Oct 7, 2006

Click play. Enter the Old World.

What follows is apparently a video. Yes, again. My mind is apparently numb. Can't write much more than introductions to stuff other people created. Stuff like the War Painter Warhammer video, posted @ YouTube by ssakamoto. As for me, I'm going for a drink. You just watch this. Mind the sound effects.



Related @ Gnome's Lair: Blood Bowl the novel and the forthcoming game, White Dwarf issue 1, Colbert on RPGs

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16 comments:

  1. Unknown10/8/06, 3:45 AM

    .......ahmm how did he know he lost? he still had most of his pieces on the board........

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  2. Anonymous10/8/06, 5:08 AM

    Always interesting reading here Gnome. Congrats on the PR 5 from google. :)

    I could have sprayed them all black in about ten minutes. lol :)

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  3. gnome10/8/06, 7:28 PM

    Well, Mr. Elderly, perhaps he'd lost his most (point-wise) expensive pieces, or his general, or his standards... It really wasn't very clear though...

    Tom, glade you liked it and thanks for the PR update. Hadn't noticed really.... Oh, and please don't just paint stuff black...

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  4. Unknown10/9/06, 1:24 AM

    ....so they don't have to skirmish to lose pieces...... right there's my understanding blown righ out the window.. so you could theoretically lose the game, before you even skirmish? presuming there is such thing as skirmishes.....

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  5. gnome10/9/06, 1:00 PM

    Well, I'm pretty sure they simply didn't tape the whole game... It should have lasted (being a 1000 points match) something like one full hour...

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  6. Unknown10/10/06, 3:18 AM

    That was pretty amazing.. .. Is he the main creator for the game pieces or is that just his hobby..???

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  7. Unknown10/10/06, 4:08 AM

    hey an hours reasonable, i could do an hour.... so in the course of a "normal" game they do meet in mid battlefield mano et mano....?

    (prepares next question.......)

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  8. gnome10/10/06, 5:15 PM

    Nope, he's just a normal gamer. Well, as normal as gamers get...

    And no (again) there is no need to actually beat up an opponent. Suffice to crash (metaphorically) his army...

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  9. Unknown10/11/06, 4:30 AM

    damn.... much different than i had imagined.....

    (checks question list...four hours later, have been bombarded with question after question, elderly realises gnome has had enough....)

    just one last question then.....

    so someone has to go first! having positioned your army with a carpentery slide rule.... i pick up the 2 dozen dice ands i throw.....

    how do i know what the dice represent, is it a total score of pairs of triplets or quadruplets of numbers im looking for?

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  10. gnome10/11/06, 8:08 PM

    Well... dice do tend to represent quite a bit of different stuff.. think RPG.. Wait a minute... Is this a true question, or are you just mocking poor gnome again?

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  11. Unknown10/12/06, 4:28 AM

    (pulls funny face stick tongue out at Gnome.....) this is my messing face

    :P

    (pulls solid learned wise elderly face.....) this is my serious face

    :1


    the video left so many questions unanswered.... i thought i had an idea how the games were played, i really haven't a clue.... so im presumeing i can read a number of different criteria in the dice rolls... pairs/totals/number of sixes.... am i close? am I? huh?

    :1

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  12. gnome10/12/06, 11:07 AM

    Well, unfortunately no... Not very close... You see this is nothing like a miniaturized version of dice pocker...

    Here's an example of dice use in Warhammer:

    Unit A consisting of 5 Horsemen attacks unit B consisting of 15 nude witch elves. Each horsy-rider combo has 2 attacks, thus 5x2 dice are thrown to declare how many times the attackers hit. Then a number of dice equal to hits are thrown to see how many wound. Then the defenders throw dice (equal to wounds) to save...

    Clear enough?

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  13. Unknown10/13/06, 2:41 AM

    ..wow thats neat..... so say the horsy guys throw say 5 wounding dice, the defenders throw 3 saving dice ergo two naked witchies get killed or wounded... i'm assuming they all have a certain number of hit points then?

    .....plus why would you want to attack a naked witch... you'd be a frog seconds after you missed......

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  14. gnome10/13/06, 1:02 PM

    Well, you could try killing the (daemonic but alluring) witch... They are also usually priestesses of Khaine, the God of Murder, and their frog-turning abilities are rather poor...

    Oh, and everything (besides the very few heroes each army has) has 1 hit point.

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  15. Unknown10/14/06, 4:43 AM

    wow, simplicity!!!.... so first to go is pretty important... okay i'll shut up now, and wait another tabletop battle post......

    hmmm strange...don't see no bunnies..

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  16. gnome10/14/06, 2:47 PM

    Nope. Thread closed, bunnies left.

    After all Warhammer is all about movement, positioning and getting the charge...

    :)

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