Update on Darktide the Miniatures Game
So the price is in for Darktide The Miniatures Game. It’s $110 U.S. This game right here. It costs $110! You get 20 minis and some cardboard for $110. That’s $5.50 per figure. Cursed City is $3.33 per model, and appears to be about 10x the game. Generally speaking, I’m pretty charitable when it comes to Games Workshop. But this is too much. If GW does release a new Warhammer Quest game in the future, I’m not sure I’ll be able to afford it.
I just kicked in a door and fought everyone in the room. Am I the baddie?
Something occurred to me during the pandemic. After being locked in for a while we started exploring those less frequented corners of our house. It turns out I still had all the hobby stuff from my teen years. Everything is still in pretty good shape so we’re HeroQuesting! We’re kicking in doors, we’re stabbing everyone inside! We’re… wait… what are we doing? These orcs were gathered around a fireside table with their only worldly possessions neatly stowed in a chest. We woke mummies from their tombs only to stuff their dusty bones back into their scarcoffigi after looting their final resting place. We stomped on goblins who stole our stuff. OK, well that one felt good. But who’s the real monster here? I have to admit, I felt a little guilty about making every encounter a bloodbath. But that’s HeroQuest, the game is so small that’s all there is. I…
Spindly vs Game Pieces
The 1990s are starting to be a long time ago now. That was my first run of interest in miniatures, wargaming, dungeon crawls and the like. Now with the pandemic still going, I’ve picked up the paintbrush again. I’ve definitely noticed a difference in miniatures, new miniatures are AMAZING. But as beautiful as new sculps are, I prefer the game-piece-iness of old models. Sure, new models are more proportionate, sculptural, etc. But these are game pieces! I’m looking a them from across a big table! And the spindlyness! I’ll really get into get-off-my-lawn territory there. So I guess what I’m getting at is that new minis are beautiful sculptures, but they make poor game pieces. The pictures below (not my paint jobs, clearly!), demonstrate robustness vs frailty. It is a bit funny though because I was getting out of the hobby by the time 1995 was rolling around. They were…