icemann on 23/7/2019 at 17:46
Having played the tabletop I disagree on 40k being mediocre. Though opinions will vary, and your welcome to them.
For me the only sucky bit, which Fantasy Battle also suffered from, was that 1 game with 2 full armies could go for an entire day or more. Even getting through a single turn took AGES. It is truly only a game for the hardcore. Which I was back then. Nowadays give it to me in video game form and make it faster. And that's DoW 1 to a degree, DoW 2 in others. For example, in the tabletop your hero units could have equipment. In DoW 1 can you do this? Nope. Well in Dark Crusade and Soulstorm sort of. Where as in DoW 2 you can do this no problem + there is a fair bit of gear to choose from.
I think there is many angles to 40k that have yet to be explored that would make for great games. Just takes a good game designer. Epic I never played.
On the painting aspect. Back when I actually played the tabletop as a kid, everyone I knew who played 40k or fantasy battle painted their minatures. I sucked at it, but still gave it a go. If their super small though, yeah that's just too small to paint unless your really damn good at it. Tabletop gaming is NOT for the average person though. It's a hardcore only type thing. For one thing it requires a MASSIVE $$$ investment to build up an army, you need the rulebooks, expansions etc etc. For the battles you need scenery, which costs more, though you can make your own which is what me and my friends used to do. It is not for casuals AT ALL. Hardcore only.
The video games though, hell yeah. Hardcore gamer not required at all.
WingedKagouti on 23/7/2019 at 17:56
Quote Posted by icemann
On the painting aspect. Back when I actually played the tabletop as a kid, everyone I knew who played 40k or fantasy battle painted their minatures. I sucked at it, but still gave it a go. If their super small though, yeah that's just too small to paint unless your really damn good at it.
In Epic infantry sized units (which includes Space Marines) are about 3-5 mm tall each and you have 5-10 on a single stand. They're not small, they're really f-ing tiny.
icemann on 24/7/2019 at 03:25
Same as Epic then.
Pyrian on 24/7/2019 at 04:41
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In Epic...
Quote Posted by icemann
Same as Epic...
Epic is the same as Epic? :confused:
icemann on 24/7/2019 at 05:04
My bad :p.