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Oh, for the day when Games Workshop sold boardgames. Of other things other than thier universe.
Got this when it first came out but its long gone.
Very surprised to see this mint copy going really cheaply on eBay, so bagged me it.
Its just how i remember it and i'd remembered Brett had done the design work as well as the box art, but had totally forgotten he'd done a stunning comic strip of the guys origin that came with it:
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It's lovely stuff, getting across the story in just 6 pages and interesting that he's used a similar twisty-bodies-thingy to what he used in that poltergeist Anderson tale he was producing around the same time:
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That was a blooming great game. Given that my nerdy friends who'd play this type of thing with me are limited to... well... me these days I really should get a copy of this on eBay and go sit in the attic and enjoy as much solo fun as I like.
My copy is stiiing on the shelf of nerd... I had the citadel figures too... dunno what happened to them.
But yes, it's a great game. I may give it a run out this weekend when I'm all alone and need entertainment.
Jesus Christ I had this!! Remember it was a great game!
Yep, a great game. Only got it today but looking forward to playing it again. Re the figures, i had three - were there more?
It does look like Kano has invaded an Anderson strip.
Love it.
Quote from: Mangamax on 06 April, 2011, 03:38:48 PM
Yep, a great game. Only got it today but looking forward to playing it again. Re the figures, i had three - were there more?
Just the three that I know of. There were also some extra cards that were printed in White Dwarf.
I used to have this too - it was great, and really quite hard to win, if I remember.
Quote from: exilewood on 06 April, 2011, 03:53:02 PM
I used to have this too - it was great, and really quite hard to win, if I remember.
Yup- I think I have only won it a couple of times.
Wow!!! This is one I always wanted as a kid - but there always seemed to be some bigger, fancier game I saved my pocket money for. ...think I'll be investigating ebay for this.
On a side note, a few days ago I bought a Mighty Warriors set at a pawn shop in town - and found that the miniatures were all still on the sprues!!! Best 4.50 spent ever!
Well bids in on one now and we'll see what happens.
Must dig out my Aliens board game that was great solo fun too as I recall.
I can't wait for the day when technology has advanced that much that our fully 3-dimensional digital avatars can interact with eachother and we can all get together in cyberspace and play these vintage board games. Warlock of Firetop Mountain, Talisman, Dark Future, Space Hulk... sigh
Quote from: mygrimmbrother on 06 April, 2011, 04:21:21 PM
I can't wait for the day when technology has advanced that much that our fully 3-dimensional digital avatars can interact with eachother and we can all get together in cyberspace and play these vintage board games. Warlock of Firetop Mountain, Talisman, Dark Future, Space Hulk... sigh
When it happens, just remember that it's not smart to upset a Wookie :D.
I never cease to be amazed by the number of times Ewins could photocopy the same headshot and still get paid the same page rates as artists who actually, y'know, drew their pages.
Cheers!
Jim
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 06 April, 2011, 05:13:01 PM
I never cease to be amazed by the number of times Ewins could photocopy the same headshot and still get paid the same page rates as artists who actually, y'know, drew their pages.
Cheers!
Jim
Yeh, that allways slightly bugged me. I loved his style, but the amount of photocopying he did, his pages should have been sponsered by Xerox. :lol:
Did he use photocopies?
Know he used tracings, as i have this:
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And there were a whole bunch more like it, so assumed that's how he went about it.
Quote from: Mangamax on 06 April, 2011, 08:15:13 PM
Did he use photocopies?
Unless he used to cunningly increase the stroke weight when inking as he enlarged the images so that the process looked exactly like photocopying, then, yes, he used to photocopy a lot of panels. The ones he wasn't tracing, obviously.
Cheers
Jim
I loved that effect, especially in Bad Company, I alway felt it added a lot of atmosphere to the story, the increasing close up of Danny was used to bring home the gravity of whatever terrible situation he found himself in. One of my favourite artist at the time I dont like his later style used on Tim Kelly.
I have some of those tracings as well and I was under the impression he used a projector and the tracings to produce the photocopy effect.
David
Quote from: maryanddavid on 06 April, 2011, 11:03:21 PM
I loved that effect, especially in Bad Company, I alway felt it added a lot of atmosphere to the story, the increasing close up of Danny was used to bring home the gravity of whatever terrible situation he found himself in.
Me too, I loved the whole effect - I was initially irritated by it, then got really into it, especially the blurry strokes as they got larger. I understand why it and other 'borrowings' in his work annoy some folk, and indeed why he sometimes gets less-than-fulsome praise, but between Dredd, Anderson, Rogue and Bad Company Ewins was at one time my favourite 2000AD artist.
Quote from: maryanddavid on 06 April, 2011, 11:03:21 PM
I have some of those tracings as well and I was under the impression he used a projector and the tracings to produce the photocopy effect.
This I did not know!
Quote from: maryanddavid on 06 April, 2011, 11:03:21 PM
I have some of those tracings as well and I was under the impression he used a projector and the tracings to produce the photocopy effect.
I'm afraid I simply don't believe that Ewins drew those panels so that they looked photocopied. And, even as a kid, I felt seriously short-changed when half a page would be exact reproductions of the same headshot. And that's before we get to the swipes from other artists, or the tracings of photographs. Reference is one thing, but blatant swiping... well, if you (generic, not aimed at you M&D) are OK with it, fair enough, but I'd hope you can understand why I'm really not.
Cheers
Jim
I can understand why some artists would choose to duplicate panel artwork. Sometimes it's a response to the script droid providing too much dialogue to fit in a panel, the artists' creative response to duplicate the panel artwork and divide up the speech balloons between. In Rogue Trooper's case, GFD didn't seem the type to overload panels. There's a certain logic in stepping dialogue this way to keep the story's momentum going - every time the reader has to spend longer processing the odd panel with a denser text content, it retards the story's flow.
Just imagine how the Brett Ewins of old would have dealt with a five-page 'talking heads scenario' written by Garth Ennis!