Miniatures are aggravating...
I'm not a miniature gamer. The little lead-nee-pewter figures have always been an odd thing--I used them when asked to in tabletop rpg games, and often picked ones up that looked like my characters (as best as they could anyway.) Yet the things themselves, never caught on with me--painting is easy enough, but not assembling. Now, I decided in my infinite lack of wisdom to try a game and play with them so I could do something "lighter" and less serious and long term than rpg's when I could just play a game and not think too much about it. In my search I sought a fun looking game with neat figures, and rules that seemed alright that had a variaty of features--notably I wanted something SFish and psychic and or lasers had to exist.
I picked Rezolution. I've spent the better part of several months putting these damn things together. Why is it that two otherwise identical figures on a team come together--one is one pewter figure, and the other needs his arms, legs and head attached? Now its not ALL of them, just a few, but its aggravating. I don't mind some assembly but this is RIDICULOUS. It was however cheaper than WH40K, which having seen the sets, KNOW they'd be just as bad to assemble. I'm not even to painting stage. But AAARGH. I'm ready to throw in the towel. I just wanted an aspect of my hobbies I could do offline, primarily when I was alone and couldn't hang out with friends. So I chose this.
What was I thinking? Maybe when assembled and painted, I'll be happy, I'm not giving up. Yet. I'm just very meh about them at the moment. Prepainted figures may be awesome, but they lack the customizability I kind of wanted--but there is it seems a cost for this feature.
I picked Rezolution. I've spent the better part of several months putting these damn things together. Why is it that two otherwise identical figures on a team come together--one is one pewter figure, and the other needs his arms, legs and head attached? Now its not ALL of them, just a few, but its aggravating. I don't mind some assembly but this is RIDICULOUS. It was however cheaper than WH40K, which having seen the sets, KNOW they'd be just as bad to assemble. I'm not even to painting stage. But AAARGH. I'm ready to throw in the towel. I just wanted an aspect of my hobbies I could do offline, primarily when I was alone and couldn't hang out with friends. So I chose this.
What was I thinking? Maybe when assembled and painted, I'll be happy, I'm not giving up. Yet. I'm just very meh about them at the moment. Prepainted figures may be awesome, but they lack the customizability I kind of wanted--but there is it seems a cost for this feature.