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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thanee" data-source="post: 5258255" data-attributes="member: 478">You can say a lot of bad things about GW (some might actually be true), but they definitely make good games. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />From those three games, I have only played WHFB myself, mostly because WH40K is a bit too much of a "kiddy game" to me (the last edition seems to have made vast improvements in this area, though WHFB is still the game that attracts the more mature players (those can be young players, too)) and the 40K fluff does not really appeal to me, and Warmachine because of the killercombo-stuff you mentioned, and the "overimportance" of the leaders (warcasters?) and big mechs (warjacks?).In WHFB the importance of characters and big monsters (like dragons) has continuously been toned down to a support role, and the new edition puts a lot of focus on infantry, which is a good thing. You can actually play an army that looks like a fantasy army now without gimping yourself. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />But games tend to become bigger, which means you need a lot of models to put a decent army on the table (way over a hundred usually, much more if you play one of the horde armies). It also takes a lot of time to play a single game. I think both the other games are usually smaller (much smaller in the case of Warmachine) and faster.As for the hobby aspect... the new WHFB rulebook (which is a monster of a book, especially the very nice limited edition) is about 1/3 rules and 2/3 hobby. The game itself has become a bit simpler (the downside of which means there is more luck involved now). The WHFB models encourage making model conversions and giving the models a personal note that way, which is really cool. They are making a lot more plastic models nowadays, which are easier to convert and have tons of small bits and pieces usually. They are also a bit cheaper, but cheap is certainly not the name of this game.ByeThanee</blockquote>

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