New Member Monday - Supersized to Five and Why Someone Needs a 3rd Ed.

New Member Monday

Grunt Love
Keywords: 40k, Dystopian wars, Dropzone Commander, Firestorm Armada, Historicals, Painting challenge, Spending challenge, Kings of War,

The Burning Eye
Keywords: Warhammer 40k, Bloodbowl, Occasional random musings

Ray of Paint Studios Blog
Keywords: General gaming blog, one post a day or your money back

Darog´s Company
Keywords: Rumors, Warhammer 40k, Apocalypse, Horus Heresy, Russia is hard

Skulkers Surprise
Keywords: 40k, warhammer fantasy, bat reps, piña coladas, getting caught in the rain, not supplying keywords


Man, that's the biggest incoming class of new blogs we've had in a long while here at the House of Paincakes.  Definitely, super sized.  But in a cool way - not in an inane way like a certain movie with Morgan Spurlock.

"I'm legitimately surprised that eating McDonalds everyday makes you fat"
said no one in this movie's intended audience ever

Thoughts for the day:  A new edition of Malifaux was announced recently to much relief and fanfare from the game's fans.  It turned out the Wyrd had been quite aware of how broken the game had become and are now taking steps to fix that shit.  So good on them.

Now if we could all, somehow, convince Corvus Belli to do a 3rd edition for Infinity.  Because I love the game and spending as much time as I did last month trying to figure out exactly how broken the Combined Army's mind control ray (sepsitor) is was not something that made me happy.  Apparently a weapon that allows the other player to steal your models wasn't bent enough without the FAQ concerning mandatory ARO's and Zone of Control completely ignoring how poorly defined defending against Sepsitor was in the first place. Luckily, it turned out not to be a Hamelin crew situation (literally, game ruining) so it wasn't time to run out and buy an Avatar.  But in doing the research on why that particular rule didn't work, I came face to face with pretty much the entire "it's time to do a new edition" checklist. Sad face.

I could go into that, but the big thing for me is that a near constant stream of FAQ's resulting from the extremely loose language that exists in the original rules.  And the resulting mess that more FAQ's (across a bunch of different languages) are required to fix.

I guess I'm firmly in the territory of rant at this point, so let me just admit that I wanted to bitch about how frustrating the above FAQ conundrum is.

Anyway, given the game's popularity, it's past time for a new edition.  And, fingers crossed, one translated by someone who actually speaks English.