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Miniature #wargamer, Tolkien enthusiast, tea addict. 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 My #wargaming blog: rabbitsinmybasement.blogspot.com My gaming con: www.hotlead.ca

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Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 9h

Are they going to sue @wargamesatlantic.bsky.social because people are using their "The Damned" as 40k Chaos guardsmen?

Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 11h

Well they've drunk the Laissez Faire Free Market Capitalist Kool-Aid, which, by placing profits above everything else: environment, human welfare, democracy etc...they are suicidal.

Corporate Greed is an Existential Threat.

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Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 11h

They sense that they are bleeding Market Share because of their abusive business model?
And rather than change how they do business, they'll try bullying the competition.

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Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 11h

The Common Denominator is Corporate Greed stomping on small creatives.

Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 12h

Right?

Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 13h

Contact Front?

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Hate Wanks: Attorney at Law @guyver3x.bsky.social · 16h

So GW are pulling their legal bullshit with a creator on some immensely spurious grounds.

They are arguing that even not similar models are unfair competition because they're compatible with their games...

Please donate to help the legal fund #nerdlings

www.gofundme.com/f/defend-cre...

Donate to Defend creative freedom against Games Workshop threats, organized by Francesco Pizzo

Hi, my name is Francesco Pizzo, founder of Ghamak. Since 20… Francesco Pizzo needs your support for Defend creative freedom against Games Workshop threats

www.gofundme.com

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Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 13h

If they'd been a super duper tournament winning army in the heyday of WRG Ancients and DBA then they'd have more market share among wargamers as well.
So blame Phil Barker.

Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 13h

That's a good start to popularizing the era.
Of course, if you don't subscribe to MW, then you've missed it.

Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 13h

Wow that's straight up BS.
HOW THE ACTUAL FUCK can GW claim IP infringement on a model of an eagle?

Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 17h

Same
I was quite pleased to find a used copy a few years ago.

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Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 18h

What was your first Tabletop Wargame.

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Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 1d

#WIPWednesday lethargicly Poking at my @wargamesatlantic.bsky.social Goths and 3rd century Romans.
Going to mix a few archers into Goth warrior units.
Painted figures are old AF Wargames Factory Germans.

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Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 1d

So, the oldest Boss Level gamer we know of was... *checks notes*...a girl.
FSMs aren't that big a leap really.
#Nerdlings
Click to get full image etc

Archeological find of girl with cache of sheep ankle bones used for games

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Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 1d

Do they have to be Certified Organic?

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Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 1d

deadpool is wearing a helmet and holding two swords and says very nice !

ALT: deadpool is wearing a helmet and holding two swords and says very nice !

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Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 1d

Translations cost money and publishers probably figure that the market demand doesn't justify the costs

Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 1d

What we need are Continental European historians who are also wargamers to produce some "introduction to the period for wargamers" articles-guides-booklets and see if they can be translated into English

Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 1d

My poor skills at modern French and German rather killed my dreams of being a Medievalist

Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 1d

Again all very dry and scholarly.
With much in French and German.
Doesn't fit "easily accessible."

Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 1d

I mean easily accessible to Joe Average wargamer who isn't going to buy scholarly books in a foreign language.
Whereas Arthurian Britain has been done to death by populist writers giving wargamers something to get into

Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 1d

This is what I mean by "easily accessible"
A $60 scholarly work in German or French, that spends half of its pages examining source material is NOT accessible to Joe Wargamer.

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Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 1d

True. There's no bling. Nothing easily accessible.
You've just got to be comfortable with vagaries, broad sweep of historical events, and characters that are often little more than a name

Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 1d

Lack of strong sources. Lack of figures.
Existing figures are based on sketchy AF reconstructions done in late 19th century and repeated by Phil Barker in a WRG book?
The chap on that book could be made from any number of late Roman/Arthurian kits.

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Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 1d

Facts

TableTopBill @tabletopbill.bsky.social · 1d

A bad paint job is better than no paint at all......

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