stirling
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Attempting to slowly build up a Wood Elf army.
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Post by stirling on Apr 19, 2017 5:07:11 GMT
Unfortunately, have never played. Planning to try a game with my nephews toward the end of May (pushing around little squares of paper on the floor).
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Post by Bureaucrat of Chaos on Apr 20, 2017 8:42:43 GMT
Stirling, in my experience small skirmish games with a handful of (preferably painted) models on a small table of modelled terrain work very well when playing with younger family members. I would recommend strong elements of role playing and scenarios, named models etc. Song of Blades and Heroes is a nice skirmish game with very simple core mechanics, and special rules to add according to age and interest.
Or you could just use "Warhammer" rules on a skirmish level: move, charge, roll to hit, to wound, armour save and leadership.
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Post by mottdon on Apr 20, 2017 18:32:27 GMT
That's some good advice right there!
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Post by Horace on Apr 21, 2017 8:09:00 GMT
I taught my Mrs to play playing small (~500 points) games. We skipped over some of the more complex rules at first until she had a grasp of the fundamentals of the game Small points games are actually really fun
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Post by mahbruck on Apr 21, 2017 10:29:22 GMT
I have not played any game for a month and already feel guilty and itchy like a last stage cocaine addict 😓
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Post by grandmasterwang on Apr 21, 2017 10:55:37 GMT
I taught my Mrs to play playing small (~500 points) games. We skipped over some of the more complex rules at first until she had a grasp of the fundamentals of the game Small points games are actually really fun Agreed on all points.
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Post by mahbruck on Apr 21, 2017 11:44:04 GMT
Small point games (100-500) are meant to play against loved ones. There is no better catalyst for love than spending romantic time with wife, girlfriend... shoving around beautiful individual minis in a very accessible system. At the same time, there is no worse cockblocker in the world than a game in which massive amount of models are introduced then casually removed after 5 minutes, whose rules are rather fomenting argument and bellicosity, and so complex everyone will be exhausted in the end to do even the foreplay. The 8th edition, in its essence, is bad for romance 😉
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Post by mottdon on Apr 21, 2017 14:41:31 GMT
Lol, if there actually existed a woman who got turned on by playing Warhammer, she'd be fought over so much that the Trojan War would look like an outpost skirmish!
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stirling
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Post by stirling on Apr 21, 2017 15:17:08 GMT
Luckily, my nephews are not tiny kids (they are 15 and 17 years old) and they love long complex strategy games. We have played many a board game together. They have been fans of Warhammer for years and have been bugging me to help them get a game together. The challenge is that they own no books or models, I don't have a table, and they live 2 hours away from me. So we set up a date toward the end of May when they will visit me. I will have all the paper pieces made ahead of time, and map out the playing surface on the floor of my bedroom with tape. I bought an extra rulebook just barely so that they can have my mini rulebook, and recently bought an extra army book so that they can reference the rules and be able to build army lists. Should be tons of fun, feels like being a kid again playing with the paper
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Post by Horace on Apr 21, 2017 15:24:33 GMT
You should maybe try something like Universal Battle. I think all the models have been made by the community (although it has just ported over to UB2 I believe) Unfortunately you can no longer buy permanent licences but what can you do www.universalbattle.com/
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stirling
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Post by stirling on Apr 21, 2017 18:03:27 GMT
Good call Horace, I hadn't thought about that. I'll look into it.
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Post by frozenfood on Apr 21, 2017 19:17:06 GMT
That's actually pretty cool. And the missus only plays battle lore against me. But we have played every scenario in every expansion
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Post by rockcity on Apr 21, 2017 23:52:08 GMT
I taught my Mrs to play playing small (~500 points) games. We skipped over some of the more complex rules at first until she had a grasp of the fundamentals of the game Small points games are actually really fun Agreed on all points. +1 Small games can be great and usually move pretty fast. - For our smaller games (1k and less) we try to have all models painted and no lord level characters allowed. We do give the general on either side +1 wound as well (as they are hero level they would just have 3) I have a pdf of the old skirmish and warband rules too that we look into for inspiration. I can share if anyone wants...?.. not sure if kosher however. (arrr me matey and all that)
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Post by Horace on Apr 22, 2017 8:37:16 GMT
I will probably pick up a licence myself at some point if anyone in the US fancies a game Another plus point is games can be saved and gone back to. Obviously not a substitute for the real thing but nice for a quick game if you don't have the time or the availability to play people
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Post by dannytee on Apr 22, 2017 13:57:13 GMT
I taught my Mrs to play playing small (~500 points) games. We skipped over some of the more complex rules at first until she had a grasp of the fundamentals of the game Small points games are actually really fun I seem to remember that in 6th edition rule book the rules were actually organized as core or basic rules in the front of the book which was move, shoot, combat, LD. Then the second portion of the rules was advanced/optional rules which was magic, special rules, psychology, etc. I started playing around the age of 13 so this was exactly how my brother and I learned. We started with the basics and then added in some of the more complex rules once we had a grasp.
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