The Gaming Den

Novels written by the rules designers they aren't paying to write rules anymore are not licensing income. That's why I mentioned "Black Library novels" and "licensing income" separately. But hey strawman's all you've got? Bring it on junior. Novels aren't even a great money make...

Checking out 40k space book groups it does seem like most people are novel readers... because all they talk about are primarch's and only mention non-humans as punching bags for their favorite chapters It's less "seem" and more of "some Horus Heresy books have actually made the NYT b...

No. https://investor.games-workshop.com/our-business-model/ We have a simple strategy at Games Workshop. We make the best fantasy miniatures in the world and sell them globally at a profit and we intend to do this forever. Simple, but every part of this statement is important. We make things. We ar...

@Zinegata- thats a damn stupid article, like most of the shit on BoLS. GW has been a bizarrely specialist company for years (especially compared to its origin), and Asmodee is by and large a distributor. They've got a completely different business (and while that map is amazing at lying with facts,...

The other thing to realize is that GW is actually getting crushed by the boardgame boom. Take a look at an old article that compared GW to Asmodee (aka The Boardgame Empire): http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2015/01/games-workshop-vs-asmodee-tale-2-companies.html Asmodee had, in just a year, overtaken...

As to whether it's selling more models or not, or which lines are or are not selling well, I can't say. GW doesn't release actual figures and routinely lies to the public to make whatever the latest thing sound like the hottest thing. Everything is always selling like hotcakes until they aren't sel...

I'm honestly convinced that had they done the AoS rules with a few tweaks (and... points, because honestly, the fuck?) and kept the old setting, it would have done fine. But instead Sigmarines warred for a year over infinite planes with no people, places or thing to care about except the gates to t...

Warhammer Fantasy AoS was pretty much dead on arrival to begin with. That the Warhammer Total War computer game was a smash hit (and probably a bigger contributor to the sale of models than the actual tabletop rulebook) by specifically ignoring the AoS bullshit should demonstrate how the old fluff w...

And... April. Late April. Roughly 6 months between shitty and shittier releases involving minimal effort sure points to a healthy product. D&D, and tabletop RPGs as a whole, are dying because they haven't been able to transition to modern design; in favor of re-treading nostalgic favorites. Pro...

I have a hard time getting too mad at the total war series though. I mean, it's hardly perfect, but at least it was sorta cool that bringing some light cavalry to the party in Shogun II's campaign mode made it easier to kill the shit out of routed enemies rather than watching them limp off and just...

Skirmishers moreover are not really unit type to begin with Uh... Rome certainly thought of them as a unit type. They had a name for them and everything. Velites. -Username17 Moreover the Velites were a strictly Republican era institution when troop types were determined by personal property qualif...

Yeah, 40k lives in this weird space where people are usually trying to care about skirmishers and heavy infantry again instead of looking at modern recon teams. Like, we're not even talking about voltigeurs and grenadiers as if we were trying beat Napoleon here, either, we're legit talking about di...

A more abstract means of stealth is the 40k 7e Genestealer Cult's "Ambush" and "return from the shadows" rule https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Warhammer_40,000/Tactics/Genestealer_Cults_(7E) Basically any cult unit far away enough from the foe can enter reserves and then next turn you r...

First, there was nothing surprising about how many good games were released -- the answer is "more than I will ever have time to play". We are in the golden age or boardgames, where the guy what owns one of the two FLGSes complained to me that there are now more good games than he has tim...

So with all the usual misery and hubub about RPGs (and because I'm terribly bored today) I decided to write up on some developments on the boardgame scene. It's been a surprisingly good year. First, let's get the trash out of the way. Seafall was released this year and was supposed to be the second ...

The inherent problem with stealth mechanics in a two-player game is that all the chrome isn't going to be able to simulate the fundamental strength of being hidden - the opponent doesn't know where your unit actually is . This is why pretty much every stealth mechanic in every minis game ever is jus...

You know, Abaddon gets a lot of flak from the fandom... He gets a lot of flak from the fandom precisely because Chaos wankers keep pretending he's not a complete idiot like everyone else in the whole 40K roster except for a couple who are lucky enough to have been in an Abnett novel. And given that...

I played it and don't recommend it highly either. The premise is interesting but it simply never feels like you're the Resistance fighting an all-mighty Overlord that has already conquered the world. It does end up being more of "move one stack around" instead of a 4X, which unfortunately ...

Actually the point of the "Pro-Peace" guide isn't to say that War Clans are actively bad. The point of the original guide is that you want to avoid being aggressive early on, because as you noted in item #2 your enemies will tend to attack you a lot during the Fire Season. Taking a War cla...

I never called for a faithful remake. Then why are all your complaints comparisons of old Xcom mechanics to new ones - based on your faulty remembering of how old Xcom actually played? Again, the reality is you're part of the crowd that didn't want a "remake". You wanted an expansion of t...

You are a fucking idiot, I have a team of 6 Psions and a team of 2 Rangers and 6 SHarpshooters, I never fucking moved Overwatched in my life. I even tried to double move then Threat Assesment my Sharpshooters once, that sucked because apparently they only get shitty pistol covering fire overwatches...

Why are you so bad at this? Because I'm not bad at it. The problem is you are so fucking retarded that you keep focusing on the word "fair" when the context is that the complaint about the mechanics is that it's unfair to the player . Every single fucking retard quote from you ignores the...

Phonelobster, you realize your picture of a mere 4 aliens has them all inside the UFO yes? https://crpgbook.wordpress.com/review-index/1994-x-com-ufo-defense/ What I actually said earlier was the following: The only time aliens bunch up is inside a UFO or in specific rooms in base missions. The vast...

I found screen shots of 4 and 5 aliens. Oh yes you claim to have found a handful of examples so you are now saved from the embarrassment of Google - you know a website that can't care about this little spat - showing zero examples with more than 3 on any given screen by a completely objective searc...

I was right wasn't I these are second hand canned group think arguments you got from modern XCOM fan boys aren't they. Nope, this is you being stuck in the 90s . X-com has moved on. Design has moved on. And you are still misremembering what old Xcom actually was: http://www.abandonwaredos.com/publi...