And, credit to Dr Corey, who had a similar idea before the whole GW mess even started with his photo: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/563493. I didn't catch it until after I submitted mine, but wanted to give him credit regardless.
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It's kind of strange, don't you think, that GW's efforts to make us hate them has brought joy to our hearts through all of the satire that has appeared of late.
"Sometimes game rulebooks are meant to be used as a guide - not chiseled into stone tablets as scripture. If using a specific rule makes a game more fun for you, then it is not only your right - but it is your duty to change it." --Rob Bell
“My opinion is that a game has its own life when published, and is really alive when players want to add their own house rules!” --Bruno Cathala
They left that one poor guy on the other side of the door to face the hordes alone.
Although you cannot see it in this picture, I wouldn't worry too much about him. He has the flamer. And wooden genestealers burn a lot easier than plastic ones...
Maybe this could be combined with something like Flux where you draw your own corridors and rooms and create doors and weapons on the fly.
Space Marine Player: "Uh oh. My marine carrying the power sword just died!"
Genestealer Player: *gloats*
Space Marine Player: "No biggie - I just remembered one of my guys was carrying a backup weapon!" *doodles real quick* "Uh, yeah, so its a
'Thermonuclear Lightning Vorpal Power Sword of Speed +5' that has been blessed in person by the Emperor Himself! Prepare to face electrified atomized death by decapitation you genestealers!"
Maybe this could be combined with something like Flux where you draw your own corridors and rooms and create doors and weapons on the fly.
Space Marine Player: "Uh oh. My marine carrying the power sword just died!"
Genestealer Player: *gloats*
Space Marine Player: "No biggie - I just remembered one of my guys was carrying a backup weapon!" *doodles real quick* "Uh, yeah, so its a
'Thermonuclear Lightning Vorpal Power Sword of Speed +5' that has been blessed in person by the Emperor Himself! Prepare to face electrified atomized death by decapitation you genestealers!"
Genestealer Player: *grumbles*
Genestealer Player: Well, fine, if you are going to play that way, I'm just going to draw an entry arrow right behind you here.
This is how I spent my supporter bonus Geek Gold. With more support I could have had both Over Texts.
Paul Contway wrote:
Whats up with the GW boycott? Can someone please throw me a link with some info?
Just searching the forums for Games Workshop or GW will bring up all kinds of threads. Aldie's response can be found here; Games Workshop and BoardGameGeek.
Lol, actually the best part is there is absolutely nothing in this image that GW could harp on except paper cutouts that look like they may be representations of weapons used in a product they have called "Space Hulk."
"But sir! My meeple's claws have only 3 prongs!" Lawyer dude: "He's right, you know. And now he owns it too." lol
Still waiting on the Cease and Desist from Rio Grande though.
HHHMMMM! Just about all of the marines have illegal facing. I'm calling the Space Hulk police. Very cool pic.
No - he's captured the full "which way is that guy *actually* facing" effect of the original.
Also just think of the expansion sets. I have a full matching squad of ultrameeplesmarines here, which are yours for another, oh £30. Plus a matching uh, space cart, psychic pig and meeple marine librarian apparently wearing big trousers
Hell..., just in time my expansion arrived, the big box.
Let's see... Ultra Meeples, Raven Guard Meeples, GreyKnights Meeples... There is a pig, a princess and a count? ?? Seems they included the Pigs in Space Meeples expansion as well as princess Leia and Count Dooku?
Hmmm. You will likely be able to claim parody as a defense to a claim of copyright infringement but what about the inevitable claim of trademark dilution?
You can parody a game as long as you dont copy the rules. Hence Crawdads & Crayfish, Hackmaster, Warhamster, Pimp: The Backhanding, and myriad other jokes.
Its a totally grey area and what one person gets away with another might not.
Whats up with the GW boycott? Can someone please throw me a link with some info?
Just searching the forums for Games Workshop or GW will bring up all kinds of threads. Aldie's response can be found here; Games Workshop and BoardGameGeek.
In all honesty, GW games aren't that popular with most gamers I know. The whole cease and desist thing will harm that company more than help them.
Seeing this, I did actually laugh out loud, and not like when you just type 'lol' but don't really mean it....well it was more of a straight 'HA' than a series of laughter sounds.... but I think that still qualifies.
I really love the cutout weapons 
Can someone please throw me a link with some info?
