9 views and only 1 reply! poor response people...

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im not a fan of d&d but Uplink is... GW games arent board games tho, you play them completely freely on an open table and so arent constrained in any way except for the scenery you choose to use. The thing is though its not just about the gaming, its also abou tthe other parts of the hobby like painting and modelling which can all be very relaxing and enjoyable...

BTW jag theyve changed the rules again but i hated the previous ones cos they allowed a unit to shoot any nid unit they liked - now if they wanna do that they need to take a leadership test...

ya but 1 small toffee hammer and a whole nid , orc , sas , spanish armarda and the hounds of hell armies would all be smashed by a small child if the need took the said youth ........ i can c its relaxing painting the models and maybe in a raincoaty way even sticking green foam onto twigs for trees might be concieved by some to be worthy of time spent on late wet evenings but i just cant get used to the idea of lining them all up and making swooshy sword or bang bang noises for guns n flicking a orc down whilst talking too yourself about the forth coming anhilation of the "table top" foe. Its just plane .......

WEIRD.......

My sentiments too.

Plus its a bit of a chequebook hobby isnt it, my £15 orc beats your £4.50 wizard nuh nuh nuh.

or something along them lines...

i wouldnt agree with that neseccarily greg. It could be to an extent but generally speaking most armies cost about the same amount to purchase and the way the game is balanced you are only allowed to spend a certain number of points on each type of thing (troops, artillery, special characters, etc) and both opponents get the same number of points, so in theory if you both have the same number of points to spend you should have an equal chance of winning.

Alot of it also comes down to tactics. I hadnt played 40k in about a year and played against alistair (uplink) in a small 400 pt game (takes about 40 mins) and he had WAY better stuff than me, I basically had all basic troops (that was all he had in the house for me to borrow) but he had a tank thing and some v powerful characters but I managed to overwhelm him by pure strength of numbers... ie the more dice you roll, the better your chances are of doing some damage! Amusingly, the entire game came down to a sequence of two dice rolls whereI needed a 3+ followed by a 4+ and managed to get it, it was very amusing as i had expected to get hammered...

hear what you're saying and agree with the bit about it being multiplayer gaming without a computer

guess its each to their own isnt it really.