Author Topic: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread (Read 1703014 times)

Dr Mathias · « **Reply #8205 on:** March 29, 2018, 08:19:03 PM »

Quote from: Skyven on March 29, 2018, 07:54:58 PM

Possibly slightly off topic, but does anyone have experience of the Black Library books and the readability of the authors? I'm tempted by the Humble Bundle offer which roughly works out as £11 for 20 ebooks, a couple of which are compilations or omnibus editions.

Writing quality varies tremendously from author to author, but I find them pretty enjoyable if not profound. I have done some conversions based off book descriptions, so I must have found some inspiration there.

What faction or genre are you thinking you'd like to read about?

beefcake · « **Reply #8206 on:** March 29, 2018, 10:26:45 PM »

I just went for the $1 bundle. Solely for Gotrex and Felix. The only thing that made me want the big bunde was Kal Jericho Omnibus.

Mason · « **Reply #8207 on:** March 29, 2018, 11:29:46 PM »

Quote from: Skyven on March 29, 2018, 07:54:58 PM

Possibly slightly off topic, but does anyone have experience of the Black Library books and the readability of the authors? I'm tempted by the Humble Bundle offer which roughly works out as £11 for 20 ebooks, a couple of which are compilations or omnibus editions.

I have not read any GW fiction other than the Horus Heresy novels, since Dan Abnett's Inquisition boks, which are all wonderful, I reckon, and have even survived several culls of my book cases. I reckon I will keep the, for a long time as they are always worth reading again.

I love the Horus Heresy books and would recommend them to anyone interested in a good 'origins' style background to the 40K universe. The books are of variable quality but usually provide good entertainment and inspiration even when they are not as good as others in the series (although I do struggle with just about all of the Dark Angels stuff, to be honest...).

Elbows · « **Reply #8208 on:** March 30, 2018, 02:38:49 PM »

There are some very decent GW novels, including some super old ones (they had some random novels in the early 90's late 80's which were superb). The Horus Heresy, at least the first 5-6 books are pretty damn good.

Abnett is always entertaining, Aaron Dembski Bowden isn't half bad, and Gav Thorpe can do pretty good work on occasion. I picked up a previous humble bundle which was 12 or so of the HH books and read most of them without feeling like I was wasting time doing so.

However, the elephant in the room is that their prices outside of a deal like humble bundle are...borderline comical in some instances. eBooks being $15+ etc. So Black Library gets nada from me unless it's in a humble bundle or bought used off eBay/Amazon, etc.

Ethelred the Almost Ready · « **Reply #8209 on:** March 30, 2018, 10:06:05 PM »

Is this an early April Fools joke?

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-FR/Nazgul-of-Dol-Guldur-Collection-2018

Nice figures, but insane price.

Plynkes · « **Reply #8210 on:** March 30, 2018, 10:20:29 PM »

As Allen Curtis once put it, Forgeworld is not for the likes of us, it's for the children of Russian Oligarchs.

When they get tired of buying football teams, they start collecting 40k.

Coenus Scaldingus · « **Reply #8211 on:** March 30, 2018, 10:25:17 PM »

Just the combined price of the three separate packs. A discount would have been nice, mind you.

Given that it's Forge World, the separate packs are.. probably not that badly priced. Given that a fairly normally sized figure can be 15+ quid https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-FR/Gor-Half-horn-Beastman-Bounty-Hunter-2017. It's just that it hits home a bit harder when you'd buy 9 of them at once. On the plus side, add the Necromancer and Keeper of the Dungeons, and you've got yourself a 1000pts army. My bigger gripe would be that the proportions seems off on most sculpts. Torso, length and thickness of arms.. just not quite right.

Hobby Services · « **Reply #8212 on:** March 30, 2018, 10:55:46 PM »

If I'm converting the price correctly, that works out to about $15.50 a model. Nine unique sculpts, in mid-quality resin, probably well cast. It's more money than I'd spend on it personally, but hardly outrageous. And it's quite a bit cheaper than their average plastic character model for 40K or AoS, many of which are $20 and up.

The paint jobs are laughably simple, but they fit the subject. Nazgul are easy to paint.

Argonor · « **Reply #8213 on:** March 31, 2018, 04:12:08 AM »

With LotR/Hobbit shifting to Forge World I am completely done buying new stuff for Middle-Earth, that's for sure.

nic-e · « **Reply #8214 on:** March 31, 2018, 08:11:50 PM »

Quote from: Coenus Scaldingus on March 30, 2018, 10:25:17 PM

My bigger gripe would be that the proportions seems off on most sculpts. Torso, length and thickness of arms.. just not quite right.

The weird thing is I seem to go back on forth on this. sometimes they look fine then in another photo the same miniature looks like a gorilla armed child in it's dads armour.
I remember when they were released they looked entirely off, then i thought they were fine, then not. Maybe it's me? or maybe the figures are cast in actual wraith resin.