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But you have to admit, the segment of the game-purchasing crowd that's into it for the modelling (I spent many a poorly-ventilated hour in my basement painting pewter Battemechs) is pretty small. Maybe a bit larger for the figure-intensive stuff like Battletech and WH40K, but still small. I never played WH40K in the flesh, so I'm happy with just the paint scheme customizations in the Dawn of War series.

Seems to me that there's quite a bit of overlap between the gamers and the painters. After all, what's the point in having an awesome-looking army if you can't pound your friend's army into the dust with it?

But yeah, if nothing else DoW had a pretty awesome army painter.

I have to wonder about the viability of tabletop wargaming in this day and age. Especially when you can do so on your computer without having to leave the dank, dark privacy of your man-cave. I feel like board gaming in general is making a comeback, but not necessarily the grognard side of it.

I feel the opposite. I'd be more inclined to play with my actual miniatures, because I posed, assembled, and plan to paint them all myself. My Kroot Carnivores each have a "trophy" taken from some other army. I couldn't represent that on a computer screen.

In my little section of the US, tabletop games in general are pretty slow business. There's exactly one place that I know of that sells miniatures, and it's a pretty good mix between Warhammer, War Machine, and various other games. Card games (Yu-Gi-Oh! and Magic mostly) are still very popular here.

So long story short, I don't have any idea

Whatever allows me to use lots of grenades. Whitestar shall be the Demoman of this team!

Nope. I don't buy Macs.

And VERY tmi.

This guy is me.
*forever alone*

Penguins are too new. I will not be adding one for at least three years