The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[beefcake]

Battletech had mechs with nipple guns years before GWdubs...

No that's the udder sort of nipple guns... I'm so sorry, I'll just go now.

[Condottiere]

No that's the udder sort of nipple guns... I'm so sorry, I'll just go now.

Not a leg man I gather?  How about plus size?

Pinion

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Yep, Ninja marines are huge. Didn't you know?

To steal a line from Barry Norman "small buildings can hide behind them".

[Lost Egg]

Wow...I didn't realise there was such a tradition of nipple guns...hmm do you think that's what Magnus was emulating when he designed his daemon prince armour

[Ultravanillasmurf]

This is probably not the forum, but I had forgotten how some of the Batletech designs managed to be both derivative and rubbish.

Someone has taken a Zentradi Tactical Pod Regult, swapped the hips round but forgotten to change the posture to match.

Gah!

[FramFramson]

No that's the udder sort of nipple guns... I'm so sorry, I'll just go now.

Muhahahaha 

[Condottiere]

Wow...I didn't realise there was such a tradition of nipple guns...hmm do you think that's what Magnus was emulating when he designed his daemon prince armour

Sometimes horns are just horns...

Unlike Gundam's mobile suits Battletech mechs have weaponry attached to parts of the chassis and there are only so many hardpoints: shoulders, chest, arms and a few rear mounted options, some at arse level. I have yet to see a crotch hardpoint*: imagine a twin drum loading projectile firing mount, though with jamming being a random annoyance, expect the usual sympathy talk.    

*IIRC, the Epic Imperator Titan had a crotch gun and if damaged, it lost an attack die!

[beefcake]

Yeah but it was such a small gun all the other titans laughed at him

[Daeothar]

...imagine a twin drum loading projectile firing mount, though with jamming being a random annoyance, expect the usual sympathy talk.  

Sexmachine's hidden gun in From Dusk Till Dawn comes to mind here

Tarantino must have liked it a lot, because the same prop showed up in at least two other movies of his (or Rodriguez's; the line blurs sometimes... ).


Also, I once started on a Golden Daemon squad entry with Inquisitor Draco and his retinue on a scenic base. His squad included Imperial Fist Captain Lexandro d'Arquebus, whose armour was richly decorated. So richly in fact, that it was described as having a rearing unicorn engraved on the crotchpiece (yeah; the guy knew how to be subliminal )

And with Space Marine sizes being what they were BP (Before Primaris), even with him 'biggerized', I was completely stumped as to how to proceed with that. And to think I once managed to paint a full litany, in Latin, on a Space Marine shoulderpad rim! The project kind of faltered from there... Thanks Ian Watson

[Belligerentparrot]

New Blackstone Fortress stuff just a couple of weeks after Warcry - I'm surprised at how quick that is to be honest. GW seem to be on an insane release schedule just now.

Also, have to say the previewed Sister of Battle medic is terrible. A shame, as everything else SoB they've previewed has been OK at least.

[Duncan McDane]

It's too quick to follow. We do/did Necromunda, still do Kill Team once in a while, later this week we're going to start on Warcry, still buying inot Shadespire season 1/2 and in a couple of weeks 3, but just for the mini's, Silver Tower hasn't been finished yet so BSF still lies untouched in the closet ( ok, that sounds a bit, ehm, well..., don't think too much about it    ) and I even haven't really started on 40K or AoS.  .
Ah well, back to the hobby table, glueing Warcry terrain for the upcoming days...

[JamesValentine]

The pose is lazy. Unimaginative. Boring. Static. Lifeless and just gives off a vibe of complete obliviousness to what's going on.

The sculpt is stiff and overly busy.
Somebody just found the CAD "bits box" and threw on everything.

A typical 2019 GW sculpt. No effort because why bother? People will throw money at boring designs.

[Dr Mathias]

A typical 2019 GW sculpt. No effort because why bother? People will throw money at boring designs.

I would be one of those people...

[Blackwolf]

Actually,I rather like it,and the casualty (and the duckies) have lots of potential.

[Lost Egg]

It's too quick to follow. We do/did Necromunda, still do Kill Team once in a while, later this week we're going to start on Warcry, still buying inot Shadespire season 1/2 and in a couple of weeks 3, but just for the mini's, Silver Tower hasn't been finished yet so BSF still lies untouched in the closet ( ok, that sounds a bit, ehm, well..., don't think too much about it    ) and I even haven't really started on 40K or AoS.  .
Ah well, back to the hobby table, glueing Warcry terrain for the upcoming days...

Yeah, there was a time when you could engage with each of GWs games but there are sooo many now and such a rate of releases you'd have to be Elton John to afford it .


I like the idea of the Sisters medic but more as a diorama rather than as a gaming mini.

The wounds on the prone sister don't really look terribly severe...not that I've ever been shot so what do I know...they look like they were positioned low down and to the side so that she can grasp her icon thingy without blocking them. Plus that reaching off to the unseen seems a little William Shatner level of death scene