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  1.    NiceGuyAdi reacted to a post in a topic: Any other old timers here still?
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  4. Doghouse

    I think I am going to take a break from the hobby, I think forty years is enough and I have more than paid my dues as far as the hobby is concerned. I'm leaving this here just in case anyone checks in and I can still be contacted via the messages as I get email notifications if anyone needs anything.

     

    I think the hobby is going in a direction that I no longer get any enjoyment out of. I've been trying everything I can to embrace or adapt but it's just become something I am beginning to extremely dislike. I don't enjoy modern 40k in the slightest, all the aspects that once captured my imagination have long since been pushed aside in favor of marketing a product to consumers.

     

    I've also been getting a lot of personal attacks of late for some bizarre reason and while I am extremely thick skinned I think I am a relic of a kinder, nobler and more imaginative age of true wargaming rather than modern tabletop gaming. 

     

    From my perspective the hobby has lost it's way, led out into the wilderness by modern GW. I used to talk to people about lore and conversions and now it is all just leaks and rumors of the next product to be consumed and discarded in the pile of shame. The You tube stuff has just become pure GW marketing as well and is just fueling the fires of rabid consumerism. Waiting to see what comes next has become a hobby within itself which is very sad to me.

     

    In the meantime I'm working on my own wargame system and will be putting up complete rules, lore and STL files for free in the not too distant future.

  5.    Doghouse reacted to a post in a topic: The 9 Mks of Power armor
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  8. Doghouse
    I am probably in the minority but I personally think mark ten is a misunderstanding. During the initial interview with Jes Goodwin on the Vox Cast podcast he explained it as the letter X and not the numeral ten with it effectively being a collection of armours. The idea was X was a starting armature point then extra plates were added or taken away to create variants such as Gravis or Phobos. Whether this has been retconned since I have no idea but the idea of it being a project x breaking tradition with the numbering made it fairly interesting and maybe a secret title for GW staff during development. I think the only truely acknowledged missing armour mark is probably the theoretical Imperial pattern mentioned in the WD article covering armour through the Heresy.
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  12. Doghouse
    Love the bare heads, empty hands and the Umbra pistol especially.
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  17. Doghouse
    I think for me it boils down to the need to release of an edition with a big plot hook to begin and end each one to tie in with big boxset release and a Primarch to end the edition. Guess it's Russ this time.
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  21. Doghouse
    Not really no, the bulk of the lore probably up until the rise of Black Library (circa 2008?) was in the Codex for your army and main rulebook. The specialist magazines were more old school alternative rules for existing games in line with fanzines and never really considered mainstream enough to consider 'official' by most players. The naming of the second Legion is a good example in one of them. People used to come to me for advice on making their own army lore or Codex or asking questions and I have never referred anyone to any specialist magazine. White Dwarf articles were mostly reprints of the codex stuff maybe with a bit more of insight from designers and their thoughts. Even Black Library wasn't considered canon at one point but I think the Heresy series probably changed that mentality. I personally think the 2nd edition Codices were best for lore.
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  24. Doghouse
    This may come across as being a bit Grognard but it is my intention that I am being honest in a respectful way from my personal perspective and not bashing what others might love. I think they should have left the Heresy at First Heretic because seeing the rise of the Imperium was genuinely interesting but I really do not need to know all the tiny details that made the mystery of the setting. On the whole I prefer the setting as a sandbox and don't buy into the "you asked us to advance the timeline and we listened" in the slightest, it's blatantly a marketing tool to sell more products which at the end of the day I can't really blame them for because at the end of the day they are a business first. Up until 8th edition I knew the lore inside and out but these days I struggle to keep up with it all. It feels like some modern films to me these days where you have to watch the film, read the comics, read all the blogs, read the spin off novels, I much preferred it when it was all in the Codex and you were left to speculate.
  25. Doghouse
    I think that given the Fists and Sons of Horus are the current poster boys for Heresy it's extremely plausible that he would get a resculpt first.
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  28. Doghouse
    That's not really a new thing though as it's been the same way with most editions, but I think some people are hopefully growing weary of it. My ideal would be a bit of tweaking of the current edition in a similar way to 3rd edition 40k becoming 4th.
  29. Doghouse
    I'm hoping that 30k new edition is more of a 2.5 and isn't going to invalidate all my books I've bought.
  30. Doghouse
    I like making toy soldiers and talking to/encouraging people that like making toy soldiers, that's as deep as I get. I have a regular beard but pretty sure I could dig out an eye patch and shave it into one at short notice.
  31. Doghouse
    I miss the original nostalgia, it was much better than modern nostalgia and cheaper too!
  32. Doghouse
    That is very sad news indeed. Such an influential figure for a lot of people growing up, I wish him and his family all the best for the time that they have left together.
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  34. Doghouse
    Yeah but I buy non-gw stuff without reading reviews as well though. I don't need a review if I buy a new novel by an author I'm invested in or go to see a film I really want to see, that's how we did things before in the days of the internet. We formed our own opinions and tried things and found out ourselves. I'm buying it for myself because I feel that it will be of use and interest to me personally regardless if what any review says so no point in me reading a review for someone else's opinion. It's like I stopped buying 10th edition stuff because I formed an opinion based on my personal experience with the product and decided not to invest any more money into it. I didn't need a reviewer to tell me that, if others do need a review then it's fine. Me buying it or not buying this book isn't going to make even the slightest difference in the greater scheme of things what-so-ever and I have no control over GW marketing. I really do not command that level of influence. I do get the impression though you are not happy with the book in which case I am genuinely very sorry for your disappointment and I sincerely hope next time they make something that you feel is a better product that will meet your expectations.
  35. Doghouse
    The dark side of the hobby is a pathway to many abilities some considered to be...unnatural.
  36. Doghouse
    Only one I know of is Sword N Steele who thinks it was because of her video discussing the female Custodes. I think the issue is that GW don't give reasons they just get their reps to cut people off without explanation making it hard to say if it's because of negativity or just a case of the material they are putting out is not being seen as brand appropriate. Personally speaking I've just ordered the book so will make up my own mind whether it's any good or not, I don't need Youtubers with far less experience than me to tell me the pro and cons of a product.
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