Pet peeves: The return (Part 3)

I have!

Was trying to collect all the bonfires there 2 days ago

They trashed it, total war got to make a successful series of games regardless and GW had regrets so itā€™s coming back.

A bunch of warcraft is demonstrably based off old fantasy warhammer stuff but pop culture osmosis makes it a controversial issue.

Thereā€™s plenty of aspects of it. Are you interested in the actual tabletop game, the setting of it or the general history of the franchise?

The table top. How does it work?

Have you got through the puzzle in Ordina? If not, uh, make sure you bring the special torch. Or have very sharp eyes :eyes:

After that and the Waygate, wellā€¦
Mind the step.

I hate black knife assassins.

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Whoever gave them instant, non-telegraphed, super damaging grab attacks that you canā€™t break out of?
I hope unpleasant things follow them from now :angry:

Their boss also has a hole in her arena that you can fall into.

We do not mention the A word.
She can stay in that gaol for a long, long timeā€¦

From what my brother told me:
Spend way too much money on little figures that you have to put effort in to make look good
Discover that painting them is fun and creative
Alternatively: Borrow some from the place where you go to play it
Hang out with a bunch of nerdy nerds shouting over a table about rules only one person really understands
Quietly wonder why thereā€™s always at least one guy there who thinks this is a very, very manly hobby and yes he will get super strange when there is woman
Also sometimes you get lucky and someone made these really great and detailed maps to play on

Opposing players bring the models of their armies to the table. They agree before the game on the number of points each player is allowed to field, with each model having a point value. A type of battle is decided, objectives and terrain are set up on the table and the models are deployed, typically on opposing sides. Some models have special rules that allow them to start in different locations.

The game is split into turns and every turn is split into phases. There is a movement phase when models are moved, a magic phase when spells are cast, a shooting phase when models with missiles can shoot other models and a close combat phase where models in contact with each other can bash each other.

How good models are at each of these things is determined by various stats that they have and the items that they wield, which are usually represented on the models. In addition, once a unit has lost enough models or been subjected to special rules, its morale can break and the player loses control of that unit as it is forced to flee - or disintegrate if itā€™s daemonic or undead.

The victor is the player (or the team of players) with the most victory points. Victory points are accrued by completing objectives or by beating the snot out of the opposing team. The length of games can vary but back when I played ages ago, a standard 1,000 pt game (with a 1,000 pt army costing roughly Ā£150 back then) between two players took roughly three hours.

Oh, so itā€™s like Monopoly

Precisely.

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My new mount.

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orc/vulpera couples in orgrimmar be looking like

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visably cringes

ā€¦ on the other hand, my cat isnā€™t underage so Iā€™m safe.

Freaking finally.

Leliana hasnā€™t acknowledged that Morrigan, her old comrade, was at the Winter Palace and is now with us in Skyhold.

Why

She hasnā€™t? Weird, I swear she had a line about it.