Lego BB

[burgun824]

Grown men arguing about which toys are the most acceptable to use for a game.

+1 on this.

/me grabs popcorn and kicks feet up.

By all means continue though.

[Wightlord]

Looking Cheap - Are the Humans and Orcs that come in the boxed set banned? They look pretty cheap too.

Do they? I've seen some really nice boxed set teams - if the player has put the effort into painting them they are just fine. I'd far rather play a modestly painted team than any set of Lego, they look like childrens toys rather than grown up childrens gaming models and just don't do it for me.

[harroguk]

That's because visual appeal is subjective.

[spubbbba]

If you go back and look at my necro team posted earlier in the thread I would defy you not to be easily identify every model in it. At a push you could say which are the ghouls (it's the ghosts from a "ghouls n ghosts" reference) but it looks like a necromantic team and every player looks like their position.

You will notice that I am still saying that models must look like the players they represent which removes the coloured blocks that you speak of. I understand that your opponents should be able to look at your team and instantly know who and what they are playing against.

I think your vampire team is fine, as they only have 2 positionals and it is very easy to tell them apart. The vamps look cool but I think the thralls do look a bit rubbish.

For the necromantic team the wolves and golems are nice but the only thing to differentiate the zombies from the wights is the faces. How are they told apart when face down? They all seem to have generic civilian clothes, maybe if the wights had knight bodies with a skeleton head and helmet.

The ghosts stand out but it isn’t obvious that they are the ghouls since the sharp teeth on the pumpkin heads could be used to represent cannibals plus they are the only living players on the team. Also wights are often depicted as being part ethereal so I’d see them as the most ghost like.

But I think the slippery slope argument does stand. If a gaming group allows a lego figure team like yours then why not mine using lego bricks? If mine is colour coded (green for golems, red for wights, yellow for ghouls, grey for zombies and blue for wolves) and uses different shapes then it is easier to differentiate my positionals than yours.

[Heff]

I don't particularly like painting but have persevered and hope that everybody's enjoyment is enhanced by seeing what I had done. I am now competent(no more) and that is after years of painting. I like to look at two painted teams cos both players are serious about what we are doing and have bought into it as demonstrated by the cost and effort involved in getting teams "table ready". You turn up with figures that look like they have been painted by colour blind spastic monkeys and I will still respect you for making an effort. Hell I will even compliment you that they are all uniform colours, or properly based or whatever.

You turn up with a load of pro painted figures and I sort of feel disappointed for you (ownership is about painting for me, even though I hate doing it. This is why I NEVER play with unpainted figures) but will tell you they are nice and worth the money. You show up with a load of kiddy bricks and I think you are taking the p*ss. You are not making the same effort as me and have not bought into it.

I realise this is unfair, I realise this is just me, and I am not aiming to give offence. Your lego figures are nice, you have made an effort but to me they are just lego, no ownership, no effort, no expense (in comparison to a pro painted team) don't expect me to thank you for it. If somebody was to come up and say

"They are nice... ooo look that team is lego that is good!" after I had spent something like 30 hours painting a team I think I would scream!

The long version of why this development needs to be stopped, preferably with large sledgehammers.

[Heff]

I do think those thralls look like they belong in village people though. Gay lego

[Darkson]

Grown men arguing about which toys are the most acceptable to use for a game.

+1 on this.

/me grabs popcorn and kicks feet up.

By all means continue though.

+1 from me to.

If someone turned up at my league or tourney with a Lego team I'd allow it, as long as it was easy to tell positions apart.

But then, I hate painting, and don't buy all this "more committed" BS.

[Glowworm]

If someone turned up at my league or tourney with a Lego team I'd allow it, as long as it was easy to tell positions apart.

They would have been welcome at Crumb-Bowl. (see you next year )
And after checking the pictures the positionals are as easy to tell apart as GW 'Zons

But then, I hate painting, and don't buy all this "more committed" BS.

I dont paint, Im rubbish at it, which means my teams generally cost more as i have to pay to play with painted teams, so my financial outlay is greater....I think that shows "Commitment"

There's nothing better than 2 well painted teams set up on a BB pitch, but its about the game for me and if this means another opponent then its all good AFAIK.

[Jackolas]

If its clear what they are, I have no
Problem with it.

Some people hate painting, that's cool with me. I very much dislike painting. I paint my teams, but I don't hate on people that do something else.

At the end of the day, we are all playing monster subbuteo. Who cares what figures everyone uses.

The whole 'investment' into figures is very archaic and comes straight from gw.

Is it that bb is pretty much a dead game as far as gw is concerned? Trying to keep the game you all love by restricting players to 'investing' their time into painting stuff is not the way forward.

I'm glad the players in our league aren't like the majority of you,because stupid rules about figures ruin games.

[dode74]

size, weight, the fact it takes a little more commitment to paint a mini then just buy a few lego figures, and yes they do look cheap.

Commitment? This is still a game, right? For fun?

[Masterofmayhem]

New guy here, and hoo boy am I going to stir the pot with this You think Legos are bad?

*drum roll*

We have an entire minileague going on with meeples. Yes, meeples. No bases whatsoever, but all positionals, numbers, team colours, even faces and mutations are done well enough to determine who is who on the pitch. Big guys are done with megameeples and the pitches are scaled appropriately. The whole thing fits on a A3 paper including sideline adverts etc.

*grabs popcorn*

[Wightlord]

New guy here, and hoo boy am I going to stir the pot with this You think Legos are bad?

*drum roll*

We have an entire minileague going on with meeples. Yes, meeples. No bases whatsoever, but all positionals, numbers, team colours, even faces and mutations are done well enough to determine who is who on the pitch. Big guys are done with megameeples and the pitches are scaled appropriately. The whole thing fits on a A3 paper including sideline adverts etc.

*grabs popcorn*

Meeples are better than Lego! But anyway, look over there.....
*steals popcorn*

[barnacle111]

What the ... Are meeples???? Sound like they may be heffs cup of tea.

[harroguk]

What the ... Are meeples???? Sound like they may be heffs cup of tea.

Lol, they are the little men figures from carcasonne board game.

[Sandwich]

I'm sure the original post was more of a "what do people think of Lego, for playing e.g. travel bloodbowl" - so playing Lego vs Lego. That I think would be cool.

As for Lego figures vs normal miniatures, meh. Wouldn't do it myself - I'm not a great painter, and get v little time for it myself, but its all part of the hobby for me - but not fussed either way about playing against it. As long as I can tell the players apart, its all good.

Only issue I can see with Lego minifigs is, how would you symbolise which figures have skills etc?