Apocalyptic Manhattan Cityscape for Warhammer 40k
I have always been fascinated by the universe behind the Games' Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 series of strategy games: a gothic science-fantasy universe taking place 40 millennia from now, chronicling a war between anachronistic, zealot space marines and bizarre alien races.
Unfortunately, while the game universe is compelling, starting out is expensive. A number of metal figurines are pretty much required to play. You've probably seen these if you've ever gone into a board game shop, intricately painted, incredible works of art in their own right. I've seen space marines with eyebrows painted on their carbon-smudged faces with what must have been a brush consisting of a single hair. It's an intimidating scene, hard to enter and requiring a great deal of money and fanaticism.
And here's Exhibit A. A bunch of Warhammer 40k gamers created this incredible scale model of an apocalyptic, skyscraper-filled cityscape for their campaign, all to march their die-cast little men through and play imaginary space marine. It's an incredible artistic work, but there's something about it that is almost alienating in its fanaticism. How are you supposed to possibly enter a hobby where the bar to entry is creating your own apocalyptic Manhattan?
Apocalyptic Manhattan for Warhammer 40k [Official Thread]
That is astonishing, and easily puts to shame all my dodgy cardboard-and-fuse-plugs-and-random-bits-sprayed-silver architecture.
I'd agree that the 40k universe is a masterpiece of collective creativity, if a little clichéd in recent races, but the games themselves can drag out and become about who has more money to buy the fancy troops. At a GW open day they freely admitted many models were metal rather than plastic to restrict the numbers you can have in your army, and completely skirted the issue of why they don't do this using the rules (obvious enough, mind).
Time and cost are the biggest reasons why I'll always prefer Necromunda and the other small-scale games - plus there's a more tangible sense of achievement in seeing your lowly gang rise up from the Underhive, collecting experience and stories as they do. The setting is, if anything, even stronger for a mutant/cyberpunk flavoured mind like mine.
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