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Title: Squad Level Turn Based Tactics Steampunk Battles.........!!!!!!
Post by: undercovergeek on July 11, 2013, 07:58:28 AM
No, i did not decide to write down all the things that make Gus moist in one sentence

It is here:-

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/07/11/warmachine-coming-to-pc-with-warmachine-tactics/#more-159988
Title: Re: Squad Level Turn Based Tactics Steampunk Battles.........!!!!!!
Post by: Gusington on July 11, 2013, 08:05:34 AM
I am now moist in the loins. Moreso than I was five minutes ago.
Title: Re: Squad Level Turn Based Tactics Steampunk Battles.........!!!!!!
Post by: LongBlade on July 11, 2013, 09:55:38 AM
Hmm.

Wish I had $5k to throw away so I could get my likeness on one of the spellcaster's faces. Then Gus would really have a problem.
Title: Re: Squad Level Turn Based Tactics Steampunk Battles.........!!!!!!
Post by: Tpek on July 11, 2013, 10:02:37 AM
 :) ;) :D ;D >:( :( :o 8) ??? ::) :P :-*

Finally a TURN BASED adaptation of a tabletop miniature game!
Title: Re: Squad Level Turn Based Tactics Steampunk Battles.........!!!!!!
Post by: spelk on July 11, 2013, 02:17:59 PM
Sold!
Title: Re: Squad Level Turn Based Tactics Steampunk Battles.........!!!!!!
Post by: Nefaro on July 11, 2013, 02:20:16 PM
Quote from: Tpek on July 11, 2013, 10:02:37 AM
:) ;) :D ;D >:( :( :o 8) ??? ::) :P :-*

Finally a TURN BASED adaptation of a tabletop miniature game!

Surprised it's not a first-person shooter?
Title: Re: Squad Level Turn Based Tactics Steampunk Battles.........!!!!!!
Post by: TheCommandTent on July 11, 2013, 07:04:51 PM
It looks cool but seems like XCOM in a different setting.
Title: Re: Squad Level Turn Based Tactics Steampunk Battles.........!!!!!!
Post by: Steelgrave on July 11, 2013, 07:06:22 PM
^And that's bad....how?   8)
Title: Re: Squad Level Turn Based Tactics Steampunk Battles.........!!!!!!
Post by: Gusington on July 11, 2013, 07:22:26 PM
Looking more closely at the art style and it looks very much like a Warhammer title. Not that that's a bad thing but the look is very very close, almost identical to WH.
Title: Re: Squad Level Turn Based Tactics Steampunk Battles.........!!!!!!
Post by: TheCommandTent on July 11, 2013, 07:29:02 PM
Quote from: Steelgrave on July 11, 2013, 07:06:22 PM
^And that's bad....how?   8)

Not a bad thing just an observation. :)
Title: Re: Squad Level Turn Based Tactics Steampunk Battles.........!!!!!!
Post by: Tpek on July 12, 2013, 01:04:24 AM
Quote from: Gusington on July 11, 2013, 07:22:26 PM
Looking more closely at the art style and it looks very much like a Warhammer title. Not that that's a bad thing but the look is very very close, almost identical to WH.

Warmachine is actually a very established miniatures games that's been giving Games Workshop a run for their money.
Title: Re: Squad Level Turn Based Tactics Steampunk Battles.........!!!!!!
Post by: GJK on July 12, 2013, 07:44:30 AM
Warmachine is (somewhat) cheaper, supported, widely distributed and NOT from  Games Workshop.  Yes, it is a WH40K clone but not a WH40K  killer.
Title: Re: Squad Level Turn Based Tactics Steampunk Battles.........!!!!!!
Post by: Tpek on July 12, 2013, 08:06:23 AM
^ No longer much cheaper.

When the creators at Privateer Press started it, they advertised it as a somewhat-indie game, that will not be a silly money grab like the GW games.

Since then, prices have consistently risen, while quality falls. If once all the models were high quality metal, now they are cheap plastic.
New books keep coming out and when they finally run out of an idea for a book, they redo the entire edition, over and over and over again.

The only thing that currently seems to make them different from GW in business practices, is that they are still willing to have their products internationally sold.
Title: Re: Squad Level Turn Based Tactics Steampunk Battles.........!!!!!!
Post by: Arctic Blast on July 12, 2013, 05:10:16 PM
Quote from: Gusington on July 11, 2013, 07:22:26 PM
Looking more closely at the art style and it looks very much like a Warhammer title. Not that that's a bad thing but the look is very very close, almost identical to WH.

Not surprising. War Machine is a competing minis system that has exploded over the past couple of years.