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[Idiom]

They are fun. And whatever original threads on them are ancient.

I saw some WH40K and WM kits on sale (5 whole dollars off!), and I know some local people that play both. I thought it would be fun to try.

I hear WM is better if you want a hardcore game, and WH40K is better if you want a hardcore hobby, yes? WM seems a lot cheaper too.

Whatever happened to MechWarrior? I remember that was huge at one point.

[Org]

40k FTW!

Expensive=Sort of

Fun, and Good(Unless getting into an argument about rules(happened to me(the other guy was wrong(he also then forfeited the game)))).

[Sowelu]

What's WM and FoW?  I've heard of the others.

I think Mechwarrior was more popular before the PC versions came out, and people said "Oh hey this is way more fun".  Megamek is a PC version of the mechwarrior tabletop, a very precise and faithful translation of all the rules, except it takes 1/3 as long to work through the mechanics and less filling in bubbles.

[Org]

What's WM and FoW?  I've heard of the others.

I think Mechwarrior was more popular before the PC versions came out, and people said "Oh hey this is way more fun".  Megamek is a PC version of the mechwarrior tabletop, a very precise and faithful translation of all the rules, except it takes 1/3 as long to work through the mechanics and less filling in bubbles.

WM=Warhammer
FoW=???Flames of War???

[Sowelu]

What's WM and FoW?  I've heard of the others.

I think Mechwarrior was more popular before the PC versions came out, and people said "Oh hey this is way more fun".  Megamek is a PC version of the mechwarrior tabletop, a very precise and faithful translation of all the rules, except it takes 1/3 as long to work through the mechanics and less filling in bubbles.

WM=Warhammer
FoW=???Flames of War???

If WM is Warhammer than what's WH?

[Org]

Oh! SOrry, it is Warmachine.

I play 40k, used to play LOTR.

[Sowelu]

Now that I think about it--would anyone be interested in playing some Megamek?

I suck at it pretty bad as I have no tabletop experience.  I tried playing in one of the automated RPG-ish leagues, where you get cash for playing battles to buy new mechs and upgrade your old ones--that was seriously cool--but I was just too awful at it to keep up.  I would like to play against more people sometime.

(EDIT: As mentioned above, it is a computer referee for Mechwarrior tabletop that is fully faithful to the rules and makes it easy and simple to play online.  I think it's Java based, haven't poked at it in a while.)

[Org]

Never heard of it. Rather play Necromunda/Gorka Morka/Inquisitor.

[inaluct]

There was some sort of 40k warhammer wargame thing about a city that got smashed by a giant meteorite and was crawling with mutants, or something. That sounded good. It had rat people.

[Org]

Mordheim.

That was WH, not 40k.

[inaluct]

But they're basically the same thing anyway, right?

[IndonesiaWarMinister]

But they're basically the same thing anyway, right?

Heh,
40K is much more over the top.
Really, it looks like planet buster bomb are everywhere. And every day at least 1 billion people get massacred.

[inaluct]

Hey, you know what? We could do a forum play-by-post game of one of these things. We could just draw maps and little unit guys in paint, or something. I'd totally be down to play that Mordheim thing. It has room for more than 4 players, right? Like, 16 or so?

[Idiom]

Hey, you know what? We could do a forum play-by-post game of one of these things. We could just draw maps and little unit guys in paint, or something. I'd totally be down to play that Mordheim thing. It has room for more than 4 players, right? Like, 16 or so?

Digital pictures of your army deployed.

IE We each start with a picture of our armies at different ends of the table. Morph all starting pictures together. Next guy takes a picture of his new unit positions and photomorphs it with the previous image of the last guy's movements. A dynamically changing overhead shot of the game with every turn.

Actually, now I'm thinking....
Forum-top gaming? Some kind of ACSII(?) based program that can take in an encrypted (no cheating now!) string of code, and output the image of a battlefield. Make your moves, finish your turn, and the easy AHK generator automatically posts your code for the next person to make his move. AHK to auto-pickup new posts and download the battlefield, and recognize when it's your turn....

I need to take up programming again.

Spectators could tell program to go through thread and play out turn by turn the game to watch...

I REALLY need to start programming again. Itch.

[Org]

Use ASCII Draw. Easy to use.

My god emperor. THis will be epic. Cept one thing. We need a referee. Someone who has all the codices...Aqizzar does IIRC.