Some of you may know me either from online persona or inperson.. Let me be the first to welcome you to my online rant page. Here is where, I shall post up my inner thoughts about the day to day as well as Warhammer goings.
Ill start with RoW, I think she is dead.. The database is crashed, the host completely useless as far as support or getting it back up. Even the new site I can't seem to get running right. I think the host is just a useless bag of wind. Commissars, HB, Swiss, and other supporters will be reimbursed for the trouble when I get my delayed refund check from the IRS. I may endeavour to get her back up and running sometime later in the year. but as current I simply don't believe she is going to make it much further either way. Viewership was dead, as was postership, and it was riddled with spammers that Swiss and I would spend hours detecting and deleting.
Im currently working on getting my Chaos Dwarfs ready for Quake City Rumble in June. I have to finish building some 14 Great Weapon Dwarfs and figure out what Im doing as far as my Great Taurus. But otherwise most of it is primed and ready for painting.
On the side im slowing collecting an Orc & Goblin Army which I think may be viable. It relies heavily on a special character but, I believe considering the army it won't be much of an issue.
I also came into a Beastmen army and after some revising I have an idea of what I would like to run.. After a few games with what I have available. I find it a very forgiving army in combat but, you have to be very careful during magic and shooting to stay alive.. being and staying in combat is a big point in the army.
I was down at the shop today and had an interesting conversation with some folks about hobbies... As to be expected the price discussion started and the common gripe aboup GW trying to strangle the Online small business with their contract stipulations. I made the whole spiel about how GW didnt want to be supporting online sales anymore as they wanted to be the online retailer for their product leaving you 2 choices in buying... Either though their doors or that of a Brick and Mortar Retail. The true point of the opposing view came in the statement "It had nothing to do with GW wanting to drive sales into stores, It was all about putting out the online discounters who were cutting their profits!" And in that line I saw the real point of the conversation... They were gripeing about the fact that it was hard for them to get their precious online discounts for their products as they were left to ebay or calling in an order to Warstore.
Many of you know my view on this hobby as far as costs. If you can't purchase something with a Food Stamp, You have no stinking right to complain about the MSRP. Its not something you are required to have in order to continue living. So your say in the pricing is about as valid as a frogs opinion of whether his swamp gets filled in for house development. The conversation was driven to a less prevocative subject and different industry so we didnt get yelled at by the owner (I don't blame him, he hears the crap on a daily basis and gets sick of it.) Personally, I think that the prices for alot of GW products are high. Empire Goldswords and Silvergor come to mind immediately but, that said I don't buy like I used to.
In the old days, I would buy an Army in one shot, build it, play it a few games and edit it, Buy more stuff, lather, rinse & repeat. In the end I would end up with an army I liked and 2 more armies that would sit in bitz boxes until trading or selling came to the option board. Now I make a list, I proxy it, play it, edit, make more proxies. and once im finished and have an army im happy with i beginning building it with the unit I know I like. All the while continuing to test and set minor tweaks to the army, by the time im done building. 1: I have a List I love playing; 2: I have the army built; 3: I have an extreme minimum of unused models to account for later and; 4:I spent far less than I used to to develop an army.
My Empire army Cost me in whole to get to a point where I liked it cost me over $1500. I had nearly 2 full armys of models and still have an unbuilt crap in boxes in my bitz.
My Chaos Dwarfs only $380 and Im about 1 Warrior box short as it stands.
Well thats a Long enough rant for now... Im off to Install Windows 7 Ultimate on my notebook to get rid of the evaluation version's nags.
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