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so I was a'looking at some other post and noticed people talking about +6 swords and the like, which got me thinking about warhammer.
Has anybody here ever player it or, more importantly, plays it now?

P.S. I am referring to the fantasy battles only, I played a limited number of the other games but will always prefer fantasy.

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Originally posted by Tyrannosauruschex
so I was a'looking at some other post and noticed people talking about +6 swords and the like, which got me thinking about warhammer.
Has anybody here ever player it or, more importantly, plays it now?

P.S. I am referring to the fantasy battles only, I played a limited number of the other games but will always prefer fantasy.
Is there any way to play it without the little figures? That was the only reason I never played... I didn't have 7+ bucks for each little dude plus the time or skill to paint them.

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there is a nice trick to really cut back on the painting side: spraypaint them all black, then get a paintbrush, dip it in a silver paint, rub most of the paint off the brush so there is just a little residue on the bristles and then just wipe it all over the model. It is known as drybrushing and will highlight all the raised surfaces but leave those lower dark, thus creating an armoured effect and is very quick an easy.

As for the models, ebay is a good place to get them, although they can still sometimes be a bit pricy there - best thing would be to just get an army book, create an army that you think would be good and get a few models for that - fill the gaps in your ranks with any toys you can find that look suitable and you are ready to go.

The only last piece of the puzzle is finding somebody else who plays the game, as they are usually a rare find.

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Originally posted by Tyrannosauruschex
there is a nice trick to really cut back on the painting side: spraypaint them all black, then get a paintbrush, dip it in a silver paint, rub most of the paint off the brush so there is just a little residue on the bristles and then just wipe it all over the model. It is known as drybrushing and will highlight all the raised surfaces but leave tho ...[text shortened]... iece of the puzzle is finding somebody else who plays the game, as they are usually a rare find.
Been years since I played Magic... and decades since I played D&D. We used a good system called Roll Master (base 100, everything was based on percentages)

+25 for Roll Master was +5 D&D... that made it nice since instead of +4 or +5 you had +20,21,22,23,24,25.

Good times... outside of when you killed your friends character he's had for 3 years and you try to give them one last chance to save themself and they roll a 3 and you have to call them dead.

Tears were shed that day.

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I was into this in the mid 70's.

I was introduced to FRP via a game called Tunnels & Trolls
which pre-dated D & D.

I gave up active Chess in 1982 to run a Fantasy Games & Chess Shop
in Edinburgh for 10 years.

Used to have a team of school kids who painted up the citadel figures
for me. I paid them 50p a figure and sold them for £2.50.
They called me Fagin.

In the mid 80's a German student came into my shop telling me
about a computer program he had written for storing your chess
games on.

Was I interested?

"Nah. sounds crap." says I

That guy went to on to start FRITZ & DATABASE.

True story.

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At the Fresher's Fair at Bristol Uni this year, I was signing up for the chess society in a small room which was basically "misc." societies. There were others in there too like Bridge, Chinese Chess and Hot Air Ballooning (apparently it's big in Bristol). Anyway, while I was in there, the Warhammer group made some comment about chess being a game for nerds.

Now I've no axe to grind or anything and I'm sure Warhammer fans see beauty in their game as I(/we) do in chess, but that really was a bizarre case of pot calling the kettle a nerd.

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Originally posted by Meadows
Now I've no [b]+6 axe to grind or anything and I'm sure Warhammer fans see beauty in their game as I(/we) do in chess, but that really was a bizarre case of pot calling the kettle a nerd.[/b]
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Originally posted by cadwah
Fixed
Haha! Like it!

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I played Warhammer, Marvel superheroes, Magic, and Starfleet Battles.

I don't remember much of it all, as i played most of my time playing the last two while stoned, and the first two were usually played while saying "ooh, isn't Knightmare a cool game. Elite uses too many buttons" 😛

We had a cassete tape with Shout at the devil on one side, and Last Command on the other......Warhammer music.

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Sheesh! Anybody here heard of girls...?

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Originally posted by divegeester
Sheesh! Anybody here heard of girls...?
None of these guys can get past level 1.

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