I Am Here In The Shadows Edition>List Builder & Ruleshttps://sc.starcraft-tmg.com/>Tacticahttps://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/StarCraft:_Tabletop_Miniatures_Game/Tactics>Print-and-Play Cards and Instructionshttps://starcraft-tmg.com/downloads>Wave 2 Newshttps://starcraft-tmg.com/news/featured/new-units-join-starcraft-tabletop-miniatures-game>How-to-Playhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDBsIPVIOHw&t=3s [Embed]>Art of War Battle Reporthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR4tT_UTlBc [Embed]>Play On Tabletop Battle Reporthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fImg1-vXX8 [Embed]>Previous Thread>>98306892>Thread Question:How are you painting your models? Are you going with a canon colour scheme or creating /yourdudes/ and painting 'em in a unique way?
>>98566857>TQCanon.Painting Zerg as Tiamat, Protoss as Daelaam and Terrans as UED.
Go back to /awg/
>>98566857im painting my marines up in the colrs of my local clans logo I was part of as a boy
>>98567274You dont understand this fat polish retard NEEDs his own thread so he can drop smiley faces every other post
>>98566857Going with Terran Dominion, because Mengsk did nothing wrong. Based the scheme on how they look in-game and in WoL cutscences.Very much WIP, still highlights and bases to do.
>>98567558That's SOVL af anon
>>98569086These are bitching, anon. Nice job!
WHERE IS MY FUCKING PRE-ORDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR MONTHS!!!! FOR MONTHS!!!!!! FOR THIS FUCKING THING TO BE RELEASED!!!!!!!NOT.A.FUCKING.PEEP.FROM THE STORE I BOUGHT IT FROM!!!!!!!!YES I AM IN AUSTRALIA.YES I HAVE CALLED THEM EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR AN UPDATENO I HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANY UPDATED INFORMATION ON SHIPPING AT ALL!EVERY FUCKING POST ONLINE SAYS IT'S BEING RELEASED TODAY!!!! 24TH! 24TH! 24TH! 24TH! 24TH!MY ORDER IS STILL NOT SHIPPED!!WHAT THE FFFUUCCCKKKKK IS HAPPENING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????YES I AM STILL FUCKING WWWWAAAAIIIIIIIITTTTTIIIIIIINNNNGGG!!!!STIL.NOT.SHIPPED.
>>98569910I have my order :)
>>98567558Nice, what colors are those?>>98569086Based
I am enjoying the build process for these models, I simply wish the connections to the bases were better for the Protoss and some of the Zerg. Other than that, no real complaints.
>>98569086You managed to make such a shitty color scheme look genuinely nice, great job.
Do I need to wait for my preorder to arrive before I get approval to make a return?
Painted the scenery before any army, the Protoss banner thingies are still placeholder since I haven't decided the colors of my protoss yet (probably Tal'Darim)>>98569086I'll go UED since they did even less wrong than Mengsk
>>98572471I dislike how the Zerg Queen connects to the base. Beyond that, no issues.
>>98573351>I'll go UED since they did even less wrong than MengskBased.>>98569086These are genuinely beautiful, god damn.
>>98573351Nice and functional paintjob there, looks great. Drybrushing and speedpaints?
>>98576082>Nice and functional paintjob there, looks greatThanks.>Drybrushing and speedpaints?Primed black, sponged the base color brown, aggressive beige drybroush all over, and then a lighter pale sand drybrush from top to bottom. Then some moss patina and umber wash mostly in the lowert parts.
>>98569910No one cares, anon.>>98569086Amazing. I can't decide between Confeds and Doms for my Terrans.>>98566943>Protoss as DaelaamI don't get it. Does this mean all gold?
Finally had my first 2000pts game after playing loads of 1000pts. The bigger board instantly makes more longer range options desirable, and i think flank deployment stuff like Six Pool and Proxy Barracks are pretty much mandatory.
>>98566857Here is the colour sceme i tested first.
>>98581092>I don't get it. Does this mean all gold?No, I'm painting the Protoss up how they appear in the Legacy Of The Void campaign. So Khalai in gold, Nerazim in silver and blue/green, Tal'darim in black and red and so on.I want to have all the various cultures and sub-factions represented on the tabletop.
GAWD ZAMN
>>98584373Was Kerrigan naturally caked up or did the Swarm add in a few kg of muscle to her ass?
>>98584470A little from column A, a little from column B!
I am impressed with the model quality but its still a dead game. Also the plastic is so fucking hard and durable it dulled my clippers meant for metal when I tried to cut sprues into bits for testing paints on. What the fuck is this shit, the fabled hemp plastic stronger than steel?
>>98584373
>>98585482They hand fold the plastic over itself 1000 times in Poland
>>98585482>Also the plastic is so fucking hard and durable it dulled my clippers meant for metal when I tried to cut sprues into bits for testing paints on.Sure it did :)
Siege Tank is big. Siege Tank is cool.
>>98586617Nice. You got one in siege mode?
>>98584470>implying you wouldn't give yourself an amazing ass if you had Zerg-tier biotechnology
>>98586694Extraneous fatty tissue. Terran foes intermittently distracted. Must evaluate thorax versus gluteal regions.
>>98582869>Blue Zerg>BLERG!Looks good anon
>>98586694>implying you wouldn't give yourself an amazing assI already have an amazing ass but the worst thing is no woman appreciates a guy's rear :'(
>>98586617Shit that's awesome. Gonna be a bitch to paint though. Whens it release?
>>98569910Archon a shit
The starter for this is cheaper than 11th edition armageddonThey just showed up at all the local stores
>>98590024I actually had concerns of the releasedate, because archon went full retard and released alongside 40k11. edition. I guess they somehow managed to drop the better product. No one is buying Armageddon around here, while starcraft sold pretty good, even in the lgs.
>>98569910>YES I AM IN AUSTRALIA>MY ORDER IS STILL NOT SHIPPED!!The boat with them gets to the country gets in to the country on the 12th mate. Its not like the Polish dropped shipping and tracking data to track that sort of thingNow take your ((YOU)) and get out>>98590947Wild. The way everyone keeps talking its dead or everyone is flogging off their models on launch because "GaMe iS a ScAm when I don't have my models by June". Glad to hear FLGS is doing well
>>98590947The economy is in the dumpster and GW thinks it's a good time to raise prices. They're going to be sitting on a lot of stock, I imagine.
>>98586617Hmm, I was planning to get a few but given the size 1 might be enough
magnetized right arm to have option to go green blade whenever i feel more like showing off killing him
>>98588428>no woman appreciates a guy's rearSounds like your ass is not amazing, after all.
>>98594069Cool. This meant to be Artanis when possessed by Amon? Or did you just want a red Artanis lol
>>98569910The UPS tracking that I just received last Thursday is still on the "label creation" step. Whoever Archon hired for shipping sucks balls.
Wave 2 pre-orders are up!http://starcraft-tmg.com/shop/pre-orders/starcraft-siege-tank-terran-expansion-set
>>98598114Just got myself one of everything except the ramp terrain. Can't wait to get my hands on Zeratul and that Immortal.
So what do you do with the limited Zeratul miniature if it doesnt have cards and rules?
>>98595960possessed by amon but also bit AU I guess? since I gave him zeratul's blade for 2nd right hand with cord intact.>>98599374he uses the same profile as standard zeratul, the game uses bases-first for discrepancies and card you can always print
>>98599374He was purely a promo model. The new Zeratul coming in wave 2 is the one with stats and rules etc
Zeratul's box includes the card for a unique unit, the nerazim watcher. Neat.
Can't wait for the SC1 Terran units like Firebats to release so I can start my UED. Gonna be kino.
does anyone know if the starter sets are going to be like limited release or limited quantity or something like GW fomo boxes or are they going to be a perpetual product? interested in getting into the game, it looks amazing and the prices are pretty good too which is surprising. but i've been burned so much by GW fomo and scalpers botting orders and their shit manufacturing just being out of stock for months or years, idk how on the ball i need to be about snagging a box or if i can afford to wait a bit
>>98605556The founders edition was fomo, the dtsrter boxes will last years.
>>98605556Founders were the fomo army setsStarters now are effectively combat patrol for non-hero faction
>>98601959I know, that's why I asked, I wonder if I should print the cards and use the promo one or just buy the new Zeratul and have the promo one as a paperweight.
>>98606968I prefer the pose of the new Zera so I picked him up. I have the promo too, will probably keep it as a collectable piece.
>>98604278>I can start my UEDKinoI plan to do the same
>>98606968If you know then why ask ffs
>>98605991>>98605933were there any actual unique sculpts in that box that wont be available elsewhere or was it just a bundle box?im already bummed i missed out on the promo zeratul
Looking at some newer battle report videos, those temple ramps are huge.>>98609052I didnt ask what it was, I asked what to do with it.
>Zeratul's Warband are the Protoss who followed him into his exile and wandered the stars alongside him.>Zeratul's Warband has a canon color scheme (aquamarine).>Zeratul is getting a model and stats in this wave.>Zeratul is the best character in all of Starcraft.>Zeratul is a character I want to play.>Zeratul's Warband is an army I want to paint. >Zeratul comes with a Nerazim Faction Card in his box.Most intriguing...
>>98610353>missed promo zeratulUsually the Archon guys sell their promos at conventions.
>>98611407>Zeratul comes with a Nerazim Faction Card in his box.It'd be sick if we got enough Nerazim units to someday have a complete army of Dark Templar units for Zeratul to lead.
UED marine test
>>98614970Nice. Planning to make a whole army of UED? Seems a load of us in this thread are lol
>>98615089Yes, maybe even the non-UED heroes.
>>98615117Based
>>98615117>What if Jim Raynor but he's an Earth lover
>>98615540If Blizzard could asspull reasons to make characters switch sides all the time, so can I.
>>98615089>Seems a load of us in this thread are lolWell they are, objectively, the coolest Terran faction in Starcraft.
Just dropped piece 12 under my desk onto my carpet. Spent 15 minutes looking for the fucker, no luck. Guess Kerrigan will never be finished now...
>>98617424Thou Art Fucked
Finally finished this fucker... holy shit all these teeth.
>>98617859put your dick in it
>>98617859That eye is amazing looking anon, nice work!
>>98617424Keep looking anon.I lost a piece to the carpet only to find it two weeks later.
>>98614772They plan to release the whole subfaction they had from SCII. Not to mention with some unique ones like the Naz Adepts so we can see some interesting ideas in store.
where is heWHERE IS HE
Two new zerglings for the fray. I’m thinking of making my Zerg orange and green
I have the Protoss Founder's Edition set + Stalkers. Current plan is to paint them up as the Daelaam near the conclusion of the End War. Artanis painted as... well ArtanisAdepts painted as PurifiersSentries painted as Khalai1 squad of 3 Zealots painted as Khalai 1 squad of 3 Zealots painted as Tal'darimStalkers painted as Nerazim Should be pretty sweet.
>>98566857Can someone give me a tl;dr of this setting?I've only played Wings of Liberty many moons ago, and that was already very in medias res.
>>98619878its basically space australiakorprulu sector (where the games take place) was settled originally as a prison colony. turns out there's giant spiders and another native species and now all 3 are at warterrains: originally ruled under a confederation, a small band of rebels (the sons of korhal) help to overthrow it, but the leader of the rebellion (arcturus mengsk) turns out to have been a power hungry bastard with hidden motivations of galactic tyranny and oppression. also woefully mishandles the zerg situation and makes it exponentially worse. eventually another group of rebels, lead by the original groups 2nd in command and local sheriff jim raynor (who has an on again off again romantic thing with the second leader of the zerg sarah kerrigan/queen of blades) eventually works together with her to overthrow mengsk (that was the end of the wings of liberty campaign if i remember right) protoss: oooooold natives to the korprulu sector, their society is split into several factions. the main faction, which you can think of as vanilla protoss, called khalai, live as a semi-collective consciousness connected to each other via a psychic link using the tendrils extending from the back of their head. also a sort of religious sect. the nerazhim, dark templars led by zeratul (the green and copper dark guys) severed their tendrils and their link to the collective counsciouness to maintain their independent personalities and free will. although they are outcasts and shunned, they work with the regular protoss on ocassion. the taldarim are a third sect of old protoss who never connected to the khala in the first place. basically sith lord protoss to the normal protosses jedi. led by a guy called amon
>>98619878>>98619923zerg: ancient bio weapons developed by an even older progenitor race called the xel'naga (think ancient aliens/stargate vibes, they also created the protoss), the zerg are a swarm of hive mind biomechanical creatures, but more than that the zerg is more like a parasitic micro organism that not only spawns new creatures but can "infest" other organic creatures and even the landscape, transforming them and making them part of the hive mind. this is what happens to sarah kerrigan, originally a human psionic assassin who ended up captured by the zerg and transformed into the queen of blades. the zerg at the start of starcraft 1 were ruled by a giant city sized brain called the overmind, but over the course of the 1st game kerrigan betrays the overmind and userps its position as leader of the zerg swarm. the zerg were also responsible in a previous war for invading the protoss homeworld of auir, and the protoss have a serious chip on their shoulder about that.
>>98619878This is a very good summary made by Blizzard that covers everything important that happened up until Legacy of the Void, the beginning of which is what the tabletop game is based around right now. https://youtu.be/j5WJf-y5z-0
>>98619923amon is like this weird eldritch god thing that was previously a xel naga or aligned with them i cant remember, and he tries to control protoss and zerg and fuse them into hybrids and all sorts of shit.the taldarim also have another leader guy called alarak, whos kinda like a darth vader type guy, previously amons second in command among the taldarim but he leads a rebellion to break the taldarim away from amon. im a little fuzzy on the details on this one. he ends up working with the regular protoss in the end, even if you can never fully trust him, kind of a will he wont he betray us type of vibe
>>98619878important charactersjim raynor-leader of raynors raiders, worked with sons of korhal. generally roped into the plot against his willsarah kerrigan/queen of blades-leader of the zerg, former terran psychic assassin. raynors love interesttassadar-leader and hero of the protoss, sacrifices himself to destroy the overmindartanis-new up and coming leader of the protoss, also heroic, and tassadars pupil. boyscout warrior type.fenix- sort of a minor protoss character. heroic warrior, friends with raynor, killed by the zerg, comes back as a dragoon (mostly dead guy in a robot dreadnought style)duke-regional general of the terran confederacy. keeps trying to fuck raynor over in the 1st gamearcturus mengk-rebel leader turned evil emperoralarak-sith lord protosszeratul-like the qui gon jin of protoss. disagrees with the protoss council but not openly hostile to them. crafty old veteran, sort of an outcast, conventional protoss question his methods but he proves to be right about stuff a lot. has frequent beef with kerriganthe overmind-city sized brain that led the zergstukov- former terrain general gets corrupted by zerg, now kerrigans 2nd in commandabathur-kerrigans bio engineer mad scientist zerg creaturenova-who?tychus-convict warrior terran. teams up with raynor, betrays raynor. cigar smoking bastard type character. huge minigundaniel liberty-protagonist of the book liberties crusade, human reporter/investigator at ground zero of the initial zerg invasion of the terrans. character from the novels, the novels delve deeper into the confederations secret experiments, complicity in the zerg infestation, and mind control programs
>>98619936Not a terrible "the story so far" bit, misses nearly all of Brood War for some reason but could be worse.
Shit, the Immortal is fucking HUGE.
>>98620128Dont let that distract you from the fact that the temple ramp is even taller than the stalker
>>98620255is this the emerging ramp meta?
Sons of Korhal/Dominion WIP. Need to tidy up the armor but he's mostly done now.>>98619878>Arcturus MengskOur great leader, exiled son of the old oligarchical families of Tarsonis. Brought the Terran Confederacy to it's knees after his home of Korhal was glassed in nuclear hellfire.>Jim RaynorA terrorist of Mar Sara. Former ally to Emperor Mengsk and extreme pain in the ass. Don't believe his lies.>Sarah Kerrigan Former Ghost turned Queen-of-Blades. Responsible for over eight billion deaths since her ascension to leader of the Zerg swarm.>ArtanisA näive child of the Protoss race, who in general are smug bastards that cleanse worlds arbitrarily. >ZeratulHe's a Protoss. They all look and talk the same.
I just noticed that the UED colors in the remaster is gray instead of white.
>>98620115>>98619936Strange that it misses Brood War when it is (arguably) the most important bit of SC1.
>>98617424Motherfucker how do you lose a purple part? Is your carpet purple? What are you, gay?
>>98621181>What are you, gay?
>>98620128SPAWNING POOL
>>98621815I hope they sell it as terrain. Looks awesome.
>>98619838This sounds awesome to have on the table, but awful to paint, Be careful you don't get burnt out, constantly having to change colour schemes makes it difficult to get into a flow and removes a sense of progress in my experience.
>>98620128Siege Tank ain't tiny either tbf
>>98617859Fucking kino anon! That must have been hell to paint lmao
>>98614970Another UED Marine lol everyone seems to be playing them. I wonder if Archon has noticed how many people are painting up/playing the Directorate?Looking good anon!
>>98569910>AustraliaDid you order from The Combat Company?
>>98621181Archon fans love taking it up the ass from the company so yes
>>98625276>Archon fans love taking it up the ass from the companyNot as much as GW cucks, people like (You).
>>98625505Speaking of cucks, any news on whether we'll be getting Confederate heroes and a faction card for 'em?
How many marauders are you allowed to bring in an army? Optimizes early game marauder spam was the only time I bothered to learn a build order in an RTS game.
>>98625712How about taking a look at the army builder?Technically you could take 6 full bricks of 4, so 24 Marauders, in a 2000pt list.
>>98625597Not that I know of, but given how characters like Duke and such are likely coming to the game, it wouldn't be hard to "reskin" the Dominion as Confeds
>>98626050You know I completely missed it on first pass. Anyway, thanks.
>>98566857I'm considering making them a clusterfuck of decals and colours like seen in a lot of the cutscenes in SC and Brood War, like the Brood War trench scene (which was 100% inspired by the Do Lung Bridge scene in Apocalypse Now) and Amerigo.
>>98566857>TQUED Dehaka Co-op Primal Zerg colorsUnlikely to play Protoss as too elite/too low model count to be fun imo
>>98630192>Dehaka Co-op Primal Zerg colorsI was tempted to do same (as Primal Zerg are the coolest thing in SC), but Archon said they want to release Deha and the Primals at some point so I'm holding off and praying they release those in the next few years
>>98621336It's very relevant when your garish plastic tentacles blend into the mass of garish plastic tentacle dildos.
>>98619838>the force field domes wrapped in plastic>on a display/promo photoWhy?
Tal'darim when?
I’m curious as to how long it will take for someone to find a way to home brew Starcraft vs 40k in either game’s rules. Given how classic of a vs debate matchup it is, that could be fun
I was thinking about how they can add some of my fav units to the game. Some are obvious, like Aberrations, but the more I thought about it the more I realised I can't think of an accurate way to represent the Swarm Host in the game.If it just spawns new, weak Locust models every single turn it'll be OP as it'll let you flood the board with infinite Locust and simply calling its ranged attack "Locust Swarm" or something is lazy and boring.How would you handle the Swarm Host?
are you guys actually gonna go wysiwyg when there are a million options for everything? alternate paint schemes for elite units?
Just got the terran/zerg starter set boysIm excited
>>98632893Similar to the corpser? Once a game summon.Or, you can summon every turn, but it removes your earlier summons.
>>98633999There is no point in doing wysiwyg in this game, you couls say that you can do that to the Terran Marines, but what about the rest of the army? most options and skills cant be displayed on the models, so just have the list at hand and treat them like every other unit, ofc you can try to match that as possible, for example I have a squad that is fully equipped with shields and stuff and another that is barebones just to clearly distinguish them on the table so I dont get them mixed up if I give them diferent upgrades. I havent decided on elite units yet, I'll probably paint one of each.
>>98632893I can see it being a unit that can spawn 3 or 4 units that are shit but are free, not emdless units. Like the Corpser Roeches but bigger and tougher with more "ammo" to spawn
>>98633999>wysiwygOnly WAACfags do this
Star date september 7th. Blizzcon is in a few days. My wave 1 order is still nowhere to be seen. Another 1/3rd of an inch has crept forward on Jarek's waistline concealing even more of his thin malformed penis. Chances of refund or desperation resale growing less likely by the hour
>>98635429>somehow still doesn't have his pre-order when everyone else doesOnly option left is to kys
>>98635548Probably Australian.
>>98635706My point definitely stands then.
Painting Hydralisks is fun.
>>98636626>That underbitewew
>>98637531Underbites are sexy af>>98636626They're such amazing models. Nice paint job.
Any ideas for storage of these models? That’s my biggest concern going in. Should I just go with those games workshop model carrying cases? I’ll admit space is at a bit of a premium in my house.
>>98625104>>98569910Hold fast, my brother over the ditch.
I'm finding it hard to justifiy Corpser Roaches over Vile Roaches. Roachlings aren't worth doing anything with, and the Corpser is worse at range but better in melee, even though the Zerg have plenty of melee and NEED more ranged units on the table. I've found Vile Roaches are just better and cheaper.Anons?
Goliath online.
>>98566857The more I look at it the more I hate the Stalker design.It's not a dragoon with an injured guy inside but rather some kind of magic machine infused with soulstuff which is just dumb.The head sticking out, the whole teleporting thing, the stupid laser beam, I hate everything about it.Someone got high and said how about we give Protoss Dragoons again, but they are the dark templar now and came up with this nonsense. It's so dumb and I've come to hate it over the last 15 years.
>>98640897It's actually one of my fav sci-fi walker designs. Love the alien look to it, the fact it uses the whole spiritual side of the Nerazim, the voice acting for it, the way it works in game.Dragoons are cool though and I will be buying them when they come out.
>>98640896>More UEDKino based
>>98638788Ikea Kvissle + this: https://w6-wertarbeit.de/products/w6-nahmaschinen-transporttasche-overlock?variant=56482022555980&country=DE¤cy=EUR&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic
>>98640956Thsee look great. You put magnets on your bases?
>>98640897I wish they didn't try to replace the dragoon with the stalker and instead tried to come up with ranged infantry for the nerazim as a counterpart to the standard zealot. Really, I just think it's stupid a species already on the ropes fills the role of melee combatant with only living soldiers. At least dark templar have the excuse of being camouflaged hunters. Sure there's the justification that every zealots armor has an emergency teleport, but it's still stupid.
How many models are in the average army in this game for each of the factions? I saw the minis at the store over the weekend and thought they looked quite nice, I wouldn't mind getting a little force together
>>98641536>Really, I just think it's stupid a species already on the ropes fills the role of melee combatant with only living soldiersSpoken like one without HONOUR
>>98641588Games are mostly from 1000 to 2000 mineralsFor a 2000 mineral game Zerg will be around 50, Terran around 40 and Protoss around 20You can build lists here so you can check out what you want to build: https://sc.starcraft-tmg.com/keep in mind that more units are announced, which will probably be more costly in points, like the siege tanks, other hero units with their elite squads, or even the really big ones like the Ultralisks further into the future, so the average model count will get lower.
>>98641711That sounds reasonable. I'll have to see if anyone wants to go halves on one of the starter boxes
>>98640775Useful if you want to charge up into something like Marines or other light surge units. The Assault phase can be brutal towards Zerglings if they've got the full murdermarine gamut of upgrades.Roachlings need a buff or something, but you are pretty much taking it because of armored melee.
>Replaying SC1>Tassadar and his Expedition are still the coolest thing in all of SC>Fight their way across Terran space, on Char, on Aiur, winning and kicking ass against all odds>Based Khalai units>Kino Dark Templar>Best pals with Zeratul>All around bitchin' I hope Archon release SC1 units alongside Tassadar, as he's a confirmed release. I wanna play these fuckers like crazy.
>>98643155Reavers look to be the only feasible SC1 unit missing for 'Toss on the roadmap, and with them being a Khalai unit in 2's campaign they're almost definitely getting in sooner or later.An army with Tassadar, Zeratul, Fenix, and Artanis all on the field is already looking to be possible unless Zeratul has a Nerazim limitation.
>>98643155>>98643708>Tassadar >Zeratul>Fenix>Zealots>Scouts>Dragoons>Reavers>Archons>Dark TemplarI would CONSUME the fuck outta this and would play the shit outta it
>>98643155>Tassadar and his Expedition are still the coolest thing in all of SCEven more hardcore in the novels, read Queen of Blades if you're a Tass fan. Amazing book.
>>98645704>read Queen of Blades if you're a Tass fanJust read it in general, one of the best SC books.
Airbrush came in giga clutch for painting these orbs as holy fuck contrasts really don't like flat surfaces. Also my edge/highlightning skills require a lot of improvement>>98630884think year 2+adjust for delay
Do any of you guys magnetize Jim and the marines? Assuming it doesn't take forever to get a starter box for some extra bodies, or if some options aren't just auto-includes.
>>98647584look very cool, was there no way to tint the clear plastics red without fully removing the transparency?
>>98647625No, I build a full equipped squad and a barebones one, just to make a clear distinction on the table, but whatever equipment they'll have will vary from game to game. This is not a game of wysiwyg, also, Raynor has all the weapons by default iirc so whatever you equip the model with is putely aesthetic.
>>98648569maybe if i didn't base white to cover for spills, i have a pylon in progress with just contrast on plastic and it still kills transparency so not sure, could just be the hue
Beeb interested on this since long, but havent bought nothing yet, due to being cautious+IRL things+this being on "preorder"; But now I want to get at least one or some Protoss units.But have some questions:>In the official store, what is the difference between "preorder" units, and those sorted as not?>Any better place to buy the minis instead of the official site
>>98648627preorder is actual preorder, right now it should be the standard starter sets and wave 2 units (ravager, immortal, siege tank, zeratul rules/faction). However stuff that has been available since like 2 weeks might still be on shipment to Australia and NA and I think should be getting down there on 12th-ishas to better place well I guess you will have to look around depending on location, there was initial buzz that the shop's margin was pretty minimal so they might've rectified that
Opinions on the unique Kerrigan Swarm Raptors? 250 points for 6 Zerglings is a very big ask imo
>>98650518Thry're very niche. Would rsther bring Swarmlings. But then again, I always bring Swarmlings.
Got a game in! Based on the SC2 mission, the Moebius Factor.During the height of the Second Great War, the Queen of Blades personally led a significant portion of the Swarm to the world of Tyrador VIII and laid siege to the Moebius Foundation facilities located across the planet. Overwhelmed and caught off guard by such an attack, the Dominion forces and mercenary units stationed on the planet were forced to fall back and abandon the majority of the world, digging in around the main Moebius facilities in order to guard the crucial research being carried out by Dr Narud and his staff.Kerrigan largely ignored the rest of Tyrador VIII, disregarding the undefended population of the world as irrelevant as she drove her Broods towards the personal offices of Narud himself. She sought the information stored there, desperate to unearth the secrets of the Xel'naga and discover the location of a weapon with which to fight the growing darkness she knew would one day come for her. The Terran defenders knew not why the Zerg were so focused on the data cores and computer vaults, but Narud, fearing how Sarah could interfere in his master's schemes if she possessed such information, ordered his men to stop the Zerg from capturing them at all costs. Kerrigan charged a loyal and cunning Queen with securing Data Core X-17, and gave her servant command of a portion of her Brood with which to do so. As this Queen led her warriors towards her Mistress's goal, she saw Terran troops digging in around the core. With a psychic pulse, she ordered her horde into battle. The Queen of Blades would not be denied.
>>98652330It was the Frontlines mission, 1000 Minerals and a Terran win. Though it was quite close. 9 Zerg to 11 Terran.
>>98652334It was also my first time using Hydralisks and I am in love with this unit!Also Vile Roaches, those guys are extremely useful.
>>98652340I also learned that a full squad of Marines with Combat Shields + Medic support is a bullshit-ily good roadblock that WILL NOT DIE to Zerglings no matter how many Zerglings you throw at them.
We also had a kino moment in which, against all odds, my Queen got into range of the Goliath and tore the shit out of it, ripping the machine apart and laying it low after it gunned down a Hydralisk and numerous Zerglings.
>>98652362Medics seem hard to use right but very powerful when you manage to do so. Stabilizer Medpacks seem like an auto include.So, in brief, I had a blast and fucking love this game.
>>98636626>>98652340Am I the only one that's constantly surprised by the size of the Hydras?
>>98652330Kino fluff anon and fun looking army lists. Hope you had fun! Medics + combat shields is a favourite of mine to bring
>>98652446They're a little out of scale it seems to the rest of the range, but so awesome looking I don't care lol
>>98652694>They're a little out of scaleToo big or too small?
>>98652709Too big.
>>98652759Huh. I always thought of them as being pretty big, must've forgotten their scale, it's been a while since I played any Starcraft games and I haven't built 'em yet.
>>98652446>>98652694>>98652709>>98652759>>98652776Nah, they're in-scale. People always seem to forget that Hydralisks are fuck-huge.
>>98652830Well now I don't know who to believe..
>>98652830BEST CUTSCENE IN ALL OF STARCRAFT
Would i get weird looks if I made pic related and used him a Zeratul? Also how vital is Artanis to a primary Zealot army? I am so tempted to just do everything I can to make a full on golden horde, perhaps with Zeratul running around.
>>98652961>am so tempted to just do everything I can to make a full on golden horde, perhaps with Zeratul running around.Ah, the SC1 approach to the Protoss. Very wise.
>Checking out new Protoss rules>Can run both Artanis and Zeratul if using Power Field>Void Seeker has a redploy option>Artanis can get picked up using Void Seeker, Phase Prism a unit out of a bind, then have that unit redploy with Warp Prism at the end of the roundOh this is gonna be some bullshit
>>98652830Never noticed her design is Primal Kerrigan despite this cutscene taking place at the start of the 2nd Great War. Strange.
>>98652961>Would i get weird looks ifno, because it's never leaving the basement.
>>98652330Very rad, Anon. I had my first game with my buddy this week, fucker charged in with medics to bog down my marines long enough to have his Raiders get in position and utterly melt em'. Even if we half-assed the rules, it's a fun time. Terran Armed Forces feels good against Zerg or Protoss, but IMO Raynor's Raiders are absolutely fucking crazy in TvT. (And probably really good in TvP.) A shame my opponent didn't have time to slap some paint on his models. (My Sons of Korhal at least get a victory in that regard.)Here's to me buying a shitload of Goliaths and a few Siege Tanks.
>>98652883That's not the one with Lester running over the zergling. >>98652961Artanis is very, VERY good. But Zealots are the best units in the game right now so you can kinda get away with not using him so long as you fill all your core slots with Zealots. (Stalkers are also retardedly good. Honorable mention: Raptors. Fuck those little bastards.)
>>98656371Neato. I found someone who made a Selendis Model that I was thinking of running as Artanis (still buying him for Pylon) and just fill the core with Zealots. I never really liked Stalkers from SC2 lorewise so even if they are busted I am not that big on fielding them. I have heard people both praise and shit on Pretor guards, any thoughts?
>Be anon that want Protoss minis>Not sure if I will use them to play them, but at least to have them as collection.>I can get either the Protoss Starter Set Founders Edition, or the normal Protoss Starter Set>Pros of the Founder set:>Artanis>No wasteful transparent/warp effect minis>Pylon looks cool>Negatives of Founder set:>I dont have a big need of the Pylon>No Stalkers>Not a 100% chance to get the FoundersPros of the normal Starter set>Stalkers>100% available>Negatives of starter set>wasteful transparent/warp effect minis>No Artanis or any other heroShould I get the Founders set?
No wave 1 pre order, no refund, no interest in playing, no interest in space cows.
>>98652883For me it's the Brood War intro, sure it might be aping the Roach segment from Apocalypse Now, but still.
>>98652883That would be the final cutscene in SC2 HOTS, when Mengsk bites it.
>98657332
What black are you bitches using for Tal'darim armor?
>>98660994german gray vallejo + very small silver highlight
>>98656347>Here's to me buying a shitload of Goliaths and a few Siege Tanks.Consider that each one costs 2 supply and you can get 11 Elite slots at most, plus there will be more elite units in the future.
Fully upgraded Vile Roaches are so fun to play. Auto-include in my lists.
>>98661679They're much better than Corpsers with upgrades but Corpsers are more fun imo
>>98660994Nmm.Or at least, that's the plan...
Finally picked up my boxes from my family's place. Spent the day building my terrans. I had a fun time bulding those.Plan is to fully build and paint 1 faction at a time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eQUtOQXYgQ
STARCRAFT 3 IS HAPPENING.IT IS HAPPENING.PANIC!HYPE!!!
>>98663661>PANIC!Yes>HYPE!!!After 2? Absolutely fucking not
>>98663661shouldn't they release 2 first?
Blizzcon so far has been a gay and retarded dissapointment, which I fully anticipated and is why I bought models I can do whatever I want with. I hope it hasn't deterred everyone from kitbashing and painting. Really this game is probably going to be cancelled when Swarma descents upon Blizzard like Tiamat in less than a couple months, the models are all you'll ever have to remember Starcraft by. Thanks to Poland, the last uncucked country in the EU, a toast of three cheese pierogi to Archon.
what the fuckthat's not starcraftthat's an army recruitment ad reddit spacing for attention
>>98663639I don't know man. The new power armor looks like a slimed down hulk buster ironman suit.
>>98663661>>98663639i'll believe it when i can play it. a cinematic trailer, no gameplay, announced years before release? i smell a starcraft:ghost situation in the makingi give it 2 years before it turns out they burned through 3 directors, a bunch of teamleads quit leaking internal problems and """creative differences" and then the game is cancelled before anyone fires a single bullet.
Why are the minis so god damn huge? The scale creep is insane
>>98665294its not really scalecreep at all, shit in starcraft is just big. if anything some of the stuff like the terran and protoss vehicles are probably downscaled from what they should be. official material even depicts things like ultralisks as actual godzilla sized kaiju
>>98665294ultralisk would probably imperial knight size at least if they make the model to scale
>>98569910Should have supported your friendly local gamestore, fucker
>>98665294>scale creepYou keep using that term, but I don't think you kniw what it actually means.
>>98665542Ultralisks in Brood War were Siege Tank sized, as opposed to the giants they became in SC2. As they pull from both games, i'd wager the Ultralisk we'll get is a 150mm base sized.
>>98663803Blizzard is so far gone that they couldn't even help themselves not having their StarCraft trailer posterboy look like a mulatto lesbian.
Prodoss designing their models as 1:1 representations of the horrendous game models of Starcraft 2 (peak Blizzard cartoony era) is such a huge fail. The only unit in the entire range that looks decent in spite of it are the Hydralisks, I might get a box of those for display once the game inevitably hits deep discount.
>>98666724I mean, if he was the archetypical chiseled blond haired blue eyed manly man you lot would immediately switch tunes and complain that they depicted such a peak form man with the intent of him being reduced to soup by space bugs. I garun-fucking-tee it. There’s just no winning with race baiting neets.
Anyways, do you figure I should paint the Nydus worm before assembling it? Painting all the “gums” between the teeth seems like it would be pretty damn difficult with the model constructed
>>98665685>Ultralisks in Brood War were Siege Tank sized,nope
>>98665294>scale creepThe game had a single release. I don't think, you know what this buzzword even means.
>>98667999based anon nooticing starcraft is not archon's first game and they are in fact a bunch of hustlers running pyramid scheme changing company names and countries of operation.
>>98665294>The scale creep is insane
>>98667647https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_ZgyNoHtjwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HiUectTy9YHow did they get away with it? Why didn't the chuds cry foul?
>>98666724>having their StarCraft trailer posterboyAnon that boy got turned into a slushieIt didn't matter how he looked
>>98663639It's like they unlearned everything that was good with the Wings of Liberty trailer
It’s a small thing, but I like how we now have a clear view of what a Terran Academy is supposed to look like. It was always one of the stranger looking buildings, and I could never quite make out what all the shapes were supposed to form into. Not even the remaster helped in that department much.
Anybody got more of these?
>>98669125The grifter economy had not gotten as desperate for things to bitch about yet.
>>98665114Opening at the front seems like a bad idea. I mean having plates designed specifically to move apart enough to allow a person inside. Reinforced, even armored, sure, with no doubt a decent locking mechanism. Still seems like a bad flaw to put center mass of your soldiers.I'm partial to Wings of Liberty's opening cinematic. True Tychus' suit was unique, not intended to be opened, at least not anytime soon. I still like the idea that suits are built fresh around a marine each time, putting the man in the can so to speak. A bit harder to get back out of without an engineering suite, true, but then how often would a marine get out of armor in a hostile environment? I just imagine the barracks having the infrastructure to suit people up and take the suit apart again. Reuse the good bits, refurbish what you can, recycle the rest.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBKd-eas6So
>>98663803Pretty obvious they're going for the Starship Trooper's bit this time around. That guy is all Service Means Citizenship until he first winds up on an ugly planet, a bug planet.Meanwhile Johnny Rico is reasonably ethnic and the usual crowd lose their freakin' minds. Typical.
I'm trying to figure out what's funnier. That the meat is less important to the Dominion than the suit, which they seem to go out of their way to recover in whatever condition it is in, or the idea that this is why a new marine only costs a mere 50 minerals.>>98665181They're giving themselves until 2030, plus you know it'll be delayed. AAA studios love delays.
>>98670726And by then $90 a game will be the norm!***
>>98670839Hey man, that's a good deal right now for a limited time license that can be revoked at any moment.
I was kinda hyped with the rumors that it was gonna be Helldivers style, but when they said it was gonna be story driven... idk It can potentially still be great, but with modern writing and character design I'm not holding my breath.
>>98670215I quite like the art style on the cards. The Six Spawning Pool art is neat.
This game looks pretty fun and I like the setting and models. Do you guys think there could be narrative/campaign style play for this? I'm happy to wait and see.I would also like to paint my army as UED, pretty sure they're all white which is going to be a hassle.
>>98673327They have already said they'll be releasing campaign books for the game.
>>98673353Thanks for letting me know anon, I think that's just a really neat idea. Starcraft's a fun setting and I always thought you could tell a lot of neat stories there. Also I want to collect me some ghosts.
>>98673482Alas, I can't tell you when the Ghosts will hit the game, I simply don't remember, but they are on the way too. I think the campaign books are a great idea. The few games I've played so far were laced with fluff to get us into the right mindset for a battle and I think pieces of narrative fluff go a long way towards making a game more interesting.
>>98620128so how big will the Ultralisk be?
>>98673526I agree, plus I think Starcraft lends itself well to that sort of thing, tons of cool factions doing all sorts of things that'll lead into a neat story. I suppose I can wait for ghosts, there's a ton of other neat models to paint.
>>98673562Totally agree.
>>98673482>>98673526According to the release schedule 2027But with all of the delays probably late 2027 maybe 2028
>>98674249Delays are from a vocal minority, most things went just fine for most people
>>98566857>On the one hand trailer confirmed '80 years in the future' was code for 'killing original Starcraft aesthetic to copy halo/me/helldivers'>On the other hand trailer kills the 'dead IP lol' meme and people in my store will be more willing to try out the ttg with me nowBit of a mixed bag this weekend, but I am confident this shit is just a make number go up scam and the game won't even get made so I come out on top playing the ttg in the meantime
>>98674274Miserable fuck. You, I mean. Not jimmy.
>>98674273Wave 2 was supposed to have been released in June and came out in SeptemberWave 3 should've come out in AugustWave 4 and Campaign should be coming out in October
>>98670708Just imagine how the "usual crowd" would cry if they made a book-accurate Johnny Rico He was Filipino and his name was actually Juan.
>>98670693Considering the life expectancy of Terran Marines, making it easy to open and hose out makes sense.
>>98674633>new Terran marine armor comes with blasting jets of water inside>recruits cheer the ability to get a shower during long deployments, especially in locations devoid of atmosphere>turns out it's actually a power washer system to clean out the inside of the suit once they inevitably get turned to mush
>>98674617I read the book a few years ago. Sadly didn't leave much of an impression on me. Kind of boring. Foundation was a much better read until the later novels. I preferred the focus on the various developmental stages of the Foundation over the whole Earth quest stuff.
>>98670693They probably had the front opened up to show Holt getting "his" armor, like "it's time to suit up" in the most unsubtle way possible while trying too hard to make it look cool and Scifi.I feel like the theme of the video with the indoctrination of Dominion troops would have worked better if they suited up their loyal troops the same way as expendable prisonersThe panels that open up to let the gib soup pour out feel silly, like how is that part of the suit still workingIf it was the machinery holding the suit that drained it that would make more sense
>>98674274Shwarma will 100% pull the plug and it'll get canceled when she finds out they haven't actually been working on it at all and its vaporware. Todd and Bethesda didn't get away with the same shit releasing teasers for games that don't exist, I don't know why they think they can.
>>98674912I couldn't even tell you how all those suits were recovered in the first place. It's true the Zerg wouldn't find much need for them, beyond the occasional infested Terran, but how were large scale recovery ops (and this seems to be since we see several suits in varying states of disrepair, such as one missing a leg that's on the conveyor belt at the end) even possible? Zerg would just creep over that shit since it's in their territory. Nuking the site from orbit would also wreck the suits.But like other said it's just a riff on Starship Troopers (film version) from boot camp to Klendathu. Least they aren't leaning as hard on 40k?
>>98675167Turns out the mutalisk fire wasn't random or light.
>>98675167Have you considered that they may have won the battle?
>>98675450I mean Zerg rushed the instant they get off the dropships? Hell no, unless the player punked out and went to cheat codes.
In his announcement before the Dominion Assembly, General Brannigan had high praise to bestow upon himself for bravely allowing his marines to keep the Zergling units occupied with their own grisly demise, thereby giving time for Ghost teams to launch a nuclear bombardment that completely annihilated the Zerg position. Reports indicate the Ghosts were also within the blast radius. Truly a stunning win for the Dominion!
>>98675484Surely the cavalry must have been on its way, those guys didn't live to see it, just like the RTS.
>>98675550>Surely the cavalry must have been on its wayAren't there two major cinematics showing air support abandoning ground forces to overwhelming numbers of zerg?
>>98675616While true, the cavalry's there to do some heavy lifting when I'm in command.
>>98675550What if they were the cavalry?
>>98675450Probably because nothing in that video screamed, "Yay, we won anyway! Last one back to barracks gets to sponge Holt soup out of his armor!"
I think people forget that the folk stuck onboard the colony ships that arrived in Koprulu Sector was filled with the mutts, the mutants, and the mind walkers. Some of them all the same people.Unless this was retconned? Old lore used to be this is why humans in that area were developing psi talents which the Zerg homed in on, hoping that chowing down on telepathic humans would help them in their eventual showdown with the Protoss. Hell, maybe it was retconned since the Directorate also had Ghosts.
>>98676022The problem isn't Holt being a mutt specifically- the problem is the sum of all the trailer's parts feel like a generic scifi shooter rather than Starcraft specifically. The mutt zoomer PoV. The laser knife fighting. The generic looking mechanic man. The speech & narrator both sounding like they were ripped out of 40k. The grimderp production line. The stock background soundtrack (fucking WEIRD since someone said MICK GORDON worked on it.) Fuck, even the OVERLORDS felt weird, like they were trying to emulate the vibe from Death Stranding or something.None of these factors INDIVIDUALLY might be an issue, but put it all together in one trailer and you get the impression they're not really making a Starcraft shooter, but rather recycling an old IP to make a Space Marine clone. Go rewatch the SCII trailer and compare it to this shit. Mengsk narrating. Tychus looking like one of those typical degenerate hicks from the first game. Sexy lady art on the armor in line with all the other cool grafiti you'd see in Metzen's concept art. It all FELT like a continuation of Starcraft- like someone thought the previous game was the coolest shit and just wanted to give it better graphics.This meanwhile feels like Microsoft stripping the house Blizzard built for copper wiring- not really giving a shit about the previous setting, just looking to see what can be ripped out and repurposed to ape off of what's popular now.
>>98675836Well now that's just very unfortunate.
>>98675883Except for the steady line of broken, giblet filled suits returning to the barracks for refit. Smells like victory!
>>98676963It's actually unironically worse than that. The overt fascist imagery of having rank upon rank of buzzcut zoomers saluting a call-and-response Nazi rally. The Zerg swarm is immense and incalculable, our boy Holt gets one look at them and shits his pants, halfway empties one magazine and dies messy. His recovered armor is hosed out by a faceless technician among countless other reclaimed suits getting the same treatment. There's a tray full of discarded graduation pins to hammer home that this is all they do, everyday.Contrast with something like Helldivers, which I'm sure this game is going to rip off from liberally in gameplay, where the trailer presents a bombastic celebration of jingoistic patriotism. The picture-perfect ethnically diverse middle class family is brutally murdered by bugs prompting our thirty-something protagonist to join the Helldivers, which then goes full recruitment video and montages a bunch of exaggerated swagger combat scenes. All of it is 1:1 with the game (even headshotting the Bile Titan with a recoilless rifle) but rather than play up the abject horror of Malevelon Creek or Oshaune, it's framed to glorify how badass the Helldivers are - NOT to play up their inherent disposability. You buy into the fantasy because you believe that you can be the best of the best of the best.It's fun.All that the Dominion trailer tells me is that Blizzard takes itself way too seriously and has completely forgotten what made StarCraft charming in the first place. An open world shooter sounds cool, show me how it's cool; don't tell me that you think fascists should meet a sticky end.
>>98677158Dominion is a fascistic state you dipshit. You spend SC1 fighting against the confederacy which were the retarded hicks that LOST the fucking war. They were destroyed by the Zerg, the Protoss and the Sons of Korhal who became turbo authoritarian commie/fascist/monarchist dictatorship.Did you even fucking play the game?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6bVj-nTkiUYou spend the second game's terran campaign fighting against the dominion. And the new game is set 70 years afterwards. Dominion was never destroyed, it just got new leadership in the form of Valerian whose reforms apparently did not stick.The redneck hicks in the frontier are long gone by the new game because it is set 70 fucking years after the destrcution of the confederacy. SC2 is just 4 years after BW. Tychus was a man born into the confederacy. Mulatto Holt is some dipshit kid born decades since the last great war and the destruction of the confederacy.
>>98677259Nobody's saying that the Terran Dominion isn't fascist, Mr. Media Literacy, the point is that the trailer for StarCraft: Dominion looks grim, dour and unfun. I'm glad you're excited to play a Hitler Youth that gets turned into sticky red paste, some of us would rather engage with the power fantasy of being a walking tank with a rapid-fire railgun and this isn't selling that fantasy.
>>98677259>The redneck hicks in the frontier are long gone by the new game because it is set 70 fucking years after the destrcution of the confederacy. I understand the lore explanation moron- I'm saying it's retarded to make a game set in this time period because without the space rednecks and Southerner vibes the Terrans are bland & forgettable, as interchangeable as the human military in Halo or Helldivers or Dead Space or Doom or Destiny or Gears (if you ripped the macho shit out of it) or Space Marine (if you ripped all the gothic shit out of it.) It doesn't look like there's anything interesting or outstanding that will set this game apart from any of the other scifi shooters- it'll just be more of the same in an oversaturated market with bigger titles overshadowing it. It feels like they're sterilizing the world to make it more marketable, because rednecks are obviously code for white supremacy/conservatism so it's heckin problematic, but without them you're not left with much.Fuck, even if they HAD included the space rednecks they'd STILL have trouble making this game stand out from other space man shooters, hence why they had NOVA as the original pc when they were trying to make the game work forever ago.
>>98677521Ghost was a completely different kind of game, it had more in common with Splinter Cell. Dominion is probably more closely related to Project Ares, the cancelled Terran Marine shooter from about ten years ago. Nova wasn't going to be the protagonist of that.
>>98670726its established in the........3rd novel? 2nd or 3rd, i cant remember which, i think it was speed of darkness, that the terran confederacy was/is using literal mind slaves by brainwashing and overwriting the memories of civilian populations to get them to """enlist""" in the marines, on top of their other forced prison labor recruits like tychus.
>>98677398>some of us would rather engage with the power fantasy of being a walking tank with a rapid-fire railgun and this isn't selling that fantasy.Then Starcraft is not for you. Terran marines have NEVER been walking tanks. They are expendable pawns. The only less expensive unit in the game is the fucking zergling.
>>98677521sometimes a game doesnt need to reinvent the wheel. it just needs to be good. they dont need some new scifi societal contrivance to distinguish their brand, they just need to make a good shooter with a starcraft skin. they arent some indy dev trying to get their foot in the door with some kitschy angle, they're starcraft, people will know what it is the second they see the logo. it just needs to play well, maybe tell a good story or have some cool levels. space marine 2 didnt do anything you hadnt seen before, and more or less the characters were functionally the same as a spartan or a gears of war guy, but that game blew up because it looked good and it played well and it was attached to a big name that people recognized.
>>98677398It's Starcraft, you will have ample opportunity to mow down hordes of enemies with giant guns and vehicles.
>>98677591>Subverts your expectationsWhat now, pleb
>>98677596You've seen a cg trailer for a game that's coming out in four years, yet all you want to do is find absolutely anything to bitch about.We know nothing about it, except it's a shooter set in the Starcraft world, so it will very likely not subvert expectations when it comes to killing shit, because that's what Starcraft is all about.
>>98677628>yet all you want to do is find absolutely anything to bitch about.This was my first post ITT :^)
>>98677583>space marine 2 didnt do anything you hadnt seen before, and more or less the characters were functionally the same as a spartan or a gears of war guy, but that game blew up because it looked good and it played well and it was attached to a big name that people recognized.Space Marine is the exact kind of game I'm talking about that blows half assed attempts like this out of the water retard- it didn't try to do anything fancy, it just had a cool character in a cool world brimming with personality. Imagine a space marine game WITHOUT all the cool gothic shit or the weird looking characters like the tech priests or even the cadians or the one man crusade vibes- shit would've been dropped in a week. The atmospehere of the world is what sold the game more than anything- and with that sucked out of Starcraft now and replaced with generic scifi military shit is probably doomed to fail.
>>98677552Tertiary detected. Marines are the single most versatile unit in the game, they can fight equally well against ground and air units. Mass marines take down endgame units in both SC and SC2. Add a couple of medics to support and you can steamroll most encounters.>nuh uh! what about [esports meme buld order]You don't play competitively and the vast majority of players don't even know what 6pool is.
>>98677591>surely Blizzard won't fuck it up like StarCraft 2 againsweet summer child
>>98677662lol you just countered your own argument all in the same post. that said, you're a vile person, so im checking out of this thread for a while. have fun talking to yourself. try not to start every post with an insult and people might actually care what you have to say.
>>98677785k bye
Where do I find wave 2s rules and points? The builder only seems to have the starter units.
My only hope for the shooter is that Kerrigan does not shoe up and is never mentioned.
>>98677692>Tertiary detected. Marines are the single most versatile unit in the game,I said nothing about not being versatile, you fucking moron. I said about them being expendable and not being walking tanks. Terran Marines are squishy and die like flies in any fight. Their in universe life expectancy in combat is 9 fucking seconds as stated in the Brood War manual.If you want walking tank infantry, you play as protoss because their units are actually tanky. You fucking disphit. You clearly have never played the game.
>>98678003>autistic screechingOpinion discarded
Nobody wanted a fucking starcraft shooter anywayWe only ever wanted sc3 forever but now the idea of that is so fucked because blizzard doesnt have any of the same people it used to so if they made it now it would fucking suck lolAnyway the board game is pretty funHaven’t tried protoss yet though
>>98677785>This trailers looks like SM2 without all the cool parts of SM2>Take all the cool parts out of SM2 and you'd be left with a pretty shitty gameHave I not been pretty consistent with my argument?
>>98677821probably once they release the app should have them
>>98677821>RulesCompany discord or youtube, for example this guy https://www.youtube.com/@Thorrk_Gaming/featured do keep in mind rules are still WIP>PointsNot released yet
>>98678003>Terran Marines are squishy and die like flies in any fight. Their in universe life expectancy in combat is 9 fucking seconds as stated in the Brood War manual.Hence why shit doesn't work as a story driven fps- Private Pepe fresh out of Space Hitler Academy who dies 30 seconds in after finding out the real evil alien space bug was MAN all along is a stupid played out premise. The Lt. Master Marcus Chief Slayer Space Man premise the other anon talked about is played out too, but at least it's consistently retarded fun.NEITHER feel like Starcraft really, but at least the former would jive better with the retarded macho redneck antics you'd see embodied with the grunts in the first game and Tychus (the named character grunt man) in the second. I could see a game sort of like Gears of War where you have a band of retards getting up to all sorts of machismo antics to fight the zerg (eg piloting a Thor to fight an Ultralisk and spending the first half of the fight whacking it in the face with your guns because you have no clue how to turn off the safety), aggressively winking at the camera all the while.None of them really capture the feeling of Starcraft though- best thing you could probably do is a Battlefield type shooter where everyone runs around as a marine/zergling/zealot and unlocks other units as the match progresses. Another played out premise sure, but the mass melee in two factions would at least add some variety other Battlefield type games don't necessarily have. You might not even have balanced teams but ratios to reflect the individual strength of the protoss & the swarm reliant aspect of the zerg.
>>98678491I do wish that the approach they had taken for the game was some battlefield Starcraft version. Mostly because I want to play as a Zealot and slice up marines and zerg units alike. The protoss are the coolest part of Starcraft.
>>98678491Itll be fine bros I think everyone is overthinking “shooter”You shoot space bugs it’s not that deep lol
>>98678491I get what you are saying, but I wouldn't consider Tychus just a named grunt character. Most if not all of the named characters in SC2 are special snowflake hero units, with Wings of Liberty's optional mission against the nydus network on Char being the worst offender. Nothing wrong with that, I suppose, it's fun enough, but Tychus with his ridiculously oversized minigun and shredder grenades, higher armor, higher health - definitely no mere grunt.HOTS is a hot mess but I will admit he was fun in that game. Get the healing on his minigun, known when to boost away from enemies, and you could endure a lot of other characters, wear down their health, then chuck a grenade at their back as they flee for a takedown. Or just drop the Odin in and go to town. Jimmy's greater range and heavier damage are overall more reliable, but he's just not as much fun to play. And I just felt like mentioning all that. HOTS is a Blizz game, draws from the source material, but it's still its own thing and I wouldn't hold it as a true indication of what they can do. Like teleporting in the Odin, for one.Also I suppose technically Nova's missions are a worse offender at named characteritus, but they're a self-contained thing tacked onto SC2. Still wish we'd gotten that Nova game. Much more than whatever this is that may or may not but probably won't come out in 2030.
i dont know why people like Space Marine so much, guns are pretty useless there so everything ends up being just melee slop.
>>98679679>guns are pretty useless there so everything ends up being just melee slop.it's a bamham clone
is it me or is artanis a bit of an underperformer? yes he allows more movement shenanigans and his double charge can be funny to distract on speed 8 character but he just can sorta ok go through chaff or armored unit whilst folding to any other hero
So, two questions. For a first TT wargame with no modeling experience, is this a bad one to play or assemble? And is the starter set all you need to get started with normal games, or is it like combat patrol where you need to buy more shit.
>>98666724Tychus is alive and thriving
>>98680883Putting models together is just following the instructions, all pieces are numbered so no big deal, you only need a hobby knife, a clipper and plastic cement.A starter set is good enough for 1000 mineral games.>>98679769Another overrated borefest, I suppose that type of combat just clicks for some people.
I really love Tychus and want to buy him when he releases for the game but I do not care in the slightest about the Heaven's Devils or whatever the fuck his group of Cringe OCs is called. I hope when Archon release Tychus he comes separate from them so I don't have to purchase a whole box of dudes I don't want just to get him.
>>98682001faction variant unit just uses pre-existing model with hero and their faction card in their own box. So you'll just buy tychus mini
>>98682088>>98682001Heaven's Devils are confirmed to be releasing in the same wave as Tychus.
>tfw know stuff as unaffiliated but don't want to get my shit nerfed preemptively and sour the lgs atmosphere
>>98682256No idea wtf you're even trying to say, lad.
September is half over Jarek, where is my order.
>>98683614in mūh būm
>>98670693To be fair, that's how tanks worked in their earliest iterations.
>>98684172Yes, but now tanks transform into massive stationary cannons. Keep with the times, gramps, and get back to me when muhrines can transform into more gun.
>>98684216I guess that's technically General Warfield. Not that it helped him any.https://youtu.be/MXORKvrORtk?t=1028
I have a question regardless the draft part of the mission. If each players brings two mission cards, the loser discards 2 of them and the winner choses between the 2 available ones?May aswell just the winner select one mission from the cards the loser brings,because 100% of the time the loser is gonna just discard whatever 2 mission cards the opponent brings.
>>98684216>Keep with the times, gramps, and get back to me when muhrines can transform into more gunWarfield? His whole thing is getting a big cool robot gun arm.
Raptorlings may be the most "meta" Zerg unit rn but I think Swarmlings are just so much more fun to use. I hate the Raptorlings design.
>>98686534I thought his whole thing was basically being old man Carl Weathers
>>98686732>I hate the Raptorlings design.I don't mind the bug wings, but I think the back fin looks dumb.
>>98688025I love the back fin on the Swarmlings and think the tiny itty bitty wings on the Raptorlings is fucking retarded looking.
>>98687060Nah, his whole schtick is "big tough American Civil War-era General with a robot arm" and it's kino.
>>98686534Did he ever get to shoot that? I honestly don't recall. I remember he pointed it at Kerrigan then she basically squished him like a bug. Sent that girder all the way to the other side.
>>98689330He shoots off the top of his DOOM FORTRESS when Kerrigan is retaking Char in HOTS, but he's hard to spot amid the chaos of the battle.
>>98689394Hard to see anything in that fight with so many Gorgons blocking the field of view desu
>>98689442>GorgonsCoolest capital ship in SC. Always annoyed we only got to control 'em once in the whole series.
Can protoss look good painted normally? The non metallic metal looking gold on the boxes looks amazing but I can't paint that well.
