Necromunda The Sump: General hobby venting thread (Beware: old men shouting at clouds)

[Trafalgar Law]

Speaking of missing body parts, I've noticed that the Howling Banshees have six sets of 'boobs' but only five lots of legs. There's plenty of spare arms and equipment, surely there was room on the sprue to make a sixth banshee? Would make for a much better value kit with 6 instead of 5 for £40 RRP.

 

[Aulenback]

That tells us what the designers think most important for variety - not leg poses, but different boobs.

 

[Narflung]

That tells us what the designers think most important for variety - not leg poses, but different boobs.

If they really wanted to be efficient they could get rid of all that other superfluous nonsense and have an all boob sprue. Would a box of "Boobing Boobshees" sell?

 

[MusingWarboss]

Speaking of missing body parts, I've noticed that the Howling Banshees have six sets of 'boobs' but only five lots of legs. There's plenty of spare arms and equipment, surely there was room on the sprue to make a sixth banshee? Would make for a much better value kit with 6 instead of 5 for £40 RRP.

Can you graft on a set of Guardian legs?

I know they put them in weird poses these days to prevent such obvious actions; however if you could construct a whole torso then perhaps you could flatten down the waist area and attach some spare legs? I don’t have this kit to know if that’s doable but I’d bloody well give it a go if I did!

 

[Trafalgar Law]

You'd need legs and a back plate. Might be doable, but I don't think there are any spare legs on the guardian sprue. I'll probably just order an extra set of banshee legs from a bitz supplier.

It's just really annoying as there is so much sprue space wasted with a stupid scenery shrine thing (maybe it has gameplay these days, who cares) and pointless Eldar themed, tactical rocks.

 

[Tiny]

That tells us what the designers think most important for variety - not leg poses, but different boobs.

More boobs = more better.

They're not wrong.

 

[Lord_Ikka]

It's just really annoying as there is so much sprue space wasted with a stupid scenery shrine thing (maybe it has gameplay these days, who cares)

It doesn't. Don't know why they put in the weird shrines without giving them some sort of use in either the Scorpions or Banshees. Usually something like that is at least used as a token to note a one-time use ability or a unit upgrade that doesn't give an extra model (Watchers in the Dark, Plasmacytes, Grot Orderlies, etc...).

 

[MusingWarboss]

You'd need legs and a back plate. Might be doable, but I don't think there are any spare legs on the guardian sprue.

I was just thinking of spare guardians I had.

Out of interest, does one of the six chest plates have more decoration on than the other five?

They usually do this to signify a character piece, maybe an Exarch in this case (probably along with a head and weapons), so you can make five regular ones or four with a character upgrade.

 

[Ben_S]

I just found out that Combat Cards exist (again), albeit in digital form. But I don't really get the appeal of a collectable card game without any physical cards to collect.

They had a page about the classic cards (https://www.combatcards.com/classic-combat-cards/). I hoped those were getting reissued, if only on some made to order basis. If the 1980s ones were available at a sensible price, I'd certainly be tempted to buy them. (Though I expect GW would price them at about three times what I'd consider reasonable...)

 

[Ben_S]

More boobs = more better.

Careful, or you'll fall to Slaanesh...

 

[Trafalgar Law]

I was just thinking of spare guardians I had.

Out of interest, does one of the six chest plates have more decoration on than the other five?

They usually do this to signify a character piece, maybe an Exarch in this case (probably along with a head and weapons), so you can make five regular ones or four with a character upgrade.

Yes there's an exarch torso. The extra set of boobs is for the normal version along with an extra foot and smaller tactical rock and an extra slightly less ornate power sword and pistol, there's also a huge amount of extra heads (14 in total), so you've basically got 5 1/2 howling banshees including an exarch with extra options.

They could have easily made it 5 plus the exarch which is the amount you got in the older resin kits such as the fire dragons and swooping hawks. This would have been a much better value kit as a result and wouldn't have cost them any extra as there's loads of superfluous stuff on the sprue.

 

[MusingWarboss]

Wow, that’s very odd. Guess the sculptor likes boobs then…

I remember getting my Howling Banshees in the early 90s and it was five metal ones in a blister pack then I had to get the Exarch separately. Think it was the same deal for all the Aspects back then (bar Warp Spiders which were 2 in a blister pack).

They were the originals with laspistols. Always liked those sculpts.

Keep meaning to get those resin reissues of the later metals - especially Swooping Hawks - much less likely to crash and chip!!

I do like whole squads in a box.

 

[Trafalgar Law]

They updated the sculpt at some point during 3rd edition with shuriken pistols, probably for the Craftworld Eldar mini-dex.

Always liked the laspistol ones the best, even with the flat 'starfish' poses from that era.

 

[Aulenback]

That’s not half a dog. It’s a dog victim…

Just now remembered this poster (well, after seeing it on the table last night):

 

[Greyhart]

Okay, this is only tangentially related to gaming, but it still made me sumpy.

I ordered some spray primer from a place in Nashua, NH and paid for 1-2 days shipping (it was significantly cheaper than anywhere else even with shipping and I had used them before). This was Wednesday. Got confirmation that it had shipped Thursday morning. Yesterday it was in Warwick, RI which is just literally a few miles away from me. It was scheduled to be delivered yesterday afternoon.

Nope.

Today it's in ATLANTA GEORGIA!

.. what?!

Now it's scheduled for delivery on... Wednesday.

A WEEK is not 1-2 DAYS UPS!

I've tried all day to get ahold of UPS to get a) answers WHY it was sent to Georgia when it was here yesterday, and b) at least a partial refund on the extra money I spent on shipping. No.. damn.. luck. Trying to get ahold of someone from UPS is like.. I don't know.. trying to get someone HELPFUL on the phone from a government agency.

I avoid using FedWrecks because I've had NOTHING but problems with them. Now it seems that UUUPS is going the same way. The only two I haven't had problems with are the USPS (our mail person is actually quite good), and Amazon. Looks like I'll just have to use Scramazon from now on if I want something in a hurry, regardless of if it's more expensive or not.

This kind of (dis)service is ridiculous.

 

[Beebopalulla]

Okay, this is only tangentially related to gaming, but it still made me sumpy.

I ordered some spray primer from a place in Nashua, NH and paid for 1-2 days shipping (it was significantly cheaper than anywhere else even with shipping and I had used them before). This was Wednesday. Got confirmation that it had shipped Thursday morning. Yesterday it was in Warwick, RI which is just literally a few miles away from me. It was scheduled to be delivered yesterday afternoon.

Nope.

Today it's in ATLANTA GEORGIA!

.. what?!

Now it's scheduled for delivery on... Wednesday.

A WEEK is not 1-2 DAYS UPS!

I've tried all day to get ahold of UPS to get a) answers WHY it was sent to Georgia when it was here yesterday, and b) at least a partial refund on the extra money I spent on shipping. No.. damn.. luck. Trying to get ahold of someone from UPS is like.. I don't know.. trying to get someone HELPFUL on the phone from a government agency.

I avoid using FedWrecks because I've had NOTHING but problems with them. Now it seems that UUUPS is going the same way. The only two I haven't had problems with are the USPS (our mail person is actually quite good), and Amazon. Looks like I'll just have to use Scramazon from now on if I want something in a hurry, regardless of if it's more expensive or not.

This kind of (dis)service is ridiculous.

UPS stand for u piece of shit right?

 

[Narflung]

That's excruciating. My worst experience with shipping was during the lockdowns in Australia. I'd bought some Kimera paints from a store in Victoria (I chose that store specifically due to how hard lockdowns were affecting businesses in Victoria). The delivery contractor marked the parcel off as delivered even though I could demonstrably prove it had not been. The "proof" they provided was that I had signed for the parcel; when they finally provided a picture of said signature it was literally my first name written in cursive, most likely by the driver. Even though I could prove they had not been near my property and that I had not signed for it, the delivery company went off scott-free and the company in Victoria had to send me another set of paints (thus losing them money)..

Great paints though.

 

[Bilbostomper]

Delivery companies suck. I don't really blame the drivers, though, as I have the impression that the companies try to outdo each other on the pricing so much that the drivers end up really stretching the rules in order to fulfill their quotas and they're not the ones raking in the profits anyways. Doesn't mean it doesn't suck when the drivers act shittily.

We used to buy groceries through this website and I really got fed up when I had specifically selected to have it delivered to my door and the courier just dropped it off on the porch, clicked "we tried to get into contact with you but got no response" in their app and drove off as quickly as they could. I just don't appreciate being lied to.

 

[Bilbostomper]

Hello, it is me again!

I was sent an article by my brother the other day and it was an interview with a 40k/AoS gamer done by our equivalent of the BBC. Now, I am always a bit hesitant when reading interviews with wargamers, because in my experience the journalist invariably seems to go to the interview with the mindset of "Wow, I'm sure this is going to be a group of WEIRD and STRANGE people doing WEIRD and STRANGE things. I am sure everything will be too WEIRD and STRANGE for a normal person like me to understand!" We had a reporter show up at a tournament I ran back in college and the interview was very much that. "Did you know that each little miniature has a whole rulebook to itself! How WEIRD and STRANGE!"
(The first sentence is almost literally from the interview...)
I mean, DID you see a huge pile of books next to the gaming table? No, you did not.

Anyways, this interview was mostly quite good! How nice! The guy interviewed talked about how he paints to relax and unwind, that wargaming is a social hobby, etc, etc. He did not come off as an unwashed crazy.

What was the headline on the front page of the website:
"Eric spends 200 hours painting one tiny miniature!"



Did the person writing the headline not read the article. It literally quotes him saying he spends 2-5 hours per model. It does indeed quote him saying he enjoys playing with something he's spent 200 hours painting, but that's his whole army, not one tiny guy. Even if you are trying to win the Golden Daemon you're not spending 200 hours painting just one little guy without a massive diorama base.

Did it not occur to the person in charge that 200 hours doesn't make any sense for one tiny guy? That is TWENTY-FIVE working days!

My bet is that they were too busy thinking "Oh, what a group of WEIRD and STRANGE people! Imagine spending 200 hours on just one tiny miniature! How WEIRD and STRANGE!"

 

[Tiny]

Maybe they included the time he spent thinking about painting that one tiny miniature. That's easily 200 hours.