NeilT

Often wander past our local Games Workshop with my young kids and they always stop to look at the dragons and knights in the shop window. Had a quick look inside today and there seemed to be an argument going on whether a 5th class wizard is better than an 3rd class orc or something.

Always assumed these places were populated by spotty geeks who spend all day painting plastic figures. Was pretty much proven right today.

So, question is anyone here play this kind of stuff, or know anything much about it? I assume there are massive conventions somewhere every weekend where all these brace souls get together and battle it out.

Neil

Sonic'

I have spent many months working in their Head Office in Nottingham, cool place to work if you ask me

SJ_Skyline

Rumour has it that the webmaster has been known to don the leather loincloth of a barbarian and spend his weekends trying to hit people with a plastic sword in a muddy field...

davegtt

As something to look at I think its pretty smart, the environment and characters used but for using it all to play a game, thats the point I call it geeky

bootsy

i use to be in to it all as a kid

SetoN

I use to like to paint them as a kid. Didnt Warhammer die about 10 years ago?

bootsy

no mate still going strong

EddScott

Me too.

Still got some minatures.







Never very good at painting but enjoyed playing the games.

bootsy

a few of mine

Gav

I used to paint them too. Still do from time to time in the winter when there's nothing else to do! I've never played the games though

StickyMicky

agreed, started with a "heroquest" board game, then i think "space crusade"

and before you know it, one of the lads has this massive warhammer thing setup on wall paper pasting tables in his room and we are all building painted armys for some game, space marines i think i had?

had a tank on display in the shop once as it was painted so well

looking back, i`m glad i discovered girls and motorbikes soon after

NeilT

So, can anyone sumarise, in one sentence or less, how to play it?

Without a squared board (I.e chess) how do you decide where, when and how far to move?

Neil

Sonic'

One of mine

scoobynewbie72

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I worked there for years lol

StickyMicky

depends on the game to be honest


been a long time since i even thought about this but......

some of the games made for the more mass markets do have a board, most dont


basically you need somewhere to play, and you can do stuff like

"if you roll a 6 you can fire a weapon" the weapon might have a 2" blast radius and anybody within that will get points deducted or killed


you can make it more or less complicated by adding various things, buildings to hide in, shelter, different weapons

StickyMicky

geekmode on/


err is that some kind of chaos terminator


geekmode off/






skull white highlights and a black inkwash on the blade perchance?

Sonic'

Close, I used Black, then black ink, then gunmetal drybrushed for the highlights

I used Skull white in the eyes with a 000 sable brush

Its a Librarian from Space Hulk game, although these are the lead 35mm models

Sonic'

I did the Exchange upgrade many years ago, plus a few other jobs there, also a big report between Novell & Microsoft so they could stay with Novell

lordretsudo

Gawd, 'Space Crusade', that brings back memories! I haven't even thought about these in years... I never played that one (it was a little before my time!) but I remember a couple of older lads in the 'group' playing it.

I used to love AD&D (that's Advanced Dungeons & Dragons for the non-geeks ) and Warhammer 40,000. I also played Space Marine and various other Games Workshop games.

I remember how excited I was when the GW store opened in Middlesbrough. They printed money off coupons in White Dwarf (the GW magazine) and I spent several months worth of pocket money on Opening Day. Ah, halcyon days...

Sonic'

The Head Office has (or used to have) a 6 foot bronze Space Marine outside, reception had two big wooden chairs (like King & Queen chairs) for visitors

Upstairs had a great subsidised canteen, and opposite the canteen was a nice big bar, wooden floors, wooden tables, pool tables arcade machines and BEER

Next to the Bar was a huge Fort area for jousting and other tournaments

If you went in wearing a shirt & tie you got sent home for Jeans & T-Shirt

bootsy

[geek mode on] that a gray knight mate[geek mode off]
i use to play talisman,warhammer40,000,bloodbowl,epic,spacemarin e,spacehaulk and i still play dawn of war on the pcplus i buy and sell gamesworkshop books(and other makes) on ebay

Steve_PPP

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I used to be into it all loads as a kid.

Got:

5000 point Blood Angel army in Warhammer 40k
3000 point Empire army in Warhammer
About 20,000 point Marine and Imperial Guard army in Epic. (the little dudes!)

Loads of buildings and terrain i built too. Spent hours on that stuff and painting the figures!

Also used to play BloodBowl, and have the big Warhammer roleplay book in mint condition too. The whole lot is boxed up in my loft and hasn't been used for years now!


<pimp mode on>
Anyone wants any of it, PM me (cheap, but not free!)
<pimp mode off>

Sonic'

I have loads of figures in the garage loft, some painted, mostly unpainted, still have my citadel paints and inks too (although not all of them)

I also have a few of the old White Dwarf magazines too, but I eventually moved onto to 1/5 and 1/4 scale vinyl models, Hellraiser, Alien, Terminator, Star Trek, Predator etc etc

scoobynewbie72

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Ive got a load of "Games day" T shirts, you get weirds sorry " Frothers" from all over the world, They fill the NIA and are all in costume, now thats a eye opener,

Sonic - I was in the engineering dept for about 4 yrs

myblackwrx

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Basically every character has stats

Movement
Weapon Skill
Bow/Ballistic Skill
Strength
Toughness etc

and these related to how the character could move shoot fight and operate equipment according to a list produced by Games Workshop in the manuals.

Perhaps a sentence is not enough

Luminous

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Wow, this does bring back memories. I used to play most of their games at one point or another. I did not really get into painting much, too boring for me. I did do a good job on some models, but did not bother painting most.

I too worked there for a while, did some accounts work for a while. They had a quite a good business model, and the staff (most of them) loved what they did. Although most were not paid that much unfortunately.

NeilT

well, I got as far as the fighting fanasty books (if they count for much) - Warlock of Firetop Mountain, City of Thieves etc - great read/adventure then.

If I could get my head around the rules, had enough time on my hands and managed to get 'geeked up', i'd probably find its quite involving I supose.

Neil

Ian

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i like the dust effect

i use to paint them to, never really played the game. still have lots that are un painted some where, some still in packs as new etc.

have been saying to my self, ill get them out this year and do some more painting...... one day mayb

Luminous

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Those were great books I also liked the Lonewolf ones, but they have nothing to do with Games Workshop.

Neanderthal

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I had Hero Quest and Space Crusade, never worked out how to play it so just made up my own game an 'painted' the characters with OHP pens