Overlapping chitinous plates and hivemind insectoid alien swarms have been created by GW first and everyone else after that copid from them, even if their works were published before GW existed.
END OF STORY.
Anyyone who claims anything different is a liar and shall be excluded from The Hobby (tm).
Ah well, the pricing has already largely excluded me from The Hobby(TM). I do buy a box of wood elves or something every now and then. The cheap stuff. GW introduced me to kit bashing, only not the way they intended!
I miss the old days of buying Ral Partha figures for "red box D&D" and "AD&D"- the games everybody had but didn't actually play exactly) with lead in them. I also had a Traveller Box, and a Star Frontiers Box. Some of my friends had Top Secret boxes or a Tunnels and Trolls box, and one even had a Runequest Box and a Gamma World box. I don't think I actually PLAYED anything until ElfQuest(Basic/Chaosium) and Marvel Super Heroes (FASERIP) came along. Yay Licensed crap! They were both in boxes too! Remember when Game Boxes were a thing?
Then I bought Battletech which technically was a board game (also in a box!). But it had ral partha minis too instead of color standees.
Then I got into Cyberpunk 2020, Mekton, and focused on that sort of stuff. (not in a box! Boxes were suddenly old fashioned!)
I got GURPS and bought some specific sci-fi setting books for it. I never had a copy of Rogue Trader, though I looked it over. I think I finally bought some GW stuff for the Space Marine/Titan Legions game. I bought a lot of that crap. But it was a $50 bix box back then with three metal vehicles for $6 or a box of a whole mixed plastic "force" for $15. And the add ons for Space Marine came in boxes! And they had these addictive force building cards that you could lay out like a flow chart to prove that you were not a rotten dirty cheater!
I read some White Dwarf issues and was surprised to find out that it no longer had info about OTHER games anymore. It was no longer like Nexus magazine.
Eventually I bought the 30 beakies for $20. I bought Space Hulk. I bought Advanced Space Crusade (the suckier later game that MB had nothing to do with MB that came with the some plastic scouts and Tyranid warriors). Then I got into DP9's Heavy Gear and Jovian Chronincles. Eventually I bought a box of third edition 40K and I think that's when I stopped playing games. Not sure why. I know there was a new edition of Space Marine and that I wasn't that interested in it. I played a few games of Magic the Gathering and decided that it was not for me. Then I sold my crap and just wandered off for a while. I think I probably got into PC games an console games then. I stopped reading comics and paper backs during that period too.
I got into Warmachine when it was still a few box sets and one book. Warmachine sort of devolved into a game about denying your opponent his turn either by jumping down his throat on the first turn or by nerfing his force every round, and that frankly made it a less than fun game. All the stomping and throwing and wrasslin' moves and critical volleys never really happened. It was all dodge-> dodge-> nerf-> feat-> charge. Now most of my Warmachine stuff are converted into half assed late Post-apocalyptic "rebuilding a new world" guys. I ignored the Hordes stuff mostly.
And now I mainly buy warband type stuff for skirmish games often in the form of junk off of e-bay and dollar store toys. I mostly play very beer and pretzel 'easy to play' stuff like Song of Blades and Two Hour Wargames Chain Reaction stuff.
But I still miss the old buying D&D monsters from Ral Partha days.
13 February 2008, 02:54:01 AM