I'm obsessed with cardboard and plastic crack and would love to be able to talk about (and maybe play some on Tabletop Sim) with people who don't suck (especially Warhammer 40k, which doesn't have nearly enough leftists playing.) For card games I've been playing a lot of the Digimon TCG which is interesting and new enough to not have extreme nonsense like Yugioh or Magic.
If you're on :reddit-logo: there's still /r/sigmarxism, I don't spend much time in there myself so I can't really vouch for it tho
Warhamemr 40k is pretty fun, though I'm a bit more of a Fantasy player myself. Both work pretty okay on Tabletop sim; though I've been wanting to give The 9th Age a try.
Used to be real into Magic, though I've fallen out in recent years, mostly due to rapid-release fatigue combined with not being social, due to the thing.
I love the lore of Fantasy but I missed out on its entire existence. Hopefully the new sub-game combined with Total Warhammer bring it back
Started playing in 6th edition, and hate the new age of sigmar edition; feels like they saw 40k was selling better, and figured if they made fantasy more like 40k it'd do better. Which, 40k is good, but I prefer fantasy for the mechanics. I like needing to wheel inflexible blocks of units around, and having a more in-depth magic phase.
So yeah, really looking forward to tge Old World they're working on, tho if ypu haven't seen the Ninth Age project, it's pretty cool; basically an open source fantasy 9th edition, though of course they sadly need to shuffle names and lore around.
I have a very small 40k guard army (I think ~800pts) plus an inquisitor and execution force, about half-painted because I made the horrible decision of using white as a main colour. I've only played the actual game once, and I can't say I'm a huge fan of much of the design philosophy of the game (stratagems, 900 books, a total lack of balance).
I used 2 play some 40k back in the day. Was fun but I havent touched it in a while. Painting is fun though...should do that again.
I'm the world's worst painter but I still love making my pastel nightmare palette space nuns
I feel like a lot of painting minis comes down 2 using simple techniques like drybrushing or dipping them in nuln oil.
For a while I got into warhammer just as excuse to learn model making. You should too. Get your sone tin cure sillicone and you have infinite space marines
It's a card game, but it functions very differently from the two models out there. Instead of buying packs of mystery cards like Magic or packs of predetermined cards like Netrunner and then using those to build a deck, you buy whole decks. Each deck is procedurally generated, fixed, and completely unique. You cannot add or remove cards from a deck - every deck has a unique name and card back.
This, imo, has a lot of benefits. There's no chasing expensive meta cards to fit in your build. You take the weird unique combo you got for $10 and that's what you work with, so it's accessible. The fun comes from learning what your particular deck does and mastering it. Cards are also individually much more impactful and dramatic (for the most part). Every deck has interesting and unexpected layers and every single game feels different.
The setting is also a fun kitchen sink, Saturday morning cartoon, science fantasy. The factions range from mutated wild animals and witches to little green men Martians to the Roman Republic with incredible technology and the people are dinosaurs.
I'm a big fan and it's super easy to just grab a deck or two and try the game out. Some people of course buy enormous numbers of decks, but I've been playing since the game launched in 2018 and have only 17 decks, so I've spent probably only $200 on the game including my nice set of tokens. My friends and I know each other's main decks by name and find the fun in trying to predict the unpredictability of the game.
