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Re: Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition Battle Report: Adeptus Custodes vs Necrons 2000pts

Alistair Bain — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 19:54:36 -0000

"And their mate... old mate Lion Shoulder." Beautiful. I was surprised you all were able to make it to the end of the report after that. :)

Re: Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition Battle Report: Ultramarines vs Adeptus Mechanicus 2000pts

Alistair Bain — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 17:03:23 -0000

Stig, I've got to say, your Mechanicus force is beautiful. All the armies I see on TT are high quality, but I'm loving the AdMech.

Re: Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition Battle Report: Ultramarines vs Adeptus Mechanicus 2000pts

Alistair Bain — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 16:57:44 -0000

Sleep is for the weak. Watch Tabletop Tactics until your eyes BLEEEEEEEED!

Re: Chaplain Durendin – Guardian of Names

Alistair Bain — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 07:42:25 -0000

I was hoping for GK whirlwinds. No rumours at all pointing in that direction but it would have been nice. Chaplains would indeed have rocked.

Re: Chaplain Durendin – Guardian of Names

Alistair Bain — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:34:34 -0000

Those are astonishing. Shame Chaplains aren't in the new GK codex. It's odd as they had as much right to be there as the Libby.

Re: Fritz 40K: Grey Knights Assassin Lists?

Alistair Bain — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:27:44 -0000

I often thought of running Death Cult Assassins in a Land Raider with an Inquisitor. That would have sent my opponent into a fit. Hmmm. Hang on, I'll have to try and justify the expense to the missus...

Re: Citadel Finecast and Chaplains

Alistair Bain — Sun, 29 May 2011 07:36:33 -0000

Still working on the Chaplain. Real life always gets in the way of gaming...

I've seen a lot of the reviews. Based on my single model, the quality is good. (Whatever that's worth.) Hopefully I'll do it some justice.

Re: 13 days of Prog Rock! – Aphrodite’s Child

Alistair Bain — Tue, 03 May 2011 14:04:04 -0000

Mr Laird, as always I appreciate your assistance.

Re: Boobs and Guns and Swearing, oh my!

Alistair Bain — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 06:27:16 -0000

you're making perfect sense Lorna. I'm no prude. Hell, no. And I've seen a ton of porn in my time. But the effect it has on the mind isn't good.

Through work I've met a teenage boy who dumped his girlfriend cos she was, in his words, frigid. They were having sex, plenty of it if he was telling the truth, but she was dumped cos she wouldn't go ass to mouth...

Unbelievable, but that's what he said. He was one of many kids I know who have an altogether bad attitude to sex. But ass to mouth boy was the worst.

Re: Gagarin!

Alistair Bain — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:22:02 -0000

Whoo! The future is here!

Re: The studying has paid off!

Alistair Bain — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 06:05:11 -0000

Yeah, but the hours are long. And there are a lot of night shifts. You do get a cool uniform though.

Re: Warhammer 40k: The Grey Knights ride again!

Alistair Bain — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 08:44:47 -0000

Totally. I got distracted by the big guns while conveniently forgetting that the current Daemonhunter book doesn't have much room for anti-tank.

I won't make that elementary mistake in the next game. I'll make a whole new elementary mistake. :)

Re: WFB NEWS: Skaven 2nd Wave Advanced Orders Up

Alistair Bain — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:56:10 -0000

I'm not sure my wife would let me have that Abomination in our home but I'm the warp lightning cannon could find a place on my shelf. It's a thing of wonder.

Re: Wargames Legalwatch: Games Workshop vs Chapterhouse

Alistair Bain — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:53:12 -0000

I wouldn't agree that the laws discourage creativity. I'm willing to accept that they are antiquated but to say that they discourage creativity is maybe taking it a bit far.

My own work isn't directly based on that of anyone else. I've been inspired by countless images and discussions over the years but I'm not using anyone else's work as my own.

However, I did write a story for publication using the spindizzy technology from Cities In Flight by James Blish. And I did receive not a single penny from that.

Re: Wargames Legalwatch: Games Workshop vs Chapterhouse

Alistair Bain — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:52:51 -0000

the copyright laws are sound as they stand. Well, maybe they aren't exactly sound but they work well enough I reckon. There are other copyright options for those who don't mind their work being shared and worked on by others freely. Creative Commons springs to mind.

But as a creator I wouldn't want my own work to be taken and adapted by others for profit. Especially without my permission.

Re: Wargames Legalwatch: Games Workshop vs Chapterhouse

Alistair Bain — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:13:34 -0000

So, according to the begging letter on their own website and the one in the BOLS forum they are wanting community support to help fund a fight they wanted from the start, one in which they sought to make money on someone else's IP.

What makes it worse for Chapterhouse is that they sell their goods for cold hard cash. Making money from someone else's property will never fly with the courts.

If it does, I have my own version of a 40K role-playing game I'd love to print and sell. Licences be damned! And more fool Fantasy Flight Games for bothering to do that in the first place if I can just make my own versions and sell them for the afore-mentioned cold hard cash...

Re: The triumphant return to 40K: Grey Knights vs Deathwing

Alistair Bain — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 07:30:40 -0000

Yeah, Larry isn't far off the target. Thing is that GW is a necessary gateway drug. And the minis ARE very pretty. ;)

Re: The triumphant return to 40K: Grey Knights vs Deathwing

Alistair Bain — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:45:59 -0000

Did you have a game of Blood Bowl recently?

Re: Time off – gaming, writing and whatever else

Alistair Bain — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:23:26 -0000

Hey Dave, How goes life? It's good to hear from you. I'm enjoying the time as best as I can. Many miniatures still to paint...

Re: That’ll be NotNaNoWriMo then

Alistair Bain — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:44:24 -0000

I might just do that... :)

Re: NaNoWriMo: full steam ahead!

Alistair Bain — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:10:08 -0000

You bloomin' overachiever! I'm going gung-ho for the one. That should be enough. It's the "get it finished, edit it and see if I can get it published" one. :)

I reckon it's time for me to take my game to the next level.

Re: Book Review: Hunt for Voldorius

Alistair Bain — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:47:15 -0000

I couldn't have said it better myself. I'm not the greatest writer in the world, far from it, but it boils my goat to see stuff like this getting in print.

The style was pretty stiff and it glosses over lots of action in the same way it would be explained in a codex.

I had expected better.

Re: The dread spectre of NaNoWriMo

Alistair Bain — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:19:18 -0000

Heh, six or seven weeks... One extra week to look at something to write still doesn't seem like enough time. You have any ideas for this year or are you going for the Terry Pratchett thing?

Re: Which Army For The Tournament?

Alistair Bain — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 11:51:43 -0000

On a unrelated note to your Red Templars, where did the opening sequence of your video come from?

Re: 40k Lore: The End Times

Alistair Bain — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:15:12 -0000

Has there ever been mention in any of the fluff of a Tyranid hive war? Anything about two hive fleet factions fighting cos one is the wrong genetic mix?