GW Hate Codex Chaos Space Marines too…

…or maybe they just support the counts as phenomenon.  Looks to me like the latter is true, but is certainly not a statement controversial enough to make a post title here on Dick Move.  For evidence of this wild claim check out GW book designer Christian Byrne’s Blood Wolf Army here.

 

So we’ve got Space Wolves counts as Space Marines coming direct from the mother ship.  Next time somebody gets all uppity about your counts-as army, you might want to shove this in their face and tell them to blow it out their ass.  Or you could be more civil, I guess, the choice is yours.  Regardless, I thought you all might get a kick out of this if you hadn’t seen it yet- I know I did.

 

Pic stolen shamelessly from Hoagy’s Facebook page without permission.  Complaints will be met with sack taps.

What the hell happened to dethtron? Didn’t there used to be a blog here?

It’s been a while, hasn’t it?  Yeah, I guess I haven’t posted in almost a month.  I’m not here to make victim statements about all the fun I’ve been having at the expense of the blog (though building my FoW table has been time consuming and pseudo-work is picking up and things are not exactly rosy for me right now on a personal level), but rather to make some statements about the present and the future of Dick Move. (more…)

Epic Rant RE: Price Hikes

Super glad I bought all of the hive guard I need last month.  That is all.

The Bloggers of Blogging: Putting some swagger in the stylish blogger awards: the art of obnoxiously long titles!.

With real life taking precedence over fake Internet life with my fake persona and my persona’s secret alter ego, I have not had time to respond to the 3 separate Stylish Blogger award nominations that I’ve received in the last week or so.  Thanks to Lauby, Dave G, and the Antipope in reverse order for nominating me- now please people, stop sending me invitations to join your damn pyramid scheme!

Along with the huge cash prize I have received in my mind, comes the responsibility of sending awards out to 10-15 bloggers and sharing 7 things about myself (I think numerology suggests everything you need to know about that last bit).  Now here’s where things get interesting.  If I invest $1,000 at the ground level and each person I invite invests $1,000, I will get $100 from each of them, and 1/2 that amount for every person up the chain who is invited.  Next, we all begin working for Primerica, consolidate all of mankind’s debts into a single 30 year loan bearing a 4% interest rate, and solve world hunger.  It’s beautiful in its simplicity.

7 Rules for 7 things about me: (more…)

A Farewell to Metal at GW

Years after getting rid of supporters Bolt Thrower and Sabbat rumors currently abound that GW is discontinuing the use of the other kind of metal across the company.  I’m sure this is a great move for them, as metal prices climb to company destroying levels.

If I’m being perfectly honest, I’m not really going to miss metal in my models that much.  Sure, there’s a certain nostalgia factor that will be gone and I may eventually find myself missing the the heft of the occasional metal model, but I am seriously over working in this medium.  The argument that metal has more detail than metal is pretty much a non-debate these days.  GW’s injection molding is simply amazing these days and, from what little I understand of the casting process, a switch to resin using the current molds may even be possible.  Resin holds detail on par with metal, to be sure.

Let’s also not forget that metal is a complete and utter pain in the fucking dick to work with.  The pieces rarely fit together without needing hours of filing and bodging.   Breath on a metal kick too hard it it will break.  Do you like having your paint chip constantly?  Why not try metal minis.  Seriously, the constant upkeep on my Zoanthropes and Sammael models has really just turned me off of the process.

What say you guys?

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