I shouldn't have my 6-8 minis fully painted. Now, I'm not going to say that anybody HAS to paint their minis, I just prefer to have everything resplendent in their full colors, marching across a fully decked out- modeled and painted wooden board (I have this thing against mats). Don't get me wrong, do as you will with your toy soldiers. I won't tell you to do otherwise. When it comes to my minis, however, if it ain't painted, it ain't taking the field. This is part of why I tend toward 15mm "army" games with lower model counts (DBA, HotT),as it's so much easier to finish an army in a weekend or so (Magic Dip rocks, no matter what any body says). I also don't proxy (as I only tend to buy minis I want to paint), but that's another discussion. +++Elitist Grognard Out+++