Warhammer 40k Boxed game Arrived!
At last!!! The spanish version of Assault on Black Reach is mine! :D
I've just started reading the rules and assembling the miniatures, but I'm not in a hurry now!
Apart from the basic box, I've bought a counter set (pretty and cheap for marking statuses, objectives and vehicle speeds, and a Dark Angels components matrix (curiously, it is not only cheaper than the Dark Angels Veteran Marines, but also contains twice the pieces/models!). With them I can build a veteran squad and customize some of the "default" space marines that come in the box.
For this month probably is enough (assembling and starting to paint all this miniatures is a long task), next month I'll probably buy more paints and maybe a miniature or two to enlarge the Orc army.
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Long, Long time ago...
Its been nearly 13 years. 13 years since I evolved from playing Space Crusade to finding the full Warhammer 40.000 universe.
Years without painting nor using miniatures to play mighty battles.
Years without improving my Dark Angels Space Marine army.
But it is time to go back, to return to roots. To enjoy painting and that feeling of disconnection, of calm and peace I used to have when I was younger...
I've ordered the fifth edition of the game, the boxed set with miniatures. With them, I will probably have points for something around a 5.000 points Space Marine army (way too big for normal battles ;) and almost enough orks for a decent Ork army (I will probably buy a few more miniatures to have a full army).
I've already got some basic Citadel paints, brushes, cutters and glues to start painting again.
I've got new work to do (more than 50 new miniatures to paint)...
And old work to finish (at least two scuadrons and the commander of my space marine army, and most of the orcs from the second boxed edition of the game!).
But I'm thinking also of starting a new army (a third one, counting the orcs as the second), I don't know if a Tyranid army (I got lots of genestealers) or an Eldar one (I love the miniatures, Falcons and Dreadnoughts). Difficult choice... any comments?
Note: I've got some old posts pending to be written, with logs of more roleplaying sessions. I promise to do it ASAP!
Been busy lately...
I've been quite busy lately, with my change of job, some "hardware work" on my house and having small holidays. But now that everything is getting normal again, I hope to be back posting frecuently.
This past weeks I've been reading a lot of comic books, some old ones I already had, some bought either in comic stores or in my small trip to Barcelona.
The three most interesting comic books I've read are this:
A world in which mouses live in a medieval society in hidden cities, guarded from cats and other dangers. A group of guardians, seeking trails of a traitor. A DnD-like adventure, with beautiful drawings.
It was a bit short but I liked it anyway.
Warhammer 40.000: Damnation Crusade
My first introduction to Warhammer 40k novels, in this case a graphic novel. It narrates some battles of the Dark Templars Space Marine Chapter against Orcs and Chaos (mostly, few other races appear).
Drawings are ok (but not incredible), but it reminded me of my childhood painting my Dark Angels miniatures. Narrative is "a-la-Warhammer 40k", super-humans blindly fighting for the Emperor with unbreakable faith and courage.
Comic book adaptation of the great novel. I was impressed of how exact text were. Drawings are in black&white but not bad, and help to transmit the fear and hopeless atmosphere of the story.
Recommended if you liked the novel.
Also, this weekend I took from my mother's house my old Gameboy and all the games I had with it. Among them, was one RPG I started but never finished, The Sword of Hope.
The game is a typical turn based, static screen RPG, with battles like Final Fantasy games. Story is typical, enemies are typical and battles are (typically) a bit too often and boring; You either die almost 100% sure or crush the enemies, depending on your level.
The interesting part is, being as limited as the original gameboy was, how developers put on the game a full RPG. I'm finishing it to see how big it is, but right now this are my thoughts:
- Combat is too simple: Attack or use spells (each level you gain more, usually more powerfull ones), or use healing items.
- Enemies are dumb: Sometimes they fight each other, sometimes they even hit themselves with spells, and there is few variety of them.
- Inventory is quite limited too: Just a maximum of 7 of each item (3 bits of data ;), just 255 gold (8 bits of data ;), you can only buy better armor (and I hope swords too later...), and you usually carry at most 2 or 3 special items.
- Level cap is 31 from what I've seen in the www, and you only have dex., stam. hits, mana and resistance points/variables.
Here are some screenshots:
As I said, the game is a bit limited, but excepting the tiring leveling up, fun to play.
Extra: Just released, the Wow Talent Calculator for the Wrath of the Lich King expansion
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Warhammer 40.000 MMORPG announced
Warhammer 40.000 universe has been announced.
Seems that we're living in the era of "convert anything into an multiplayer online game".
I hope they don't screw things up, because the MMO based on Warhammer Fantasy is yet in development too. Time will tell...
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