>Got any models left from it?
Yes. I have a whole unopened Junker starter set and some other stuff. I mainly played VASA so I have some old Shoguns and their Bubblegum Crisis-like dudes. Some basic troops, too.
Really wish I'd gotten into Viridians. Dino riders are cool as frick.
You can buy the models and books from Seb Games. They have most of the models but not the dino riders. They say they are coming soon
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Indeed. I follow them. Just very little reason to get back into it because I'm an old boomer whose wargaming friends are scattered to the wind, so have to be fairly focused with what I still do play with my remaining bros.
The publications and settings are alot worse but the hobby is alot better. The paints and tools. The guides. Gaming spaces. 3D printing.
I'm moronic too so beginners rules are a great help nowadays.
Clubs vary for area. I guess I miss the days when clubs would make hazard stripe grey bunkers to play in.
I remember getting my mom to renew my subscription to WD around this time, I remember this issue. Back then they gave you like 45$ worth of minis when you signed up? I got a tau fire squad and a crisis battlesuit, good times. One of the armies I painted, never used and ended up giving away.
It got worse when the Trannies put Warhammer on their map. And I don’t mean trannies playing, painting and generally enjoying the hobby. I mean the coordinated troony Discord Campaign ti make GW as pozzed as possible.
The Female Space Marines is a perfect example of the problem. They got Sororitas and still wasn’t enough, because it never was about the models for them. It’s about poisoning the hobby the way they did with MtG and DnD.
Gw is luckily, for the rest of the hobby that is, basically a giant lure and filter. The troons flock to gw because it's popular and the rules are easy, and better and more obscure games are saved.
GW literally wages an anti-piracy campaign on their old material like WDs,
think about that, theres no reason for them to do that, they are old out of print mags.
The reason they do it is because they don't want people to know how much better their old hobby used to be.
I liked it a lot more before ‘nerd culture’ became a hot trend and GW became the hyper predatory listed company it is today. It’s lost a lot of it’s goofy charm for me.
is it really your first wd or did you just buy it and stick a note on it claiming.
Its really interesting to me theres been this massive uptick in pre-90s "fans" despite them being silent for 20 years. Coincides with GW also shilling their pre-90s stuff
Yes its really my first WD. I also still have my copy of Rogue Trader and models that date back to the mid 80's. Somewhere in my collection I have Citadel models so old that they pre-date slottabases.
Here's a hint: in Sydney, Australia back in the mid-90's there was a gaming shop called 'Atlantis Games' on Pitt St. I loaned a bunch (as in, 6 years' worth) of White Dwarf magazines to the gaming club upstairs in return for ongoing membership. One of the guys that ran the shop, Dennis, hung himself upstairs because he had an unrequited thing for a narcissist b***h named Chaedy who was also working there. Anyone who is even remotely connected with gaming in inner city Sydney between 1990 and 2000 will verify this happened.
The shut down sadly and I never got my WD's back. This one I kept for sentimental reasons.
I find it funny that stranger things, riverdale etc. really have upped on the spooky dungeons and fantasy interest and gw still looks like the applestore compared to their former look.
I mean look at how the wd logo changed, people actually want that style now and gw is missing the boat with it
>GW was actually good and cared about the hobby >>then: rulebooks and armybooks were full of guides on how to build terrains, kitbash etcetera. Now: GW charges $50 for three fugly plastic trees, official AOS rules ask that you use 'official models' for terrain.
, Epic, Warmaster, mail order for individual pieces and sprues >>LOTR was about to come out in a couple years, along with those sweet sweet magazines >Confrontation was still kicking >Dark Ages still kicking >Hell Dorado wasn't technically still kicking (because it wasn't a thing yet) but at least it existed in the future rather than in the past
White Dwarf magazines are really boring looking now.
Can you see the soul leaving the body?
Far worse. 3rd edition 40k and 6th edition WFB was the peak of GW/mass market wargaming.
On top of that there was actual "competition". You could play void or vor or warzone if 40k didnt steal you in (for sci fi)
I played both VOID 1.1 and 40k. VOID was badass.
I only found it in Covid, making some small armies. Not expecting to ever play it but it's a compelling game. Got any models left from it?
pic is from a void tournie from 2000 I think
>Got any models left from it?
Yes. I have a whole unopened Junker starter set and some other stuff. I mainly played VASA so I have some old Shoguns and their Bubblegum Crisis-like dudes. Some basic troops, too.
Really wish I'd gotten into Viridians. Dino riders are cool as frick.
You can buy the models and books from Seb Games. They have most of the models but not the dino riders. They say they are coming soon
Indeed. I follow them. Just very little reason to get back into it because I'm an old boomer whose wargaming friends are scattered to the wind, so have to be fairly focused with what I still do play with my remaining bros.
🙁 I missed it all
Is that a jar of lemon curd
The hobby is far better as a whole, but GW is a shadow of the GW of 2001.
in what ways is it better, not disagreeing but curious
We have infinitely more choice, plus rules have come a long way since the old days.
There has always been a lot of choice, more legitimate imo no?
Yeah but now we have all the old stuff as well as an absolute deluge of new stuff which has built off of lessons learned from the old stuff.
I can only speak for 40k, which is currently better for WAACgays, but worse for literally everyone else
The publications and settings are alot worse but the hobby is alot better. The paints and tools. The guides. Gaming spaces. 3D printing.
I'm moronic too so beginners rules are a great help nowadays.
Clubs vary for area. I guess I miss the days when clubs would make hazard stripe grey bunkers to play in.
I remember getting my mom to renew my subscription to WD around this time, I remember this issue. Back then they gave you like 45$ worth of minis when you signed up? I got a tau fire squad and a crisis battlesuit, good times. One of the armies I painted, never used and ended up giving away.
It got worse when the Trannies put Warhammer on their map. And I don’t mean trannies playing, painting and generally enjoying the hobby. I mean the coordinated troony Discord Campaign ti make GW as pozzed as possible.
The Female Space Marines is a perfect example of the problem. They got Sororitas and still wasn’t enough, because it never was about the models for them. It’s about poisoning the hobby the way they did with MtG and DnD.
Gw is luckily, for the rest of the hobby that is, basically a giant lure and filter. The troons flock to gw because it's popular and the rules are easy, and better and more obscure games are saved.
This. It's like the lead shield around a nuclear reactor.
GW literally wages an anti-piracy campaign on their old material like WDs,
think about that, theres no reason for them to do that, they are old out of print mags.
The reason they do it is because they don't want people to know how much better their old hobby used to be.
I liked it a lot more before ‘nerd culture’ became a hot trend and GW became the hyper predatory listed company it is today. It’s lost a lot of it’s goofy charm for me.
is it really your first wd or did you just buy it and stick a note on it claiming.
Its really interesting to me theres been this massive uptick in pre-90s "fans" despite them being silent for 20 years. Coincides with GW also shilling their pre-90s stuff
Yes its really my first WD. I also still have my copy of Rogue Trader and models that date back to the mid 80's. Somewhere in my collection I have Citadel models so old that they pre-date slottabases.
Here's a hint: in Sydney, Australia back in the mid-90's there was a gaming shop called 'Atlantis Games' on Pitt St. I loaned a bunch (as in, 6 years' worth) of White Dwarf magazines to the gaming club upstairs in return for ongoing membership. One of the guys that ran the shop, Dennis, hung himself upstairs because he had an unrequited thing for a narcissist b***h named Chaedy who was also working there. Anyone who is even remotely connected with gaming in inner city Sydney between 1990 and 2000 will verify this happened.
The shut down sadly and I never got my WD's back. This one I kept for sentimental reasons.
I find it funny that stranger things, riverdale etc. really have upped on the spooky dungeons and fantasy interest and gw still looks like the applestore compared to their former look.
I mean look at how the wd logo changed, people actually want that style now and gw is missing the boat with it
wargaming is in a better place, Warhammer isn't
Worse, obviousl
That was definitely a golden age.
>GW was actually good and cared about the hobby
>>then: rulebooks and armybooks were full of guides on how to build terrains, kitbash etcetera. Now: GW charges $50 for three fugly plastic trees, official AOS rules ask that you use 'official models' for terrain.
, Epic, Warmaster, mail order for individual pieces and sprues
>>LOTR was about to come out in a couple years, along with those sweet sweet magazines
>Confrontation was still kicking
>Dark Ages still kicking
>Hell Dorado wasn't technically still kicking (because it wasn't a thing yet) but at least it existed in the future rather than in the past
there was a golden age for GW it was between late 90s to the end of BFG and Mordheim.
The other stuff like Dark Age and Hell Dorado was a sort of seperate Golden Age for independents.
>Is the wargaming Hobby better or worse now than then?
yes