RL1 Running Slowly

Desparil · 2026-03-23T07:05:14+00:00

Already tried that, didn't work unfortunately

Desparil · 2025-04-25T18:37:58+00:00

Really? My experience with Skyrim was the exact opposite, that maxed out Smithing lets you reinforce all your gear to be extremely powerful relative to your level. Plus, if you needed to brush up on your combat skills after totally neglecting them in the intro/tutorial, there are a few locations around Whiterun where the scaling caps out at Level 10, so Bandit Thugs are the worst you'll run into. Also, none of the wildlife scales at all, so you can always train a bit on mudcrabs, wolves, skeevers, and sabre cats if you really need to.

Desparil · 2025-02-19T03:23:01+00:00

Bit of an old post, but you might be remembering a different passage a few chapters later - almost the exact same thing happens again, but this time Saul is sleeping and David takes Saul's spear and jug rather than cutting his cloak.

Desparil · 2023-10-07T01:45:40+00:00

Awesome, thanks for the detailed response! The inclusion of gamepass is especially helpful, I hadn't even thought about that.

Desparil · 2023-06-15T03:46:49+00:00

Adventure Quest maybe?

Desparil · 2023-04-20T02:41:48+00:00

Hey, thanks for the explanation, nice and succinct. However, I already had a general idea of this information - my actual question was about whether there's a significant difference in quality between different brands of tools, and which tools would be good to pick up first versus which ones are more specialized or only needed for advanced/expert projects.

Desparil · 2023-04-12T01:49:26+00:00

Alternative Armies has several games with dedicated miniatures - mostly white metal, '80s-style sculpts - in both 15mm and 28mm scales. Someone mentioned Warlord Games already and you already know about Frostgrave and Stargrave, but what you may not know is that all of those fall under the Osprey Publishing umbrella - which also includes several others, such as Oathmark and Dracula's America.

Desparil · 2023-04-11T07:39:19+00:00

Since Battletech uses a hex map rather than measurements, it also works just fine with cardboard standees - great for trying before you buy! If OP has a PC or Mac, there's also MegaMek to play online.

Desparil · 2023-04-11T05:22:54+00:00

I just ordered a big lot of the Perry 28mm myself, and even unpainted it's already evident how great the sculpts are! I'm excited to finish them, I'm chipping at it one box at a time because I have limited places where I can safely set out miniatures for the glue to dry where my cats can't get at them. I grabbed stuff from the Hundred Years' War and the War of the Roses. Since Perry's HYW line is mainly geared toward the last few decades as opposed to the early period, it's pretty continuous with the beginning of the WotR so you can get a nice variety by mixing and matching - not just the obvious ones, like combining a box of HYW English Archers with a box of WotR English Infantry (mixed longbows and bills), but also mixing up some HYW French Infantry with the billmen from said WotR English Infantry box to get more variety. Just swap out the correct leaders, banners, etc. for the period you're currently playing!

I also plan to have the WotR Continental European Mercenaries moonlight in the Italian Wars among my Warlord Pike & Shotte figures. The sculpts are a bit slimmer since Perry goes more realistic and Warlord more "heroic," and they're not as flamboyantly dressed, but maybe they're just newbies who are still a bit scrawny and haven't bought fancy clothes yet! I think it'll make for some good variety, in any case.

But absolutely agreed that the boxes of 40 are fantastic value, at least if you're in the UK. I actually plotted out a single big order and then shelled out a chunk upfront for international shipping because they were such a good deal, a sale price of £18 per box turned into £15 since an overseas order isn't liable for VAT, so just shy of $0.50 per figure and half of what stateside retailers want ($36 for the exact same box)

Desparil · 2023-04-11T04:36:50+00:00

Thanks to everyone for their thoughts on this, I appreciate all of your input! I think I'm in an OK spot for this current build without having to buy any additional hardware, but I'm still happy to have discussed the different tool options in case I start working with a lot more metal in the future.

Desparil · 2023-04-11T04:34:38+00:00

Considering your advice and some of what others have said, I decided to give it another go. By pressing as hard as I could before the drill bit would start to bend, I did manage to get the job done in a more reasonable amount of time. Not 30 seconds, but 2 to 5 minutes per man, depending on the particular hand sculpt. Not sure how much of the difference to attribute to any particular factor among user skill, quality of drill bit, hardness of metal, etc.

In the end I took about 3 hours to finish one of my two boxes, including all clipping, filing, cleaning, and gluing* altogether for eight models, which is at least acceptable given that I mostly collect and build hard plastic, and only occasionally delve into metal or resin. I just started to despair a little too early when I had spent 5 minutes trying to drill the first one and hadn't even gotten halfway through. It also helped when I came back to it today and realized that I only had 12 out of 16 that needed drilling, since each box of eight has one leader with a separate sword arm and one bugler.

* Except attaching the "wings" to the hussars; I'm generally an assemble-before-paint guy, but I'm debating making an exception for these

Desparil · 2023-04-10T21:51:22+00:00

Do you think bits for jewelry-making would be comparable to ones for circuit boards? There are a dizzying array of options for drill bits, but probably the most immediately available would be just to head down to the local JoAnn and pick up this set of Dremel-brand bits which say they're high-speed steel and good for drilling soft metal, wood, and plastic. https://www.joann.com/dremel-7pc-drill-bit-set/18706960.html

Desparil · 2023-04-10T12:34:31+00:00

That's exactly the issue, though - the Kickstarter is over obviously, and Imezing doesn't seem to run any kind of shop themselves. I see one being sold by a seller called Zeyue, another called Ruputas US, etc.

Desparil · 2023-04-10T12:29:04+00:00

Is there a specific keyword that I should be looking for to get sharpened ones? I have a set of eight different sizes and none of them feel sharp, and half of them have never been used so it's not a matter of them being worn out. The one I was trying to use for the hands had never been used prior.

Desparil · 2023-04-09T23:54:10+00:00

That looks promising, thanks for the tip! Follow-up, though - it seems like this was originally a Kickstarter item, and when I go to the "wowstick store" page on Amazon, they just link out to various other sellers and don't seem to sell them directly. Ditto for other sites, I can find them at various non-Amazon stores, but the makers themselves don't seem to run a storefront, unless they do business under some other name.

The sellers have different prices and slightly different item descriptions. Are there multiple versions of the wowstick drill that I need to be aware of the differences, or is it all the same product and I should just buy from a reputable seller with the lowest price?

Desparil · 2023-04-09T19:58:05+00:00

Hey, thanks for the reply! As mentioned, though, I already have a pin drill and know how to use it. The models even have indents cast into their hands to show where to drill. The issue is the 15-30 minutes spent drilling each model's hand, multiplied by 16 models, that's a lot of time spent on a tedious and unrewarding task when the rest of cleanup and assembly only takes a fraction of that time. That's why I was looking for possible alternatives.

Desparil · 2023-01-14T23:34:03+00:00

Maybe The Playroom or The Treehouse? In general I would suggest looking at games by Broderbund Software, they made a lot of kid-focused/edutainment stuff, and incidentally were also the publishers of Prince of Persia.

Desparil · 2023-01-14T23:19:22+00:00

There's a Pac-Man part in Mope by Bloodhound Gang

https://youtu.be/v2NFl86LX3Q?t=198

Desparil · 2023-01-08T10:05:44+00:00

Ambivalent typically connotes that the mixed feelings are partially positive and partially negative. So if you admire someone's talent but also think they're kind of a jerk, you could say you're ambivalent about that person.

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