Minis gaming anyone?

[Vera C]

Are there any minis gamers around? What games do you play? What factions? I'm super curious!

[Emmaline]

Yep.  I collect and paint retro minis too.  Got a bajillion of the things.
I play skulldred, sobah and occasionally warmachine and malifaux when my nephew visits.

[Emmaline]

Lol...  my factions tend to be, surprisingly, the more female ones.  Denial huh?

Cryx (denegrha and satyrix)
Sisters of battle
Esher clan
Amazons
Dark eldar (wyches!)
Reaper minis battle nuns

You?

[Shodan]

It's been ages since I've played minis. It's as much of a money sink as any CCG, and requires more time than I have. That being said, I mourn the passing of my old Skaven army.

[Emmaline]

I suspect a lot of trans peeps are drawn to stuff like this as a nice dysphoria escape... which it certainly was for me, and we are already all used to role playing



I find the current GW stuff just too ultra testosterone fuelled and overly grim (and ridiculouly $$$) it was fun in the eighties.

Oh, and horribly sexist.  Women cannot be space marines, and sisters of battle are piss weak?  Hmmm.

That said I grab a lot of stuff off ebay and focus on skirmish sized games, so its less of a money sink.

I havent tried flames of war... how do you rate it?

[Yukari-sensei]

The only minis game I'm really interested in getting into is the Saganami Island Tactical Simulator.... okay and maybe Flames of War...

But minis end up being such a money and time pit!

[Emmaline]

Whilst on the subject I did a couple of mini conversions from male to female whilst still in denial.  Lol.  It just leaks out of your subconscious dont it?

[Vera C]

Hahaha..Cryx.

I play mostly Warmachine/Hordes, and Malifaux, with a touch of Warhammer tossed in for good measure. :p  Most of my armies/crews are female led, because I'm sure dysphoria plays a small part in things.

Warmachine: Cryx (Pirate Queen Skarre baby!) Retribution (Kaelyssa!)
Hordes: Circle (Morvahna) Skorne (Makeda)
Malifaux: Molly, Rasputina, and the Viktorias
Warhammer 40k: Chaos Space Marines (All painted pink in honor of Slaanesh!)
Warhammer Fantasy: Warriors of Chaos led by Valkia the Bloody.

[Vera C]

I've been slowly working on a Chaos Space Marines Conversion project. Filling out those power armors with female heads, I've got a Cultist-Chan champion in there, and am really just tired of only having the Sisters of Battle to turn to.

[Emmaline]

Lol.  I once spent a night converting a classic slaanesh champion from hermaphrodite to full female because the manly half bothered me for some reason.  Lol.  Denial.

I realised that, to date, I have done a dozen or so sex changes via putty.  I have female marines, female chaos lords (ladies) and so forth.  It struck me hours after I realised I was trans that I did this and y hst most of my collection was female.  Lol.