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Lexington

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Lexington last won the day on September 18 2019

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About Lexington

  • Birthday 06/22/1982

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    St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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    Gaming, comic strips, fiddle faddle.
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    he/him
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    Orks!

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    Space Marines (Aurora Chapter), Chaos Space Marines (Word Bearers), Orks (Evil Sunz)

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  1. Angels of Death? Oh, man, I could go on about everything that didn't work in that series (spoilers: damn near anything), and I feel like that's a fairly widely-shared opinion. In some sense, it was a perfect introduction to the parade of disappointment that W+ animations have been.
  2. I can see what's wrong with the animation to some degree, but overall, I don't hate it. If it was done well in general, it could be something to watch. ...unfortunately, "done well in general" is a bar that W+ animations have yet to clear, so not a ton of hope for it.
  3. Ended up wanting to grab one of the old Bretonnian models that went up for MTO this past weekend. Was out of the house when pre-orders went up, so I jumped on the new site via my phone, popped the mini in my cart, all of that went fine. Then, as it’s my first order with the new site, it needs me to put an address in. The “submit address” button on the form sat below the URL bar and couldn’t be clicked or scrolled to properly. Could not enter an address, had to wait to get home to complete the order. I’ve come around (or at least gotten used to) some of the new site’s navigation, but it is still extremely bad in some weird ways.
  4. Not bad for an army whose whole schtick may well have come from an old mailing list joke. Superb stuff all around. One of my favorite 40K releases in a while.
  5. No idea how representative this is, but absolutely no one I know who plans to get into TOW is actually planning on using many GW models for it, m’self included. This is, uh, not unrelated to the prices.
  6. I’ll be a little sad if the current Terminator Lord/Sorcerer kit does go away. It’s not at all in scale with the current Terminators, of course, but with the right assembly, it’s got a ridiculous amount of character and menace.
  7. I cannot explain why, but something in my gut strongly presumes that Ork thing is Nazdreg. Feels like there’s an old piece of art or something that the pose is is being lifted from, but which one, I can’t say.
  8. Well, we'll see. Given the incredibly meagre results GW themselves have managed to achieve with Warhammer+, I'm not precisely expecting much. Re: the discussion here, man...if only it was so easy as 'staying true to the lore,' or whatever. There's so, so much more to the creation of a big prestige teevee show than that. If it were just a question of directly porting an existing work onto film, we'd have an endless supply of amazing television shows, and producers would barely have to worry about any of the messy creative stuff - your script and concepts are right there, after all. Of course, it doesn't work that way for a million reasons, and there's as many (or more!) wildly successful adaptations that throw all but the base concept out the window in favor of doing their own thing. Movies, television shows and etc. are just such unimaginably enormous projects, with literal years of man-hours going into work that's often entirely invisible to the audience. Quality is very hard to come by, and even more so now that the bottom is starting to fall out of the streaming business model. It'll be a miracle if we get something truly memorable out of this effort, and it'll have very little to do with someone doing the easy work of picking up a novel that takes a few hours to read. Is GW actually that litigious? They seem fairly lenient, really, and this is coming from someone who's been at the sharp end of their legal department's unpleasantries.
  9. Yeah, not sure I’ve heard anyone talk about 3rd - especially early 3rd - as a pinnacle of good Codex writing…
  10. They’ve pretty much all got a certain appeal to me, though plenty of that is probably nostalgia more than anything else. I’ll even stick up for 4th Ed’s otherwise uninspiring starter because of the cool Aquila Lander terrain - you could get that stuff by the bucket-full right after 5th Ed released, which is something I wish I’d taken more advantage of… Hard to pick a definitive favorite, but it’s probably a contest between 3rd and 8th, which were both big, big relaunches of the game with some iconic miniatures that really proved their core concepts, at least for the Space Marine side of things. 9th’s probably got the better miniatures overall (3rd’s incredibly ugly Dark Eldar were quite a letdown, even at the time), but 3rd had that gorgeous rulebook that’s still the best thing GW’s ever published, IMO. What’s next? I dunno, quite honestly. 11th probably wouldn’t be awful timing for the Emperor’s Children release, so maybe that? Utterly silly speculation, but I could see GW going completely buck wild on that set, including both a plastic Fulgrim and a revamped Robby G, just to show off. Who knows, tho. Personally, I’m rooting for Orks in the next box, but I would do that, wouldn’t I?
  11. Yeah, Terminators. Just...so good. So, so very good. A classic kit getting spot-on treatment.
  12. Quick! Someone put up the N1SB Signal! I dunno, but shares apparently fell by 11% today due to GW only matching expectations (ah, the investor class...), so it's not necessarily extremely great news for GW. Probably not awful, though.
  13. Yeah, I’ve personally seen both Andy Chambers and Gav Thorpe make FB posts explaining that, no, it was not a Thatcher gag. Always seemed a bit “off” to me, didn’t fit in with how GW’s humor went, even during the fairly cheeseball Stillman era.
  14. This is very true. The Imperial Knight model is one of the most amazing wargaming miniatures ever made for mass consumption, and I’m very glad it exists. On the other hand, Knights - especially Knight armies - are probably one of the worst things that ever happened to 40K as a game.
  15. Glad the M2 people are involved again - they did a good job of realizing the 40K setting. Hoping the first round’s biggest failures (ie. everything besides the animation) aren’t going to be repeated, tho.
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