fo4 has a much better color palette compared to the older fallout games (LOL GREEN BROWN FILTER LOL), but fallout in general, probably because of the 2d iso roots, is super focused on silhouette readability, which i love

fo4 also does a fantastic job with enemy attack animations because there are so many but they blend so well you know exactly what is going on

unfortunately that readability in style is a bit lost in some of the minis

if they had an idle dogmeat throwing a chew toy teddy bear up into the air tho... lol yessssss

stylistically i do like fallout 1 quite a bit. it's visually interesting in a way fo2 actually is not (whole other thread)

and even they spring purple and yellow at you now and again

but 95% of it is still shades of brown. tan and brown, everywhere

i am sure a large part of it is just the resolution you played it on back then, versus upscaling to a giant monitor these days

also... crts

also because the perspective in fo1/2 was isometric you also had line of sight... mechanics

so darkening areas your character/party had no direct line of sight to could focus your attention. it mattered less that everything was a busy mess because your brain could ignore all the darkened areas

The final four minis from the warfare two player starter set

One zetan and three wastelanders

One of them is holding a stimpak! I think...

The other minis I ordered should be here on saturday

That zetan is the odd man out color-wise...
I might actually wanna wait on the alien until my white paint arrives...
me, idly wondering how hard it'd be to etch "fuck the emperor" on a space marine pauldron

i've been informed that orks are basically fungi ๐Ÿ„๐Ÿ„๐Ÿ„

i will assemble the most ragtag group of renegade motherfuckers

yeah atm on team orks atm
"just let me die and turn into some spores"
oh 40k has space dwarves
i just feel like, given an alternative, you should not go around half naked in the 40k universe
y'all motherfuckers need to wear your helmets
space dwarf power armor looks way cooler than space marine power armor
there is a canon lore story of an ork named taktikus

people keep trying to tell me modern warhammer lore is crap and old stuff was better

anyhow i'm reading about the pervert class for dnd in the first issue of white dwarf this morning

aw yes a game based on starship troopers... the book
how old is ffg anyway
be warned
lol
ever had a hard time naming something cc @Supervinh47
looooooooooooooooooool @DarkestKale IS SO GONNA REGRET BEING ALL LIKE YOU NEED TO READ WHITE DWARF BUMS
a weregamer
there sure was a lot of slavery in 70s wargaming
why is rapier the only weapon in quotes
i mean these are pretty good odds
they're describing an entire class and socio-economic system of birth and shit
i mean it was so obvious
alright my goal was to actually crack through these issues and hit warhammer lore fast and the alt text is slowing me down so... seeya later
i'm sorry, i need to post this

in issue #87 of white dwarf (before rogue trader released), they ran an interview with the design team (for warhammer fantasy roleplay)

it's a medieval fantasy game. white dwarf even published a little adventure to play with it, and it's just a straight fantasy game

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fast forward to white dwarf issue 93, and the front cover is warhammer 40,000 rogue trader: full sci-fi space marines blasting everything lol

and the space dwarves? THOSE FUCKERS ARE STILL MEDIEVAL IN QUILT ARMOR AND SHIT

those poor bastards got like no sci-fi reboot till recently

no wonder the tyranids ate them

reboot space dwarves don't seem to be raging assholes tho so i feel like gw gonna spring a fast one in the future lol

turn them into every other shit faction

they're just space dwarves with functioning stcs that wanna mine shit?

stop worshipping tech as gods tho you weirdos

at first i was like oh finally a faction that can make shit

and then it turns out they just have stcs

perfect video i can potentially dig for material to annoy @DarkestKale with xD
looooooooolololol
what if i make a little quilt tabard and pin it on them
honestly the actual squat minis back then were... not suuuuuuper far from the reboot either
every time i see palatine i think palpatine
wow these old minis were... rough lololol
today is "how does ork/sob belief warp reality" day
Warhammer: Royal Mail issues stamps to mark game's 40th anniversary

Warhammer is a fantasy theme game, described as "a British institution and a global success".

BBC News

hear me out, what if i drink while painting

i'm afraid i'll accidentally drink paint water tho xD

HRMMMMMMMMMMMMM lol
i am buying this at some point lol

oh the come pre-painted too? damn

good price

gateway drug

GATEWAY DRUG

they have a wendigo but it does not look like a fo76 wendigo

it's part of a different series, not sure what for

someone stop me i'm going to end up spending more money on terrain and buildings than minis
*sobs quietly*
i feel like the building setpieces would facilitate mini play more than the big vault interior(s)
the astro mart seems to do both fairly well tho ๐Ÿค”

i feel like i should try and build some of this myself first

that way when i fail i'll think "ninety bucks for that is a fucking steal"

alright imma paint those 3 settlers

prolly not the zetan till i get that white paint

This is normal right
I knocked out the two women super fast but this half naked dude is giving me a lot of trouble lol
@worthlessbums We should all be whipping linoleum.
@worthlessbums No Bums don't do it. Buy a laser cutter and build your own!

@kaynSD @worthlessbums don't listen to Keith, Bums, Laser Cutters aren't good for this!

...

What you ACTUALLY want is an emulsion printer, which are hazardous and fiddly, but perfect for miniatures work!

@worthlessbums Okay. Jokes aside now.
Do not buy more miniatures until you have done the following:
- Painted what you have
- Played with them at least once, or put them in a nice display case

@kaynSD bruh

i already have more minis in the mail

looooooolololol

@worthlessbums Why dos that kinda look like Stargate Command?
@worthlessbums tbh, Iโ€™m surprised I havenโ€™t heard of Nottingham putting on some big event about it. Prime Notts history is Games Workshop.

@worthlessbums short answer? The 40K setting is even more spiritually connected than Dune or Star Wars is, and they all tap into the impossible power source that is the Warp.

Orks are all mildly psychic bioweapon fungus with genetic memories and an impossible pain tolerance. Used to be in funnier times that theyd literally be able to do the impossible like use crude 2x4s with the word SHOOTA om the side as guns but thats been pushed aside in favour of them just being all a little bit psychically linked (and it all manifesting as a terrible coherence, like a highly dangerous pub crawl meets football riot called a WAAGH)

Faith in 40K directly taps into the Warp and its not just the four Chaos Gods that live there. The Emperor's fractured consciousness is there too. HOPEFULLY that is what is answering the prayers of the SoB, which are otherwise indistinguishable from other unsanctioned acts of dangerous psychic phenomena from other humans in the Imperium.

@worthlessbums (it totally isn't the Emperor. He was/is an atheist and hated organised religion and has better things to do with his time in a coma, like keeping the Warp space lanes open for humanity to use so that the Imperium doesn't lose all its FTL capability. It is likely just the pure power of all those humans believing in something and everything being mildly psychic that causes Miracles to happen... and presumably there are just as many backfires happening as with other psychic fuckery but with more supervision any side effect gets stamped out far faster)