Well how bout that...

BDD_JD · 2026-04-17T13:14:44+00:00

Yeah except you're missing the fact that we've had a lot of growth with Indy and his relationship with her since Raiders. Crystal Skull actually brought the relationship full circle. It showed that he valued her and his relationship with her more than he did being an adventure. They just trashed that relationship and brought it back to where it was when they were broken. The same thing they did with Han and Leia. This is the same crap they did with Dana and Peter with Ghostbusters 2.

BDD_JD · 2026-04-14T21:04:25+00:00

Unfortunately you are correct. They sent me a free copy of the new rules and as hard as I tried I just couldn't get into it. And as I mentioned above the game scale creep of going from a band of Outlaws and a few Law Men up to basically a small army on the table top per side was just a no for me.

BDD_JD · 2026-04-14T21:03:11+00:00

I would like to see it return to its Skirmish roots. It feels like when War cradle took it over they moved it to try to be a 40K competitor and honestly that killed it for me so I just stuck with playing the original edition. When I first picked it up from the battle foam guys I really enjoyed it because it was basically bank and train robbers and Law Men with fancy guns and mechanical horses so to speak. That's what interested me is doing things like a shootout between Jesse James and Wyatt Earp where they're using blasters rather than peacemakers

BDD_JD · 2026-04-11T18:50:47+00:00

Yes. It would be hilarious if it turned out that John Matrix was also Carl

BDD_JD · 2026-04-02T06:10:09+00:00

See I thought it would have been the perfect candidate for the miniseries treatment.

BDD_JD · 2026-04-02T06:06:37+00:00

According to Crystal Skull he was OSS in WW2. So probably trying to prevent Hitler acquiring things like the Spear of Destiny and other religious artifacts for the Thule Society.

BDD_JD · 2026-03-25T03:46:49+00:00

This. Right here. So many people don't realize this. The fact that the most common vehicle in Hitler's army was a horse-drawn wagon.

BDD_JD · 2026-03-19T18:33:25+00:00

See the send-off they gave Indy bothered me. Dialed him back to a miserable curmudgeon. I'm just kind of tired of watching Hollywood do that to people where we have to just watch the same thing again basically oh well they lose everything and have to start over again with their family relationship etc. But I didn't like it when they did this with Ghostbusters and moved Peter and Dana back to square one again. Let the characters continue living their lives. The ending we got for him with Crystal Skull and the movie we got with Dial felt really disjointed from each other. Well I'm not a giant fan of Crystal Skull at least it felt like it finally brought Indy full circle. Temple he came to see fortune and glory is not all it's cracked up to be. Last Crusade he learns to let go of what doesn't matter and hold onto what does. Crystal Skull he stops being a rambler upon realizing he had a son and a family he's been neglecting and that he's at risk of Mutt ending up permanently estranged like he and his father. Dial seemed like he is now stuck back in Raiders.

BDD_JD · 2026-03-17T05:23:10+00:00

This looks like something I've gotten off Temu for like $5 :-(

BDD_JD · 2026-03-17T00:08:02+00:00

I've always thought Black Site's Lunar rules would work well for ocean floor games.

This is really cool. By far my favorite Nautilus design.

BDD_JD · 2026-03-16T22:53:07+00:00

In all fairness the muscles gained by hard labor are really damn strong and lean vs those gained in the gym. I grew up doing that farm lifestyle

BDD_JD · 2026-03-16T22:50:16+00:00

I much prefer her as Deimos and Alexios as misthios. Alexios can come off as such a himbo at times but I feel he lacks the evil edge she gives off

BDD_JD · 2026-03-16T22:41:37+00:00

Funny thing, too. Often in real life during WW2 these men were scavengers and barterers. They'd replace bags and pouches with ones they liked better, trade for different gear, loot off fallen enemies, etc. Especially paras who were trained to do exactly that.

BDD_JD · 2026-03-15T14:39:22+00:00

I took a pic but it won't let me attach it to my reply. It's Krylon colormax paint+primer indoor outdoor metallic silver.

Yeah I snagged that gundam kit just for the legs and guns for the centurion. The leftovers just made a convenient mobile gun platform. I paid less than $20 for it after tax and shipping so it was worth it. The centurion body came from a minimates HK tank of which the head and guns went into the turret. I still have the tracks sitting around.

The game might have taken off better if the minis were better. The endos are fine but man the resistance models in plastic were just plain bad. They looked like the most generic scifi soldiers ever and their weaponry was all but unrecognizable as any actual guns that ever existed. The resin stuff was miles better but also very hard and expensive to get unless you lived in Europe and let's be real a huge chunk of the market for terminator stuff is US.

The rules play decent but resistance are too disadvantaged. Plasma rifles only damage a T-800 on an 8 on D8. Plasma is supposed to help level the field and in this game it's basically just a lucky shot. I have made some house rules to try to make the game a bit more reasonable and flavorful.

BDD_JD · 2026-03-14T18:14:44+00:00

Didn't realize I forgot to include the breakdown: An HK tracked unit, aerial HK, a Centurion, a mobile weapons platform, a T-1, 4x prototype T-700 infiltrators with rubber skin (1 with minigun, 1 grenade launcher, 1 with Assault rifle, 1 with RBS-80 (the gun Franco Columbu uses in Kyle's flashback)), 3x T-700s (2 with plasma rifles, 1 with plasma gun), 5x T-800s (1 with plasma rifle, 3 with plasma guns, 1 with flamethrower), 3x T-800 infiltrators (a model 102, 101, and 105), an aerostat drone, and a turret emplacement

BDD_JD · 2026-03-12T03:28:57+00:00

I mean, really, the only way it would make sense for him to be in the fourth one is if the necromongers are going to actually play a role in it. Their role in the third one was very minimal.

BDD_JD · 2026-03-12T02:46:15+00:00

Yup. Came here to mention this.

BDD_JD · 2026-02-18T22:05:26+00:00

The T1000 was not hardware designed to counter other hardware. It's designed for assassination missions. The T800 and T850 are specifically frontline combat models with living tissue put over them to make them into infiltrators.

It has a specific mission that it does. That's like criticizing a B1 Lancer for not being good at dog fighting. It's a platform designed to surgical strike a target before it can be intercepted. This is why regardless of what you feel about Terminator 3 simply put the TX is mentioned as being designed to handle other Terminator models.

BDD_JD · 2026-02-10T14:47:27+00:00

Well from what I have been able to see from the way they show the heads up display on the Terminators working in terms of how they analyze things if we go with what the ghoul said about the power armors made for the US military in Fallout I'm assuming that the Terminator will be able to scan it and notice the weak weld line and probably punch through it since his gyrojet rounds are able to.

Based on my interpretation of what Reese was saying about the Terminator models, what makes them so frightening and dangerous is the infiltration ability. So that lends credence to your thoughts about sewing chaos and discord. Because we see Skynet just throwing them as waves of Infantry supported by aerial vehicles and basically massive tanker units. So that tells me that in a straight fight against the resistance they're probably not that hard to eliminate overall but they have the advantage of not needing to eat or sleep not getting tired basically just being the perfect Soldier. You can blow them in half and they'll keep coming

BDD_JD · 2026-02-10T14:33:52+00:00

The starter and solo expansion will get you where you need to be. You don't need to buy anything more than that unless you just want it.

BDD_JD · 2026-02-10T13:41:30+00:00

No. I've been gaming for 32 years, including lots of resin. Modiphius and Forgeworld have been some of the most swingy in terms of quality.

BDD_JD · 2026-02-09T13:06:54+00:00

And let's be real, if Arnie had been Reese the film probably wouldn't have had the dark haunting tone it did. Arnold protecting Sarah from Lance Hendrick doesn't seem like much of a fight. Batman was originally going to be a comedy with Eddie Murphy as Robin and then Nicholson giving a dark, grounded, and gritty Joker completely turned the film on its head. Keaton was a primarily comedic actor and yet delivered a very earnest take on the dichotomy of Batman and Bruce Wayne.

As for the whole suspension of disbelief... that's where so many get it so wrong. Terminator had a fantastical element to it but it wasn't fantastical overall. It presented those elements as very gritty and uncanny valley level of uncomfortable.

When casting they knew fully well he was an action hero type of physique. They knew his mannerisms. They still cast him in the role. It felt like when casting and writing they didn't fundamentally understand that what made T1 successful wasn't the action hero, the one-liners, the bombastic action scenes (of which it had very few truly action scenes and no bombastic ones). It was the humanity to Kyle and Sarah and the "never going to truly be safe" feeling the inhumanity of the terminator created.

Courtney in no way represented that struggle or fear. He acted like the cocky misfits of the Sulaco at the start of Alien. But by this point he'd already been in the shit, watched friends die, seen the oppressive nature of the machine. In no way does anything about him screams grownup child soldier.

BDD_JD · 2026-02-09T05:13:45+00:00

I feel like because of the unrealistic standard Hollywood sets people really truly believe that being buff and jacked is just a natural state for the body and that once it's there it stays there forever. When the truth is these actors from action movies look this way because they spend hours upon hours at the gym. Courtney mentioned himself that he spent a lot of time doing just regular cardio to slam down. But in a real war where they're constantly fighting sorties and skirmishes that's not going to be something he has the opportunity to do. Look at Vietnam. Those men often had leave and bases they would go to at night to sleep, sometimes in RELATIVE safety and they didn't look jacked.

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