The Painting Phase is a few ex-GW people, and they’ve had loads of other old GW people on. They’re a good watch/listen too
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Question to those living in countries that rejected inches and feet. How are Games Workshop games measured? Do you have inch rulers just for those games or are the move/range stats given in centimetres?
We use inches. For necromunda we still use the red whippy sticks from ORB and Outlanders, for whfb I bought an official gw measuring tape. But I think i could just have bought something in the hardware store, most times they have centimetres on one edge, inches on the opposite. Then again, gw never translated their games to Danish, so everything is handled in English anyway. My kids are taught English from 1st grade, and navigate yt and the like just fine.
Interesting watch. Kind of amazing that by the late 80s GW was worth around £10 mil. That seems mind boggling for such a company in the 80s - seems like GW took off like a rocket despite being relatively small in terms of people working there! Made Brian Ansell a multi-millionaire tax exile to boot, hmm, less said on that the better methinks..
Also interesting that he states 40k (Rogue Trader) became anarchic with rules all over the place (books here there and everywhere) and needed a tidy up in the form of 2nd ed., seems a bit like these days...
What I also get from the interview is that although Warhammer Fantasy was initially a cynical ploy to sell models it became a bit more than that because, the "fans wanted it", and it was produced by people all throughout the company right to the top who absolutely loved what they were developing/writing, not some bunch of bean counters focused on churn!
He talks about working in dingy cramped studio spaces prior to Kirby's buyout in '91, I wonder if he ever went to their Goodramgate store in York...
Waiting for part two of that interview, I was aware of GW in the early days but only through occasional after school games clubs that ran Space Hulk (1st ed.)/Blood Bowl (2nd ed.) and my figure collecting didn't take off until 40k 2nd ed.
On a side note, couple of years ago, whilst watching a re-run of BBC's Flog It (bit like Antiques Roadshow for our cousins over the pond), they were in Tilbury, Essex, and there was a guy in the queue holding a 1st edition WFB box set, never got interviewed, but I've seen them crop up on evilbay for as little as £50!
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In inches and feet.
As @MedMos mentioned most (or at least a lot of) tape measures have both cm’s and inches on them, and we still have plenty of older fixtures built to imperial standards as well as stuff that is imported from the backwards places that still use imperial.
I still measure my height in feet and inches for some reason even though everything else is metric.
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Yeah, the UK is still a pleasant halfway house of a country. We drive in MPH, but fill up in Litres, buy pints of milk and beer but other liquids in metric. Measurements are taught in metric, but we measure heights in imperial, along with timber, masonry and other things. Our steel is sized in metric but to an imperial scale (beams are not 250mm for example but 254mm (10inches) etc.
Luckily all (almost!) tapemeasures have metric and imperial on them.
Luckily all (almost!) tapemeasures have metric and imperial on them.
i work in the printing and design industry.we use inches for width and centemeters for height.
confused? knobody knows why
confused? knobody knows why
What happened to… umm… pica? I seem to remember pica as a unit of measurement. Spacing? Ah, it’s been ages. Decades even…
Inches and feet are for gaming. GW and general tabletop stuff is in inches, and D&D is in feet and miles. Pathfinder had a version with metric measurements, and having a things like spell areas measured in 1.5 meter squares just felt...wrong.
I'm in the UK, so used to mixing metric and imperial. I have considered - but not actually tried - playing games by switching 1" for 2cm. It would be simple maths but also slightly reduce distances, making it a little easier to play on a dining table. It would also be handy if you then need to halve things again (which happens quite a bit in Frostgrave).
SAGA uses three sticks for movement - large, medium and small.
I think they all correspond to inch based movements but it would be easy to just make three sticks in metric and use those instead. As long as you have SML you’re fine.
i remember a game a freind designed , where range was based on concentric rings radiating out from a central point.
each ring was a different scale meaning one inch from a model was one inch.two inches represented four.three represented six.
he said the table we played on was too small , so his idea was his formula meant the table became several yards across.
we didnt play it a second time.
some people may be so intelligent they become stupid
each ring was a different scale meaning one inch from a model was one inch.two inches represented four.three represented six.
he said the table we played on was too small , so his idea was his formula meant the table became several yards across.
we didnt play it a second time.
some people may be so intelligent they become stupid
Thank for the replies. I really need to start reading rules books in the local language. Then maybe I can find some in person players.
But a new question. Mrs Bear and I are exchanging gifts soon. I have something for her but she says she can't think of anything for me. She wants me to make a list with links for anything related to hobbies.
I thought a 3d printer, now that it is popular, but is it worth it with a budget of only 100 to 200 Euros?
Any other suggestions? What do women like to buy for men?
I thought a 3d printer, now that it is popular, but is it worth it with a budget of only 100 to 200 Euros?
Any other suggestions? What do women like to buy for men?
Lingerie? Always a joy to unwrap. Wink wink nudge nudge nudge
Last time she looked at at me like I was a weirdo and asked what I was wearing. Lol.
on a serious note though, I think she would prefer suggestions that can be opened in front of Little Bear.
Uuuh... *rapidly scans a very long list* ... cheese.
I warn you, its a hobby in itself and quite dangerous if, like me, you have a hoarding addiction.
It does help make my completionism more realistic when it comes to things like collecting all the Bolt Action tanks.
