[douglas]

So I quoted this in the chat, and nobody knew where it was from, and it turns out Google doesn't either.  It's from something of an obsession of mine, so anyone who get's the reference wins a prize (and a good one, as soon as I think of it):

It's time to play a new game - it's called HAVOC!

[Waxwings]

Warhammer 40k, I'm betting.

If you want me to find what constituency said it you're outta luck.

[douglas]

Warhammer 40k, I'm betting.

If you want me to find what constituency said it you're outta luck.

No, although that's a good guess for the obsession hint.  Unfortunately I'm an obsessive type and have many :(

[General Throatstomper]

That sounds familiar...is this from the episode of "The Avengers" where an army cadet booted out of training school by Steed and a few others takes revenge on the commitee   by constructing giant board games with a basis in the profession of the member in question and he attempts to win at the game before killing them for an egoboost? I remember a line at the end almost exactly like this, right after the ex-cadet loses in a strategy game and blows up a general with an artillery positioned in a corner of the room.

[douglas]

That sounds familiar...is this from the episode of "The Avengers" where an army cadet booted out of training school by Steed and a few others takes revenge on the commitee   by constructing giant board games with a basis in the profession of the member in question and he attempts to win at the game before killing them for an egoboost? I remember a line at the end almost exactly like this, right after the ex-cadet loses in a strategy game and blows up a general with an artillery positioned in a corner of the room.

Err it might be, but that's not the usage I'm referring to in any case (I never watched The Avengers).

[Spinballwizard]

One would imagine that if WH40k is a good guess then Warhammer Online or Warhammer Fantasy can't be far behind.

It's not Warmachine because I'd know that. >_>

[douglas]

One would imagine that if WH40k is a good guess then Warhammer Online or Warhammer Fantasy can't be far behind.

It's not Warmachine because I'd know that. >_>

It's not Games Workshop (or D&D before we get there).  I said it was a good guess because WH40K was in fact an obsession of mine, rather than because the guess was close >_>

[magnum12]

One would imagine that if WH40k is a good guess then Warhammer Online or Warhammer Fantasy can't be far behind.

It's not Warmachine because I'd know that. >_>

It's not Games Workshop (or D&D before we get there).  I said it was a good guess because WH40K was in fact an obsession of mine, rather than because the guess was close >_>

I also play WH40k, so I would have thought that the quote would sound like something out of a Chaos guy's mouth. What army do you (or did you) play? I'm currently running a "tread head" (building to 8000 points) Imperial Guard army with Grey Knight allies (usually just a squad of GK Terminators).

[douglas]

One would imagine that if WH40k is a good guess then Warhammer Online or Warhammer Fantasy can't be far behind.

It's not Warmachine because I'd know that. >_>

It's not Games Workshop (or D&D before we get there).  I said it was a good guess because WH40K was in fact an obsession of mine, rather than because the guess was close >_>

I also play WH40k, so I would have thought that the quote would sound like something out of a Chaos guy's mouth. What army do you (or did you) play? I'm currently running a "tread head" (building to 8000 points) Imperial Guard army with Grey Knight allies (usually just a squad of GK Terminators).

Always with the Terminators.  Back home we played in the ~2500 point range; I was an Ork player with an army basically designed to take out treadheads and space marines (even my Gretchin shield units would have a slaver with tankbustas).  Entertainingly my brother played Blood Angels, so games between us always degenerated into a single giant CC in the centre of the board (he also had a legendarily famous scout unit, that in all the battles he played nobody was ever able to wipe out - goddamn marines >_>).

Protip for playing me: the custom dread with the heavy weapons may look scary, but if you waste all your artillery for a turn trying to kill it, you won't have weakened any of my other scary shit :)  Also don't kill him, I like it when he goes bowling with tanks (did that to a Rhino carrying my brother's Death Squad, he was not pleased).

[magnum12]

Now is the perfect time to get back into the game. Orks got a new codex last January (with a whole bunch of new units, some much better looking plastic models and powers such as furious charge as a standard ability along with a point reduction). 5th Edition just came out and has a whole bunch of new balance changes that are hugely welcome to most players (rending got nerfed, skimmers are not as unkillable as they used to be, assauts now auto attack rear armor unless against a walker, no more getting destroyed on a glancing hit, no consolidation into another assault, etc). Blood Angels got a new codex (death company lose upgraded melee weapons but now have rending which makes comboing with a jump pack Chaplain evil). Foundation paints got released last year, which add some new colors for shading, don't need to be watered down, and make red/yellow paints on black primer MUCH less painful to deal with. The inks got rotated out for washes that just got released. They're way more consistent than inks and leave the matte finish the paints do. Chestnut ink and flesh wash are replaced with Ogryn Flesh (also real good with gold colors). Devlan Brown is a brown wash that goes great with any color (good for dirty finishes). My only beef with them is that magenta ink is gone, but thats solved by mixing 1:1 Baal Red with Leviathan Purple (good for people who play Word Bearers). Special rules for games over 3000 points got released last fall including the release of a plastic Bane Blade (I have two, including a conversion project designed to look like a C&C Mammoth Tank. Space Marines are getting a new codex this fall, then Dark Eldar and Space Wolves possibly by the end of the year.

My GK Termies are played as a close combat screen for my Guardsmen. The ones not on the ground arrive via the drop troops doctrine, including 3 assasination squads consisting of 2 mini HQ plasma death squads (with medics) and a team of harderned vets with meltas. My color scheme is inspired by swat team garb with Chaos Black->Battleadaptus Grey armor and Midnight Blue (shade)-> Regal Blue (base) -> Ultramarine blue cloth.

[Crowbar]

including the release of a plastic Bane Blade (I have two, including a conversion project designed to look like a C&C Mammoth Tank)

pix plz

[douglas]

So I feel I should answer the original question of this topic, if anyone's still interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare_(game)

The quote is from the very first (1991) version of the game.  The subject of the mild obsession was video board games in general; I used to have a ton, and still get the new Atmosfear DVD ones out of nostalgia.

[yse]

WHAT

I should've known that! But I always play the Zombie version of the game to be fair :(

also Atmosfear is awesome. I should get one of those.

[Bilan]

Agreed, Atmosfear rocks \m/

[Aitamen]

Wow... I never thought I'd see that again... I remember my parents playing it when I was, like, 3